Bandai Namco has confirmed the first named update to Tekken 7, which has been around Japanese arcades for a bit now. It'll be titled Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, and it'll add new costumes, updated graphics, and new characters.
Oh, and one of those new characters is Akuma. Gouki, if you will. The evil devil man from the Street Fighter universe.
This promo image showing Heihachi and Akuma together is... kind of rad. I suppose this also means that the original Tekken 7 won't see a home release, and those home versions will now be based on the Fated Retribution update. Or whatever other update manages to make it out between now and then. That's more or less how Tekken 6 went, anyway.
The update will wind its way out via location tests before releasing to Japanese arcades. I've still yet to see much of Tekken 7, but I'd say that I've got high hopes for it. Hopefully adding Akuma doesn't make it too... weird? It'll probably be pretty cool. I wonder if this is a way of signaling "hey, we're still working on Tekken x Street Fighter" or if this is a way of signaling "here's the extent of the work we put into Tekken x Street Fighter so far, please forget about it." Either way, here's the trailer for the new update.
Oh, and hey, here's a bonus picture of Asuka on a bike!
