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Yoshi Ono was in Miami last week for Capcom’s Captivate event to demo Street Fighter X Tekken, confirm ten characters and explain mechanics. This is knock-out awesome.

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Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has rung a death peal over Western arcades, but feels classic fighter games have a strong future both in and outside Japan.

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The Iron Fist is set for a bit of a shake up in its latest instalment, Tekken Tag Tournament 2. Famitsu has detailed interactive environments and the return of equippable items and weapons.

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Gouri Daisuke, the voice of Tekken’s Heihachi, has died aged 57.

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According to this Famitsu page, both Soul Calibur and Tekken are to get their own lounges in the Japanese version of Home.

There’ no date on it but that report also mentions that Namco’s to start selling clothing and furniture in its new space.

There’s a picture of an avatar through there in a Pac Man hat, just to prove it. There’s also a grab of Santa doing a thumbs up, which is well worth looking at.

On PSU. There are photos of Cung Le as Marshall Law and Jonathan Foo as Jin Kazama. The movie’s out in 2009, according to IMDB. Still no pictures of Luke Goss as Steve Fox, and that’s what keeps us staring at the ceiling at night, frankly.

According to this, Luke Goss will play the role of Steve Fox in the upcoming Tekken movie. Dwight Little’s directing this, which has no release date, and will feature a near-future storyline and a lot of fighting. There’s no mention of whether or not Luke’s special move will involve Grolsch bottle tops on his shoes.

Team Ninja’s Tomonobu Itagaki, famed as the pock-skinned driving force behind Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden, hasn’t minced words regarding Sega’s Virtua Fighter 5 and Namco’s Tekken series in a new interview with Destructoid.

“As a fighting game – first of all, I think we can all agree that Virtua Fighter 5 didn’t end up as good as everyone thought it would be. And Tekken – I really hope Tekken 6 does well for the sake of the genre on the whole, but we can’t really expect that much based on what they’ve done in the past.”

Itagaki is notorious for his bluntness regarding the competition, especially leading up to a release of one of his own games. Ninja Gaiden II is currently working its way to launch – it’s down as “2008″ for Europe – and Itagaki’s promising the moon on a stick for those interested in the ultra-hard action-fighter.

“If you played the first Ninja Gaiden, you can tell how different this is just by watching it,” he said. “It’s called Ninja Gaiden II because it is the next in the series, but we’ve changed everything all the way from the chassis up to the body, exterior, plating of the game. So there are a lot of differences. And that’s the way it should be, you know. There are a lot of action games out there that do things one-two-three-four, just the same thing every time, changing things just a little bit and that’s not what I want to do. I want to make a big overhaul with the new game.”