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Special New Japan Pro Wrestling Items, Including Bullet Club and Chaos T-Shirts, Are Coming to Tekken 7

Having previously announced a special “Rainmaker” costume for King, based off current IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada, Bandai Namco have revealed more New Japan Pro Wrestling items for Tekken 7. If you want to represent NJPW online, there are special themed player cards, icons and even health bars for you to use when playing in Versus.

As for character customization, fighters can now wear NJPW, Bullet Club and Chaos t-shirts in battle. I wonder if Akuma will get any Kenny Omega themed customization items, based on the wrestler’s love of Street Fighter. So far, these NJPW items are confirmed just for the arcade version of Tekken 7, but I imagine they will also feature in the eventual console and PC release.

This trailer also shows off King’s special Rainmaker Rage Art, where money rains from the sky before King punches his enemy in the face. Expect lots of people fishing for this flashy finisher when Tekken 7 is available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Bandai Namco is set to reveal Tekken 7’s release date sometime this month, so keep your eyes peeled for that all important date.

Source: tekkenchannel via FightersGeneration

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Hungrybox May Not Compete at Genesis 4 Due to Dodgeball Injury

Despite their nature, playing video games competitively still requires some level of physical readiness that can be affected by injury. This is especially true with games such as Super Smash Bros. Melee where a good number of the advanced techniques used by competitive players requires a fair degree of execution, especially on the GameCube Controller. With players already experiencing severe hand pain from playing normally, trying to play high-level Melee with a broken finger sounds like an impossible task.

Evolution 2016 champion Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma from Team Liquid has stated that he may not be able to compete at Genesis 4 due to a broken finger that he sustained from playing dodgeball. The injury, an X-Ray of which you can see as part of Hungrybox’s tweet below, involves his right index finger–which makes it difficult for him to perform certain inputs.

In light of this, Hungrybox may only be able to compete at Genesis 4 if he was able to use a Smash Box with a remapped input to allow him to jump. This would allow him to compete with a broken finger–but with the amount of controversy surrounding the vanilla Smash Box, I doubt this button remapping would be allowed.

Whatever the outcome of this is, we here at Shoryuken wish Hungrybox a speedy recovery from his injury!

Source: Hungrybox