{"id":672014,"date":"2025-08-22T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/tekken-8-tekken-tag-3-evo-2022"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:42:20","slug":"tekken-8-or-whatevers-next-for-the-series-teased-at-evo-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tekken-8-or-whatevers-next-for-the-series-teased-at-evo-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken 8, or whatever&#8217;s next for the series, teased at EVO 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tekken-8-or-whatevers-next-for-the-series-teased-at-evo-2022.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;blink and you&#8217;ll miss it&#8217; teaser was shown during EVO 2022 last night, and it hinted at a brand new Tekken game. Whether this will be the next canon game in the series, <strong>Tekken 8<\/strong>, or another spin-off like <strong>Tekken Tag Tournament 3<\/strong> remains to be seen. There&#8217;s only one thing we know for sure: more Tekken is coming.\n<\/p>\n<p>The trailer, which you can see embedded above, shows series mainstay and Smash Bros. interloper, Kazuya Mishima, in his ending from the original Tekken.<\/p>\n<p>We get to see him drop his unloving, sociopathic father, Heihachi, off a cliff &ndash; and then a snatch of static segues into the &#8216;current&#8217; version of Kazuya (complete with red eye and scar) in nice, crisp, modern graphics. &#8220;GET READY&#8221;, the trailer instructs us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/tekken-8-tekken-tag-3-evo-2022\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/tekken-8-tekken-tag-3-evo-2022\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8216;blink and you&#8217;ll miss it&#8217; teaser was shown during EVO 2022 last night, and it hinted at a brand new Tekken game. Whether this will be the next canon game in the series, Tekken 8, or another spin-off like Tekken Tag Tournament 3 remains to be seen. There&#8217;s only one thing we know for sure: more Tekken is coming. The trailer, which you can see embedded above, shows series mainstay and Smash Bros. interloper, Kazuya Mishima, in his ending from the original Tekken. We get to see him drop his unloving, sociopathic father, Heihachi, off a cliff &ndash; and then a snatch of static segues into the &#8216;current&#8217; version of Kazuya (complete with red eye and scar) in nice, crisp, modern graphics. &#8220;GET READY&#8221;,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tekken-8-or-whatevers-next-for-the-series-teased-at-evo-2022\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,706,47,222,59,45,2660,4616],"class_list":["post-672014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-bandai-namco","tag-blockbuster","tag-fighting","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-tekken-7","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tekken 8, or whatever&#039;s next for the series, teased at EVO 2022 | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A &#039;blink and you&#039;ll miss it&#039; teaser was shown during EVO 2022 last night, and it hinted at a brand new Tekken game. 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