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  So EVO was this past weekend and along with the intense competition came some news for upcoming fighting games. After the Tekken 7 grand finals Harada came on stage to present a new trailer. This trailer showed off clips of Kazuya from the original Tekken all the way to Tekken 7 , but at the end of this teaser trailer there was a brief clip of a modern Kazuya with an entirely new model looking smug at the camera. There is no official confirmation as Harada didn't say anything, but the excitement from the crowd indicated this is a lead to the reveal of a new Tekken . Tekken 8 may very well be on the way.     That's not all we got Sunday night as Capcom also came with some important news after the Street Fighter V grand finals. The commentator voices for Street Fighter 6 came on stage and presented new footage. We were introduced to Kimberly and Juri in Street Fighter 6 . Kimberly was leaked via images a couple months ago, but this is the first official footage the ...

Horizon Zero Dawn was one of my favorite games of 2019 so I was eager to get my hands on Forbidden West and scooped it up on release day. It unnaturally took me over five months to beat it, but I finally have. So I played Horizon Forbidden West on the base PS4. I heard the PlayStation 5 version is ideal, but since I still don't own one and I was really pressed about getting this game on release I chose to get the PS4 version. In the years since Zero Dawn's release I noticed a graphical upgrade. The textures in the environments in Forbidden West have a higher res and one thing that bothered me in particular with Zero Dawn is how waxy the skin looked on black characters aside from Sylens. This isn't an issue anymore in Forbidden West . Every black character's skin texture looks believable as skin. I wish the hair looked as believable, but I already discussed that in my 4C Pixels article. There are also more textures in the skin as well. Aloy's freckles are more...

  So Sonic Origins finally releases today. This title is a compilation package of the 16-bit Sonic games, Sonic the Hedgehog , Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , Sonic CD , and Sonic 3 & Knuckles . For those who never played these titles before or have lost them over the decades this is an ideal package to purchase, but their is a caveat. Some of the music from Sonic 3 has been omitted in this release. Back in the 1990s it was rumored that legendary pop artist Michael Jackson along with keyboardist and musical director Brad Buxer worked on the Sonic 3 soundtrack. It was said that Michael Jackson didn't like how the Sega sound chip sounded and how his tracks were integrated. Subsequent releases of Sonic 3 have replaced some tracks with a prototype version. It's been long speculated by fans that it was because Michael Jackson composed those songs and up until now it was just speculation. Today, Yuji Naka, a former Sonic team lead and the lead programmer for Sonic 3 posted the followi...