Despite Being Pretty Awesome, Tekken 6 Wasn't The Mega-Hit Namco Needed.

Namco’s recorded a whopping $129million loss for the nine months ending December 31st, compared to a profit of $99.4million in the same period the year previous. That’s a lot of money, yo.

As a result the company has announced they are to cut the employment of roughly 10% of their workforce. That’s gutting news for about 630 people.

“Since the management integration, the Bandai Namco Group has focused on bolstering its Group foundations through organisational restructuring and other efforts to achieve fusion as a new group as quickly as possible,” said the company.

Namco will start a three-year plan in order to get things back into the green, starting immediately.

Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign Will Soon Get Online Co-Op.

The scenario campaign in Tekken 6 (essentially, a modern Streets Of Rage) was absolutely not the best thing about the game, but you have to admire Namco’s will to tout it. Not only is it the focus of the game’s menu, but it’s also about to get a patch adding in online co-op. There’ll even be voice chat.

The patch is due on Monday.

No Panda. No Sale.

A leaked poster for the upcoming Tekken movie confirmed our fears. The movie will feature no Kuma, Panda or Roger Jr. There is literally no excuse for this in an age where CGI is basically properly amazing. We suggest you boycott this movie out of principle.

Tekken 6's Online Should Work Much Better From Tomorrow.

Woohoo! We’ll soon be able to actually, y’know, play Tekken 6 online. Namco Bandai have announced that a patch will launch tomorrow, improving connectivity between players and subsequently reducing lag.

Namco are also improving the responsiveness of button inputs, and adding in a cancel option if you’re unhappy with connection of your matched opponent. Excellent.

Hopefully DLC Includes That Puppy You Can Put On Paul's Head.

Whilst most people probably care more about a Tekken 6 patch than DLC at this point, producer Katsuhiro Harada has commented on uk.playstation.com that any released content for the game is likely to be free.

We’ll won’t argue with getting something for nothing so, we look forward to some content. We look forward to a multiplayer patch even more however.

RIDDDDDDDDDDDGE RACER!

Remember when SCE’s Kaz Hirai said “Riddddddddddge Racer”? Yeah, that’s all we could think about when we heard Namco Bandai has trademarked the title Ridge Racer Accelerated. If, indeed, it’s a Playstation 3 game, we hope they let Kaz announce it. Just for sarcasm’s sake if nothing else.

Tekken 6 on Playstation 3 Review.

Tekken fans will be delighted with Tekken 6. The fighting is as crisp as ever and the side attractions, while throwaway, will keep those with any semblance of interest in the Tekken universe entertained.

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