Bandai Namco hosted the Tekken Talk Live: Season 2 and Anna Williams special livestream just yesterday. Some interesting details regarding the future of Tekken 8 were revealed during the stream that lasted for over two and a half hours.
At one point, the developers updated the Season 2 roadmap. We previously already knew that there would be two additional stages and three more characters after Anna Williams, but the developers shed some light on additional details that we didn’t know about.
First off, it was reiterated that a newcomer will be joining the Tekken 8 Season 2 Character & Stage Pass, specifically “after Summer 2025.” The developers were willing to share a little more information about the timeline regarding this new fighter.
“And so, we made some changes to this slide so that you can see what’s coming with a higher degree of fidelity,” said Katsuhiro Harada (through Michael Murray’s translations). “One of the things that was interesting when we were asking people’s opinions on whether they like the traditional route we’ve taken or if they’d like to have all of them at the same time.”
“Outside of that, the people who said that they would at least like to know if it’s a returning character or not were actually quite a lot,” continued the translation. “So we decided to add that aspect to the slide. Also, you’ll note the coloring of this might serve as hints as well.”
Indeed, it’s been indicated that the first DLC stage of Tekken 8 Season 2 coming in Summer 2025 will serve as a celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Pac-Man series. This is coming up sometime in May of this year.
The DLC combatants set to arrive in Summer 2025 and Autumn 2025 have both been indicated to be returning veterans. Through process of elimination, this means that the DLC challenger expected in Winter 2025 is the new challenger, and has been labeled as such.
Notably, the returning character that’s joining in Summer 2025 has been colored a dark blue color. Meanwhile, the Autumn 2025 combatant is colored violet.
Finally, the newcomer has some sort of turquoise theme going on with their hint. Perhaps this fighter will have something to do with the winter?
There’s also the extra stage being added in Winter 2025, but it’s portion of the roadmap is identical to how it looked before. It’s possible that this could be a stage for the newcomer.
Check it all out below:
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