A Tekken 8 dataminer has found references to what appears to be the game's next DLC character, who seems to be codenamed "PHK" and has a mechanic involving emissive skin.
Although Bandai Namco and Tekken Team managed to surprise most fans by bringing Heihachi back from the dead, Tekken 8's DLC characters have so far been pretty predictable. Eddy and Lidia weren't that shocking, especially when you compare them to Negan, Noctis, and Akuma in Tekken 7.
I wasn’t sold on Heihachi coming back to Tekken so soon after his climatic ‘death’, but playing as him put those feelings to rest.
That surprise factor also hasn't been helped all that much by dataminers and leakers finding evidence for who was going to be added as DLC. Towards the start of the year, a leak revealed Eddy and Lidia would be coming to the game, spoiling half of the new characters coming in the first year. While Heihachi managed to avoid that fate, it seems like the identity of the fourth and final character is becoming clearer.
Over on Twitter, _UMIN__ shared a tweet revealing that Bandai Namco has added features to the skin material of the next DLC character,...
