The Walking Dead’s Negan heads to Tekken 7 this month

The Walking Dead’s Negan heads to Tekken 7 later this month, Bandai Namco has confirmed.

Negan will be joined by Julia Chang and available from 28 February.

“Negan, the charismatic leader of the Saviors, brought other communities together under his thumb with the motto ‘people are a resource.’ One day, Negan received reports that an unknown group had taken out several of his men. Per his standard policy, he enacted a plan to capture and make an example of them,” Bandai Namco said, describing the character.

“The survivors fell into Negan’s carefully laid trap, but, just as he was choosing his victim to serve as an example, the group put up an intense fight and escaped. Negan worried they would disturb his new world order if he did not deal with them swiftly. Taking his barbed-wire bat Lucille – named after his beloved wife – into his hand, he set out to take care of these foolish ingrates who would challenge his authority.”

Julia Chang “concentrated fully on expanding her reforestation efforts around the globe, far from the fighting scene,” after retiring as fighter Jaycee, Bandai Namco wrote. “But her project quickly needed money. Finding it difficult to secure backers, Julia was forced to return to the fight far sooner than she had wanted. Seeking one final fight, she made it her mission to beat Kazuya Mishima. Doing so, she theorised, would gain the global attention, and subsequent funding, that her project required.”

Megan’s fighting style is described by Bandai Namco as “N/A” while Julia’s is a master of Xin Yi Liu He Quan and Baji Quan.

Tekken 7 is available on Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4.