I ended Tekken 8’s Closed Beta Test with a long series of Group Match sets against a friend in Germany. He was playing Law; I was playing Azucena. I don’t think I lost any of the sets, but what was more impressive to me is that we were able to run these games smoothly. I live in New York. We were separated by an ocean, and aside from a few stutters, Tekken 8 ran fine. I was playing on a wired connection, but he was on wi-fi. And it worked. It just worked. I wanted to play more after our sets were over. But I also realized I probably wasn’t going to get a more satisfying ending than that - my buddy started the day beating me pretty badly - and at some point, I did have to sit down and write this piece. But now that I am, and the Tekken 8 Closed Beta Test is over, I wish I’d played it a little more. You know… just a couple more games, to tide me over. I probably won’t get to play Tekken 8 again until it releases on January 26, and I already miss it.