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ShackStream: Tekken it to the Lab: Anna Williams

Tekken 8 Season 2 has launched, starting with returning assassin and Nina's rival/twin sister Anna, and we're going to see how she plays!

TJ Denzer

April 3, 2025 2:50 PM

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This week, Tekken 8 started its Season 2 character content, beginning with the release of returning character Anna Williams. She’s Nina’s sister, a fellow stylish assassin, and the first character of Tekken 8’s Season 2 Character & Stage Pass. With her out in the wild, we’re going to play on today’s episode of Tekken it to the Lab!

Tekken it to the Lab is Shacknews’ and my educational fighting series. Tekken 8 is filled to the brim with moves and we go through them, figure out which ones are best, and assemble some combos from what we discover. If you need a starting point to figure out a character, this is great place to start and we answer questions and discuss the game and FGC at large as we go.

Join in as we go live with Anna Williams in Tekken 8 on the Shacknews Twitch channel at 3:15 p.m. PT / 6:15 p.m. ET. You can also just watch below.

Tekken it to the Lab is a passion project like many of our ShackStream productions, and they couldn’t happen without your viewership. Pop! Goes the Culture, Indie-licious, The Stevetendo Show, Tekken it to the Lab, and more rely on your support, and we appreciate every bit of it we can get. If you’d like to help our livestreams stay strong, then consider following and subscribing to the Shacknews Twitch channel. You can even do it for free with an Amazon Prime account. Just link it up to your Twitch account to get a free Twitch subscription each month to use as you please. Want to throw it our way? We’d be happy to have it.

Does Anna have the sauce to match her style? Find out as we go live and train with her in Tekken 8 shortly!

TJ Denzer

Senior News Editor

TJ Denzer is a player and writer with a passion for games that has dominated a lifetime. He found his way to the Shacknews roster in late 2019 and has worked his way to Senior News Editor since. Between news coverage, he also aides notably in livestream projects like the indie game-focused Indie-licious, the Shacknews Stimulus Games, and the Shacknews Dump. You can reach him at tj.denzer@shacknews.com and also find him on BlueSky @JohnnyChugs.