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    Suda51 Announcing Something Soon to Somebody

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    Snake Take Down

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    Xbox Japan Honcho At Metal Gear Event

    After party is just getting started. Big time industry names like Mizuguchi and Suda51 are about. One, though, stands out. Xbox Japan honcho Takashi Sensui makes his way through the crowd. I pull him aside: More »
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    Party Talk Liveblog

    Ritz Carlton. Grand Ballroom. Second floor. Waiting for the kick off, an announcer just said that people are still getting in, so it looks like it'll be a few minutes before it starts. More »
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    Doors Open at Half Past

    And we are in — we being me. The actual event kicks off at 5:30PM, which means we've got less thirty minutes to kill. The hallway is crowded with flowers from Sony execs like Kaz Hirai, suits and some guy in a white t-shirt. The dress code for tonight's event? Business casual.
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    New Digs

    Roppongi Station. It's a little before 5PM Tokyo time, and I've touched down in the newly gentrified section of the city known as Tokyo Midtown. Kojima Productions and Konami, previously located in the Mori Building in Roppongi Tower, relocated to Midtown earlier this year — along with pretty much everyone else in Roppongi Hills with some semblance of the hip and the cool. (Roppongi Hills, once the city's swank and swish, has sense been tarnished by internet company LiveDoor's white collar crime.) Or maybe Konami wanted its name on the side of a building. More »