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Tokyo Game Show's (Painfully Bad) Theme Announced

Just when you all are starting to get GDC fever, Japan comes along to steal its thunder and announces the theme for this year's Tokyo Game Show. Are you ready for that excitement? Here goes:


Theme: "Ready for GAME Time!"

Let both experienced players and first-time users get even more enjoyment from games — the aspiration has led to creation of a variety of new content and driven astonishing growth of the computer entertainment industry.


Zzzzzzzzz... More like "Ready for LAME Time!" We really ought to cut them some slack. Last year's TGS theme wasn't announced until late May. Perhaps, TGS organizers could've used a few more months so that, you know, that didn't turned in something so bad. Hit the jump for the full press release.
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5:00 AM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
1,859 views, 36 comments

Latest by Kung: "Dreams and excitement?" Sounds like a every night I go to bed to be honest. *eyes* more »

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Julian Eggebrecht Defends Lair. Again.

Factor 5 honcho Julian Eggebrecht must be exhausted from constantly "defending" his company's poorly received PLAYSTATION 3 title Lair and its hit-or-miss SIXAXIS controls. G4 caught up with the Dragon's Lair fanboy at Tokyo Game Show to get one more justification out of Mr. Eggebrecht whose game has been retitled Rise From Lair in Japan. I respect what Factor 5 was trying to do, but trying to target gamers who aren't hardcore with a PS3 game? Simply puzzling.

4:40 PM on Wed Oct 10 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,530 views, 52 comments

Latest by L_K_M: @Shiryu: I'm with you. Turrican FTW :-) As for the game itself, I'd love to get it, but I'm not going to pay 100 CHF (around 80 US$) for a game that might suck. I tend to like some games that more »

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TGS Attendance Numbers Padded Nicely By Press

With the hearts and minds of Japanese gamers won over by Nintendo and its casual-skewing software, this years Tokyo Game Show saw those in the nation issuing a collective "meh." The press? They had to show up, helping to pad this year's attendance figures by an extra 30,000 for a combined total of 193,040 over four days. By comparison, last year's three day show pulled in an impressive 192,411 over just three days. More »

3:00 AM on Tue Sep 25 2007
By Michael McWhertor
1,873 views, 25 comments

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TGS Attendance Drops Like A Rock

Nintendo may be expanding the video game market in Japan, but their refusal to attend the biggest gaming expo in their homeland is doing nothing to help out this year's numbers for Tokyo Game Show. In 2006, TGS pulled in some 192,411 attendees over the course of three days. The first public day last year saw some 84,823 gamers stink up the halls of the Makuhari Messe. This year? Only 64,795. We won't know the final figure for Sunday for a while, but based on the feeling that it's much more manageable to walk the show floor, expect less than yesterday's figure.

Granted, last year saw the opportunity for a nation to get their hands on PLAYSTATION 3 and Wii games for the first time, so a drop from last year isn't shocking. But we hope that Nintendo will come to TGS 2008 and make next year's show a more disgusting sea of putrid otaku.

9:00 AM on Sun Sep 23 2007
By Michael McWhertor
1,547 views, 21 comments

Latest by Witzbold: @Witzbold: Is the reason why there were more people at the show last year. more »

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Treasure Too Busy With Xbox Live For PlayStation Network

Clean-cut Treasure boss man Masato Maegawa talked to 1UP just before the kick off of Tokyo Game Show 07, putting a shine on details for every upcoming Treasure game. The recently announced Xbox Live Arcade Ikaruga remake, for example, is taking up too much of the developer's resources, putting a hold on the unnamed Xbox 360 shooter that's said to be in the vein of its most famous shmups, Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga. Unfortunately for those in the PLAYSTATION 3 camp, Treasure isn't working on the PlayStation Network, devoting their resources to XBLA development. More »

4:00 AM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,971 views, 36 comments

Latest by Enigma_20XX: @pm5k: ... and I hope your console bricks up... more »

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Major Nelson Misses TGS

Man do I feel bad for Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb right now. Seems he was all set for his flight to Tokyo to attend TGS when he discovered his passport was missing. No passport equals no Tokyo, and as anyone who has ever tried can attest, getting a replacement passport on short notice is no easy task. Thankfully both TriXie and VideoMonkey will be there to cover the event for Xbox.com, but Larry will be heading back to Seattle tomorrow to spend the week catching up on work.
As a public service, I offer this advice: Be very careful with your Passport. And go make a photocopy of it right now and keep it in a safe place so you can have all the details handy if you need to get a replacement.
Having never been outside of the continental U.S. myself, I've heard nothing but horror stories involving passports. When I finally get my own, I am having it surgically grafted to my chest. And that's one to grow on. More »

8:00 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,394 views, 34 comments

Latest by presto117: advice: at least try and sign up for your passport a good 7 months in advance. they say it should take 2 months to get it, which it does, but the extra 5 are for just in case. you'll probably need them. it more »

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Square-Enix And The Closed Mega Theater Of Doom

Final Fantasy XIII is a long way off. We're placing bets on a 2009 release in Japan.Those of us attending Tokyo Game Show this year won't see much of it, that is, unless we wait in painfully long lines to watch the game's trailers. Square-Enix announced today via its official TGS 2007 web site that it would be showing trailers for Dragon Quest IX, Last Remnant, Final Fantasy XI, Dissidia: Final Fantasy and Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII in two theaters. For fans of the Squenix brand of software, seeing the last two will require marathon style queues. They're only being shown in the company's Closed Mega Theater. So bring your copies of Crisis Core, kids. You're going to need something to keep you quietly occupied in line for a couple hours.

Square-Enix Tokyo Game Show Theaters [Square-Enix]

7:20 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By Michael McWhertor
4,980 views, 33 comments

Latest by Purple Dave: Picture looked like a bucketload of fake the last time they posted it here, and it still looks like a bucketload of fake. more »

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Bumpy Trot 2 Trots 2 PS3 At TGS

NeoGAF member "Massive Attack" used his falcon-like web site watching skills to dig up a tidbit of PLAYSTATION 3 news for next week's Tokyo Game Show. It appears that R-Type developer Irem will be showing a sequel to the original Bumpy Trot for Sony's next-gen console at the Makuhari Messe. While the original Western mech game, which came to the U.S. of A as Steambot Chronicles, didn't exactly light up the sales charts, it was fairly well received.

Don't count on a European or North American release just yet, but we'll hopefully get our hands on it in Tokyo next week.

Bumpy Trot 2 [Irem via NeoGAF]

6:40 PM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By Michael McWhertor
1,188 views, 20 comments

Latest by alby13: Steambot Chronicles is a great game. My friends and I were waiting to hear news about a US sequel. more »

mega man somethingorother

Capcom's TGS Line-Up To Reveal Three New Titles

With Tokyo Game Show just around the corner, publishers have begun to show off their upcoming wares at private events and with the launching of official web sites. Capcom's own dedicated TGS online presence went live today, revealing a good portion of what it plans to show at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba. The current line up looks like this:


  • Devil May Cry 4 (Xbox 360, PS3)
  • We Love Golf! (Wii)
  • Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (Wii)
  • Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii)
  • Sengoku Basara 2 HEROES (PS2)
  • Mega Man Star Force 2 (DS)
  • Wantame Music Channel Doko Demo Style (DS)

Oh no. Are our hopes of getting hands-on time with Resident Evil 5 dashed against the Rockman rocks? Probably. But with three titles still to be revealed over the next few days and weeks, hopefully Capcom will bring some big guns to the show. I've got twenty zenny on Steel Battalion II showing up in full force for the Xbox 360 with a 1,240 button controller/living room.

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5:40 PM on Fri Aug 31 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,105 views, 48 comments

Latest by Witzbold: @Sugoi: Lets put it this way, it would almost be like MS giving the Halo series to the PS3. While sony was not involved in creating the game, its one of the flagship titles for its system. Im sure they more »

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Kaz Will Kick Off Tokyo Game Show

Meet the new boss. Hopefully he won't be as dull as the old boss in Tokyo Game Show terms. With Ken Kutaragi for all intents and purposes disowned by the PlayStation family, new SCEI president Kaz Hirai will take his place in kicking off the TGS 07 festivities. While Kutaragi's hour-plus keynote at TGS '06 focused on networking, global mapping data and the Folding@Home application, there's no telling what Kaz will speak about this September. I just hope we get another Afrika trailer this year (and better seats). More »

3:40 PM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By Michael McWhertor
2,396 views, 38 comments

Latest by Mongoosekun: I actually still play RR7 a good bit. It seems it's the only online game Japanese play on the PS3 too. Heh. There is always like one lone German and a dozen Japanese when I race. It's a more »

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This Year's TGS Poster

The official poster for this year's Tokyo Game Show has been unveiled. As previously posted, this year's slogan is "Connect, widen, to the World." The poster depicts a small crowd of freaks — totally bogus as this year's TGS has been expanded to four days. We expect a large crowd of freaks.

7:00 AM on Thu Jul 5 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
2,286 views, 9 comments

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This Year's Tokyo Game Show Theme

Every year the Tokyo Game Show has a theme, a slogan if you will. This year's catch phrase has been decided: More »

4:00 AM on Tue May 29 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,322 views, 14 comments

homework killer

Rumor: Halo 3, September 25th, 2007

According to an anonymous source, we've been told Microsoft will be revealing the official release date of its highly anticipated Bungie-developed shooter soon. The company is expected to announce that Halo 3 will ship to North American consumers on September 25th of this year, with European Xbox 360 owners getting the game just one day later on September 26th. More »

9:36 PM on Tue May 15 2007
By Michael McWhertor
3,910 views, 60 comments

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Free Trip To Tokyo Game Show Question #2

And it continues! Our amazingly wonderful We're-Sending-Two-Knuckleheads-To-Tokyo contest. Here's the deal: We've got a contest that will run through the end of March. We're going to run three (count 'em) trivia questions over this period in the form of sponsored polls. Today's is brought to you again by Old Spice thank-you-very-much. To one reader who gets all three questions right, we'll give you tickets to the Tokyo Game Show in September and round trip airfare for two to Tokyo! So in case you missed it, here is the first question. And here, without adieu, is the second. Good luck all. Brian Ashcraft More »

10:22 AM on Wed Jan 24 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,858 views, 61 comments

Latest by Savage: Huh?! more »

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We're Sending Two to the Tokyo Game Show

What. A. Contest. You want to go to Japan? With a friend? And not *just* Japan, but the Tokyo Game Show. Here's the deal: Today, we're kicking off a contest that will run through the end of March. We're going to run three (count 'em) trivia questions over this period in the form of sponsored polls. Today's is brought to you by Old Spice thank-you-very-much. To one reader who gets all three questions right, we'll give you tickets to the Tokyo Game Show in September and round trip airfare for two to Tokyo! Yes, we love you, our readers that much — Save for when you piss us off. Get to it, the first one's below. Brian Ashcraft More »

12:22 PM on Fri Jan 12 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,269 views, 146 comments

Latest by Samos42: Yeah, I can't put in my email... more »

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Microsoft TGS Press Briefing Reactions

Ashcraft and I sat through the 100-minute press briefing, right up front, only to be nearly deafened by the loudspeakers cranked to 11 no more than fifteen feet away from us. We had "do! do! do!" drilled into our brains and now we're ready to talk about it. Well, I am anyway. Hopefully, we can look forward to Brian's thoughts later. More »

9:10 PM on Wed Sep 20 2006
By Michael McWhertor
89 views, 22 comments

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Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Hits (Japan) Nov. 22

According to my friendly neighborhood Shibuya sources, Microsoft will announce tomorrow (late tonight for those of you in saner time zones) that the Xbox 360 HD DVD player attachment will ship to its wee Japanese fanbase just in time for the holidays. Priced at a very reasonable 19800 yen (20790 yen with tax), my source was eager to mention its 1080p capabilities and Windows XP Media Center Edition compatability. Woo. More »

11:16 PM on Tue Sep 19 2006
By Michael McWhertor
1,091 views, 56 comments

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Live to Host TGS, X06 Videos

I missed out on the E3 coverage that showed up on Xbox Live, mostly because I was busy covering the thing. But I heard nothing but rave reviews for all of the video showing press conferences, gameplay and such. More »

8:00 PM on Mon Sep 18 2006
By Brian Crecente
102 views, 12 comments