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Last year's "main visual" for the Tokyo Game Show gaming expo featured a hodgepodge of images and a very bland slogan: "Game, it's so energetic". This year's? More »
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When Osaka-based Capcom isn't making popular video games, it is doing something else entirely: ragging on the Japanese game industry. More »
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You've read Totilo's hands-on with Splinter Cell Conviction from the Tokyo Game Show; now watch game designer Dean Evans walk us through the level, showing off the game's innovative new features. More »
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Browsing through Facebook on the Xbox 360 is much like browsing through the community portal on your computer - with one exception. More »
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While talking to Level 5 about the studio's next big role-playing game for the U.S., White Knight Chronicles, I inquired about the status of an old favorite, the Dark Cloud RPG series. More »
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If something goes wrong when you, a video game producer, try to show a trio of Kotaku writers a DS game, should you blamed the pirate-themed nightclub you're standing in? Or should you blame a questionable staple of game design? More »
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One guy likes buying toilet paper. Another says he never drives on the same road twice. But were you also wondering which Tecmo producer can walk like a zombie? More »
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Two of the top men at Capcom responsible for making interactive murder investigations funny know which fake lawyer they'd hire and why their games should only be on handhelds. They also talked about their new game. More »
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While Project Natal, and its ability to allow Xbox 360 gamers to play video games completely free of a controller, will launch as a niche of sorts on the platform, Microsoft believes it will one day become the norm. More »
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In a meeting last week with a game developer at the Tokyo Game Show, I asked them if they were planning on trying to incorporate in-game video capture into their title. The type you see in Halo 3. More »
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The PSPgo and Playstation Portable were everywhere at Sony's Tokyo Game Show booth. And tucked away in one section of the booth was a blast from the past: A PSP remake of classic 80s action title Thexder. More »
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Ninety-Nine Nights II, much like the original Xbox 360 game, is light on subtlety. More »
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Ryozo Tsujimoto told me he had no complaints about the horsepower of the Wii, when I interviewed him last week. He's the producer on the game Capcom is marketing as "the most beautiful game on the Wii." More »
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One of the creators of White Knight Chronicles, the upcoming PlayStation 3 role-playing game, just wanted to know how long their game was. "So, that was the point of the question," Yoshiaki Kusuda said through a translator, laughing. Not really. More »
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To do more than use Dante's Inferno as a colorful setting for a generic game the Electronic Arts developers have to find interesting ways to tap into the themes of the poet's nine hells. More »
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The last gaming convention of 2009 has run its course. The cosplayers have packed their bags, content to allow amateurs to parade around in costumes at the end of this month. More »
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Play Arts, the action figure branch of Square Enix, are making some Bayonetta figures. A quick comparison between the size of the head and the size of the hips shows they're definitely on the right track. More »
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Fall is here, and this week's episode of Kotaku Talk Radio is in the can, ready to be downloaded and consumed at your leisure. More »
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Few games that I've seen benefit as much from being seen in video, as opposed to in stills, as PixelJunk Shooter. So before reading further, interested parties should watch the following — then read the words that follow. More »
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My second hands-on with Red Steel 2, this time in Tokyo, confirmed to me that Ubisoft's first-person Wii sequel is the kind of Wii game that, back in 2006, I thought we would be playing more of. More »
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Planted in the middle of Capcom's eclectic Tokyo Game Show booth, the demo of Omkamiden had attendees playing the DS sequel to Okami in the middle of a traditional Japanese garden while seated on stools which looked like cut lumber. More »
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Having bailed on Kingdom Hearts 2 after reaching the Steamboat Willy stage, I may have finally found the KH game to bring me back. It was available to preview last week in Tokyo. More »
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Assassin's Creed II seems to do a better job of blending together its elements then its predecessor did, and adds a healthy dose of the unexpected to cut through what could become another repetitive game. More »
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Tokyo Game Show has a lot going for it, but perhaps the most interesting thing is it over-the-top cosplay. All shows pale in comparison to TGS when it comes to dressing up like a video game character. More »
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As an addendum to our feature on booth companion uniforms, here are more photos that examine the outfit close-up. There are bonus photos of the outfits the male staffers wore as well. More »
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Of the handful of Xbox Live Arcade games playable at Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show booth space, only RayStorm HD, the remake of the 13 year old shooter, had a line. More »
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What's EA doing in Japan? Making partnerships. Putting out games. And determining that Dead Space Extraction suits the market. But Brutal Legend does not. More »
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One last bit from Kotaku's Hideo Kojima interview of last week. The gentleman asking questions for Kotaku Japan asked Kojima about remaking the original Metal Gear. Too busy, the developer said. But... More »
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Konami and Climax's re-imagining of the first Silent Hill is a risky prospect, a wildly different take on the PlayStation horror classic. As a fan of the series, the remixed, retold Silent Hill: Shattered Memories just felt... unnecessary. More »
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Nier Gestalt's protagonist may be the perfect hero for his game. He looks tired and a bit confused. More »
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Day three? But there are only two public days at Tokyo Game Show. That means two cosplaying days. So, why a third batch of high-caliber dressing up? Would you believe I forgot to upload some of these? More »
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Wait. Did I really fly all the way to Tokyo and brave the TGS masses to play Snoopy Flying Ace? Yup. After all, the Xbox Live Arcade game had one of the more promising gameplay trailers this year. More »
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Cave general manager Makato Asada has plans to bring the company's frantic shoot-em-ups to a larger audience, one that spans beyond Japanese arcades and a few import enthusiasts. Maybe even to your PC. More »
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Never mind the recently announced expansion to the Street Fighter roster. What if, I asked some Capcom developers last week, the company put its video game lawyers into a fighting game? Who would enter, and what would their moves be? More »
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"They look cute," says 20-something-year-old Takahiro Yamaguchi. "So cute." He's spent a good chunk of his day taking booth companion photos. "It's not just how the girls look," he explains, "but what they're wearing. That's what I'm taking pictures of." More »
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My short time spent playing Dante's Inferno on the Playstation Portable reminded me an awful lot of time spent beating Chains of Olympus on the PSP, which is both good and bad. More »
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Not all the booths at the Tokyo Game Show were huge, some where just right. Take, for instance, this compact little show space by The Behemoth, makers of Castle Crashers. It featured cookies! More »
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Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza, is the head of R&D at SEGA. He's got a real nose for game development. No wonder he's hard at work on new titles. More »
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This August, Gran Turismo designer Kazunori Yamauchi did more than drive on Germany's famed Nurburgring, he finished won the VLN race— his third race and first in an actual racing car. But what does this mean for Gran Turismo? More »
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During Tokyo Game Show, Sony invited a bunch of reporters to peek around Polphony Digital, the developer of the Gran Turismo series. More »
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