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Level-5's Ni No Kuni was easily my "game of the show" for 2011's Tokyo Game Show. It's the first game I ran to on opening day, and it's the only game I went and played twice. More »
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The signs were there for Sony. This year's Tokyo Game Show was shaping up as the biggest ever, and its new Vita handheld would be many people's main attraction. More »
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The Tokyo Game Show is wrapped, and for the most part so is our coverage. And what a lot of stories, pictures, hands-ons and videos there were. More »
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This booth was one of the biggest booths at the Tokyo Game Show. It took up one tenth of the entire show floor. It wasn't Sony's. It wasn't Square Enix's. It wasn't Capcom's. The booth belonged to Gree. So what the hell is Gree? More »
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With Dynast Warriors Next, hack-and-slash series Dynastt Warriors is coming to the PS Vita. The game uses traditional button based combat and touch screen controls. More »
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The press room on the last day of the Tokyo Game Show was dead. I spent the afternoon in there, finishing up some stories and just when I was leaving, I spotted a slick Mercedes Benz. I stopped, pulled out my camera and got ready to snap off a quick photo to send to my car crazy son. More »
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Since you weren't at the Tokyo Game Show, you would have missed Capcom's lineup of stage presentations, held as part of the company's enormous (and awesome) booth. More »
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Direct from this weekend's Tokyo Game Show, the bullet-time heavy, completely gameplay-free trailer for Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. More »
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The Tokyo Game Show smashed all (TGS) records again this year, bringing a whopping 222,600 people to the massive convention center to play games, dress up and check out the PS Vita. More »
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The 2011 Tokyo Game Show wasn't even supposed to happen this year. During the spring, as the country was starting to put itself back together after the earthquake, the show looked like it was a no-go. More »
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Sumioni, aka "Ink Demon", is a stunner. Looks can be deceiving, and looks aren't everything. Thankfully, Sumioni's beauty is more than skin deep. More »
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At the Arc System Works booth, Tokyo Game Show attendees could do more than watch players duke it out in Persona 4 The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena. They could also watch Ushijima Ii Niku (aka Ushijima "Good Meat"), one of the country's most famous cosplayers, duke it out with cameras. More »
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Soaking up the adoration of the masses at a Tokyo Game Show stage presentation over the weekend, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima dished out some release information regarding two of his company's upcoming remakes. More »
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Monster Hunter is now synonymous with the PSP. Back in late 2004 and early 2005, that wasn't the case. Monster Hunter was a PS2 game, and Sony was still convinced that the PSP was its new Walkman. More »
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Sumioni is one of the most striking and arresting games I've seen in a long, long time. More »
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Tucked away in a deserted corner of the Tokyo Game Show was this enormous timeline, charting the history of both video game hardware and of TGS. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5841595&view=rss&microfeed=true Not only was the first public day of TGS the biggest ever, the entire show's attendance was, too. Over TGS 2011's four days 222,600 people attended the show, which is about twenty thousand more than last year. [Mantan Web] More »
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A big problem with PSP games like the Grand Theft Auto titles was the fact the old handheld only had one thumbstick. Now that the Vita has two, and can play old PSP games, Sony is looking at a backwards fix for that. More »
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Saturday was hell. The Tokyo Game Show convention halls overflowed with 86,000 people. Not everyone was there to game. Many had something else in mind: Taking pictures of cosplayers. More »
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With the games to be released internationally over the next two weeks, the Tokyo Game Show was our last chance to check out both Ico and Shadow of the Colossus in HD before they hit the shelves. More »
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With the Tokyo Game Show having just wound up, I thought today would be a good time to look back to 1996, when for the first and only time it wasn't the only major gaming event held in Tokyo. More »
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Back in December 2004, I bought two things. One was a PSP. The other was Ridge Racer. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5841461&view=rss&microfeed=true According to Square Enix, the first Dragon Quest Monsters (AKA Dragon Warrior Monsters) is being remade for the Nintendo 3DS. [DragonQuest.jp] More »
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If Tomonobu Itagaki, the hard drinking cigarette smoking game designer behind Devil's Third, were a video game, he'd be Saints Row: The Third. No wonder he wanted to lend his voice to the game. More »
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Chinese arcade games with characters named "Lancelot" or with sharks that can drive and are dressed like pirates with some sort of Native American headdress. More »
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A few years back, Rock Band exploded in North America. In Europe. In Australia. It didn't in Japan. There must be a reason for that. More »
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Those hoping to check out Sega's Binary Domain at this year's Tokyo Game Show, got the opportunity to play the game in small rooms with large windows overlooking the show floor. More »
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The original Steel Battalion is remembered for two things: It was an Xbox exclusive, and it had a batty controller. More »
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The Tokyo Game Show's first public day brought rainy skies and a flood of gamers. Those who braved the crap weather were greeted with long lines, overwhelming crowds, and cosplayers. More »
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Saturday is the day the cosplayers come out to play at the Tokyo Game Show, crowds flocking to the walkways between the show's exhibition halls to see some of the world's best video game costume makers (and wearers) in action. More »
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Here's Konami's new trailer for Silent Hill: Downpour, released during the Tokyo Game Show. A word of advice: you may want to turn your speakers down. And by down, I mean off. More »
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Sony's TGS booth isn't actually that busy, because half of it has been shut down. So the crowds are manageable. At Sega's booth, though, things are getting a little crazy. More »
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For nearly a decade now, Microsoft has been fighting an uphill battle in Japan trying to get the locals interested in the Xbox. It hasn't worked. And in 2011, for the first time, the strain of that battle may be starting to show. More »
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I played Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom on the PlayStation Vita this morning. The thing is, we were only allowed eight minutes at a time on the thing, which isn't exactly enough to tell you the ins and outs of the game (though I did film the game, the footage from which I'll throw up a little later). More »
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If you thought cosplay at the Tokyo Game Show was all women in tiny outfits, you are dead wrong. There's an army of men out there dressed to the nines as well, and they're impressing the hell out of us.. More »
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Konami's TGS booth in 2011 is boring. So boring, in fact, it's not even worth a gallery. But there's someting tucked away inside that is: this fancy Metal Gear and Zone of the Enders swag. More »
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No matter the year and no matter the games, Capcom always has the best booth at TGS. Forgoing the slick corporate presence of its rivals, it instead opts for elaborate themed demo kiosks, in 2011 deciding the presence of both Dragon's Dogma and 117 Monster Hunter titles gave it the perfect in to build a ton of awesome model beasties. More »
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Today is Saturday here in Japan, and it's technically the third day of the 2011 Tokyo Game Show. But the first two days are business and press only. So they don't count. Saturday is when the gates are thrown open to the sweaty masses, and with sticky humidity and tens of thousands of people ready to pour into the Makahari Messe, the masses certainly are sweaty. More »
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The Tokyo Game Show trailer for Platinum Games' Anarchy Reigns neatly summarizes the game's story before jumping back into footage of people beating each other up. More »
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It's the flavour of the show at this year's TGS. It seems everywhere you turn there are HD remakes of old games, just waiting for the chance to get you to pay for the same game twice. More »
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