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Uncharted 2 Pulls Plug on Some Twitter Updates
Playstation 3’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves lost some of its functionality today with developer Naughty Dog deciding to pull the plug on the ability to auto Tweet chapter completion. In an update on the Sony Playstation Blog, Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells wrote that the decision to pull the plug on the feature was driven…
By Brian Crecente Published September 28, 2009 -
More than 1 Billion Served
To: Ash From Crecente Re: And I Don’t Blink And I Just Keep Going And I Don’t Blink… We hit an interesting milestone during our coverage of the Tokyo Game Show last week: One billion pageviews since the site’s launch. Yes, with a B. How absurd is that? Now to get our readership up from…
By Brian Crecente Published September 28, 2009 -
Reviews
PSPgo Review: A Peek Into the Future of Gaming
Smaller, easier to use and completely devoid of a disc drive of any sort, the PSPgo is powered only by digital media, a brave step into the future of gaming. But is it a future in which we want to live? Loved Pure Digital: The PSPgo is smaller, sleeker, better designed than its predecessors, but…
By Brian Crecente Published September 28, 2009 -
iPhone Chart Toppers: Monopoly Boots Dexter
It’s that time again. Time to look at the top grossing games on iTunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Will Dexter’s Showtime popularity translate to iPhone popularity? Can Madden be kicked from the top ten? Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Madden NFL 10 (EA) $9.99 3 1 2 Bejeweled 2 (PopCap Games)…
By Brian Crecente Published September 28, 2009 -
Booth Check: The Tokyo Game Show Kids’ Hall
One of the big things that’s different about the Toyo Game show is that it doesn’t just put up with children it actively works to attract them. One of the biggest draws to the dhow for children is the danced of children’s area which is packed with kid-friendly games, live action shows and mascots.
By Brian Crecente Published September 28, 2009 -
Tokyo Game Show Slump Casts Shadow Across Industry
The United States may have given birth to video games, but it was Japan that brought them to life. Games like Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong introduced the concept of plot and character to something that started out as more diversion, more science in motion than art. From these deep gaming roots sprung an…
By Brian Crecente Published September 28, 2009 -
Booth Check: The Warlord Armor of TGS
The Game Science Museum at the Tokyo Game Show this year housed not only video games but an exhibition of armor and helmets of Japan’s most popular warlords. The popular display, tucked away near the Level 5 and Koei Tecmo booths, also had some video games based on sengoku samurai.
By Brian Crecente Published September 27, 2009 -
Booth Check: Koei Tecmo
Last night Koei Tecmo threw a little party at the Hotel New Otani. They introduced all of their developers and pointed out that in the U.S. they are called Tecmo Koei, but in Japan they are called Tecmo Koei. They should probably figure that one out.
By Brian Crecente Published September 26, 2009 -
Booth Check: Level 5
In Japan, Level 5 is an incredibly popular developer and publisher. Why? Because they’re behind Dragon Quest, Professor Layton, White Knight Chronicles and Jeanne d’Arc, to name a few. That explains the massive crowds sitting through presentations just to get a chance to get a chance to check out early copies of their upcoming releases.
By Brian Crecente Published September 26, 2009 -
Inafune Explains the Concept Behind Dead Rising 2
There’s little we really know about the story that drives Dead Rising 2. Instead all we know so far amount to little more than pieces of a puzzle. Today, Capcom’s Keiji Inafune gave us another piece of the puzzle, explaining how a game show enters into the multiplayer portion of the game. During a press…
By Brian Crecente Published September 26, 2009 -
Capcom Gives Away Two-Of-A-Kind Dead Rising Jacket
While the chance to finally get hands on Dead Rising 2 was the biggest draw to Capcom’s Tokyo Game Show press party, that’s probably not why people hung around. Capcom’s Keiji Inafune took to the stage in a leather replica of the biking jacket worn by the game’s protagonist Chuck Greene. He told the awaiting…
By Brian Crecente Published September 26, 2009 -
Crackdown 2 Multiplayer Gameplay
Earlier this week I had a chance to sit down and play a bit of Crackdown 2 multiplayer. It was, no pun intended, a blast. GameVideos shot some lovely video of the multiplayer mayhem in action. Check it out. Crackdown 2 TGS 2009 Deathmatch Gameplay [GameVideos]
By Brian Crecente Published September 25, 2009 -
Hands-On With Crackdown 2’s Tribes-Like Multiplayer
Earlier this week I had a chance to sit down with Crackdown 2‘s multiplayer, leaping between towering buildings, and throwing cars at fellow agents in a city-roving free-for-all that felt like one part Halo and one part Tribes. A group of journalists gathered on the 25th floor of the New Otani Hotel in Japan to…
By Brian Crecente Published September 25, 2009 -
Lets TGS This Weekend
To: Owen From: Crecente It may be Friday night at Kotaku Tower and Saturday morning here in Japan, but that doesn’t mean that the news, reviews and pictures won’t continue to flow out of the Tokyo Game Show. We still have plenty, plenty to post. This morning marks the first public day of the Tokyo…
By Brian Crecente Published September 25, 2009 -
Dead Rising 2 Hands On: Wheelchair of Death
Chuck Greene is quite handy with a sword… and golf club… and beer bottles… and chainsaws on poles… and… well, you get the idea. In the 15 minutes or so that I spent running around inside a casino in Dead Rising 2 I manged to slice – both vertically and horizontally – club, shoot and…
By Brian Crecente Published September 25, 2009 -
Dead Rising 2: What’s With The Duct Tape?
Controller in hand, standing inches away from a flat panel running Dead Rising 2 at an event in a Tokyo cantina, the thing that most intrigued me about the game wasn’t the ability to slice zombies with a sword or beat them with anything from a wheelchair to a golf club, it was the duct…
By Brian Crecente Published September 25, 2009 -
Dead Rising 2: It’s A Game Show!
As seen at Capcom’s Dead Rising 2 event in Tokyo.
By Brian Crecente Published September 25, 2009 -
Booth Check: Alienware
This is the first year U.S. PC-maker Alienware has shown at the Tokyo Game Show. An Alienware spokesman told me that they expect a lot of interest in their high-end PC desktops, but even more interest in the gaming laptops that line the walls of the sizable booth.
By Brian Crecente Published September 25, 2009
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