Kotaku has entered the Makuhari Messe and is waiting in line with extreme prejudice for the 2010 Tokyo Game Show to officially start. What can we expect today? Excitement! Microsoft kicks off its TGS 2010 opening keynote in just a bit, surely armed with loads of Kinect games and Xbox 360 exclusives. Later today, Sony…
American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns wasn’t playable at EA’s pre-TGS event, but the publisher tried to make up for it with a blood-stained cosplaying Alice who might cut you if you tried to grab the controller.
The men who make Dead or Alive, Ninja Gaiden and, now, Ni-Oh are Yasunori Sakuda (chief programmer), Yohei Shimbori (chief planner), Yosuke Hayakshi (team leader) and Yutaka Saito (art director), the “new” Team Ninja. Photographed at Umekawa-Tei in Tokyo.
Team Ninja leader Yosuke Hayashi revealed at an event in Tokyo this evening the developer’s next major projects, including a new Ninja Gaiden game for consoles and the revival of a game we know as Ni-Oh. Hayashi said that the team responsible for the Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden series of games was already…
Electronic Arts revealed at its Tokyo Game Show press conference today a new title for the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS, a gardening sim named My Garden. Coming from the publisher’s EA Play label, My Garden is said to incorporate the “beauty and complexity of the natural world.” Your guide, and the adorable mascot of My Garden,…
You’re the most popular kid in school (for just one day). Every girl in your class has fallen for you… but they stand between you and your true love. Take ’em down with your Pheromone Shot. This is Gal☆Gun. Or, if you prefer, simply Gal Gun. Alchemist’s new on-rails first person shooter for the Xbox…
Sega will officially lift the lid off of its third Valkyria Chronicles game later this week. Anyone out there hoping for the series to return to the PlayStation 3, you better start hoping for a Valkyria Chronicles 4. The latest issue of Famitsu confirms that Valkyria Chronicles 3 is, like it or not, coming to…
The latest issue of Japanese games mag Famitsu confirms what we’ve been expecting for a long, long time: Team ICO’s classic PlayStation 2 adventures Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are getting an HD makeover for the PlayStation 3. Hardly a surprise. Team ICO and Sony have been talking about the possibility of a Team…
What’s not to like in this week’s North American PlayStation Store update? Maybe that there are too many things to download? Or that you don’t have a PlayStation Move to enjoy a handful of new Move-only demos? There’s a long, long list of new things to buy and try this week, including the PSN version…
Added to the list of games playable on the Tokyo Game Show floor this week is Irem’s Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories, the latest and greatest catastrophic adventure, now on the PlayStation 3. You may know the series as Zettai Zetsumei Toshi, Disaster Report, SOS: The Final Escape or Raw Danger, but in Japan, they’re…
Valve’s sequel-spanning digital comic that explains just what happened to Left 4 Dead’s original Survivors, dubbed “The Sacrifice,” is yours for the reading. How do things go so horribly wrong between the original game and “The Passing”? Well, Tanks. Part one of “The Sacrifice,” part of Valve’s new cross-game story arc plans, offers us plenty…
Acquire’s Gladiator Begins for the PSP is perhaps best known for its underboob-heavy, gladiator cosplaying mascot girl, one who engages in Japanese office publicity stunts hijinks that violate most corporate dress codes. America, how do you respond? Stateside publisher Aksys Games offers tit for tat to drum up interest in the North American release of…
Konnichiwa, kids. It’s nighttime at Kotaku, but here in lovely Chiba, Japan, it’s lunchtime. So maybe we can chat over lunch about all things not just video game related. Sound good? Personally, I’m still recovering from watching Brian Ashcraft eat a huge bowl of nattō—you know, the slippery, slimy fermented soy bean treat!—at breakfast and…
Will a pair of glowing, bobble-headed heroes make you a fan of the PlayStation Move? The MoveMen, stars of a new PlayStation Move ad push, are here to try to sell you one, stylishly. The campaign, directed by FilmFaktisk’s Lars Åndheim, may be limited only to Norway, sadly—just as Microsoft’s similarly orb-headed Sanrokumaru mascot is…
Kotaku has landed in Tokyo to tackle the annual Tokyo Game Show, an event that promises to be full of game announcements, top notch cosplay and maybe an awkward dinner or two with Japanese video game developers. What should we expect? On Wednesday, Electronic Arts holds its pre-TGS showcase (starting at 4pm), where we expect…
Double Fine Productions’ Psychonauts, the classic psychic adventure, when cut to ape Christopher Nolan’s Inception scene-by-scene works shockingly well. Either consider this fan-made mash-up a dose of clever nostalgia or a reminder that, yes, you really should play some Psychonauts Thanks to Zak Canard for the tip!
The PlayStation Portable is still on top in Japan—thanks to MonHun Nikki!—helping, along with the PlayStation 3, to give Sony a healthy portion of the weekly hardware take in Japan. Nintendo takes just a little bit less. As is normally the case, the Nintendo DS family is the week’s bestseller, with nearly 40,000 units sold…
Next week, September 22 to be exact, Quantic Dream’s psychological murder mystery Heavy Rain magically transforms from vanilla PlayStation 3 game to thrilling, motion-controlled PlayStation Move game. Alright, alright. It’s not magic. It’s just a free software update that will add PlayStation Move controller support to the already released PS3 exclusive. Just boot up Heavy…
Monster Hunter is huge in Japan. So in MonHun, the softer side of the monster-slaying, loot-hunting adventure series and still the bestselling game in Japan. It’s more popular than Metroid this week, which is worth noting. The latest figures from sales tracker Media Create puts Capcom’s Monster Hunter spin-off—MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura for…
Take part in a thoroughly polite time-traveling conundrum with the newest adventure of Professor Hershel Layton and his puzzle-solving ward Luke in Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, a charming, thought-provoking British adventure. In the Unwound Future, Layton, Luke and a handful of hangers-on jump from decade to decade to solve the mystery of a…
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