The Tokyo Game Show is a crowded place. It’s not so bad on the business days where the attendance is around 25,000 people. On the public days, the amount of people usually skyrockets to over 80,000. But today it hit an all time high at 95,000 people. You may have seen that many people at…
Announced back with the release of Macross: Do You Remember Love? on Blu-ray, the new movie Macross FB7: Listen to My Song! premiered its first trailer at Saturday’s Macross 30th Anniversary event on the Namco-Bandai stage at the Tokyo Game Show. Macross FB7: Listen to My Song! is the first major crossover between any two…
The Tokyo Game Show has lines—long lines for almost every game. But what about the line to enter the show, just how long is that line? Before the show began Saturday morning, it wrapped around the entire convention center and was six to seven people wide. Walking the entire length of the line took me…
Today at the Tokyo Game Show, Kotaku spent some time with the newest game in the Tales series, Tales of Xillia 2. It looks, plays, and feels like the first Tales of Xillia—and this is in no way a bad thing. The demo begins by letting you choose to party with one of two different…
Project X Zone is the mega-crossover game from Capcom, Namco-Bandai, and Sega starring a staggering list of characters—ranging from Street Fighter to Devil May Cry, Tekken to Tales of Vesperia, and Space Channel 5 to Valkyria Chronicles 3 (among many others). And today at the Tokyo Game Show, we at Kotaku got to spend some…
Today Namco-Bandai held a Macross 30th Anniversary event at their booth in the Tokyo Game Show. During the event they talked about upcoming Macross projects like Macross the Musiculture (a Macross-themed stage musical debuting this fall in Japan) and showed the first non-teaser trailer for the new Macross movie, Macross FB7. There were even several…
Meet Keita Wada. The 24 year-old was the first person in line for the first public day of this year’s Tokyo Game Show. You’d think he would be the hardest of the hardcore gaming fans. He’s not. In fact he’s not planning on playing a single game at the Tokyo Game Show this year. Instead…
This year’s Tokyo Game Show has showcased many titles, but none of them has an ounce of the creativity shown in The Unfinished Swan Plot-wise The Unfinished Swan is a modern fairy tale. One day, the titular swan disappears from a little boy’s favorite painting. So then he enters the painting and travels across the…
Going into Metal Gear Rising Revengance at the Tokyo Game Show 2012, I was sure I knew what I was in for. After all, I have played (and liked) plenty of Platinum’s previous titles—i.e. Bayonetta, Madworld, and Anarchy Reigns. Yet, my time with Rising was plagued with a major issue stemming from the game’s incredibly…
Announced last year, Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney is a Level-5 and Capcom crossover between the two logic-based series. Kotaku was on-hand today at the Tokyo Game Show to try the first playable demo of this highly anticipated game. The demo was actually split into two parts, one following Phoenix Wright and the other following…
Today at the Tokyo Game Show Kotaku was able to experience 15 minutes of tense courtroom drama with the first playable demo of Ace Attorney 5 In the demo, Phoenix finds himself defending a young girl accused of bombing a courtroom with a bomb hidden in a stuffed animal. Also involved is the younger brother…
Just over three weeks ago, the 18-year-old series Rurouni Kenshin made its return to the Japanese consciousness with the release of the series’ first live action feature film. But not content to hit just one genre of popular media, a Kenshin fighting game was released that week as well, giving long-time fans more Kenshin at…
Last week, Capcom announced that everyone’s favorite blue-suited defense attorney, Phoenix Wright, would be returning as the protagonist of Ace Attorney 5. While it may not seem like that long since he last starred in an Ace Attorney game, it has actually been eight long years (five in the West). And his return is the…
Tokyo Jungle really is a game unlike any other. As a large assortment of different animals, you explore an overgrown and deserted Tokyo, slowly piecing together the mystery of what happened to all the humans. And when I say “a large assortment of different animals,” I refer to everything from deer and wolves to elephants…
Last week at the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary event here in Tokyo, some of the biggest names in Square Enix talked about the franchise. Square Enix showed off the first material related to Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was put through its paces. Then Hajime Tabata—director of Crisis…
Two-and-a-half weeks ago, popular 90’s anime Rurouni Kenshin exploded onto the Japanese cinema scene with the series’ first live-action movie. However, that was not the only Kenshin-related item to get a release that week. Sequel to last year’s Rurouni Kenshin Saisen, Rurouni Kenshin Kansei is a PSP fighting game with a roster of nearly all…
For the last few years, I have been a frequent customer at a local mom-and-pop video game store here in Japan. Today I walked in to see the shelves with empty spaces and the games majorly discounted. After 21 years of selling games, the store is going out of business. Surprised and saddened by this,…
In the past we here at Kotaku East have talked a lot about Hatsune Miku and some of Japan’s other virtual idols. But the one thing we haven’t really touched on so far are the numerous fictional singers of Japan. While initially designed to be pop stars in manga or anime, these singers have transcended…
As we move toward the end of the year, it can mean only one thing: it’s time for a new game with everyone’s favorite virtual idol, Hatsune Miku. Project Diva f, this year’s iteration in the series, is filled with firsts. There are new game mechanics, new songs, new costumes, and a from-the-ground-up graphical revamp…
There were many things I expected when I picked up Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f: Vocaloid songs, Miku in tons of crazy costumes, the ability to make “Call Me Maybe” into a playable level, new touch screen controls, and a major graphical overhaul—as the series takes the leap from the PSP to Vita. What I…
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