Take A Tour Of Microsoft’s Tokyo Game Show Booth

Microsoft’s TGS booth is looking a little brighter this year, a little airier. Want to see what’s being shown off on their particular slice of the Makuhari Messe’s showroom floor? There’s prominence given to Kinect, of course, but also on display is the new 250GB S model of the Xbox 360, plenty of new games…

Ni No Kuni’s TGS Trailer Is The Most Delightful Thing We’ll See All Week

All those colours…all those Studio Ghibli-designed characters…Level 5 running things under the hood…2011 can’t come soon enough for the PS3 version of Ni No Kuni

Yakuza 5 Trailer: Zombie Paradise Action

Yes, Yakuza 5 is a zombie game. If you think that’s silly, just wait, in the game’s debut trailer, things get even sillier

Sega Bringing Nightmares To Kinect

If Haunt is the kinect horror game for the family and kids, Sega’s Rise of Nightmares sounds like the horror game for those of you who really like their horror. Think Silent Hill, with waving arms. What we saw of it at Microsoft’s TGS keynote can best be described as a dark, seemingly on-rails title…

Valkyria Chronicles 3: The Tokyo Game Show Trailer

Let’s all try and get over the fact Valkyria Chronicles 3 is on the PSP with a snappy animated trailer for the game. Sure, there’s not a single second of gameplay footage to be had, but that would just remind us all this is not on the system most fans would have preferred, so as…

TGS Gets Struck By A Smooth Criminal, Ow

Michael Jackson has always been big in Japan, and Ubisoft’s Michael Jackson The Experience is no exception, hitting TGS hard with three newly revealed tracks and a new trailer, complete with creepy MJ stand-in. Will you be too mesmerized by the creepiness of the blurry-faced Michael Jackson dancer to care that “Smooth Criminal,” “Black or…

PaRappa Creator Turns Kinect Into A Haunted House

Masaya Matsuura’s NanaOn-Sha are working on a game for Microsoft’s Kinect. Considering these are the guys who made PaRappa The Rapper, it’s not what you’d expect. The game is called “Haunt”, and is a puzzle game set in a haunted house full of traps and monsters. No cartoon animals, and it doesn’t look like the…

There’s A New PSP Coming With A New Piece of Hardware

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan isn’t done with the PlayStation Portable. In fact, it’s releasing an updated version of the PSP alongside Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, introducing a new analog stick. The special edition Monster Hunter styled PSP will feature an analog stick that’s slightly modified to make those epically long loot-gathering sessions more comfortable for…

Mafia II Sets An F-Bomb Record [NSFW]

House Of The Dead: Overkill previously held the Guinness-certified World Record for most uses of the F-word in a video game, with 189. Mafia II has whacked that target. Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunter compiled all 200. Language very NSFW. Achievement Hunter: World Record F-Bombs [Rooster Teeth]

Surprise, There Is Another New Character For Marvel vs Capcom 3

Another new character has been revealed for fighting game Marvel vs Capcom 3 today, and this one goes out to fans of scantily-clad Marvel mutants. X-23, Wolverine’s sexier (test tube) sibling, will be appearing as a playable character in the game. You can see her strut her stuff in this new trailer, minted just for…

And So The Process Begins Anew…

Polyphony Digital boss and Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi tells Kotaku that despite throwing everything from karts to damage at Gran Turismo 5, still he wanted more. For that stuff, wait for GT6, due sometime in 2019.

Look! A Zombie Yakuza And Two Girls With Guns

As seen at the Sega booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show.

Project Dark Is The Demon’s Souls Team’s Next Game

Sony revealed a new title from the team responsible for hardcore hit Demon’s Souls at its Tokyo Game Show 2010 press conference today. Project Dark was touted as something of a successor to 2009’s PS3 exclusive Demon’s Souls. A short preview trailer for Project Dark was shown at Sony’s press conference, full of demons and…

The Last Guardian Looks So Pretty It Hurts

Team Ico’s creative vision has never been in doubt, but I don’t think even the developer’s most zealous fans would have expected 2011 release The Last Guardian to look this gorgeous. Click here to visit our Last Guardian timeline!

Live From Gran Turismo 5’s Tokyo Game Show Panel

Kazunori Yamauchi, designer of Gran Turismo, is showing off the latest entry Gran Turismo 5. There is a Logitech steering wheel clamped to a table. Driving ahoy!

Here’s What Ico & Shadow Of The Colossus Look Like In HD

When PS2 classics Ico & Shadow Of The Colossus are re-released on the PS3 next year, they’ll look a little nicer. How much nicer? This much nicer.

Team Ico Collection: Out In 2011, Has Some Surprises

The Team Ico Collection – a high-definition remastering of two of the PS2 generation’s finest titles – will be out next year, the developers said earlier today at the Tokyo Game Show. For European and American consumers, both games will ship on a single disc, as has been seen with the God of War and…

Team ICO Presents At Tokyo Game Show Live

The man behind Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, Fumito Ueda, is presenting his latest projects at Tokyo Game Show today, offering insight into the designer’s new (and not so new) work. We’re getting started a little late, but follow along in the liveblog below to hear what Ueda and Team ICO…

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The Last Guardian’s TGS Trailer [Update]

Sony showed a new trailer for Team Ico’s The Last Guardian at its Tokyo Game Show press conference earlier today. Here it is! While we wait for Sony to release the clip officially, in a resolution more pleasing to the eye (and when they do, we’ll swap ’em out), here it is in Showroom Floor…