Kinect Gets Its First Weird Grasshopper Manufacture Game, ‘Codename D’

Japanese games impresario Goichi Suda, creator of No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned, and his studio Grasshopper Manufacture will bring an all-new title exclusively to the Xbox 360, titled “Codename D.” (Skittles? Is that you?) Suda, taking the stage at Microsoft’s TGS 2010 news conference, said that he’d wanted to work with the…

The Booths Of The Tokyo Game Show

And it starts. The Tokyo Game Show has kicked off its first day. Today is a business day, and the show floor will not be open to the general public until Saturday. Here are some booths of the companies you know and love.

Radiant Silvergun Coming to Xbox 360

Radiant Silvergun, the spiritual progenitor of Ikaruga, is coming exclusively to the Xbox 360 next year, Microsoft said at its Tokyo Game Show news conference. The title is being developed by Treasure, the original studio behind both games. Radiant Silvergun, an arcade favorite brought to the Sega Saturn in 1998, will feature online cooperative play…

A First Look at Playstation’s Mammoth Tokyo Game Show Booth

While Microsoft is busy opening this year’s Tokyo Game Show with the kick off press conference, our industrious colleagues over at Kotaku Japan were busy swarming all over the Playstation booth. Take a look why don’t you. 3D！ Move！ GT5！ SCEブースは新ガジェットだらけ！（写真ギャラリー） [Kotaku Japan]

Microsoft’s Tokyo Game Show Kick-Off Keynote Live

Microsoft is about to kick Tokyo Game Show 2010 into full gear, pimping all things Xbox 360, Xbox Live and Kinect. Hopefully, that means Microsoft executives talking about Gal Gun with a straight face. We shall see! Follow along with Microsoft’s TGS keynote, which we’ll be covering live for the next hour or so. Let’s…

Here’s The Pixeljunk Lifelike Debut Video

What did I just see? I’m not sure. That mushroom imagery with the PlayStation Move wand was plenty suggestive, though. This is the TGS video for PixelJunk Lifelike, Q-Games’ new endeavor, featuring art and music from Baiyon from PixelJunk Eden. PixelJunk Lifelike [Famitsu]

Tokyo Game Show Starts… Now!

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…

FIFA 11’s Demo Arrives, Features Unlockables

FIFA 11’s demo went live on both consoles’ download services today, providing you with six top-flight international clubs and a range of difficulty settings to get a feel for this year’s edition. Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Olympique Lyonnais, Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen are your team options. You may choose a difficulty level at the demo’s…

Halo: Reach Challenges Are Alive Let’s Take a Look

As if you needed another reason to be playing Halo: Reach far too much, the game’s Daily and Weekly Challenges are now live. What are those, you ask? Have a look see.

A Peek At NBA 2K11’s Halftime Show

Operation Sports rolled out a six-minute video showing the second quarter of a Sixers-Knicks matchup. Gameplay galore, but the new news is the halftime show, confirmed last week, which you can get a whiff of at the 5:00 mark. The voice is of San Francisco’s KNBR-AM’s Damon Bruce, who once awarded me tickets to a…

Here’s me stabbing Crecente in the ass. It was a blast, met a lot of people to play Reach with. Favourite parts of the night would either be the whole blue team playing our improvised game type “Hunt Down the Kotaku Writers” in Team SWAT, or driving around in a Warthog with Crecente while trying…

Too Little Sleep, Too Much Coffee

To: Ash From: Crecente Who needs to workout when they can just skimp on the sleep and binge on the coffee? Seriously, my heart is pounding away as I type this. Cardio for the day: Check! Sounds like you guys have been absolutely slammed since you arrived in Tokyo. You’ve been doing a great job.…

American McGee’s Alice Officially Kicks Off TGS Cosplay

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.

First Batch Of Madden Moments Live Arrive

The first batch of “Madden Moments Live” – replayable situations from the previous week’s real NFL games – went up to EA Sports’ servers today and, yep, one of them is Detroit at Chicago, ended by a dubious officiating decision. To recap: “Madden Moments Live” is the new downloadable content series being delivered by Madden…

Kotaku Play Date: Yes Please

Well that was a lot of fun! Last night Fahey and I went online to play Halo: Reach with an assortment of Kotaku readers, asking you all to create your own game sessions as well. We had a total blast. We’re definitely going to be doing more of this. Here are a few videos showing…

Meet The New Team Ninja

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.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Review: Sleeper Hit

A decade before Sora faced off against his first Heartless, Terra, Aqua, and Ventus battled the Unversed across a multitude of Disney-themed worlds in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Kingdom Hearts fans have been eager to get their hands on Terra, Aqua, and Ventus since they first appeared in the secret trailer for Birth by…

Let’s TGS: Day One!

The Tokyo Game Show doesn’t kick off officially until later tonight Eastern time, but already there’s been plenty of news from the likes of Electornic Arts, Capcom and Tecmo. Here’s a look back at the day leading up to the big Tokyo show: See Japan Crumble (In 3D!!!) In Disaster Report 4 Ico, Shadow of…

Mega Man In Candy Form

Mmmm de-licious! At Capcom’s event in Tokyo, there was a candy maker on hand to whip up confectionary treats. Besides Mega Man, Ailu from Monster Hunter, Amatersau from Okami and the Umbrella Corporation logo from Resident Evil.

Speak-Up On Kotaku: Retail Rage, Halo Rage, Server Rage, And Muppets

In this week’s rage-fueled installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, Bharat Raghu, Jack2Pot, and Time Pilot AKA discuss retailer choices, Halo haters, and server downtime, while Darkboy1200 reminds us how awesome muppets are. Don’t like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About Speak-Up on Kotaku: Our readers have a lot to…