Ape Escape For PlayStation Move Is An On-Rails Gadget Shooter

Apes go wild, again, in Furi Furi! Sarugechu—or Ape Escape Shake! Shake!, if you prefer—the first game in the monkey-snatching series to utilize Sony’s new PlayStation Move controller. The goal? Grab monkeys! With the Move! The Move-enabled version of Ape Escape puts things in first-person perspective, the motion controller acting as a floating net—to grab…

The Moneysaver: Buckaroo Bargains

The White House wants to know, is everything OK with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia? Coming soon: The Moneysaver Versus The World Crime League. Before we get started, interesting development in valueland: the digital distribution service GamersGate just opened a full-blown store through Facebook.…

The Week in Review: Exciting Game Show

Two major drops – Halo: Reach on Tuesday, PlayStation Move on Friday – vied with Tokyo Game Show 2010 to dominate the past week. They may have been the biggest news, but they weren’t the only news. Reach went out with some problems, apparently – multiplayer issues on the 4GB Slim Arcade models of the…

Boy Band Coming To Idolm@ster 2

Namco Bandai’s idol simulator The Idolm@ster features teenage girls. But in Japan, it’s not only young girls who are idols. Young boys are, too. Besides its stable of girls, Idolm@ster 2 will feature a boy band unit called “Jupiter”. There is 17-year-old Touma Amagase, 20-year-old Ijuuin Hokuto and 14-year-old Shouta Mitarai. In the clip, the…

Two More Fighters Are Bound For Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

The latest challengers for Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds? Spider-Man and Wesker from Resident Evil. This is certainly not the first appearance for Spider-Man in a MvC title. It is, however, for Wesker. These are the latest characters in the span of the past two weeks. Earlier, Marvel’s X-23 and Capcom’s Tron…

Tokyo Game Show 2010 Cosplay Blowout: Phase One

On Saturday, the public comes to Tokyo Game Show to play video games—and play dress up, posing for hours in Cosplay Alley. We spent a few hours in the battlegrounds of TGS cosplay and returned with this report. We’ll have more expert level cosplay from Japanese costume artists and those abroad soon, but while we…

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Revealed!

Tekken Tag Tournament is getting a sequel dubbed… Tekken Tag Tournament 2! The game was just made public at the Tokyo Game Show by Tekken team leader Katsuhiro Harada. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is a totally new title. It is slated first for arcades, but is bound for consoles after that. The game’s debut trailer…

First Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Trailer

Revealed today at the Tokyo Game Show, here is the debut trailer for Namco Bandai’s Tekken Tag Tournament 2. There’s tagging.

These Guys Make Hard Games

Games are getting easier and getting easier. Developers are putting in various modes and reducing the difficulty curve. Well, not everybody. Tokyo-based Nigoro is working on WiiWare title La Mulana. It’s an Indiana Jones-type platformer in which players explore 18 areas of the free-roaming environment. The vibe is retro, and the game’s designers are trying…

Japan’s Western-Game Loving Porn Star Pops Up At TGS

Noa Torigoe, star of adult films like Max Orgasm and Ultimate Gold, really loves video games. I guess you could call her “hardcore”? But she doesn’t just love Japanese video games, she loves Western video games. “The console that I play the most is the Xbox 360,” Noa told Kotaku Japan. “Recently, I’ve been playing…

TGS Cosplay Gallery: Day One

First Footage Of New Super Street Fighter IV Characters

It seemed like Hong Kong fighters Yun and Yang were going to be in the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV. Turns out, they are. This latest trailer shows the two characters in action. Super Street Fighter IV will be released in Japanese arcades this December.

Gran Turismo 5 ‘Titanium Blue’ PS3 Looks Pretty, Classy

Sony is releasing a special “Titanium Blue” colored PlayStation 3—part of a Gran Turismo 5 bundle—in Japan later this year. It looks like the kind of thing a PS3 owner who’s in love with cars will appreciate. Sony had exactly one Gran Turismo 5 Racing Pack bundle on the Tokyo Game Show floor giving us…

Mega Man Universe: All Around The World

The newest Mega Man game doesn’t just limit itself to Mega Man. It’s his universe. But does Mega Man Universe have universal appeal? The Tokyo Game Show demo had a wide array of selectable characters: There was Mega Man, the U.S. boxart version of Mega Man and Rockman. There were customizable characters that include Gustman,…

Please, God, Let Somebody Make A Half-Life 2 Movie Like This

This animated Half-Life 2 clip isn’t your average piece of amateur machinima. It’s a cinematic trailer put together by Marco Spitoni, who works at WETA, the guys behind the special effects for Lord of the Rings and District 9. And doesn’t it show. If someone was ever to make a full animated movie in this…

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam: Yeah, I Was In The Sh*t

Through the grass, I see a North Vietnamese troop before me. I dart ahead and, poof, he’s gone. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam is a downloaded expansion pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The game keeps the same classes and gameplay as Battlefield: Bad Company 2. If you are familiar with that title, there are…

Child Of Eden’s TGS Footage Gets The Party Started

The more we see of Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s new game, the more the similarities to his previous masterpiece Rez become apparent, but that’s OK. Rez with better graphics and lots of rhythmic arm waving will be lots of people’s cups of tea. It’s interesting that, while the game is coming to the 360 and PS3, it’s…

Yup, Project Dark Is Basically Demon’s Souls 2

One of the most frustrating parts of this year’s Tokyo Game Show is that very little has been revealed about Project Dark, a game that many hoped would be a spiritual successor to 2009 cult hit Demon’s Souls. One look at this trailer and you’ll see that it’s indeed wearing Demon’s Souls on its sleeves.…

Hands-On With The Girl Ships Of Otomedius Excellent

Konami offered a single level’s worth of its next great titillating side-scrolling shoot ’em up, Otomedius Excellent, at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Being a fan of Gradius-style gameplay and cleavage, we had to go hands on. Otomedius Excellent is the third entry in Konami’s moe perversion of the Gradius and Parodius series, featuring even…

Hold Your Breath And Think Of Five Bearded Men

So my friends and I have undertaken the inevitable mustache-growing contest. Right now I’m sporting about five days of completely, full-faced unshaven stubble. But I’m wondering if I should spend all this growth on a Hulk Hogan-style Fu Manchu. That’s the goal of this contest, which assuredly I will win. I just don’t think the…