Live From Sony’s Tokyo Game Show Event

Microsoft gave this year’s Tokyo Game Show keynote, but that doesn’t mean Sony won’t be giving a press conference. It so will be. What will be in store? What won’t be in store? Let’s find out. And we are underway, Sony has mentioned the the PlayStation Move will launch in Japan will be October 21.…

Ni No Kuni PS3 Hands-On Impressions

Studio Ghibli, Japan’s beloved animation studio, is teaming up with Level-5, one of the country’s most popular game makers, for a new adventure called “Ni no Kuni”. A high definition version is coming to the PS3. It is beautiful. Studio Ghibli is known for anime like My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service, while Level-5…

Kinect Gets Its Panzer Dragoon

Yukio Futatsugi, the creator of Panzer Dragoon and Phantom Dust, has a new game coming out for Microsoft’s Kinect. What do you do? You ride dragons. The game is called Project Draco, and has you both flying your dragon in aerial combat, as well as using Kinect’s camera capabilities to “nurture and learn to communicate”…

Steel Battalion’s Trailer Brings Giant Robot Warfare To New York City

Of all Microsoft’s surprising Kinect reveals earlier today, none carries the weight of nostalgia – and potential – like the reimagining of cult mech combat title Steel Battalion

Fire Pro-Wrestling Returns, Now Cuter To Xbox 360

Japan’s venerable wrasslin’ series, Fire Pro-Wrestling, is back and now on the Xbox 360. And now with Xbox 360 Avatars as playable grapplers. Spike, the developer of the Fire Pro-Wrestling series as of the year 2000, will be creating a new entry for Xbox Live Arcade for release in 2011. Fire Pro-Wrestling lets you customize…

Steel Battalion Triumphantly Returns With A Different Sort Of Custom Controller

During Microsoft’s Tokyo Game Show press conference this morning, Capcom’s Keiji Inafune took the stage to introduce the world to Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor for Kinect, a new interpretation of the classic game with the extremely expensive controller. I can’t believe McWhertor was right, but there it is in our E3 2010 predictions post: “Steel…

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…