Today at Sony’s Japanese, the company announced a price drop for its PSP-3000 — the PlayStation Portable will now cost ¥16,800 (US$185) in The Land of the Rising Sun, starting October 1. Keep in mind, in the US, the PSP-3000 is $169 in the US, while the PSPgo is $249. In Japan, the PSP-3000 is…
“I originally didn’t want to make another No More Heroes,” says game designer Goichi Suda. The game was supposed to be a one off dealio, but when the title did well, sequels do happen. “It’s not just that,” Suda explains. “I wanted to revisit Travis Touchdown. I wanted to write the continuation of his story.”…
The price drops are finally over! Time for the analysts to start talking about the next round of price drops. What do you want to talk about today?
Ubisoft announced at the Tokyo Game Show today that Splinter Cell Conviction will be out on both Xbox 360 and PC early next year. As the headline says, that exact date is February 23. To celebrate, Ubi released the video below, which I like, because it features the lost art of shooting another man in…
If you’re in the Americas, or even Europe, the Tokyo Game Show‘s timing isn’t exactly convenient. So you may have missed some of the news coming out of the show’s first day. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Microsoft Announce Natal Partners: Everyone Plus Kojima Sony’s TGS Keynote Liveblog Nintendo Announces Official Wii Price Cut…
The 30 minutes I spent playing Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on the first day of the Tokyo Game Show left me with the best first impression I’ve ever had of a game on the PlayStation Portable. I may have rolled my eyes when Konami’s Hideo Kojima started telling the press this past summer that…
Sony’s mysterious goodwill program for PlayStation Portable owners saddled with UMD collections will be rewarded, should they choose to upgrade to a PSPgo. In Europe, at least, Sony will be giving away three free games to new PSPgo investors. PSPgo buyers will be given three free games from a list of seventeen PlayStation Portable titles.…
Yesterday we ran a trailer for the PS3’s Gran Turismo 5, showing of the new Ferrari 458 Italia. In the interests of platform parity, you should know the car is also to be found in the 360’s Forza 3. Problem being, while Polyphony Digital are still working on GT5 – meaning they can just throw…
Ever since it was first announced, Sony’s motion controller has been kept out of the public eye. No product renders, no press shots, and its always shown with someone’s hand covering most of it. But not today. No, here’s a good, proper look at the thing itself. Lights, buttons, PS button, the works. Not so…
Click to view Sony ran a mini-press conference earlier today, just for White Knight Chronicles and Last Guardian. During that event, some new Last Guardian footage was shown. Here it is! It’s at the end, past the Team Ico retrospective, but then, that’s worth watching in its own right.
Level 5 took to the stage during Sony’s TGS press conference this afternoon to take the wraps off a sequel to PS3 RPG White Knight Chronicles 2. It’s called White Knight Chronicles: Awakening of Light and Darkness, which you may already know if you’ve laid eyes on this week’s copy of Famitsu. No real info…
Like the last PSP, the PSPgo needs accessories. And accessories it has, with the full range of PSPgo peripherals, cases and add-ons on show at the Tokyo Game Show. There’s a Bluetooth stereo headset adapter, a converter cable…thing (so you can use older PSP accessories on the PSPgo), a cradle, AV cables and in-ear headset.…
It just wouldn’t be TGS without a new Final Fantasy trailer now, would it? Here’s one for Final Fantasy XIV. [thanks GameVideos]
As seen at Konami’s booth at the Tokyo Game Show.
The next breakthrough in games will involve how you pay for what you play, the president of Square-Enix said today. Yoichi Wada made the declaration during the traditional state of the industry Tokyo Game Show kick-off panel here in Tokyo. “What’s going to be important for the next five years is not going to be…
Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase has, at a Tokyo Game Show press conference earlier today, given us our first look at the previously-announced special, FFXIII-themed limited edition of the PlayStation 3. The FFXIII PS3 will be a pinkish white (or a whitish pink!), carries a “Lightning” theme with FFXIII branding and will be a…
As promised, Microsoft are about to begin a panel discussion on Project Natal with several noted developers, including Hideo Kojima and Capcom’s Keiji Inafune. You’re here, we’re liveblogging, you may as well see what they’ve got to say. Click to viewXbox 360 Developer Liveblog
During an SCEJ press event this afternoon at the Tokyo Game Show, Sony finally announced a release date for Gran Turismo 5. And it’s not in 2009. The game will be out in Japan in March 2010. Which is still months away. A shame, we know, but then, GT fans have been waiting years for…
Well, we now know what that “Resident Evil 5: Director’s Cut” stuff was all about. It’s a re-release of RE5, built to take advantage of Sony’s upcoming motion controller. The game will be out in Spring 2010, and it’s far from the only existing PS3 title to take advantage of the new peripheral. During SCEJ’s…
There may not have been much happening at Sony’s Tokyo Game Show opener, but we’re hoping the Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Press Conference has more meat to it. Yes, Sony has two opportunities to speak to captive audiences today. Hit the jump for the liveblog action, courtesy of… whoever gets into the thing. Click to…
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