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  Kotaku Originals: No Show-Stopper

  Tokyo Games Show dominated this week but it didn’t account for all the news. Just like this week won’t account for all our TGS coverage. We’ll have plenty more when the team returns to the States. Well, except for Bash. Please do hit that first link to peer at the voluminous report put together by…

  By Owen Good Published September 26, 2009
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  Booth Check: Level 5

  In Japan, Level 5 is an incredibly popular developer and publisher. Why? Because they’re behind Dragon Quest, Professor Layton, White Knight Chronicles and Jeanne d’Arc, to name a few. That explains the massive crowds sitting through presentations just to get a chance to get a chance to check out early copies of their upcoming releases.

  By Brian Crecente Published September 26, 2009
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  Inafune Explains the Concept Behind Dead Rising 2

  There’s little we really know about the story that drives Dead Rising 2. Instead all we know so far amount to little more than pieces of a puzzle. Today, Capcom’s Keiji Inafune gave us another piece of the puzzle, explaining how a game show enters into the multiplayer portion of the game. During a press…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 26, 2009
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  DSi, PS3 Battle For Hardware Championship In Japan (Spoiler: DSi Wins)

  Thanks to continued sales of the latest pair of Pokemon games, the Nintendo DSi holds onto its top spot on Japanese hardware charts. Also holding strong? The PlayStation 3. The newer, cheaper, more matte PS3 retains its second place position on Media Create‘s hardware chart, probably in part thanks to the release of Tales of…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 26, 2009
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  14 Seconds Of Katamari Natal

  Microsoft let reporters such as our own Brian Crecente play Namco’s famous stuff-rolling game, Katamari Damacy, using the company’s prototype hands-free control system, Project Natal. But Destructoid’s Nick Chester is the reporter who I caught in the act.

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 26, 2009
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  Death By Cube Impressions: One Of TGS’ Bloodiest

  Who can resist trying a game called Death By Cube? Not I. In the rear of the Square-Enix booth, away from the crowds lined up for anything and everything Final Kingdom Quest, I found Death By Cube. It is an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game developed by a studio called Premium Agency, and it will…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 26, 2009
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  Booth Check: Ubisoft

  Ubisoft’s booth seemed fairly popular today among the masses, packing in gamers with the allure of Avatar, Red Steel 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction, to name just a few.

  By Brian Crecente Published September 26, 2009
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  Capcom Gives Away Two-Of-A-Kind Dead Rising Jacket

  While the chance to finally get hands on Dead Rising 2 was the biggest draw to Capcom’s Tokyo Game Show press party, that’s probably not why people hung around. Capcom’s Keiji Inafune took to the stage in a leather replica of the biking jacket worn by the game’s protagonist Chuck Greene. He told the awaiting…

  By Brian Crecente Published September 26, 2009
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  Mushihime-Sama Futari Ver 1.5 Hands On Impressions

  For me, as far as shooters go, there is Mushihime-Sama Futari and there is everything else. I’m not saying that Cave’s arcade shooter is the best, but it’s a title I’ll always pop into an arcade to play, a title that I have some sort of connection to, a title that I can enjoy. The…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2009
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  Sony Still Pondering Names, Options For Motion Controller

  It’s simply dubbed the Wand Controller. For the time being, that is. “There are several candidates for the name of the controller,” said Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida. While still undecided, those names are making their way through Sony, being run up the flagpole and getting feedback from various internal departments. “The…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2009
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  Booth Check: Square-Enix

  You’d expect to find Dragon Quest slimes and Final Fantasy drinks in Square-Enix’s massive Tokyo Game Show booth. But would you have expected Modern Warfare 2?

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 26, 2009
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  The Gamer’s Girl Gives Dating Advice To Gamers

  Last month I blogged about my colleague’s blog, The Gamer’s Girl. At the time, her project was aimed at the girlfriends of gamers, but now it looks like she’s broadened her blogging horizons. This week’s featured article is on how a Gamer can meet a Gamer’s Girl. Magic insight: every girl a gamer meets has…

  By AJ Glasser Published September 26, 2009
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  TGS Round-Up: Day 3

  The 2009 Tokyo Game Show continues into the weekend, but today we’ve got Dead Rising 2, Hideo Kojima, Crackdown 2 multiplayer, and much, much more! Hands-On With Crackdown 2’s Tribes-Like Multiplayer Dead Rising 2: Behold The Rake Shotgun Hands On With Tecmo’s “TPS” Quantum Theory Order Of Importance? Booth Check: Sony’s PlayStation Space Dead Rising…

  By Mike Fahey Published September 26, 2009
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  Retailers Point To Alpha Protocol Delay

  Obsidian Entertainment‘s Alpha Protocol—you know, the espionage RPG?—looks like it may not make its previously planned October release date. The Sega-published role-playing game looks like it will instead release next Summer. Recently updated ship dates from GameStop and Amazon.ca list Alpha Protocol for June 1 and June 30, 2010, respectively. Most online retailers still show…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 26, 2009
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  Your TGS Booth Companions

  The Tokyo Game Show doesn’t have booth babes, they have booth companions. These men and women are trained to hand out brochures, pitch their games and sometimes even play along side you. Here’s your look at this year’s companions.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 26, 2009
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  New Risen Trailer — We Swear Famous People Are In This Game

  You’d think if a developer shelled out to have Andy Serkis and John Rhys-Davies in their voice cast that they’d make use of the heavy-hitters in their trailer. But nope. All you get is some guy saying the name of the game right at the end. I guess that’s why they call it a “teaser”…

  By AJ Glasser Published September 26, 2009
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  Capcom Has Not Yet Decided Resident Evil 6 Producer

  Osaka-based game company Capcom makes Resident Evil zombie games. With Resident Evil 5 shipping 5 million copies worldwide, damn skippy that Capcom is going to churn out RE6. “Honestly”, RE5 and Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi told Kotaku, “the producer for Resident Evil 6 hasn’t been decided yet.” Takeuchi has previously expressed interested in…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 25, 2009
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  Kojima Talks More About Hardcore Natal Plans

  The father of Metal Gear told Kotaku that he’d like to make games for Natal that appeal to people who like his own work and Halo. Hideo Kojima elaborated on his interest in Microsoft’s hands-free Xbox controller system, Project Natal, during his interview with Kotaku at the Tokyo Game Show on Friday. He was following…

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 25, 2009
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  The Great TGS Underboob Cover-Up (NSFW)

  If someone ever asks you what the biggest difference between the press days and the public days at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, tell them one thing. Make that, two things: GAH! Just as TGS started to take shape and stiffen up, the early pictures from the Acquire booth showed a booth companion promoting upcoming…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published September 25, 2009
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  Borderlands Introduces the Crimson Lance

  Gearbox sent out a punchy update today assuring us that Borderlands is “pretty damn huge” and all that we’ve seen so far are “the noobie areas of the game. You haven’t even met the real bad guys yet.” OK, enlighten us. Well, first, Gearbox touts a 60-plus hour experience “in just the first play through,”…

  By Owen Good Published September 25, 2009