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  Survey, Web Site Indicate Planetside 2 is in the Works

  Huge buzz going around the Planetside community today as a survey email said to come from Sony Online Entertainment reveals plans “to expand the Planet Side universe with another game.” Also, someone found SOE registered Planetside2.com on Sept. 21. The email sought help from “loyal player(s) and experienced shooter fan(s)” in designing this next game.…

  By Owen Good Published September 26, 2009
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  Manual Instruction: Two Types of Learning in Game Tutorials

  Who reads instruction manuals any more? These days even the most complex console game arrives with just a 16-page booklet. Increasingly, we rely on in-game tutorials, and the two modes of learning they promote both have their benefits – and drawbacks. Tutorials common to the early days of PC gaming followed an expository model of…

  By Owen Good Published September 26, 2009
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  Super Tokyo Game Show Cosplay Brawl: Day One

  Tokyo Game Show’s “Cosplay Alley” is bustling with girls and boys in carefully crafted homemade outfits—and the portly photographers who long to capture them on film, for whatever reason. On day one of the Tokyo Game Show’s public days, the cosplayers came out in full force, repping multiple Final Fantasys, The King of Fighters, Metal…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 26, 2009
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  How Sony Motion Control Figures into LittleBigPlanet

  In this five minute video, Sony’s new motion control wand is used in a cooperative mode of LittleBigPlanet. One player handles Sackboy with a Dualshock, while another manipulates objects to help him complete his tour through the level. This video comes from Sony’s Tokyo Game Show presentation during which motion control support was revealed for…

  By Owen Good Published September 26, 2009
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  Hands-On With Bayonetta – The PS3 Version

  The PlayStation 3 version of PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta has become somewhat of a point of contention, given that the developer of the game has handed off development duties to Sega for that platform and that it reportedly… doesn’t look so good. Well, we decided to check the PS3 version of the non-stop climax action game for…

  By Michael McWhertor Published September 26, 2009
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  What Makes a “Real” Sport in an Unreal World?

  Twenty years ago I learned how to rename the rosters for Accolade’s Hardball! and rig the players’ performances. Every player would be a 40-40 man, I boasted to Dad. “Not really interested,” he said, “It’s not real baseball.” I thought about that old Commodore 64 game a few weeks ago when a friend told me…

  By Owen Good Published September 26, 2009
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  Booth Check: Konami

  Welcome to Konami’s Tokyo Game Show Booth, where you can find… Darksiders. Plus Winning Eleven and the most hyped PSP game of the show.

  By Stephen Totilo Published September 26, 2009
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  Weekend Coupons: Early Birds, the Worm and All That

  Rise and shine, deal hunters. The full blown autumn retail season is here, and price drops for all consoles are in effect, so we’re not seeing the clearance discounts of late summer. But there still are values to be had. Hardware • You can get an Xbox 360 wireless controller for $29.99 and Viva Piñata:…

  By Owen Good Published September 26, 2009
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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