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Why Metal Gear Rising Features a Fancy New Raiden Outfit

If you’ve been paying attention to Raiden’s bodysuits (I, apparently, have not), you might notice that Raiden has a different outfit in Metal Gear Rising In a Konami stage event, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima explained that within Konami, the developers refer to the three different versions of Raiden in different ways. So, the Raiden…

Scenes from the Scenic Tokyo Game Show Floor

Today is the second press day. But tomorrow, this scenic Tokyo Game Show floor will turn into chaos, once fans pour into the Makuhari Messe convention center. Until then, enjoy these snaps of the relatively stress-free look at TGS. Once tomorrow rolls around, this place will be a madhouse.

Light Gun? No, This Game Uses a Bow and Arrows

The Light Shooter is an experimental indie game from a Japanese developer named Kyosuke Yasumoto. In The Light Shooter, you get a bow peripheral that works with a basic shooting mechanic, but also sports a flashlight mechanic. So the direction that you point the bow shines light on the black screen. The object here is…

The Unfinished Swan May Be The Next Journey

This year’s Tokyo Game Show has showcased many titles, but none of them has an ounce of the creativity shown in The Unfinished Swan Plot-wise The Unfinished Swan is a modern fairy tale. One day, the titular swan disappears from a little boy’s favorite painting. So then he enters the painting and travels across the…

Nippon Ichi is publishing Persona 4: Golden on the Vita in Europe. Atlus is handling North America.

Hyper Dimension Neptunia V will be released in the West on the PS3 next spring.

Metal Gear Rising‘s Controls Seem Painfully Counterintuitive

Going into Metal Gear Rising Revengance at the Tokyo Game Show 2012, I was sure I knew what I was in for. After all, I have played (and liked) plenty of Platinum’s previous titles—i.e. Bayonetta, Madworld, and Anarchy Reigns. Yet, my time with Rising was plagued with a major issue stemming from the game’s incredibly…

GTAIV Brings the Curtain Down on Gangnam Style Videos

OK, I think we’ve all had just about enough of this Gangnam Style business. So let’s tie it all off neatly with what really should have been the first video game parody of the lot: Grand Theft Auto IV’s. GTA IV – GANGNAM STYLE [YouTube, via Rockstar]

I’ve Seen the Future of Virtual Reality, and It Is Terrifying

Experience the big-screen in private. That’s the sales pitch for head-mounted displays. One would think that the only real areas for technological advancement would be in the screen resolution and the actual weight of the device. Introducing the Prototype-SR (Substitutional Reality), a new take on the head-mounted display. Based on Sony’s HMZ personal 3D viewer…

Milla Jovovich Isn’t in Japan, But Her Clothes Are

With Hollywood flick Resident Evil: Retribution now in theaters, the cast doesn’t need those fancy outfits anymore! Today at the Tokyo Game Show, the costumes from the movie were on display, headless statues and all. There’s Alice’s skin tight body suit, Ada Wong’s dress, Carlos Olivera’s gear, and the outfit worn by Japanese popstar Mika…

Dragon’s Dogma Gets Expansion Pack [Update]

Capcom today announced the first major expansion for its RPG Dragon’s Dogma, called Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen It’ll be out next year on 360 and PS3. I’d tell you more, but at the moment there’s not much more to tell other than what’s in the trailer up top! UPDATE – Still no info on the…

Rapper Can’t Use Computer, Freaks Out at Computer

Rapper DMX is, by some accounts, a handy guy with a knife, a gun, drugs and a mic. Before you go proclaiming him some renaissance man, however, watch him try and use a computer. Note that he’s not being asked to render something in 3D Studio Max, or code a web page. Or even using…

Some Halo 4 Campaign Screens to Start Your Friday

We’ll have more on Halo 4‘s campaign mode later in the day, but for now, here’s a collection of screenshots from the game, some in first-person, others not, all of them looking very purple Good to see 343 have at least stayed faithful to that particular aspect of the Bungie legacy.

EX Troopers Is More Style Than Substance

EX Troopers is an anime take on the world of Lost Planet. There’s a 3DS version and a PS3 version. Today, I played both. EX Troopers offers run-and-gun gaming against giant monsters (the Akrids from Lost Planet) and robots (again, the Vital Suits from Lost Planet) with the occasional bandits (guess where they’re from!). You…

This Isn’t Scribblenauts, it’s a New Game From the Second Life Guys

Wow, Linden Labs, what gives. You’re meant to be that place responsible for Second Life and all the weirdness that comes with it, not cool and interesting games like Patterns and Creatoverse We showed you Patterns yesterday, but it’s one of two games Linden is currently working on. The other is Creatoverse, an iPad game……

Disney Accused of Stealing Chiptune Music

Earlier this week, chiptune band Anamanaguchi got a little upset when they saw a clip from a Disney app called PIXEL’D. The song used for the video sounds a lot like Anamanaguchi’s Jetpack Blues Sunset Hues I’m no copyright lawyer, and this is a messy area at the best of times, but I’d say they’ve…

Run Over People with Cars in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Famed manga JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is once again bringing its colorful cast of characters and day-glo visual panache to the fighting game scene. Developed by CyberConnect2 and produced by Namco Bandai, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle unleashes manga-inspired attacks, such as running over people with cars.

“Kickstarter Is Not a Store”. The headline of this piece, banning “product simulations” on the site, says it all.

Company of Heroes, Homeworld Studio Making More Free-to-Play Games

PC strategy gods Relic Entertainment look to be moving deeper into the world of free-to-play games, if a number of job descriptions on the company’s site are anything to go by. (They usually are). They’re looking for a Creative Director, Executive Producer and Senior Designer, all of which are specifically tagged as “Free-to-Play” roles. It’s…

The Greatest Star Wars Battle You Never Saw

Did you ever, as a kid, re-enact pivotal moments from the Star Wars trilogy? I know I did. Hell, I’d have done it as a teenager playing X-Wing if I’d had an orange jumpsuit lying around. You probably never did something this cool though: a complete re-enactment of the Battle of Hoth, complete with AT-AT…