TGS 08: Release Dates For New Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts
(via 1up) - Using a bit of magic, a touch of voodoo, and a handsome amount of elbow grease -- also by attending the Square-Enix press event at the Tokyo Game Show -- our very own Jeremy Parish has discovered a smorgasbord of Japanese release dates/years for five upcoming games from the much-loved Japanese publisher.
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Echochrome PSP Expansion Pack Releasing Tomorrow
(via 1up) - By now, you've probably made your way through the 56 levels included with the PlayStation Portable version of Echochrome. Unlike the PS3 version, where user-created levels could be accessed, the PSP version has been very limited in that regard. But Sony has your back, provided you're willing to pay the price -- the game's first expansion pack will be released tomorrow on the PlayStation Store.
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TGS 08: Tekken 6 Confirmed For PS3 As Well
(via 1up) - On the heels of Tekken 6 being announced for the Xbox 360, we can now confirm that it will be coming out on the PlayStation 3 as well. Sony fans, take a deep breath. It'll be okay.The confirmation came at the end of Namco-Bandai's English press event, where they also showed trailers for Dragon Ball Origins, Eternal Sonata, and other games that had been previously revealed.
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TGS 08: Halo 3 Recon Debut Trailer
(via 1Up) - Halo 3: Recon 'Debut' trailer Marvel at it above: The first true debut trailer for what we now know is Halo 3 Recon, an expansion to Halo 3 starring an ODST Marine. The first half (and change) of the video is what we've seen in the past, with a city being bombarded, pods falling from the sky, and the Superintendent.
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TGS 08: Halo 3 Recon Announced for Fall 2009
(via 1Up) - It's as many hypothesized (myself included) -- Halo 3 is getting an expansion pack starring a Master Chief-looking ODST Marine. Entitled Halo 3 Recon, you'll be getting action in the form of both a single-player campaign and new multiplayer maps. As Garnett said, think of it as Halo 3.
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TGS 08: Loads of New XBLA Titles Unveiled
(via 1Up) - Microsoft revealed a slew of new Xbox Live Arcade titles at tonight's Tokyo Game Show keynote. Dominated by updates to classic game series, the list of fresh XBLA games includes the celebrated Space Invaders Extreme, Arkanoid Live (with new co-op and versus modes), Meteos Wars, King of Fighters Ultimate 98, Metal Slug 7, and R-Type.
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Hands-on With the New Xbox Live Experience
(via 1Up) - A couple weekends back we covered a new webpage Microsoft launched on xbox.com that not only provides a fairly deep look at the new Xbox Live Experience coming this fall, it actually simulates much of its look and feel. I recently got a chance to grab a controller and play around with the latest in-development version of the real thing at a demo here in San Francisco.
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TGS 08: New Xbox Experience Launching Globally on November 19
(via 1Up) - While doing a demo of the "New Xbox Experience," Microsoft's John Schappert announced that the new Xbox 360 dashboard will be releasing -- worldwide -- on November 19. As Garnett mentioned in our ongoing Microsoft keynote liveblog, that's quite a risky plan, especially when you think back a year to the tremendous amount of downtime and latency issues Xbox Live suffered throughout last December and into the beginning of this year.
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TGS 08: Release Dates for Star Ocean: The Last Hope
(via 1Up) - Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show keynote has been understandably JRPG-heavy thus far, with new trailers being shown for Square Enix's Last Remnant and Star Ocean: The Last Hope -- the latter of which now has a concrete release date. Scheduled to drop on February 19 in Japan (March 3 in the U.
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TGS 08: Tekken 6 Coming to Xbox 360 Next Fall
(via 1Up) - Microsoft's TGS press conference started off fairly slow, but we're now in full-on announcement mode. Two new titles have been announced for the 360 -- King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 (which you probably better know as Tekken 6) and Ninety-Nine Nights 2. Don't expect Tekken anytime soon; it's currently slated for a fall 2009 release date.
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TGS 08: New Resident Evil 5 Trailer Hints at Plot Details
(via 1Up) - Resident Evil 5 'TGS 2008' trailer HDWe promised an amazing new Resident Evil 5 trailer today fresh from the Tokyo Game Show, and we're delivering on our promise. You can check out the full three-minute trailer above. We've already seen quite a bit of gameplay, but this trailer focuses heavily on the story, providing an English voice over with glimpses of a bunch of characters and locales we haven't yet seen from the game.
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Premium Themes Hit PlayStation Network Tomorrow
(via 1up) - You can go ahead and scratch this item off the top of your PlayStation 3 wishlists -- tomorrow Sony will be releasing the first batch of premium themes. For a price between $0.99 and $1.99, you'll now be able to purchase themes to customize your XMB... much like you're able to do now for free.
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TGS 08: Microsoft Keynote Liveblog
(via 1Up) - Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show keynote promises to be very interesting this year. The company has made a fair amount of progress in Japan, securing several exclusive RPGs from Square Enix and Namco Bandai that have appealed to the Japanese audience -- and now, people are curious what's next.
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Candidate's Halo Addiction Used as Ammo in Political Attack
(via 1Up) - Joystiq recently received a flyer comparing the candidates for the office of Maricopa County District 1 supervisor, and in it, incumbent Fulton Brock attacks the competition, Ed Hermes, by noting his status as a gamer. Apparently to Brock, a Democrat, Hermes' experience as a gamer indicates the candidate is too young and inexperienced to be running for office.
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Mirror's Edge Remix Album Landing November 11
(via 1Up) - "A groundbreaking videogame demands an equally provacative theme song," says Steve Schnur, Electronic Arts' worldwide executive of music and marketing. Schnur is referring to the title track of Mirror's Edge, called "Still Alive," an original song recorded by Swedish rock/pop star Lisa Miskovsky and written and produced by Rami Yacoub and Arnthor Birgisson, who have worked with Pink, Britney Spears, and Kelis.
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Jason Graves Crafts Spine-Tingling Score for Dead Space
(via 1Up) - Composer Jason Graves has lent his talents to creating an appropriately chilling score for Dead Space. With co-producer Rod Abernethy, he's used the aleatoric musical style where parts of the composition are left to chance and improvisation. Dead Space audio director Don Veca expressed his satisfaction with the score that Electronic Arts hopes will set your nerves on edge.
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Toshiba-Samsung Contracted to Build External Blu-ray Drive for 360
(via 1Up) - Ever since Microsoft stopped producing external HD-DVD drives for the Xbox 360, rumors have been floating around in abundance that the gaming giant would go Blu-ray in the future. Despite the company repeatedly stating that they have no plans to go Blu-ray nor feeling the need to do so, and then turning around and saying that they "might" if the demand were high enough, a report released by Xbit Labs this morning seems to have put all of this to bed.
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Netflix Charging Extra for Blu-Ray Rentals
(via 1Up) - The online movie rental service Netflix has announced today that it will begin charging extra for Blu-ray disc rentals. In an e-mail sent out to members today, the rental giant said that since Blu-ray is a more expensive product to stock, the company will begin charging an extra $1 per month (plus tax) for access to the Blu-ray discs.
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EndWar Likely Releasing on PC After Consoles Due to Piracy
(via 1up) - It seems these days as though not a week can go by without a publisher or developer having something to say about the dire state of PC piracy. This week, it's Ubisoft Shanghai's turn, as creative director Michael de Plater told Videogaming 247 (via Shacknews) that a PC version of Tom Clancy's EndWar is likely, but it won't be released until some time after the console versions because of the threat of piracy.
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White Knight Chronicles Borrows From PSO
(via 1up) - What do we know so far about White Knight Chronicles, the PS3 action RPG coming out this Christmas in Japan? We know it's bloody huge, for one, a point that Akihiro Hino repeatedly hit upon in a recent interview with Famitsu magazine. At the time, Hino merely hinted about what sort of online play would be in his most ambitious project yet, but a clearer picture is starting to form -- and it's looking a lot like Phantasy Star Online, actually.
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Tenchu: Shadow Assault, Beat'n Groovy Also on XBLA Today
(via 1Up) - Turns out Microsoft wasn't quite done with this week's Xbox Live Arcade update. Joining the previously revealed MLB Stickball today is From Software's action game Tenchu: Shadow Assault, along with Konami's rhythm game Beat'n Groovy (via Joystiq).Tenchu: Shadow Assault is, of course, another entry in the long-running ninja stealth series that began on the original PlayStation.
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Pre-TGS: Treasure Talks Sin & Punishment 2, VC, 360 Shooter
(via 1Up) - Visiting acclaimed Japanese developer Treasure has now officially become a pre-Tokyo Game Show must for us (we spoke with them last year and the year before), so today we dropped by the Treasure offices once again to check in on one of our favorite studios. We spoke with Treasure president Masato Maegawa to get an update on the company's games in development -- including the just-announced Sin and Punishment 2.
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Street Fighter IV Home Version Detailed
(via 1Up) - Although its existence has been known practically from the moment the arcade version was announced, Capcom formally announced that home versions of Street Fighter IV are currently in the works. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of SFIV will hit Japanese stores by the end of fiscal 2008 (i.
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Tecmo Majoring in Quantum Theory
(via 1up) - Mere hours before the opening of the Tokyo Game Show, Tecmo took the wraps off Quantum Theory, a brand-new third-person shooter for the PlayStation 3. The title, due out sometime next year in Japan, will be on the TGS floor in movie form at the very least; Keisuke Kikuchi (one of the main men behind the Fatal Frame series) is handling producer duties.
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BioWare, LucasArts Unveiling MMO on October 21
(via 1up) - Over the weekend, rumors emerged that BioWare and LucasArts were set to unveil their MMO set in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic universe within the next 30 days, and now confirmation has come straight from the developers...almost. As Massively reports, BioWare has sent out invitations (front pictured above, back pictured below) to various press outlets inviting them to the unveiling, on October 21, of "the game that's been rumored about for years.
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LittleBigPlanet Faces Terrifying Ape Invasion
(via 1up) - LittleBigPlanet is in beta right now, and already the PS3's top game/toy/timewaster is sporting some worryingly awesome user-created content, including a working calculator and a rendition of Final Fantasy X's main theme done entirely with in-game tools.The game's out October 21 in America, but the Japanese will sadly have to wait 'til October 30 to get a chance at it.
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Designer Hiroyuki Kotani Explains Patapon 2 Mulitplayer Mode
(via 1up) - While visiting Sony's Tokyo office we got a chance to talk with Patapon 2 designer Hiroyuki Kotani and check out the game's new multiplayer mode. These two-part adventure levels let up to four players work together but can also be played solo with the computer controlling the other three.
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New LocoRoco 2 Details from Creator Tsutomu Konno
(via 1up) - We sat down with LocoRoco creator Tsutomu Konno at Sony's Tokyo offices to check out the latest work-in-progress build of the upcoming sequel and chat some about the game. LocoRoco 2 brings back the original's unique mechanic of tilting the world in different directions to move characters around the screen.
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