Patapon 2 Helps You Keep Your Groove Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) - In Patapon you controlled an assortment of highly stylized characters by tapping out music on the four face buttons of the Playstation Portable. I was a big fan of the game, but found over time that unless I gave it 100 percent of my attention I would often lose the beat.
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Patapon 2 Helps You Keep Your Groove Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) - In Patapon you controlled an assortment of highly stylized characters by tapping out music on the four face buttons of the Playstation Portable. I was a big fan of the game, but found over time that unless I gave it 100 percent of my attention I would often lose the beat.
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Xbox Japan Booth Babes Adore New Booth Babe Outfit Tgs08
(via Kotaku) - You are looking at last year's Xbox 360 "booth companions" for the Tokyo Game Show. This year, we'll not only get new companions, but new companion outfits. And if you thought last year's was impressive, wait, just wait, until you see this years says Xbox Japan marketing exec Jyoji Sakaguchi: Every year, our booth companion outfits get an extremely favorable reception, and they are very popular among women.
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Microsoft Has Over 140 Demo Kiosks, Buddies With Square Enix Tgs08
(via Kotaku) - Tokyo time tomorrow, this year's TGS kicks off. Microsoft is already hyping its close proximity to the Square Enix booth as a "cooperative" effort for both companies. Xbox Japan marketing exec Jyoji Sakaguchi explains the game plan: We're going to take advantage of our booths being side-by-side, because both the Square Enix and Microsoft booths are working in tandem.
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Microsoft Has Over 140 Demo Kiosks, Buddies With Square Enix Tgs08
(via Kotaku) - Tokyo time tomorrow, this year's TGS kicks off. Microsoft is already hyping its close proximity to the Square Enix booth as a "cooperative" effort for both companies. Xbox Japan marketing exec Jyoji Sakaguchi explains the game plan: We're going to take advantage of our booths being side-by-side, because both the Square Enix and Microsoft booths are working in tandem.
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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Screens Appear Out Of *Nowhere* Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) - Naruto? Not really our "thing." Chalk it up to ignorance, the daunting back story and the unwillingness to do the work involved to become interested. But the games tend to look spectacular, with Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm for the PlayStation 3 no exception. We can only imagine how intensely 10-year old version of us would have been blown away by seeing a cartoon so accurately portrayed in video game form.
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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Screens Appear Out Of *Nowhere* Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) - Naruto? Not really our "thing." Chalk it up to ignorance, the daunting back story and the unwillingness to do the work involved to become interested. But the games tend to look spectacular, with Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm for the PlayStation 3 no exception. We can only imagine how intensely 10-year old version of us would have been blown away by seeing a cartoon so accurately portrayed in video game form.
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Molyneux Begs For Non-Gamer Game Review Fable II
(via Kotaku) - Variety's Ben Fritz points out that his review copy of Fable II just landed at his office and along with the usual fare of review guide, tips and details came a personal plea from developer Peter Molyneux about how to review the game: I have a favour to ask you — we build this game not only to appeal to gamers like yourself, but to appeal to anybody.
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Molyneux Begs For Non-Gamer Game Review Fable II
(via Kotaku) - Variety's Ben Fritz points out that his review copy of Fable II just landed at his office and along with the usual fare of review guide, tips and details came a personal plea from developer Peter Molyneux about how to review the game: I have a favour to ask you — we build this game not only to appeal to gamers like yourself, but to appeal to anybody.
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PowerUp Forever Gameplay Vid Powerup Forever
(via Kotaku) - We caught a glimpse of the potential machine-exploder that had Fahey so enamored at E3 earlier this year. PowerUp Forever looks to be flOw's take on the never ending , bullet-hell shoot-em ups that do so well in Japanese arcades and on PSN and Xbox Live Arcade. In PowerUp Forever you play your way through procedurally generated environments trying to take on bosses bigger than you to evolve.
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PowerUp Forever Gameplay Vid Powerup Forever
(via Kotaku) - We caught a glimpse of the potential machine-exploder that had Fahey so enamored at E3 earlier this year. PowerUp Forever looks to be flOw's take on the never ending , bullet-hell shoot-em ups that do so well in Japanese arcades and on PSN and Xbox Live Arcade. In PowerUp Forever you play your way through procedurally generated environments trying to take on bosses bigger than you to evolve.
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Namco Bandai's Tokyo Game Show Schwag Namco Bandai
(via Kotaku) -- Namco Bandai's pre Tokyo Game Show press conference may have been a little light on the news, but at least they handed out some classy goodies to departing journalists, if only to wake them back up before their trip back to assorted hotels.
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Namco Bandai's Tokyo Game Show Schwag Namco Bandai
(via Kotaku) -- Namco Bandai's pre Tokyo Game Show press conference may have been a little light on the news, but at least they handed out some classy goodies to departing journalists, if only to wake them back up before their trip back to assorted hotels.
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Afro Samurai's Cutting Screens Afro Samurai
(via Kotaku) - Live action samurai versus ninja fights aside, the Afro Samurai presentation at yesterday's Namco Bandai presser was surprisingly brief. They showed a trailer which featured Afro cutting lots of people in half, both horizontally AND vertically. It didn't demonstrate, however, how effective the game play mechanic will be in emphasizing what the developers call the game's "elegant violence", a style of fighting that is meant to balance acrobatic platforming with stylistic slicing and dicing.
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Afro Samurai's Cutting Screens Afro Samurai
(via Kotaku) - Live action samurai versus ninja fights aside, the Afro Samurai presentation at yesterday's Namco Bandai presser was surprisingly brief. They showed a trailer which featured Afro cutting lots of people in half, both horizontally AND vertically. It didn't demonstrate, however, how effective the game play mechanic will be in emphasizing what the developers call the game's "elegant violence", a style of fighting that is meant to balance acrobatic platforming with stylistic slicing and dicing.
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Justify Your Game: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) -- Hey! Teruaki Konishi! You're working on Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, right? You got 15 seconds. Justify that Tales.
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Justify Your Game: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) -- Hey! Teruaki Konishi! You're working on Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, right? You got 15 seconds. Justify that Tales.
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NPD's PC Sales Charts September 21-27 Sales Charts
(via Kotaku) - The latest bricks-and-mortar PC sales charts are in. They cover the week of September 21-27. As you expect, the words EA, Maxis and Blizzard feature prominently. But then so do the words Crytek, Firaxis and Traveller's Tales, so please, enjoy the variety. 1. Spore 2. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning 3.
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NPD's PC Sales Charts September 21-27 Sales Charts
(via Kotaku) - The latest bricks-and-mortar PC sales charts are in. They cover the week of September 21-27. As you expect, the words EA, Maxis and Blizzard feature prominently. But then so do the words Crytek, Firaxis and Traveller's Tales, so please, enjoy the variety. 1. Spore 2. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning 3.
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Mod Lets You Use Your PSP As A Second Computer Monitor Neat Psp Mods
(via Kotaku) - Well, here's something to file under interesting, but likely impractical. If you've been dying to get a second monitor for your PC and you've a little low on cash, fear not. Meet PSPdisp, a new homebrew mod created by Jochen Schleu that allows you to use your PSP as a second monitor.
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Mod Lets You Use Your PSP As A Second Computer Monitor Neat Psp Mods
(via Kotaku) - Well, here's something to file under interesting, but likely impractical. If you've been dying to get a second monitor for your PC and you've a little low on cash, fear not. Meet PSPdisp, a new homebrew mod created by Jochen Schleu that allows you to use your PSP as a second monitor.
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi Is Making New IP Tgs08
(via Kotaku) - Tetsuya Mizuguchi is best known for Rez, Space Channel 5 and Lumines. He's made lots of Lumines spin-offs like Lumines Live! and Lumines II. Key words: Lumines. We haven't seen a new game from Mizuguchi for a while, but he confirmed to Kotaku that, yes, he's working on a new IP.
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi Is Making New IP Tgs08
(via Kotaku) - Tetsuya Mizuguchi is best known for Rez, Space Channel 5 and Lumines. He's made lots of Lumines spin-offs like Lumines Live! and Lumines II. Key words: Lumines. We haven't seen a new game from Mizuguchi for a while, but he confirmed to Kotaku that, yes, he's working on a new IP.
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Wii Ski and Snowboard: EXCITING Wii Ski And Snowboard
(via Kotaku) -- Sure, nothing can top a Japanese guy with a gi-normous Afro faux slicing up undead ninja, but it was still pretty cool to watch someone playing Wii Ski and Snowboard using the balance board, remote and nunchuk.
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Wii Ski and Snowboard: EXCITING Wii Ski And Snowboard
(via Kotaku) -- Sure, nothing can top a Japanese guy with a gi-normous Afro faux slicing up undead ninja, but it was still pretty cool to watch someone playing Wii Ski and Snowboard using the balance board, remote and nunchuk.
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Namco Bandai Pre-TGS Press Conference: The Choicest Quotes Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) - Sometimes, things read better on paper than they do said out loud. That's especially true when the script your emcee is working with sounds like it had been written by the "funniest" top-level Namco Bandai executive, the one who's always quick with the puns. Josh Keller, who performed his duties admirably and annunciated with panache, delivered a few duds in between presentations.
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Namco Bandai Pre-TGS Press Conference: The Choicest Quotes Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) - Sometimes, things read better on paper than they do said out loud. That's especially true when the script your emcee is working with sounds like it had been written by the "funniest" top-level Namco Bandai executive, the one who's always quick with the puns. Josh Keller, who performed his duties admirably and annunciated with panache, delivered a few duds in between presentations.
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National Geographic : Panda: Total Panda-Monium Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) - Like we said, we popped in for tea and biscuits at Namco Bandai HQ today. What'd we see? A ton of stuff. What'd we do? Well, I played the best game Namco Bandai had on show. And it wasn't a Tales game. Wasn't a Dragonball game, either. It was this. I love my cute, stuffed panda.
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National Geographic : Panda: Total Panda-Monium Tokyo Game Show 2008
(via Kotaku) - Like we said, we popped in for tea and biscuits at Namco Bandai HQ today. What'd we see? A ton of stuff. What'd we do? Well, I played the best game Namco Bandai had on show. And it wasn't a Tales game. Wasn't a Dragonball game, either. It was this. I love my cute, stuffed panda.
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No Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for You, PS2 Namco Bandai
(via Kotaku) - Namco's Tales team is churning out Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. It's a Wii exclusive, and Namco Bandai producer Teruaki Konishi told us that the game wasn't designed to be multi-plat. In fact, since Namco didn't design the game's memory to fit for the PlayStation 2, a possible (and seemingly profitable) PS2 port is thus ruled out Namco Bandai stated.
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