Earlier this week I took a leisurely stroll through the halls of Tokyo Game Show videoing the goings-on of booths, their babes and the people who love them. Today it wasn’t so leisurely. The mass of attendees tore through the hall shaking the will of smiling booth companions who still, despite the hardships, managed to keep those smile from going upside down. I wouldn’t suggest watching if you weren’t a fan of Cloverfield… or getting immensely motion sick.
There’s no doubt that this year’s Tokyo Game Show is… a bit underwhelming. Sure, the booth companions continue to be top notch and Kids Corner is hoppin’, but almost everyone we’ve spoken to at the con sees TGS 2008 as something of a dud. Outside of a few PR types who love everything on God’s green earth, most folks are meh-ing the Makuhari Messe.
SNK Playmore knows how to draw a crowd at Tokyo Game Show — just line up five girls in Mai Shiranui cosplay get ups and let the booth babe hungry masses snap dozens and dozens of photos of their perfectly smooth knees. Then, hope that at least one of them will be interested in playing King of Fighters 2002 or Slot Panic on a cell phone.
Taking advantage of our early entry onto the TGS showroom floor this morning, Mike and myself popped over to Sony’s booth to play a little Resident Evil 5 co-op. Mike got Chris and a shotgun, I got Sheva and a handgun/sniper rifle, we both got dropped into some African marketplace and had to kill a whole load of zombies. Oh, sorry Capcom PR guy: infected. So, how’d we go?
I finally got a chance to check out Street Fighter IV on the Xbox 360 today. More importantly, though, I got to the booth early enough to play a match as both Akuma and Sakura.
She’s turned her brown eyes blue. The first Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li promo pic of actress Kristin Kreuk featured her brown puppy dog eyes (and dirty nose!), but the first official movie poster shows off pale blue eyes. This poster was designed especially for the Tokyo Game Show and dates the movie as simply 2009.
Hit the jump for a first look at the poster and her buns. Her hairy buns.
Were you the one that leaked Fallout 3? Well, you better not be, because Bethesda is looking to find out just who did! Bethesda VP Pete Hines says they’ve narrowed it down and they’re gonna get you!
Don’t think of it as a split. That’s the main point StarCraft II lead producer Chris Sigaty was trying to get across during our brief interview following the StarCraft II panel at BlizzCon where it was announced that the single player campaign would be delivered as three separate products – first Terran, then Zerg, and finally Protoss. “Effectively each game in the will be an expansion,” Sigaty explained when I told him of our reader’s initial concerns about buying the same game three times with a different single player component. Think Warcraft III’s The Frozen Throne, or the original StarCraft’s Brood War.
A bunch of Church and charity leaders gather around a table to discuss video games and their impact on society – surely a recipe for military-grade Moral Outrage, no?
