In Real Life

Digital Image Lady Returns To The Tokyo Game Show

For the third year running, Osaka-based artist Ippei Gyoubu has once again created the digital lady for the Tokyo Game Show. This year’s theme focuses on how smiling faces are connected with video games.


February 6, 2012
News

The Taipei Game Show Is Looking To Go International

TGS, no not the Tokyo Game Show, but instead the Taipei Game Show is closing today in Taipei, Taiwan.


September 28, 2011
In Real Life

Look At Japanese Booth Babes Until You Get Barfy

During this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Japanese website Inside Games thought it would be a good idea to film this year’s booth companions. Maybe it was.


September 22, 2011
PlayStation

Gameplay Footage From The PS3′s Best-Looking Game

Level-5′s Ni No Kuni was easily my “game of the show” for 2011′s Tokyo Game Show. It’s the first game I ran to on opening day, and it’s the only game I went and played twice.


News

2012 Tokyo Game Show Dated

Next year, the Tokyo Game Show will be held slightly later than this year’s. The 2012 Tokyo Game Show will run from September 20 to September 23, with the first two days being business days. The last two are public.


In Real Life

Objection! Should We Bother Going To E3?

Kotaku AU

Tokyo Games Show has just wrapped up and in a few days the Eurogamer Expo will be kicking off. Trade shows like E3, TGS, PAX and GamesCom are meant to be the highlights of a game journalist’s calendar, but how relevant are they? In a time when everything is live-blogged and streamed, is there even a need for us to go any more?


September 21, 2011
PlayStation

Are There Not Enough PlayStation Vitas To Go Around?

The signs were there for Sony. This year’s Tokyo Game Show was shaping up as the biggest ever, and its new Vita handheld would be many people’s main attraction.


News

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City Is Coming, Capcom Says

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City was a no-show at the Tokyo Game Show, according to our folks on the ground, and it still hasn’t gotten a hard release date. Does that mean it could be getting a delay?


September 20, 2011
News

Short Name. Big Booth. Mystery To Westerners.

This booth was one of the biggest booths at the Tokyo Game Show. It took up one-tenth of the entire show floor. It wasn’t Sony’s. It wasn’t Square Enix’s. It wasn’t Capcom’s. The booth belonged to Gree. So what the hell is Gree?


PlayStation

Wipe Out Some Swords Slashes On The PS Vita

With Dynasty Warriors Next, hack-and-slash series Dynasty Warriors is coming to the PS Vita. The game uses traditional button based combat and touch screen controls.