Another great day here at Tokyo Game Show 2011. The crew got up to a lot of today as you can see from the pictures below. Today was the last day of the business/media day. Tomorrow and Sunday is the start of the Public days, this is where the mayhem begins. Everyone that loves their gaming in Japan will most certainly be here. Including the super awesome COS-PLAYERS. Stay tuned for our coverage of that. We’ll make sure we take as many photos as Japanese Cos-Players are certainly one the very best in the world.
I’m personally looking forward to seeing a Capcom’s POISON Cos-Played 😉 What are you guys looking forward to seeing ?
For now enjoy Day 2 coverage of the Booths, the games, and also the Booth Babes !! 😉 – (remember there is multiple pics per page)
Earlier today Eidos Montreal revealed a few details for Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s Missing Link downloadable content. We already know that the DLC will take place on a freighter over the ocean and Adam has been captured, tortured and had his augmentations disabled. But Eidos revealed on their tumblrwho the man in the trailer is that is leading the group of Belltower soldiers.
His name is Pieter Burke and he is a high ranking operative in Belltower Associates. Also revealed was that the DLC will introduce 250 Achievmeent points to the game as well as 10 Trophies depending on what console you purchase it for. But the best thing for fans of the game, is that the DLC can be accessed directly from the main menu and you do not need to start your game over to access the content. There still has been no price announced for the content which will be released in October.
As with nearly every other Japanese developed game, Lollipop Chainsaw has received a new trailer in honor of Tokyo Game Show. The trailer shows off some new gameplay footage of Juliet beating down various zombies with both athletic moves as well as defeating them Mario style by jumping on their heads in continuous fashion.
Grasshopper Manufacture is developing the title for Japanese release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and surprisingly, Warner Bros. is going to be localizing the game for release in North America. As seen in the trailer below, the game is going to be a brawler-style title where players take control of Juliet Starling a cheerleader who also hunts monsters.
Are you ready to get your blood pumping as you hit the skies and blow the enemy up? Namco Bandai’s TGS 2011 trailer will let you experience some of that adrenaline before the game is available. Showing off the lobbies and gameplay that will available in the online component of the game, Ace Combat Assault Horizon certainly looks like it is ready to take the top spot in our online multiplayer matches. How about you? Are you excited to once again fly your favorite aerial vehicles in combat? Let us know in the comments below what your favorite vehicles are and whether you’ll be picking up the newest Ace Combat game.
Ridge Racer has always been about super crazy racing with sexy cars and great innovation. However, they may be changing it up in their next game. Namco Bandai recently unleashed a new trailer for their newest Ridge Racer gamer coming to the Playstation Vita. Promising a new “machine” (airplanes, submarines, motorcycles?) this trailer is mainly set in space, and it is quite bizarre. Maybe they are hinting that we will be racing space shuttles or rockets or something? Now that would be cool. I can imagine the title now: “Ridge Racer: The Edge of SPAAACE!” Hopefully we’ll get some concrete details on this title soon, because Ridge Racer has always held a special place in our game collections.
During the Tokyo Game Show, THQ released 5 screenshots from Metro Last Light. Featuring the dreary, yet explosively beautiful environments, in addition to the guns and enemies, these screenshots hopefully represent the awesomeness that will be Metro Last Light.
Metro Last Light is the sequel to Metro: 2033. Developed by the Ukrainian based studio 4A Games, the Metro series is set in a post-apocalyptic world. Communities of humanity have fled underground to escape radiation, strange monsters and other dangers. Unfortunately, there are always humans and governmental entities who wish to take advantage of others when the moment is right. Your task in the game: to survive and stop the atrocities. Check out the Metro Last Light Facebook page here.
Shuhei Yoshida, the head of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, announced one of the first apps that will be coming to the Playstation Vita. The Torne application will allow you to look up television listings, remotely set up recordings, and stream television. The bad news about this app? So far, it has only been revealed as a release for customers who buy a Vita in Japan, just like everything else that would have been totally rad. Lucky Japanese Vita owners will be able to get the Torne software when the Vita launches later this year.
Ni No Kuni: Queen of the Holy White Ash is the PS3 version of a RPG collaboration between Level 5 and Studio Ghibli, the animations studio of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli were responsible for Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle and we all know how beautiful they look. Now, imagine the excitement of Studio Ghibli and Level-5 fans when they hear that Level-5 have plans to localise the game and release it in early 2012.
During the Sony Computer Entertainment Asia conference, which was near the Tokyo Game Show site and held yesterday, there was a panel involving Level-5 President Akihiro Hino. It was during this session when he announced the exciting news. In fact, he revealed that the localisation was in production as he spoke. There was no mention of the DS version, but I suspect that version will stay in Japan.
The PS3 version will contain additional story beyond the ending of the DS version as well as downloadable content post game release. No details on DLC have been announced.
Remember Sony announcing Playstation Suite earlier this year? Well, here is a bit of news from them. During today’s session of the Tokyo Game Show, Sony revealed that the Software Development Kit (or SDK) will be available this November. Named “Playstation Suite SDK”, this will allow developers to create Playstation quality games to Android powered devices as well as the Playstation Vita.
Supporting C# as the programming language, PS Suite SDK can run programs developed in C# on virtual machine equipped on both PS Certified devices and PS Vita. By supporting development for multiple devices and by adopting libraries to create a variety of content not only limited to games, PS Suite SDK will not only help developers save their cost in creating new content but also allow them to efficiently create their content on one SDK and without having to create on several different SDKs.
Through PS Suite SDK, SCE will provide to game developers and publishers the potential to further expand their business opportunities to Android based portable devices. In addition, SCE can approach to a wider range of content developers, non-gaming developers and individual programmers. The detailed information of PS Suite SDK, including how to download, will be announced via a dedicated PS Suite section on SCE’s official website. As of right now, the PS Certified devices list is quite small and are only Sony devices: Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY, “Sony Tablet” S, “Sony Tablet” P and the Playstation Vita.
To kick things off, the Playstation Store will be launched for Android at the end of October. Japan, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Australia will be the first nine countries to receive the service, however, the service will extend beyond the first nine. At first, only Playstation One games will be available, but by next spring, Sony will enhance the PS Store for PS Certified devices and provide content created by the PS Suite SDK.
Pokémon Black & White made a huge splash on the Nintendo DS earlier this year, and now Pokémon Company International are set to keep that wave flowing with a new event. Between September 16th and October 16th, select EB Games, GAME and Toys“R”Us locations will be giving away Zoroark via a special distribution.
This Zoroark will also be special, as it is level 50 and in a cherish ball. For a full run-down on all the instructions on how to obtain this Zoroark, you can check Pokémon International’s official page here which details all the goods you will need (mainly just a DS and a copy of Black or White). So get out there and snag this beast up before this giveaway is over!
