#tgs2011
Last year, Hideo Kojima had a new game to show off at TGS. That game was Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. This year, his name is attached to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. But that's not his game. More »
#pc
Minecraft, the PC scene's flavour of the month, may be a complete unknown to many of you, what with it being the product of one man and not a multi-million dollar marketing machine. This epic trailer may help explain things. More »
#original
Not first party exclusives like Mario, Halo and God of War. Those will live on as long as there are console platform holders. Rather, is the age of big third-party exclusives finished? More »
#legal
Nintendo, never afraid to go after the little guy, has sent a letter over the weekend to a Pokémon fan site, threatening them over their posting of pictures from the upcoming Pokémon Black & White. More »
#tgs2010
Even as the Japanese game industry experiences gloom and doom, this year's Tokyo Game Show saw a whole bunch of people turn out. TGS can still draw a crowd and not just a big one — a record one. More »
#screengrab
He may look spongy and adorable, but underneath the overalls beats a heart, just like the rest of us. By Jason Freeney, as seen on Facebook. More »
Remember the days of Nintendo’s black box games on the NES? They were even revisited on the GBA for some of the classic re-releases that came out. Those black box games represented the first wave of what Nintendo could do on the NES. The games were still simple than what we would [...]
#tokyogameshow2010
In 2005, Sony released the original PlayStation Portable. Five years have passed, and the handheld has seen various iterations, including a digital-download-only version. It's about time for a new PSP. More »
As you can see, the Japanese boxart for Samurai Warriors 3 features a wifi logo that indicates paid DLC. The North American boxart shows the free logo. Either we’re getting all the content available in Japan for free, or we’re going to miss out on some content that was paid download in Japan. [...]
Is everyone ready to lose hours of time playing Civilization V? We will have some features relating to the release of this latest game in the turn-based strategy series next week. Until then check out what we have reported on in the last week:
Exclusive features
Reviews: We give our final verdicts for Worms Reloaded and Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Freeware Friday: Our free PC game column returns with a look at the top down action game Subvein.
Downloads
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 Demo: Try out a slice of the latest game in the soccer franchise from Konami.
FIFA 11 Demo: It's EA's own pro soccer game and you can check out a portion of it right now.
We've had a nice stay in the Land of the Rising Fun[TM], but as the Tokyo Game Show has drawn to a close, it's time for us to repack our Samsonites and return to American soil. What have we brought with us? Well, other than a week's worth of cherished memories and a whole address book full of new pen pals, we've also obtained a deeper understanding of the weekly Japanese hardware sales statistics -- from our position on the ground in Tokyo, we got a pretty good look at how the sausage gets made.
You guys wouldn't believe how crazy intricate the whole process is: People, they, like buy stuff. Or they don't. And that makes the numbers in the chart go up. Or down! We know, we can barely wrap our minds around it ourselves.
