Post 20270

An Impromptu Chat With Marvelous And The President Of Imageepoch

By Spencer . October 27, 2008 . 9:34pm

Back at Tokyo Game Show I caught with Ryoei Mikage, the President of Imageepoch, and Hideyuki Mizutani, Operating Officer at Marvelous Entertainment. We talked about a lot of things. You already know about one of them. We touched on Arc…

Post 20113

Birth Of A Revised Kingdom Hearts Battle System

By Spencer . October 24, 2008 . 7:45am

Visually, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep looks like the PlayStation 2 games with less textures. The combat system isn’t the same though, it’s better. I played a demo with Terra, the keyblade bearing hero who sort of resembles Zack Fair.…

Post 19882

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation Of Heroes Classic Controller vs. Wiimote

By Spencer . October 21, 2008 . 9:52pm

 At Tokyo Game Show I spent a good amount of time with the Wii version of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes. I started out playing with Ryu since I imagined he handle similarly to the Street Fighter games.…

Post 19804

Battles In The Last Remnant

By Jeriaska . October 21, 2008 . 3:07pm

According to a representative who walked us through several of the titles on display at the Tokyo Game Show, The Last Remnant represents a concerted effort by Square Enix to position the game developer as a global company. Central to…

Post 19801

Persona 4 Cosplay, The Easy Way

By Spencer . October 21, 2008 . 12:32pm

Down in the depths of the Tokyo Game Show sales area Cospa had a booth with prototype Persona 4 school uniforms to show. These outfits go on sale this winter so they won’t be any help for the Atlus-O-Weenie contest.…

Post 19745

Wind Of Nostalgio’s Airship Combat Isn’t Quite Skies Of Arcadia

By Spencer . October 20, 2008 . 11:49am

Skies of Arcadia and Wind of Nostalgio both have airship battles, but the way Tecmo / Matrix does things makes airship encounters just like regular turn based combat. I jumped into a few random airship fights in Wind of Nostalgio…

Post 19700

Dragon Quest IX’s Delightful Tokyo Game Show Trailer

By Spencer . October 20, 2008 . 3:15am

If you loitered around Square Enix’s Tokyo Game Show booth long enough you may have seen a Dragon Quest IX trailer which was sandwiched between clips of other Square Enix games not worthy enough to be shown in the Closed…

Post 19575

Here Is Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days TGS Trailer

By Spencer . October 17, 2008 . 2:12pm

Now that Tokyo Game Show is a memory the trailers from Square Enix’s closed mega theater are making their ways officially on to the internet. Here’s an abridged, gameplay heavy clip of the Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days trailer Square Enix…

Post 19519

I Went Underwater Hunting In Monster Hunter 3

By Spencer . October 17, 2008 . 3:14am

When I had a chance to play Monster Hunter 3 at Tokyo Game Show I went straight for the bowgun class. Theoretically, this class should be a natural fit for the Wii remote since you could point at the screen…

Post 19509

Alright Sega, Let’s Tap

By Spencer . October 17, 2008 . 2:31am

Prope’s first project, Let’s Tap, is a collection of mini-games and artistic visualizers with the gimmick of tapping controls. You aren’t supposed to hold the remote to play Let’s Tap, it sits on a nice cardboard box branded with a…