Tokyo Game Show News

[A Black Falcon]

Some interesting stuff...
-Radiant Silvergun XBLA coming: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407459 (cool, maybe the Saturn version will drop in price now?)

-Shadows of the Damned (Mikami/Suda 51 game) announced, EA publishing: http://www.ea.com/shadows-of-the-damned/...nt-trailer (looks cheesy but intentionally so, and maybe interesting) (PS360)

-Phantasy Star Online 2 for PC announced, 2011 (no details yet, but hopefully it'll be good... the original is a true classic!): http://www.segabits.com/?p=4330

-Odin Sphere and Muramasa HD download ports coming (XBLA and PSN presumably): http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407465

-Valkyria Chronicles 3 will be for PSP (I want Skies of Arcadia 2... :()

-Project Draco for Kinect, from one of the designers of Panzer Dragoon, with similar looking artwork: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407462

-Info on Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII delayed to next January (PS3/PSP)

-Team Ninja's making Ninja Gaiden 3.

-PS3 Ico/SotC HD collection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNbmAxlOYdw

-successor to Demon's Souls announced -- Project Dark (PS360 this time)

... Anything Wii at all? No? :(

[A Black Falcon]

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... It's Panzer Dragoon in all but name, all right, and Panzer Dragoon is one of the greatest game series ever. That's awesome. The minus, of course, is that it's also Kinect...

[Dark Jaguar]

Nintendo has their Space Show thing don't they? I don't expect them to make an appearance here.

The Ico/Colossus PS3 HD release is great, a nice tie-in to the upcoming game. I wonder if Ico will have the multiplayer feature they added to the Japanese version... I always figured that putting a human in control of the princess would make the more frustrating parts much more fun. I also hope that the games are otherwise identical, right down to the main menus being maintained. The games were simply excellently presented.

"Project Draco" is clearly just a project name. I figure it'll be revealed as Panzer Dragoon something-or-other at some point. Kinect... I really have to actually use it to get any idea how well it works, but an on-rails shooter seems like a good fit since you don't have to solve the problem "how do I walk around?" in such a game.

[Great Rumbler]

Nintendo hasn't done Space World in a long time.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, but they do have a press conference at the end of the month, so expect first party Nintendo announcements then.

I was talking about third party games, though. Evidently the Wii is as dead for third party Japanese publishers as it is for American ones, stupidly enough...