Photos by Matt S. Tokyo Game Show would certainly look different without its girls. The “booth babe” is a tradition all-but outlawed with most western game shows, but it’s alive and well in Japan, as you’ll see from the series of photo slideshows that we’ll do this week. The question…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. I played well over 50 games while I was at Tokyo Game Show (TGS), and managed to get time with everything from the biggest blockbusters right through to the weirdest mobile games that we’ll never see out west. But for all those games it was a…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. With the rise of PAX and Germany’s Gamescom, each of which now comes with big announcements from the likes of Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA and Activision (and of course the continued popularity of E3), many western media publishers have been left wondering what is happening with…
Read MoreImpressions by Matt S. I’m a big, big fan of Dead or Alive 5. I started relatively ambivalent with the original release, but it seems I just needed to spend a few hundred hours with the new vision for the series to fall fully in love with it, because with…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. It’s was second full day in Japan, and this time around it was all about exhausting myself wandering around Tokyo Game Show. With a a record high number of exhibitors (421 organisations from from 32 nations), the sheer scale of Tokyo Game Show was amazing to…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. You knew it was coming…eventually. Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy XV has been in development for nearly a decade now, changing platforms and monikers several times over the years. It’s not often we actually get an in-depth look at the game, though, so Tokyo Game Show seems like…
Read MoreFeature by Matt S. So here I am in the middle of Tokyo, all ready for Tokyo Game Show and all the excitement that it entails. My first full day in the city was mostly spent recovering from the flight and acclimatising myself with the humid and warm Tokyo temperature…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I took some time in between frantically throwing things at suitcases to leave a quick note here: I’m heading off to Japan to attend Tokyo Game Show. In between testing Summer Lesson over and over and over again, I’ll be interviewing a number of veteran Japanese…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. A couple of games that I’ve got a personal interest in have just been confirmed for a PlayStation 4 release. Persona 5, previously thought to be a PlayStation 3 exclusive, has been confirmed for a PlayStation 4 release as well. Given that Persona 3 and Persona…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. This was inevitable – some developer in Japan was going to take the Oculus Rift or Sony’s Project Morpheus technology for virtual reality, or VR, and use it to create one of those “quirky” games where for reasons unknown you, the player, find yourself in a…
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