Can you say “Halo”? Xbox Live boss John Schappert very well may be able to tomorrow, as the exec takes to the stage at the Makuhari Messe to kick off Tokyo Game Show 2008.
His keynote is titled “A Canvas for the World,” and is expected to focus heavily on the upcoming New Xbox Experience UI update for 360 and - so say the little birds - Bungie is in Japan in force, so watch out for that.
Synchronise watches, team: Schappert’s address starts at 1200pm local time tomorrow, Thursday, October 9. According to this, that’s 4.00am UK time or 5.00am CET if you’re on the mainland.
5am CET is 11am EST?
Bungie is set to make a major announcement at this year's Tokyo Game Show which kicks off with Microsoft's keynote tomorrow, the rather cheesily entitled "A Canvas for the World."
Xbox Live boss John Schappert will kick off the Tokyo Game Show 2008 fun and games at the Makuhari Messe tomorrow at 4am (UK time) and rest assured TechRadar will have our team on the ground to bring you all the important news as it happens.
Schappert's keynote - "A Canvas for the World" – will undoubtedly focus heavily on the cutesy new Xbox Experience UI update for 360, some big new Xbox Live Arcade titles from Japanese developers (remember last year brought us the mighty Igaruka and Rez), some big RPG announcements (the next Mistwalker RPG is rumoured) and – should the rumours prove to be true – also segue into some interesting announcements from Bungie (with the key members of the Bungie team having already been spotted on the ground in Tokyo).
Ninja developer joins Microsoft?
Tomonobu Itagaki, director of the Ninja Gaiden series, is also rumoured to be putting in an appearance. Pre-show whispering suggests that Microsoft may well have poached the renegade, whisky-slugging rock and roll games developer. Now that would be a coup…
With the death of the beastly spectacle that was E3, the Tokyo Game Show is arguably now the most important date on the international gaming calendar, attracting over 200,000 trade and consumer attendees (as well as some VERY strange cosplayer fetishists).
All the major Japanese developers and publishers are in attendance at TGS (along with a few US and European companies) to unveil their latest games, hardware and peripherals.
Namco-Bandai and Square-Enix announcements will no doubt steal the show for the hardcore Japanese gaming faithful, with updates also expected on Capcom's Resident Evil 5 and, no doubt, some interesting showings from those other Japanese giants SEGA and Konami.
How many hours left?
Looking forward to PC & PS3 becoming even more irrevelant.
Looking forward to PC & PS3 becoming even more irrevelant.
Maybe RE5 will be dropped for the PC? According to Capcom, DMC4 sold like garbage despite being a great port. I think they have themselves to blame though for waiting so long to release the PC version. Multiple system owners are more likely to pirate the PC version if they already played it on a console.
-Unveiling of the long worked on MMO, which is a numbered FF (less grind and obligatory grouping, strong narative)
XFE:
'ninja blade is garbage btw'
XFE:
'ninja blade is garbage btw'
Oh he's there? Cool, hope for some impressions
where does the smell in that room fall, on a feet-and-armpit scale of 1 to 100
and how does it rate against pax and e3
Ask him what is bad about killzone 2
Ask him why he hates good games.
nice -- glad i held off on the portable versions. zuntata music pls
nice -- glad i held off on the portable versions.
Local and online co-op for two people, and you'll be able to switch seamlessly between 2D and 3D graphics. Crikey.
13:28:31 -
The graphics look pretty, they definitely have a retro feel but some tip top next gen shading.
13:28:15 -
R-Type Dimensions trailer. Side-scrolling retro fun!
I just remembered that Tekken 6's graphics were only supposed to be possible on a PS3. :lol
What hardware did VF5 run on? That port turned out OK for the 360.
New Xbox dash is November 19thexperience
Bayonetta. Amazing. As usual. GOTY 09 unless Diablo III, Alan Wake, or Heavy Rain come out next year.
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21934 (http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21934)
http://gamersyde.com/news_7180_en.html
Demon Soul for PS3. Looks incredibly awful. Lair 2 awful.
I think it's using LAIR's left over assets actually :lolhttp://gamersyde.com/news_7180_en.html
Demon Soul for PS3. Looks incredibly awful. Lair 2 awful.
It's FROM Software, didn't expect much out of it.
http://gamersyde.com/news_7180_en.html
Demon Soul for PS3. Looks incredibly awful. Lair 2 awful.
So, uh, I don't know if it's true or not but there is Sony info now. Only thing worth mentioning is that on October 30th, every multiplayer PSP game is going to be playable online through the PS3. Oh, and apparently PSP games are now getting released both on UMD and through DD; there is also a new PSN Store that can be used through the PSP itself.
All PSP games online is going to be awesome. (http://i37.tinypic.com/13zs8le.gif), Sony.
XFE on KZ2:
'it's not bad, it's just ordinary, the only bad things are the load points. ai was surprisingly ok'
Did Sony even have it's show yet? All the news I've seen was a Old Snake and Sephiroth LBP costume.I think it's later today...I really want some info on what Team ICO has been doing.
They announced a new Halo on TGS?
Is it a RPG?
p.s. ... RE5 was shite too.
It sucked if your an SFag. As a Wii60 owner life is awesome. Punchout, SP2, Tekken 6,Halo Episode 1 and all the cool XBLA stuff.
QuoteThe only game you lose if you switch from "Wii60" to "PSwii" is Halo Episode 1 in exchange for RgG3.
aren't you, like, sort of forgetting a whole host of stuff?
also, by the same take, wouldn't :QuoteThe only game you gain if you switch from "Wii60" to "PSwii" is RgG3 instead of HALO 3 RECON
be also a true one?
that really doesn't sound mass market appealing and i'm sure sales figures on the Halo and RgG3 series in the US would back me up ;)
i need to clarify that the show was horrific FULL STOP.
not if you were just an sfan.
it was just garbage FULL STOP.
no matter what your leaning.
i already have Duckroll due to fly out to hit me with a twig or something, but it's not MY fault TGS was like being promised hot 70s fur minge but instead getting Hulk Hogans scrotum teabagging us :(
The only game you lose if you switch from "Wii60" to "PSwii" is Halo Episode 1 in exchange for RgG3. Allow me to get excited for Punchout.
nope can't do it
While the conference sounds very crappy i think the XFE may be a bit jaded with gaming overall.
jesus , do you ever give sony a break? just because MGS4 was so short, is that ALL you are ever going to bring up?! ;)
hell, fucking Sony fans bringing up this shit as Sony announce Spec 3 is fucking laughable.
"We don't actually have GT5 yet... please enjoy another year of demo! ... we might even charge (if us honourable japanese allow you the privalege!)"
mi mi mi - expanision mi mi mi even if it's 8-9 hours, as i say, that's a good 50% on MGS4.
you have to hold sony to blame somewhat! they promised the universe X years ago, and they delivered a small slice.
you can't throw it back on to tard fans fully, they hype machine tends to go quiet when they fail to deliver (twiddles thumbs for GTPSP which is coming just as soon as GT5 proper gets delivered apparently... in 2051)
Wasn't the Team Ico game basically promised for this TGS?
No, it wasn't. They never said they'd show at TGS.Wasn't the Team Ico game basically promised for this TGS?
Yes, it was. >:(
the thing i remember was that 'amazing game that i can't talk about to be shown!!!' from the BBC guy ages back. Sony were even showing that converted tech demo from the euro team. It's basically sounding like the amazing game isn't alive.
I'm still shocked that Sega is one of, if not THE biggest Japanese 3rd party supporter of the PS3...
well, i thought you didn't care for Halo from all your previous comments on it so i assumed you'd fired your first volley.
i honestly, truly , 100% believe i am a bigger Sony fan than anyone on GAF.
I believe this 100% to be true.
becuase being a fan involves not sucking that companies dick
it's about wanting them to get better
whereas just feltching them or making excuses for them makes them weaker.
Duckman, aside from the RRODs, I think you're one of the few that consider the OG Xbox a better console than the 360.
360 is more like the PS2 than OG Xbox ever was. So 360 must be the better console.
I thought the PS2 was pretty much shit.
Duckman, aside from the RRODs, I think you're one of the few that consider the OG Xbox a better console than the 360.
There are small things. The Xbox was the system with the most features standard, without a nickle and dime policy on everything. Instead of Rallisport, we have multiples of dull ass, safe tarmac grinders. Bungie takes years to deliver a few hours of B plot sci-fi, and two more to deliver a fucking expansion. The one thing that seems to have improved is Fable, but we'll see how that ends up. My dislike for the 360 is not even almost irrational.360 is more like the PS2 than OG Xbox ever was. So 360 must be the better console.
I thought the PS2 was pretty much shit.
jesus christ.
this is absolutely shocking stuff, there is no defending this sort of bunkum.
Meh, all this talk about j shit is depressing. RE5 is the only game I'm interested in. I'll get a 360 when it comes out
you seriously can't find more games to recommend on the PS2?
og xbox IS better than 360Says the Sega fanboy.
I don't play all that many games, and I don't enjoy wading through stockpiles of games in hopes of finding one that is decent, when experience tells me that just about every shelf filler I had bought, I had regretted buying. I played four games on my PS1; Wipeout, Wipeout 2097, Wip3out SE and CTR. That's it, everything else got a few minutes and then back in the case. After buying a PS2, I was amazed at the amount of games the system had, compared to the PC and Xbox platforms. But other than Ratchet and Sly and later God of War, nothing I bought managed to stick around. Wipeout Fusion sucked, which made me just flat out hate everything about the PS2. The Xbox was a much more appealing platform, due to its all-in-one build, media features and having more than enough good to great games to keep me busy.
This generation isn't a great one.
Quotebut hopefully MotorStorm 2 will make it level with RSC2-having Xbox at least when it comes to racing games, and R2 + Infamous will likely push it further.
wtf wtf wtf and WTFFFFFF
4'30 am - time for bed. this isn't making any sense!
duckman is reaching new levels of insanity on this page
wow
duckman is reaching new levels of insanity on this page
wow
There's no way I'm inviting him to the Michigan EBers meet up.
R2 was okay - but i thought you weren't a scripted fps fan? R2 is really REALLY tightly scripted at least on the demo, with lots of corridors with -no- options which became incredibly infuriating, and i ended up feeling like a prodded cattle being poked down a set path (much worse than COD4).
still, i liked the setting and the atmosphere and the colour, so heh...
R2 was okay - but i thought you weren't a scripted fps fan? R2 is really REALLY tightly scripted at least on the demo, with lots of corridors with -no- options which became incredibly infuriating, and i ended up feeling like a prodded cattle being poked down a set path (much worse than COD4).
still, i liked the setting and the atmosphere and the colour, so heh...
Is there even a realistic option for those who prefer open ended, do it your own way shooters?
R2 was okay - but i thought you weren't a scripted fps fan? R2 is really REALLY tightly scripted at least on the demo, with lots of corridors with -no- options which became incredibly infuriating, and i ended up feeling like a prodded cattle being poked down a set path (much worse than COD4).
still, i liked the setting and the atmosphere and the colour, so heh...
Is there even a realistic option for those who prefer open ended, do it your own way shooters?
Playing multiplayer?
duckman is reaching new levels of insanity on this page
wow
There's no way I'm inviting him to the Michigan EBers meet up.
Quoteog xbox IS better than 360
get back in your box Himu, you haven't a fucking clue what you are talking about.
duckman is reaching new levels of insanity on this page
wow
There's no way I'm inviting him to the Michigan EBers meet up.
At least he bought a PS2.
i already have Duckroll due to fly out to hit me with a twig or something, but it's not MY fault TGS was like being promised hot 70s fur minge but instead getting Hulk Hogans scrotum teabagging us :(
I don't even want to be referred to as a "gamer". :-\
I don't even want to be referred to as a "gamer". :-\
Maybe it would help you get a girlfriend am i rite
*wink
OK, so in this thread we have people:
-Saying the PS2 was absolute shit
-Saying RPGs all suck rotten sewage
-Saying the SNES has aged horribly
-Saying Sin and Punishment is shit
-Saying Punch Out is only fun for 2 minutes
-Saying nothing good comes from Japan anymore
If this is a typical video game fan's consensus, I weep for the future, and I don't even want to be referred to as a "gamer". :-\
Finally we agree. Punchout blows.OK, so in this thread we have people:
-Saying the PS2 was absolute shit
-Saying RPGs all suck rotten sewage
-Saying the SNES has aged horribly
-Saying Sin and Punishment is shit
-Saying Punch Out is only fun for 2 minutes
-Saying nothing good comes from Japan anymore
If this is a typical video game fan's consensus, I weep for the future, and I don't even want to be referred to as a "gamer". :-\
Punch Out is only fun for 2 mins and Japan is largely shit, but besides that I agree
First time I heard about it, they were talking about it as basically a separate campaign, complete with storyline and all sorts of goodies. But the footage they have shown has seemed more GRAW co-op than anything. Not that 8 player online, objective based co-op would be a bad thing, but it seems quite a bit different from what it was originally said to be.
Didn't Wollan used to say it was going to be like an MMO? :lol
Didn't Wollan used to say it was going to be like an MMO? :lol
I think that was Killzone 2, but I believe he got that from someone else. I'm thinking that person probably got wind of M.A.G., but got the wires crossed.