Polyphony Digital certainly won’t be winning any races for releasing Gran Turismo 5, that’s for sure. But, the developer has been kind enough to keep us updated with all the soils featured in Gran Turismo 5. With that said, during the Tokyo Game Show, Sony and Polyphony finally attached a release target for Gran Turismo 5.

Announcing that the racer will mostly launch in Japan come in March 2010. And that the game will mostly release in other regains “not that much later”, says series creator Kazunori Yamauchi.

“I don’t think it’s going to be that much later in the US and Europe,” Yamauchi said. “This is based on our production schedule. The reason why the dates for the US and [European] regions are not decided yet is because their marketing is still discussing their issues. It shouldn’t be too far off from [the Japanese] date for the other regions as well.”

[Gran Turismo 5 probably coming to US, EU in early 2010 - Polyphony via GameSpot]

The Alternative Edition of Resident Evil 5 may have sparked a bit jealousy within 360 owners. However, during a Darkside Chronicles stage event at the Tokyo Game Show, producer Jun Takeuchi talked about new content that will be added to the 360 version of Resident Evil 5.

The new content that he mention was an added mission to the 360 version Resident Evil 5, which originally served a as flashback scene; with Chris and Jill duking it out with Wesker in the mansion. 360 owners may not have the availability of motion control yet. However, according to Dengeki, Capcom plans on offering the new content in “a different form” to 360 owners.

Released during the Tokyo Game Show, the newest The Last Guardian trailer is home to the a “hidden message” that Fumito Ueda, founder of Team ICO, would like to convey to the fans. In an interview with Dengeki, Ueda said that the hidden message that he wanted to convey to the fans was Toriko’s “natural movement”.

“This trailer’s all about the giant eagle Toriko, as you can see,” Ueda told Dengeki. “I wanted to show how it moves naturally. I don’t know whether you’ve noticed or not, but every body part is animated. Toriko’s whiskers move and after a while its ears move independently. I wanted fans to notice those movements.”

Reviewing the TGS trailer, he wasn’t lying about the characters natural movement. Even in the announcement trailer back at E3, the characters natural movement was very explicit. Obviously, Ueda’s art is sometimes hidden, but he’s a true artist none the less. We can’t wait to see more on The Last Guardian.

When grasping his hands on Project Natal for the first time, Konami’s Hideo Kojima was caught smitten by Microsoft’s motion sensing technology, he revealed during a Q&A session at the Tokyo Game Show. He told the crowd that he was shocked by the experience of Natal. “I had to restrain myself from telling everyone I met,” Kojima said.

He believes Natal will raise the bar in all aspects of entertainment and allow people to be connected with their machines in a way that we’ve encountered only in science fiction – I think that he was thinking around the lines of Minority Report, or something like that. Even people who are not gamers can be a part of it because Natal is based on intuition, something that will take video games to a whole new level of interactivity.

“Using Natal, I’d like to come up with a completely new game that no one has seen before. I know I have lots of fans that are loyal to me, and I don’t want to leave them behind. So maybe I can come up with a car that can fly, so my fans can follow me…metaphorically speaking, of course,” Kojima said during the Panel.

[Konami's Kojima, Capcom's Inafune, Sega's Nagoshi discuss Project Natal's potential via GameSpot]

You ever wonder how Ezio looks like as a man? Well, in the latest Assassin’s Creed II trailer from the Tokyo Game Show it features Ezio as a man, not as a assassin.

In Assassin’s Creed II, Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a young Italian noble who will learn the ways of the assassins after his family was betrayed and he looks to seek vengeance. He is a lady’s man, a free soul with panache yet has a very human side to his personality. Through him, you become a master assassin.

Sony has dropped a massive bombshell for PlayStation Portable owners today. During their TGS press conference, Sony announced a miniature version of PlayStation Home called Room – the two “o”s are actually an infinity symbol (”R∞M”).

“PlayStation Room” (shown above) features avatars, live blogs, photo albums and social networking. Along with, Chat, mini-games, and real-time communication. Room is being tested in Japan right now because Room is more inline to what Japanese gamers want, however, we’re fairly certain that it will come to North America, sometime in the future.

During Microsoft’s E3 ‘09 keynote, they revealed the long awaited and rumored sequel, Crackdown 2. However, it isn’t until now – the Tokyo Game Show – that we’re getting to see the first pair of screenshots, and, well, they’re freaking amazing.

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In the shadow of the recent announcement of Star Ocean on PlayStation 3, Square Enix confirmed that its upcoming action-RPG NieR will release in two versions; NieR Gesthalt for the Xbox 360, and NieR Replicant for the PlayStation 3. However, during the past couple of weeks, the names recently made an appearance, but no clarifications were made, at that time.

Details are incredibly light at the moment on the two versions. But, what we do know is that both versions have their NieR character attempting to find a cure for a character who has a mysterious illness. Hopefully, all will be cleared up at next week’s Tokyo Game Show, where the Xbox 360 version will be playable.

Just in time. Today, Microsoft revealed the “Epic” list of games that it will be showcasing during the Tokyo Game Show, which takes place in no place other then Japan. Thelist mostly consistencies of titles that are currently in playable form for the Japanese public to enjoy. Better yet, Microsoft will also be showcasing some of the top games for 2010 in video-only form – however, we’re not sure if the videos are new.  Here’s the list:

• Forza Motorsport 3 (Demo, Trailer)
• Alan Wake (Trailer)
• Fable III (Trailer)
• Halo 3: ODST (Demo, Trailer)
• Halo Legends (Trailer)
• Halo: Reach (Trailer)
• Crackdown 2 (Trailer)
• Borderlands (Trailer)
• Samurai Shodown Sen (Demo, Trailer)
• FIFA 10 (Demo, Trailer)
• Lost Planet 2 (Demo, Trailer)
• MUSHIHIME SAMA Futari Ver1.5 (Demo, Trailer)
• Shin Sangoku MULTI RAID Special (Demo, Trailer)
• Castlevania ~Lords of Shadow~ (Trailer)
• NINETY-NINE NIGHTS II (Demo, Trailer)
• Pro Evo 2010 (Demo, Trailer)
• FRONT MISSION EVOLVED (Demo, Trailer)
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (Trailer)
• NeiR Gestalt (Demo, Trailer)
• BAYONETTA (Demo, Trailer)
• Resonance of Fate (Demo, Trailer)
• Assassin’s Creed II (Demo, Trailer)
• Splinter Cell Conviction (Trailer)
• Infernal (Demo, Trailer)
• Dragon Ball Rising Burst (Demo, Trailer)
• Tekken 6 (Demo, Trailer)
• STEINS;GATE (Demo, Trailer)

[Thanks to Kotaku]

Like if you needed more of a reason to watch all of the information that will be coming out of the Tokyo Game Show this year. According to the Examiner, Capcom, one of the biggest game publishers and developers to date, has been teasing on it Twitter of the new titles that it will be revealing at the Tokyo Game Show this year.

“Hard at work on Tokyo Game Show plans,” said the publisher via its twitter feed. “Several new games to be announced in Japan, lots of new content for [Lost Planet 2], [Tatsunoko vs. Capcom], [and Dead Rising 2]. Exciting!” Tokyo Game Show 2009 will be held from September 24 to the 27.

Speaking at a Press Conference in Tokyo last week, Square Enix’s Yoichi Wada stated that a release date for long-awaited Final Fantasy XIII could be revealed in a matter of weeks.

Anyway, Wada told the Japanese press that he would make “an announcement in a few weeks”. However, if you look at the stated time, this could mean that Square Enix is announcing the game’s release at the Tokyo Game Show – scheduled for late September.

The title is due out in Japan this winter, with its Western debut, on PS3 and Xbox 360, expected sometime in 2010. However, we’re hoping to see more on the title at Tokyo because Square has confirmed that the tile will certainly be in attendance.

One of the best third person shooters in history, Resident Evil, is just about ready to make its nex-gen debut, but before it can, all of the lucky Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be, one of the many, to get a chance to sample the game.

Today, Capcom has announced that the ‘Resident Evil 5′ demo will be making a landing on Xbox Live Market Place exclusively.

The next installment of the landmark survival horror franchise from Capcom will take action to a new level with a two-level, playable demo available exclusively on Xbox 360 for one week beginning Monday, January 26. After that, we assume the following Thursday, the PlayStation 3 will have its turn.

In Addition, to the exclusive demo, a new exclusive high-definition trailer of the game, shown only at the past Tokyo Game Show in October of 2008, will be made available for download on the Xbox LIVE service on Friday, Jan. 16.

Xbox 360 gamers will also be first to take on the new enemies in battle, including an army of weapon-wielding infected Majini, the gigantic hooded Majini Executioner and even the dreaded Chainsaw Majini. Players can also choose between the classic ‘Resident Evil’-style controls or switch to the newer ‘Action’ controls inspired by games like ‘Gears of War 2′ and ‘Halo 3′.

I’m not going to beat around the bush, when it comes to Ninja games Ninja Blade isn’t on the tip of the mountain. But we can at least rest today knowing the, possible, release date for the game – because we all know that games have the tendency to be delayed.

Today, From Software has shared their release target for their game Ninja Blade. The game is set to release on January 29, 2009.

When announced prior to the Tokyo Game Show, the game had shown some very high promise at the time and it still does today. And to celebrate this release date announcement, From Software has just updated the official site for the game.

Also for those who can’t get enough of Ninja Blade will be able to immerse themselves in the game through a new soundtrack, which was also announced today by From Software.

Produced by Gem Impact’s Norihiko Hibino, who’s known for his work on the Metal Gear series, the soundtrack includes 27 tracks on two discs, both of which have color picture labels. Also Ninja Blade’s main theme song, Beanstalk, which was produced as a collaboration with Yuki Koyanagi, will be distributed worldwide on iTunes and various ring-tone sites starting 12/24.

With all the videos shown over the past year of Final Fantasy XIII, there was only so little of it shown that can be considered gameplay. And with so much time in development we were all wondering when we would be able to seen any gameplay of the game, beside in the teaser trailers. However, according to a post on the NeoGAF Forum, there will be gameplay of the game shown by the end of this year. Square-Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura spoke about the game in an interview with Gemaga, he mentions that before the end of the year we’ll see the battle scene in FF13, which is just another way of saying game. He also revealed in the interview that they have no immediate plans to release information on the voice acting cast for the game.

[Square Enix TGS report via NeoGAF]

At the Tokyo Games Show we learned something that made every Nintendo hardcore fanboy remember why he/she had brought a Wii in the first place. Even if the game is slated for a early 2010 release date the fans still would like to know some details on Travis Touchdown’s newest adventure, No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle. As you may already know, No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle will be the first time that Grasshopper will be doing a sequel. And since they wanted to do a make another game with Travis it’s just right that they do a sequel. The game follows Travis’s path of revenge and this time hes going to get really serious about fighting, unlike the first game. The team that worked on No More Heroes 1 is also working on the second game (same character designer, mecha designer etc.). When the team where working on No More Heroes 1, they felt they had one of the best teams for a Wii title, so they wanted to make another game with the team.

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Personally I wasn’t expecting to even see a LittleBigPlanet presentation at the Tokyo Game Show, but I’m very happy that I was wrong. Today, towards the end of the presentation, PlayStation’s main man, Hideo Kojima, took the stage and started talking about a Solid Snake Sackboy. Many of us where hoping for a new game announcement like a new Metal Gear game, but a cute sackboy is always cool too. Along with that announcement he also revealed that one of best video game villians of all time, Sephiroth will be making his way onto LittleBIGplanet as a Sackboy.

We all could have seen this one coming from a mile away, but it was all just about the matter of timing and that time was at TGS. Today, at TGS at Microsoft’s keynote, they confirmed that Sony’s hit fighting game Tekken will be making a landing onto the Xbox 360 sometime next autumn for the games sixth installment, Tekken 6. Also like I said before it’s all about a matter of time and by the way things are looking you can only wonder what other game will be making it’s way on to the Xbox 360.

Announced in October of 2007, Resident Evil: Degeneration is already set to make it’s first global showing at TGS, Tokyo Game Show, on October the 10. Also on November 13th the video game movie is set to make it’s apparent at the Horror Film Festival in New York, which is in the US. Here’s a little statement on the game from the press release about the game:

“Seven years after the destruction of Raccoon City, Leon and Claire are back as the war against the zombies rages on in RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION,” It goes on, “Produced by renown gaming producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi (associate producer of Resident Evil: Apocalypse and video game producer of Resident Evil® 4 and Devil May Cry® 4) and directed by Makoto Kamiya (special effects director of L: Change The World, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack), RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION is a spectacular, CG-animated thrill-ride that takes the terrifying zombie action of the blockbuster Resident Evil franchise to a whole new level with jaw-dropping visual effects and heart-pounding suspense.”

Without a doubt one of the most anticipated games on PlayStation 3, Killzone 2, is once again ready to pose for some new images. After getting a little taste at the Games Convention, a gaming event, the people over a Guerrilla are ready to give us just a little bigger piece of the pie. For the view point we are given the game really doesn’t disappoint and it seem like every time we see or hear something about this game it’s comes with a screenshot of the game or video. The likeliness of their being a video soon is very high so you can expect to see something new on the game at TGS, a upcoming gaming event. The game is gaped for a February 2009 release date.