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Tokyo Game Show News and Notes - 9/21/2007

Written by Brian Szabelski
Published September 22, 2007

Here are the latest headlines and stories from this year's Tokyo Game Show:

- On the heels of announcing Yakuza 3 for the PS3 in Japan, Sega also has announced that Yakuza 2 for the PS2 is on its way to North American shores. Sega also announced Dinosaur King and Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer for the Nintendo DS. All three games are slated for 2008 releases.

Sega will also be showing off several games at TGS this year, including: Nights: Journey of Dreams, Sonic Rush Adventure, The Golden Compass, Virtua Fighter 5 for the Xbox 360, and Sega Rally Revo. Sega also predictred sales of 4 million units worldwide for Mario and Sonic at the Olympics on the Wii.

- SNK has made several announcements in the past few days. Among the large ones are Metal Slug 7 on the DS, SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1 for the PS2 and PSP, Samurai Shodown Anthology for the Wii and PS2, as well as Metal Slug 3 and Samurai Shodown 2 for Xbox Live Arcade.

Arcade games from SNK were also announced and shown, specifically The King of Fighters XII, King of Fighters: Maximum Impact Regulation "A" 2 and Samurai Shodown Sen. Hooray for fighting games!

- Hudson is bringing us more Bomberman, with Bomberman Land for the Wii and PSP and Bomberman Land Touch! 2 for the Nintendo DS. All three games are multiplayer mini-game compilations, but that also includes Battle Pack Mode, which is the classic Bomberman multiplayer fun that Hudson is known for.

- Outside of their keynote, Konami has announced a contest to design a new character for Contra 4 Mobile. Winners get credit for their creation in the game, as well as a special Contra 20th Anniversary prize.

- Speaking of mobile games, Capcom has announced five of them (RockMan Dash: The Great Five Islands Adventure, Resident Evil 4 Mobile Edition, Devil May Cry: Dante X Virgil, Sengoku Basara (Devil Kings) Tactical RPG, and Breath of Fire 4 Action RPG Edition). They also announced three new titles in Japan for the PS2 and PSP: Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories (PS2 and PSP), Arcana Heart (PS2) and MotoGP (PS2).

Also, Capcom announced that Resident Evil 5 will be set in the nation of Haiti, home to voodoo, zombies, and all that fun stuff. The announcement likely came to give a better explanation of the game's setting after controversy following the game's E3 trailer.

- Square Enix showed off many of their upcoming titles, including the upcoming game Lost Odyssey that they are working on with Blue Dragon developer Mistwalker. The game is supposedly going to be 4 discs, with 40-50 hours of game play.

But that's not all, as Square Enix also announced three new Kingdom Hearts titles: Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep for the PSP, Kingdom Hearts: Coded for mobile phones, and Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days for the DS.

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Brian Szabelski is the Assistant Gaming Editor at Blogcritics.org as well as Associate Editor at Tomopop. He also maintains his own blog on IGN, "The Minus World".
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Tokyo Game Show News and Notes - 9/21/2007
Published: September 22, 2007
Type: News
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Writer: Brian Szabelski
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