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RECENT TGS 2009 NEWS

0  Sony Shuts Down Room for PSP Thu, Apr 15th, 2010, 11:23 am (EST) BY SHAWN Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has announced that they will be halting development on Room, also known as PlayStation Room, which was first announced last year at TGS 2009. The service was supposed to be a counterpart for PlayStation Home on the PlayStation 3, using 3D cartoon-like avatars in contrast to Home's life-like avatars. More »

2  Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker Preview Wed, Apr 7th, 2010, 12:44 pm (EST) BY COLIN Announced at E3 2009 by Hideo Kojima himself, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is the next canon entry into the Metal Gear timeline. The game is set to take place 10 years after Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, further telling the tragic tale of Big Boss and the creation of his independent military organization, Outer Heaven. It's hardly been a year since the announcement, but Kojima Productions have obviously been hard at work, teasing the many watchful eyes with an abundance of trailers showing off bits of story and plenty of gameplay. Set after the events of Operation Snake Eater and Portable Ops, a substantially large armed military has taken residence in the defenceless nation of Costa Rica, bringing nukes into the country. In order to repel the invading army, Naked Snake is approached to deploy his own group of soldiers dubbed More »

0  White Knight Chronicles 2 Features Online Mode Transformations Sun, Apr 4th, 2010, 7:11 pm (EST) BY SHAWN Those who played the original White Knights Chronicles, which released in North America and Europe earlier this year, may have noticed some glaring issues with the game, such as the inability to transform into the knight during multiplayer mode. According to the latest tweets from one of the staff members at Level 5 working on the game, it appears that the sequel will fix some of those issues. More »

1  Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Demo Releasing In English Posted on 2009/11/02 BY KYLE WYNEN Gamers that stumbled through the Japanese Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker demo from TGS 2009 can breathe a sigh of relief, as the demo is soon coming in English. How soon is a mystery, but as revealed in the latest Kojima Productions podcast, the development team is hard at work converting the demo to english right now. More »

1  TGS 2009 Awards: Best PlayStation 3 Game Posted on 2009/10/14 BY KYLE WYNEN Tokyo Game Show 2009 may not have had the biggest scoops or as many surprise announcements as gamers were hoping, but there certainly wasn't a lack of great games on display. We've already covered every other platform in our TGS 2009 Awards, so it's time to round things off with the best PlayStation 3 game of TGS 2009. More »

0  TGS 2009: Lost Planet 2 Hands-On Posted on 2009/10/14 BY KYLE WYNEN Capcom may have had one of the strongest showings at Tokyo Game Show 2009 among all the publishers that attended, but on top of this Capcom USA was also present at the show for all the Western press. The highlight of their showing was the local 4-player co-op they had set up for Lost Planet 2. Anticipating the game as we are, Gaming Union got some thorough hands-on time with the title. More »

	0  TGS 2009 Awards: Best Xbox 360 Game Posted on 2009/10/11 BY DARRYL Microsoft are like a dog with a bone, and despite still having a relatively low penetration in Japan, they attended this year's Tokyo Game Show in full force. There were plenty of titles available for play, so now it's time to turn the spolight on the Xbox 360 to see what games we felt were the most appealing More »

0  Monster Hunter Freedom 3 Basically Confirmed By Capcom Posted on 2009/10/11 BY DARRYL Everyone is aware how huge Monster Hunter is, and the release of Monster Hunter Tri only helped to further its reputation. However, where the franchise has arguably been most successful is on Sony's portable console, the PlayStation Portable. The last main version to be released on the PSP was Monster Hunter Freedom 2 in August, 2007, as Freedom Unite was essentially an expansion, and with 2010 fast approaching, there were some doubts about whether Capcom wanted to move away from the PSP. More »

	1  TGS 2009: Left 4 Dead 2 Hands-On Posted on 2009/10/10 BY DARRYL Everyone is aware of the controversy that erupted around the Left 4 Dead franchise when the sequel was announced at this year's E3, but with the game's release just over a month away, it's time to look at what Left 4 Dead 2 brings to the table, as opposed to wondering what could have been added to the original. More »

	0  PixelJunk 1-5 Development Starting Early 2010 Posted on 2009/10/09 BY DARRYL PixelJunk has grown massively in the last 2 years, and people are always looking to see what Q-Games can do with the franchise next. More »

0  TGS 2009: Nier Gestalt Hands-On Posted on 2009/10/09 BY KYLE WYNEN It's great what just a few months of development can do for a game. At E3 2009, Nier, a third-person action game, was shown by Square Enix to the press for the first time. They didn't let anyone play it as it was severely underdeveloped, with poor graphics, and gameplay that looked thrown together. Nier all around underwhelmed in that state. Enter Tokyo Game Show 2009 however, and Nier looked completely uplifted. More »

0  PS3 Framerate Issues Being Fixed In Assassin's Creed 2 Posted on 2009/10/09 BY DARRYL When Assassin's Creed came out, people were quick to compare the PlayStation 3 version with the Xbox 360. One of the major differences came with the framerate, as the PlayStation 3 version frequently ducked below the 30fps mark. This is clearly an issue which concerns some gamers, and could affect which console they buy the game for. It's also something that Ubisoft don't want to see repeated, as Gaming Union found out when we managed to catch up with Stefano Petrullo, a PR Manager for Ubisoft, to ask him if steps are being taken to prevent this: More »

0  TGS 2009: Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles Hands-On Posted on 2009/10/09 BY KYLE WYNEN At Tokyo Game Show 2009 Capcom displayed a multitude of titles. From Okamiden to Monster Hunter, Capcom impressed quite a few times. Part-way through demoing Capcom's line-up, Gaming Union sat down for some hands-on time with Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, Capcom's on-rails rendition of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil Code: Veronica. More »

0  TGS 2009 Awards: Best Wii Game Posted on 2009/10/09 BY DARRYL Tokyo Game Show 2009 undoubtably put a lot of smiles on press and show-goers faces, but also a lot of raised eyebrows and disappointment. Once again it's time to point out just what titles induced the most joy and smiles, with Gaming Union's TGS 2009 Awards. Continuing the Award's console focus, it's time to waggle onto the Wii. More »

1  Avatar: The Game Interview With Patrick Naud Posted on 2009/10/08 BY KYLE WYNEN Ubisoft had a pretty prominent booth at Tokyo Game Show 2009 as they showed off Assassin's Creed 2 and Splinter Cell. However, they also showed another game that drew long lines and that was James Cameron's Avatar: The Game. After showing off the stereoscopic (better known as 3D) version of the game, Gaming Union caught up with Patrick Naud, the Producer of Avatar: The Game. More »

3  TGS 2009: LittleBigPlanet PSP Hands-On Posted on 2009/10/08 BY KYLE WYNEN At Sony's booth at Tokyo Game Show 2009 were a number of PSP games. So many in-fact that Sony opted for a ticket system to keep some sanity in the booth, instead of a set of individual lines. LittleBigPlanet PSP was one of the titles on display among other first and third party titles at Sony's booth, so when Gaming Union took its turn at the ticket counter, pouring over Japanese images of PSP game logos like we were at an ice cream shop choosing flavours, LittleBigPlanet PSP was one of our first choices. More »

	4  PixelJunk Appearing On Xbox 360: Extremely Unlikely Posted on 2009/10/07 BY DARRYL PixelJunk has become a huge franchise for Q-Games, and it's enabled them to be quite flexible in how they operate. What started off as quite a gamble, has become a successful venture, with the fourth game in the series, PixelJunk Shooter, currently in the works. More »

3  TGS 2009 Awards: Best PSP Game Posted on 2009/10/07 BY DARRYL Continuing on with Gaming Union's TGS 2009 Awards, next it's the turn of Sony's hand-held device, the PlayStation Portable. Sony were at this year's Tokyo Game Show with a plethora of PlayStation Portable titles on show from a range of different publishers. Many of the titles were also platform exclusive, which is rather impressive More »

	0  TGS 2009: Monster Hunter Tri Hands-On Posted on 2009/10/07 BY DARRYL Monster Hunter has been a huge hit for Capcom ever since it first appeared in Japan all those years ago. Since then it's managed to sell more than 10 million copies as a franchise, and it doesn't look like this craze will stop any time soon. More »

4  TGS 2009 Awards: Best DS Game Posted on 2009/10/05 BY KYLE WYNEN Tokyo Game Show 2009 wowed crowds and wooed gamers across the world, and while there were plenty of good and bad games alike, it's time to recognize the cream of the crop with our TGS 2009 Awards. This year Gaming Union is focusing on each individual console there, and to kick things off, a look at the Nintendo DS' best and brightest. More »