
Last week, the Tokyo Game Show brought in over 100 posts worth of news, previews, interviews, galleries, and videos. Clearly, a lot happened. If you're looking for a comprehensive list of all the goings-on during TGS 2009, Joystiq has you covered -- and organized!
Click on a platform below to scan the highlights:
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(On the far right: that's "News" and "Culture" on the top and bottom, respectively)
Nintendo Wii
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Little King Story
- Interview: Little King Story's Yoshiro Kimura
No More Heroes 2
Red Steel 2
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
- Hands-on: Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
- Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles heads to South America
Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll
- Feet-on: Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
- Hands-on: Tatsunoko vs. Capcom vs. that guy from Dead Rising
- Frank West is rising to the occasion in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Wii Hula
Nintendo DS
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
Coropata
- Hands-on: Coropata
Ghost Trick
Ni No Kuni: The Another World
- Hands-on: Ni no Kuni
Okamiden
- Hands-on: Okamiden
- Hands-on: Sands of Destruction
- Interview: imageepoch and Sega on Sands of Destruction
Tsumuji
- Hands-on: Tsumuji
- EA Japan announces Tsumuji for DS
PlayStation 3
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Assassin's Creed 2
Bayonetta
- Hands-on: Bayonetta (PS3)
Dante's Inferno
Dead Rising 2
- Hands-on: Dead Rising 2's 'Terror is Reality'
- Videos: Dead Rising 2's buffet of death
- Dead Rising 2 in one awesome screen
Dynasty Warriors Online
Echoshift
- Hands-on: Echoshift
- Hands-on: Final Fantasy XIII
- New Final Fantasy XIII trailer is heavy on story, light on English
- Final Fantasy XIII TGS trailer -- this time dubbed in English
- TGS 2009: Sony Japan unveils 250GB Final Fantasy XIII bundle
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
- Impressions: Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Gran Turismo 5
- Interview: Gran Turismo 5's Kazunori Yamauchi
- Gran Turismo 5 coming to Japan in March 2010
- Gran Turismo 5 international release likely early 2010
The Last Guardian
LittleBigPlanet
Lost Planet 2
Resident Evil 5: Director's Cut
- Sony adding motion to existing titles, new RE5 with motion coming Spring 2010
- Motion-controlled Resident Evil 5 caught on video
- Hands-on: Resonance of Fate
- Resonance of Fate sends us to bullet hell in TGS trailer
- Resonance of Fate trailer, now with 100% fewer bullets
Sony PSP
Dante's Inferno
Echoshift
- Hands-on: Echoshift
- Hands-on: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (co-op)
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker's epic 10-minute trailer
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker demo available now
- Take a break from the MGS Peace Walker demo for these screens
Minna no Sukkiri
- Hands-on: Minna no Sukkiri
- Stop and look at PSP Go's ridiculous Converter 'Cable'
- PSP Comics service gets support of all major Japanese publishers
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
- Hands-on: Silent Hill Shattered Memories (PSP)
Valkyria Chronicles 2
- Hands-on: Valkyria Chronicles 2
Xbox 360
0 Day Attack on Earth (XBLA)
- Hands-on: 0 Day Attack on Earth (XBLA)
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Assassin's Creed 2
Crackdown 2
- Preview: Crackdown 2
- Watch a Crackdown 2 deathmatch
- Overheard@TGS: Putting the 'crack' in Crackdown 2
Dante's Inferno
Dead Rising 2
- Hands-on: Dead Rising 2's 'Terror is Reality'
- Videos: Dead Rising 2's buffet of death
- Dead Rising 2 in one awesome screen
Final Fantasy XIII
- Hands-on: Final Fantasy XIII
- New Final Fantasy XIII trailer is heavy on story, light on English
- Final Fantasy XIII TGS trailer -- this time dubbed in English
Forza Motorsport 3
Gyromancer (XBLA)
Halo 3: ODST
Joy Ride (XBLA)
Left for Dead 2
Lost Planet 2
Project Natal
- Hands-on: Project Natal (with Space Invaders Extreme!)
- Recap: Xbox 360 Creator Panel Discussion recap
- Kudo demoes Natal, invents dance craze
- Don't expect old 360 games to add Natal support
- Microsoft's Phil Spencer easily envisions Fable, Natal crossover
- Every major publisher 'actively working on games for Project Natal'
Resonance of Fate
- Hands-on: Resonance of Fate
- Resonance of Fate sends us to bullet hell in TGS trailer
- Resonance of Fate trailer, now with 100% fewer bullets
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Toy Soldiers
iPhone / Mobile
Ace Combat Xi
- Hands-on: Ace Combat Xi
Tokyo Game Show 2009: News
- Alienware threatens to 'shake gaming world to its foundation'
- Capcom bringing Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes and Ghost Trick to NA, Europe
- Epic Games opens new Tokyo studio
- Keiji Inafune says Japanese game industry is over, man
- Kojima toyed with shocking, 'transforming' controllers for MGS4
- Oh yeah, this is that Alienware announcement
- Nintendo officially announces Wii price drop to $199 in US
- NIS America announces Badman 2, Atelier Rorona
- PlayStation & Xbox hardware gets the Body Worlds treatment at Japanese museum
- Square Enix head encourages Japanese devs to focus on 'adult' games
- Tokyo Game Show 2009 attendance down slightly
- Why Epic Games briefly gave up on Gears of War 2's Japanese release
Culture & Originals
- Interview: Level-5's Yoshiaki Kusada
- Joystiq live @ Sony's Tokyo Game Show keynote
- Joystiq liveblog @ EA Showcase Tokyo
- Capps talks about missing 'perching' cover system from Gears of War 2
- TGS 2009: It's a Gundam! ... stylus!
- TGS 2009: Oh! Falling Egg!!
- TGS 2009: The next generation of Real Arcade Pro joysticks
- TGS 2009: The worst logo of the show
- Video: EA's Rex Ishibashi talks about missing Suda 51, Shinji Mikami project
- Video: Joystiq vs. TGS '09: Day One
- Video: Joystiq vs. TGS '09: Day Two
- Video: Joystiq vs. TGS '09: Day Three
- Video: Joystiq vs. TGS '09: Day Four






