TGS 2009: The Recap Post
by Xav de Matos 
{ Oct 2nd 2009 at 10:10PM } 
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
Gallery: Red Steel 2 (Wii)
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
Gallery: Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll (Wii)
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
Gallery: Tatsunoko vs Capcom (TGS 2009)
Wii Hula
Nintendo DS
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
Coropata
- Hands-on: Coropata
Ghost Trick
Gallery: Ghost Trick (TGS 2009)
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
Gallery: Tsumuji
PlayStation 3
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Gallery: Army of Two: The 40th Day (TGS 2009)
Assassin's Creed 2
Gallery: Assassin's Creed 2 (TGS 2009)
Bayonetta
- Hands-on: Bayonetta (PS3)
Gallery: Bayonetta
Dante's Inferno
Gallery: 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
Gallery: Dead Rising 2 (TGS 2009)
Gallery: Dead Rising 2
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
Gallery: Final Fantasy XIII 250GB PS3
Gallery: Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
- Impressions: Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Gallery: Final Fantasy XIV
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
Gallery: Gran Turismo 5
The Last Guardian
Gallery: The Last Guardian
LittleBigPlanet
Lost Planet 2
Gallery: 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
Gallery: Resonance of Fate
Sony PSP
Dante's Inferno
Gallery: Dante's Inferno (PSP)
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
Gallery: Valkyria Chronicles 2
Xbox 360
0 Day Attack on Earth (XBLA)
- Hands-on: 0 Day Attack on Earth (XBLA)
Gallery: 0 Day Attack on Earth (XBLA)
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Gallery: Army of Two: The 40th Day (TGS 2009)
Assassin's Creed 2
Gallery: Assassin's Creed 2 (TGS 2009)
Crackdown 2
- Preview: Crackdown 2
- Watch a Crackdown 2 deathmatch
- Overheard@TGS: Putting the 'crack' in Crackdown 2
Gallery: Crackdown 2 (TGS 2009 #2)
Dante's Inferno
Gallery: 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
Gallery: Dead Rising 2 (TGS 2009)
Gallery: Dead Rising 2
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
Gallery: Final Fantasy XIII
Forza Motorsport 3
Gyromancer (XBLA)
Halo 3: ODST
Gallery: Halo 3: ODST
Joy Ride (XBLA)
Gallery: TGS 2009: Joy Ride
Left for Dead 2
Gallery: Left 4 Dead 2
Lost Planet 2
Gallery: 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
Gallery: Resonance of Fate
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Gallery: Splinter Cell: Conviction (TGS 2009)
Toy Soldiers
Gallery: Toy Soldiers (XBLA)
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
Gallery: TGS 2009: Cosplay Gallery
Gallery: TGS 2009: Shopping
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bobby Kotick Jr. @ Oct 2nd 2009 10:18PM
Ace Combat on the Iphone? When did I miss that?
Bobby Kotick Jr. @ Oct 2nd 2009 10:19PM
Actually, it was probably at a time I was trying to push DJ Hero.
That reminds me...
Mr Khan @ Oct 2nd 2009 10:31PM
Arguably, the biggest megaton came from the company that didn't attend, which isn't intended as a slight against the other console-makers, just that this whole TGS was light on the big announcements. Sony's motion control lineup was really the biggest set of actual new software announcements, whereas for pretty much everyone else, it was an elaboration on products we already knew about.
Michael @ Oct 2nd 2009 10:51PM
no Kingdom Hearts:Birth By Sleep preview? ='(
Xav de Matos @ Oct 2nd 2009 11:12PM
We still have EVEN MORE Tokyo Game Show content incoming, which will be added to this list.
Don't know if someone hit that game, but if we did.... stay tuned!
Michael @ Oct 2nd 2009 11:30PM
thanks for heads-up.
Bowser Rogozhin: England is finished @ Oct 3rd 2009 5:47AM
This was a non-event.
j.howlett @ Oct 3rd 2009 6:40AM
i'm glad sony gets included in the recap this time because i was busy and didn't have time to see alot like i did with e3
Roberto @ Oct 3rd 2009 9:56PM
no monster fhunter, no fun
Katie @ Oct 4th 2009 3:27PM
I just like to see the booth girls -- so cute.
den-69 @ Oct 6th 2009 7:36AM
I just want to see the girl with the pink baseball bat!
Where are you hiding her???