Posted in Uncategorized, tagged convention, games, Japan, Koei, Konami, Microsoft, otaku, Playstation, Sega, sony, Tokyo, xbox360, YouTube on October 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The 19th annual Tokyo Game Show was held in Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Chiba (just outside Tokyo) from September 24-27, 2009. For last year’s coverage, see my blog post here.
Total attendance was about 185,000, down from 194,000 last year.
The major game platform developers were prominent with large booths like Sony [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged booth, convention, cosplay, games, Japan, Microsoft, models, otaku, Playstation, sony, Tokyo, xbox360, YouTube on October 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last weekend, the annual Tokyo Game Show was held in Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Chiba (just outside Tokyo), where otaku game players gathered to get a first hand look at the latest and upcoming games.
Thursday and Friday were business (press) days with attendance about 25,000, while the weekend was open to the public [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged balloons, bands, cheerleaders, clowns, drums, Edo, festival, food, games, geisha, Japan, karate, music, parade, Shinagawa, Syukuba, taiko, Tokyo on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Held last weekend this year, the Syukuba festival is held annually in the late summer in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The highlight of this festival is a 600 strong parade of marching bands, cheerleaders, clowns, and locals dressed in Edo-era costumes.
As with any festival in Japan, there were lots [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2016, games, Japan, olympics, sports, Tokyo on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China has officially closed and with London preparing for the 2012 summer games, the 4 competing candidate cities for the 2012 Summer Olympics (Tokyo, Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro) are also busy with their own bid selection activities.
Below is the Tokyo’s 2016 Bid Committee official logo.
Around Tokyo, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged games, Japan, Nintendo, PSP3, video game console, Wii on August 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii video game console outsold Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 by more than 3-to-1 in Japan in July, a game magazine publisher said.
Nintendo sold 171,851 units of the Wii in the four weeks ending July 27, compared with 54,823 units of the PS3, Enterbrain said on Friday.
In the handheld [...]
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