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Tokyo Game Show 2008: The Girls!!

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:57:00 GMT

As we promised, here you are the most interesting things of the TGS: The pictures gallery of the Girls from the Tokyo Game Show 2008! Enjoy!

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Tokyo Rock Trooper... Yep Nothing is impossible for Danny

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:19:00 GMT

Ok folks, today is a public holiday in Japan and what best to kick-off your choose, seat back, relax and watch some classical Rock video.... Trooper Style !

Danny, you are the Best !

Get more here after the jump at Dannychoo.com

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Tokyo Game Show 2008: Final Report

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:11:00 GMT

As everybody knows, last week we were at the Tokyo Game Show, and once again, we were disappointed.
Well, some of you who were at TGS will tell us that was a great event, but, for Press People, I can assure you The Tokyo Game Show is a really crap Show, and more particularly the Organization was really crap.
First of all, when we went to register us for the TGS Thursday morning, there were two queues, one for the foreign press, and another for the Japanese Press. As you know, we are...

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Tokyo Game Show 2008: Au's Booth

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:16:00 GMT

Au showcased some of their mobile phone games in 16 and 32bit at the Tokyo Game Show: Street Fighter, Virtua Racing, Bomber Man, plus many others. Some have multiplayer mode thanks to Bluetooth.

Although these games have great graphics, there’s still lots of Lag… If Au wants these games to have a future, they'll have to improve the game play. It’s impossible to control anything with keypad.

If you’re in Tokyo, you can try them out at Au’s booth... Be sure to check ...

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Live: Robo Japan 2008!

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:07:00 GMT

The past two weeks have been pretty crazy here in Japan. We had the CEATEC (our coverage here CEATEC 2008), then the Tokyo Game Show, more news will come later today and Monday (our coverage here Tokyo Game Show 2008). Today was the start of ROBO JAPAN 2008!

Let’s begin w...

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Tokyo Game Show 2008: Rocked by a Major Earthquake (Video)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:39:00 GMT

Don't worry guys, it's only funny shaking booth at the Tokyo Game Show, the Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 3 earthquake simulator. The simulation goes up to Shindo 7 representing the strongest earthquakes possible. If you visit this game event, you check it out!

Here's a short video of the machine.

Zeittai Zetsumei Toshi 3 (Earthquake Simulator)Uploaded by AkihabaraNews...

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Onkyo Introduces New Wireless Headphones, the MHP-UW2

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:17:00 GMT

Onkyo announced the November availability of their new wireless headphones the MHP-UW2. These new Bluetooth headphones provide a frequency response of 50Hz-20,000Hz, and come with 30mm driver units and an iPod adaptor/receiver. Unfortunately, we have no further information concerning specs.

They'll around 150€ in Japan....

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ATH-PRO700: Audio-Technica's High-end Headphones Upgrade

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:44:00 GMT

Audio released an upgrade for their high-end DJ ATH-PRO700 headphones, the ATH-PRO700LTD & ATH-PRO700CWH. No big changes, but two new colors: White and Black.

As for specs, the PRO700LTD comes with 53mm drivers, and provides an output sound pressure level of 106dB/mW, a frequency response of 5 Hz – 38,000Hz and an impedance of 38 Ohms.

The white version comes with 53mm Driver units, and provide a frequency response of 5 Hz – 33,000 Hz and an impedance 36 ...

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Tokyo Game Show 2008: Takara Tomy Booth

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:00:00 GMT

This year, Takara Tomy introduced several new Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS games, all based on Japanese Manga. There's Naruto Shippuden Genkitou Ninja Taisen EX3, Yatta Man, Major Dream (baseball game)…

Unfortunately we didn’t enough time to test them, but if you're at the Tokyo Game Show don’t hesitate to trying them out for yourself!

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Get a Second USB-powered Screen for your Notebook or Desktop

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:32:00 GMT

Century Japan was kind enough to give us a MEGA heads-up of one of their future best sellers, the LCD-4300U.
With an official sell and launch in Japan in the middle or late November, this USB powered 4.3” LCD is the ideal companion for anyone on the go who wants a second screen for MSN. It's even for Photoshop users who need to have ALL their main screens free of tools.

Compatible with PC (XP / Vista) or MAC (Intel) these screen feature a WVGA resolution of 800 x 480 with an L...

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Tokyo Game Show 2008: Motorstorm 2 Hands-on

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:51:00 GMT

The new Motor Storm 2 was exhibited at the Tokyo Game Show 2008. We waited impatiently to get our hands-on it to see what it had to offer… and found that Motorstorm 2 is almost the same as the previous version.

The novelty concerns tracks and a new type of car (Monster Truck), but that’s it. The game remains beautiful, fluid, good speed impression (especially when you use the boost). Play with up to 16 players online…

First opus amateurs will be sure to ...

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Tokyo Game Show 2008: Bio Hazard 5 Hands-On

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:13:00 GMT

Here you are the new opus of the popular Zombie Game. After the great success of the previous Bio Hazard, Could Capcom do something better?
After 25minutes testing, what we can say, is this new version is beautiful with great graphics, good game play and not bad AI.

But the real novelty is the Cooperative mode (On line): Yep, new character comes with the very sexy Sheva Alomar. And the interesting thing in this co-op mode is if one of both character dies, the gam...

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Tokyo Game Show 2008: Street Fighter 4 Hands-on!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:54:00 GMT

Today, on Playstation’s booth was showcased the new Street Fighter 4 from Capcom. And when we played to this game, we must admit that we get some nostalgia. Regarding the games, it was pleasant, nice graphic and game play… You’ll also have two new characters: Akuma and Sakura
Available next year on PS3, XBox 360 and PC

Take a look at the pictures below!

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Tokyo Game Show 2008: FIFA 09 Hands-on

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:14:00 GMT

After talking about the new Winning Eleven 2009, we had to show Konami’s arch rival's new sequel, FIFA 09.

Last year EA Sports surprised lot of people with new game play that's more realistic and less arcade like. So has Fifa bested Winning Eleven?

Regarding graphics, I loved it. I was impressed by the previous version, and yep, this new Fifa makes it is a real pleasure to control your favorite player.

As for game play, the biggest problem… w...

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Boost Your Server with a SSD

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:45:00 GMT

Samsung announced in Korea the launch two new hi-performance SSDs (32 and 64) ready for server use. They're designed to achieve 100MB/s in reading mode, and 80MB/s in writing mode.

Since the end of September, these SSD have been used on HP servers like the “ProLiant BL495c G5 Virtualization Blade Server.”...

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