Kaz Hirai to deliver keynote at TGS

July 24th, 2009 No Comments   Posted in Business, Hardware, Industry

The Tokyo Game Show this year is right around the corner, and today we learn that Kaz Hirai, Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, will be delivering the keynote at the event.

The keynote’s title will be “New Tactics For 2009″, and will also feature an all-Japanese panel discussion of executives from Capcom, Bandai Namco and Square Enix about global strategy.

This year’s Tokyo Game Show will be held from September 24 to September 27. The last two days will be open to the public, while the rest of the show is industry-only.

Read (Gamasutra)

New Katamari Forever trailer, playable at Comic-Con

July 21st, 2009 2 Comments   Posted in Action, PlayStation 3, Puzzle, Video

Sony has released an extremely cute trailer for Bandai Namco’s Katamari Forever today, complete with monkey and turkey puppets. Featured in the trailer are some new game play footage. Sony has also announced, via their blog, that a demo for the game will be playable at this year’s Comic-Con.

The game is coming out in Japan in two days, but will be seeing a September 22nd release in the States. No exact date has been announced for Europe, however the game is expected to be out this year.

Read (PlayStation.Blog)