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This action-RPG is based on Square Enix's Lord Of Vermillion franchise, and with realtime battles and QTEs, it's a world apart from the collectible card game on which it's based. It's in development for PSP and Vita, and is due for release in December.

A nice touch from Siliconera: a downloadable ZIP file containing 20 3D screenshots of the upcoming Super Mario 3D Land. Extract the file to the DCIM folder on your 3DS SD card, behold, and continue frantically counting down the hours to the game's European release on November 18.

The Tokyo Game Show has kicked off in earnest, and Sony has released two videos of the stunning Vita title Gravity Rush, known as Gravity Daze in Japan: a trailer, and a demo walkthrough courtesy of director Toyama Keiichiro. Set in the mythical city of Hekseville, the game casts players as the wonderfully named Gravity Kitten, tasked with saving the city from the threat of Gravity Storm. A press of the right trigger puts Kitten in a zero-gravity state; move the camera using the Vita's gyroscope, point at an object and press the trigger again and Kitten will fall onto it as gravity is restored. Walls and ceilings become floors, and enemies can either be kicked from great heights or dispatched by thrown items.

Konami has released first footage of the Little King's Story sequel - officially titled The King, The Demon King, And The Seven Princesses: New King Story - to coincide with the start of the Tokyo Game Show. It looks delightful, of course, and appears to make good use of Vita's touch controls.

UTV Ignition's ethereal action-adventure El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron is headed to Android, Famitsu has revealed. A 2D side-scroller which retains the console version's visual flair, a version of the game will also be released for Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play.

This first look at the Capcom / Level 5 3DS collaboration comes courtesy of Famitsu, via Andriasang. Gameplay details are still thin on the ground, though one new gameplay system is referred to: Gunshuu Saiban, or Mob Judgement, sees Phoenix questioning crowds of witnesses. New characters include blonde girl Mahoney, Wright's defendant, and sword-wielding, red-head prosecutor Jeeken.

This is the new name for the previously announced Pixeljunk Lifelike, and sees Q-Games developing for PlayStation Move for the first time. And, fittingly, it's going back to where it arguably all began for the PlayStation brand: the nightclub. Named after the point of the night where the music gets deeper, darker and often a little twisted, waves of the Move controller in Pixeljunk 4am add sound effects to the deep house soundtrack, with twists of the wrist adding filters, flanges and reverb. There's an interactive demo of sorts at the source link below.

Team Ninja is on record as saying that Ninja Gaiden 3 - the first game in the series to be developed away from the watchful eye of the departed Tomonobu Itagaki - will be less bloody, and will focus on the effects on protagonist Ryu Hayabusa of having killed so many people. That goes some way to explaining the below trailer, though we're wondering what heinous crimes we've unwittingly committed to deserve the British accent in the opening moments.

The smart money was always on another Dead Or Alive title when news broke last week that Tecmo Koei was to announce a new game at the Tokyo Game Show, and so it proved: Dead Or Alive 5 is in development for Xbox 360 and PS3. Attendees of the publisher's TGS event today were shown a teaser trailer of a pre-alpha build showing Ninja Gaiden's Ryu Hayabusa battling Hayate. Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi hinted at a departure for the series, describing it as "fighting entertainment" instead of "just a fighting game."

Goichi Suda's studio announced its first Kinect project at last year's Tokyo Game Show, giving it the working title Codename D. At Grasshopper's TGS conference today, it was revealed that the game's final name is Diabolical Pitch, which tasks players with seeing off a zombie infestation by throwing baseballs. It's set for release on Xbox Live Arcade before the year is out.

Hideo Kojima took to the stage at Sony's Tokyo Game Show conference earlier today to confirm that Metal Gear Solids 2 and 3 will be released for PlayStation Vita as part of the Metal Gear Solid HD Edition. Zone Of The Enders and its sequel are also headed to Sony's PSP successor, with both collections due next year. Kojima also announced an all-new game, to be built using his Fox Engine, that will be released for both PS3 and Vita.

One thing Street Fighter X Tekken was missing was a comeback mechanic, an equivalent of Street Fighter IV's Ultra combo and Marvel Vs Capcom 3's X-Factor, which gives inexperienced players a leg up while adding a further layer of complexity for the hardcore. This new trailer reveals Pandora mode, in which one fighter is sacrificed to give the other a power boost, though in a game in which success appears to be hugely dependent on tag combos it may be as much of a hindrance as a help. Also confirmed are four-player online battles, an online training mode, and new characters Zangief, Rolento, Heihachi and Lili. Meanwhile, Andriasang reports that as well as Infamous protagonist Cole McGrath, the PS3 and Vita releases of the game will also include Sony mascots Toro and Kuro.

The tenth Final Fantasy was released for PlayStation 2 in 2001, and Square Enix producer Shinji Hashimoto took to the stage at Sony's Tokyo Game Show press conference to announce a tenth anniversary HD remake for PlayStation 3 and Vita.