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During a Tokyo press conference earlier today, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada admitted that the overwhelmingly critical response to the PC release of Final Fantasy XIV had adversely affected the series itself, saying: "The Final Fantasy brand has been greatly damaged." More >

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Speaking to Game Informer at last week's Tokyo Game Show, Sony Worldwide Studios' Shuhei Yoshida said the company realised the time taken to update PS3 firmware was excessive. "It's very annoying when you only have one hour in your busy life to play a game, and when you have to spend 30 minutes out of that one hour to update the hardware," he said. "So it's not necessarily the frequency of how we update, it's the intrusiveness of the current process we have on PS3 and PSP. I cannot talk about specific plans, but we are very aware of the issues, and we'd like to address those issues on PS Vita."

Level 5 CEO Akihiro Hino has confirmed at the Tokyo Game Show that Ni No Kuni, the striking collaboration between the Professor Layton developer and renowned animation house Studio Ghibli, will be released in the west. An English localisation of the game is already underway, with a North American release planned for early 2012. Ni No Kuni was released for DS last year, but the PS3 version - which will be released in Japan on November 17 - will feature additional story content, with Hino also revealing post-release DLC is in the works.

This latest look at Platinum Games' online brawler comes from the Tokyo Game Show. While we're still concerned that latency may mean it turns out to be a button-masher rather than the multiplayer Bayonetta of our dreams, it's shaping up nicely, and the wide range of styles on show from the game's broad cast suggest there's significant depth beneath that veneer of basic brutality.

A sequel to Acquire's PlayStation 2 ninja stealth title Shinobido, first released in 2005, is in development for PlayStation Vita. Shinobido 2's Harakiri system lets the player ally with various factions, with a branching narrative dependent on said alliances. A European release has already been confirmed, with Namco Bandai to publish the game, though there's no news of a North American publisher just yet.

Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono and Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada have amused us already this year: the two took to the stage at Gamescom last month to complete a series of challenges while wearing lederhosen. In this trailer for Namco's upcoming Tekken Prime 3D Edition for 3DS, Ono seems unimpressed by Harada's claim that Prime will, unlike Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition, be playable at 60 frames per second even in 3D. Then...well, we won't spoil it.

Speaking to IGN at the Tokyo Game Show, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said the company would release an external battery pack to help offset Vita's battery life of just three to five hours. "One of the peripherals is the external battery," he said. "That will extend the battery life of PS Vita...so if you're flying from New York to San Francisco, or vice versa, you have no concern because you have an additional, external battery."

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.

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.

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.

The announcement at Nintendo's pre-TGS event of a Misty Pink 3DS, to be released on October 20, was apparently motivated by the gender split in the 3DS userbase. Company president Satoru Iwata explained that, while the DS and Wii were owned by a roughly equal number of men and women, 55 per cent of 3DS owners are male.