Microsoft’s announced this morning it will launch Kinect in Japan on November 20. Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui confirmed the news at a press conference in Tokyo. The camera will come bundled with Kinect Adventures for ¥14,800. Hardware bundles consist of the camera and a 4Gb for ¥29,800, with a 250Gb flavour available for ¥39,800. He also detailed some of the launch titles for the cou

Microsoft just confirmed the previously rumoured 250Gb Kinect 360 bundle, priced at £299.99. The pack will include a Slim 250Gb 360, a Kinect camera and Kinect Adventures. It’s launching on November 10 in Europe, alongside Kinect. Microsoft just used the SKU’s announcement to confirm more Kinect reveals are planned for TGS next week. Kinect hits November 4 in the US and November 10

Microsoft’s announced Mass Effect 2 is coming to Japan this winter. No other details were given other than the new version’s headed for a winter release, but expect more out of EA’s TGS showcase next week. The original Mass Effect launched in May 2009 in the country, a year-and-a-half after it did in the west in November 2007. The wait’s obviously a lot shorter this time:

According to this 1UP report, EA said in Japan today that its Suda51-Mikami horror collaboration will be announced in Tokyo next week. The highly anticipated game will be shown for the first time at EA Tokyo Showcase 2010 on September 15, a day before TGS opens. EA has already said it is planning “several all new game reveals and announcements” for the event, and hinted at gamescom in Cologn

EA’s MMA will get a demo this month, the publisher said today. And EA MMA demo will launch on September 28. It’s to include four fighters, four different skill levels and a tutorial, and will be available for both 360 and PS3. As EA Sports has done previously with demos for NCAA Football 11 and Madden NFL 11, suggesting someone on your friends list tries the demo will unlock free con

Yes, there was supposed to be DLC. No, it’s not happening any more. Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama has told Famitsu (via 1UP) that DLC was originally planned for the game, but the scheme was scrapped. “We were planning to make some DLC, but that plan wound up not happening,” he said when answering a question on a comment he made before the game’s Japanese lau

PAX Prime saw 67,600 attendees through its doors in Seattle last weekend, and it sounds as though Mike and Jerry aren’t done yet. BigDownload reported the attendance figure for the just-ended show, confirming a record for the expo. The first PAX East in Boston last March brought in 52,290 attendees. It’ll move to a much larger venue in the city next year. Flush with the show’s

Ubisoft has released a demo for R.U.S.E. on Xbox Live. In it, you get to play a full mission designed exclusively for the demo. According to the XBL page, you will be able to “command Allied forces from the Head Quarters and lead your army to a nuclear conflict and combine deceptive strategies to conquer the battleground”. The PS3 demo was released last week in both the US and Europe

Hear that? That’s the starting gun for pre-TGS going off. And Square Enix’’s fired the first shot. A sequel to Dissidia: Final Fantasy has been announced in Japan’s Shonen Jump magazine for PSP. According to Andriasang, known as Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy,  the game will release next year and will now feature Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII and Kain from Final Fa

Surprise. Following on from yesterday’s report, Sqaure Enix has formally confirmed Final Fantasy XIII will release in Japan for Xbox 360. The game, an international edition known as “Final Fantasy XIII Ultimate Hits Edition”, will release on December 16 for a budget price of ¥4,980, according to the latest issue of Famitsu. This will be the first 360 title in Square’s Ul

“You’re probably just gonna use this to buy brains, but you know what, I’m feeling generous today. So here’s a fiver.” “Bless you, sir.” [Sounds of brains being devoured, screams]. A quick look at Dead Rising: Case Zero’s Xbox Live leaderboards shows 328,290 entries, which suggests that just under 330,000 players have forked over five dollars for th

Most villains escape from imminent capture/death with hidden jetpacks, trap doors, or smoke screens that – unlike their real-life counterparts – somehow enable teleportation. But those guys have nothing on the Shadow Broker. His big, bad Deus Ex Machina basically breaks the world. Fortunately, BioWare forced its whip-crackers to work so much overtime that they started complaining, and