Several Nintendo games come out on top at the Japan Game Awards
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 15 Comments
Last night, the Japan Game Awards were held in conjunction with the Tokyo Game Show. A few Nintendo titles picked up wins at the event.
For the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry Award(s), Super Smash Bros. Wii U was given the Global Award as the best-selling and most popular Japanese game worldwide. Monster Hunter Generations earned the Sales Award as the best-selling title in Japan. For the Game of the Year Division awards, Splatoon, Yo-kai Watch Busters, Super Mario Maker, and Monster Hunter Generations were all selected. Lastly, Splatoon received the Grand Prize.
On Sunday, the Future Division awards will be handed out. These will be for upcoming games launching in the next fiscal year.
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The Legend of Dark Witch 3 in the works for 3DS, will be shown at TGS
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The Legend of Dark Witch 3 is in development for 3DS, Flyhigh Works and Inside System have announced. A teaser site can be found here.
Actual details are being kept under wraps for now. However, we do know that the game will be shown at the Tokyo Game Show next month.
Eventually, you can look forward to Circle Entertainment localizing The Legend of Dark 3 for North America and Europe.
Tokyo Game Show 2016 main visual
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Each year, the Tokyo Game Show receives a specially-made visual. We now have the promo piece for this year’s expo. Ippei Gyoubu created the visual, who worked with the message: “Press Start to Play the Future (English) and “Entertainment Will Change. The Future Will Change” (Japanese).
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Tokyo Game Show 2015 attended by over 268,000 people, TGS 2016 dated
Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association has announced that the 2015 Tokyo Game Show was attended by 268,446 people.
Here’s a breakdown of the attendance by day:
September 17 (business day) – 29,058 attended
September 18 (business day) – 29,557 attended
September 19 (public day) – 97,601 attended (including 10,360 in Family Area)
September 20 (public day) – 112,230 attended (including 14,517 in Family Area)
Total attendance – 268,446 (including 24,877 in Family Area)
We also have dates for the 2016 Tokyo Game Show. Next year, the expo will take place between September 15 and September 18.
