TGS Serves Record Breaking 222,000 in Four Days

This year's Tokyo Game Show closed its doors on Sunday following a four day period of announcements, demos, and record breaking attendance.

Over the four days, the event saw attendance of 222,668, organizer CESA announced after the close of the show. This is up from last year's 207,647 and 2009's 185,030.

As reported earlier, the first public day of the show broke the single day record for the event, its 86,251 outpacing 2006's 84,823.

Here's the full day by day attendance total with previous years included in parentheses. The first two days were business days, open only to press and invited guests. The second two days are open to the public.

• 9/15: 25,631 (2010: 24,764, 2009: 27,435)
• 9/16: 27,042 (2010: 24,229, 2009: 24,605)
• 9/17: 86,251 (2010: 81,469, 2009: 61,138)
• 9/18: 83,744 (2010: 77,185, 2009: 71,852)

(andriasang)

Final Fantasy, Gundam, and Battlefield win at Future Game Awards

This year's Future Game Awards had the usual mix of Final Fantasys and Monster Hunters. But for the first time, the award was also given to a social game.

Part of CESA's annual awards series that sees announcement at the Tokyo Game Show, the Future Awards are given out based off popularity. Attendees at Tokyo Game Show's first three days cast votes on games that are either announced or put on display at the event. A panel selects the final results based off the voting.

This year, eleven titles were given Future Game Awards:

• Asura's Wrath (Capcom, PS3/360)
• Legend of Heroes Ao no Kiseki (Falcom, PSP)
• Gundam Extreme VS (Namco Bandai, PS3)
• Dragon's Dogma (Capcom, PS3/360)
• Binary Domain (Sega, PS3/360)
• Battlefield 3 (Electronic Arts, PS3/360/PC)
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, PS3/360)
• Final Fantasy Type-0 (Square Enix, PSP)
• Phantasy Star Online 2 (Sega, PC)
• Monster Hunter G (Capcom, 3DS)
• Dragon's Collection (Konami, mobile)

Dragon's Collection is the social game mentioned above. The game actually received the Future Game Awards "Special Award," which was put in place just this year.

The awards were handed out at a ceremony held at the Makuhari Messe on the 18th.

(andriasang)

Final Fantasy Type-0 RPG's New Cast Members Revealed

On Thursday at Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix announced new cast members for the upcoming PSP game Final Fantasy Type-0. A partial cast list was previously released, but some names have been exchanged, omitted, or added since the initial announcement. Character names for the newly-announced voice actors' roles will be revealed soon.

New cast members include:

• Yousuke Akimoto
• Marina Inoue
• Shotaro Morikubo
• Masahiro Kobayashi
• Aya Hirano
• Marika Matsumoto
• Ryotaro Okiayu
• Ai Nonaka
• Akira Ishida
• Rie Tanaka
• Junichi Suwabe

Previous cast announcements included:

• Yuuki Kaji
• Ami Koshimizu
• Daisuke Ao
• Hiroshi Kamiya
• Ryoko Shiraishi
• Tomokazu Sugita
• Miyuki Sawashiro
• Miyu Irino
• Kenichi Suzumura
• Kana Hanazawa
• Takahiro Sakurai
• Keiji Fujiwara
• Atsuko Tanaka
• Juichiro Moriyama
• Hideo Ishikawa
• Kazuya Nakai
• Masako Ikeda
• Kenji Utsumi
• Shigeru Chiba
• Masako Nozawa
• Megumi Hayashibara
• Nana Mizuki
• Jun Fukuyama
• Yuu Kobayashi
• Hiroki Touchi
• Megumi Toyoguchi
• Aki Toyosaki

The role-playing game directed by Hajime Tabata will ship in Japan on October 27. Announced in January, Square Enix began streaming a five-minute trailer in July. A manga adaptation of the game will launch in the December issue of Square Enix's Shonen Gangan magazine.

(ANN)