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Namco Bandai’s newly-announced Macross game has gotten a trailer. The title, which is a 30th anniversary addition to the series, was recently revealed at the Tokyo Games Show.

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Word is coming from TGS that Level-5 (which normally sports an enormous booth) is almost completely absent from the show. Well, apart from the large banners announcing the Level-5 World convention.
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A report coming out of Japan this morning is claiming that Nintendo is set to hold a pre-Tokyo Game Show event.

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Tokyo Game Show organiser CESA has said it has no intention of cancelling this year’s event, but has admitted it could be downsized.

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Details of this year’s Tokyo Game Show have been released, and it looks to be a whopper. A couple of entirely new areas, a business summit, and a pretty delightful theme suggest we’ll be like kittens in candy land come September.

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Organisers of Tokyo Game Show, CESA, have announced dates for next year’s event.

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E3 is only two-and-a-half weeks away, and Cologne maybe starting to get into full gear for gamescom and GDC Europe in August, but it’s all about Tokyo, obviously.

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According to this press release, the theme for this year’s Tokyo Game Show is, “Ready for GAME Time!” The show will run from October 9-12 at the Makuhari Messe.

New stuff for this year includes:

1) New exhibition areas to ensure full coverage of all form of entertainment, 2) improved environment for doing business and international participation, and 3) promotions targeting light users (kids, families) and new users. We hope that these efforts will meet the expectations of our participants from business and the general public and succeed in making this a truly world-class event.

There’s also a claim in there that TGS is the biggest games show in the world, with 193,040 attendees in 2007. Games Convention’s site claims that GC2007 saw 192,300 people through the door of the German show. We think someone somewhere may be telling a little porky pie…