Sony Pre-TGS Conference: Every New Game Announced

Sony held a pre-Tokyo Game Show conference, the PlayStation Lineup Tour, earlier today, and with it came a slew of game announcements.

Here's a list of every new game revealed during the course of the conference:

Kingdom Hearts VR Experience - Seemingly a collection of moments from the Kingdom Hearts series, not much is known about this newly announced collection, beyond the fact that you'll definitely get to swing a Keyblade around. We expect to hear more soon.

Judge Eyes (Project Judge) - The new game from the studio behind the Yakuza series, this is another slightly hazy prospect, but appears to be a narrative action game about solving a series of murders, and follows the lawyers surrounding the case. Here's hoping for the Yakuza/Ace Attorney crossover we never knew we wanted.

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Dead or Alive 6 Gets a Release Date

Dead or Alive 6 will be released on February 15, 2019.

Announced at E3, the game will come to PS4, Xbox One and PC via Steam.

IGN recently revealed two new fighters for the game in the form of returning antagonist Rig and Diego, a brand-new brawler from the streets of New York. You can read more about the new fighters here, or check out gameplay of them both in action below...

So far other confirmed returning characters include Leifang, Hitomi, Helena Douglas, Hayate, Ryu Hayabusa, Zack, Kasumi and Jann Lee.

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Judge Eyes Is the New Game from the Yakuza Studio

The new IP from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi is called Judge Eyes.

Teased as a "completely different" game from the development team behind the Yakuza series, the game appears to be a narrative action game that sees players looking into a series of murders.

English translation has referred to the game as "Project Judge" rather than Judge Eyes, so the game may be renamed upon western release.

You can get your first look at the new title by swiping through the gallery below containing its first screenshots...

The game will be launched in December in Japan, and will come to the West in 2019. Japanese players will get to play a demo from today.

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Kingdom Hearts VR Experience Announced

Square Enix has revealed Kingdom Hearts VR Experience for PlayStation VR.

Announced at Sony's pre-TGS PlayStation Lineup Tour event, the Experience appears to collect together moments from a number of Kingdom Hearts games.

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Rick and Morty Just Won Its First Emmy

Rick and Morty was a big winner at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's animated series won the Outstanding Animated Program award for the Season 3 episode Pickle Rick, beating out heavy hitters like defending champion Bob's Burgers, and previous winners The Simpsons and South Park. This was Rick and Morty's first Emmy nomination, resulting in the Adult Swim series' first win from the Television Academy.

The episode see Rick turning himself into an actual pickle while Morty, Summer, and Beth go to family therapy.

Family Guy came away with a huge win as well, with Alex Borstein also winning an Emmy for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. Borstein voices several characters on the show, including Lois Griffin.

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Who Is the Marvel Hero Teased in Iron Fist: Season 2?

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Iron Fist: Season 2!

Head here for an explanation of how a certain Iron Fist villain could impact Daredevil Season 3, or here for an explanation of the ending of the season.

The Season 2 finale of Iron Fist shakes up the series' status quo in a major way, with Colleen Wing claiming the power of the Iron Fist and a de-powered Danny Rand beginning a globetrotting journey to find his new purpose. But it would seem his superhero days aren't quite over. The final episode ends with Danny and Ward Meachum confronting a group of gangsters working for a mysterious boss named Orson Randall. That's Danny's cue to reveal his newest toys, a pair of mystically charged pistols stolen from Randall himself.

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In Honor of Fringe’s 10th Anniversary, We Pick the 10 Best Episodes

Fringe premiered on September 9, 2008, and despite the fact that it never became the ratings success it deserved to be, the smart, inventive sci-fi drama still gave us five seasons and 100 episodes of alternate universe-hopping, time-traveling adventures anchored by Olivia (Anna Torv), Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Walter (John Noble) - and variations thereof.

In honor of Fringe's 10th anniversary, we're taking a look back at what we consider the 10 best episodes of the series. Check out IGN's Top 10 Fringe episodes below.

This was the first part of the two-hour extravaganza that brought the Fringe series to a conclusion, and it was a perfect way to start things off. The importance of Michael (aka Observer Kid) becomes solidified as he turns the tables on Windmark's interrogation techniques and leaves the old cueball bleeding and humbled. Then Olivia, who had been in the background for much of Season 5, comes back to the forefront via a series of cortexiphan injections that get her all juiced up to be Super Olive again. In short order, Olivia is hopping back to the parallel universe to enlist the aid of her alternate self and Lincoln (who haven't aged convincingly, but that's the only gripe with this story). Olivia saves Michael and kicks a whole lot of butt in the process, but the action wasn't the only thing this story had going for it. The theme of liberty was reinforced through the episode's title and the Statue of Liberty in both our world and the "other side". In the parallel universe, where there are no Observers and Fauxlivia and Lincoln have a happy family life, the statue is seen in shimmering copper and lacking the signature green patina we're familiar with. In this future, the statue is practically destroyed, which is certainly an apt metaphor for the destruction of liberties that the observers brought with their invasion. "Liberty" is an episode that pulls off the clever trick of being action-oriented while enhancing the story through a subtle metaphorical theme.

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