Tokyo Game Show's Best in Show Awards Announced, Miyamoto Awarded METI Prize

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Just a few days after the conclusion of the Tokyo Game Show, the CESA, Japan's ratings board and TGS organizer, has announced its "Future Awards" winners, 12 games that put on the best showings at Japan's biggest annual games expo.

The Future Awards are interesting in that they're platform- and genre-agnostic, meaning that the awards aren't limited to just one RPG or just one Xbox 360 game.

Gamasutra also noted that a new award, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Prize (named for a Japanese government ministry) was instituted and awarded to Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto for "expanding the definition of video games through products with new game concepts that address themes such as 'healing', 'family communication' and 'health,'" no doubt for his contributions to perpetual best-seller Wii Fit.

This year's winners, reproduced from Kotaku, are as follows:

  • LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule, PS3)
  • Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, 360, PS3)
  • Star Ocean 4 (Square Enix, 360)
  • Gyakuten Kenji (Capcom, DS)
  • White Knight Chronicles (Level-5, PS3)
  • Final Fantasy: Dissidia (Square Enix, PSP)
  • Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix, DS)
  • Idolm@ster (Namco Bandai, PSP)
  • Monster Hunter 3 (Capcom, Wii)
  • 428 (Sega, Wii)
  • Yakuza 3 (Sega, PS3)
  • Let's Tap (Sonic Team, Wii)
Blake: Gyakuten Kenji is "Turnabout Prosecutor"--a Phoenix Wright spin-off, featuring the prosecutor Edgeworth from the legal adventure series. Faylor has been informed.
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    October 15, 2008 3:46 PM

    They're all lame J-RPGs....

    Definitely Kotaku's picks.

    With the exception of LBP of course.

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