Top handheld gaming treats from Tokyo Game Show 2010

This year’s Tokyo Game Show, an annual celebration of new gaming goodies errupting from the east, was packed to the gills with impressive new games, massive collaborations and huge announcements.

Huge cult classics like Radient Silvergun hitting Xbox Live Arcade, Mr Resident Evil teaming up with Mr No More Heroes, and Hideo Kojima’s wild vision for Castlevania - it was a crazy handful of days.

Let’s not leave out portable games, though. The mobile market didn’t get much of a look-in, but our old favourites PSP and DS saw plenty of new announcements, updates, and trailers. Here’s a refresher course of this year’s big portable TGS reveals.

After that brilliant Metal Gear 3DS teaser, The Naked Sample, which got us all fired up for stealthy tri-dimensional shenanigans, it was disappointing to hear series creator Hideo Kojima dismiss it as just a show-off tech demo for Nintendo’s new hardware, and not an actual game.

So imagine our surprise come TGS when the big boss himself took the stage at Konami’s press conference to announce that Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 3D will indeed be hitting the goggle-free device and be a faithful remake of the '60s jungle sneaker on PS2.

Just, you know, with an extra dimension.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the spooky spectral puzzle game from the creator of Phoenix Wright, is one of our most anticipated DS games.

The adventure has your recently killed protagonist chucking his soul from object to object in an attempt to solve his own murder. Like Ghost, but with less Patrick Swayze.

We had game atop our festive Christmas list, but we’ll have to ask Santa to do a second trip because it's been pushed into 2011, and won’t hit America until January of the new year.

Ah, Ace Attorney Investigations 2, a sequel to the courtroom drama spin-off featuring Phoenix’s on-off enemy, Miles Edgeworth. Its Famitsu announcement was just a few days too prescient to make our list, but the introduction of a cool new feature waited dutifully until the show proper to sneak out.

Logic Chess, the latest game’s gimmick (following spooky stones and powerful bracelets in previous outings) lets you do conversational duels, attempting to beat statements and strategically place sound logic in a game of cerebral checkers. Sounds complicated.

You don’t get advertising much more outrageously and gratuitously overt as this: KFC won’t just be sponsoring PSP’s Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity in Japan - it will be adding its own mark to the bargain-bucket of a game.

Famitsu snapped this pic of infamous white haired fowl-farmer Colonel Sanders appearing within the game itself as a partner character.

We’ve played McDonalds games, we’ve boxed as the titular Burger King monarch and now, the Colonel will help us deck space nasties.

Ni no Kuni, the DS and PS3 RPG from famed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, comes with a physical spellbook.

It’s not a pre-order bonus, though, nor a kooky press tchotke, and definitely not exclusive to a collector’s edition. You need it in game, to get through certain puzzles.

Characters will ask you for phrases and words from pages of your magical book, so you have to flip through and find the code word. Aside from being super cool, it’s possibly also a piracy deterrent like those swirly code-wheels from Monkey Island 2. Those were awesome.

The 3rd Birthday, the latest entry in the cult classic Parasite Eve franchise and the first new edition since 1999, has finally got itself an official date in Japan. Gamers will be playing the game on December 22nd.

PSP fans in America and Europe will have to wait until 2011. If you’ve got the new Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia Final Fantasy games on PSP, though, hold on to them. Owning multiple Square Enix games on Sony’s portable platform will net you bonus goodies across the entire trifecta.

What’s one of the first games that Electronic Arts is bringing to the 3DS? The Sims? Battlefield? FIFA? Guess again - it’s a 3D garden simulator with a handy tanuki tour guide.

My Garden has you planting mushrooms and flowers, but you’ll need to beat photography based challenges (the 3DS has two snappers on its lid, for multi-dimensional pics) to unlock new plants.

Valkyria Chronicles, the deliciously beautiful cel-shaded strategy game from SEGA, may have been born on the PS3, but with more editions in the portable space than at home, it looks like the franchise is going PSP.

See: here’s a sequel to the PSP game in Valkria Chronicles 3, hitting the portable system in Japan on January 27th, 2011. It features a band of soldiers called The Nameless, and is set in the same time period as the PS3 original.

If you can’t pronounce that, you can call it Dissidia 012. Or, “the new fighting game with all them Final Fantasy people”. PSP series Dissidia pits your favourite FF heroes and villains against each other in brutal one-on-one battles.

The new game, alongside some accessibility tweaks and an RPG mode, offers up an expanded roster. Hard-ass, jet black Final Fantasy VIII chick Tifa and kupfer-blonde haired (it’s a real colour, look it up) FF XIII heroine Lightning join the cast.

There’s also Kain Highwind, Cecil’s buddy-rival from Fantasy numero IV.