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Talking Point: The Brilliant Build Up to Sony's PlayStation Meeting

The Brilliant Build Up to Sony's PlayStation Meeting

Shock and awe

Sony’s marketing team often bears the brunt of the entire industry’s ire. Forum posters lament the company’s inability to successfully build excitement around its products, journalists and bloggers ridicule the department’s shortcomings, and developers no doubt privately ponder why their titles aren’t receiving the...

Feature: Five Movies That Would Make Great PlayStation Games

Five Movies That Would Make Great PlayStation Games

Pull out the popcorn

Films and games are two incredibly similar mediums that often overlap. Sometimes, this results in incredibly lacklustre movie adaptations, such as the Hitman flick, or rushed releases like Transformers: Dark of the Moon. However, that's not to say that some properties don't have the potential to make excellent PlayStation...

Review: Metro: Last Light (PlayStation 3)

Metro: Last Light (PlayStation 3)

Going underground

Based on the novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro: Last Light is the sequel to 2010’s Metro 2033, and although the post-apocalyptic shooter never arrived at any Sony stations, its successor pulls out all of the stops to make up for lost time. Set in the metro systems of Mother Russia several decades after a nuclear apocalypse, Last...

Preview: Combating Death and Depression in The Last of Us' Bleak New World

Combating Death and Depression in The Last of Us' Bleak New World

Just the two of us

We hope that you cope well in a crisis, because you’re going to need nerves of steel in order to navigate The Last of Us’ nightmarish vision of the future. A near-final build of the hotly anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive demonstrates just how developer Naughty Dog intends to masterfully turn up the tension, as a slow...

News: inFAMOUS: Second Son's Star Will Have More Powers Than Smoke

inFAMOUS: Second Son's Star Will Have More Powers Than Smoke

Branching out

There’s no smoke without fire, and everything that we’ve heard about inFAMOUS: Second Son’s new protagonist Delsin Rowe has supported that point. However, while developer Sucker Punch has led us to believe that the 20-something star will primarily take advantage of smouldering superpowers, according to Game Informer magazine,...

News: Quench Your Car Cravings with Three Minutes of Gran Turismo 6

Quench Your Car Cravings with Three Minutes of Gran Turismo 6

Va va voom

If this week’s Gran Turismo 6 announcement didn’t shift your gears, then perhaps this extended trailer will do the job. The footage shows off a number of different vehicles racing around various circuits, including the newly added Silverstone. Just in case you think that it’s sacrilegious to view Polyphony Digital’s work in...

News: Men's Room Mayhem Takes a Leak on Vita Next Week

Men's Room Mayhem Takes a Leak on Vita Next Week

Going potty

Men’s Room Mayhem is practically bursting to occupy a spot on your PlayStation Vita, but it’s going to have to cross its legs until 21st May in North America and 22nd May in Europe. You’ll need to spend a shade more than a penny in order to relieve yourself, but not much – the pee ‘em up will cost you $1.99/£1.99, with...

News: Can the PlayStation 4 Handle SOE's PlanetSide 2?

Can the PlayStation 4 Handle SOE's PlanetSide 2?

Company president hints that it can

PlanetSide 2 is a taxing free-to-play first-person shooter for the PC that requires a fairly robust machine to run. Despite the Sony Online Entertainment developed title being rumoured for the PlayStation 4 for a while, many have questioned whether the MMO will actually work on the next generation machine...

News: Job Listing Suggests That Sony Wants You to Talk to Your PS4

Job Listing Suggests That Sony Wants You to Talk to Your PS4

Conversations with consoles

We regularly whisper sweet little somethings into our PlayStation 3’s disc drive, but other than the slight purr of the system’s primary fan, we don’t get much in the way of a response. That could be about to change with the PlayStation 4, as a Linked In job listing has hinted that Sony could be about to follow in...

News: The Last of Us Sounds Just As Good As It Looks

The Last of Us Sounds Just As Good As It Looks

Ear candy

The Last of Us is not only shaping up to be a feast for the eyes, but also for the ears. Naughty Dog has continued its behind-the-scenes mini-series, this time pointing its camera at legendary composer Gustavo Santaolalla. In the video, the musician talks a little about his guitar teacher quitting when he was just a child – not because...