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News: GRID 2 Doesn't Need the PS4 to Deliver a Social Experience

GRID 2 Doesn't Need the PS4 to Deliver a Social Experience

Codemasters blazing trails on current hardware

Social may be the big hook of the PlayStation 4, but Codemasters is delivering on the promise on current generation hardware. This brand new GRID 2 trailer offers a good look at the impending racer’s multiplayer suite, and it includes community-driven features such as video sharing and dynamic...

Rumour: Gran Turismo 6 Races onto Retailer Website, Listed for PS3

Gran Turismo 6 Races onto Retailer Website, Listed for PS3

Fuel to the fire

Scoop up a great heap of salt and toss a hearty helping over your shoulder, because North American retailer Newegg is listing Gran Turismo 6 for the PlayStation 3. According to the online technology plaza, the racing simulator is due out on 28th November. That date’s likely to be a placeholder – it coincides with Thanksgiving...

Talking Point: Why Sony Must Release the PS4 in the West This Year

Why Sony Must Release the PS4 in the West This Year

Breaking tradition

Sony’s been frighteningly non-committal regarding the launch timing of the PlayStation 4. While the platform holder flashed up the words ‘Holiday 2013’ during its big PlayStation Meeting press conference earlier in the year, it’s failed to really elaborate on the window since. “The precise details, as I say, for exact...

News: God of War: Ascension 'Significantly Underperformed' in March

God of War: Ascension 'Significantly Underperformed' in March

Analysts stick the knife in Kratos' origin story

God of War: Ascension was a very good game, but there’s no denying that it suffered from a spot of franchise fatigue. Despite implementing multiplayer and refining some gameplay mechanics, it still offered a somewhat safe experience, and it looks like the brunt of that is set to be reflected in the...

News: Mad Dog 2: The Lost Gold Plunders the PlayStation Network Today

Mad Dog 2: The Lost Gold Plunders the PlayStation Network Today

Bounty hunter

Those of you with a taste for borderline embarrassing full-motion video may be tempted by the release of Mad Dog 2: The Lost Gold on the North American PlayStation Store today. The title – which was originally released in arcades way back in 1992 – sees you using your trusty PlayStation Move six-shooter in order to blast a trail...

News: Sony: We've Learned Pricing Lessons for PlayStation 4

Sony: We've Learned Pricing Lessons for PlayStation 4

Platform holder hints that the system probably won't break the bank

Sony has admitted that it was forced to learn hard lessons regarding the pricing of the PlayStation 3, and it will put those into practice with its impending next generation console. Chatting with EDGE magazine, Worldwide Studios vice president Michael Denny revealed that the...

News: Colossal RAM Could Lead to Lazy PlayStation 4 Programmers

Colossal RAM Could Lead to Lazy PlayStation 4 Programmers

No need to be clean and tidy

While the confirmation that Sony’s next generation system will include 8GB GDDR5 RAM was met by rapturous applause during February’s big PlayStation 4 jolly-up, a laundry list of developers have hinted that the gigantic offering could lead to ‘lazy’ programming in a report published by

News: Malicious Swoops North American PlayStation Plus This Week

Malicious Swoops North American PlayStation Plus This Week

Dragon Fantasy: Book I also discounted

North American PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to download Alvion’s malevolent PlayStation Network adventure Malicious for free this week. The title – which recently spawned a PlayStation Vita port in Japan – sees you assume the role of the Spirit Vessel, a mysterious protagonist sent by the...

News: PlayStation All-Stars Developer Working on a New Intellectual Property

PlayStation All-Stars Developer Working on a New Intellectual Property

SuperBot Entertainment survives split from Sony

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale developer SuperBot Entertainment is punching together a new intellectual property, according to the studio’s director of operations David Yang. In a statement issued to EDGE, the company admitted that it has “substantially shrunk” since it ended its rel

Interview: Talking TxK, Vita, and PS4 with Tempest 2000's Jeff Minter

Talking TxK, Vita, and PS4 with Tempest 2000's Jeff Minter

Llamasoft’s founder bleats on about the future of games

The word ‘legendary’ gets tossed around a little too much these days, but Jeff Minter is a British icon whose portfolio is more than deserving of the clichéd term. Since founding Llamasoft in 1982, the Reading-born developer has worked on a laundry list of noteworthy games, including...

News: Indie Puzzler Q.U.B.E. 'Quite Possibly' Spinning Blocks on Vita

Indie Puzzler Q.U.B.E. 'Quite Possibly' Spinning Blocks on Vita

Be there or be square

Toxic Games’ critically acclaimed Portal-esque first-person puzzler Q.U.B.E. could be coming to the PlayStation Vita, according to the developer’s official Twitter account. Asked if a port of the Indie Fund financed title was on the cards for Sony’s handheld system, the studio simply responded, “Quite possibly.”...

News: RPG Maker 3 Building a New Home on PlayStation Network Next Week

RPG Maker 3 Building a New Home on PlayStation Network Next Week

Play, create, share

Those of you that are frustrated with the direction of the Final Fantasy series will be able to build your own sequel next week, courtesy of the PlayStation Network release of RPG Maker 3. The title – which originally launched on the PlayStation 2 back in 2005 – will be available as a PS2 Classic in North America on Tuesday,...

News: Dark Souls 2's Cover Depicts the Misery You Can Expect to Face in the Full Game

Dark Souls 2's Cover Depicts the Misery You Can Expect to Face in the Full Game

Cold shoulder

Dark Souls 2’s box art is about as morbidly bleak as you’d expect from a game that thinks constantly coaxing you into unexpected death-traps is entertainment. The cover – which popped up on All Games Beta earlier today – depicts a sword-wielding warrior with his back turned. We’re going to assume that he wasn’t in the mood...

News: Assassin's Creed: Duel Was a Fighting Game Starring Ezio, Sam Fisher, and Rayman

Assassin's Creed: Duel Was a Fighting Game Starring Ezio, Sam Fisher, and Rayman

Stick a knife in it

If you thought that last year’s PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was really scraping the bottom of the figurative barrel, then thank your lucky stars that Assassin’s Creed: Duel never saw the light of day. A NeoGAF poster discovered the attached concept art on the personal portfolio of Benoit Perreault, a former Ubisoft...