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March2010
News Want To Play God Of War III Next Week? Head Over To GDC, Yo!
SCEA's confirmed there will be a community meet-up for God Of War III at next week's GDC event in San Francisco
Those attending will get hands-on time with the game, an "un-named musical performance" and the chance to meet director Stig Asmussen. We're assuming there'll be hot-dogs too. The event's taking place on the Wednesday evening of...
News Digital Foundry Declares Playstation 3 Version Of Final Fantasy XIII Far Superior
Honestly, cross-game comparisons aren't our thing
But when it comes to such a high profile port as Final Fantasy XIII, it's very interesting indeed to note that the XBOX 360 version is a "lot worse than it should have been". The website writes:The rumours are true. Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 isnt anywhere near as impressive as it...
News If You Like SOCOM, You're Probably Going Nuts Right About Now
SOCOM 4 is a video game
It's happening, and it's being created by the franchise's creators, Zipper Interactive. This trailer's pretty heavy on CGI but it should give you a taste of what to expect from the fourth entry in the SOCOM franchise. Guns, shooting, and lots of squad control. On a personal level, we're not particularly huge fans of...
News Ubisoft Announce A New... Football Game, Looks Kinda Cool
We're huge fans of the recent entries in the FIFA franchise
So good are those games, we never really imagined anyone else going out and making a new football game (yes, This Is Football is dead folks). But man, something about the ridiculous melodrama in this trailer has us moderately excited. (Oh, before we forget, the game's called Pure Football).
News Sony Announce Zipper Interactive Developed SOCOM 4
Sony's just announced that Zipper Interactive will indeed be making a "suprise sequel" to the SOCOM franchise
A pretty amazing announcement considering MAG is just a few weeks old. The game, which has been confirmed to be SOCOM 4, is the "surprise Sony" title we've been debating for the past few days. The story of the latest game, as...
News "Surprise Sony Sequel" Isn't David Jaffe's Game
Cross Twisted Metal off your list of potential Playstation 3 announcements tonight
Jaffe's updated his blog stating, We are working hard on our game and were looking forward to showing it to you today on GTTV oh wait thats not us." So it ain't Twisted Metal then. Latest rumour's hinting towards some kind of Killzone 3 announcement...
Rumour Killzone 3 To Push All Sony's New Tech, Will Be 3D & Support Playstation Motion Controller
News coming out of CVG this afternoon suggests that Killzone 3 will support Playstation Motion Controller and stereoscopic 3D as Sony embark on showcasing their new tech with a serious killer-app
Whether or not this Killzone 3 rumour ties into tonight's big "secret sequel" announcement is unknown, but it certainly sounds possible. When it...
News ModNation Racers Continues To Look Proper Amazing
Sony's just uploaded a new trailer for ModNation Racers, showing off some new weapons in the game
As always, the game continues to look completely bonkers and totally amazing. We can't wait for this one.
News Get PushSquare's Final Fantasy XIII Review At 00:00AM GMT Tonight
There's a reason Twiggy's had to halt progress on his Final Fantasy VII playthrough
Namely, we've been ridiculously busy behind the scenes. Why? Well, aside from it being game-a-geddon out there (where every major publisher decides to release every major game in the span of three months), we got Final Fantasy XIII. And we've been playing it to...
News Red Dead Redemption Delayed For An Extra Layer Of Polish
Red Dead Redemption has been pushed back until May 18th (21st in the UK)
Boo! It was originally due in April, but Rockstar have told Kotaku it's been delayed for an extra layer of polish.We at Rockstar have always prided ourselves on the uncompromising quality of our games and will always opt to take a bit longer to polish and fine-tune a...
News Yep, There's More Borderlands DLC Incoming
It's been out for roughly six months now, but we're still talking about Borderlands
Why? Well mainly because it's awesome, but partly because 2K keep committing to new content for the game. Take-Two's committed to even more content for the game with CEO Ben Feder stating, "Well continue to support the title with more digital content."...
Rumour IGN Scores God Of War III A Titan-Whipping 10/10
Eagle-eyed IGN users have spotted a leak, suggesting that the website will score Kratos' last hurrah a mighty 10/10
If true, it'll be the first 10/10 since Metal Gear Solid 4 in 2008. Big stuff. The score's since been pulled from the website, but this isn't the first time this has happened. A 9.5 appeared on the Modern Warfare 2 page a few weeks...
News Suda-51 Will Create New IP For Playstation Motion Controller
Grasshopper Manufacture's Suda-51 has revealed to GameSpot that he's extremely interested in making games for the Playstation Motion Controller and will create "new IP" to fit it
I will make some original IP to fit that control system.</blockquote> Suda-51 also expressed some interest in making a Heavy Rain-esque game, but cited it could...
News Insomniac: Surprise Sony Sequel Ain't Resistance 3
Well that narrows things down a touch
Insomniac's come out and said that the "surprise Sony sequel" due to be revealed this week ain't got nothing to do with Resistance 3. Posting on NeoGAF, Insomniac's community manager James Stevenson claimed to know what the big Sony title being revealed was, but claimed that it is "not a game from...
News Lara Returns, Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light Announced
Square Enix Europe's just announced that there'll be a new Lara Croft game this year; note: not Tomb Raider
Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light will be a digital download released, presumably, on the Playstation Store. Though we've not been told concrete platforms as of yet. Apparently, the game's going to be completely different to what you might...
News Hustle Kings & AvP Hit Playstation Home
Hustle Kings has officially hit Playstation Home, occupying the Playstation Events Space
Players will be transported to a huge pool table where they'll have to live life on the edge, avoiding multiple shots from all over the table. Survive ten shots and you'll earn yourself a cape for your avatar. Top the leaderboards and you'll earn a crown too. In...
News L.A. Noire Goes Beyond Motion Capture, Claims To Set New Bar For 3D Performances
Team Bondi's claimed that L
A. Noire's</a> motion capture goes above and beyond traditional methods. "MotionScan" is said to bring "to life the subtle nuances of the chaotic underworld", which would be impossible with "tradional motion capture". Apparently. The tech uses "32 high-definition cameras to capture...
Feature Realistically, What Could Be The "Surprise Sony Sequel"?
Geoff Keighley's promo video for this week's GameTrailers TV threw a surprise for most Playstation fans
During a show-reel of Playstation 3 games, Keighley announced that this week's episode of GTTV would see the unveiling of a "surprise Sony sequel". But what could that game be? Obvious choices would boil down to Killzone 3 or Resistance...
News Mikami Confirms Vanquish Is Coming To Playstation 3, Due In The Winter
Platinum Games and Shinji Mikami's latest title, Vanquish, will release this year (in Japan at least)
The game's been announced for release on the Playstation 3 in this week's Famitsu. Mikami's revealed that the game is 80 percent finished and, contrary to popular belief, is a third-person shooter. We posted the debut trailer a few weeks back.
News Enjoy The Worst God Of War III Commercial You're Ever Likely To See
The European commercial for God Of War III was semi-awesome
But this American GameStop commercial takes the biscuit. It's promoting the GameStop exclusive "Phantom Of Chaos Skin" and features the Chimera-thing from the demo. Talking in a ridiculous manner. Sigh. "Woahhhh - hisss-is that your new outfit Kratossss?"
News Six Days In Fallujah Is A Finished Video Game, Still Being Released
Blimey
Remember Six Days In Fallujah - the "realistic" shooter set in Iraq? Yeah, we all thought it was canned. Nuh-uh. IGN are reporting this morning that the game's actually kinda finished, and developers Atomic Games intend to release it as a real product. If they've spent all this time making it, we suppose a release makes sense. Erm,...
News Kevin Butler, VP Of Apologetic Apologies, Apologises For ApocalyPS3
The ApocalyPS3 is long over, and we've all returned happily to our Playstation 3
But Kevin Butler, SCEA's figure-head marketing man, has had a word or two to say on the proceedings. Namely that he's sorry. He wrote on his Twitter page:"Sorry you had to do something else for 24 hours. I empathize. I game too. Kevin Butler, VP of Apologetic...
News Activision Practically Kill Call Of Duty In A Sweep Of Announcements
Remember Call Of Duty? Yeah it was a big deal for a little while
It'll continue to be a big deal for a while longer. But it kinda sounds like the franchise is done. In a whole pile of drama starting yesterday, Activision has fired the Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West. Activision's also filed a document citing a human resources...
News Fuuuuuuuuu-: "Surprise Sony Sequel" To Debut On GTTV This Week
The latest promo for this week's GameTrailers TV has a very exciting tease for Sony fans
During a reel of Playstation 3 exclusives, host Geoff Keighley reveals a "surprise Sony sequel". Sony have been throwing exclusives at GTTV left and right in recent months, with God Of War III episodes and a ton of exclusive MLB 10: The Show...
News Blur Brings Its Destructive Racing To The PS3 On May 28th
Bizarre Creations' announced that its power-up focused racing title Blur will hit the UK on May 28th
The game was due in November but has since been pushed back for an extra lick of polish or two. Interestingly, that's in a similar window to Disney's destructive racer Split/Second. Decisions, decisions. Although arcade racing games are one of our...
News Sony Strengthen European First-Party, Acquire Media Molecule
Media Molecule and SCE has today announced that they're getting hitched
That is — Sony has acquired Media Molecule making them an official first-part studio under the SCE Worldwide Studios banner. Obviously, if you didn't know, Media Molecule made the brilliantly innovative LittleBigPlanet.Since they burst onto the gaming scene, Media Molecule...
News MLB 10: The Show Gets A Launch Trailer, Looks Amazing
Just a little more visual confirmation that MLB 10: The Show is one of the best looking Playstation games available right now for you
This is the launch trailer for today's (USA) release. It looks fantastic.
News Sony Registers "Arc" In Japan, Playstation Motion Controller Meet Your Name
Perhaps fuelling the fires that Sony's Playstation Motion Controller will eventually be called the Playstation Arc, Siliconera's found a Japanese trademark filing for the name
Couple that with a website registration a few weeks ago and you have your name. It doesn't really take a genius, eh?
News Make Your Ears Bleed: The God Of War III EP Hits iTunes
Fancy a host of terrible metal music without buying the God Of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition? You're in luck - the God Of War: Blood & Metal EP has just hit iTunes (in the US at least)
It includes bands such as Killswitch Engage ("This is my lassst serenade - ROAR RAH ROARRRRRR!"), Opeth and Trivium. As much as we love God Of War...
News Splinter Cell's Almost Probably (More Like Definitely) Coming To PS3
Ubisoft's Max Beland has hinted what we all assumed, Splinter Cell is coming to the Playstation 3 at some point in the near future
Whether it'll be Splinter Cell: Conviction or not - Beland ain't so sure. But he definitely thinks Splinter Cell is coming to the PS3 at some point.I joined Splinter Cell after the exclusivity deal with Microsoft had...
News Ruh Roh: British Newspaper Metro Runs Frontpage On PS3 Errors
If you want hilariously out-of-date news, go pick-up the Metro from your local bus-stop or train-station
The paper, released this morning, runs with the headline "Millions Hit By PS3 Meltdown". Not great PR for Sony, but kinda ironic given that by the time people were reading this "news" all PS3s had been back online for roughly...
News PushSquare's Playstation Picks: 1st-7th March 2010
Worry not guys, the ApocalyPS3 has totally 101% passed, and you might be looking to pick up some games to make up for it
Well, what with the month being March, there's plenty to choose from, so let's hop to it. PushSquare's Playstation Pick Of The Week: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Just about edging out MLB 10: The Show, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is...
News Playstation 3: It Only Does Self-Resurrection, Bugged Consoles Back To Full Working Order
As we speculated yesterday, at 00:00AM GMT last night a whole host of borked Playstation 3 systems fixed themselves
There was a simple glitch in the system clock that caused the Playstation 3 to think March 1st was actually February 29th; in turn causing older systems to flip out. Everything should be back to normal now though, regardless of which...
News God Of War III Previews Laud The Opening 30 Minutes
An embargo for God Of War III has lifted this afternoon, with much of the American press evangelising the game's opening scene
Kotaku describe the opening boss fight as "unforgettable", while Destructoid suggest "you're not ready" for it.
News Heavy Rain Stock Shortages Are Being Dealt With
If your PS3 is totally working right now, you might be suffering from a whole new problem this evening: you can't find a copy of Heavy Rain
According to MCV, Quantic Dream's thriller is suffering from shortages in some retail circles after the game shot straight to the top of the UK charts this morning.We have been extremely delighted with the...
News Sony Issue Statement On PS3 Bug Situation, Hope To Fix The Problem Within The Next 24 Hours
Sony's released a press release regarding the impending "apocalyPS3" which has seen millions of Playstation 3s borked since Sunday evening
As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3. We believe we have identified that this problem is...
News Split/Second Is The "Uncharted 2" Of Racing Games, Reckon Black Rock
Black Rock's Jason Ried has pitched racer Split/Second up there with the best, telling CVG: Its a tough one
[Activision's] Blur is obviously competition its racing and its doing things slightly different as well. But we almost feel were closer to Call of Duty or Uncharted in what we do than other racing games." Animation-wise,...
News New Line Cinema Own The Rights For A Heavy Rain Movie, Won't Ever Happen
What if interactive drama wasn't quite so interactive? It would be a movie right? Of course it would
And while it would never happen, it's been discovered that copyright documents exist for such a thing. Apparently, in May 2006 New Line Cinema grabbed the rights for a Heavy Rain movie. It's totally never going to come out of course. But y'know. It's...
News Keighley: Wait Until You See What The God Of War Team Are Doing Next
GameTrailers TV's Geoff Keighley has given the first hint on Sony Santa Monica's next project, simply stating on his Twitter page, "Wait until you see what they're doing next
" It comes in response to a fan's Tweet to Keighley, in which he stated "Can't believe how amazing God Of War III looks." God Of War III already appears to push...
News God Of War III Advert Pops Up, Features Silly Voices
We're torn by this God Of War III advert that will be shown in the UK
On one hand, it does everything you'd want it to: show the actual gameplay, show the scale, show the violence. On the other hand though, the narrator's voice is bloody ridiculous. We definitely think this trailer could do with an "Actual gameplay footage" note though, as...
News Disaster: PS3s Conk Out, PSN Serves Blackout, Trophies Lost, Armageddon Nears
Update @ 15:35GMT - it's now commonly believed the issues are related to a system clock error
</em> When we went to bed last night, everything seemed sugar and rainbows. Over night though, all hell has broken loose. The PSN has gone tits up, bombarding users with a host of 8001050F error codes. The frightening error basically locks you out of...
News Heavy Rain Tops The UK Sales Charts & Rightly So
"Bu-Bu-But Heavy Rain sucks because it's not going to sell
" It may be a comment you've read on a message board somewhere. Well those people are not only stupid, but they're also officially wrong: Heavy Rain just topped the UK sales charts. As in — outsold every other video game in the UK in the past seven days. We thought it was...
February2010
Feature Multiplayer Cross-Over Is A Bit Of A Nightmare - "Twiggy" The Push Square Opinionator
It seems to me that every video game has multiplayer these days
More or less. And even when it's debateable whether a game should have multiplayer (Bioshock 2 springs to mind), the resulting component tends to be rather impressive. But that causes its own sub-set of problems, particularly for someone like myself who has to play through multiple...
News Blur Looks A Bit Better In Its Latest Trailer
It's a funny one Blur
It's coming from a team with a fantastic heritage — the Metropolis Street Racer and Project Gotham Racing franchises were both absolutely fantastic. But Blur's never looked quite so exciting; particularly not for a Bizarre Creations game. This latest trailer makes more sense however. It's clear Bizarre are aiming for a super...
News David Jaffe Reacts To God Of War III With A Firm "Holy Hell!"
For those of you who have followed David Jaffe's recent interviews with Kotaku and 4Guys1Up, you'll know the God Of War creator is yet to play the final version of God Of War III yet
So it's pretty interesting to see him react to the latest footage uploaded by GameTrailers TV yesterday. Obviously, whilst still not being directly connected to the...
News Listen To Some Terrible Metal Music From The God Of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition
The God Of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition comes with practically everything but the kitchen sink
That means you get some heavy metal with it, yo. You can totally sample those tunes by heading over to AOL Radio's, erm, Metal Mosh Pit (sigh) Station. We played one of the songs for all of, oooh, ten seconds. It was horrific.
News Transformers: War For Cybertron Is Heavy On Optimus Prime, Kinda Awesome
It's been a long time since that semi-decent Transformers game on the PS2
What with the recent Bayformers movies, we'd given up hope of a more traditional Transformers experience. Thank goodness for High Moon Studios, who appear to be keeping our dream alive with Transformers: War For Cybertron. The big shoot-out with Omega Supreme at the end...
News Jacky-Boy Tretton: Heavy Rain's Gonna Sell "Incredibly Well"
You know, there was a time when we would have scoffed at Jack Tretton's comments regarding Heavy Rain's sales
But now, not so. Tretton has told FastCompany that Heavy Rain will sell "incredibly well", and he's absolutely right. In fact, from what we're hearing around the world it already is. When the game was announced in 2008, we really...
News New Gran Turismo 5 Screens Are Typically Pretty (Surprise!)
Above is a picture of cars driving on a race track
They are being rendered by the unbelievably pretty Gran Turismo 5 engine. You can see more through the link at GTPlanet. Can we have a release date now, please?
News Continue Your Yakuza 3 Preperation With A Yakuza 4 Demo On The Japanese Playstation Store
Hey folks, how are you finding the wait for Yakuza 3? Yeah, it's been a long year hasn't it? Still, at least we have a firm March release date to look forward to an announcement of a demo for, erm, Yakuza 4
Yep, Yakuza 4 is on the horizon for Japan, so if you have a Playstation Store account for the region you'll be able to check out the next...
News Resident Evil: Gold Edition Tops Japanese Software Charts, Heavy Rain Breaks Top Ten
The Japanese software chart is surprising on two counts this week
Firstly, apparently people are still way into Resident Evil. Despite essentially being a re-release of a year old game, Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (Alternative Edition in Japan) has debuted top of the Japanese software charts selling a whopping 143,339 copies. The PSP's God Eater...
God Of War III really will result in chaos
Not because of Kratos' plight, but simply because this baby looks better than every other video game out at the moment — every other non-Sony developer must be pretty nervous. The latest footage comes as part of a GameTrailers TV special, in which host Geoff Keighley visits Sony's Santa Monica studio,...
News Heavy Rain Players Encountering Some Technical Issues
Honestly, we can categorically state we played through Heavy Rain without any noticeable glitches
Sadly, that doesn't appear to be the case for everyone though, as it appears some people are having technical issues with the game. From freezing, to out-of-sync audio, you can guarantee there's someone complaining about it right now - most likely on...
News Castle Crashers Still Totally Coming To The PS3, Includes Volley Ball
It's been a while since we got an update regarding Castle Crashers, but a post on the European Playstation Blog has confirmed that, yes, it's still happening hurrah
In addition to the game actually existing, the fine folks at The Behemoth have disclosed details of a new volley ball game that is being added into the Playstation 3 version of the game...
News Alpha Protocol Is Still A Video Game Product You'll Be Able To Buy
Update @ 19:21GMT: SEGA Europe's told us that the game will hit European stores on the 28th May
Awesome.</em> Following a hefty delay, SEGA's announced that Alpha Protocol will finally hit US stores on June 1st. The game was originally due in Q4 of last year, but has been MIA in more recent weeks. Obsidian's espionage RPG will put players in...
News SNK Announce King Of Fighters XIII, Some People Cheer
King Of Fighters XII was ok, but kind of a let-down
Let's hope then, that SNK Playmore can hit the jackpot with King Of Fighters XIII - which was announced last night. Aside from the game running on the Taito Taito X2 hardware system, details are scant. We're sure there will be more in the coming weeks.
News THQ's Metro 2033 Not On Playstation 3 Due To "Business Reasons"
4A Game's Hew Beynon has commented on the reason Metro 2033 is not coming to the Playstation 3
In an interview with VG247 he cites "business reasons" for the decision, but explains that there is no reason why the game couldn't come to PS3. He said:Thats probably more of a business decision, and one that I wasnt part of when I was at...
News Playstation Home Having Difficulty Attracting Advertisers
Playstation Home is actually a pretty busy service considering
Sure, when the Home open beta launched what seems like an eternity ago, it was pretty sparse. But since then the space has grown quite a lot, still not quite delivering on its potential, but still giving users plenty to do. Sadly, according to Brand Week the service isn't quite...
News Heads Up: There's A God Of War III Demo On The Playstation Store
If you still haven't played the E3 demo of God Of War III, now's your chance
It's available on the European Playstation Store. Go download it if you've yet to try out the third iteration of Kratos' journey. It's a shame it's not a new demo, but that E3 build was mighty polished.
News Split/Second Coming In May Yo, Promises Big Explosions
Disney Interactive announced last night that Split/Second is coming on May 18th, yo
This is properly amazing news because, well, Split/Second looks amazing. In not so amazing news, a dumb sub-heading has been stuck on the end of the European title, plonking the word "Velocity" on the end. Worry not though American gamers, you'll not have...
News MAG Patch 1.03 Arrives At Some Point Today, Looks Big
MAG will be upgraded to 1
03 today. Hurrah. That means we get to dissect a massive list of upgrades to our now-favourite online shooter. The upgrades are "dramatic" according to Zipper, and it certainly looks like they've gone to town with improving the experience. Which of course, is totally awesome news. We'd summarise the updates here,...
News God Of War III Gets Unsurprisingly Brutal Trophies
TheSixthAxis has stumbled upon the semi-complete list of trophies you can expect to unlock whilst playing God Of War III next month
As anticipated, the trophies sound particularly brutal, with unlocks for a 1,000 hit combo and beating the game on "Titan" mode. There are sixteen, presumably story related, secret trophies in addition to the...
News Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Rated By The ESRB, Coming To PS3
Swell
An ESRB rating for Telltale's Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse on PS3 has hit the Internet according to VG247. Even more mysteriously, the listing has since been removed. It would be the first time a Sam & Max title hit the PS3, and will likely be distributed via the PSN, like the past two seasons which were put on XBOX Live Arcade...
News No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise Gets A New Trailer
Mere moment after getting an official Japanese release date, Marvelous Entertainment has released a new trailer for the upcoming PS3 port of No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
It features pretty much everything you'd expect from Suda 51's creation: swords, tattoos and ladies. In all, it looks pretty rad.
News GameTrailers TV Blow Out God Of War III This Week
Geoff Keighley's promised to blow the lid off God Of War III this week, with an episode of GameTrailers TV coming straight from Sony Santa Monica
In the teaser trailer Geoff promises an exclusive gameplay blowout, aswell as an interview with God Of War III director Stig Asmussen.
News Yakuza 3: Now With Less Hostess Clubs
Sadly, SEGA's confirmed to IGN that the Western release of Yakuza 3 will have less content than the Japanese version
Apparently, due to time constraints and cultural differences, the hostess clubs have been removed from the experience. Hostess clubs are somewhat a Japanese tradition, in which males essentially pay for female company. Sure it sounds...
News No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise Coming To PS3 On April 15th
We're personally hotly anticipating the port of the original No More Heroes onto PS3
And it's exciting to see the game get dated for release on April 15th in Japan. Which is awesome if you want to play the game in HD. The game will have English voices and Japanese text. A Western release isn't terribly likely.
News Check This Out: Olympique Lyon Wear Heavy Rain Branded Football Shirts
Over the weekend, French football team Olympique Lyon thrashed fellow league rivals Sochaux 4-0
They did this whilst wearing Playstation 3, and more specifically, Heavy Rain branded shirts. Awesome. It's part of the latest craze in European football, where teams change their sponsor on a match-to-match basis. It's weird seeing Heavy Rain on a...
News Leaked Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Screenshots Are Practically Brimming With Win
Study the above image carefully
It is from Sonic The Hedgehog 4 (shhh, don't tell, it's kinda leaked). It depicts an old-school boss battle with the Eggman himself. It looks properly amazing. There's more through here, only, don't tell.
News Terrible News: Sony Computer Entertainment No Longer Called Sony Computer Entertainment
Update @ 11:18GMT: In light of further press releases and what-not we're actually really bloody confused
But what we understand is that Sony Computer Entertainment will become SNE, then the Playstation business will be separated back out into a new company called, erm, Sony Computer Entertainment. Ridiculous, right? That's what appears to be the...
News Dude Behind Black: "Current First-Person Shooters Are Boring!"
You may have heard that Stuart Black, the dude that created PS2 shooter Black, is now working with Codemasters on a new FPS IP
Indeed, the likelihood is that Codemasters' latest will be a spiritual successor to the popular Black. And the dude has fire in his belly, as he's told OXM he's bored of current shooters:"There's a lot of cover-based...
News Blimey: Warner Bros Buy Arkham Asylum Developers Rocksteady
Good grief Rocksteady
First you were an unknown, developing a game published by Eidos. Then all of a sudden you're winning awards and being bought by Warner Bros. Just shows what happens when your studio make an amazing game. That's right, newly crowned big boys Rocksteady have been bought by Warner Bros, and are currently hard at work on a sequel...
Rumour Killzone 3 Coming This Christmas
The Killzone 3 rumours apparently will just not die
According to Play.TM, Killzone 3 is due this Christmas and will support both 3D and Playstation Motion Controller support. To be honest, there probably couldn't be a better franchise for Sony to push their latest technology (particularly 3D), but is a Christmas slot to soon for Killzone 3? Well the...
News Look, It's A Trailer For The Prison Break Game
Y'know, we have to confess we've not watched much Prison Break before
We assume it's probably all about prison and stuff though. Certainly the latest trailer for Prison Break The Conspiracy leads us to believe that. The game's coming from Deep Silver and is due for release on March 26th. Gah March. Why does everything have to come out in March?
News God Of War III Will Not Have A Mandatory Install
Sony's exclusive developers have once again shown why they are the some of the best in the world, announcing that God Of War III - despite being a complete graphical powerhouse - will not have a mandatory install like other PS3 titles
It'll need 5MB to save your game data, but, yo, we're sure you can spare that. God Of War III's due out next month.
News Check Out SCEE's Heavy Rain Commercial [It's Pretty Alright]
Surprise
Sony are going to actually promote Heavy Rain as a product. On the television. Blimey! Sony, television, advertising? Who'd have thunk it, eh? That advert sticks with SCEE's "Start" tag-line, still not as good as the "Only Does Everything" commercials in America, but the more serious tone probably fits this game...
There's no denying that as Sony faithfuls we've seen the Playstation Motion Controller lose all its buzz since E3 because of a barrage of Microsoft press regarding the Natal motion controller
Interestingly, shortly after both Sony and Microsoft's presentations at E3, gamers perception was little different — most coming away extremely impressed...
News Heavy Rain's Female Cast Are Definitely Not Just "Eye Candy"
NowGamer's Samuel Roberts recently posted a critique on the portrayal of women in Quantic Dream's forward-thinking noire-thriller Heavy Rain
Having played the game to death already for review here in the PushSquare office, we took issue with Samuel's particular point. [Some very mild spoilers through the link] Without wanting to tread too far...
News Visceral Games To Focus On One Project Per Year, Working On PSN Titles
Perhaps corroborating rumours we heard earlier this month, Visceral Games has announced they are working on PSN titles alongside their big-box release Dead Space 2
Just like the packaged goods space and the big AAA space, [the download PSN market] comes down to quality and innovation and being able to bring something thats interesting to the...
News Playstation Motion Controller "Could Work Fantastic" With Red Steel 2
The first Red Steel game on Nintendo Wii was a bit of disappointment
The follow-up looks hella awesome. And Ubisoft reckon it "could work fantastically" well on Sony's upcoming Playstation Motion Controller. He told VideoGamesDaily:I think it could work fantastically with the Sony wand, he said. With this kind of game you need a...
News Awesome News: Borderlands DLC Coming To PSN This Week
Oh hell yes
We're ready for more Borderlands - and that's exactly what we're going to get this week. Gearbox has announced that the latest pack, The Secret Armory Of General Knoxx, will launch on PSN this coming Thursday. That's like, 2 days away guys! It'll cost $8.99 on the American store, so expect something like £7.99 here in the UK. We'll have...
News Final Fantasy XIII "Superior" On The Playstation 3 According To Insomniac
Shhh, let us tell you a secret: we're playing Final Fantasy XIII right now and
.. What's that? Oh yeah, we're still not allowed to talk about it. But we can talk about what other people say about the game. And that includes the opinion of Insomniac's James Stevenson, who reckons the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII is "superior" to the...
News PushSquare's Playstation Picks: 22nd-28th February 2010 [There Will Be Rain Edition]
It's finally that week folks
The week the rain falls. Heavily. That's right guys, Quantic Dream's major innovation Heavy Rain is due out this week, and you'll finally be able to get to the bottom of who actually is the Origami Killer. Hooray. PushSquare's Playstation Pick: Heavy Rain A shoe-in for our pick of the week, Heavy Rain is not just our...
News Michael Pachter Is All Like, "Natal Will Outsell Playstation Motion Controller 5:1"
We like Michael Pachter
We don't think he's particularly biased, and we don't often disagree with his opinion. But the dude is unreal when it comes to Microsoft's much-hyped but not-so-much-shown camera device "Project Natal". In his latest report, the American analyst has once again declared his love for the Microsoft philosophy, claiming...
News SCEE: MotorStorm Website Registation Is Not A Confirmation [Wink, Wink]
Sony's told VG247 that the registration of a MotorStorm 3 website should not be interpreted as an announcement"
Whoopsies, and there was us going all wild with our jet-ski fantasies.Its not uncommon for us to secure the URLs containing the names of our successful IP, and those actions should not be interpreted as an announcement of a new...
News Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain...
We just wanted to remind you folks that this week is indeed the week you've been waiting for
Heavy Rain is launched in Europe and USA, meaning you'll finally get to find out just who the origami killer is. We already know, but our lips are sealed firmly shut. In our 4/4 review last week we described Heavy Rain as "captivatingly original"...
News Bioshock 2 Single Player & Multiplayer DLC Announced By 2K
There's new DLC incoming for Bioshock 2
And while the first batch is totally all about the multiplayer, 2K's promised there is single-player DLC incoming too. 2K described the "on-the-horizon" single-player pack as a means to provide more narrative, new tools and new challenges that extend the lore and fiction of the failed Utopia under...
First Impressions Yakuza 3 on Playstation 3
It took about, ooh, five minutes
We were excited. We've wanted to play Yakuza 3 for a long, long time and finally we got to go hands-on. It took about five minutes and then it dawned on us. "Dude, we're playing Yakuza 3." SEGA's hesitation to release Yakuza 3 in the West rings loud in much of the game's design. This is Japanese, and it...
News Sony Files New PS3 SKUs To The FCC
Sony's filed two new PS3 SKUs to the FCC, hinting perhaps at a fresher version of the PS3 Slim
The filing - listed under Sony's secret alias The Sand Dollar Enterprise - reveals two new hardware SKUs listed as CECH-2101A and CECH-2101B. As Engadget point out, the the alphabetical difference points towards the different hard-drive sizes. Apparently...
News Watch People Like Samuel L. Jackson Talk About Heavy Rain
You know what? Heavy Rain is a much bigger deal than most ordinary games
We're sorry to say it because we look all pretentious and dumb, but it really is. And so, on its launch week, it deserves more than just another trailer. It deserves a highly produced video featuring people like Samuel L. Jackson answering the question, "how far would...
News Aliens vs Predator Shoots Straight To The Top Of The Pops... Erm, Charts
Another week and another shooter has taken the crown from Ubisoft's current Wii phenomenom, Just Dance
Amazingly for Rebellion, Aliens vs Predator has become the fastest-selling game in 2010, topping last week's record holder, Bioshock 2 (now in third). Of course, they're both gonna get crushed by Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Either way, big congrats...
News Literally Not Very Interesting "News": God Of War III Is 35GB In Size
In probably the most dull story to break over the weekend, Sony Santa Monica's tech-dude Tim Moss has announced that God Of War III is roughly 35GB in size
Amazing news, no? Erm. Ol' Timmy followed up by stating the European version is in the low 40's. "Thank goodness for Dual Layered blu-ray," he proclaimed. To which we respond — thank...
News Capcom Are Readying A Whopping Great Big April Announcement
When we think "whopping great big announcement" and Capcom, we think: "FIDDLESTICKS THIS IS GOING TO BE RESIDENT EVIL 6 ISN'T IT?
" Is no-one else in the same boat? Awesomely, the announcement has come via the US-arm of the Playstation Blog (yay, Capcom still love Playstation), from the firm's John Diamonon, who said in the comments, Oh, one...
News MotorStorm3.com Registered By Sony Computer Entertainment
To be honest, we've been hearing MotorStorm 3 rumblings for months and months
But this is the first "concrete" piece of evidence we've been privvy to regarding the follow-up to Evolution Studio's popular arcade racer. It's not a lot to go on but, according to the WhoIs of motorstorm3.com, Sony Computer Entertainment registered the domain...
Feature I Love Games Set In The Wild-West - "Twiggy" The Push Square Opinionator
Growing up, I've never had any interest in movies set in the wild-west
Sure, I can remember cold winter afternoons, sitting next to the fire with my Grandmother, watching some tired old tosh set about Pawnee Bill; but I've never once considered the genre a favourite. Which is strange, because anytime I think of wild-west games, I think of them with...
News Sony's Playstation Portable Continues To Top The Japanese Hardware Charts
This week's Japanese hardware chart looks vaguely similar to the week before it
The Playstation Portable still tops the charts, with the PSPgo in dead last at the other end of the spectrum. Somewhere in the middle is the Playstation 3, with some Nintendo platforms above it and the XBOX 360 far below it. Check the numbers after the jump. PSP -...
News Over 3.5 Million Have Tried Out The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Demo
EA has announced that between the Playstation Network and XBOX Live, over 3
5 million people have downloaded and tried out the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo. Which indeed bodes well for the DICE developed title which is set to launch next month. EA will hope they can replicate a degree of Modern Warfare 2's success.
News Sony On Nintendo: "There's Not A Lot Of New IP"
Following our, now favourite Sony exec, Rob Dyer's verbal attack on Microsoft, it's awesome to see the dude come out and hate on Nintendo too
Well, awesome in a childish console war business kind of way. Rob said of Nintendo's system:"Unless they've got a particular franchise that's worked well on the Wii, you don't see a lot of innovative new...
News Valve "Reconsidering" Playstation 3 Development At Long Last
We've been very vocal about Valve and their refusal to develop on Playstation 3
But thing have changed since Valve last shot their mouth off. Sony essentially re-marketed the Playstation 3 in the backend of last year, and the console has since emerged as a worthy contender in the console war, rather than a straddler. That's not totally changed...
News God Of War III's Totally Done, Finito, What They Call "Gold"
According to a Tweet from Sony Santa Monica's Christer Ericson, "God Of War III has gone gold [
.] Whee!" That means, valued readers, that the game is done, and is currently in production, ready for you grubby lot to get your greedy mitts all over it. Awesome.
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