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July2011
News Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta Updated With Two New Gameplay Modes
No sooner than we finish up our hands-on impressions, Naughty Dog has updated the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta with two new game modes
The public test — which goes public in the US today — has been bolstered by the inclusion of Team Objective and Co-Op Hunters. The former shares some similarities to Killzone 3's Warzone mode, while the latter...
News EA Teasing 'Big Announcements' For Summer Showcase
EA's promising some bombs for the company's summer showcase this week
The publisher's senior media manager has said that "big announcements" will appear at the event on Thursday. Big games such as Alice: Madness Returns were announced at last year's showcase. Any guesses for what will be shown this year? It would be cool to see something...
News Sony Reveals 'World Game Project' For Japan
Typically the Japanese games market can be quite introverted
While Japanese games have a history of success in the West, few Western games succeed in the Japanese market. This is something Sony's looking to correct with a new initiative in Japan called the "World Game Project". While details are still scarce about the Akihabara event —...
News Final Fantasy VII Costume Pack To Launch In LittleBigPlanet Next Week
The much anticipated Final Fantasy VII costume pack for LittleBigPlanet will launch on the PlayStation Store next week according to the PlayStation Blog
Costumes for Tifa, Sephiroth, Cloud and Aeris will be available for £1.59 / $1.99 each, or bundled together with an exclusive Vincent outfit for £4.79 / $5.99. Sony's also announced an inFamous 2...
First Impressions Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta on PS3
If the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta has taught us anything, it's that we're terrible at Uncharted multiplayer
After a spot of beginner's luck — winning our first game of Free For All with a deftly timed melee swipe to the face — we've lingered in the loser's half of every game we've played. We're even rubbish at co-op, consecutively getting less...
News Free Klassic Skins Included With Next Mortal Kombat Kompatibility Pack
Not got enough Mortal Kombat yet? NetherRealm's got your back, with another due of komplimentary Klassic Kostumes for Mortal Kombat's expanding character roster
Included in the upcoming kompatibility pack — due out July 5th — are two new klasssic skins for Noob Saibot and Smoke. Check out a trailer of the duo in their retro outfits through here.
News Capcom Excited About Cole MacGrath's Inclusion In Street Fighter X Tekken
inFamous protagonist Cole MacGrath's inclusion in Street Fighter X Tekken was announced at this year's E3 for both the PlayStation 3 and Vita versions of the cross-over brawler
Following up the announcement, Capcom's Seth Killian has told Siliconera that the "timing was right" for the inclusion and that the publisher is "excited"...
News Sony Extends Welcome Back Offer, Don't Wait Until The Last Second This Time
Sony has extended its Welcome Back package after a barrage of complaints from people seemingly incapable of utitlising 30 full days to download their "compensation" for the recent PSN outage
The offer — which was pulled at Midnight on July 3rd — will now run until 09:00AM PST (17:00PM BST) on Tuesday July 5th. If you were one of those people...
News UK Sales Charts: Britain's Still Trying To Shed Its Bingo Wings
Zumba Fitness is top of the UK sales charts again
Sigh. It's the game's third consecutive week in premium position, proving, if nothing else, that overweight middle-aged women now enjoy video games as much as spotty teenagers. The chart was backed up by usual suspects of LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean and L.A. Noire, with F.E.A.R. 3 taking the...
It's Monday morning: we're supposed to be writing about how Zumba Fitness has topped the UK sales charts for a billionth week running and not much else
Instead we've got a zinger of a rumour from DigiTimes, speculating that the PlayStation 4 will launch as soon as next year. The report mentions that Sony will begin production of its new system at...
News Japanese PlayStation Store Set To Return On Wednesday
Huzzah
Sony's revealed that the PlayStation Store will finally return in Japan on July 6th. That's this Wednesday if you haven't got a calendar nearby. There's very little else to say other than, yes, the PlayStation Store really has been down this long in Japan. The government demanded Sony provide evidence that the service was sufficiently...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: Let's Recap
We counted down our most anticipated PlayStation games of the holiday season this week, touching on what we think are the five most intriguing titles of this year's end
Some of the games were included out of curiosity — Battlefield 3 and Sonic Generations might not be the best games of the year, but they are titles that we can't wait to play...
News Resident Evil 4, Code Veronica Look Pretty Purrdy In High-Definition
Capcom's released a comparison video of both upcoming Resident Evil high definition remakes
Both Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica are due out on September 8th in Japan. We're totally there day-one for Resident Evil 4.
News PlayStation Move Compatible Cricket Title In Development For PS3
SCE India has confirmed that the developers of the PS2's Street Cricket Champions, Trine Studios, are currently hard at work on a PlayStation Move enabled cricket title for PS3
The currently unnamed title is being developed with an Indian audience in mind, and is currently unlikely to release outside of the country. The game's due out in October.
News WayForward Officially Confirms Mighty Flip Champs! DX For PlayStation Minis
WayForward has officially announced Mighty Flip Champs
DX</a> for PlayStation Minis this week. The former DSiWare favourite will release on the PlayStation Network on July 12th. The game adapts to the PSP's single wide-screen by showcasing the "flip" based puzzle gameplay side-to-side. Check out the screenshot above for a better idea...
News Huge Batman: Arkham City Reveal
Warner's bided its time with Batman: Arkham City's big gameplay blow-out
Embargoes, NDAs and general silence have shrouded the game's build-up. Now the publisher's decided to blow the doors off with a massive 12-minute gameplay trailer. No nonsense, just footage. The biggest problem with this reveal is that the game's not out until the end of the...
News Media Molecule Taking A Break From LittleBigPlanet To Generate 'New Ideas'
This is a sweet story with a bitter after taste
British based developer Media Molecule has announced that it is considering taking a break from the LittleBigPlanet series in order to "focus on some new ideas". While this sounds like immediately wonderful news, it would be sad to see Sackboy sit quietly in the sidelines for a few years...
News Sony Continues To Apologise About The PSN Outage, Offers Tons Of PlayStation Home Stuff
What PlayStation Network outage? Seriously, perhaps it's just our blase reaction to the whole scenario, but do people still feel wronged by Sony's alleged inability to protect its data centre? Either way, SCEE is continuing its welcome back process by bunging you an approximated £65 worth of PlayStation Home gubbins
All the stuff is available from...
News XBOX 360 Favourite Limbo Comes To PlayStation 3
XBOX 360 owners have been raving about Playdead's stunningly macabre Limbo for just about a year now
This week the developer confirmed an imminent PlayStation 3 version to Joystiq, explaining that "Limbo is in production for PSN" and more details would be released shortly. Even better, the main Playdead team is handling the ports itself,...
News Kaz Hirai Promoted To Chairman Of SCEI, Andrew House Becomes CEO
What a difference a week makes -- or something
We've only been away six days or so, but the entire hierarchy of SCE has changed. Sort of, anyway. Kaz Hirai has been promoted to Chairman of SCEI, active as of September 1st. Presumably that means he will sit at the head of a big table wearing an expensive suit like in the Yakuza games. More surprising...
News Team ICO Moves Into Sony's Main Offices In Japan
Everyone's favourite arthouse development suite, Team ICO, has made a bold move into the head offices of SCE this week -- presumably so top figures like Kaz Hirai can ensure creative lead Fumito Ueda actually finishes the studio's latest title, The Last Guardian
Fumito described the move as a "major reformation of our development...
What other game could top our most anticipated list?
Naughty Dog's adventure opus, Uncharted, has gradually become one of the biggest franchises in video games The original launched to muted praise, but got a second wind of enthusiasm when it was one of the first retail titles to boast trophy support. For many, that patch introduced them to the...
June2011
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #2 - Batman: Arkham City
Rocksteady came out of nowhere
Batman: Arkham Asylum looked promising pre-release, but no-one really expected it to be quite the critical and commercial smash-hit that it was. We vividly remember spending a few moments with the demo before our review copy showed up the following weekend, and recall being blown away by the game's moody tone. But...
Feature What's The Sodium 2 Space In PlayStation Home About?
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that Sony's tweaked the splash-image for PlayStation Home
Previously touted as a virtual world for PlayStation 3 owners, Sony now refers to the service as a "social gaming network". It's a transformation we've witnessed take place over the past several months, and it concludes with the implementation of...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #3 - Battlefield 3
Our anticipation for DICE's Battlefield 3 is a more a situation of curiosity
There's a venom in the gaming community that's wishing Call Of Duty would fail. The philosophy behind that sentiment is clear: Call Of Duty is a mainstream hit and people really dislike that. Battlefield is a popular alternative — an underdog if you will. Everything we've...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #4 - Sonic Generations
Sonic's been stuck in a loop for years
We often feel like the franchise's heritage is a detriment to the series going forward. Those original SEGA Mega Drive titles were so important that it almost feels like nothing the publisher can do will please its fanbase anymore. But there is always the nostalgia card. Celebrating Sonic's 20th anniversary,...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #5 - Team ICO Collection
Look: we get it
You've spent the past few years learning about how pivotal the Team ICO titles are, but you've never actually experienced them for yourself. You've looked on eBay, but the original PS2 titles fetch a packet. You've all but given up. Thankfully HD remasters do serve a purpose after all. With Sony readying a bundle of both ICO and...
News What's This Nonsense About Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time Looking Like A PS2 Game?
"Meh," sneered one forum post we read on Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time, "Still looks like a PlayStation 2 game
" What planet are these people living on? The latest Sly Cooper title from Sanzaru Games retains the glorious visual style of Sucker Punch's Sly titles for sure, but it looks like a huge advancement from where we're standing. Seriously:...
News Bodycount's Looking The Way You'd Expect The Spiritual Successor To Black To Look
Codemasters has put up a new trailer for Black, the explosive shooter previously headed up by former Black creator, err, Stuart Black
The outspoken Black may have left Codies some time ago, but the Guildford team has seen out Stuart's explosive vision. "This isnt just another shooter; this is a gun centrefold that gives you amazingly...
News Sony Loves DLC, Announces Massive PSN Sale
Sony's launched a massive DLC sale to get you ready for the weekend
The deals — which are available from the PSN right now — feature a long list of savings for titles such as Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed II, Super Street Fighter IV and Grand Theft Auto IV amongst others. Apparently, Sony will be publishing more deals on June 29th, but this...
News Killzone 3 Triples XP All Weekend
Guerrilla Games has switched on triple XP for Killzone 3 this weekend
The promotion applies to all XP earned in multiplayer up until 9:00AM on Monday morning. Presumably the offer's designed to celebrate the recently released From The Ashes map pack.
News DICE Confirms Ten Co-Op Maps For Battlefield 3
DICE has told PSM3 magazine that Battlefield 3 will boast ten co-op maps when it launches later in the year
The co-operative mode will be playable by up to two-players. No details on what those maps will contain yet, but with ten maps on offer it sounds like Battlefield 3 will boast a seriously robust co-op component.
News Hang On, Saints Row: The Third Actually Looks Properly Amazing
Volition introduce Saints Row: The Third as the most "ridiculous, over-the-top experience in gaming"
And they're totally not kidding. This seven minute demonstration of THQ's latest open-world opus is two-parts insane, one-part amazing. You'll spy tanks, flying jets, dildos and much more. It's amazing. Day one.
News Bethesda Announces Free Brink DLC, To Go Live In Early July
Bethesda's announced the first batch of Brink DLC: Agents Of Charge
It's set to go live in early July on PlayStation 3, and will be available for free for two weeks after launch. The content will include two new environments, five new player abilities, two new outfits and two new weapon attachments. Strangely, we can see ourselves jumping back into...
News Child of Eden on PS3 Will be "Worth The Wait" says Developer
New features promised
Child of Eden on Kinect is setting the world alight at the moment, but the PlayStation Move version is way off in the distance. Many people have suggested this is due to Microsoft throwing money at developer Q? Entertainment to push the game on Kinect, but that's not the case, says producer James Mielke. The PS3 version's delay...
Report PlayStation Vita To Launch Next Year In Europe
It's the report we've all been dreading, but it's finally here
Both VG247 and CVG are reporting that the PlayStation Vita will not launch in Europe until 2012. Apparently Sony is weighing up a January or February launch, while a US and Japan release still looks likely for Christmas 2011. Shafted once again. Fantastic. "Sony know it's...
News Additional Costumes Announced For Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
To celebrate the release of the Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Capcom's announced a bunch of new costumes for the newly added characters: Yun, Yang, Oni and Evil Ryu
The DLC, entitled the Arcade Challengers Pack, will include each character's arranged arcade outfit, as well as a custom costume designed for consoles. The pack will launch on...
News PlayStation Store Still Offline In Japan
While we've been happily been getting back to normal after the PSN hack here in the West, the Japanese PlayStation Store has remained offline
In a short update [translated by AndriaSang], the company apologised for the on-going downtime, stating that it was still making adjustments with multiple organisations. The PlayStation Store is back online in...
News There Are A Lot Of Bicycles On Screen In This Tour De France: The Official Game Trailer
From a technical point of view, Cyanide's Tour De France: The Official Game is really impressive
Not only is it rendering upwards of thirty bicycles on screen at any one time, there's also a great sense of speed in some of the behind-player shots. We're just curious how Tour De France will actually play. Cyanide's promising lots of...
Rumour PlayStation 3 To Get Price-Drop At GamesCom In August
It's not really a rumour is it
Everyone's expecting the PlayStation 3 to get a price-drop this year, and there's no better positioned event than August's GamesCom. Sony's known for bringing the heat to the European event, while its competitors flounder. Sounds like a no-brainer to us. MCV's got the report, citing a new price-point of between...
News Child Of Eden Delayed On PS3 Due To Studio Capacity
Microsoft did not money-hat Child Of Eden
That's the message of Q-Entertainment's James Mielke in the latest 8-4 Play podcast [a really good podcast by the way, give it a shot - Ed]. According to Mielke, the delay is simply down to Q Entertainment's small studio, with the 30-strong team switching their attention to the PS3 version now the XBOX 360...
News BioShock Infinite Looks Crazy Amazing
Irrational's released a new developer diary for BioShock Infinite
No doubt if you've been reading previews for the game, or listening to podcasts, you'll have heard about this section from the game's E3 demo where Elizabeth — your side-kick throughout the game — opens up a portal (or tear) into a 1980s sidewalk while trying to save a horse. The...
Those monkeys are back
The original Ape Escape wowed with its DualShock controls way back in 1999, and now those simians are hopping over to another new control scheme in the form of Ape Escape (known as PlayStation Move Ape Escape in North America.) The game is perhaps best described as a "first-person catcher" — imagine an on-rail...
News We Would Probably Play Wuthering Heights: The Game
A lot of people don't like Wuthering Heights, presumably because it was shoved down their throats at high-school
We read it off the back of our own steam and loved it. Once you get over the fact that both protagonists are the most reprehensible characters in any novel, then it all becomes really good. According to The Metro, Emily Bronte's classic...
News DeathSpank's Still A Thing, Debut The Baconing Media Proves As Much
We couldn't care less about DeathSpank's lastest adventure, The Baconing, but apparently some people are still desperate for more of the spectacularly unfunny series
The Baconing will take DeathSpank to a number of new locations, including The Fires Of Bacon, Spanktopia and The Throne Room. We're assuming the latter is a toilet because DeathSpank is...
News Get A Glimpse Of The Team ICO Collection, Fall In Love
Sony did amazing jobs on the God Of War and Sly Cooper Collections, but holy heck this Team ICO Collection really is a thing of beauty
Combine the game's stunning art direction with the technical upgrades made on this release and, well, you have a supremely confident remaster. The frame-rate in particular looks silky smooth. Check the video after...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: New PlayStation 3 Firmware Update Online Now
If you're hopping onto the PS3 this morning to download the Sonic Generations demo, you're going to have to install a new firmware update first
Sony has revealed that firmware 3.66 will improve network services and increase stability when gaming. We're downloading the update now, so presumably it's online for everyone. Only takes a couple of minutes...
News MotorStorm: Apocalypse After Party Update Released
Evolution Studios has revealed the first major update for MotorStorm: Apocalypse
Entitled the After Party update, the downloadable patch includes a brand new track called The Rock and a bunch of new single-player special events. Each event "sees you play as a distinguished character from the Festival, offering the grand sum of 120,000 chips if...
News Celebrate Sonic's Anniversary With Sonic Generations Demo
Sonic Generations is not out until the end of the year, but SEGA's decided to release a snippet of the new game early in order to celebrate its mascot's 20th anniversary
The demo will allow players to experience the first act, Green Hill Zone, as classic Sonic, and will even support 3D televisions. You'll need to be quick though, as the demo will...
News Fallout: New Vegas 'Old World Blues' DLC Out On July 19th
Bethesda's confirmed that the third DLC pack for Fallout: New Vegas will launch on July 19th
The pack is entitled "Old World Blues". A new patch will launch prior to the content to bring bring improvements to performance and stability in major areas". They're still fixing Fallout: New Vegas then, eh? The content puts you in the...
News New Twisted Metal Footage Is Insane
NeoGAF's stumbled upon some new B-roll footage for Twisted Metal
The game has come on leaps and bounds since its unveiling at last year's E3. The game is a real visual spectacle now, with tons of detail on the weapons. It's super chaotic, just like Twisted Metal should be. This game is still floating under the radar too much for our liking. It looks...
News Sucker Punch Already Recruiting For Next PlayStation 3 Project
The studio behind inFamous and Sly Cooper is hiring for a new PS3 project
The Sucker Punch website notes that the American developer is looking for an art director, senior producer and lead sound designer to work on its next game. It's thought that the project will be a PlayStation 3 exclusive. There has been some rumours about Sucker Punch working...
News Call Of Duty: Black Ops Limited Edition To Ship With First Strike DLC
According to VG247, the rumoured Call Of Duty: Black Ops limited edition is legitimate, and will include a free download voucher for the game's First Strike DLC pack
GameStop outed the limited edition yesterday.
News EA Sports Confirms September Launch For FIFA 12
Surprise: there's going to be a new FIFA game this September
EA Sports has announced that the multi-million selling follow-up in the FIFA franchsie, FIFA 12, will launch on September 27th and September 30th on PS3. Still no word on the PlayStation Vita version, but we suspect that will get announced later in the year.
News Yakuza Series Hits 5 Million Unit Milestone
One of our favourite PlayStation franchises, the Yakuza series, has shipped over 5 million units worldwide SEGA has announced
The milestone was achieved with new zombie-gangster mash-up, Yakuza: Of The End, which has already shipped 400,000 units in its first two weeks on sale in Japan. We've got our copy. There have been seven games in the Yakuza...
News Limited Edition Call Of Duty: Black Ops Edition Listed On US Retailer
If you're one of the remaining ten people that doesn't yet own a copy of Call Of Duty: Black Ops -- you're in luck
According to GameStop, a new bundle will be made available next week including the game and some DLC. No word on exactly what DLC will be included, but we're assuming it will be the first two packs currently available on the PlayStation...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: L.A. Noire's 'Nicholson Electroplating' DLC Is Out Today
Heads up detectives: Rockstar's just sent us word that L
A. Noire's</a> "Nicholson Electroplating" DLC is out today on the PlayStation Network. If you've already purchased an L.A. Noire season pass it will cost you the grand total of $0.00. The best price. Those of you without a season pass will need to cough up $3.99. Still not a...
News As Shakespeare Famously Wrote: Catherine Or Katherine?
Personally we'd rather be with a girl called Katherine
Nothing against the Catherines of the world, but there's something a bit more exotic about the way Katherine looks on paper, isn't there? It stands out on the page like a misspelled word. It just looks better. Plus you can call her "Kay". And "Kay" sounds better than...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: Mortal Kombat DLC Out Today
Warner Bros has released the first Mortal Kombat DLC character on the PlayStation Network today
Skarlet is the first of four new combatants in Mortal Kombat, and is based on a glitch in Mortal Kombat II. The character will run you a steep £3.19. NetherRealm's also releasing a compatibility pack today that will feature an additional two classic...
News Julia & Hwoarang Are In Street Fighter X Tekken Too
It's amazing how well Capcom's managed to get the Tekken fighters to fit into Street Fighter's aesthetic
The latest batch of Street Fighter X Tekken shots posted by VG247 reveal Julia and Hwoarang. Both look good, though Julia's biceps are a touch disturbing.</em>
News PopCap Confirms Bejeweled 3 For PlayStation Network
It's ok to be excited, we're struggling to contain ourselves too: PopCap has confirmed Bejeweled 3 for the PlayStation Network this afternoon
It'll be first PopCap title to launch simultaneously on PS3 and XBOX 360, putting an end to long delays of PopCap content on Sony's system. The third installment of the match-three puzzle favourite includes an...
News Robin Doesn't Look Like A Complete Idiot In Batman: Arkham City
We hate Robin
Whenever Batman's stupid side-kick's around, things tend to turn sour. So we weren't overjoyed at the prospect of "The Boy Wonder" making an appearance in Batman: Arkham City. Rocksteady's released the first image of Robin's character model this afternoon, promoting the Best-Buy exclusive pre-order bonus. Tim Drake will...
News Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Beta Rolls Out January 2012
"We know you've been asking about the beta," Ubisoft wrote on its Twitter regarding Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Have we? "We're excited to announce that the MP beta will be launching in January 2012." Glad that's cleared up then, eh? Update @ 14:28BST: Ubisoft has told VG247 that the Ghost Recon: Future Soldier multiplayer beta will be an...
News We Actually Think Binary Domain Looks Pretty Neat
Knowing the Yakuza team's ability to craft compelling narratives, we think Binary Domain could surprise a lot of people when it launches in February next year
The SEGA published squad-based shooter has an air of Gears Of War to it for sure, but there's also that traditional Japanese anime aesthetic running through the art-style. We think it looks...
Report Grand Theft Auto V 'Pretty Likely' To Release In 2012
All this umming-and-ahhing over Grand Theft Auto V is starting to drive us insane
Sometimes we get cravings for a new GTA, y'know? We'd pull out Grand Theft Auto IV again, but our copy is hidden right at the bottom of our collection of PS3 games. We have a lot of PS3 games. It would take too much effort to find the disc. Yes, we're lazy. Anyway,...
News Shadows Of The Damned Launches With New Trailer
Shadows Of The Damned is getting rave reviews from all corners of the Internet
The problem is: no-one knows that the game is coming out. The reviews aren't unexpected — this is a game from Suda 51, Shinji Mikami and Akira Yamaoka after all — but it's disappointing to see such a collaboration of super-creative minds slipping under the radar so...
News We'd Buy A Worms Themed Crazy Golf Game
Fact: everyone likes Worms, and everyone likes crazy golf
Therefore the two mixed together must be an example of serious retail potential right? That's exactly what the American ratings board, the ESRB, has hinted towards, with Worms: Crazy Golf due for release on PlayStation 3. A similar game was released on Java-enabled mobile phones several years...
News Another Popular PlayStation Mini Makes The Jump To PS3
With the likes of Cubixx HD making the jump from PlayStation Minis to full PSN release, PomPom Games has announced that the fairly awesome Alien Zombie Mega Death is coming to PS3 too
Don't worry guys, we'll continue to pester FuturLab about that full HD Coconut Dodge port. PomPom's actually billing Alien Zombie Mega Death PS3 as a sequel with over...
News Dyad Is A Racing, Fighting, Puzzle, Shooting Game For PSN
[caption id="YXR0YWNobWVudF8yNzY5Nw==" align="YWxpZ25ub25l" width="NDU2" caption="RHlhZDogQW1hemluZy4="][/caption] Keep up will you, because ][ Games' (yup, that's really the developer's name) PSN debut, Dyad, sounds a bit amazing
It's pitched as an "abstract racing game that has influences in many genres including racing games, fighting...
News We're Desperate To Play Lexis Numerique's Amy
Lexis Numerique had us with the first sentence of their PlayStation Blog post on upcoming PSN title, Amy
"If youre into new survival-horror experiences, this post is for you," the company wrote. Sold. Regular readers will know we are big fans of survival horror titles, frequently posting about our love affair with the Silent Hill,...
News Microsoft Blocked PlayStation 3 Version Of Tales Of Vesperia In The West
Tales Of Vesperia has never launched outside of Japan on PlayStation 3
That's because Microsoft paid to keep the game exclusive in Europe and North America, according to a Facebook post made by a Namco Bandai community manager. "Microsoft paid for the exclusivity the same way Sony paid for having Heavy Rain only on PS3," said Namco Bandai...
News People Complain About Battlefield 3 On PS3, DICE Responds
To the people that thought Battlefield 3 was going to look as good on the PlayStation 3 as on the PC: you're mad
Literally clinically insane. (Probably.) The fracas appears to revolve around two issues: resolution and frame-rate. Battlefield 3 runs at 30 frames-per-second with a resolution of 720p on PlayStation 3. On a high-end PC, the game can...
News Sony Confirms Greener PlayStation 3 Model
There were reports over the weekend of a new PlayStation 3 model identified by the code CECH-3000B
Sony has confirmed those rumours this morning, revealing a new 320GB PS3 less power-consumption than its predecessor. Don't get your panties in a twist yet, this is still the standard PS3 Slim design. It's not like a new PS3 or anything. The new model...
News UK Sales Charts: Nothing To See Here...
The UK sales charts are a depressing sight this week
Even though we're a PlayStation website, we can acknowledge the misery of 505 Games' long-in-the-tooth Zumba Fitness outselling Nintendo's newly released Ocarina Of Time remake. Sick. It wasn't a good week in general for gamer's games, with Ubisoft's Child Of Eden failing to break the top...
News Naughty Dog Open To Killing Off Nathan Drake, Other Uncharted Characters
Look Naughty Dog, we'll make things nice and simple for you: don't touch Elena
We can live with a world without Sully, Chloe and even Nathan Drake, but no Elena would be too much strain for our hearts to take. We're responding to comments made by Naughty Dog gaffer Evan Wells. In an interview with CVG, the company co-president told the publication...
News Inject Cubixx HD Into Our Veins Now, Please!
Laughing Jackal's released the first trailer for Cubixx HD
We told you it was going to be good, huh? The trailer shows off many of the game's features — inluding the title's bonkers seven-player multiplayer mode. The game's due out later in the Summer. It's ticking all the right boxes for us: crazy thumping synth music, glorious HD visuals, and an...
Feature Competition: Win A Copy Of Open Emotion's Ninjamurai For PlayStation Minis
Ninjamurai is yet another showcase of Open Emotion's gothic visual style, and a gratifying platformer to boot
We've teamed up with the Irish studio to give away ten copies of the slick new PlayStation Mini, and all you need to do to be in with a chance of winning the game is fill in a simple form. In our review of Ninjamurai, we described the game...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 PlayStation Move DLC Pack Out At The End Of Summer
Media Molecule's finally blown the doors off LittleBigPlanet 2's PlayStation Move add-on, which was quietly getting a lot of buzz around publications attending this year's E3
The pack — which will include new trophies — is said to be Media Molecule's biggest DLC expansion yet, and as such doesn't have a firm release date as of yet. The studio's...
News Killzone 3 'From The Ashes' DLC Announced, Detailed, Trailered
Guerrilla's announced the latest batch of Killzone 3 DLC this afternoon, entitled "From The Ashes"
The pack includes two new Guerrilla Warfare and two new Warzone maps. Sadly, no more Operations maps, which is a shame as it's still our favourite Killzone 3 game mode. With the pack set to release next week, Guerrilla's released videos for two of the...
News Oh Right, EA Put Out Another One Of Those Weird Shadows Of The Damned Documentaries
In this new Shadows Of The Damned developer diary, Akira Yamaoka and Suda 51 make silly faces while being dubbed by ridiculous voices
We speak for everyone when we say: "day one".</em>
News Call Of Juarez: The Cartel Invents Co-Opetition, Actually Looks Fun
We've been pretty down on Call Of Juarez: The Cartel since its announcement, but "co-opetition" is the first genuinely exciting thing we've seen of the game
The premise is simple: you'll play in teams working together towards a common goal, but also in competition too. For example, the trailer shows how a goal might challenge each member of the team...
Rumour Mass Effect 3 To Get Four-Player Co-Op Mode
Rarely does a month pass in which there's not a new rumour about Mass Effect 3 getting a multiplayer component
Multiplayer is certainly not what we want out of the franchise, but it would tick a few boxes for publisher EA. Eurogamer's the latest publication to tease some kind of online functionality for Bioware's space-opera, rumouring that the game...
News So, Activision's Preparing Another Call Of Duty: Black Ops DLC Pack
Activision's officially announced a third DLC pack for Treyarch's Call Of Duty: Black Ops this afternoon
The pack, entitled "Annihilation", will launch first on XBOX 360 at the end of the month, and then later on PlayStation 3. It includes four new maps and a new co-operative zombie stage. One of the maps is a golf course, which is pretty...
News We Don't Know About You, But We're Totally Up For More Assassin's Creed
We think there was a bit of a collective groan throughout the gaming community when Ubisoft announced it was bringing Assassin's Creed back for a third consecutive year
But its hard to argue with the quality of the games Ubisoft puts out. The narrative stays consistently compelling, and the gameplay gets more and more ambitious with each iteration...
News Starhawk To Feature At Comic-Con Next Month, Check Out Some Footage
Comic-Con is not about comic books anymore
It's about movies and video games. So it's not surprise to see Sony announce that its bringing Starhawk — Lightbox Interactive's spiritual successor to Warhawk — to the show next month. Sony's promised it will reveal more of Starhawk's single-player at the convention. In the mean-time, the PlayStation...
News Rockstar Releases Debut Trailer For L.A. Noire's 'Nicholson Electroplating' DLC
Rockstar's released a trailer and new details about L
A. Noire's</a> latest DLC pack. There's been an explosion at the Nicholson Electroplating plant and its down to Phelps and his arson desk partner Biggs to solve the case. At 9.45 in the morning, a thunderous explosion rocks Los Angeles," explains Rockstar. "City blocks are...
News Tour De France: The Official Game Pedals Onto PlayStation 3 This Summer
If you've ever dreamed of donning the golden lycra and cycling your way through France, this might be the game you've been waiting for
Cyanide has announced that Tour De France: The Official Game is set to release on PlayStation 3 this Summer. Cyanide previously worked on the popular PC series, Pro Cycling Manager. "It's been a long time that...
News Carmack: PlayStation 4 Will Be Ten Times As Powerful As Current Consoles
John Carmack believes the next PlayStation will be ten-times more powerful than Sony's current system
The programming legend told Eurogamer that he believes Sony's new console will arrive "in a couple of years". "The next-generation will be here soon, a couple of years," Carmack told the website. "It'll be another ten times...
News Shadows Of The Damned Shows You Who Is Boss
It's funny
We know virtually nothing about Grasshopper's Shadows Of The Damned, but we've had the game preordered for months now. How much more do you need to know beyond "Shinji Mikami" and "Suda51"? The game's even been scored by ex-Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka. Sure, we would have preferred the game to take a more...
News Naughty Dog Demonstrate Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Live On Jimmy Fallon
Naughty Dog co-presidents Evan Wells and Cristophe Balestra featured on Jimmy Fallon last night to demonstrate Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception live
The duo showed the latter part of the E3 demo shown during Sony's press conference last week. Catch the footage after the jump. <object id="dmlkZW9faWQ9MTMzNDI5Ng"...
News Sony's PlayStation Home E3 Booth Pulled In A Whopping 500,000 Visitors
The virtual E3 booth in PlayStation Home was a stroke of marketing genius
It directed you to watch eight of Sony's E3 trailers in order to receive virtual items and access the space's VIP area. Given the casual nature of PlayStation Home, we imagine there were people learning about Twisted Metal and Resistance 3 for the first time in the virtual...
News Sodium 2: Project Velocity Launches In PlayStation Home
We've been saying for a while that Lockwood's Sodium 2: Project Velocity will change gamers' perception of PlayStation Home -- we suppose it's time to put our theory to the test
The sequel to the massively popular Sodium: Salt Shooter brings a full-blown free-to-play Wipeout-esque experience to PlayStation Home, and promises to unlock the virtual...
News Yakuza: Of The End Tops The Japanese Software Charts
SEGA's mobster-zombie mash-up, Yakuza: Of The End, has unsurprisingly topped the Japanese sales charts after a hefty delay
We received our copy earlier this week but haven't had a chance to check it out yet. It's sitting temptingly on the top of our "to play" pile though. Elsewhere it was a poor week for Japanese software, with the...
News Dancing Eye For The PlayStation Move Is A Bit... Awkward?
Oh right
Japan. Namco has today reannounced Dancing Eye for the PS3, a PlayStation Move enabled game in which you use a monkey to cut off sections of a girl's clothing. Yep. The game was listed as cancelled in April, but according to Kotaku the subsequent online uproar caused developer Namco to reconsider the game's status. Now it's back in all its...
News Cliffy Bleszinski Dashes Gears Of War PS3 Hopes
There's zero chance of Gears Of War coming to PlayStation 3, according to creative lead Cliff Bleszinski
There had been some speculation that Epic would make the franchise multiplatform once its exclusive publishing deal expired with Microsoft. Curiously, Epic retains full rights to the Gears Of War franchise so can feasibly do whatever it wants...
Rumour Third Call Of Duty: Black Ops Map Pack Leaked
Not had enough Call Of Duty: Black Ops yet? This supposed leaked leaflet from GameStop has your back, supposedly revealing a third DLC pack for Activision's blockbuster first-person shooter
Despite being a blurry image, the leaflet seems to reveal a number of new maps including: Hangar 18, Hazard, Drive-In, Silo, and a new co-operative zombies...
News Kojima To Take Advantage Of 'Transfarring' Technology For All Future Games
Kojima has a dream in which all of his future games will be playable on the move or at home
PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita make that dream a reality. In fact, Kojima is so excited by the possibility that he's created his own terminology for the technology: transfarring. Speaking on the most recent Kojima Productions podcast, the visionary...
News Jaffe: If Twisted Metal's A Hit We'll Probably Do A PlayStation Vita Version
Eat Sleep Play's David Jaffe is one of the most honest figures in the gaming industry
It's hard not to be entranced by the developer's no-nonsense style of discussion. If you haven't had a chance to listen to chat on GiantBomb's E3 special podcast, you really should. He's a fascinating character. Having said that, we think Jaffe puts himself down a...
News Granzella Working On PlayStation Home Title, Planning Vita Game
Kazuma Kojo's new studio, Granzella, is hard at work on multiple projects according to Siliconera
The creative designer behind Steambot Chronicles and Disaster Report left Irem earlier in the year, citing a disconnect between fan expectations and management demands. To emphasise PlayStation Home's transformation into a social gaming platform, Kojo's...
News Wait, NetherRealm's Come Up With Story Trailers For Its DLC Characters?
When NetherRealm announced it was transforming former glitch, Skarlet, into a full-blown character for its Mortal Kombat reboot, we assumed she would appear as a brawler and nothing more
But NetherRealm clearly doesn't do things by halves, releasing a full story trailer for the character that ties her into the Mortal Kombat narrative. Errr. The...
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