Nice, I fully expected Doctor Who to be more expensive than the disc release . . . Looks good, hopefully the Vita game will be priced similarly.

@get2sammyb

I would!

'Currently working on Star Wars Move . . . .'

I think that could actually destroy the internet!

They're doing it purpose now!

May be a nice bright distraction in autumn.

Looks better than most of the AR suite, this is based on an actual table top game though.

I'm really looking forward to this, especially the Vita star map and loadout app. I know a couple of EVE players, the politics are thrilling and ownership people take in the game is really huge. Hopefully that will translate well to 514- and hopefully I'll find enough time to sink in to it!

Better they release to 360, make some money and put an extra year in to the PS3 version than farming out a port.

Besides, Mass Effect . . .

Also, anyone know if the Vita port will have hardware specific bells & whistles? Just been watching a demo of the MGS HD collection, small touches, but there all the same.

I'll pick it up at some point, hopefully it does the business. And hopefully someone who decides these sorts of things will realise that the Move 'Kiiler App' will be a Star Wars game, a game like Dark Forces . . .

@get2sammyb

Nice one, i'll take a look when it's out on the Vita.

@Squiggle55

Near doesn't really work like the 3DS 'Street Pass' feature. It's fairly poorly implemented really but does have potential, I've downloaded a few ghost laps for WipEout and avatars and a new cue for Hustle Kings-yet to get any Black Market trades for Uncharted though. It all just needs to be simpler.

As far as I can work out- WiFi and 3G work pretty much the same, but as you mention, the location data for the WiFi only version is dictated by the available WiFi hotspot- whereas 3G would be wherever you actually are. I've used my phone as a WiFi hotspot for Near and it works exactly the same as it does using my home internet connection, obviously showing different location data. So I assue this is how the 3G version works too (anyone with one feel free to correct me there ).

For Resistance I would assume it's done via both online play and via Near. Something similar to Ridge Racer's 'Devil' re-gift. If you don't have it, when playing online in RR you can be re-gifted with a new design for the front end menu and a new race type just by racing with someone who already has it- independant of Near. So, that- it could of course be the tiresome Near out and about 'map' method- which would actually be a bit lame . . .

Also, I never played this, not orginally or on PS3- passed me by I suppose- looks nice, recommended?

@Mickeymac

I think it is anyway, most smartphones these days allow for a mobile hotspot, which makes the 3G option a little redundant I think.

@JonWahlgren Jetpack!!! Hahaha

Cool

@get2sammyb

I don't get it either, but unfortunately if the press keep reporting things a certain way, eventually most people will start to agree-whether they've experienced the thing or not. I thought the 3DS would bomb after having used one, I'm not big on 3D and it just seemed like yet another Nintendo churn out, but no-it's flying now, someone will always want what you don't. The only thing I thought I wouldn't like about the Vita personally is the OS, which actually pleasantly suprised me. I've read many a headline claiming a game drought, poor launch line up etc. I couldn't disagree more save perhaps an fps on release. I have admittedly only had mine a month, but I'm still playing every game I own for it, still having a peek at a couple of the demos and PSP games too.

At some point, somewhere, some time, every hardware manufacturer in the industry will nail it's launch window- the price will be low enough to appease the tight fisted masses, the launch line up will hand over free money and fireworks to every buyer and a dozen AAA games a week will be released in the first 3 months . . .

Yeah I saw that one.about £99. Idiot. I'm not in to flaming, not at all, but wake up to the real world- Games are not real, but the cash needed to produce them and the hardware that runs them is very real. people like that should perhaps try and build themselves a Vita, or even amass the required components for a Vita for £99.99!

The MGS HD collection should do it proud. I think it's Bluepoint doing the conversions/remastering- and they're very good at it from what I've read elsewhere. Just hope they're doing Z.O.E HD Collection too. That can't come out soon enough for me . . .

£200 for the WiFi Vita, a 4GB card and Uncharted is a great bundle, they shouldv've done this from the start really- this is exactly the sort of pricing that's all over eBay.

@get2sammyb

I also agree, I like my Move, played quite happily through most of Killzone 3 with the Sharpshooter. But Sports Champoins table Tennis is still, without doubt- the best the Move showcase around. it just works so well. Its biggest failing is 'light gun' style shooters, wandering crosshair issues plague every single one of them I've played, which it, all of them except the House Of The Dead 3 & 4 PSN games.

@get2sammyb
Absolutely, good news indeed, quick coding = good/easy/familiar architechture.

I'm so looking forward to this! Love Moonraker! It's one of the best of the 'ridiculous' bond films of the Moore era, over the top, cheesey, proper villain, but a lot of fun.

looks like it's gotten the GoldenEye: Reloaded treatment with updated technology on show in the background and such. With no obvious shout out to Roger Moore I'd suspect they're going with Craig's likeness too Looks good, will sound good no doubt, and since it's not a Wii port- should play better than GE:R.

So, which 5 other of JB's movie adventures will be thrown in? I'd like The Man With The Golden Gun, The Living Daylights, Live and Let Die, Thunderball and A View To A Kill- Those being my favourite films of the series, and surely prime game fodder!!

I just checked it out on Capcom's YouTube channel, looks nice. Good implementation of the style. Doesn't look like a particularly interesting game though . . .

@get2sammyb

True. Don't get me wrong, I'm really enjoting the Vita, and I like the launch line up- but a big IP fps should have been a launch title.

I'd say Smart As will be around the £25 mark yeah.

Check out ShopTo.Net- some good discounted Vita game prices.

Resistance is cheapest on Amazon so far but not by much, £34.95 preorder.

Snazzy!

I take it the feature is dependant on network access rather than the system clock?

I think this is a fine example of mistreating the Vita!

Over on the PS Blog one of the dev's replied to a comment saying that this is a 'full featured' title etc. And that pretty much it would be a full retail price game.

I agree with get2sammb, no harm it being there, like Frobisher Says, but, crucially- Frobisher's free . . .

This game really says a lot about what Sony is asking for from developers. They want to put the Vita up against DS and smartphone games- also evidenced by allowing Gameloft to shovel their over-priced, crappy wares on to the platform. targeting the casual market is a waste of time, it's not a smartphone, it's not going to live in peoples pockets.

It's a shame people view the Vita launch titles as they do. I think it was a great start, but just the start none the less. A big fps straight out of the gate would've gone a long way to cement the system in the market- and as much as I love the Resistance franchise- and will be buying Burning Skies on day one, Resistance isn't it. You need something widely familiar.

I'm no COD fan really, had COD4- and enjoyed it, but it's the only one I had. But it would be blinkered to think that a COD game wouldn't do the business. Even I played through the Gameloft COD 'em up Modern Combat 3 on my Xperia Play, it was impressive in places, and made for good portable gaming. Heck, I'd probably buy COD for the Vita just to see what it could do!

Big fps titles are essential to the system's future. Not this stuff, there's plenty of time for this stuff . . .

1. 3DS: 46,425 (Last week: 91,868)
2. PlayStation 3: 12,996 (23,478)
3. PSP: 12,247 (20,033)
4. Vita: 6340 (10,583)

4th in a chart after 3 cheaper devices and still over half of previous weeks sales in Golden Week. Not that bad going.

Don't write it of people, it's a great machine- and it's still very early days. I for one thought the 3DS would continue to bomb- but an expanded library of titles and some good advertising pulled it out of it's post launch slump. The Vita has all of the potential to do the same.

I've no doubt we're yet to see the best of what the Vita can do.

Early days people.

Just had a horrible thought; what if it's just a port of Burnout Crash . . . ? sadface

Hot Pursuit 2!! Please Rao make it Hot Pursuit 2!!

Though thinking about it, a take on Burnout Paradise would probably make more sense in the out & about world of portable gaming. They could actually make good use of Near if the said intergration involves the Autolog feature- few leaderboard systems have kept me going back to burn my friends more than Autolog!

@Mayoman95

I'd say a 6 or 7 is fair, based on the demo-it's really very good at what it does, but it doesn't do a lot really.

6, just above average- that's fair enough.

@Slapshot

Dare I say it . . . Gradius VI . . .

A guy can dream i suppose . . .

@get2sammyb
Maybe, hopefully the reports of the gameplay being overhauled are correct though. Episode 1 was pretty terrible I thought. Sonic Generations fixed a lot that was terrible in new Sonic games though, so it would be very nice if the development took a lot of cues from the 2D levels of that.

Damn! A Cave shmup would 've helped out in Japan. It would've helped me out no end too1

Best game on the list:

.2. Super Street Fighter II HD Turbo Remix (2009)

Perhaps it also has a lot to do with people just not wanting a crossover fighter? I can't say i was at all impressed with Street Fighter IV- I've been a fan of the series for many a year and iterration- but it's a dull game. 3rd Strike is probably the technical pinnacle of Street Fighter fighting, with Alpha 3 being my personal favourite after Turbo. But the crossover just left me thinking that characters from a very different mechanic are just going to be locked in to a 2D plain- where's the fun in that? Tekken was special because it used the depth of the arena well enough to make it count. As for the proposed Tekken X SF- erm, anyone remember EX? 'nuff' said I think.

There will always be room for Street Fighter of some sort in my collection and for whatever my 'current' platform may be. The best current Street Fighter (IMO) is the HD Turbo remake, looks nice, plays like it should and online works well enough for me to piledrive my mate in Oz and him to hear me laugh while I do it!

Hmmm . . .

Sony possibly missing a trick, again.

It's good (obviously) that BC is supported at all, and it's also good that titles are being made ready. But it's really time something was done about regional division. It's usually due to the mess that is international licenses etc (music, I believe being the biggest problem) but where its just a matter of localisation, why bother waiting? I want Darius Burst, and I don't want to pay £30 plus to import it, but I will pay for it from PSN. I managed to play Star Soldier, Parodius Portable, TwinBee Portable and Gradius Collection quite happily on my PSP without needing any knowledge whatsoever of Japanese- just make them available- with warnings of language support- but available.

The same goes for the EU/NA stores, most of Europe speaks English, and large parts of many games go untranslated anyway- just make them available!

There's very little reason for most PSP emulated titles not to work, (I'm yet to find a PS2 game my PS3 can't handle)- get one to work, they should all follow suit. If it's a matter of testing, use the community who want this stuff to work!

@Mayoman95

Didn't do it for me either . . .

Nice review, really enjoyed the demo!

@Mayoman95

To reassure retailers probably . . .

@Slapshot

Thanks man.

I wonder then why it is the other games get it so badly?

Definitely going to pick this up now.

It's about time! (see what I did there?)

Been waiting for this for a while, I like the look of it and the time mechaninc they're going with.

I'll probably pick this up, any ideas if it's a dual purchase (PS3 & Vita versions for one price) or just buy one- get one?!

I'd like a disc copy but I'd quite like it on the Vita too (especially as it's getting most of my game time these days).

I'll pick this up at some point, when it's cheaper probably. Next full priced Vita game I get will be Resistance, and i'll probably end up getting Sorcery too. MK9 really passed me by, but it looked impressive, as does the Vita version.

I'm quite happy with Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max for now though.

The only update for Black Market seems to be the increased updtae frequency for trades. It's still a bit broken really. Finished the game, yet to complete a BM trade!

oooooh 'citin!! Will deffo pick this up, loved the Resistance series, 3 is one of my favourite games- brilliant arsenal! Nice to see that Burning Skies is keeping the weapon wheel.

Not too sure about some of the touch screen implementation (double tap rear to run, grenades) but touching to tag with the Bullseye looks good though!

Loving my Vita, roll on more and more AAA titles!

Looks great, but . . . . .

My recurring question on any Move shooter is how does the crosshair handle? Every Move shooter I have (TC:Razing Storm/Deadstorm, HOTD Overkill, The Shoot, Dead Space Extraction) all suffer from the cursor wandering off.and needing to be reset- HOTD Overkill handling this best of all by prissing 'select' to re-center.

So, anyone with the game- rock solid calibration- or standard annoyance?

Does it need constant resetting

It'll have to go some distance before it comes up with a Resistance 3 quality single player game, but fair play for trying. I like the idea of a branching story, but I'm not sure I'd play through an FPS single player game twice.

@nathanuc1988

Well said that man!

Of course, it totally depends on what type of game experience you want. For Modnation on the Vita- it is I think a bloody foolish omission- the host of networked features seem so robust and fully thought out- that the lack of multiplayer is simply a very bad design decision.

I'm very much enjoying my Vita. As I did my PSPs, and play them in similar ways. I rarely use any multiplayer features while out and about- unless it's an Ad-Hoc race on Wipeout (as I did with my PSP) or some other pre-arranged MP.

i play the single player game mostly, then enjoy MP stuff if I still want to play when I'm home/gf's/family's placed with solid connections.

@Savino

Really?

Vita's just in a position to realise what was promised and hinted at with PSP.

Move was a further developed version of what Sony's R&D started with the Eyetoy on PS2 .

So, not really.

I got this yesterday, I must say that I'm loving it so far, and will probably be replaying for a long time to come.

As for the 'Sonic Cycle', it just has to come down to user preference-as with any game. Those of us who grew up on 8 and 16bit machines do tend to put Sonic 1 & 2 up on a shrine of sorts. I didn't particularly like 3, still don't and didn't get on with CD at the time but loving it my Xperia Play. Sonic Adventure left a bitter taste for me, I really just didn't like it, I didn't touch any 3D Sonic game again until Sonic Heroes, which I quite enjoyed, but felt it lacked some speed. I haven't played any of the recent 3D games, none have really stood out, either in reviews or gameplay videos, though Colours looks pretty good I don't own a Wii.

I'm thoroughly enamoured with the Modern stages in Generations so far though, and though I'm hardly talking from experience I'd say it's the best 'Modern' Sonic games have ever been!

Well, for me, Episode 1 was just poor in general-as well as having alien physics. If they can match the superb work done on the Classic levels in Sonic Generations I'll give it a go. I only picked Generations up yesterday, and sunk around 4 hours in to it. It's superb, truly as good as Sonic's likely to get I think, so I'd personally they put some effort in to producing more of the same if I'm honest.

@LittleBigVita It's not just a 'UK' release, it's EU, and everything that goes along with the regionalisation of the game. So NA gets a game in English, whereas EU gets a game in English, French, German, Polish etc.

I remember when a friend of mine had an American Genesis game when we were kids, the manual was so tiny compared to our MegaDrive games!