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James started his career in video games as News Editor on Nintendo Life. Since leaving in 2012 to join Nintendo of Europe, James has risen through the ranks to become NoE's Senior Product PR & Corporate Communications Manager.
Store Update 3rd April 2012 (North America)
I Am Alive and more
Vita owners go home empty-handed today, with no new games or demos on the portable storefront, but there's plenty of DLC and a few much-anticipated games for PS3 owners to sink their teeth into. PlayStation Plus: Free Games: Shank 2Shift 2 UnleashedCanabalt (PS mini)Farm Frenzy 2 (PS mini)Silent Hill (
News Caps Lock and Power Saving In Vita Firmware v.1.65
Excitement
Ready to power up your Vita to the next level? Sony's detailed the next system software update — v1.65, fans — and its admittedly 'minor enhancements'. The PlayStation Blog states the update includes: A “Notification Alert” option will be added to Settings, so you can toggle alerts on or off “After 10 minutes” will be added...
News WRC 3 Wants to Get Vita Muddy in October
Drive
Vita gets its first real taste of rallying in October with WRC 3 from Black Bean and Milestone. The game's built on a brand new graphics and game engine, and features fully licensed teams and drivers from the 2012 WRC season. It's coming to PS Vita and PS3, but developer Milestone hasn't said anything about cross platform play, so keep those...
News Take Three Dragon's Dogma Pre-Order Packs into Battle
All with one pre-order
Capcom's big money blockbuster Dragon's Dogma is starting to rise over the horizon, and the publisher is hoping to entice you into a pre-order with some extra upgrades when you put down money at Blockbuster or ShopTo. UK customers can take home three extra upgrade packs from the retailers designed to give them a leg-up on the...
News GAME Exits Administration, Stores to Remain Open
Good news, everyone
GAME Group's out of administration less than a week after it entered. Investment group OpCapita and Baker Acquisitions Limited negotiated a deal that will see all remaining stores continue to trade, securing the jobs of some 3,200 staff. Here's hoping this signals the start of an upswing for the chain.
Game of the Month March 2012 - Journey
Of course
There's only one game we could possibly choose as the best of March: thatgamecompany's superlative Journey. In fact, not only is it the best game on PlayStation in the last calendar month, we named it the Best PlayStation 3 game in our recent staff poll. As our Journey review put it: Journey is a seminal release; the kind of title that...
News SEGA Cans Games, Focuses on Big Name IPs
Blue sky gaming
SEGA has revealed it will cancel games and focus on sales-proven IP in the future. The company's report cites Sonic the Hedgehog, Total War, Football Manager and Aliens as examples of the strong series it'll support in the next period and beyond. SEGA didn't reveal which titles would be canned, with a look through our list of
News Journey is PSN's Fastest Selling Game Ever
And rightly so
PSN masterpiece Journey is the fastest-selling game ever to hit the service. thatgamecompany's co-founder Jenova Chen announced on the PlayStation Blog that the company's latest has outsold every other digital download, beating the previous record set by inFAMOUS: Festival of
News New Little King's Story Footage Sets Our Minds at Ease
Fit for a king?
The first stills and details of New Little King's Story had us worried it would be a radical departure from its predecessor, the classic Little King's Story on Wii. Judging by this new trailer below we needn't have worried, as the upcoming Vita game has all the bizarre enemies and soldier flinging of its Nintendo counterpart...
Rumour PS4 Codenamed "Orbis", Due Christmas 2013
Salt
Here we go ladies and gentlemen: Kotaku claims to have the skinny on the next PlayStation. The site claims the upcoming machine is currently codenamed Orbis — Latin for "circle", naturally — and will launch in time for holiday 2013. Supposedly it won't play PS3 games, will lock all new games to a single PSN account to limit the...
Store Update 28th March 2012 (Europe)
Arc the Lad II and BurgerTime
Some good retro-themed content this week — let's get to it. PS3 Games: Burgertime World Tour (Free Trial available)BurgerTime World Tour is an evolution of the arcade classic enhanced with an innovative 3D rotating cylindrical environment and elevated retro gameplay. With new challenging platforming elements, online...
News New Little King's Story Sexy Shots and Video Inside
Haven't you grown?
Corobo, you're not a young boy any more. New Little King's Story comes to Vita later this year and it's not its heroic king that's all grown up: his wives have all matured too, as these screenshots from the game's so-called "sexy events" show. Princess Fearne in particular seems to have attracted the advances of a new...
Store Update 27th March 2012 (North America)
Closure, Resistance AR and MMA
Vita fans get one game to choose from this week but the free AR monument viewer for Resistance: Burning Skies is well worth taking a look at. Here's what's up and available for you to purchase right now. PlayStation Plus: Spring Fever Discounts:Closure — 20% offSplinter Cell HD — 50% offTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon:...
News PS Vita Gets First Free-to-Play Game
Oh, it's a puzzle game
There are few things more exciting than hearing about a new game that's free, even if that game is Treasures of Montezuma Blitz, a free-to-play puzzle game coming to Vita in North America soon. Alawar Entertainment is bringing its match-three game to Vita in EMEA territories, with a North American release still to be...
News GAME Enters Administration, Closes 277 Stores
2,000 made redundant
GAME Group plc. has entered administration. The retailer filed for administration last week but, having been unable to find a buyer over the weekend, was officially placed into administration yesterday morning. Administrators PwC made an immediate impact on reducing the company's store portfolio, closing 277 stores with the loss...
News Assassin's Creed III Collector's Editions Revealed
Sharpshooters, look out
Ubisoft has lifted the veil on its special editions that will accompany Assassin's Creed III when it launches later this year. The limited edition packages below are for PAL regions only — sorry, NTSC — and come in three flavours: Freedom, Join or Die and Special. Here's what's in what: Assassin's Creed III Freedom...
News Even at 10% Complete, PSO 2 Vita Looks Good
Energy shots
We only recently found out SEGA's Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to Vita, although the publisher deflated our hopes of playing it this year by saying it's only 10% complete. Still, to say it's got a gruelling 90% of development ahead, it looks pretty good already. SEGA released these screenshots of the game following a press event in...
News Disney's Brave Coming to PS3 with Move Archery
Arro' there
PlayStation Move is set to get another taste of Disney when Disney Pixar's Brave comes to the motion controller this summer. The third-person action adventure uses Move in an archery segment, though hopefully the full game will be Move compatible; you can't beat a bit of wand-waving in a fantasy setting. Disney's not telling us much...
Store Update 21st March 2012 (Europe)
Ubisoft meltdown
Ubi wants a big ol' slice of your money this week, with Altair, Ezio and Rayman all competing for your digital funds. Here's what's up this week for those with European Store accounts. PlayStation Plus: Assassin’s Creed Revelations – 50% Discount (ends Monday, March 26th)Rayman 3 HD – 20% Discount, 1 week onlyBionic Commando:...
Store Update 20th March 2012 (North America)
Sumioni and Rayman 3
After the thrill of Journey and other high profile releases in recent weeks, this Store Update might disappoint some, but there's still some quality downloading to be done. Here's what's up. PlayStation Plus: Free Dynamic Theme: Journey Dynamic Theme Spring Fever Discounted Games:Rayman 3 HD (20% off)
News Resistance: Burning Skies Trailer Lights Up
Isn't futile
Your first look at footage of Resistance: Burning Skies on PS Vita is right below these very words. Nihilistic's shooter is heading for release at the end of May, with more details to be revealed next month including the first information on its multiplayer mode. Until then get watching the video below and see how many new weapons and...
News Virtua Fighter Legend Chibita Talks Final Showdown
The 'little kid' speaks
SEGA's Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown is out in a few months, hoping to draw in a new breed of players to its "speed chess" gameplay. If you practise for years and years and years, you might be as good as VF legend Chibita. The Japanese pro talked to the official SEGA Blog about his play style, career and the...
News Enhanced Deadly Premonition Heading for PS3
We had a feeling
Xbox-exclusive Deadly Premonition was one of 2011's most divisive games: as flawed as it was enjoyable, review scores for it run nearly the whole spectrum, with a 10 from Destructoid and 2.0 from IGN. The news that an enhanced version is the on way to PS3 is probably pretty welcome, then. Former Marvelous man Yasuhiro Wada and game...
News It's a Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Vita Video
Camo: off
Konami's Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection is coming to Vita — we know this already, of course — but as part of Sony's Vita Game Heaven event it's released a new video of series honcho Hideo Kojima discussing the enhanced collection. It's all in Japanese of course so don't expect to glean much from Kojima's too-cool-for-school talk, but...
