News Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Teased In Official PlayStation Magazine
The biggest game in the world returns soon
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Exclusive video and interview inside
News Let's Dance with Mel B's Track List is Camp as They Come
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News - May, 2011
Tuesday31st May 2011
News Trimount Makes a PS Eye, Kinect and Wii Sensor Bar Megazord
Combine, transform!
Real fans of motion controlled gaming often struggle for vital space around the TV area: with your PlayStation Eye, Kinect for Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii sensor bar all in one place, wouldn't it be great to combine them into a massive Megazord of black plastic motion-sensing? The $29.99 dreamGear Trimount takes all three...
News Flex-Fire: An Innovation or Fine Adjustment?
Sharp Shooter with a twist
It seems like we just put our hands on the PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter a few days ago, but an inventor named Adam Wickam — Colorado gamer and entrepreneur — has already found a way to innovate the design of the Sharp Shooter. In our Sharp Shooter Impressions Article we noted that the controller had its strengths...
DiRT2 was one of our favourite PS3 games of 2009
We spent numerous hours with Codemasters' rally sequel, eventually earning the game's illusive Platinum trophy and still secretly longing for more. Codemasters' mix of arcade accessibility and simulation physics created a racing experience that not only felt unique, but also approachable without...
News Sony: Full PSN Service to Resume This Week
Includes the Store
Your time without being able to buy new games from the PlayStation Store is about to come to an end: Sony has confirmed the full PlayStation Network experience will return by the end of the week. All network services in the Americas, Europe and Australia will return, as well as Asian countries excluding Japan, Hong Kong and South...
Rumour Sony Spoils Syphon Filter 4 Surprise, Gets Us Excited Anyway
Syphon Filter 4, guys
We've waited so long for this moment, and now it seems like Sony has revealed the great announcement prematurely. It's a shame really, because this announcement would have been a huge surprise at Sony's E3 press conference. But as the old saying goes, "leaks happen". The news popped up on the PlayStation Blog but was...
News SEGA Announces Official London 2012 Video Game For PlayStation 3
SEGA has announced that there will be an official PlayStation 3 tie-in for the London 2012 Olympic Games
It will be called: London 2012 - The Official Video Game Of The Olympic Games. (We kid you not.) The game will release next year. No, Super Mario will not be in it.
News Sony Developer Site Links to Vita, Rumour Gains Power
Ready for la dolce Vita?
Yesterday we reported that PlayStation Vita is NGP's real name, and now that rumour has gained a little extra weight with an interesting discovery on the official Sony developer support site. vita.scedev.net links to the Sony Computer Entertainment Development site, as does ngp.scedev.net. We tried various other combinations...
News DJ Hero Developer FreeStyle Games Is Making A New Video Game
The status of DJ Hero developer FreeStyle Games has been in limbo for some time, but the company has announced this afternoon that it "will continue its strong relationship with Activision"
In fact the British studio is already working on a new super-secret project for the publisher, which will be announced in the coming months. Unfortunately, the...
News The Internet's Getting Its Knickers In A Twist Over Call Of Duty: Elite
News flash: Activision likes to make money
Call Of Duty: Elite is just another prong in Activision's automatic cash generation scheme. The long rumoured subscription service aims to bring social networking features to the world's most popular game. Problem is, it just doesn't look worth it yet. Officially announced this afternoon, Call Of Duty:...
Rumour Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair Coming To PlayStation 3
Co-operative vampire hunter reunion, Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair, is coming to the PlayStation 3 after a period of exclusivity on the XBOX 360
That's according to Siliconera, which cites "two different sources" for its story. The multiplayer spin-off commanded mixed reaction on the XBOX, settling with a reasonable (but hardly...
E3 2011 Q-Games Set To Showcase Three Titles At E3
You read the headline correctly: Q-Games has confirmed it will showcase three titles at this year's E3
We know one of the titles will be PixelJunk Lifelike — the company's bizarre PlayStation Move collaboration with Baiyon — but the other two are still shrouded in secrecy as far as we're aware. How much do you want to bet on one of the games...
News UK Sales Charts: DiRT 3 Unable To Overtake L.A. Noire
L
A. Noire</a> has held onto the UK sales charts top spot for a second week running, beating off Codemasters' semi-sim DiRT 3 which finished up in a respectable second. LEGO Pirates Of the Caribbean, Zumba Fitness and Brink all held onto their high positions to round out the top five, with familiar faces such as Crysis 2 and Call Of Duty:...
News Sony Confident Others Will Follow In Call Of Duty: Elite's Footsteps
While the rest of the Internet hits back at Activision's not-so-intriguing Call Of Duty: Elite subscription model, Sony's Rob Dyer has told the Wall Street Journal that he's "very confident" other developers will follow in Activision's footsteps
"There's money to be made there," he said, clarifying that very few franchise's could justify...
So the PlayStation Store is not coming back before the end of the month, but it is returning before the end of the week according to Sony
Let's not get too moany about the slight delay, seeing as its only a couple of days at max. Furthermore, when you have things like this going viral all over Twitter, it's probably better to be safe than sorry. The...
Report Devil May Cry HD Collection Set For E3 Announcement On PlayStation 3
You might not have noticed, but HD collections are big business on the PlayStation 3 right now
According to a report on Gematsu, Capcom's Devil May Cry will be the latest franchise to get the re-release treatment. The collection will be announced at E3 to commemorate the franchise's ten-year anniversary. Devil May Cry launched on PlayStation 2 in...
News Naughty Dog Drops More Details On Uncharted 3's Multiplayer
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is very much a known quantity at this point
Do we really need to know anymore about the game? It's going to be proper, proper amazing. We're going to buy it. Moving on... Curiously, there are some people that want to know every last detail about the game, and Naughty Dog's obliged with a fairly expansive blow-out on...
News Rockstar Announces Pass For L.A. Noire, A Nifty Method Of Keeping Used Copies Off The Shelves
Rockstar's announced its "Pass" service for L
A. Noire</a> this afternoon, a nifty method of keeping the primarily single-player title out of used game stores. The service will essentially allow players to "pre-purchase" all of L.A. Noire's upcoming DLC for $10. The content will still be available a la carte, but will cost you 50%...
Monday30th May 2011
News Here's How the Sharp Shooter Evolved
It wasn't always sleek
The PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter is a serious bit of kit, but it didn't just come together overnight, as the latest PlayStation blog post explains. The idea for the add-on sprang into the head of Guerrilla's Mathijs de Jonge while demonstrating Killzone 3's PlayStation Move controls to the press: We had several Helghast...
News Sony Announces Plans to Live Stream E3 2011 Show
Live in your living room
Sony's E3 media briefings are normally held behind closed doors, away from the prying eyes of fans, but this year the company is opening those big doors to everyone and streaming the event live online. The official PlayStation Blog will carry a live stream of the show from its kick off on Monday 6th June at 5pm Pacific time,...
News Grip Games' One Epic Game Mixes Canabalt With Side-Scrolling Shooting, Looks Flippin' Amazing
We've been excited about Grip Games' One Epic Game ever since it was teased last week
Grip's been behind some of the better PlayStation Minis, so naturally an impending announcement from the studio piqued our interest. As promised, Grip Games has blown the lid off One Epic Game overnight. The PlayStation Mini is pitched as a parody of existing game...
Rumour PlayStation Vita is the Official Name for NGP
We'll soon see
NGP is the codename for Sony's next portable, with the official name likely to be unveiled at E3 next week. The latest rumour, however, claims to have outed the console's name already: PlayStation Vita. The Vita — which is Italian for "life", of course — was spotted on proofs for E3 booklets due to make the rounds next week. As...
News Kojima Posts Mysterious Image On Twitter, Says He's Not Going To E3
Ah Hideo Kojima
We like to imagine his life is just as complex and convoluted as a good Metal Gear Solid narrative. The video game visionary has posted an image on Twitter alongside a statement that he is recording for his new project. The image shows two monitors with an unclear figure on the screen. What does it all mean? We'll let someone else...
Rumour Uncharted NGP To Be Known As 'Golden Abyss'
Gaming blog Ripten reckons it knows the final name of Uncharted NGP Vita
The blog claims that the Sony Bend developed prequel will be known as Uncharted: Golden Abyss, which sounds perfectly reasonable to us. Ripten also reckons it has confirmation of the PSVita name via a trusted source, but then we already knew that didn't we?
News Sony To Stream E3 Press Conference On PlayStation Blog
Hallelujah
The platform holders finally get it: video game fans actually enjoy watching E3 press conferences. We've spent years fumbling with spotty GameSpot and IGN feeds, desperately trying to get a glimpse of the big threes press conferences, but, for Sony, that ends now. The company has confirmed plans to air its E3 press conference live on the...
Sunday29th May 2011
News Shuhei Yoshida Casts Doubt Over NGP RAM Reduction Rumours
Earlier in the week a French website reported that the NGP's RAM had been reduced from 512mb to 256mb
While Sony never confirmed the system's specifications, the rumour commanded a lot of attention on a number of mainstream publications. Many suggested Sony had scaled down the ambition of its new handheld in order to meet price concerns. But in a...
Rumour NGP To Be Named PSVita?
It's about a week until E3, so its only natural that the rumours and leaks should start to intensify
The Internet's been going crazy overnight about a couple of leaked photographs supposedly revealing the NGP's final name. That name is PSVita, by the way. Vita was originally believed to be one of NGP's codenames before the system was announced. The...
News GRIN Founders Blame Square Enix For Studio's Close, Hilarity Inside
Remember GRIN? There was a period in 2009 where virtually every game coming out had their name on it: Bionic Commando, Wanted, Terminator Salvation
They seemed to come out of nowhere, and disappear just as quickly. Yet shortly after their closure we got details that the company was working on a Final Fantasy reboot for Square Enix. That reboot,...
Saturday28th May 2011
E3's crept up on me
I've known it's been coming for some time, but am only just starting to get that pang of excitement for the event and all its impending announcements. A lot of gamers describe E3 as their equivalent of Christmas, and it really does feel that way. But I also sense the tide has been changing for some years. While the spectacle of...
News The Tales Of Xillia PlayStation 3 Bundle Is A Thing Of Glorious Beauty
There's been some amazing limited edition PlayStation 3s
The Tales Of Xillia hardware bundle shown off in Japan this afternoon is one of the better ones, though. The limited edition hardware was announced in Japan as part of Namco Bandai's "Tales Of Festival 2011". The themed 160GB console comes with a copy of Tales Of Xillia and a...
News Okabu Has The Best Theme-Song You'll Hear All Year
Hand Circus has released an pre-E3 trailer for its upcoming co-operative puzzle title, Okabu
The game's being showcased on Sony's E3 stand during the event, so it looks like the platform holder is pushing the PSN title hard. We adore the art direction.</em>
News Transformers: Dark Of The Moon's Multiplayer Actually Looks Alright
Fact: the multiplayer in Transformers: War For Cybertron was amazing
In fact the whole package was pretty stellar, which lends hope to upcoming movie tie-in Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, which is in development at War For Cybertron studio High Moon. This could turn out the best Transformers movie tie-in yet. It's just a shame the Transformers...
Friday27th May 2011
News Excellent, SEGA is Bringing House of the Dead: Overkill to Move
Extended Cut on the way
SEGA's House of the Dead: Overkill on Wii was a fantastically gory and ludicrously tasteless reimagining of the classic House of the Dead arcade series, and now the game is coming to PS3 in the lengthily-named House of the Dead: Overkill — Extended Cut. As well as full support for PlayStation Move and stereoscopic 3D, we...
News Sony Announces Decent Looking Official Wireless 7.1 Surround Sound Headset For PS3
We've been in the market for a quality pair of gaming headphones for some time now
Obviously we like cranking up the stereo as much as anyone else, but sometimes it's just not viable. Enter Sony's official wireless 7.1 surround sound headset. The cans will hit US retail for $99.99 (no word on a European release yet) nationwide this September. The...
News First inFamous 2 Review Sets The Bar High, IGN Goes With A 9.0
The first inFamous 2 review is in, and it's unsurprisingly pretty positive
In his 9.0 review of the game, Colin Moriarty (beyond!) explains that Sucker Punch's super-charged sequel is "stronger than its predecessor". Moriarty concludes: "Nothing exists in inFamous 2 just because, and thats something developer Sucker Punch should be...
News Fumito Ueda's Not Going To E3, The Last Guardian's Appearance Plunged Into Puddle Of Doubt
Team ICO's gaffer Fumito Ueda is not going to E3
Apparently. See, while we've no real reason to doubt Ueda's Twitter confirmation, we seem to recall David Jaffe pulling a similar stunt last year, only to roll up in Sweet Tooth's ice-cream truck and announce Twisted Metal. Of course, there's a good chance Ueda is telling the truth, in which case The...
News Errr, So There's A Little Bit More PlayStation Network Maintenance Incoming Next Week
This one is probably the one
Sony has frequently insisted that it will have the PlayStation Store back online by the end of the month, and it looks like the platform holder is going to squeeze every last minute out of that deadline. Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network will go offline for a few hours next Tuesday evening (from 19:00 BST...
News Geoff Keighley Takes To Twitter, Hypes Trailers: Uncharted 3 Co-Op, Soul Calibur V, More
GameTrailers TV host, Geoff Keighley, has taken to Twitter to hype up a number of exclusive trailers set to air on the show's pre-E3 special
Amongst the confirmed reveals is first footage of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception's co-op, Soul Calibur V, and the aforementioned Tomb Raider CG trailer. GTTV's promising around 10 exclusive reveals for the...
News Alice: Madness Returns Is Pretty Friggin' Messed Up
Hands up if you don't want to play as a psychotic child clutching at a butcher's knife and launching into a frenzied hysteria attack? (If you've got your hand up, you're doing it wrong by the way
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News Resistance Dual Pack Hits US Retail In July
If you're eager to catch up on humanities epic struggle against the Chimera in Insomniac's alternative history first-person shooter, now might be your best chance
Sony's confirmed a July release for the Insomniac double pack, which includes both Resistance: Fall Of Man and Resistance 2 for a lowly $40. The pack also includes a couple of multiplayer...
Fact: one of the best games available on the Nintendo Wii is House Of The Dead: Overkill
It released at a time when everyone was demanding "core" titles for Nintendo's system, only to be disappointed by their on-rails nature. But House Of The Dead: Overkill was genuinely one of the good ones, boasting an outrageously self-aware grindhouse...
News Splinter Cell Trilogy HD Pushed Back Again...
We wonder what's taking Ubisoft so long to put out the Splinter Cell Trilogy HD collection for PS3? After already suffering one delay this year, it looks like the game's been pushed back yet again
Several US retailers are now listing an August 2nd release date for the compilation.
News Rejoice Japan: PlayStation Network To Partially Return Tomorrow In Asia
Back online
Could you imagine if the PSN had been down worldwide as long as it's been down in Japan and parts of Asia? It's pretty unthinkable, right? Sony was required to prove to the Japanese government that it had strengthened its system security before bringing the PSN back online in the region. Presumably that's all done and dusted now as the...
News Take A Look At Mortal Kombat's 'Klassic Character Skin' Pack
As promised, Warner Bros' released a trailer for Mortal Kombat's "Klassic Character Skin" DLC pack
The kontent, which was previously only available with pre-orders of the game, includes new kostumes for a number of the game's characters as well as a trio of throw-back fatalities. It'll cost you $4.99 from June 7th.
News Rumour Of A Rumour: NGP's RAM Revealed, Then Slashed (Kinda?)
There's two rumours here if you read between the lines
Sony has always been cagey about the amount of RAM in the NGP. In fact, to our knowledge the platform holder has yet to confirm anything regarding that particular aspect of the system's specifications. Yet, French site 01Net is convinced Sony has cut the total RAM of the system from 512mb to...
News MonkeyPaw's BurgerTime World Tour Looks Fun But We're More Interested In Actual Burgers
MonkeyPaw's BurgerTime World Tour looks like a lot of fun
There's a trailer for the PlayStation Network classic remake after the jump. But as much as we love the idea of burger themed video games, it's lunch-time and we can't help dreaming of actual burgers. We could go for something really smokey right now: flame-grilled burger, smoked cheddar...
News Hideo Kojima Rules Out Metal Gear Solid 5 For E3, NGP Game Is Not A Port Of MGS4
Hideo Kojima has ruled out and confirmed a series of rumours in a quick-fire interview on the latest Kojima Productions podcast
The news, picked up by Andriasang, rules out the possibility of a Metal Gear Solid 5 announcement, while also discrediting rumours of an MGS4 port for NGP. In addition, Kojima used the quick-fire question round to confirm...
News Square Enix Confirms Debut Tomb Raider Trailer Next Week
It might be bubbling under the radar a touch, but we think Square Enix's upcoming Tomb Raider reboot is going to surprise a lot of people
Crystal Dynamics has gradually been making Tomb Raider more and more relevant over recent iterations, and we fully expect this to be the game that makes everyone step back and say, "Woah, Tomb Raider is...
Thursday26th May 2011
News Champion Jockey Turns Move into Reins and a Riding Crop
At last
PlayStation Move, your greatest moment awaits: Champion Jockey is coming to PS3 later this year. The new version of Tecmo Koei's long-running G1 Jockey series, the game will feature full PlayStation Move support to help you spur on your horse to victory, with the official site actually depicting one diminutive jockey wielding two motion...
News European Resistance 3 Pre-Order Bonuses Aim for Your Wallet
Release date confirmed too
No big release is complete these days without a pre-order bonus and array of special editions, and Sony Europe has just announced the giveaways for Resistance 3, due to land in Europe in September. The following bonuses are available for customers who pre-order at various outlets, along with the official descriptions from...
Take no notice of Brink's storyline
We didn't. As much as we adore the game's quirky art-direction, the plot is utter nonsense. You're situated on a water-based city known as the Ark, but there's chaos aboard the warring location as its inhabitants are divided by two factions: the Security and the Resistance. Cut-scenes try to tie the narrative...
News Heads Up: Resistance 3 Releases September 9th In UK, Special Editions Revealed
Sony's confirmed that Insomniac's upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive shooter, Resistance 3, will release on September 9th in the UK
The rest of Europe will get it a bit earlier, on September 7th. The US version will release on September 6th, as was previously confirmed. In addition to the release date, Sony's also blown the lid off the game's...
News Get Your White Knight Chronicles Fix On June 10th In The UK
Sony has dated both White Knight Chronicles II (PS3) and White Knight Chronicles: Origins (PSP) for a June 10th release in the UK
Both games will release on June 8th across the rest of Europe. There's new trailers for both games after the jump.
News Assassin's Creed: Revelations Teaser Trailer Gets Us Hyped In Record Time
More Ezio Auditore you say? At first we were sceptical, but in one teensy teaser trailer Ubisoft's got us totally hyped
Assassin's Creed: Revelations sees Ezio follow in the foot-steps of Altair on a journey to recover five ancient seals that hold the keys to the future of the Assassins brotherhood". The path will take Ezio to Constantinople,...
News Mortal Kombat Pre-Order Bonuses To Release As DLC
Mortal Kombat gaffer Ed Boon has revealed via Twitter that all of the reboot's retailer-specific pre-order material will release as DLC for the reboot very soon
"The 7 Klassic outfits & 3 Klassic fatalities that were retailer exclusives will be bundled into one DLC package," Boon said. "Trailer coming on Friday." The pack...
News Bloodrayne: Betrayal Actually Looks Pretty Rad
The blood will rain in Bloodrayne: Betrayal
Seriously, there's more blood in this 50-second debut trailer than most games contain in a full 20-hour campaign. Still, we suppose it makes sense — this being a game called Bloodrayne and all. The game itself actually looks pretty rad. Some of the animation is a teensy bit janky, but we like the...
News Kojima Productions Promises 'Something Special' For Konami Pre-E3 Event Next Week
Kojima Productions has promised surprises as part of Konami's pre-E3 event next Thursday
Speaking in the studio's official podcast, host Sean Eyestone mentioned that company has "something special" to announce before the big event in L.A.. "We are going to have a few announcements at E3 and we have some surprises, so be looking...
News Expect L.A. Noire DLC News On Your Desk Next Week
Rockstar's confirmed that details of L
A. Noire's</a> DLC plans will be revealed next week. The company announced the, errr, announcement in a Tweet overnight. There are already two additional L.A. Noire cases made available through various retail chains: The Naked City and A Slip Of A Tongue. Details on a third DLC pack, Nichlson...
News Advice: Watch The Hunted: The Demon's Forge Launch Trailer On Mute
Hunted: The Demon's Forge looks decent enough: a Gears Of War-esque co-operative adventure set in a fantasy world
We're just not sure the audio in the game's launch trailer necessarily does the product justice. Indeed, the horrible cover of The Turtles' "Happy Together" and questionable voice acting are not doing anything for us...
News Disney Universe Brings Multiplayer Action-Adventure To PlayStation 3
Still confused after yesterday's teaser trailer? Disney Interactive has officially announced Disney Universe for PlayStation 3 this morning -- a multiplayer focused action-adventure game featuring levels pulled from classic Disney universes
You'll be able to select a range of costumes from classic Disney properties, including Alice In Wonderland,...
Some positive PlayStation news at last
Perhaps slightly soured by the PlayStation Network situation, but not to be sniffed at in the slightest. Sony has recorded a whopping ¥35 billion profit for the PlayStation division through its March 2010 fiscal year (ending March 31st, 2011). Operating profit was at ¥35.6 billion (£266.9 million/$435.3...
News Sony Acknowledges 'Future Platform' For The First Time
We all know Sony's working on a new PlayStation
It's as obvious as the sun-setting. But up until now, Sony has not acknowledged a new home console in any way. That changed this morning, when Sony mentioned a "future platform" at its financial meeting for investors. Sonys VP and CFO, Masaru Kato, mentioned the "future platform"...
"Stop worrying," was the message sent out by Sony Computer Entertainment this afternoon
Well, sorta anyway. The company reiterated at its earnings briefing today that the NGP is still on track for a 2011 launch. Of course, we still have no idea which region will get the device first, but we assume all will be made clear at E3 in a couple of weeks...
Report Ninja Gaiden 3 To Run At 60FPS, Will Boast Eight-Player Modes, 'May' Have Move Support
A litter of eager Official PlayStation Magazine subscribers have found themselves in possession of a wealth of Ninja Gaiden 3 information
Naturally, that content's found itself out of the magazine and onto the Internet, courtesy of NeoGAF. Apparently the game will run at a silky smooth 60 frames per second, with competitive and co-operative...
News Half-Minute Hero Sequel Hits Japan On August 4th
We absolutely adored Half-Minute Hero
If you haven't played that game yet, hop to it. Be quick about it too, you've only got a few months until the game's successor, Hero 30 Second, launches in Japan on August 4th. For those not familiar with the series, the crux of the gameplay depends on you completing a series of RPG-like quests within just...
Wednesday25th May 2011
News Don't Want to Spend $40 on a Sharp Shooter? Make Your Own
Might not be quite as pretty though
The PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter is an awesome-looking piece of kit, with stacks of buttons, sliders, stocks and triggers, but it's also a pretty costly $40/£40. There must be a cheaper alternative, right? Movemodo Kussuth thinks so, and shared this photo of a home-made Sharp Shooter alternative fashioned from...
News Sony's E3 2011 Event Lasts Five Hours
One big party
We're under two weeks away from Sony's E3 press conference now, and those expecting a short in-and-out affair might be surprised that the event is set to last five hours. The actual announcements will likely come in the initial 'media briefing', expected to last an hour and a half or so, with a mysterious 'special event' following on...
News Ban This Sick Filth: Daily Mail Blasts Modern Warfare 3 For 'Recreating' London Attacks
In July 2005 there was a series of terrorist attacks on London
As with all terrorist attacks, the event was given a fancy buzzword by the media — duh, 7/7 of course — so we could all easily recall the horrors of the day. One prong of the attack involved blowing a hole in a London Underground train. A similar image is depicted in the latest Call...
News Ubisoft to Reveal MotionSports Adrenaline and More at E3
Mega publisher details line-up
Two weeks ago we reported that Motion Sports Adrenaline is coming to PlayStation Move, and now publisher Ubisoft has confirmed it's going to show off more of the game at its E3 media event on 6th June. The announcement carried no further details other than calling the game a "casual" title, so at this point...
News In Stranger News: Sony To Publish Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare On PlayStation 3
Sometimes a piece of news funnels through that makes us raise an eyebrow
This story is definitely one of those. According to Siliconera, Sony is to publish classic PlayStation title Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare for PlayStation 3. Why? We've no idea. Siliconera cites an ESRB rating for the old Infogrames title, confirming the game's presence...
News Take-Two Keeps Hold Of Houser Brothers, Rockstar Games
In its latest financial report, Take-Two has announced that it has renewed employment agreements with "key members of the creative team of Rockstar Games"
Bosses Sam and Dan Houser have renewed their contracts, alongside Leslie Benzies on what the company notes as "substantially similar economic terms". Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick...
News Rockstar: Agent Is 'Still In Development'
Remember Agent? No
Well, fair enough, it has been a while. Allow us to jog your memory: back at E3 2009 Sony announced that Rockstar was developing an exclusive PlayStation 3 title called Agent. Since then we've heard absolutely nothing about the game. Despite the lack of information, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick insisted the game was "still...
News Oh No, Not More DeathSpank
"Bagsy not reviewing it," was the chant that reverberated through the PushSquare office when we got word of another entry in the shockingly unfunny DeathSpank
Looking back, we were far too lenient on the original game — a belief made shockingly clear when no one stepped forward to review the hastily rushed out sequel. Now Hothead's announced a...
News Hothead Announces Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: The Video Game
We read Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy once
We thought it was really funny, but beyond that we can't remember anything about the story. There's a computer trying to decipher the meaning of life, right? We think that's in the book somewhere. We hope Deathspank developer, Hothead Games, has a better recollection of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy...
News Inafune Confirms Plans To Release PlayStation 3 Exclusive RPG
Former Capcom gaffer Keiji Inafune has announced that he is working on a PlayStation 3 exclusive RPG, due for release in August
According to an interview with Bloomberg, Inafune also has another social game in the pipeline, but details are scarce. Presumably both projects are being developed under Inafune's new Comcept label. Inafune left Capcom...
News Yup, Sony Is Still Releasing New PlayStation Portable Hardware Bundles
'Tis the season for hardware bundles apparently
After this afternoon's Call Of Duty: Black Ops bundle announcement, Sony has followed up with a pretty decent PSP set. The package — which can be yours for a bargain $159.99 — includes a PSP-3000 in Piano Black, a 2GB memory stick, a copy of MLB 2011: The Show and Gran Turismo PSP. Not a bad set...
News SOCOM 4 Scores 'Double XP' Offer To Welcome Players Back
Players eager to jump back into SOCOM 4 will be excited to learn that Zipper's doubling up the XP rewards for the "near future"
Community manager Chris Roper (beyond!) made the announcement on the official SOCOM website this evening. "In an effort to help bring everyone back up to speed, we're doubling any and all XP earned during competitive...
News Sony Ericsson Nets Timed-Exclusivity Window For Minecraft On Xperia Play
Mojang Studios has announced that its indie-hit, Minecraft, will launch exclusively on Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play before any other Android-powered devices
Whoever's responsible for sealing that deal deserves a pay-raise. The Xperia Play version of the PC cult-indie hit will feature customised controls tailored for the Xperia Play's PlayStation...
News Sony E3 Press Conference Details Announced, Event Runs For Five Hours
Sony's attached timing information to its E3 press conference
The event — scheduled for June 7th at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena — will kick off at 17:00PT (01:00BST) and will run right through to 22:00PT. Don't go expecting a five-hour conference marathon though. Looks like Sony's got a big event planned for after the conference...
As previously rumoured, Sony has confirmed a limited edition Call Of Duty: Black Ops PlayStation 3 bundle for North America
The bundle — which costs $299.99 — includes a 160GB system, a copy of Call Of Duty: Black Ops and a download voucher for the First Strike content pack, which adds a bunch of multiplayer maps to the game. The bundle's due...
News Does Disney Universe Remind Anyone Else Of LittleBigPlanet?
So, the folks at Disney Interactive have clearly spent a good chunk of time playing LittleBigPlanet these past couple of years, huh? We're not entirely sure what Disney Universe entails yet, but this trailer suggests we'll find out tomorrow
Until then, enjoy the nonsense.</em>
Tuesday24th May 2011
Review We Dare (PlayStation 3)
We feel dirty now
We Dare raised more than just eyebrows with its original trailer: the thought of young gamers getting into an array of saucy situations was too much for some, who seized upon the game's PEGI 12+ rating to call it immoral, insulting and downright offensive. Well, they got two right. We Dare's whole reputation as a bawdy party game...
Feature Disc Golf World Champions Doss and Jenkins Play Sports Champions Disc Golf Too
Exclusive video and interview inside
When PlayStation Move launched there was one game that truly showed off its impressive 1:1 controls: Sports Champions. The game featured multiple sports, each using Move in its own unique way. One of the sports stood out from the rest, and that was Disc Golf: the precision and accuracy of Move was able to...
Rumour PlayStation Store Back Within 24 Hours
Update: Sony squashes rumours
Edit: PlayStation Store will not be returning tomorrow, PlayStation blog manager James Gallagher has confirmed: The latest information I have on PlayStation Store is that we are aiming to have it live by the end of May. Contrary to popular rumours, it will not be reopening tomorrow but we will let you know here as soon...
News Sony Patent Could Bring Move Support to Portable Consoles
NGP or PSP support rumoured
If you've got a PSP 3000 or PSP Go you can already use your DualShock controller to control the games, but for games where you need to get a bit more physical, this newly unearthed patent might interest you. Filed by Sony back in 2009, the patent clearly shows two motion controllers used to orchestrate the action on a...
News Sherlock Holmes Brings Victorian Crime Solving To PlayStation 3
If you're just about getting done with L
A. Noire</a>, you might well be on the hunt for a new detective game on PlayStation 3. With a timely announcement, Focus Home Interactive has announced that it's bringing its popular Sherlock Holmes series to the PlayStation 3. The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Testament Of Sherlock may be a...
News inFamous 2's Limited Edition DualShock's Are Straight Outta The Nineties
In the nineties, every single electronics product was shipped in transparent plastic
We distinctly remember refusing to purchase PlayStation memory cards that weren't transparent. It was just cool at the time. Sony and Sucker Punch obviously feel its time to revive the timely fad, by releasing special European editions of inFamous 2 featuring an...
News LOL: Duke Nukem Forever Goes Gold
Wait for it: Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold
That means, short of a catastrophe, the game is finished and ready to be manufactured for retail. Always bet on Duke, I did, said Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford. I bet on all of the developers who have ever been a part of this legendary project and I bet that none of us want to live in a world...
Last week an internal Sony memo hinted that the PlayStation Store would return today
We've still got no real conclusive evidence of that, but it's surely no coincidence that Sony has planned out scheduled maintenance for this evening. The maintenance, which is set to run today from 16:00PM (UK-time) through until 00:00AM, will lock you out of...
News Patent Reveals PlayStation Move Could Come to NGP
Motion gaming in your hand
NGP already contains some pretty impressive motion-sensing technology, but a new Sony patent suggests the new portable could receive PlayStation Move support in future. Filed by Sony in 2009, the patent reveals a special stand would be used to house the portable console, letting it communicate with the Move controller. A...
News Boo: No Trophies For PSP Remasters Series
According to a report on Siliconera, trophy buffs should not expect digital trinkets for playing through remastered PSP titles on PS3
Trophy support was always unlikely, with the PSP Remaster Series supporting cross-compatible saves. Still, we imagine the decision's probably just lost Sony a good chunk of sales in the West. There is this mentality...
News Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker To Be Announced For PlayStation 3 At E3
Let's be honest, we all knew it was probably coming
A report on JVN overnight is suggesting that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be made available for PlayStation 3 via the recently announced PSP Remasters Series. Apparently the announcement will be made at E3, presumably kicking off a bumper evening of Sony and Kojima announcements. Presumably...
News Resistance: Fall Of Man & Resistance 2 Packed Up In Beefy Greatest Hits Collection
Resistance: Fall Of Man is amazing
Resistance 2 is not quite as amazing, though we do have a pretty big soft-spot for the game's stellar co-operative campaign. Both are essential material if you're preparing for the upcoming Resistance 3. As such, Sony's decided to pack up both games into a bumper Greatest Hits collection package that includes both...
News Boom: New Uncharted NGP Details To Be Revealed Next Week
More Uncharted NGP details are on the way
That's according to a report on Joystiq which corrects some inaccurate reports from earlier in the week. Remember when we said that Uncharted NGP was set between the first two games. We were wrong — it's actually a prequel. "It is an all-new story set before Uncharted: Drake's Fortune," Sony told
News inFamous 2's Hero Edition Is Amazing But Expensive
We'd consider ourselves inFamous fans here at PushSquare, but we've decided against shelling out for the insanely expensive inFamous 2: Hero Edition
It's not that the set doesn't look cool — it genuinely does! — but more that we've learned our lesson when it comes to special editions. The God Of War III set was similarly attractive, and we...
News Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 Looks Gorgeous On CryEngine
We recently played City Interactive's Sniper: Ghost Warrior and thoroughly enjoyed the experience for what it was -- cheap, digestable and fun
As such, we're actually really excited for Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2. The sequel is set to use Crytek's CryEngine 3 technology, which should give the original's slightly shoddy visuals a real kick up the bum...
News Sony Opens Official E3 Website, Teases Nine PS3 Game Showcases
Sony's launched its official E3 website, revealing a few details about the event but keeping schtum on all the juicy stuff
The website does contain a few teasers: NGP will be demonstrated, alongside nine PS3 titles (four of which are left blank). Check out the website for yourself through here.
News Marvelous To Support NGP With Multiple Projects Within Next 12 Months
Marvelous has pledged plenty of support for Sony's upcoming NGP platform in its financial report for the coming fiscal year
The developer has a number of projects in the works for Sony's platform, all of which are due for release within the next 12 months. The NGP itself does not yet have a release date, but it expected to launch before the end of...
News Debut Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Trailer Is Amazing, Haters Gonna Hate
Someone give the Activision marketing department a raise
In just a couple of seconds of this debut Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 trailer, the marketing team managed to capture the game's entire concept. The sneaky little "WW3" logo which transforms into "MW3" is nothing shy of a stroke of brilliance. And it perfectly sums up the...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: DiRT 3 Releases Today
DiRT 3 currently commands a MetaCritic of 88
That's right up there with L.A. Noire. Codemasters has just sent us a note to remind you all that the game is out today. You should probably do the sensible thing and buy it.</em>
News inFamous 2: The Beast Is Coming...
Sucker Punch has taken to the PlayStation Blog to debut a brand new teaser trailer for the upcoming inFamous 2
The trailer is light on content, but it's just long enough to let you know that the Beast is coming. The Beast was teased at the end of the original inFamous, when Cole had a vision of the forceful entity that only he can stop. At the start...
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Monday23rd May 2011
Review SOCOM: Special Forces (PlayStation 3)
Tactics on the Move
SOCOM 2 wasn’t only just one of the best shooters for the PlayStation 2, but many would likely even call it the best on the system. These are big boots for SOCOM: Special Forces (aka SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs in North America) to fill, and now that the online war is back in action from the PlayStation Network outage, we’ve...
News Sony's Not Done With The Dance Game Genre Yet
We actively dislike the dance game genre
We've made it a point to make that clear over the past couple of years, but we can't ignore their relevance. Franchises like Just Dance on the Nintendo Wii and Dance Central on the XBOX 360 are huge. Yet Sony's attempts to capture the market have been less convincing, with SingStar: Dance not quite shaking...
Review LEGO: Pirates Of The Caribbean (PlayStation 3)
It only takes one look at Captain Jack Sparrow sauntering into view to melt your heart
Traveller's Tales appears to have mastered the art of transforming popular properties into thoroughly enjoyable co-operative affairs, and the developer's whimsical take on Disney's somewhat convoluted Pirates Of The Caribbean tetralogy is no different. Set across...
News Grip Games Teases Epic Announcement For PlayStation Minis
Grip Games has been one of the more passionate PlayStation Minis developers we've been in contact with since Sony started their PlayStation 3/PlayStation Portable micro-game initiative
That passion's paid off, resulting in some of the better games for the platform amidst a sea of mediocrity. So when Grip Games told us they have an "epic"...
News UK Sales Charts: L.A. Noire Takes Top-Spot, Becomes Fastest Selling New IP Of All Time
Team Bondi's crime-thriller, L
A. Noire</a>, has literally flown out of the gates, becoming the fastest-selling new IP of all time in the UK. The game — which knocked Brink from its perch atop the charts — outsold Rockstar's previous effort, Red Dead Redemption, by some margin to claim the accolade. The UK chart is actually a pretty...
Something fishy is afoot
Metal Gear Solid: Rising is all about series-punchbag-come-series-badass Raiden. But the character's voice actor doesn't know a thing about the game. I am completely in the dark. I have no answers. I have no idea, a flustered Quinton Flynn told TheGamingLiberty in an interview, explaining that he'd not been contacted by...
News New Carmageddon Is An Indie Project, Square Enix Not Involved
We recently went gaga over the appearance of a countdown clock on carmageddon
com</a>. Piecing two-and-two together, we automatically assumed that this suggested a new game announcement in the series from publisher Square Enix. We were wrong. Apparently developer Stainless Games has bought the rights for the Carmageddon franchise off Square...
News Plenty Of DiRT 3 DLC On The Horizon
We played DiRT 2 through to completion and then some last year
One thing we always lamented about the game was a serious lack of DLC. We would have happily splashed out on more tracks and cars, but the content never really came. Thankfully, the brilliant DiRT 3 will not fall to the same fate. A bunch of trophy leaks have revealed four new DLC packs...
News Dead Island Looks Nothing Like The Trailers, Still Kind Of Awesome
Let's get to the point: Dead Island doesn't appear to have anything in common with those heart-felt trailers the publisher has been releasing to promote the game
That's fine though, because what Dead Island actually is looks pretty exciting anyway. The eleven minute gameplay demo included after the jump shows off a bunch of the game's mechanics, and...
Rumour The Penguin Outed In Batman: Arkham City
Rocksteady's been hinting at the Penguin's inclusion in Batman: Arkham City for some time now, despite there being no formal announcement from the company
That confirmation has hit the 'net overnight though, after Rocksteady's marketing manager, Dax Ginn, confirmed the character's inclusion in a newspaper interview. ArkhamCity.co.uk has a transcript...
Capcom is expecting some big sales from the PlayStation 3 this year
In a chart released to investors this afternoon, Capcom outlines the amount of software it expects to ship on all major platforms across the current fiscal year (through March 2012). The company is planning a 16-title strong line-up for the PlayStation 3, and is expecting to ship...
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will get its debut gameplay blowout overnight, according to Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling
He tweeted: "Modern Warfare 3 world premiere gameplay trailer tonight on NBA Western Conference Finals around 6pm PT (2 am UK)." You can assume the footage will be all over the 'net within seconds. Big...
News Bioshock Infinite Is Still A Video Game, New Screenshots Prove It
In case you'd all forgotten about the announcement of Bioshock Infinite -- which literally does feel like an eternity ago -- 2K's released a fresh batch of screenshots to remind us all that the game exists
The spiritual successor to Bioshock is set in the sky on the floating city of Columbia, and promises plenty of steampunk insanity and idyllic...
Sunday22nd May 2011
News Control Overhaul Confirmed For Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD, No More Claw
Capcom's opened the official website for Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD, confirming that the spruced up PlayStation 3 release of the PSP classic will include overhauled controls alongside 3D support, Ad-hoc Party and cross-compatible saves
Monster Hunter is famous for requiring players to master the "claw" grip, a position which allows...
News Killzone 3's Double XP Weekend Is On Now
Two headshots for the price of one
PSN is back in action and the multiplayer battles are raging once again. Guerrilla Games apparently is just as excited as we are, and has upped the ante to get gamers to Move back into Killzone 3 warzones in full force this weekend, by offering up a double XP weekend. Jumping into battle right now will already...
That roar that you heard outside your window earlier this morning, that was not the rapture
That was the sound of jubilation coming out of Japan as Sony announced Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD as part of its PSP Remaster Series. The new product-line — due to release in Japan first — will bring spruced up PlayStation Portable titles to the PS3...
This is huge
Seriously, what a way to liven up a dingey Sunday afternoon. Sony's just announced the "PSP Remaster Series" for PlayStation 3 in Japan, an initiative that will not only bring popular PlayStation Portable content to the big screen, but also pave the way for the NGP. Announced alongside Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD — which...
News Debut Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Trailer Showcases Visual Upgrades
Capcom's released the first trailer for Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD which was announced earlier today as part of Sony's PSP Remasters Series
The trailer showcases some of the game's visual upgrades. While the game is undeniable still a PSP title, the HD remaster adds clarity to the image that really highlights Monster Hunter's strong artistic...
Saturday21st May 2011
News Admit It, You're Going To Read The ICO Novel
"The boy was smiling," reads an excerpt from the English translation of the upcoming ICO novel, Castle In The Mist
"Whatever happened to the people in this city had happened so quickly, he hadnt even had time to realize that he was about to die." The book's due out on August 16th, presumably to drum up anticipation for the upcoming Team...
News Warner Bros Waive Mortal Kombat 'Kombat Pass' Until PlayStation Store Returns
One of the most frustrating aspects of the PlayStation Store being offline is the inability to redeem online passes, making the multiplayer functionality you paid for temporarily unavailable
Mortal Kombat is perhaps the most notable multiplayer focused title to be locked out by this practice since the PSN went down, and in respect to its fanbase,...
News Sony Outlines Uncharted 3's Motion Capture Technology
Uncharted is one of the most narratively compelling franchises around because of the way it uses motion capture
The franchise's creative director, Amy Hennig, believes Naughty Dog are kind of ahead of the pack," when it comes to motion capture in games. And that's the fundamental difference between Uncharted and other games. Well, aside from...
Friday20th May 2011
News No PlayStation Move Support for Starhawk
Controller stays on Earth
With its mix of shooting and space flight, Lightbox's aerial shooter Starhawk looked like a perfect fit for PlayStation Move, but the developer has confirmed the upcoming title won't support Sony's motion controller. That VideoGame Blog spotted producer Dylan Jobe responding to a user question on the official PlayStation...
News Capcom Can't Bring Mega Man Legends To PlayStation Network Due To Licensing
A lot of Capcom fans have been crying out for the re-release of Mega Man Legends as a PSone Classic on the PlayStation Store
But the publisher's vice president, Christian Svensson, has single-handedly shot down many fans' dreams, claiming the game can't be released due to licensing issues. Responding to a fan inquiry, Svensson responded sharply that...
News Mind-Shattering LittleBigPlanet 2 Level Begs The Question: Is This Real Life?
Maybe those crazy Christian folks got their dates wrong and the rapture actually occurred over night, because we can't believe what we're seeing here
This cannot be real life. LittleBigPlanet 2 user Steve_Big_Guns (who's created some memorable levels in the past) has excelled himself with his latest creation. The 3D shooter, called M.E.R.D. (Massive...
News Starhawk Promises Something Fresh For The Saturated Shooter Space
Homefront, Battlefield, Call Of Duty
All unique franchises with quality components, but irritatingly similar in design. According to Sony's in-house market research, gamers are starting to long for something a little bit different in their multiplayer shooter experiences. That's where Starhawk comes in. "Sony, of course they want to sell games...
News Sony Announces SmartAR, Possible NGP Bullet-Point
Contrary to popular belief, AR in video games did not start with the Nintendo 3DS
We know Nintendo fans like to believe their favourite video game manufacturer is responsible for every invention in the video game space, but on this occasion they are wrong [ooooh, sick burn - Ed]. Sony, in fact, has been dabbling with AR for years. Overnight the...
News Wait A Minute, Square Enix Is Teasing A New Carmageddon Game?
Regular readers will know that we're big fans of the car-combat genre
Up until last year, we'd given up hope of the genre making a return to its golden years, but then David Jaffe changed everything by announcing Twisted Metal and making us go mad in celebration. Twisted Metal is not out yet, but already the genre seems to be having somewhat of a...
News Guerrilla Games Doubling Up The Ol' XP In Killzone 3 All Weekend
Fans of first-person shooters will have a difficult choice to make this weekend: Call Of Duty: Black Ops or Killzone 3
Both games are running double XP periods to welcome players back to the PlayStation Network. Killzone 3's turned on the double XP as we speak, right through until May 23rd at 10:00AM UK-time. Hop to it soldiers, and blow out some...
News Analyst Expects L.A. Noire To Sell 3-4 Million Copies, We Reckon It'll Go Higher
Arvind Bhatia of analyst firm Sterne Agee reckons L
A. Noire</a> will sell 3-4 million copies. Based on the critical and consumer reaction, we wouldn't be surprised if the game doubled that estimate over the course of its life-span. We think the Street is expecting the title to sell 3 to 4 million units and so far the initial reviews seem...
News Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Teams Up On October 18th In North America
Quite a wait
Sony's whacked a release date on Insomniac's upcoming co-operative adventure, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One. The four-player combative platform will hit retail on October 18th in North America and October 19th in Europe. In addition to the release date, Sony's also disclosed a bunch of retailer exclusive bonuses for the US. From...
Thursday19th May 2011
News Resistance 3's Box Art is Frankly Superb
Don't believe us?
As much as we love the ongoing battle between humans and Chimeras, we never thought Resistance 3 and art would be such happy bedfellows, but the newly revealed box art for the upcoming shooter is nothing short of superb. The artwork comes from the desk of respected UK artist Olly Moss, whose style harks back to Saul Bass's...
News National Geographic Challenge! is Risk with Global Trivia
Conquer the world from your sofa
So far, Buzz! The Ultimate Music Quiz has the Move quiz market all to itself, but that motion-controlled monopoly won't last long, as National Geographic Challenge! is on the way in June. Taking a leaf out of Buzz!'s fondness for exclamation marks, National Geographic Challenge! is a Risk-style affair with players...
News RAGE Preorders Upgraded To The 'Anarchy Edition' In UK
Bethesda's just let us know that all preorders for id's upcoming first-person-shooter-meets-car-combat affair, RAGE, will be upgraded to the "Anarchy Edition" in the UK
The Anarchy Edition was announced during Bethesda's pre-E3 showcase last month and includes a bunch of in-game goodies. There's a double barrel shotgun, some elite armour, a pair of...
News L.A. Noire's 'Nicholson Electroplating' Arson Case Due Out On June 21st
As part of a promotion with Best Buy, Rockstar awarded the first sixteen purchasers of L
A. Noire</a> with a free redeem code for the game's first batch of DLC. The pack, entitled the "Nicholson Electroplating" Arson Case, will be available next month according to the redeem code's instruction page, which slaps a June 21st release...
News Warner Bros Confirms LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, Coming To NGP
Seems like the LEGO Harry Potter scoop we picked up on earlier in the week has forced Warner Bros hand, as the publisher has just announced LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
And, yes, the game's coming to Sony's new handheld. Officially entitled LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, the Traveller's Tales developed sequel will launch on PlayStation Portable,...
News Watch Ken Block Tear Up Battersea Power Station, All In The Name Of Video Games
DiRT 3's pretty hot on this gymkhana malarkey
We still haven't quite got a grip on what the activity entails, but it seems to focus pretty heavily on doing ridiculous things in a rally car. While we'd probably burst into tears at the prospect of driving an expensive car so recklessly in real-life, we can bask in the glory of professional driver Ken...
News Treyarch Welcomes Back PlayStation Network With Call Of Duty: Black Ops Double XP Weekend
The PlayStation Network is back, and everything's slowly starting to get back to normal after the service was offline for just over three weeks
In order to welcome players back to the service, Treyarch is planning a double XP weekend for Call Of Duty: Black Ops on PlayStation 3. From tomorrow 18:00 (UK time) right through to Tuesday 18:00, players...
News Zipper Interactive Hit With Layoffs
Bad news coming out of Zipper Interactive
Apparently the Seattle based studio has been hit with a number of redundancies, which Kotaku reports to be in the region of 33 employees. A Sony spokesperson clarified the layoffs as "normal business practice and a result of cutting back on production resources after the launch of two major...
News Uncharted NGP Set Between Drake's Fortune & Among Thieves, Interaction With Uncharted 3 Likely
E3 is getting closer, and after a couple of months of silence, we're starting to hear little trickles of information about the NGP again
News coming out of France this afternoon has shed some light on the upcoming Uncharted NGP. The game, which is in development at Sony Bend, is said to be set between the events of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and...
News Cohort Studios Push The Release Of Me Monstar: Hear Me Roar! Back To July
Cohort Studios' promising looking PlayStation Mini, Me Monstar: Hear Me Roar
</a>, has been delayed into July the company has announced. The game was originally due out this month on the PlayStation Network, but due to the recent PSN difficulties missed its original release window. To keep you occupied until July, Cohort's overhauled the...
News SEGA Pushes Anarchy Reigns Into 2012, No Reason For Delay
SEGA's pushed Platinum Games' ambitious multiplayer melee title, Anarchy Reigns, into 2012 in Japan
SEGA's yet to confirm, but we're assuming the delay will occur worldwide. The brawler, which features the protagonist from Wii-exclusive Madworld, was originally due out this year. SEGA's given no reason for the delay, but we'd imagine it has...
News Japanese Sales Charts: PSP Still On Top, But Hardware Slumps
The PlayStation Portable was on top of the Japanese sales charts again last week, but hardware was down overall
The usually dominant PSP only scooped up 34k sales, while both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii slumped to record lows. The PlayStation 3 didn't do much better either, managing just 13k sales. As for software, Dragon Quest continued to top the...
News Awesomenauts Promises Plenty Of Awesome For The PlayStation Network
Swords And Soldiers developer, Romino, has announced its latest project for the PlayStation Network
Described as a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game (MOBA for short, of course), Awesomenauts is "inspired by 80's animated series" and looks a bit like Super Smash Bros. We can get behind that. The game will be playable at E3 next month,...
Report Sony Eyeing May 24th Return For The PlayStation Store
The PlayStation Network data breach was undoubtedly one of the biggest stories in video games this year, but we're certain that we're not the only ones getting little bit sick of the news overload
As such, we'd love it if Sony got the PlayStation Store back online and drew a big red line under this whole mess so we can get back to writing about...
Wednesday18th May 2011
News Duke Nudem Is Ridiculous, Not Really Safe For Work
Ok, so there is a safe for work version of Duke Nudem -- 2K Games' latest Duke Nukem Forever spin-off game -- but who wants to play that? The game even appropriately boos you when you try to select it
And rightly so too. The actual game is a trashy target practice mini-game — but if you win you get to look at girls take their clothes off. You even...
News Namco's Committed To Pushing The Enslaved Series
Sometimes it feels like you could be sentenced to death-row for publicly acknowledging your enjoyment of Ninja Theory's Enslaved
People really hate that game. It's probably because it was developed by the same team that stole the dude out of Devil May Cry's hair bleach, but whatever — we liked it. May as well cart us away now, huh? At last count...
News Put Your Hands Up In The Air: Mortal Kombat DLC Releasing Soon
Mortal Kombat mastermind Ed Boon has said that DLC for the franchise's reboot will be released in the "next few weeks"
The DLC will be bundled with a patch which will re-balance some gameplay alongside playable character Skarlet. We really want to make the patch coincide with the first DLC thats going to come out, he told G4. So the Skarlet...
News Ubisoft Unveils Some Of The Characters In Assassin's Creed: Revelations
GameInformer's lifted the lid on some of the characters in the upcoming Assassin's Creed: Revelations
According to the publication, Ubisoft intends to make the multiplayer in Revelations a bit more meaningful than in Brotherhood, meaning that the full roster of characters will all have grounding in the single-player campaign. Characters announced...
News THQ Insists It's 'One Of The Big' Publishers
We love THQ, but we wish they'd shut up trying to remind us how relevent they are
You earn relevence through good content, something THQ has in abundance. You don't earn it by telling people to take notice every five minutes. That's exactly what CEO Brian Farrell has done in an interview with IndustryGamers though. We certainly think of ourselves...
News L.A. Noire Pushes Take-Two Shares Through The Roof
L
A. Noire</a> is not yet out in the UK. The crime-thriller released overnight in North America. Even though it's early days, the unique Rockstar published title has already made a killing for Take-Two. A round of positive reviews pushed Take-Two's shares up by 7.75 per cent to $17.10, a 32-month high for the company. We wonder if Sony regrets...
News Resistance 3's Boxart Is Totally Not What You'd Expect...
Resistance 3's boxart is weird
We haven't decided yet whether it's weird in an "OMG that's so awesome" or "OMG what were they thinking" kind of way. We'll leave that up to you. One thing's for sure: it's going to stand out on retail shelves like a sore-thumb. Which in many ways is a good thing. The image, which depicts a Chimeran...
News Valve Claims It's Not Showing Anything At E3 This Year
Remember last year? Valve said that it wasn't showing anything at E3, only for gaffer Gabe Newell to show up at Sony's press conference and announce Portal 2 for PlayStation 3
With Portal 2 come and gone, Valve has said it is definitely not showing anything at this year's E3. We really wouldn't be surprised if the developer had a change of heart and...
Tuesday17th May 2011
Talking Point Will Sony Move Gamers Again at E3 2011?
Crystal balls on stun
Sony’s E3 presentation is less than three weeks away, and even though PSN is coming back online the looming issues still weigh heavy on gamers' minds, and the company definitely needs to pull out all the stops at E3 to regain its lost momentum. PlayStation Move’s first eight months on the market have proven successful and...
News Bigben Brings Out Big Guns with Three New Move Games
Locked and loaded for E3
So far we've seen shooters rule the roost on PlayStation Move, with high profile Sony FPS titles like Killzone 3 and Resistance 3 stealing much of the limelight. There's still room for off-shoots of the genre to make names for themselves though, and that's clearly the thinking at accessory manufacturer and publisher Bigben...
News Sony America Welcomes You Back with These Games
Hard choices ahead
The North American PlayStation Blog has let loose with details of the free games you'll be able to claim as part of its Welcome Back programme when PlayStation Store service is restored in the near future. PlayStation 3 owners will be able to choose two of the following five games: Dead Nation inFAMOUS LittleBigPlanet Super...
News Sony Europe Details Games to Welcome You Back
Surprisingly good choices
It's not long until the PlayStation Store is back now, and as part of its promised "Welcome Back" programme Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced the games affected users will be able to choose from as compensation. Users across Europe can choose two of the following PS3 games:...
News Rune Factory Sails the Tides of Destiny Later This Year
Land, hoe!
As we rumoured last week, North American publisher Natsume has just confirmed the latest RPG off-shoot from the Harvest Moon franchise will be coming to the region later this year. The newly named Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny (formerly Rune Factory: Oceans) was announced over at Siliconera
News Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Now Up For Preorder In The UK
If you're desperate to give Activision your money for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the game can now be preordered from a variety of UK retailers
ShopTo, GAME and HMV have all followed the lead of US ch
News Dead Island Trailer Is Really Sad, A Bit Misleading
After the last Dead Island trailer, the pressure's really on Deep Silver to maintain the emotional tone that caught fire earlier in the year
This latest trailer — which features some gameplay footage — manages to pull at the heart-strings once more, but we're starting to feel like the tone is a bit misleading. While the trailers try to portry...
There's a flaw in Sony's PlayStation Network "Welcome Back" package that was always going to occur
While Sony's offering a pretty compelling selection of games, the hardcore fans are likely to be the ones that miss out — mainly because they'll already own the choices. Still, think outside of the hardcore circle and Sony's "Welcome Back"...
News There Will Be A LEGO Harry Potter Game On The NGP
We're going to change our daily activities
As opposed to sitting on our backsides playing video games, we're going to start sitting on our backsides and reading resumes. Because that's how you get all the big video game scoops. But while we adopt our changes in practice, we'll let someone else do the leg-work. Someone like that dude from...
News Do You Ever Want To Get Married?
That's the question posed by the latest trailer of Catherine, which features the first ever footage of the puzzle-platformer in English
In truth, the trailer's a little bit goofy, with numerous "fans" discussing whether they want to get married. We quite like the guy that implies getting married would ruin his life. We also like the fat...
News Sony Details European ID Protection For Europe
Sony has finally rolled out details for its ID protection plan in Europe after the PlayStation Network was hacked last month
The plan is available to users in the UK, France, Span and Germany at the moment, with details of other countries to follow. Sony reiterated that the convoluted nature of the region was causing some headaches, but the company...
News inFamous 2 Confirmed For June 8th In Europe, June 10th In The UK
We already know inFamous 2 is releasing on June 7th in North America, but what about Europe? SCEE's confirmed this afternoon that Sucker Punch's superhero adventure will launch June 8th in Europe and June 10th in the UK
There's a bunch of special editions available for the game, including the super-awesome "Hero" package which includes a...
News Duke Nukem Forever Demo Drops June 3rd For 'First Access Club'
Those of you that purchased the game of the year edition of Borderlands will already have access to the Duke Nukem Forever 'First Access Club'
Alternatively, you can gain entry by preordering a copy of Duke's overdue adventure from various retailers. Once you're into the super elite club, Gearbox has announced that you'll get early access to the...
Monday16th May 2011
Review Sniper: Ghost Warrior (PlayStation 3)
Remember that sniper mission from Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare? Everybody loved it: no game had ever pulled off the satisfying tension of creeping through a woodland in a ghillie suit, carefully and dramatically picking off targets with your hardened commander
Essentially, Sniper: Ghost Warrior is that mission extrapolated across a full campaign...
News PSN Phased Roll Out Begins, Start Changing Passwords Now
Kaz Hirai sent you a message
The green light is on: power up your PS3 and you'll be greeted by the familiar sight of a mandatory firmware update, pushing your system software up to v3.61. This will allow you to log in and change your PlayStation Network account password, securing your personal details from prying eyes. Sony Computer Entertainment...
News Mass Effect 3 Will Feature Same-Sex Relationships
As time goes by, more and more people become obsessed with game's portraying various sexual preferences
It's almost like games aren't good anymore if there isn't the option to be gay, straight or bisexual. Bioware's on a one developer crusade to change all that though. According to Bioware's Casey Hudson, Mass Effect 3 will support "wider...
News Monolith Announces Gotham City Imposters, Multiplayer FPS For PlayStation Network
What would you expect the developers of F
E.A.R. to cook up next? If you answered "first-person shooter", then give yourself a pat on the back. If you answered "gritty first-person shooter with scary pregnant mutant women", take that pat away. You don't deserve it anymore. Warner Bros has announced Gotham City Imposters this...
News UK Sales Charts: Brink Takes The Top-Spot, LEGO Pirates Saunters Into Second
Brink has knocked Zumba Fitness [urgh - Ed] off the top of the UK sales charts this week, scoring a domestic top-spot for developer Splash Damage
The brilliant LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean made it a one-two for new releases, finishing up in second. Of course, Zumba Fitness was still around to keep Mums happy, finishing up in third just ahead of...
News Ghostlight Details Bumper Agarest: Generations Of War Zero Collector's Edition
As far as collector's editions go, Ghostlight's package for the upcoming Agarest: Generations Of War Zero is pretty comprehensive
Not only do you get the game, a poster, a bunch of artwork, and the soundtrack, but if you pre-order the package from the publisher's webstore you'll also score an exclusive black t-shirt. Nifty. Hit up Ghostlight's...
News Sony Planning Multiple Weekly PlayStation Store Updates Upon Return
Since the PlayStation Network went down, Sony's missed three PlayStation Store updates
With no estimated date for the Store's restoration, that number might end up increasing by two or three weeks. As such, Sony's got a lot of content to catch up on. In order to clear the backlog, Sony's confirmed in a FAQ on the PlayStation.Blog that it will update...
News L.A. Noire Reviews Make The Wait For Release Even Tougher
Let's be honest: most people have already decided whether they're going to buy L
A. Noire</a> by now. There's no need for reviews at this point. Still, L.A. Noire is a video game, and naturally publications will review the game. So what's the consensus? It's good, really good. GiantBomb's Brad Shoemaker scored it a 5/5, explaining that...
Sunday15th May 2011
News Sony Releases PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.61, Online Play Restored Today
Sony has released a mandatory firmware update (3
61) for the PlayStation 3 overnight, paving the way for a phased roll-out of the PlayStation Network. At the time of writing, North America is back online, with services set to return in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East throughout the day. The firmware update requires you to change...
News Kaz Hirai Addresses PlayStation Network Users, Apologises For Outage & Explains Everything
This is why Kaz Hirai is going to be the future CEO of Sony Corp
As part of the PlayStation Network restoration process, the Sony Computer Entertainment president has released a video explaining the measures that the platform holder has taken to increase its network security, and also apologise for the length of time the service has been offline...
News Japanese Sales Charts: PlayStation Portable Takes The Hardware Crown Yet Again
Sony's PlayStation Portable is still on top of the Japanese hardware charts this week, almost doubling the sales of its nearest competitor, the Nintendo 3DS
It was a positive week for PSP software too, with seven of the top twenty titles available on Sony's handheld. Patapon 3 — which debuted fourth on the chart last week — rose to claim the...
Saturday14th May 2011
News Unsurprisingly, Silent Hill: Downpour Has Lots Of Rain In It
We sure that we're not the only people that adore rain in video games
The moment we hear the spattering of rain-drops, our eyes light up. We're not really sure why, but there's something wicked about games that take place in the rain, right? As you'd expect, Konami's upcoming Silent Hill: Downpour has a big emphasis on rain. As a celebration for...
News Splash Damage: PlayStation Network Outage Frustrating But Sony Has Our Sympathies
If you thought Randy Pitchford was going to be the only developer to stand behind Sony over the PlayStation Network data breach then you were mistaken
Despite being adversely affected by the PSN outage, Brink developer Splash Damage has admitted feeling "sympathetic" towards Sony's predicament. "Of course for us it is frustrating to...
Rumour God Of War Portable Collection Coming To PlayStation 3
According to a report on TheMagicBox , Sony intends to release a God Of War Portable Collection in Asia this Summer
The site notes that the collection is intended for the PlayStation 3, with enhanced versions of both God Of War: Chains Of Olympus and God Of War: Ghost Of Sparta included. While this isn't out of the realm of possibility, we advise...
News inFamous 2's Narrative Refresher Course Gets Us Pumped
Heads up guys: inFamous 2 is out really soon
The sequel to one of our favourite games from 2009 is just around the corner, and this little narrative refresher is probably all you'll need to get hyped. Has anyone ordered the "Hero Edition"? We're super tempted by it. Looks like Play.com has the exclusive on it in the UK. You can grab it...
Report Amazon Cloud Servers Used To Hack PlayStation Network
Citing an anonymous source, Bloomberg is reporting that Amazon's cloud servers were used to hack the PlayStation Network at the end of April
According to the report, the hackers disguised themselves as a legitimate organisation, using fake information to sign up to Amazon's service. Once the account with Amazon was authorised, the hackers used it to...
News Infinity Ward Breaks Out Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Teaser Trailers After Colossal Leak
We're not supposed to know about it yet, but Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is official
After yesterday's narrative spill, Infinity Ward has decided to release the first official teaser trailers for the upcoming game. It's all rather exciting. The brief trailers introduce you to the four major cities that will make up Modern Warfare 3's campaign:...
News Latest Shadows Of The Damned Screenshots Are Ridiculously Awesome
What happens when you let Shinji Mikami and Suda51 make a game together? Shadows Of The Damned is the answer
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Friday13th May 2011
News Prepare for Travis's Touchdown with No More Heroes Trailer
Definitely not for kids
No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise is coming to Europe next week, and Konami wants to get you better acquainted with series hero Travis Touchdown by publishing a new trailer. The new PS3 version has been awarded an 18 rating thanks to its inclusion of blood, as well as plenty of swearing and over-the-top violence, as is made...
News UK Retailers Peg Ape Escape for Cheap Release in June
Won't need to rustle up many notes
PlayStation Move Ape Escape — called simply Ape Escape in Europe — will be available from PlayStation Network in North America, but in Europe the game is is heading to retail next month, with several retailers putting a pleasantly low price on the Move-exclusive net 'em up. Amazon lists the game at £24.99 with...
News Blimey: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Entire Narrative Leaked Online
What a bizarre year this has been for video games news
Usually we're sitting here typing about trailers and screenshots, but these past six months have been markedly different. We've spent our time reading and writing about hackers, be it with Sony's legal case against GeoHot, or the data breach of Sony's PlayStation Network. Then there's been leak...
News Gearbox Gaffer Randy Pitchford Attacks 'Evil' PlayStation Network Hackers
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has hit out against the "cyber-terrorists" that have brought the PlayStation Network to its knees, pleading with gamers to support Sony in its endeavours to restore online services to the PlayStation 3
Speaking with Eurogamer as part of a promotional tour for Duke Nukem Forever, Pitchford said we are all victims of...
News Catch A Full Thirteen Minutes Of Starhawk Gameplay
Did you hear? Starhawk has been announced for PlayStation 3
It launches on Blu-ray next year, brimming with a meaty single-player and multiplayer component. It also looks amazing. Step away from the grimy art-style for a moment, and you'll find the core staples of Warhawk's gameplay in tact, bolstered by a new Real-Time Strategy mechanic that looks...
News Watch Dylan Jobe & Geoff Keighley Talk Starhawk On GTTV
Geoff Keighley's GTTV had the overnight exclusive on Starhawk, but just in case you missed it, we've embedded Dylan Jobe's interview after the jump
The footage features plenty of multiplayer and single-player gameplay, as well as some background on Starhawk's narrative. Catch it after the jump.
News Eidos & Deus Ex Websites Hacked, Personal Information Stolen
Sigh
Proving once again that any online service is susceptible to attacks, websites for Eidos and Deus Ex were hacked over night, compromising the data of just under 100,000 users. Unbelievably, of that data over 9,000 resumes were stolen. The hack was believed to have been undertaken by a rogue entity of Anonymous. As bad as the compromised data...
News First Starhawk Gameplay Trailer Introduces Transforming Warhawks, Amazing
If you're a fan of Warhawk, this debut trailer for Lightbox Interactive's spiritual successor, Starhawk, should get you pumped
Not only does the on-foot action look much more refined than in its predecessor, but the Warhawks also transform. They friggin' transform into mechs. It's basically like the Transformers game we always dreamed of. Check out...
News Konami Announces Pro Evolution Soccer 2012, Producer 'Seabass' Talks Changes
As if there was any doubt that it wasn't going to happen, Konami has officially announced Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 this morning
The first footage (embedded above) is sandwiched between a little featurette with producer Shingo Seabass Takatsuka explaining what's been improved in this year's game. We'd love to get all technical about the changes,...
News Sony Releases Bumper Starhawk Trailer, Breaks Down Everything
Sony's put up a bumper five-minute trailer for Starhawk that breaks down each element of its gameplay
As we explained earlier, the primary mechanic is Starhawk's "Build And Battle" component, which brings dynamic real-time strategy into the game's mix of third-person shooting and flight combat. We're not entirely convinced by the game's...
News Confirmed: Lightbox Interactive Announce Starhawk For PlayStation 3, Releasing In 2012
The PlayStation Network might still be down, but Sony's prepping itself for E3 2011 in style -- starting with the long rumoured announcement of Starhawk from Dylan Jobe's Lightbox Interactive studio
The sequel to Warhawk, due out in 2012, will launch on a Blu-ray and will boast a single-player campaign in addition to a fully-featured multiplayer...
News April NPD: PlayStation 3 Hardware Strong, Mortal Kombat King
PlayStation 3 sales were strong in North America last month, making the current PlayStation Network outage all the more frustrating
Sony's system managed to outsell both the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS, snapping up sales of over 200k units. Microsoft XBOX 360 continued to dominate in the region. Mortal Kombat was the big software winner, selling...
News PlayStation 3 The Lead Platform For L.A. Noire, Says Team Bondi
Team Bondi has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 was the lead development platform for upcoming crime thriller L
A. Noire</a>. It's not much of a surprise, given that the game was originally intended to be a PS3 exclusive. "For this project, we led on PlayStation 3, and in a way I think that's what most people are doing," Team Bondi...
News Infinity Ward: Modern Warfare 3 Leak May Not Be The End Of The World
Infinity Ward has responded to the leak that potentially uncovered the entirety of Modern Warfare 3's plot this afternoon, teasing fans to "wait for the real reveal"
Writing on Twitter, the community strategist said, "A lot of hype & a lot of leaked info on MW3, some still accurate, some not. To avoid spoiling the experience, I'd wait for...
Thursday12th May 2011
News Cammy Teased In Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer, Opponent Unclear
Good news for fans of sumptuous posteriors, a new teaser trailer for Street Fighter X Tekken pretty clearly reveals Cammy's inclusion in the crossover's roster
Her opponent is less obvious, though we're assuming it's someone from the Tekken universe. Answers on a postcard please.
News Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection Brings Original Trilogy To PlayStation Network
NetherRealm's recent Mortal Kombat reboot has given the gory franchise a new lease of life
As such, there's no better time to return to the originals that made it all possible. After literally months of speculation, the developer has confirmed the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for PlayStation 3. The $10 PlayStation Network download will launch in...
News SEGA Brings Monster World IV, Many More To PlayStation Network
SEGA has announced its bringing back its Vintage Collection line, starting with a localisation of the previously unreleased Monster World IV, to PlayStation Network
The game will be released during the late 2011/early 2012 window and will be joined by a range of other enhanced SEGA re-releases, including: Wonder Boy In Monster Land, Revenge Of...
News PlayStation Network Multiplayer Currently Being Tested Internally
Optimism: according to various reports, internal testers are currently playing various PlayStation Network games online
The official Twitter account for PlayStation in the Netherlands (which has been the most active during this entire outage) confirmed to fans that "internal testing" is currently occurring in numerous regions. Since that...
News Check Out inFamous 2's Preorder Bonus Powers
With all the drama surrounding the PlayStation Network, we're a little worried that inFamous 2 might be flying under the radar a touch
That's a big mistake because the game looks absolutely incredible. Admittedly we're not keen on the prospect of preorder bonuses, but we suppose that's the state of the industry now. There's a number of additional...
Report Impatient PlayStation 3 Owners Trade-In Their Systems As PSN Stays Offline
The PlayStation Network has been offline for about three weeks, and there's no sign of a restoration in sight
That's causing a lot of PS3 owners to lose patience and trade-in their systems, according to a report published by EDGE. The report cites a number of UK retail clerks, and paints a disturbing picture of the current PS3 climate: trade-ins...
News Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 Formally Announced For PlayStation 3
Sniper: Ghost Warrior only just released on the PlayStation 3, but City Interactive's already busy beavering away on a sequel to the surprise hit
The game's set to utilise Crytek's CryEngine 3 and is promising "graphically stunning" missions, alongside refined gameplay and plenty of sniping. Details are predictably scarce right now, but...
News Sony Not Concerned With Poor Sales Of PlayStation Classics On Xperia Play
Sony Ericsson has said it has "no concerns" regarding the relatively low sales of PSone classics on its Xperia Play mobile-phone device, despite most games selling fewer than 500 copies
I think theres an awareness thing for people that are getting their hands on the device and where they are choosing to purchase games, market development...
News DiRT 3's Gymkhana Battles Look Crazy, Scary, Awesome
Man, if we had a super-expensive rally car and an empty car-park, we'd totally start doing stunts in it too
We're not so sure we'd like to share the action with a friend though. Things look a bit scary when the cars are like millimetres away from colliding. We suppose that's what makes Gymkhana so extreeeeeme. In short: DiRT 3 continues to look...
News Square Enix Cancels A Number Of Unannounced Digital Products To Strengthen Finances
Square Enix has confirmed that it has cancelled a number of unconfirmed digital titles in order to strengthen its finances
In a statement, the publisher predicted a net loss for the year ending March 31st. The company had previously expected to profit. Square Enix blamed the loss on the costs incurred in cancelling projects. "Under a rapidly...
Report EA To Release Battlefield 3 Right Next Door To New Call Of Duty
You can't fault EA for being ambitious, but releasing Battlefield 3 in the exact same release window as the next Call Of Duty sounds like suicide to us
Still, that's exactly what the publisher intends to do according to retail sources familiar with the matter. MCV reports that EA is intending to drop Battlefield 3 "within days" of the next...
Wednesday11th May 2011
Rumour Natsume to Show Off Rune Factory: Oceans at E3
Farming comes to PS3 at last
Harvest Moon's RPG spin-off series Rune Factory has been a Nintendo-only affair in the West so far, but Japanese PS3 owners have recently got to grips with Rune Factory: Oceans. So far there's been no word on a Western translation for the HD, Move-enabled farming RPG, but Natsume has just dropped a fairly big hint the...
News If Rayman Origins Is Even Half As Good As Its Boxart...
We recently got word that ex-PSN title Rayman Orgins had been upgraded to a full retail release
Now Amazon's revealed the game's place-holder boxart. And it's amazing. The online retailer is touting a release date of November 15th for the throwback platformer. We don't think there's any way such an unusual game will release slap-bang in the middle...
News Confirmed: Tekken X Street Fighter Is Not A Video Game (Yet!!!)
While development on Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken is well under-way, Namco's Tekken X Street Fighter is still little more than a concept
We really havent started on Tekken X Street Fighter, said Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada at Namco's big pre-E3 event in Dubai this morning. Things are going well with Street Fighter X Tekken and well...
News We're All For Something New But This Isn't Really Ridge Racer, Is It?
Amongst the seductive narrative, wobbly bass-lines and crunching metal, there's the shocking realisation that Ridge Racer: Unbounded is a game with "Ridge Racer" in the title
While we applaud the attempt at trying something new, we can't help but feel this isn't the series Kaz Hirai went gaga for at E3 all those years ago. </em>
News Dark Souls Collector's Edition Is Your Incentive For Preordering
Hats off to Namco Bandai for doing this whole "we'll-reward-you-for-preordering-our-game" malarkey right
Instead of offloading GameStop with a bunch of download codes for a new piece of ankle armour, Namco Bandai's upgrading all preorders for the upcoming Dark Souls to the collector's edition. Indeed, instead of charging $100 for additional crap...
News Confirmed: Soul Calibur V Is A Video Game, Coming To PlayStation 3 Next Year
Namco Bandai's premium weapons-based brawler will return next year with Soul Calibur V, the publisher has announced
As closet Soul Calibur fanboys — still itching for the franchise to return to form — we're a little bit giddy over the announcement. Even if we did totally anticipate it. The game will release on PlayStation 3 next year. It's set...
News Blimey: Test Drive Unlimited 2 Developers Go On Strike
We're sure there are cases of game developers going on strike in the past, but certainly none that immediately spring to mind
That's exactly what's happened at Eden Games though, as the Test Drive Unlimited 2 developer has gone on strike, blaming its parent company, Atari, for "mismanagement". Eden Games is currently facing lay-offs of...
News Just One More Week: L.A. Noire's Launch Trailer Gets Us Hot Under The Collar
Yo, we don't know if you've heard but there's a game coming out next week -- a really good one
At least, we hope so anyway. Everything we've seen of Rockstar and Team Bondi's crime-thriller, L.A. Noire,borders on the positive side of brilliant. After awarding our game of the year award to Rockstar and Red Dead Redemption last year, we're waiting to...
News Tales Of Graces F Confirmed For 2012 Release In Europe & North America
Rounding out a big day of announcements for Namco Bandai, the publisher announced overnight that Tales Of Graces F will launch on PlayStation 3 in Europe and North America next year
The game originally launched on Wii way back in 2009, before getting an upgraded Japanese release for PS3 in 2010.
News Fallout: New Vegas 'Honest Hearts' DLC Coming To PlayStation Network ASAP
The most disheartening trend we've started to notice on press-releases this week is the blank nod of no-information pertaining to PSN release dates
The second set of Fallout: New Vegas DLC — entitled Honest Hearts — is due out on the XBOX 360 and PC on May 17th. On PS3? Well, "as soon as possible". You can almost feel the collective...
News Natsume Preparing 'Highly-Anticipated' PlayStation 3 Title For E3
Natsume's bringing lots of titles to E3, but one of those games is yet to be announced
According to Siliconera, the "highly anticipated Wii and PlayStation 3" title might be a localisation of Rune Factory Oceans. We, err, we don't really know much about Rune Factory Oceans, but the commenters on Siliconera are literally flipping out with...
Tuesday10th May 2011
Out Today Virtua Tennis 4 (North America)
SEGA swings by
SEGA returns to court today with the North American release of Virtua Tennis 4 on PlayStation 3, 11 days after its release in Europe. Taking a different route to 2K's more sim-like Top Spin 4, VT4 embraces SEGA's arcade roots with a simplified board game-style World Tour, minigames and more. If you're planning to pick the game up, be...
News Arcana Heart 3 To Release On PlayStation 3 At The End Of June
Old-school anime fighting game Arcana Heart 3 will release on PlayStation 3 at the end of June, publishers Zen United and PQube has announced
The game released on the PlayStation Store in North America moments before the online service went kaput. An enormous Limited Edition will launch alongside the standard retail version in Europe. The package...
News Sony's E3 2011 News Conference Details Confirmed
Expect big things
The annual cavalcade of big announcements that is E3 is just under four weeks away, as Sony has confirmed the time and date of its press conference. Taking place on Monday 6th June at 5pm Pacific Time (1am Tuesday 7th June UK time), the show will hopefully reveal more about some of the big PlayStation Move titles due out later this...
Rumour Modern Warfare 3 To Depict 'World In Crisis', Will Boast Destructible Environments
Modern Warfare's narrative has slowly been gearing up to a cataclysmic World War III-type scenario, and that's exactly what we're going to experience in Modern Warfare 3 according to Kotaku
The sequel to the world's most popular franchise will depict the "world in chaos" after events in Modern Warfare 2 eventually put the US and Russia at...
News Sony Confirms E3 2011 News Conference Details
Will NGP steal the show?
Sony's NGP will take centre stage at the company's big pre-E3 press conference, kicking off in just four weeks time. On Monday 6th June at 5pm Pacific Time (1am Tuesday 7th June UK time) Sony will reveal plenty more about the machine, its games and hopefully the three biggest bits of information: the console's real name, its...
News Next Call Of Duty To 'Set A New Standard In The Franchise'
Activision talked up its next Call Of Duty title at an investor's meeting overnight
The next iteration in the franchise — hotly tipped to be Modern Warfare 3 — will face stiff competition from EA's Battlefield 3. But Activision isn't worried, claiming that the new game has "exceeded every internal milestone" set by the publisher...
News Enslaved's Lifetime Sales Cross A Reasonable 730,000 Units
Most people were disappointed to see Ninja Theory's stunning Enslaved flop at the end of last year
The third-person action game wasn't the most polished game on the market, but had some wonderful characterisation and voice acting. As such, most people were willing it to succeed. But at last counting, Enslaved had sold just 460,000 units. That number...
U
S. senator Richard Blumenthal has praised Sony's response to the PlayStation Network data breach, suggesting the platform holder's response "could serve as a model for other companies facing similar criminal hacking". Blumenthal was one of the first politicians to question Sony about the data breach once the news became public, demanding...
News Expect More James Bond From Activision This Year
Activision confirmed last night that we would get another slice of James Bond from the publisher this year
Last year Bizarre Creations released the above-average James Bond 007: Blood Stone. Activision were coy as to who is behind this year's title, but it's believed to be Singularity developer, Raven Software. For the balance of the year, we plan...
News Crysis 2: Retaliation DLC Dated, Detailed
As with every other big-budget first-person shooter, Crysis 2 will be getting its first slice of DLC this month
Crytek's gorgeous alien-invasion blockbuster will get a pack called "Retaliation" on May 17th. Obviously, any PlayStation DLC dates have a big question-mark looming over them while the PSN stays offline. The pack will include...
News Sony: PlayStation Network Restoration Still A 'Few Days' Away
People demanded an update on the PlayStation Network, and Sony has answered their pleas for information, but evidently there's not a lot new to say
In an update on the PlayStation Blog, Sony communications director Patrick Seybold settled for the vague statement of "at least a few more days". We suppose there's some positivity in that...
News Confirmed: Square Enix Announces Hitman Absolution
We all knew it was coming, but now it's official
Square Enix has just confirmed the existence of Hitman Absolution with a teaser trailer. We've embedded it above. Details are super scarce right now, presumably with more to follow at E3. We'll keep you updated.
News Warner Teases New Announcement From Monolith
Warner Bros
Seattle's general manager Laura Fryer has hinted at an E3 announcement for a new title from FEAR developer Monolith. Chatting to Develop magazine about her forthcoming appearance at the Develop conference in July, Fryer said that "by conference time we should also be able to talk about the latest game from the creative team behind...
News Latest Dark Souls Trailer Confirms October Release Date
Namco Bandai's released a new trailer for Dark Souls -- the spiritual successor to PlayStation 3 cult-hit Demon's Souls
The teaser trailer shows very much more of the same, including gigantic bosses, infuriating deaths and that horrible medieval art aesthetic that people genuinely seem to like. [Puts on flame retardant jacket - Ed]. Namco Bandai's...
News DICE Provides Plenty Of Details About Battlefield 3's Back To Karkand DLC
It's a bizarre one this really
We still don't know anything about Battlefield 3's core multiplayer experience, but the developer is really keen to talk about the premium DLC that comes free with preorders of the game. Odd. The DLC — entitled Back To Karkand — features several classic maps from Battlefield's heritage, which, according to lead...
Monday9th May 2011
News Developer: Xperia Play 2 Could Handle NGP Games
Looking to the future
In a recent interview of Android developers by Fone Home, a mobile phone site, various development studios talked about the current power of Sony’s long awaited “Playstation Phone,” the Xperia Play, and what kind of future the gaming phone holds in Sony’s portfolio. The handheld currently houses a single core processor,...
News Sony Aims to Have PlayStation Network Back Up Before June
Never give up
On 1st May Sony said some PSN features would be restored before today's date, but at the time of writing the network is still down. Sony hasn't given any further details on a timeframe for the restoration of PlayStation Network services, but Bloomberg is reporting that the company's aim is to have the whole network up and running...
Rumour Motion Sports Adrenaline Flowing to Move
Ubi gets sporty
Ubisoft released MotionSports on Kinect to almost universal apathy last year, so the rumour that the publisher is preparing a Move-enabled sequel might not fill you with excitement. UK retailer Gamesbasement has listed Motion Sports Adrenaline from Ubisoft, with no information other than an expectd £39.99 price tag. The...
News Let's Dance with Mel B Screenshots Show a Lack of Mel B
Perhaps that explains the delay
You'd think that a licensed game would make a big song and dance about its celebrity endorsement, but the ex-Scary Spice is nowhere to be seen in these screenshots for Ubisoft's Let's Dance with Mel B. Using the PlayStation Eye camera you'll be able to see yourself on-screen at all times, a big improvement over Ubi's...
News NGP Home Menu Features Detailed in New Video
See Remote Play, Trophies and more
A new video of the NGP’s Home Menu has hit the Internet, offering up some insight into the new features and improvements offered up by the system’s new touch-centric interface. Many of the features demonstrated in the video are not currently offered by PlayStation’s Cross Media Bar (XMB), the user interface...
News Ezio Is Like A Proper Grandad In Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Ezio was old by the end of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
But in Assassin's Creed: Revelations — the next title in the Ubisoft developed franchise — he's proper old. According to details published in the latest issue of GameInformer, the Italian stallion will be knocking on 50 at the start of Revelations. Obviously considering the time-period the...
News Rockstar Announces Duo Of L.A. Noire Soundtracks
L
A. Noire</a> is out next week. We're so excited that we're literally doing handstands in the middle of a motorway wearing period appropriate clothing. Not really of course, that would be dangerous. And stupid. Seriously, don't try that at home. Rockstar being Rockstar, our inbox is still being flooded with new announcements regarding the...
News Sony To Fully Restore PlayStation Network Services By May 31st
Rolling on
The latest headline to join the population of Silly-Town: "PlayStation Network Offline For Six Weeks, Says Sony". Just like the stories on plain-text passwords, unencrypted credit cards and unpatched servers,
News Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Codenamed Project Colossus By Retailers
Eurogamer reckons that the next Call Of Duty title is being flagged internally by Tesco as "Project Colossus"
The site reckons that the game will release on November 8th. Modern Warfare 3 is believed to be a collaboration between Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games. Activion's holding an investors conference this evening. Expect some mention of the...
UK Charts Erm, Zumba Fitness Has Dethroned Portal 2
Zumba Fitness is top of the UK sales charts this week
The PlayStation Move-enabled fitness title has dethroned genuine game of the year contender, Portal 2. Video games, sigh. Mortal Kombat finished up in third, while Call Of Duty: Black Ops lingered in fourth. Elsewhere, Operation Flashpoint: Red River was joined by a bunch of ever-green titles,...
Remember when Capcom announced they were bringing Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike to the PlayStation Network? Nah, us neither
It feels like forever ago since we got any new information on the re-release. The reason for Capcom's silence? They've been working really hard on the game. During a streamed "Ask Capcom" event, Capcom's Christian...
News PlayStation Network Outage Costing Capcom A Chunk Of Change
Undeniably the worst thing to come out of the PlayStation Network outage is the amount of money third-parties are currently losing from the inability to sell their games on the PlayStation Store
Publishers and developers alike depend on the distribution clout of the PlayStation Network to sell their goods, and with that ripped away it causes a big...
News Take A Look At Splinter Cell 6 Sandwiched Between Some Monitor Speakers
Splinter Cell 6 is a real video game if this image detected by GamerZines is anything to go on
The pictures — posted bizarrely by audio manufacturer Blue Sky — show a recording studio at Ubisoft Montreal with "SC6" logos plastered all over the place. There's also what appears to be a splash screen featuring Sam Fisher and night-vision...
News Bethesda: PlayStation 3 Fans Can Still Enjoy Brink Without The PSN
Let's be honest, Brink is a game all about online multiplayer
Thus it's unfortunate that the game should be releasing at a time when the PlayStation Network is still down [though there is a chance the service could return this week, just believe - Ed]. However, in a statement to GiantBomb, a Bethesda spokesperson said there's still plenty for...
News Brink Launch Trailer Shoots Up The 'Net, Out This Week
Brink looks awesome, and it's out this week
Unfortunately the biggest kicker for the game's launch is that the PlayStation Network is still not online yet. That creates a big problem because Brink is very much supposed to be played online. Grrr. It's unfortunate timing for the team at Splash Damage. We can only hope that people choose to pick up the...
Sunday8th May 2011
News Wait A Minute, There Might Be Another Heavenly Sword Game On The Way?
Consider us completely caught off guard with this one
UK gaming magazine, PlayGamer, is hinting that Sony will announce a sequel to Heavenly Sword at this year's E3. It's unlikely that original developers Ninja Theory will be at the helm, as they are currently busy working on a Devil May Cry reboot for Capcom. Our top bet for taking on the franchise...
News No, Sony Was Not Running The PlayStation Network On Out-Of-Date Servers Without Firewalls
Last week it was common knowledge that Sony stored passwords in plain-text
That rumour was, of course, debunked publicly by Sony, when the platform holder was forced to come out and clarify that it in fact hashed its passwords — as is a common practice across many web environments. Prior to that, it was rumoured that Sony did not encrypt credit...
Japanese Charts PlayStation Portable Pretty Much Obliterates Everything Else
"But my friend told me the PSP was dead," said the crowds of readers
Boo to you, the PSP is on friggin' fire. Well, in Japan at least. Last week (ending May 1st), Sony's portable shifted a whopping 76,974 units. That's an impressive number alone, but when you take into consideration that the Nintendo 3DS only managed to shift 28,413 units over the...
Saturday7th May 2011
News Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Teased In Official PlayStation Magazine
The biggest game in the world returns soon
At least that's the message in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine. In a teaser for its July issue, the magazine depicts a large "3", hinting at none other than Modern Warfare 3. We all knew it was coming, right? Voice actor Craig Fairbrass had previously hinted that a Modern Warfare...
News PlayStation Network Restoration Ongoing, No End in Sight
Won't be this weekend
If you were hoping to get back online this weekend and catch up with your PlayStation Network friends, the bad news is that Sony won't have the service ready, it has confirmed. An update on the PlayStation Blog explained the initial announcement that the service would be restored by now was made before Sony had a good handle on...
News PlayStation Suite Could Be the Ace Up NGP's Sleeve
A world of PlayStation within easy reach
The word "PlayStation" is recognised by countless millions of gamers around the world: for many, it was their first taste of gaming, but time have changed and those players may have moved onto new devices. Sony knows this, so is launching the PlayStation Suite, a new initiative that opens up...
News Patience Is A Virtue: So, Errr, The PlayStation Network Ain't Coming Back Online This Weekend
Despite the optimism of Sony's previous PlayStation Network status update -- when Sony said it was in the "final stages of testing" the service -- it sounds like we won't be playing online anytime soon
Sony's communications director Patrick Seybold has posted an update on the PlayStation Blog stating that the platform holder is still "working...
News Rayman Origins Is Now A Full Retail Release, Due Out In The Fall
Rayman Origins made a huge splash when it was debuted as a PlayStation Network title at last year's E3, but since the game's promising announcement, Ubisoft has kept the Michael Ancel-developed platformer shrouded in mystery
Until today that is. According to GameInformer magazine [ via NeoGAF ], Origins is no longer a downloadable title and instead...
News Starhawk Reveal (Probably) Incoming Next Week
Dylan Jobe's next project -- hotly rumoured to be Starhawk -- is set to get an announcement on next Friday's GTTV
The site's schedule currently lists a "Sony surprise", but being the eagle-eyed investigative minds that we are, we already have a pretty big idea what that surprise might contain. Much of the American press was shipped down to...
Friday6th May 2011
News Disney Interactive Attempted Sale Of Black Rock, No Buyer Found
Eurogamer is reporting that Disney Interactive tried to sell off a portion of Brighton-based studio Black Rock late last year, but couldn't find a buyer
The news follows massive redundancies at the Split/Second developer. "When the new management came in, they tried to sell half the studio and keep half, and they apparently had one buyer...
News Wanted Corp Brings Top-Down Shooting to PlayStation Move
Annie, get your gun
Remember the days when top-down shooters ruled the arcade? Smash TV and its ilk have seemingly been left behind in the rush for first-person domination, but Zoo Games is bringing the genre back with the PlayStation Move-enabled Wanted Corp, due out later this year. The game follows two bounty hunters, Neal H. MadDogg and Irina...
News THQ Announces Free Character Creation Tool, Saints Row: Initiation Station
If, like us, you have a minor obsession with character creation features in games, then you'll probably want to know about THQ's Saints Row: Initiation Station
The free tool will allow you to create characters for the upcoming Saints Row: The Third before the game's big release. THQ says you'll be able to make characters "inspired by your...
News Sony Offers US Members a Year of Identity Protection
Too little too late?
PlayStation Network is on the brink of a third week of downtime, and Sony America CEO Howard Stringer has stepped up to the plate to introduce a new initiative for US account-holders: a free year of identity protection. Stringer made the announcement via an open letter on the official PlayStation Blog: A program for U.S...
News Burnout Crash Depicts 'Cartoon Vehicles' From A 'Top-Down Perspective'
Remember Burnout Crash, the rumoured PlayStation Network spin-off of the popular destructive racing franchise? Well, now we've got some concrete details on the unannounced game
According to the ESRB ratings board, this is a top-down racing game featuring "cartoon" vehicles and plenty of crashing. Apparently players will earn points for...
News Are Mass Effect and Battlefield Coming to NGP?
Rumour mill starts churning
EA recently forecasted its scheduled 2012 releases, and under the listings for Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3 the company revealed that handheld versions of the games are planned. EA did not reveal which platform the games would be released on, but seeing as the NGP can already port existing PS3 games to its hardware...
In a statement posted to the European PlayStation Blog this evening, Sony communications gaffer, Nick Caplin, has outlined SCEE's plans to reward PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners for their patience during the current PSN outage
Caplin said that PSN users would be given the opportunity to select two PS3 games from a list of five, with...
News Sir Howard Stringer Writes Public Apology To PlayStation Network Users
Sony's top gaffer, Sir Howard Stringer, has written a letter of apology to PlayStation Network users for the recent PSN data breach and downtime
In an open apology, Stringer said he was aware this "has been a frustrating time" for PSN users and that he was sorry "for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack". Stringer...
News There Are Like A Quadrillion Ways To Customise Your Character In Brink
Brink launches on PlayStation 3 next week, and Bethesda's been kind enough to send us some stats regarding the game
Aside from the dead boring stuff like there being 60 minutes of music and 26,000 lines of dialogue, Bethesda has also decided to let us know that there are a total of 102,247,681,536,000,000 unique character possibilities. We thought...
News Catherine Screens Aren't Always The Most Exciting, Are They?
While we continue to be of the opinion that Catherine looks properly amazing, we're just not convinced screenshots do it the greatest of justice
Looking at two similarly awkward looking characters talking about marriage doesn't exactly instill us with enthusiasm. But hey, at least there's cigarettes and mustard in this screenshot.</em>
News Announcements Of Announcements: IO Interactive Warns Of Incoming Shrapnel Next Week
When we started this website, we made an internal pledge to cut out the metaphors that's so prevalent in games media
Sometimes we fail. We're failing right now actually, while we discuss aims and objectives that have nothing to do with this stor--... Ok. IO Interactive has Tweeted that "next week will be very good" and that we should...
Sony has announced overnight that it is partnering with Debix to provide all US PlayStation Network users with 12 months identity theft protection for free
Sony has confirmed a similar plan will take place in Europe, with details to follow shortly. North Americans will receive offer emails "over the next few days" including a promotional...
News Sony: PlayStation Network Rebuild Complete, In 'Final Stages' Of Testing
Sony's updated the PlayStation Blog with an optimistic post regarding the status of the PlayStation Network
The company announced that it had finished rebuilding the PlayStation Network, and was now in the final stages of "internal testing". The company didn't include a time-frame, but assuming the tests go swimmingly, we can't imagine...
Thursday5th May 2011
News CTA Digital Prepares to Launch Eye Clip and Mount
Not as painful as it sounds
CTA Digital continues to support PlayStation Move with new accessories, not least the PlayStation Move bowling ball, but its next release is a little less prone to ridicule. The Universal Wall Mount & Clip for the Kinect Camera & PlayStation Eye is a two-in-one solution that lets owners set the PlayStation Eye...
News PlayStation Move Up for Big Technical Innovation Award
Will it beat Kinect?
Prestigious UK industry magazine Develop has announced the list of nominees for its upcoming awards ceremony, and PlayStation Move is up for the Technical Innovation category where it competes against Kinect for Xbox 360. One of Move's biggest successes so far, Killzone 3 is also up for a well deserved Visual Arts award, and...
News We've Trapped Some Funky Lab Rat DLC Details
Say 'cheese'
Last month saw the release of new Funky Lab Rat DLC, but recent difficulties with PlayStation Network have prevented anyone from downloading it. In anticipation of the store's return we've collaborated with Hydravision to bring you details on what's included in the pack. Leaf through our Funky Lab Rat review and the DLC details below to...
News Is WipEout Trinity Sony’s NGP WipEout Title?
Mysterious title unearthed
Sony is already rumored to be readying a new WipEout game for the launch of the PlayStation NGP, but the title of the game has still not been set in stone. A recently uncovered domain name registration by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe reveals that it now owns the domain WipeoutTrinity.com, and has since November of...
News Assassin's Creed: Revelations Officially Announced For November, Concludes Ezio's Story
Let's get straight to the bit you want to know: Ezio is back
Ubisoft has officially confirmed the existence of Assassin's Creed: Revelations, due for release on PlayStation 3 this November. The game will mark the conclusion of Ezio's story, which is now being dubbed as a "trilogy" by Ubisoft like it was intended all along. (Hint: it...
News Zoo Entertainment Announces Wanted Corp For PlayStation 3, Supports PlayStation Move
The world needs more shooters
At least that's what Cincinnati-based Zoo Entertainment reckon. They've just announced Wanted Corp, an isometric shooter due for release on the PlayStation Network later this year. Playing as Neal H. MadDogg and Irina Zimoy, players will use various weapons and psychic abilities to battle their way through hordes of...
News EA Pulls No Punches: Battlefield 3 'Flat Out Superior' To Call Of Duty
EA's added fuel to the flames of the developing rift between Battlefield 3 and the next Call Of Duty title
Speaking at an investors conference overnight, EA gaffer John Riccitiello said DICE's Battlefield 3 is "superior" to Call Of Duty in every way. Riccitiello added that the publisher aims to take a big chunk of Activision's Call Of Duty...
News Quizball Goal Brings Football Trivia To PlayStation Network
Quizball Goal is such a neat idea we're wondering why it hasn't happened before
The upcoming PlayStation Network quiz game combines traditional arcade footy action with good old fashioned quizzing. The premise is simple, each time you try to complete an action on the pitch — such as pass, shoot or dribble — you'll need to use your sporting brain...
News Bethesda's RAGE Is Looking Seriously Purrrrdy In New Gameplay Trailer
Bethesda's popped us over a new gameplay trailer for id's upcoming first-person shooter RAGE
We haven't been convinced by the title's combination of first-person shooting and vehicular combat in the past, but it's slowly starting to win us over. There are not enough car combat games. Our initial distaste for RAGE's vehicular combat stemmed from the...
News Disney Interactive Confirms Lay-Offs At Split/Second Developer
Disney Interactive has this morning confirmed a "reduction in staff" at its Brighton based studio, Black Rock
The news follows overnight rumours of around 40 lay-offs at the studio behind Split/Second. An anonymous tipsters later clarified that the redundancies were likely to be in the hundreds. Disney Interactive Studios confirms a reduction of...
News "Duke, Thank God Nobody Stepped On You!"
Oh Duke, you will insist on winning us over
To be honest, we've no idea why you're the size of an action figure in this latest Duke Nukem Forever trailer. But what does it matter when it looks this fun?</em>
News Rockstar Outlines Social Club Features In L.A. Noire
Rockstar's Social Club is a great extension to games with a lot of content
You'll recall Red Dead Redemption allowing you to follow your progress online via the web portal. L.A. Noire will boast the very same feature, allowing you to track every last morsel of action that it will take to reach the coveted 100% completion mark, as well as...
News Splash Damage: It's Time To Put Colour Back Into The First-Person Shooter
Splash Damage understands
After years of moody, colourless shooters, we've become nostalgic for SEGA's famous Blue Skies. The team behind Brink feel exactly the same way, paving the way to one of the most colourful first-person shooters in years. It is time to put colours back in first person shooters, Splash Damage art boss Oliver Leonardi...
News A Nice British Lady Explains Brink's Battlefield
Given that Brink is an ambitious multiplayer-centric first-person shooter with a lot of quirky features, we think it was a shrewd decision for Bethesda to employ a nice-mannered British lady to discuss the game's unique perspective of the battlefield
She can talk about our "commarrrrnd post" all she likes. Right, guys?! Right?! You can...
News Mass Effect 3 Delayed For 'Larger Market Opportunity'
Last night, Bioware revealed it was delaying Mass Effect 3 in order to make the "best game in the series"
But overnight, EA boss John Riccitiello said the delay was instead intended to tweak the game's gameplay in order to reach a "larger market". "Essentially, step by step, [BioWare is] adjusting some of the gameplay mechanics and...
News PlayStation Network Still Scheduled For Partial Return This Week
Hope is dwindling around the Internet as the days pass with very little information from Sony regarding the status of the PlayStation Network
Sony had previously stated that they were aiming to get the service back online "this week" (ending Sunday, May 8th). But as another day draws to a close, we're still without any precise confirmation...
Wednesday4th May 2011
News Let's Dance with Mel B's Track List is Camp as They Come
Gloria Gaynor? Check
Ubisoft's attempts to get every single person in the world dancing to one of its video games show no sign of abating, as it's released the track listing for Let's Dance with Mel B. Lady Gaga, Gloria Gaynor and Culture Club rub shoulders with 50 Cent, Fatboy Slim and Pussycat Dolls, with 28 songs in total included in the...
News LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean Sets Sail On May 10th
Man, it's like release date central here at PushSquare
Every single press-release we've received this afternoon has included a release date announcement of some kind. This day shall henceforth be known as "the day all major publishers dated their games". Or something. Disney's the latest to join in with the festivities, slapping a May 10th...
News Canadian Lass Wants $1 Billion Compensation For PlayStation Network Data Breach
21-year old Canadian, Natasha Maksimovic, is currently enjoying her moment in the spotlight
She has filed a $1 billion (Canadian) lawsuit against Sony for the recent PlayStation Network data breach. That's about $1.04 billion USD [assuming we can use a currency converter correctly - Ed]. The suit was announced earlier this week by a Toronto law...
News Namco Bandai Tweak UK Release Date For Gravity Defying Inversion
Namco Bandai has pushed Saber Interactive's Inversion back a few days in the UK
The game will now release on February 10th 2012, a whole two days later than previously planned. The third-person shooter is a mix between Gears Of War and physics madness. Namco appear to be throwing a lot of resources at this game. For what it's worth, we're thrilled...
News Ruh-Roh: Sony Discovers 'Anonymous' File Planted On Servers
Despite multiple statements of innocence by the unnamed hacking group, Sony has told the US House Of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce that it has found clues of Anonymous' involvement in the PlayStation Network data breach
In a written letter to congress, SCE president Kazuo Hirai revealed that the platform holder had fallen subject to a...
News Mass Effect 3 Postponed Into Early 2012, 'Biggest, Boldest And Best Game In The Series'
Mass Effect 3's executive producer Casey Hudson has revealed on Facebook that the next installment in Commander Shepard's adventure will not debut until the "first three months of 2012"
The game was previously due out in the Fall of this year. "The development team is laser focused on making sure Mass Effect 3 is the biggest, boldest and best...
News Sony Adds Third Security Team To PlayStation Network Investigation
It's on like Donkey Kong, and you can't really blame Sony for wanting to get to the bottom of the data breach that will probably end up costing the company millions of dollars
A Reuters report published this morning suggests Sony has thrown a third security team at the PlayStation Network investigation. They will join the FBI and Homeland Security...
News DC Universe Online Players: Sony Online Entertainment's Got Your Back
DCU
Are you a seething DC Universe Online fan currently considering taking out a $1 billion lawsuit against Sony? Rest easy comrade, Sony Online Entertainment's detailed a Make Good plan that's sure to allay your frustrations when DC Universe Online gets its ass back online at some point this month. All players will be compensated with a 30-day...
News The Darkness II Steps Out Of The Shadows On October 4th, October 7th
2K's attached a date to the return of possessed hitman, Jackie Estacado
The Darkness II will release on October 4th in North America and October 7th in Europe. To celebrate the news, 2K has released a new trailer. We've embedded it above. It's short, but worth a watch.
News uDraw Brings Artistic Action To PlayStation 3
uDraw might not sound like the most instantly compelling idea in the world, but THQ's tablet controlled art franchise has been a roaring success on the Nintendo Wii
So much of a success in fact, the publisher has decided to let PlayStation 3 users get in on the action. Announced at a financial meeting last night, THQ gaffer Brian Farrell said the...
Tuesday3rd May 2011
Review Virtua Tennis 4 (PlayStation 3)
Come out swinging
The PlayStation Move tennis grand slam final between 2K Sports' Top Spin 4 and SEGA's Virtua Tennis 4 is a match-up between two totally different play styles: whereas 2K offered a simulation fully playable with Move, SEGA has stayed true to its series' arcade roots by limiting the motion control to exhibition matches and minigames...
News EA Invites You to Family Game Night 4 This Year
Four in a row, EA wins
EA's had considerable success with its Hasbro Family Game Night series on various formats, so it makes sense the publisher is ready to embrace the motion control revolution and bring the next instalment in the series to PlayStation Move later this year. Family Game Night 4: The Game Show will bring motion control to new...
News Pick Up Battle: Los Angeles and Get a Resistance 3 Demo
Seems a fair trade
Sony shooters have gone down the beta route with previous games, but if you didn't manage to get Resistance 3 beta access with SOCOM 4 you can still try out the game's single player mode with a free demo coming soon. 1up reports that the Blu-ray version of movie Battle: Los Angeles will include a 30 minute playable demo of...
News Sony: Yo, Only 900 Of Those Stolen Credit Cards Are Still Active
Just when the dust was starting to settle after Kaz Hirai's public apology for the PSN data breach, news of actual credit card theft reverberated out of Sony Online Entertainment over night
The division admitted to finding evidence of 12,700 stolen credit cards from a circa-2007 database. Sony has tried to play-down concerns, noting in a statement...
Rumour Saints Row Drive-By Cancelled On PlayStation Network, XBOX Live Arcade
Hackers to blame?
What were we saying about LinkedIn profiles being the best source for all the hot video game news these days? The resume of Scott Rogers, a creative manager for THQ, has revealed that the Saints Row franchise might not "drive-by" the PlayStation Network after all, as the downloadable spin-off Saints Row Drive-By has been cancelled...
News Sucker Punch: inFamous Was Okay, Nothing More
inFamous is one of our favourite games on the PlayStation 3
It's one of those titles that came out of nowhere, but the experience stuck with us for a long time. In an interview with Spong, Sucker Punch producer Brian Fleming has countered our positive opinion, stating the game was just "okay", a trait that has factored into its cult...
News Rockstar To Digitally Release Selection Of L.A. Noire Short Stories
Rockstar has confirmed that it has partnered up with Mulholland Books to release a digital collection of short stories called L
A. Nore: The Collected Stories. Some of the short stories will focus on the characters and cases from the Team Bondi developed L.A. Noire video game. Authors being touted include Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale,...
News Resistance 3 Single-Player Demo To Come Packaged With Battle: Los Angeles
The value of the Battle: Los Angeles Blu-ray has just soared
We're not interested in the movie [apparently it's awful - Ed], but we are totally hyped about the Resistance 3 single-player demo that's set to be included alongside the film. Oh marketing departments. The Blu-ray will feature the infamous "boat" level that Insomniac's been...
News PlayStation Positivity Restored: Fresh Wipeout Leaks Make Us Giddy
The PushSquare office was a sorry state this afternoon
Long faces and a general lack of enthusiasm were common-place, instilled from weeks of no PlayStation Network. But one rumour has totally changed our beaten perspectives. Now we're dancing around to Sophie Ellis-Bextor sporting our Assegai Appreciation Society t-shirts. Why? Fresh Wipeout...
News Please Make It Stop: Sony Online Entertainment Confirms Theft Of 12,700 Old Credit Cards
Just when you thought it was going to be blue skies and golden sunshine going forward, Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed that it has lost roughly 12,700 credit cards to the original PlayStation Network breach that struck SCE mid-last month
SOE stresses that this was not a second attack, and is a repercussion of the original PSN attack...
News More Fallout: New Vegas DLC On The Way, Dated By Bethesda
Bethesda's got juicy with details on three new sets of Fallout: New Vegas DLC due for release starting May 17th -- assuming the PSN is back online
The publisher's kicking things off with Honest Hearts, which takes place in the Zion National Park in Utah. Sent on an exhibition to the caravan resort, you'll quickly find yourself embroiled in a war...
News UK Sales Charts: Portal 2 Maintains Top Spot, Virtua Tennis Out Of Sight
We're blaming you for the lack of good motion controlled tennis games
Sort of. Granted Virtua Tennis 4 doesn't do a particularly wonderful job with its PlayStation Move support, but if no one is buying big brand tennis games with standard controller support, who's going to plump up the development costs for a Move exclusive? Virtua Tennis 4 managed...
Monday2nd May 2011
News Ruh-Roh: Sony Online Entertainment Suspends Services [UPDATED]
Houston, we have a problem
Just when you thought things were getting back to normal after Sony Computer Entertainment's public apology yesterday morning, Sony Online Entertainment — the division responsible for Free Realms and DC Universe Online — has pulled its services offline, including its websites and Facebook titles. The company said: "We...
News Catherine 'Love Is Over' Deluxe Edition Is Absolutely The Best Thing Ever
No one can accuse Atlus of misunderstanding the audience for its zany puzzle-platformer Catherine
The marketing team in North America has decided to go bonkers with Catherine's Deluxe Edition, eschewing traditional art-books and early-access DLC. Instead, Catherine's premium package ships in a "Stray Sheep" pizza box, the very same joint...
News Sony Clarifies Password Storage Techniques, No Truth To Credit Card List
If the PlayStation Network data breach taught us anything other than to be more vigilant, it taught us the meaning of the acronym FUD
"FUD. Fear, uncertainty and doubt, usually evoked intentionally in order to put a competitor at a disadvantage." The amount of scare mongering capitalising on Sony's limited communication was rife during the...
News Sony Stock Bumped Up In Wake Of PSN Breach Public Apology
After taking a beating last week, Sony's stocks have started to bounce back in the wake of a public apology from SCE president Kazuo Hirai regarding the PlayStation Network data breach
Reuters reports that Sony stocks rose two-percent to ¥2,304 early this morning. Alongside the apology, Hirai detailed a series of compensation packages designed to...
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Sunday1st May 2011
News Some PlayStation Network Features to Return This Week
Official update arrives
Last night Sony held a press conference to give an update on the ongoing PlayStation Network outage, with some good news announced: the service will return this week, albeit not in its full form. According to the announcement, the following services make up the first part of the feature roll-out: Restoration of Online...
Sony Computer Entertainment president Kazuo Hirai has apologised to PlayStation Network users regarding the data breach which compromised approximately 75 million accounts
At a refreshingly personal press briefing in Tokyo this morning, Hirai said that Sony had "learned" its lesson, before detailing a number of plans aimed at trying to win...
News Sony: PSN Hack Will Not Delay NGP Release
Breathe a sigh of relief
Sony held a press conference overnight last night concerning the recent hack and outage of the PlayStation Network. While the company is restoring certain features of the PSN by week’s end (like online gaming, friend lists and chat), full restoration of the PSN, including the ability to download content from the...
