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News Alien: Isolation Stalks PS4, PS3 Later This Year
Believe it or not
Are those the cogs of the press cycle being kicked back into gear, or are we being pursued by a great leathery Martian? We’re going to assume it’s the latter, as SEGA has decided to give the ol’ Ridley Scott thing another bash, confirming that Total War developer Creative Assembly is working on Alien: Isolation for the...
News PlayStation Home Developer Dreaming Up Ambitious PS4 Exclusive
In reverie
While many gamers consider PlayStation Home to be a bit of a flop, the online plaza has enabled a number of companies to grow at a rapid rate over the past five or so years. One such outfit is nDreams, the British-based developer behind the virtual world’s free-to-play Aurora space. However, as the online service teeters towards...
News PS4 Sim Pure Pool Proves That Girls Can Play Too
Rack 'em up
We’re really not sure what to make of this debut trailer for VooFoo’s upcoming PlayStation 4 billiards simulation Pure Pool. On the one hand, the balls look absolutely exquisite – but we’re not overly sold on the frankly frightening character models. Beyond the Daisy Dukes and silicone breasts, though, the British-based developer...
News Indie Survival Horror Kodoku Sneaks onto PS4 and Vita in 2015
Not a maths puzzle
The preponderance of indie games on Sony consoles is arguably one of the platform holder's greatest strengths. We all remember that impressive spread at E3, and now we have yet another title to add to the ever growing list. Kodoku is a survival horror game developed by fledgling studio
News Hello Games' Hugely Ambitious No Man's Sky Explores the Sea and Stars
The final frontier
The only real danger in No Man's Sky is that developer Hello Games has lost its mind, as this looks wildly ambitious. The release — announced during the VGX Awards earlier this evening — hints at a massive open world in which you can start out swimming and then jump into a spacecraft and explore the stars. It's not exactly a...
News Telltale Sits Atop the Game of Thrones with New Episodic Series
Crown jewels
Not content with making every other game in the universe, Telltale Games has confirmed that it's working on another episodic series based on George R.R. Martin's popular Game of Thrones. Yes, that's in addition to The Walking Dead: Season Two, The Wolf Among Us, and the just announced
News Telltale Games Teams with Gearbox for Tales from the Borderlands
Borderline bonkers
The trailer may have been irritatingly vague, but at least the VGX Awards have started off with a legitimate surprise. Gearbox has revealed that it’s teamed up with The Walking Dead creator Telltale Games to create a new episodic series based on, er, Borderlands. We don’t necessarily associate the shoot-‘n’-loot franchise...
News Toukiden: The Age of Demons Slays European Vitas in 2014
Demonic delivery
Selling over 420,000 copies since its Japanese debut, Tecmo Koei's original demon-slaying property will be making its way to Europe in 2014, ready to carve up Sony's portable device on the 14th February. With an art style that closely resembles some of the publisher's other franchises - namely Samurai Warriors - Toukiden: The Age...
News Get Your Groove On, Persona 4 Dancing All Night Is Coming to Vita in 2014
We love you Risette
Imagine eagerly awaiting the reveal of a certain Persona 5, only to be shown the craziness that is Persona 4 Dancing All Night. Regardless of fans' disappointment at the time, this rhythm game has already got us grooving in the office. The dance-'em-up is set to spin into Japan in Autumn 2014 as a PlayStation Vita exclusive. In...
News Persona 5 Jumps Out of Your Dreams and into Reality
Choo choo, all aboard
After announcing a 3DS spin-off, perplexing our speech with Persona 4 Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold, and revealing a Persona 4-based dancing game, it looked like fans' dreams of a Persona 5 announcement had been crushed during Atlus' streaming event today. Thankfully, the incredibly ta
News Batman: Arkham Collection Will Glide Across the UK Next Week
Just in time for the holiday season
Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has announced that the Batman: Arkham Collection Edition – a compilation of the main Batman: Arkham series – will be swooping onto the PlayStation 3 next week. Stealthy. Due for release on the 22nd November in the UK, the bundle will include Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman:...
News TowerFall Ascends on PS4 in Early 2014
Oooh, yeah
Former Ouya exclusive TowerFall is coming to the PlayStation 4 in early 2014, Canadian indie developer Matt Thorson has announced. The competitive platformer was revealed for the next generation console during Spike TV's big next generation launch event overnight, and was the cause of Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida's...
News Rayman Legends Leaps onto the PS4 in February
Let's get legless
Beautiful not-quite Nintendo Wii U exclusive Rayman Legends is set to hop onto the PlayStation 4 in February, publisher Ubisoft has announced. The port was nonchalantly unveiled by head-honcho Yves Guillemot during a drab financial call earlier today, in which he merely mentioned that the platformer is heading to “next-gen”...
News Can't Wait for Gran Turismo on PS4? Project Cars Should Help
Simulation racer putting its foot down
Project Cars, the crowd-funded simulation racer by Need for Speed Shift developer Slightly Mad Studios, has taken a turn away from current generation consoles, with the studio announcing that its ambitious vehicular excursion is set to launch on the PlayStation 4 as opposed to the originally planned PlayStation...
News Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f Hits the High Notes on PS Vita
God-tier tune
Following a surprisingly successful localisation on the PlayStation 3, SEGA’s rock hard rhythm release Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f is set to stretch its vocal cords on the PlayStation Vita in Europe and North America next year. The title – which stars Japan’s most popular computer generated pop star – actually deployed first...
News MLB 14 The Show Hits a Home Run on PS4, PS3, and Vita
Out of the park
The highest-rated sporting series in history is set to hit a humdinger on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita this coming spring. Following a few days of teasing, Sony San Diego has pulled back the curtain on MLB 14 The Show, the latest iteration in its critically acclaimed baseball series. If you’re upgrading to...
News Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Uncloaks in Spring 2014 on PS4 and PS3
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Only legendary developer Hideo Kojima could make the announcements of his titles more confusing than the plots embedded within them. We always assumed that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes – which was revealed quite a while back – had become The Phantom Pain, but it turns out that it’s actually a different game. Perhaps the most exciting...
News The Walking Dead: Season Two Stumbles to PS3 and Vita This Year
Dead good news
Bigby Wolf and his band of fairytale friends may be drawing all of the plaudits at the present, but Telltale Games is showing no signs of slowing down. As teased earlier in the week, the developer has confirmed that a second season of its award winning
News EA Sports Clubs Tiger Woods, Teases PS4 PGA Tour Title
End of an era
EA Sports may have stuck with Tiger Woods during the darkest period of his career, but the publisher has finally decided to step away from the sporting hero after 15 years. The company’s golf chief Daryl Holt said that the firm had made a “mutual decision” to end its long-running partnership, making this year’s Tiger Woods PGA...
News Trine 2: Complete Story Points Its Sword at PlayStation 4
Two warriors, one wizard
If you aren’t already satisfied with the outrageous roster of indie games heading to the PlayStation 4, then hopefully Trine 2: Complete Story will win you over. The outrageously beautiful puzzle platformer from Finnish outfit Frozenbyte is set to strike the system soon, and will be self-published by the company on the...
News Sony Flinging PAIN onto the PSN for Free
Bring the pain
In 2007, agony was brought upon the PlayStation Network in the form of PAIN, a ludicrous yet hilarious title which enabled you to chuck a human being at buildings, vehicles, and various surrounding landmarks with the objective of causing as much mayhem as possible. At the Brazil Game Show, Sony announced that the injury inducing...
News The Wolf Among Us Flashes Its Teeth on PlayStation Vita
Once upon a time
Push Square video editor Ben Potter has been howling at The Wolf Among Us harder than at a glamour model dressed in one of those saucy Little Red Riding Hood costumes – and now developer Telltale’s announced a PlayStation Vita port for the wannabe werewolf to slobber over. Yeah, we’v
News NASCAR '14 Driving on to PS3 in Early 2014
Release date to be confirmed
NASCAR '14 will be tearing up the tracks on the PlayStation 3 in early 2014, publisher Deep Silver has announced. Developed by Eutechnyx – who previously worked with the publisher on Ride to Hell: Retribution – the aforementioned game will come complete with new features, and promises to offer the ultimate racing...
News Velocity Ultra Boosts onto PS3 Courtesy of Curve Studios
Show thumb respect
One of the PlayStation Vita’s very best games is strapping itself up and teleporting onto the PlayStation 3. Velocity Ultra, the sublime vertical shooter from award-winning Brighton-based developer FuturLab, is set to fire onto the current generation console later this year, alongside all of the features that made the handheld...
News PS4 Lineup Swells with Sony Santa Monica Smash Hits
Flower, flOw, Sound Shapes, and Escape Plan on the way
Watch Dogs may be off the agenda for the time being, but you’re still going to have plenty to play on your spangly new PlayStation 4 in November. Sony Santa Monica has hopped onto the PlayStation Blog to confirm four new titles for the next gener
News Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX Rekindles Your Love of Disney Next Year
Series surpasses 20 million sales
The build up to Kingdom Hearts III will continue exclusively on the PlayStation 3 next year, as Square Enix has officially acknowledged its worst kept secret: Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX. The compilation – which follows in the footsteps of last month’s
News PS4 Pulls in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Next Year
Swinging onto PS3, too
PlayStation Vita owners may be forced to make do with an overdue port of the original The Amazing Spider-Man, but that’s not stopping Activision from lining up The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Due out next spring, the Beenox developed open world adventure aims to build upon the events of the...
News Frictional Games' SOMA Petrifies PlayStation 4 in 2015
A gramme is better than a damn
It may sound like the kind of drug that you’d expect to find in an Aldous Huxley novel, but SOMA is actually the latest pant wetting project from Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer Frictional Games. The Swedish studio has been teasing the title for a while now, but it tiptoed onto the
News Wrap Yourself Up in The Amazing Spider-Man on Vita
Swingstar
You said that you wanted more retail releases on the PlayStation Vita, so it looks like you’re going to have to make do with overdue ports. Activision’s so-so movie tie-in The Amazing Spider-Man is the latest PlayStation 3 release to get the portable treatment, with the bustling streets of Manhattan being squeezed onto Sony’s pocket...
News Surge Deluxe Connects the Blocks on PlayStation Vita
Electro shock
We’re not quite sure where the folks over at FuturLab get their energy, but we’d love to add a little drop of whatever it is that the studio’s supping to our tea. Not content with the upcoming shoot-‘em-up sequel Velocity 2X, the Brighton-based indie is also hard at work on Surge Deluxe – a native PlayStation Vita version of...
News Don't Think You've Seen the Last of Sleeping Dogs Just Yet
Triad Wars jostles for superiority in 2014
Grand Theft Auto V may be all the rage right now, but we still think that Sleeping Dogs is a stronger game in places. The controls, for starters, aren’t an outright mess, while the combat – be it melee or weapon-based – is much better in United Front Games’ release. As such, it’s pretty exciting...
News Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition Punches PS4, PS3, and Vita
Round two
NetherRealm Studios’ likeable superhero dust up Injustice: Gods Among Us is swopping onto the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Vita, publisher Warner Bros has announced. The re-release will deploy on 12th November in North America and 29th November in Europe, and will include the original game alongside all of its downloadable content...
News Samurai Warriors 4 Is Planning an Attack on PS3 and Vita
It's a Date
On the march to release in 2014 in Japan, Samurai Warriors 4 will mark the return of the main series to Sony's platforms after the third instalment launched as a Nintendo Wii exclusive, but was later ported to the PlayStation 3 in an attempt to garner further sales. Never shy of large character rosters, Koei's fourth game will feature a...
News Blast 'Em Bunnies Hunts Colourful Game on PS4 and Vita
Rabbit magic
We hope that you don’t have a fondness for rabbits, because Blast ‘Em Bunnies wants you to take as many of the energetic blighters down as possible. The latest release from escapeVektor developer Nnooo fuses tower defence with on-rails action, as you mow down hordes of colourful (but supposedly evil) critters, collecting...
News Super Exploding Zoo Plants a Charge on PS4 and Vita Next Year
Atomic animals
Frobisher Says developer Honeyslug is set to continue its relationship with Sony beyond the imminent Hohokum, as it’s announced that the delightfully daft Super Exploding Zoo is set to burst onto the PlayStation 4 and Vita next year. The game – as its name so effortlessly illustrates – sees you rounding up an array of volatile...
TGS 2013 Wait, You Won't Need to Pay to Play Deep Down on PS4?
Exclusive unexpectedly goes free-to-play
It may be one of the best looking games on the PlayStation 4, but Capcom has confirmed that Deep Down will be free-to-play. The shock announcement came at the Tokyo Game Show overnight, after the Japanese publisher had allowed attendees to sample the game at the PlayStation booth all week – where it was...
TGS 2013 Monster Hunter Frontier G Explores Vita in 2014
Animal tragic
It’s not necessarily the Monster Hunter game that the PlayStation Vita needs to reignite its commercial fortunes, but it’s better than nothing: Capcom has confirmed at the Tokyo Game Show that Monster Hunter Frontier G is stomping onto the hard up handheld next year. The subscription-based MMO was announced for the PlayStation 3 a...
News Ubisoft's JRPG Tribute Child Of Light Will Illuminate Your PlayStation Console Next Year
Bewitching adventure confirmed for both PS3 and PS4
Ubisoft has confirmed that its achingly beautiful action RPG Child of Light is coming to both the PS3 and PS4 in 2014. Built using the UbiArt game engine, Child of Light is the brainchild of Far Cry 3 director Patrick Plourde and takes influence from Japanese RPGs. It stars a princess called...
News You'll Be Busting Bugs On Your PS4 Thanks To Earth Defense Force
New title in the cult series confirmed for Sony's upcoming console
It has been confirmed that a new entry in the popular Earth Defense Force series is in development for the PS4. D3 is publishing the game, but the developer has yet to be confirmed. Japanese studio Sandlot has been synonymous with previous titles in the franchise, but the last...
News Sega Goes Back In Time With PS4 Launch Title Yakuza Ishin
Also coming to PS3 and Vita
Sega's Yakuza series is insanely popular in Japan, and it's getting a spin-off title in the form of Yakuza Ishin — which will be a PS4 launch title in its home territory. Set in Japan's bloody feudal past, the game showcases the same action we've come to know and love from the series — albeit with swords instead of...
News Intriguing Indie Title Pavilion Is Exclusive To PS4 And PS Vita In 2014
A "surreal dream-like experience", say its developers
Amid the chaos that was Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's press conference yesterday it was announced that the company is bringing Visiontrick Media's indie title Pavilion to the PS4 and PS Vita early next year. Described by its developers as "fourth-person exploratory experience" about...
News Strategy RPG Natural Doctrine Plans A Release On PS3, PS4, And Vita
Cross-cross-play
Kadokawa Games' first solo-developed title was announced earlier today at Sony's morning press conference. The game in question is a strategy RPG that'll be released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Vita - what more could you want? The trailer that accompanies the announcement is moody, monochrome, and intriguing. The strangely...
News Guilty Gear Xrd Sign Will Be Brawling On PS4, Too
Get in gear
During Sony's Japanese press conference earlier this morning, it was confirmed that Arc System Works' gorgeous new brawler will be taking the fight to PlayStation 4, as well as PlayStation 3. Due out in 2014, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign will mark the series' first departure from the use of sprites, and instead will utilise the Unreal engine...
News Sega's Phantasy Star Nova Is Exclusive To PS Vita
tri-Ace handling development duties, 2014 release expected
Sega has confirmed that the next entry in its popular Phantasy Star series is coming to the PS Vita. Phantasy Star Nova — which is being coded by tri-Ace — will take place in the same universe as Phantasy Star Online 2. However, despite being able to go online with up to three friends,...
News Soul Sacrifice Delta Coming To PS Vita In 2014
Keiji Inafune also hints at full-blown sequel in 2015
PS Vita exclusive Soul Sacrifice is getting a revised version in the shape of Soul Sacrifice Delta, the existence of which was confirmed by creator Keiji Inafune during Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's press conference this morning. The game is expected to hit Japan in March next year. New...
News Sony Enters the Micro-console Arena With PS Vita TV, The Smallest PlayStation Yet
Size of a pack of cards, plays Vita and PSP games on your telly
The slimmer and lighter PS Vita wasn't the only piece of hardware announced by Sony today — it has also confirmed the release of the PS Vita TV. Measuring 60mm by 100mm, it's a micro-console which plugs into your TV and allows you to play PS Vita games on the big screen. It pairs...
News Slimmer, Lighter PS Vita Announced With 1GB Of Storage And LCD Screen
Launches in Japan on October 10th
Sony has confirmed that it is releasing a redesigned version of the PS Vita console with a slimmer form factor, lighter frame, improved battery life, 1GB of internal memory and an LCD display. With a width of 15mm, the new edition will be 20 percent thinner than the existing Vita, and at 219g is 15 percent lighter...
News VVVVVV Flips Gravity on PlayStation VVVVVVita
Head rush
Terry Cavanagh's awesome extraterrestrial romp VVVVVV is heading to the PlayStation Vita, platform holder Sony announced during a PAX Prime 2013 panel this weekend. The retro puzzle platformer is being published by Nicalis, and sees you navigating increasingly challenging Commodore 64-esque environments by turning gravity on its head. The...
News Bound by Flame Unleashes Demonic Power on PS4
It's getting hot in here
Last week at GamesCom, a new RPG from Spiders Studio was revealed for the PlayStation 3. Today, it has been confirmed that the aforementioned RPG, Bound by Flame, will also be heating things up on Sony's next-gen platform, the PlayStation 4. The release is currently scheduled for an early 2014 launch. In Bound by Flame,...
News Level 5 Pings Wonder Flick onto PS4 and Vita Next Year
How fast can you flick?
If you were hoping that Level 5’s next release would be a Ni No Kuni sequel, you may want to temper your expectations a touch for the time being. The colossal Japanese developer has announced Wonder Flick, a bitesized fantasy RPG that aims to capture the feel of a sprawling adventure in short bursts. Clearly born out of...
