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News 8-4 Play Podcast Releases Four Hour PlayStation Vita Launch Special
The PlayStation Vita is now out in Japan
That means there are impressions, videos and information already all over the Internet. But if you want some definitive discussion all in one place, the 8-4 Play podcast has got your back. For those unfamiliar: 8-4 Play is fronted by a couple of former US games journalists who now work in Japan on video game...
News Ever Wondered What A PlayStation Vita Looks Like Without Its Clothes?
As has become customary at every new hardware launch, images of a dismantled PlayStation Vita have emerged online
We were saddened to discover that the system is not powered by fairy-dust and the blood of Ken Kutaragi, but instead totally boring electronic parts. Still, make sure you enjoy these photographs: someone sacrificed their PlayStation Vita...
News New Twisted Metal Trailer Introduces The Brothers Grimm
Sony's Twisted Metal reboot continues to up the stakes
Having a vehicle armed to the teeth with rockets and chainsaws is all well and good — but try using them effectively against the The Brothers Grimm. You'll be lucky if you manage to scratch the paint-work of their ridiculously oversized monster trucks.
News It's A PlayStation Platform Alright: PS Vita Launches With First Firmware Update
The PlayStation Vita's not one to buck the trends of a lifetime: the portable system has launched with a day-one firmware update in Japan
It's unclear at present what the firmware update actually does, but we suspect it's for stability reasons. After all, we imagine a lot of the PlayStation Vita's launch stock has been sitting in a warehouse for the...
News Sony Launches PlayStation Vita In Japan
There's officially a new member to the PlayStation family
Almost 12 months after Sony unveiled its "Next Generation Portable" to the world, the platform holder has released the PlayStation Vita to much fanfare in Japan. Despite the inclement weather, gamers in their hundreds gathered outside Japanese retailers to get their hands on the new...
News PlayStation Vita's English Manual is Online Now
Ideal for importers
In an act of unprecedented preparedness — Vita is still two months away from Europe and North America — Sony has released the console's English manual. The instructions introduce the Vita hardware and double-confirm that you cannot press the analogue sticks in, but that doing so may cause damage to your Vita system. Likewise,...
News Brand New HD Sorcery Trailer Looks the Business
Details and more inside!
Must-have Move game Sorcery is back in action after a long absence, with a brand new trailer right below these very words. There's a new fact sheet too, confirming the game is single-player only, so there'll be no online magic battling for you. The Workshop's magic title is now down for a release in spring 2012, meaning we...
News In Case You Wondered, Here's A Helpful PlayStation Vita Box Comparison
With the PlayStation Vita due out in less than 24 hours in Japan, we're starting to get a slow and steady trickle of news and information
The littlest details are always the most fascinating. Take for example the PlayStation Vita's boxes — just how big are they? ShopTo News has got your back, with a selection of images comparing the PS Vita...
Report First PlayStation Vita Shipment To Top 700,000 Units In Japan
Yesterday Sony suit Andrew House said that the PlayStation Vita was all but sold out in Japan due to advance orders, but he failed to provide any concrete numbers
Today we've got a better idea of just how well the PlayStation Vita is going to sell out of the gate, with Andriasang reporting that the system's opening shipment could exceed a whopping...
News On The Rollcoaster Of Life: PlayStation Vita Only Supports One PlayStation Network Account
This is brilliant: if only to see the hordes of self-entitled trash-talkers flip-the-heck-out on the NeoGAF forums
After reassuring potential PS Vita purchasers that PlayStation Network accounts would be tied to memory cards last week, Sony has since back-tracked — meaning that, as originally believed, you'll need to wipe your entire PlayStation...
News Get Inside Vita's Augmented Reality Features with New Video
Keep learning
Feeling your brain start to explode with PlayStation Vita news and information ahead of its Japanese launch this weekend? This video might just tip you over the edge. Sony's just released a new video explaining the system's powerful augmented reality functions, with talking heads from development studios telling you just why this...
News Uncharted: Golden Abyss To Last Longer Than Ten Hours
Worried upcoming PlayStation Vita launch title, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, was going to be over in the blink of an eye? Don't
Sony Bend writer John Garvin has reportedly told NowGamer that the handheld title will be the longest in the franchise's history, lasting upwards of ten hours on a first playthrough. Discussing the challenges of bringing...
Rumour 3G PlayStation Vita Pushed Back Until April 2012 In Canada
According to Kotaku, the launch of the 3G PlayStation Vita has been pushed back by two months in Canada
The North American website reports that "due to extensive planning and testing with [Sony's] 3G partner", the SKU has been delayed until April 2012. The website speculates that difficulties in reaching a pricing agreement with the 3G...
News Sony Claims The PlayStation Vita Has Already Sold Out In Japan
Without providing any numbers, Sony's Andrew House has announced that the PlayStation Vita has already sold out in Japan -- despite it not releasing until Saturday
The former SCEE executive told Bloomberg that the system had sold out purely on pre-orders. There were lines to make reservations for the machine at retailers, he said. It's unclear...
News Sony: PlayStation 3 Hardware Sales Ahead Of Expectations
Good news for those that choose to enjoy their games based on sales numbers: Sony has announced that the PlayStation 3 is actually slightly exceeding expectations
The platform holder previously predicted that it would sell 15 million consoles during the fiscal year ending in March 2012, and executive Andrew House has told journalists that he fully...
News Sony Discusses 'Re-Tooled' Sorcery
It's evident from yesterday's reannouncement that Sorcery has grown since its promising debut at last year's E3
While the PlayStation Move exclusive includes the same precise motion control mechanics as its original demo, it's visually prettier and much bigger in scope. "Coming out of E3, we knew there were some things we weren't happy...
News The Last Of Us Concept Art Hints At Gameplay Possibilities
You'd think that for the number of stories we've written about The Last Of Us over the past week, we'd know a thing or two about the upcoming title's gameplay
But we don't. Naughty Dog's insisted that fans should watch the game's debut trailer over and over in order to etch out some new details, but we're more taken with the game's concept art. One...
News Sorcery Video, Screenshots and Details All Inside
Due in spring
It's been a long wait to see more of Sorcery, but Sony finally lifted the game's invisibility cape this week to reveal more of what The Workshop has in store for 2012. Revealing differences since the game's well-received E3 2010 showing, design director Brian Upton says: What we showed at E3 was largely organized around a dungeon...
First Impressions Frobisher Says on PlayStation Vita
If Simon Says had an illicit affair with Nintendo's madcap minigame series WarioWare, Frobisher Says would be the hyperactive accidental love-child
Honeyslug's eccentric PlayStation Vita launch-title might not be drawing the headlines like Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Wipeout 2048, but its easily the most humorous game we've played in a long time...
News What The Heck Is The PlayStation Game Music Service?
Have you ever been walking to work wishing you could listen to the Uncharted soundtrack along the way? It happens to the best of us
But it's mighty frustrating when you realise you haven't got the MP3 on your portable music player of choice. Sony's PlayStation Game Music service in Japan attempts to alleviate that problem. The service allows...
News Gran Turismo 5 Gets New Content To Celebrate The Holidays
We know what you've spent the past 12 months doing
No, we're not stalkers or anything, we've simply been keeping a keen eye on your PlayStation Network account. You've been playing Gran Turismo 5, haven't you? Ok, so this post might not apply to you specifically, but there are genuinely four or five people on our PSN friends list that play nothing...
News Sorcery Enchants Stores In Spring 2012, Looks Hella Pretty
Sorcery was the first game to make people take notice of the PlayStation Move
Debuted at E3 over a year ago, The Workshop developed motion exclusive generated buzz because it felt like the title gamers had been calling for ever since the Wii was released. Family oriented, yes, but with a deep underlying core. A year later, Sony's re-revealed Sorcery...
News Get Prepared For The Last Of Us With Various PlayStation Network Goodies
We barely know anything about Naughty Dog's upcoming PlayStation 3 horror title, The Last Of Us -- but that's not stopping the developer from packing the PlayStation Store with new goodies relating to the upcoming title
Those that head to the North American PlayStation Store right now will be able to grab the game's debut trailer, a couple of...
News Sony Releases More PlayStation Vita Trailers Than Your Eyes Can Handle
How are you handling all that PlayStation Vita hype? We've taken to printing off PlayStation Vita screenshots and sticking them onto our PlayStation Portable's screen
It sort of gets the job done, but the problem is that none of the games move, or do much of anything really. To be honest it's all a bit rubbish. The number of trailers Sony's pumping...
News Sony Reveals Top Selling PlayStation Network Indie Titles Of 2011
Indie titles are all the rage right now, and PlayStation Network is a great home for them
Posting on the PlayStation Blog, the platform holder has revealed the best-selling indie titles released through the PlayStation Network in 2011. The platform holder broke the sales charts down into a trio of categories: third-party self-published, Sony...
Despite details being relatively scarce, Naughty Dog's The Last Of Us has been a hot point of discussion all over the Internet since its announcement at the weekend
The game — borne out of a BBC documentary about the haunting cordyceps fungus — depicts the story of Joel and his teenage companion Ellie, who find themselves survivors in an...
News New PlayStation Vita Trailer Sells Us On The System All Over Again
It doesn't take much to sell a great product; all you need to do is explain exactly what it can do
Sony's released a brand new trailer for the PlayStation Vita that does exactly that. It covers every feature in just over two minutes, and it's hard not to get excited. Dual analogue sticks, multiple touch interfaces, cross-game chat, social...
News Sony Talks Up Cross-Platform Play With New PlayStation Vita Trailer
It looks like cross-platform play is going to form a key component of Sony's promotional activities for the PlayStation Vita
The platform holder's released a brand new trailer showing off all of the handheld's PS3 connectivity functions. The snippet shows save sharing in the Diablo-esque dungeon crawler Ruin, cross-platform multiplayer in Wipeout...
News The Last Of Us Nets Oscar Winning Composer Gustavo Santaolalla
Don't ever expect Naughty Dog to do things by halves
The Uncharted developer has announced that it has snapped up Oscar winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel) to score the music for its recently revealed PS3 exclusive, The Last Of Us. "He's awesome," creative director Neil Druckmann said of the musician. "He...
News Naughty Dog Talks About Keeping The Last Of Us Secret
The announcement that upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Of Us is in development at Naughty Dog came as a surprise to most people at the VGAs this weekend
And in an interview with the PlayStation Blog, co-presidents Evan Wells and Cristophe Balestra have discussed a little about what the process was like keeping the game secret for almost two...
News Dark Days: Sony Confirms Fumito Ueda's Departure
Legendary PlayStation developer Fumito Ueda -- the creative force behind ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus -- has left Sony, the platform holder has announced
Ueda's departure comes following a series of rumours surrounding the developer's employment. But while Ueda's long-term future remains unclear, Sony confirmed that his immediate commitments are...
News Heads Up: Playstation Network Maintenance Scheduled For This Week
It's been a while since the last batch of scheduled PlayStation Network maintenance, so we suppose we can't complain
Sony's announced that it's set to do some work on the PSN for a few hours this week, starting Thursday evening. The maintenance will run from 16:00PM, 15th December through to 02:00, 16th December UK time. During the downtime you...
News Fresh The Last Of Us Details Trickle Online
While a lot is still unknown about Naughty Dog's upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Of Us, a sparse number of development details have leaked online overnight
The first of which is that Enslaved lead designer Mark Davies is working on the project. "Okay, so I never worked on Uncharted 3 - I was really doing this," the newly employed...
Feature Why The Last Of Us Looks Like More Than Just 'Another Zombie Game'
As gamers we've probably dismembered thousands of zombies over the years
Reanimated corpses have become a crux for game designers wanting to add a "horror" edge to their action games, and as a result we've all got a little tired of them. It's unsurprising to see a corner of the Internet dismiss Naughty Dog's latest franchise, The Last Of...
News Naughty Dog Shares More Details About The Last Of Us
Still in a state of shock regarding the unveiling of The Last Of Us overnight? Yeah, we are too actually
Not about the game itself — it looked pretty much like we'd expected it to — but the fact that Naughty Dog is at the helm. We'd never have suspected that in a million years. But now that the cat's out of the bag, we've started to turn our...
During the build-up to the VGAs, Geoff Keighley pondered how Sony's new PlayStation 3 exclusive, The Last Of Us, hadn't leaked
It's a question we're asking ourselves right now. Despite Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception launching to critical acclaim less than a month ago, Naughty Dog has confirmed that it is the developer behind the upcoming horror...
News Sony's The Last Of Us Helps Us To Learn About Ants
We don't think we've ever been quite so curious about ants
Sony's mysterious marketing campaign for The Last Of Us — an upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive that the platform holder's been drip-feeding information about for the past couple of weeks — has brought out the budding researcher in much of the video games media. PlayStation Lifestyle's got...
News Sony Comments On Team ICO, Says Fumito Ueda Is 'Committed To Completing' The Last Guardian
Sony's said that Fumito Ueda is "committed to completing" upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Guardian, but has once again managed to completely dodge the issue of the developer's employment
In a statement issued to IGN's Colin Moriarty, a SCEA spokesperson revealed that "Ueda-san is in fact under contract and is committed to completing...
News November NPD: Call Of Duty & Skyrim Top The Software Charts
It was a monster month for software releases in November
Unsurprisingly, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out on top. But despite the high profile roster of software releases — and growth in unit sales across the board — NPD analyst Anita Frazier warned that "a decline in average retail price in all...
We've been telling you to purchase a PlayStation Plus subscription for a couple of weeks now
We sincerely hope you followed our advise. Because in addition to the "12 Gifts Of Christmas", and the regular updates, SCEE has announced that anyone that pur
News MLB 12: The Show To Support Cross-Platform Saves
If there's any genre that needs to take advantage of the PlayStation Vita's ability to share save data with the PlayStation 3, it's the sports genre
Just imagine being able to take your FIFA season on the go when you're out and about, and then upload it back to your PS3 when you're at home. In order for the functionality to take off, someone needs...
News Someone Played White Knight Chronicles II For Nearly 9,000 Hours
What's your Skyrim save file look like? Fifty hours, maybe sixty? Sounds like a lot, until you hear about the Japanese White Knight Chronicles II fan that invested nearly 9,000 hours into the Level-5 developed game
According to Siliconera, the unnamed man accumulated 8,701 hours playtime, bringing his playcount up to a whopping 362 days without...
News The Last Of Us Teaser Spotted In Uncharted 3
So this is getting really cool now
Regular readers of the site will be aware of the build-up to Sony's new PlayStation 3 exclusive, The Last Of Us. If you're not up to date, you can read our big blow-out piece on the impending announcement through here. Sony has been gradually drip-feeding information about the game all week, going as far as to add...
News Multiple PSN Accounts Means Multiple Vita Memory Cards
Get buying
PlayStation Vita offers on-the-go gaming either solo or against others through WiFi or 3G, but there were recent reports that the machine would only support one PSN account. That's not quite true, according to a Sony spokesperson talking to Wired.com. Each PSN account is bound to your Vita memory card, so if you want a second PSN account,...
News Sony Offers PlayStation 3 Owners A 60-Day Trial To Music Unlimited
If you're enjoying your PlayStation 3 but wish you could stream the hits of The Saturdays while not playing games, Sony Entertainment Network's got your back
The company's announced that a 60-day trial for its audio streaming service, Music Unlimited, will be made available to all PlayStation 3 owners imminently. The trial will allow participants to...
News PlayStation Vita Not Limited To A Single PSN Account, But There's Still A Small Caveat
The PlayStation Vita is not limited to a single PlayStation Network account, as was widely reported last week
But you'll need to own multiple memory cards if you want to use different PSN accounts on the same system, Sony has confirmed. Sony suit Crystal MacKenzie confirmed the news in an interview with Wired, explaining that accounts are linked to...
News inFamous: Festival Of Blood Becomes The Fastest Selling PSN Download Of All Time
What do you get when you release a great product at the right time with a competitive price-point? Big sales, that's what -- and inFamous: Festival Of Blood is a testament to that philosophy
The bite-sized (pun intended) PlayStation Network standalone has become the fastest selling title in the PlayStation Network's history, topping the downloadable...
News Unit 13 Takes It To The Dancefloor
Every shooter needs a good nightclub stage
And Zipper Interactive's upcoming PlayStation Vita exclusive Unit 13 looks more than happy to oblige. New screenshots fired over by Sony show some four-to-the-floor shootouts. Everyone grab your dancing shoes.
News David Jaffe's Not So Keen On An Online Pass For Twisted Metal
Legendary PlayStation developer David Jaffe has indicated he'd prefer it if his upcoming Twisted Metal reboot didn't ship with an Online Pass code
The developer told Eurogamer: Id actually prefer [it if we didn't do an Online Pass], even though its probably good business. Only because we have such a mountain to climb in terms of gaining...
News The Last Of Us Teaser Website Updates With Wallpaper, Extended Video
The teaser website for upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Of Us has updated
While the body of the page remains the same — ants and quarantine videos are still the focus — the big change is the inclusion of a wallpaper image listed as a "screenshot". It shows the foliage that has appeared on the background of the PlayStation Blog...
