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News William C. Dietz Novel To Bridge The Gap Between Resistance Sequels
Sony's announced William C
Dietz will pen a second Resistance novel to bridge the gap between Resistance 2 and Resistance 3. The book — entitled Resistance: A Hole In The Sky — will depict the events of Resistance 3 protagonist Joseph Capelli leading up to the game. It will be published this summer by Del-Rey books.
News MLB 11: The Show Gets One-Button Mode For Disabled Gamers
Sony's added a one-button gameplay mode to upcoming baseball title, MLB 11: The Show, at the request of 25-year old cerebal palsy patient, Hans Smith
According to the report , the new gameplay mode will allow gamers with disabilities to throw the ball or swing the bat with a single push of a button. May we nominate Square? Here I am, a baseball...
We know you're still going to crawl back into your uninformed corner of the Internet and complain about how PlayStation Home is all about waiting in a line to play a game of pool, but that's just not the case anymore
PlayStation Home is awesome. It might not be your particular flavour of herbal tea, but we love the direction Sony's taking with the...
News Honestly, We're Almost Certain This Is Not The PSP2
There's an elaborate hoax doing the rounds
Some big publications are posting up grainy shots of what they claim "could be" the PSP2. Never ones to miss out on a hit mongering story, we've decided to jump on the bandwagon and share our opinion on the matter. This is not the PSP2. For starters it looks like a carbon copy of the Xperia Play...
News Why Does Amazon Say PlayStation Move is Discontinued?
Mystery afoot
Have you struggled to find a solus Move controller since its launch in September? Has it been difficult enough for you to believe, however crazy it may sound, that it's no longer being manufactured? Here comes Amazon to add a little fuel to that fire with this listing. Amazon.com is listing the Move controller as "discontinued by...
News Tumble Falls to Half Price in PlayStation Network Sale
$4.99 in North America
If you're after a cheap but engaging downloadable title for PlayStation Move, you could do a lot worse than pick up Tumble, the block-stacking, tower-building title that shows off the controller's range of movement as beautifully as any other. If you live in North America, you can now get 50% off Tumble as part of...
News Codemasters Boss Backs PSP2 Power Rumours
Codemasters' top noggin has added further fuel to the "PSP2 is super powerful" bonfire
Ironically speaking at the 3DS event in Amsterdam last week, Rod Cousens told Eurogamer that rumours about Sony's next handheld are true. It is indeed a bit of beast. In portable areas youre going to have statements, which already out in the press, saying...
News These Are The Guns You'll Be Firing In Killzone 3
We're just about a month away from the release of Killzone 3, and with the multiplayer beta due to launch in early February, Guerrilla's jumped onto the PlayStation Blog to reveal the game's full arsenal
There are a bunch of weapons available, with Guerrilla touting the importance of each gun having its "own unique role". Click through...
News Smedley: DC Universe Online Is Sony Online Entertainment's Fastest Selling Game
If you had any question about the success of Sony Online Entertainment's latest MMO, DC Universe Online, then look no further than John Smedley's latest Tweet
The SOE president revealed on the micro-blogging site that DC Universe Online is the studio's "fastest selling game ever". Smedley added that the company has added new servers and is...
News Heads Up: PlayStation Meeting Kicks Off 3PM JST This Thursday
Sony's pinned a 3PM JST start time on this Thursday's PlayStation Meeting in Tokyo
Convert times as appropriate, but that makes it 6AM GMT here in the UK. Don't expect news to trickle out immediately though. We imagine it will take an hour or so before the good stuff hits the 'net. The event's like to see the unveiling of the PSP2 at long last. We...
News Hyperdimension Neptunia Nets Stacked "Premium Edition" In North America
You'll have to bear with us while we read up on Hyperdimension Neptunia as we're not overly familiar with NIS America's PS3-exclusive strategy RPG
From what we understand, the game's main cast of characters are based on video game consoles. Let us just check. Five minutes... Ok. This is nuts. Hyperdimension Neptunia (and we quote) is a "take on...
News Real-Life LittleBigPlanet Might Actually Be As Good As PS3 LittleBigPlanet
It might take a few seconds for you to realise what's going on in this delightful LittleBigPlanet clip, but once it clicks it may just blow your mind
We all know LittleBigPlanet's brilliant on PlayStation 3, but what if it was made of real cardboard sets and Sackboy plushies? The answer is embedded above.
News Sackboy Steals The British Software Charts, Mass Effect 2 PS3 Comes In Seventh
Let's all pause for a quick cheer: hoo-ray
Chart-Track's just revealed that LittleBigPlanet 2's rightfully topped the British software sales charts, knocking Call Of Duty: Black Ops from its perch. Big congratulations to the guys over at Media Molecule. It's a stunning game and it deserves every success. LittleBigPlanet 2 was only one half of a big...
Feature Going Through The MMOtions: DC Universe Online on PlayStation 3 - #2
PushSquare editor Sammy Barker jumps into the gigantic world of PlayStation 3 MMO DC Universe Online
This on-going feature serves as an evolving review of the game, complete with personal anecdotes and opinion. For more editions of Going Through The MMOtions, click here.</em> As an MMO newcomer, I'm starting to appreciate that the beauty of...
Definitely sounds like Sony's being Sony again
Nikkei is reporting some colossus information on the PSP2 this evening. According to preliminary information on the device, Nikkei reports that Sony's next portable system will support 3G functionality and an OLED touchscreen. OLED screens are widely considered some of the best available on the market...
News We'd Almost Forgotten Just How Good Killzone 3's Guns Sound
Thank goodness for this multiplayer footage Sony's put up to celebrate Killzone 3's upcoming open beta
Just as we'd started to forget just how chunky Killzone's weapons sound, a smattering of gameplay footage arrives to remind us. Most exciting about this clip of Killzone 3's Bilgarsk Boulevard — the map looks huge, while still maintaining a...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 Already Surpasses Original's Player Records
LittleBigPlanet 2's only been officially out for around 24 hours here in the UK, and little more than a few days in the US, but it's already managed to smash the original game's player records
Studio co-founder David Smith told Eurogamer, "The user count is actually quite crazy - we've already massively outstripped our LBP1 record for total...
Rumour Metal Gear Solid HD Trilogy Coming To PlayStation 3
A high-definition remake of the original Metal Gear Solid trilogy is coming to PlayStation 3 if reports in Official PlayStation Magazine are to be believed
The magazine cites "insider whispers" as the source for the story, stating that the "first three" Metal Gear Solid games are set to be reborn on the PlayStation 3. It would...
News LittleBigTVAd Focuses On LittleBigCreators
SCEE's posted up the LittleBigPlanet 2 television advert over on the PlayStation Blog
The ad was created in conjunction with a number of high profile LittleBigPlanet level designers, and the results are kinda amazing. The coolest thing is that each of the levels are available to play now in the game. Our favourite is the Mediterranean Street Race, a...
SCEE's announced that through February 3rd to February 15th players will be able to enlist upon the Killzone 3 open beta
The client will provide early access to Killzone's Frozen Dam multiplayer level, playable across three game modes: Guerrilla Warfare, Warzone and Operations. The offline multiplayer Botzone component will also be available. There...
News PSP2 To Be Announced At Japanese PlayStation Meeting On January 27th
Six years ago Sony held an event in Japan called the "PlayStation Meeting"
The July 25th, 2005 meeting revealed some of Sony's early plans for the PlayStation 3. The January 27th, 2011 event labelled "PlayStation Meeting" is believed to lead to the long awaited unveiling of the PSP2. Andriasang's picked up on the name via a series of...
LittleBigPlanet 2 doesn't support PlayStation Move out of the box, but Media Molecule's studio director, Siobhan Reddy, has told IGN that a "Play, Create, Share" pack for Sony's motion device is in the works and will be ready soon
Apparently the pack will be "announced in a little while". Well, the exciting thing to do with Move is,...
News Take A Quick Virtual Tour Of Sackboy's Birth Place
Media Molecule are probably quirkiest development studio in video games, so we found this short Youtube tour (embedded after the jump) of their office most intriguing
It's pretty much as we expected to be honest — there's a "pet wall" and lots of whacky light shades. Oh, and there's a table-tennis set-up too. Every office needs one,...
News Amazon Announces The Acquisition Of LOVEFiLM
Amazon's announced that they've acquired the European-based DVD-rental (and streaming) service LOVEFiLM for an undisclosed amount
LOVEFiLM launched an application on the PlayStation 3 late last year. According to VentureBeat, Amazon went ahead with the purpose because of the company's streaming solutions. Apparently, with 20 percent of the service's...
News LittleBigPlanet 2's Audio Sequencer Could Have Been A Stand-Alone Game
LittleBigPlanet 2 is crazy
Like, really crazy. It's so crazy, one of its level editing tools is practically a simplified digital audio workstation. That's bonkers. In fact, LBP2's audio sequencer was originally being considered as a stand-alone game. Ker-ray-zee. According to Media Molecule's audio lead Kenny Young, Sony pushed the developer to...
News PlayStation Home's Exciting Espionage Title Launches In The US This Week
We've said it once, we'll say it again, and we'll continue to champion it until it sinks in: PlayStation Home is starting to get really, really exciting
It feels like Home's finally beginning to reach the potential it always aspired to. Spaces like Sodium One are what we won us over, so it's exciting to see more games implemented into Home's...
News Stacking Pops Onto The PlayStation Network On February 8th
DoubleFine's quirky Russian doll-inspired downloadable offering, Stacking, is due for release on the PlayStation Network on February 8th the developer's confirmed
The game will cost $14.99. We still don't know a great deal about the title, though we do know the protagonist will be able to assume the bodies of other characters to gain access to new...
LittleBigPlanet 2's kinda out
Killzone 3's nearly out. But the cogs at Sony's overworked PR office keep turning; we've just realised we still know absolutely nothing about SOCOM 4's multiplayer component. That's not a problem though, because Sony's announced on the US PlayStation Blog that marked copies of Killzone 3 (Helghast and
News Guerrilla Games: Killzone 3 "Feels More Fluid" Than Previous Entry
Guerrilla Games has reiterated its intent to appease "control lag" complaints with Killzone 3
The studio's told EDGE magazine that Killzone 3 is suitably "more fluid" than its predecessor: we were still tweaking and checking framerate, I checked this game back-to-back with Killzone 2 and have to say that it plays so much more...
News Portal 2 On PlayStation 3 Nets Cross-Platform Play, Cloud Storage & Steam Play
When Gabe Newell showed up at Sony's E3 press conference last year and stated that the PS3 version of Portal 2 would be the "definitive version," we assumed it meant we'd get an extra couple of levels and cloud storage
And we would have been happy with that. But what Valve's actually announced for the PS3 version of Portal 2 goes above and beyond...
Out Today LittleBigPlanet 2 (North America)
Sackboy returns
After months of betas, demos, teaser videos and more, Sackboy sequel LittleBigPlanet 2 is finally available to buy in North America. The game contains PlayStation Network title Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, a two-player co-operative adventure for Move and DualShock 3. Media Molecule originally stated that there would be more Move...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 Smashes LittleBigWorldRecords Now!
The LittleBigWorldRecord is up and running
To celebrate the release of LittleBigPlanet 2 this week, Sony's aiming to smash a number of Guiness World Records. The event's taking place at the Sony Style store in New York City, with goodies promised for the first 500 people who show up tomorrow morning and buy the game. There's a bunch more information...
News HANG ON, LITTLEBIGPLANET 2 IS OUT THIS WEEK!!!
Man, this has really crept up on us: LittleBigPlanet 2 is out tomorrow in the US
That's crazy. It feels like we've been waiting forever but here it is. Finally. Even if you're in Europe, you've only got a few extra days to wait. There's nothing more we can really say. If you're human, you'll be pumped. Sit back, listen to the sub-bass, and check...
News Gran Turismo Anywhere Set To Launch In Early February
First announced during the final straight of Gran Turismo's agonising development cycle, Gran Turismo 5's "Anywhere" mode is finally gearing up for release this February
That's according to a Tweet from series honcho Kazunori Yamauchi anyway. He knows about these things. The mode will allow players to engage in B-spec races remotely using a computer...
News Sony Online Entertainment: Freerealms PS3 "In Submission", Due February/March
Well that's a turn-up for the books
Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play casual MMO, Free Realms, has long been rumoured for the PlayStation 3, but after years of no information, we'd assumed it was missing in action. Apparently not though, as Sony Online Entertainment's head honcho John Smedley has told Eurogamer that the game's currently going...
News UK Sales Charts: DC Universe Online Smashes Into The Top Ten
Someone get hold of Batman and tell him to fake a smile: DC Universe Online's broken the UK's top ten software sales
The game, which released on PC and PlayStation 3, has been slowly gathering attention since the beta. You can read our initial thoughts on the game through here. We think it's pretty good so far. Elsewhere the charts are pretty much...
Feature Going Through The MMOtions: DC Universe Online on PlayStation 3 - #1
PushSquare editor Sammy Barker jumps into the gigantic world of PlayStation 3 MMO DC Universe Online
This on-going feature serves as an evolving review of the game, complete with personal anecdotes and opinion. For more editions of Going Through The MMOtions, click here.</em> I've never played an MMO. Not a proper one anyway. The closest I've...
News PlayStation Move Heroes Starts Shipping on March 22nd
Save the date
Yesterday we brought you details of the minigames you can expect to play in PlayStation Move Heroes when it launches, and today the last piece of the puzzle is filled in: its launch date. According to Sony's fact sheet, the game starts shipping to stores across North America on March 22nd 2011, giving you just shy of two months to...
Sony's director of hardware marketing, John Koller, has spoken candidly to the Wall Street Journal about the PlayStation Move and SCE's strategy for the device going forward
Acknowledging Microsoft's success with the Kinect, Koller said that his company is still "happy where we are in the market" with Move. It's a point which often gets...
News Killzone 3 Is Done, Finished, Finito, Complete, Etc.
Run out of synonyms for the title there
Feel entirely free to add your own set of "words meaning finished" to the comments section below while we go through the motions of telling you the news: Killzone 3 has gone gold. When a game goes gold, it means it's completely done. Y'know, finished. They send it off to big industrial manufacturing...
News PlayStation Move Heroes Launches March 22nd In North America
Oh
Wha-? Another game? Seems we barely have time to blink here in the PushSquare office before Sony's announcing the release date for yet another exclusive. This time the American arm of the PlayStation Blog's slapped a March 22nd release date on Nihilistic Software's motion controlled PlayStation Move Heroes. The game — which features all of...
News LittleBigPlanet 2's Like The Never Ending Story Without The Disingenuous Name
Sony's marketing message for LittleBigPlanet 2 seems to rotates around the idea that the game can never be completed
The latest Kevin Butler spot hammers home the user creation aspect and features plenty of gameplay. The game's due out next week worldwide. Sony intends to celebrate the launch in North America by smashing a sequence of world records...
News December NPD 2010: PlayStation 3 Passes A Million, While Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cleans Up
After November's sales disaster for the PlayStation 3, December's numbers have come as somewhat of a surprise
When isolated, the PlayStation 3's 1.21 million sales are reasonable if not spectacular. Unfortunately, it's when the other platforms are brought into the equation that the numbers look meagre for Sony. While Microsoft didn't enjoy the North...
News Smedley: DC Universe Online To Expand On A Monthly Basis
MMOs have arrived on the PlayStation 3 at last
We can prove it, as we just plonked our copy of DC Universe Online into the PlayStation 3. With the game now readily available, SOE's boss John Smedley has come out to reassure players that the game will receive monthly content updates. Youll get large new raids, new end-bosses to fight, new quests,...
News PlayStation To Expand Into China
A report in the China Daily suggests that Sony Computer Entertainment is to expand into the Asian mainland: China
The article notes that Sony recently signed a letter of intent detailing plans to implement training and R&D facilities in the Guangzhou province. It'll be Sony's first investment into the mainland. In addition to localisation, Sony...
News MotorStorm: Apocalypse Gets 16th March European Launch Date, US Made To Wait A Little While
We're jumping for joy here in the PushSquare office
MotorStorm: Apocalypse is undeniably one of our most anticipated games of 2011, literally causing our jaws to drop when we experienced it for the first time in 3D. Seeing the game get a March 16th release date in Europe has caused much jubilation and celebration. So much so, we might even crack...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 & Killzone 3 Get Promo Slurpees At 7-Eleven
It's not entirely unprecedented for Sony to market key PlayStation 3 exclusives with custom Slurpee cups
Remember Kratos' Fury? With no God Of War this year, Sony's turned to LittleBigPlanet 2 and Killzone 3 for their yearly PlayStation-branded iced drinks partnership. Each limited cup includes a promo card which can be exchanged on the Slurpee...
News Killzone 3 To Feature Over 70 Minutes Of Cut-Scenes
After last week's fantastic story-trailer, we've been eager to see more of Killzone 3's narrative
It seems we'll get plenty of it when the game launches next week, as the BBFC's revealed that the game has over 70 minutes of cut-scenes. The board gave the game an 18 rating, stating it features strong bloody violence and strong language. As if we...
News PSP2 "As Powerful As The PS3" According To Sony, Could Be Out As Soon As October
MCV's reporting that the yet-t0-be-announced PlayStation Portable 2 could be released as soon as October 2011
The site furthers that Sony's been telling licensees that the system is "as powerful as the PlayStation 3". It adds fuel to industry whispers we've already heard, namely that the handheld would exceed the XBOX 360 in terms of...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 Teams Up With... Toyota?
Reinforcing the belief that LittleBigPlanet is the perfect marketing tool, Sony's announced that LBP2 will play home to some Toyota branded content
The free sponsored content will launch alongside Sackboy's latest game, and will include an XMB theme and a Prius level. The level will include a bunch of prize bubbles allowing you to build your own...
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