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News LittleBigPlanet 2 To Launch With Multi-Level PlayStation Move Demo
LittleBigPlanet 2 won't launch with its full PlayStation Move integration included -- that'll come in a patch further down the line
The game will however ship with a multi-level PlayStation Move demonstration, giving users a taste of how the new controller will work with the game. With the main game there will be an extra game possibly on...
News Tales From Space: About A Blob Goes PlayStation 3 Exclusive
DrinkBox's Tales From Space: About A Blob has joined Sony's growing "pub fund" program, giving the developers additional marketing and budget support in the return for PSN exclusivity
The title joins the likes of Joe Danger and Burn Zombie Burn. Tales From Space: About A Blob combines Katamari with LocoRoco. Players will need to navigate an alien...
News Guerrilla Details Killzone 3's PlayStation Move Controller Support
Guerrilla Games' Steven Ter Heide has joined the PlayStation Blog's Jeff Rubenstein to discuss Killzone 3's PlayStation Move controller support
In the discussion, Steven talks about the way the controls work with Move, aswell as online segregation between control schemes. There's more information over on the PlayStation Blog.
News MAG Patch Goes Live, Gets PlayStation Move Support & More
If you load up your copy of MAG right now, you'll be prompted to download a fresh patch which brings the 256-player shooter up to version 2
0. The update vastly changes much of MAG's progression system, aswell as increasing the level cap, introducing clan support and, of course, introducing PlayStation Move support. You're going to need to jump into...
News Hey PlayStation, It's Your Birthday! It's Your Birthday! *Does Camp Dance*
The PlayStation turns 15 today in Europe
Happy Birthday to you, Tekken and Point Blank 2, Happy Birthday dear PlayStation, Happy Birthday to you! Brappppppppp! The original grey box launched on September 29th, 1995 in Europe. Ridge Racer was the big title from the launch line-up. The brand later became synonymous with Final Fantasy VII, Wipeout,...
News ModNation Racers Drops Down To $40 On PlayStation 3, $20 On PSP
Sony's confirmed a price-drop for United Front's excellent ModNation Racers in the US
The kart 'em up will now be available for $40 on the PlayStation 3 and $20 on the PSP. If you haven't picked the game up yet, we recommend you do. The load times might be frustrating, but the core racing is fun and the character creation stuff is amazing. There's...
News How About A Gran Turismo 5 Bundle, Then?
It was inevitable wasn't it? Gran Turismo 5 is the biggest title to hit the PlayStation 3 to date, so a good value bundle was always going make sense
Seems like Amazon.co.uk are the ones to spill the beans, listing a 320GB PlayStation 3 package with the Gran Turismo 5 Collector's Edition included. It'll retail for £28
News Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Gets A Game Of The Year Edition This October 12th
Still not played Uncharted 2: Among Thieves? What are you - insane? You've just been busy? Ok, we'll let you off the hook because now's your chance
Sony's just announced a game of the year edition for the massive Naughty Dog developed title. The package is set to release on October 12th for a discounted price of $49.99. The pack will include the...
News Sumo Digital Working On "Bleeding Edge" Game, Let's Make Some Assumptions
Eurogamer posted a report last night that suggested the studio behind the recent OutRun ports, Sumo Digital, are working on a "bleeding edge" title for "a big hardware company"
The news means nothing on its own, but once you start to align some assumptions things begin to make sense. Sumo Digital predicts the title is still some 18 months away,...
News This PlayStation Move Battle Rifle Is Absolutely Nonsense
The PlayStation Move zapper is cool because it looks like it come off the set of a bad sci-fi movie
(And by "bad" we mean "really, really" good.) This battle-rifle however is terrible. It's popped up on Amazon.com with an attached price of $29.99. No offence to the company manufacturing it (we know your children need to eat) —...
News How Do You Fancy Another PSP2 Rumour, Yo?!
Develop's reporting that a number of key studios have received PSP2 development kits in time for a "significant launch window line-up"
The site's claims back up industry rumours that have been running over the past couple of months. Those rumours reached a head recently when NetherRealm's Shaun Himmerick blatantly stated that his studio has a PSP2...
News flOw In LittleBigPlanet 2 May Cause You To Do Little Happy Backflips Of Awesome
LittleBigPlanet 2 is amazing
Amazing. Ay-may-zing. We don't need review code or release dates to reach that conclusion. It is incredible. Here's the thing — the LittleBigPlanet community already gets LittleBigPlanet. There's no learning process anymore, because that's been taking place over the past two years with the original game. So let free on...
News Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath Gets Fresh Polygons For PlayStation 3
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is being re-made for the PlayStation 3, and it's getting some extra polygons as part of the deal
The PlayStation Move-supported re-release will boast extra polygons as the game's visuals get an overhaul. Just Add Water's dev-blog reveals the changes in more clarity than we could possibly have the bandwidth to publish here...
News LittleBigThen And LittleBigNow, Digital Foundry Investigates
LittleBigPlanet 2 might have been delayed, but that's not stopping it from looking cute as a knitted jumper
As Eurogamer's technical-arm Digital Foundry has investigated, the sequel is looking notably prettier than its predecessor. Throughout their report, the Digital Foundry team look at the improved special effects such as fog, lighting and...
News Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert Considering A Follow-Up To PixelJunk Monsters
There are plenty of tower-defense games available these days, but Q-Games' PixelJunk Monsters is still widely considered as one of the better ones
With the team currently working on a full-blown sequel to PixelJunk Shooter, the studio's head Dylan Cuthbert was questioned as to whether he'd consider a full sequel to another of PixelJunk's titles. And...
News More PlayStation Classics Emerge, Mortal Kombat & Prince Of Persia To Support 3D
Perhaps one of the more divisive decisions this generation has been to remaster some of the PlayStation 2's classic titles for the PlayStation 3
We sit firmly on the "Love the idea" side of the fence, but not everyone agrees. We'd argue that improving the performance of classic PlayStation titles, while adding in new features such as 3D,...
News Ueda Aiming For Accessible Controls In The Last Guardian
Ueda's clear that The Last Guardian is not a "pet game"
He stated as much in a Q&A session on the PlayStation Blog, explaining that the player will be protected by the giant animal from the trailers. The title suggests that while the giant griffin-like animal might be the last protector of its kind, the player might run into other large beasts...
Feature Overlooking The Depth In Sports Champions -- "Twiggy" The Push Square Opinionator
I've spent a good chunk of my week playing table-tennis
Don't be silly, I've not risked my life sharing the Youth Club's beaten down excuse for a table-tennis table with a group of hoods — I've been playing the sport in my living room via PlayStation Move. I've always been a fan of motion controls and, in particular, motion controlled sports...
News EA: The PlayStation 3 Can Still Topple The XBOX 360
EA believes the PlayStation 3 can still topple the XBOX 360 in terms of sales
The publisher's European senior vice president Uwe Intat made his feelings clear to MCV, "We could certainly see Sony come back in the UK it's still a head-to-head competition between PlayStation and Xbox, but on the continent Sony is traditionally stronger than...
News The PlayStation Network Netted A Cool $5.7 Million In August
The PlayStation Network business is booming with dollar notes according to an industry report by FADE
According to the digital entertainment analysis group, Sony's online network netted a cool $5.7 million during August - with sales lead by Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. According to the group, PSN sales were up 20 percent over July. Scott Pilgrim vs...
First Impressions TV Superstars on PlayStation 3 Demo
TV Superstars is nothing if not unusual
The Studio Cambridge-developed PlayStation Move party game is clearly a parody of British celebrity culture. But its presentation is so bonkers it's hard to believe that anyone outside of the UK will understand it. At least we can say it's "unique". Our demo started with an introduction to TV...
Rumour Sony PlayStation Recruiting Engineers With Android Experience
A couple of months back, there was a great stonking rumour that Sony were about to mix the PlayStation Portable platform with Sony Ericsson -- developing a phone that would employ the Android OS
There's been little other information on the endeavour, though eagle-eyed bloggers have spotted that Sony London are recruiting engineers with "mobile...
News PlayStation 3 Does 3D Blu-ray Playback With Lossy Audio
The big feature of Sony's latest firmware update was to allow 3D Blu-ray playback on the PlayStation 3
Despite working like a charm, it does have some issues - as pointed out by Blu-ray.com. The site notes that while viewing movies in full 1080p 3D on the PlayStation 3, viewers will have to sacrifice lossless audio. The report on Blu-ray.com states:...
News Heartbreak: LittleBigPlanet 2 Delayed Into January 2011
What a difference a few short months can make
We write this news with a heavy heart and sadness behind our eyes. Even our plush Sackboy - whom sleeps in the office bed - doesn't look his usual jovial self this morning. That's because LittleBigPlanet 2's been officially delayed. The game was originally due for release in November, but Sony and Media...
News THQ See Motion Control Games As A "Cheap Alternative" To Core Games
THQ's been talking about the "benefits" of developing games for the PlayStation Move (and XBOX Kinect)
The company's CEO, Brian Farrell, sees motion control games as a cheap alternative to traditional core titles. He said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York: They are more mass-market type games. The cost of games for Kinect...
News Sony Touts The Importance Of Buttons As An Input Device
Sony tried controller-less last generation
It didn't really work out. While the EyeToy was an interesting piece of tech, it hit a brick-wall when it came to most control decisions. The lack of tactile feedback in a controller-less device severely limits the number of things that can be achieved. Hence the direction taken with the PlayStation Move...
News American PlayStation Plus Subscribers Jump Into The Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Beta
The American arm of the PlayStation Blog has detailed the upcoming content PlayStation Plus subscribers can expect over the coming months
The highlights include a Lara Croft & The Guardian Of Light demo, numerous discounts and the possibility of an invite to the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Red Faction: Battlegrounds betas. You can get a...
News Microsoft Ask: "Who Needs Blu-ray?"
We ask: "Who needs HD-DVD?" Heyoh
Microsoft's PR department's been spewing ridiculous statements left right and centre this week. Normally we don't choose to report them because we're a PlayStation website and our opinion about the "competition" holds little weight. Who really cares what we think about Microsoft's games division? We're...
News Heads Up: The Heavy Rain PlayStation Move Patch Is Available Now
Those of you with copies of Heavy Rain will be able to download a patch from this morning enhancing the game with PlayStation Move controller support
The patch is free and should start downloading the moment you run the game when connected to the PlayStation Network. It weighs in at 1142MB. We'll have a review of the Heavy Rain: Move Edition on the...
News EyePet PlayStation Move Bundle Could Blow Up With The Right Marketing
If you're in the US and have children, you might want to head down to your local Toys 'R' Us
The retailer's carrying an exclusive PlayStation Move bundle that contains the PlayStation Eye camera, PlayStation Move controller and a copy of EyePet: Move Edition. Seeing as EyePet's probably one of the best family games we've ever played, you might want...
News Sony: LittleBigPlanet 2 Delay Is "Rumour And Speculation"
A French PlayStation 3 website left us shivering and lonely last night
They speculated that LittleBigPlanet 2 was about to be pushed out of its original November launch window and into 2011. Sony's come out to quash the comments as "rumour and speculation," but we would have honestly preferred a statement along the lines of: "No,...
News Naughty Dog's Next Game Probably Won't Support The PlayStation Move
Here's the good news -- Naughty Dog's next game is way into development and is pretty "far along"
The bad news? It probably won't support the PlayStation Move. That's according to Naughty Dog's co-president Christophe Balestra anyway. When queried about Move support by GameInformer, the studio gaffer responded: Maybe in the future. Right now,...
News Shuhei Yoshida Thanks Microsoft For The Additional PlayStation Move Media Coverage
Shuhei Yoshida believes Sony and Microsoft's motion control war has been extremely beneficial to the PlayStation Move
He believe that comparisons to the XBOX's Kinect device have caused Move to flourish in the public eye, and earned the device more media coverage than it could have sustained on its own. "Ever since we announced Move at E3 last...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: Firmware 3.50 Is Available Now
You know, we remember at time when PlayStation firmware updates included massive features
So big were the features, that Sony accompanied the announcements with walkthrough demonstrations of all the new goodies. Those days seem to have faded. Sure, firmware 3.50 patches in a pretty big feature for those with expensive televisions - 3D Blu-Ray...
News This Is What The PlayStation Move Looks Like If You Take It To Pieces
iFixit's ripped apart the new PlayStation Move controller to reveal its components and gubbins
There's nothing particularly amazing inside, just micro-chips and electrical intestines. Still, it's nice to know what you've paid for isn't it?</em>
News Shuhei Yoshida: The PlayStation Portable Is "Getting A Bit Old"
Chalk up another comment that hints towards the inevitable announcement of the PSP2; Sony's Worldwide Studios boss, Shuhei Yoshida, has described Sony's aging PlayStation Portable platform as a "bit old"
The exec told GameInformer during TGS: When we launched PSP it was the newest, biggest, brightest thing that we had and after five or six...
News Japanese PlayStation 3 Hardware Sales Surpass The Nintendo Wii For 2010
According to the number crunching monkeys at VG247, Sony's PlayStation 3 has passed the Nintendo Wii's hardware sales for 2010
After this week's MediaCreate report the PlayStation 3 had moved 1,017,094 units for the year-to-date, while the Wii's managed just 1,015,513. It actually puts the Nintendo Wii in a shaky position, as the XBOX 360 is poised...
Feature Five DLC Characters We'd Love To See Added To Sports Champions
Our biggest complaint with the excellent Sports Champions is that on a presentation level it's pretty flat
Let's be honest here, who is going to remember what Kenji and Giselle look like? Zindagi might have done an excellent job programming personality into the AI opponents, but their art team weren't on form designing the characters. That's fine,...
First Impressions The Shoot on PlayStation 3 Demo
We shoot the PlayStation Move into the ground, causing a ripple-effect which sends a horde of cardboard bandits flying
The Shoot is an obvious title to accompany the PlayStation Move's launch window; a rails-shooter which places you on a movie-set [The Shoot y'see, geddit? - Ed] armed to the teeth with weapons. For as obvious as the game seems, it's...
News Sports Champions Scores Second Spot On The UK All Formats Chart
Late last night, we were deliberating PlayStation Move sales
We knew we were due a weekly UK sales report from Chart-Track this morning, and we were mulling over what would be a decent showing from the PlayStation Move's first must-have title, Sports Champions. We've always expected Move's launch window to be slow. Unlike Microsoft's Kinect, we...
News The Last Guardian May Support The PlayStation Move
Team ICO's director, Fumito Ueda, has revealed that the upcoming The Last Guardian may include optional support for the PlayStation Move controller
Speaking with Dengeki Online , the Shadow Of The Colossus man noted that Move support is a possibility when the game launches late next year. While Ueda was keen on the possibility of Move, he did stress...
News Sony Now Marketing The PlayStation Portable At A Younger Audience
When the PlayStation Portable first launched, Sony differentiated themselves by trying to sell the device to 20-something commuters with plenty of disposable income
Games such as Grand Theft Auto and Wipeout helped push Sony away from the traditionally child-like audiences of the Nintendo handhelds. While Nintendo's gone on to sell a ridiculous...
News Sucker Punch: Move, Multiplayer & 3D All Being Considered For inFamous 2
inFamous 2 is going to be amazing based on the small snippets of the game we've seen
It doesn't need any extras to enhance that. However, one of the best things about the PlayStation 3 right now is the way it can support additional technologies - like PlayStation Move and 3D - that can enhance the experience for those who want it. According to an...
The PlayStation Move launch went better than I imagined
Word of mouth is extremely positive within the hardcore circles. Conceptually the device bares resemblance to the Wii; but there's a sense that this is what many of us were originally expecting from Nintendo's foray into motion controls. It's the hardcore gamers that Sony have been targeting...
News Fumito Ueda Talks About "Immersion" As The Last Guardian Moves Into Full Production
For the past couple of years, Fumito Ueda and his Team ICO studio have been developing the technologies and concepts that will be used in The Last Guardian
Now, the legendary developer has revealed that his team have moved into full production of the anticipated title. Weve been working on the final concept for the game over the past year, and...
News Fumito Ueda: High-Definition Brings A Lot Of Life To ICO/Shadow Of The Colossus
Fumito Ueda finally lifted the lid on The Team ICO Collection at TGS this week -- a long requested package that will see two of the best PlayStation 2 games ever made, ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus, remastered in high-definition and 3D
It's a package Ueda generally seems thrilled to bits with, as he told the European arm of the PlayStation Blog...
News Shuhei Yoshida's Stoked About PlayStation Move, Pleased Microsoft Are Reinvesting In Japan
Shuhei Yoshida's revealed that he's pleased with the reaction to PlayStation Move during its debut in Japan
The motion controller was on display at this week's Tokyo Game Show, and was obviously drawing plenty of attention from local gamers and press. Speaking with GamaSutra at the event, the SCE Worldwide Studios Boss said he was "very...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 First-Person Shooter Is Kind Of Ridiculous
You're not really supposed to capture video from the LittleBigPlanet 2 beta
But we seriously doubt Sony are going to lock-down YouTube user TheFinalBurst's uploads. His Micro Machine, Pac-Man and Air Hockey creations [we've embedded them after the jump - Ed] are absolutely stunning. But the first-person shooter concept is what grabbed our attention...
News PlayStation Move It: Sony's Motion Controller Has Arrived (Huzzah!)
The PlayStation Move officially launched across Europe and the US today
We've spent our day making fools of ourselves in Start The Party and winning digital cups in Sports Champions. Needless to say, our attention's been torn today. Sure, we want to tell you about all the things that have happened in the world of PlayStation but... Move is here...
