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Tuesday29th May 2012
News Sony Reloads Resistance: Burning Skies Launch Trailer
Bullseye
You no longer have an excuse for not cleaning the dust off your latest expensive handheld purchase – Resistance: Burning Skies has finally arrived. Ok, so technically it’s not out in Europe until later in the week, but you get the idea. In order to celebrate the first fully functioning handheld shooter’s launch, Sony has fired a...
Wednesday23rd May 2012
News New Resistance: Burning Skies Screens Show Scale
Pesky sea monsters
If you were worried that upcoming PlayStation Vita spin-off Resistance: Burning Skies might sacrifice some of the series' trademark scale in order to fit onto its new portable home, you can stop. Sony's released a selection of brand new screenshots showing off one of the shooter's gigantic boss battles. Looks stunning, doesn’t...
Monday21st May 2012
News Spread the Chimeran Virus with Resistance: Burning Skies
Boost your XP
Resistance: Burning Skies may be the first fully featured first-person shooter to grace a handheld console, but the PlayStation Vita is capable of doing so much more. Chatting on the Australian arm of the PlayStation Blog, producer Frank Simon has revealed a little more about the shooter’s Near-based social networking functionality...
Thursday10th May 2012
News New Resistance: Burning Skies Features Trailer Reloads
Portable shooting redefined
Resistance: Burning Skies is breaking a lot of ground for a portable game. To our knowledge it’s the first handheld shooter to feature full dual-analogue controls and console quality multiplayer. In order to highlight the game’s achievements, Sony has released a brand new trailer showing off the game’s headline...
Monday23rd Apr 2012
News Try to Survive in Resistance: Burning Skies
Last man standing
When Nihilistic Software lifted the lid on Resistance: Burning Skies’ multiplayer, it primarily focused on the game’s Deathmatch variants. Now it has revealed the Vita exclusive’s third and final multiplayer mode: Survival. The mode works a little like a deadly game of Tag. The eight-player playlist puts six players in charge...
Thursday19th Apr 2012
News Get the Lowdown on Resistance: Burning Skies' Multiplayer
Connected chaos
Resistance: Burning Skies doesn’t appear to be particularly ambitious – but as the first fully featured handheld multiplayer shooter, competence should prove more than enough. In this brand new PlayStation Blog interview, producer Craig Phillips has provided a full run-down of the multiplayer component’s primary features. Modes...
Thursday12th Apr 2012
News Sony Deploys First Resistance: Burning Skies Multiplayer Details
Eight-player frag fest
The PlayStation Vita will finally get its first taste of competitive FPS action next month, when Resistance: Burning Skies launches worldwide. Following a slight hiccup on the official PlayStation website earlier in the month, Sony’s finally raised the curtain on the spin-off shooter’s multiplayer component in a
Tuesday3rd Apr 2012
News Sony Reveals Multiplayer Details for Resistance: Burning Skies
Competitive gunplay for up to eight players
If there’s one thing missing from the PlayStation Vita’s current software offering, it’s a competitive first-person shooter. Thankfully it looks like Nihilistic Software’s Resistance: Burning Skies is set to fill that void in May. The spin-off shooter’s website has been updated with some new...
Tuesday20th Mar 2012
News Resistance: Burning Skies Trailer Lights Up
Isn't futile
Your first look at footage of Resistance: Burning Skies on PS Vita is right below these very words. Nihilistic's shooter is heading for release at the end of May, with more details to be revealed next month including the first information on its multiplayer mode. Until then get watching the video below and see how many new weapons and...
Tuesday14th Feb 2012
News Look to the Resistance: Burning Skies on 29th May
Hot date
Not content with launching a stack of Vita games in the next few weeks, Sony's already looking ahead to the release of Resistance: Burning Skies, with global release dates before the end of May. North American Vita owners can face off against the Chimera on 29th May, while Europe gets it 24 hours later on 30th May. Interestingly these are...
Tuesday27th Dec 2011
News Resistance: Burning Skies Video Brightens the Holidays
Frightfully perfect transition
With Vita’s recent release in Japan and the media all abuzz comparing Vita and 3DS sales over the holidays, Resistance: Burning Skies developer Nihilistic thought it’d be a perfect time to unload a fresh bit of its upcoming Vita game, as it’s already looking like it’ll do some serious damage to Vita owners'...
Friday19th Aug 2011
News Hands-on Resistance: Burning Skies Video
Say hello to your new protagonist
The PlayStation Blog has posted a brand new video hands-on for Resistance: Burning Skies, along with an interview with Rob Heubner from developer Nihilistic. The video showcases some of the new touch screen features of the title, like locking onto multiple enemy targets with the swipe of a finger or issuing a melee...
Tuesday16th Aug 2011
News Resistance: Burning Skies Confirmed for Vita
Nihilistic's game gets named
Resistance on PlayStation Vita has an official name: Resistance: Burning Skies. Developed by Nihilistic Software, the game was shown off during Sony's media briefing at Gamescom in Cologne. With a brand new hero — Tom Riley — and a brand new story, here's hoping the game can live up to the standard set by its...
Tuesday26th Apr 2011
News NGP Camera Utilised in Resistance and Uncharted
What will you see?
The NGP will feature two cameras, one front-facing and one in the back, and it appears that the Uncharted and Resistance titles coming to the NGP will make use of at least one of the system’s cameras in one way or another. According to sources “close to Sony”, Resistance NGP will allow players to use the camera to pick up...
Friday28th Jan 2011
News Resistance NGP Not A Port, Not By Insomniac
Fresh eyes on the series
Insomniac Games may have made a name for Resistance on the PS3, but the studio won’t be handling the franchise's latest handheld incarnation for the NGP. In a tweet by Insomniac, the team congratulated Nihilistic Software for its hard work on the game, and then followed up by adding that NGP Resistance is a brand new game,...
Thursday27th Jan 2011
News NGP Line-up Trailer Shows Resistance, Killzone and Uncharted
Get your guns
Here is the latest video of the PlayStation NGP’s line-up of games. The PSP2, codenamed NGP, stands for Next Generation Portable, and the graphical power of these trailers really live up to that name. Games showcased are Uncharted, Killzone and Resistance, among others.
