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James started his career in video games as News Editor on Nintendo Life. Since leaving in 2012 to join Nintendo of Europe, James has risen through the ranks to become NoE's Senior Product PR & Corporate Communications Manager.
News First Resistance 3 Paid and Free DLC Announced
Due next month
Resistance 3 is finally at-hand, but developer Insomniac Games is already preparing follow-up content to extend your Resistance experience. On 4th October we'll see the Survival Pack launch for $3.99, introducing a new game type called Invasion, where you must hold nodes to earn points. You'll also get an XMB theme and four new skins,...
News Fresh Shots of Vita's Multimedia Interface Surface
How you'll organise your life
Japanese site Andriasang has posted some brand new shots of the PS Vita's multimedia interface, showing the web browser, photos, music player and more. The menu system has the same slick look as the rest of the PlayStation family, with the important addition of surprisingly unobtrusive buttons on the touch screen to...
News Expect Tales News on Vita "Very Soon"
Maybe "next week" soon
Namco Bandai's Tales series of RPGs is beloved around the world, with outings including Tales of Symphonia on GameCube and follow-up Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World on Wii, but PlayStation gamers have had plenty to enjoy too. There may be more titles heading to Sony platforms too, as series producer Makoto Yoshizumi...
News LittleBigPlanet 2's Move Pack Finally Arrives Next Week
The Cakeling rises
It's been a long old wait, but LittleBigPlanet 2 will receive its PlayStation Move support next week. Titled LittleBigPlanet 2: Move Pack: Rise of the Cakeling, the add-on arrives with a laundry list of new content, including: A brand new story for LittleBigPlanet 2 – The Rise of the Cakeling with 14 new levels (5 levels, 7...
Rumour Vita Reaches Japan on 12th November
Rest of world in March
According to an anonymous source confiding in French site GamAlive, PlayStation Vita will be available to buy in Japan from 12th November this year. We're expecting to hear official confirmation of the system's Japanese release date at next week's Tokyo Games Show, and as Sony has pledged the machine will make it to the Land...
News Sony, With These Move Lifestyle Photos You Are Spoiling Us
Everybody smile!
In the past year we've had a lot of fun with PlayStation Move and you probably have too, but we bet you've never enjoyed yourself as much as the people in these new lifestyle photos from Sony. The shots feature all your typical Move situations: Mum working out, boys and girls singing and dancing together, but strangely no sign of...
News Dig In to These New Puss in Boots Screenshots
Kitten's got claws
THQ's just released some early screenshots for its first Move-enabled movie tie-in, Puss in Boots, and it's looking pretty decent, actually. The game will let you do all the things Puss himself enjoys: duelling, sneaking and serenading women with a guitar, apparently. We haven't seen the film yet, so maybe that bit will make more...
News Dynasty Warriors Ready to Conquer Vita
You can do de-nasty in de past-y
Wherever there is a console, there is Dynasty Warriors. This has been a rock-solid gaming fact for years, and sure enough Tecmo Koei is preparing to unleash another instalment onto PS Vita. With a working title of Dynasty Warriors, the game will use Vita's touch screen and gyrometer for inputs alongside the...
News New House of the Dead Overkill Shots Creep Up
Meat is murder
SEGA's massively gory House of the Dead: Overkill — Extended Cut isn't just a glorified Wii conversion: it's got brand new stages and modes you won't find anywhere else. We've already covered Naked Terror, the first exclusive stage, and now we have the first shots of Creeping Flesh. The new level takes you through some sort of...
News PlayStation Vita Playable at Eurogamer Expo This Month
We'll be there
PlayStation Vita is set to make its playable debut in the UK this month. London's Earls Court will host the console during Eurogamer Expo from 22nd to 25th September, with Sony Worldwide Studios' Michael Denny hosting a presentation about the console on Thursday. VitaGamr's editorial team will be pounding the showfloor to get hands-on...
News 18 New Vita Games to Be Revealed at Tokyo Games Show
What could they be?
Mid-September heralds the arrival of Tokyo Games Show, one of the calendar's biggest annual gaming events. This year Sony's pledging to go all-out, showing off no fewer than 31 games for Vita. Only 13 games have been announced so far, leaving 18 as-yet unknown titles heading for a big reveal in two weeks' time. Here's the list of...
News Movemodo is One Year Old Today!
Break out the party hats
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's official: Movemodo is one year old today. We first welcomed you to Movemodo on 1st September 2010, and since then we've done everything in our power to make you the most well-informed PlayStation Move gamers around. In the past 12 months we've published nearly 700 news articles,...
News Move Fitness Comes From The Fight: Lights Out Developer
Now we're interested
Here's something we totally missed in all the Move excitement at Gamescom: Move Fitness is in development at Coldwood Interactive, developer of one of Move's best workouts so far, The Fight: Lights Out. The upcoming fitness title will also use two Move controllers to track your movements more accurately, and places the emphasis...
News Pre-Order Your $499 3DTV, Get Resistance 3 Too
What a deal
Sony's official PlayStation-branded 3D monitor is coming to North America soon, and if you're taken with it enough to put down money for a pre-order you'll get a nice little bonus. Put your name down before 30th September and as well as the 3D monitor, two pairs of glasses and MotorStorm Apocalypse you'll also get a free copy of...
News Shinobido 2 Confirmed as Vita Launch Title
Whenever that is
Namco Bandai has announced Shinobido 2: Tales of the Ninja will accompany the PlayStation Vita when it launches in the West next year. It's the first third-party game to be officially announced as a launch title, and will join Uncharted: Golden Abyss, LittleBigPlanet, ModNation Racers and WipEout 2048 as games available from the...
News Valve Staging a Counter-Strike for PlayStation Move
Respected series takes aim
Counter-Strike is one of the most well-loved shooters on PC, but hasn't reached quite the same level of success on consoles, perhaps due to the controls not working quite as nicely on a traditional controller. That's about to change though, as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for PS3 will support PlayStation Move. The next...
News First New Little King's Story Vita Shots Take the Throne
Kneel!
The announcement of New Little King's Story for PlayStation Vita came without any screenshots, just a mention that the game's characters would have 'more realistic proportions', something that struck fear into the hearts of fans of the Wii original. Now we have the first screenshots below showing it's still pretty faithful to the 2009...
News In Tales from Space, Mutant Blobs Attack
They can't help it
Developer DrinkBox Studios just spread the word of its new Vita title Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, which will be shown off at the Penny Arcade Expo due to kick off any minute now. The team didn't give much away about the game other than it's a sequel to pleasing PSN puzzle platformer Tales from Space: About a Blob, and...
News Grand Slam Tennis 2 Shots Show Their Faces
An impressive start
EA announced Grand Slam Tennis 2 several weeks ago, but the initial teaser trailer didn't show any player faces, causing us to worry if they'd suffer from the dreaded "Zombie Henman" effect that's plagued 3D tennis games since Virtua Tennis first swung a racquet. Now we have the first face shots, we can see how silly we...
News Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny Washes Up Next Month
27th September in North America
Natsume has announced its PlayStation Move-compatible farming RPG (yes really) Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny will see release on 27th September all across North America. The release marks the first time the Rune Factory series has appeared on PS3, and the first time Natsume has released a farming title on a home...
News Dungeon Defenders Squire Trailer Doffs its Hat
Release date 'coming soon'
It seems like a long, long time since we first encountered Dungeon Defenders: in fact, it first hit our radars back in December 2010, and it's been six months since we interviewed the DunDef team. The game's road to release is nearing its final stop though, as Trendy Entertainment has announced we'll hear about a release...
News New Little King's Story Coming to Vita
Playable at TGS
In news that has sent at least one more PlayStation Vita sale heading Sony's way, it's been revealed that a follow-up to Wii classic Little King's Story is on the way to PlayStation Vita, and will be playable at Tokyo Games Show in September. Currently titled New Little King's Story, the game features the original hero King Corobo...
News DanceStar Party Tracklist Rocks the Party
Get on the floor
Sony's intending to go up against the dancing behemoth that is Just Dance 3 with its own dancing game, Everybody Dance aka DanceStar Party in Europe, and here's the tracklist you'll be grooving to when the game launches later this year. There's the usual mix of classic and contemporary tunes, from Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas to...
News 4 Elements HD Lined Up for Launch Next Week
Ready to match three?
PlayStation Move's catalogue hits 80 titles next week with the launch of 4 Elements HD, a match-three puzzler for $9.99/€7.99. The title will hit North America on Tuesday 30th August with a European release the following day. Here's the latest trailer below: Release date of the 4 Elements HD for PlayStation®3 revealed by...
