Latest Reviews of SCE San Diego Studio Games
Review MLB The Show 19 - Sony's Flagship Sports Series Keeps Getting Better
The Bryce is right
Republished on Tuesday 24th September 2019: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of October's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. With no competition and an unexciting elevator pitch [Poor pun intended – Ed], we were ready to pinch hit on MLB The Show 19 until next...
Home run
Sony San Diego doesn’t always get the credit that it deserves for MLB The Show, with the franchise routinely overlooked by PlayStation fans as forum list wars focus on the heavy hitters like God of War and The Last of Us: Part II. But the developer’s quietly created one of the best sports series available on any platform, and while this...
Lost in space
Republished on Wednesday 27th December 2017: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of January's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. Overwatch in virtual reality is not a bad pitch on paper, but it's one that struggles in practice. StarBlood Arena has its heart in...
Review MLB 15 The Show (PlayStation 4)
Infield home run
It's hard to believe that MLB The Show is now celebrating its 10th anniversary. Despite dominating every other baseball title for the majority of these years, Sony's series has never shown complacency. Instead, it's aged like a fine wine, and gotten better with each new release. When booting up MLB 15 The Show, there's nothing here...
Review MLB 14 The Show (PlayStation 3)
Pinch-hit home run
MLB 14 The Show is this year’s entry in the long running and highly respected baseball series from Sony’s own San Diego studio. Being a sports game, it’s to be expected that it ends up feeling a little like an iterative experience as opposed to an innovative one – but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing good going...
Review Pinball Heroes: Complete (PlayStation Vita)
Flippin' heck
If there’s one area that the PlayStation Vita is not underrepresented, it’s the simulation pinball genre. While the fledgling handheld may have struggled to trigger the multiball on big blockbuster releases, the console already plays host to two flippin’ good bumper-based affairs in both Zen Pinball 2 and the Pinball Arcade. Sony...
Review ModNation Racers (PlayStation Portable)
On-the-go karts
ModNation Racers PSP comes so close to its PlayStation 3 counterpart that it's impossible not to compare the two titles. Sadly, that's detrimental to ModNation Racers PSP because, for everything the game gets right, the drifting component feels 'off'. However, if you're able to overcome the issue you'll find a super deep kart-racer...
Review MLB 11 The Show (PlayStation 3)
A home run
Truly, there are only two seasons: winter and baseball. Luckily, MLB 11 The Show's season is year-round. Widely regarded as one of the best sports series this gen, largely in part to San Diego Studios' ability to continuously improve each iteration by leaps and bounds – rather than simply providing an annual roster update – this...
Review Pinball Heroes: Modnation Racers (PlayStation Portable)
There are some neat tricks in Pinball Heroes' presentation of Modnation Racers, but in all the table is a little flat
Perhaps the neatest part of the Modnation Racers Pinball Heroes table is its nod towards the formers creation aspect. Flipping the ball inside the Mod and Kart caverns changes the background of the table, with different designs...
Review Pinball Heroes: Fat Princess (PlayStation Portable)
The Fat Princess table in Pinball Heroes depicts the chaos of a stalemate in its source material, but it leads to a busy and complicated experience
One thing Pinball Heroes is good at is providing a pinball experience similar to the source material it's based on. The Fat Princess table carries over virtually every element you'd expect it to. Caught...
Latest SCE San Diego Studio Articles
News PS4 Exclusive Multiplayer Shooter Kill Strain Won't Cost You a Single Cent
Sign up for the Beta right now
After months of speculation, Sony finally revealed Kill Strain at the PlayStation Experience keynote today. Sony San Diego senior director of product development Christian Phillips confirmed that the title is a top-down 5v2v5 multiplayer game. It's also free-to-pla
News The PS4 Version of MLB 14 The Show Is the Fastest Selling Game in the Franchise
The bases are loaded
It seems that everyone wants to be taken to a ball game, as sales of annual baseball sim MLB 14 The Show on the PlayStation 4 have seen a massive boost. Impressively, the game's week one numbers are up a staggering 40 per cent compared with previous entries in the franchise. What's more, the bat-'em-up's multiplayer mode has...
News The PS4 Version of MLB 14 The Show Still Looks Absolutely Gorgeous
Pitcher perfect
Sony's been doing all it can to push the PlayStation 4 version of MLB 14 The Show in recent weeks, releasing a stream of trailers that have even the most ardent cricket fans among us ogling the title's impressive visuals. This latest clip is no exception, and shows off several minutes of bombastic baseball action. Helpfully, the...
News Sony Really Would Like You to Play the PS4 Version of MLB 14 The Show
Just ballin'
The newest iteration of Sony's popular baseball sim MLB 14 The Show recently released on the PlayStation 3, with the PlayStation 4 version not too far away either. Unsurprisingly, then, the Japanese giant has released a brand new trailer that highlights the many and varied reasons that you should take aim at the newer edition. The...
News PS4 Exclusive Multiplayer Shooter Kill Strain Won't Cost You a Single Cent
Sign up for the Beta right now
After months of speculation, Sony finally revealed Kill Strain at the PlayStation Experience keynote today. Sony San Diego senior director of product development Christian Phillips confirmed that the title is a top-down 5v2v5 multiplayer game. It's also free-to-pla
News The PS4 Version of MLB 14 The Show Is the Fastest Selling Game in the Franchise
The bases are loaded
It seems that everyone wants to be taken to a ball game, as sales of annual baseball sim MLB 14 The Show on the PlayStation 4 have seen a massive boost. Impressively, the game's week one numbers are up a staggering 40 per cent compared with previous entries in the franchise. What's more, the bat-'em-up's multiplayer mode has...
News The PS4 Version of MLB 14 The Show Still Looks Absolutely Gorgeous
Pitcher perfect
Sony's been doing all it can to push the PlayStation 4 version of MLB 14 The Show in recent weeks, releasing a stream of trailers that have even the most ardent cricket fans among us ogling the title's impressive visuals. This latest clip is no exception, and shows off several minutes of bombastic baseball action. Helpfully, the...
News Sony Really Would Like You to Play the PS4 Version of MLB 14 The Show
Just ballin'
The newest iteration of Sony's popular baseball sim MLB 14 The Show recently released on the PlayStation 3, with the PlayStation 4 version not too far away either. Unsurprisingly, then, the Japanese giant has released a brand new trailer that highlights the many and varied reasons that you should take aim at the newer edition. The...