Review Transformers: War For Cybertron (PlayStation 3)
Transformers: War For Cybertron is set years before the events of the original cartoon series, commonly referred to as Generation One
News Sackboy Iron Man Is Just A Little Bit Cute, No?
Is it Sackboy? Is it Iron Man? Nope, it's Sackboy dressed as Iron Man and looking all the better for it
News Superhero Sackboy Daily: Doctor Octopus Clamours Into LittleBigPlanet
Spider-Man's greatest nemesis, Doctor Octopus, is bringing those famous bionic tentacles into the world of LittleBigPlanet as part of the massive Marvel update due next week
Review Naughty Bear (PlayStation 3)
Naughty Bear's probably the best PlayStation anti-hero since the God Of War himself, Kratos
News Superhero Sackboy Daily: The Thing Rocks Up In LBP
After the excitement of the Iron Man Sackboy reveal, Marvel keep dropping the goods
News - 2010, Week 26
Sunday4th Jul 2010
News Work It Tiger! Rev That Engine! Awww Yeah!
The embedded video includes a quick little look at Gran Turismo 5's photo mode
As you can see, the whole things rather pervey. Good grief though, the whole thing looks ridiculously pretty. You'll be able to take your cars out to a range of lush settings to snap them amongst nature. Does anyone know if you can select camera? We're serious — we...
Saturday3rd Jul 2010
News Superhero Sackboy Daily: Doctor Octopus Clamours Into LittleBigPlanet
Spider-Man's greatest nemesis, Doctor Octopus, is bringing those famous bionic tentacles into the world of LittleBigPlanet as part of the massive Marvel update due next week
Looks pretty sweet, doesn't he? There's more information available over at Marvel.com.</em>
News Patapon 3 Multiplayer Demo Incoming Next Week
If you'd rather pump beats in your multiplayer gaming, then rejoice
Sony's confirmed over on the PlayStation Blog that they're releasing the Patapon 3 multiplayer demo on the PlayStation Store next week, July 6th. You'll get to check out new characters, online multiplayer and a bunch of other things. Check out the PlayStation Store for more details...
The graphics
Good grief, the graphics. Sucker Punch has released the first footage of inFamous 2 and... Man, is it incredible. Seriously. Sometimes we get excited here at PushSquare. But this goes beyond our usual excitement. Whatever your opinion on the new Cole, watching him glide through the city before fighting a helicopter is truly incredible...
Feature Sometimes, I Don't Want Big Blockbusters -- "Twiggy" The Push Square Opinionator
I'm playing two games at the moment that very few people care about
They're not the type of games that are gracing magazine covers and website home-pages. They probably have mild targets and low budgets. They're hardly blockbusters. But they've got me completely excited. It's made me realise that, sometimes, you don't always need a blockbuster...
News Want Cash? It's Double All This Weekend In Uncharted 2!
It's a shame video games don't pass-on your spoils
Imagine if you were playing Borderlands, and everytime you picked up amazing piece of loot it came shooting out of the front of your console. Same for Uncharted 2. There'd be treasure everywhere. Amazing. We really wish that was the case this weekend, as Naughty Dog's opened up double-cash for the...
Friday2nd Jul 2010
News Media Create Puts Weekly PlayStation Hardware Second & Third
A revised piece of hardware and a Monster Hunter exclusive saw XBOX 360 sales rise 800% in Japan this week
.. And still fall 2,000 units short of the PlayStation 3 which shifted a comfortable 19k units. The PSP managed a few more, with 23k sold. Sadly it lost out to the Nintendo DS' price-cuts and perve software. Never change Japan. The PSPgo was...
News Isomniac Would Get Behind A Ratchet & Clank Collection
We love the Ratchet & Clank games
Love them. But they're all a bit, well, similar aren't they? We're not sure how well a collection would work. Still, if Sony decided they wanted to put one together, Insomniac would be right behind the idea. They confirmed in a Tweet that, while they wouldn't make a Ratchet collection, they'd definitely put...
SEGA's just confirmed that Valkyria Chronicles 2 will launch on September 3rd in the UK
In addition, they've also confirmed that Phantasy Star Portable 2 will launch a couple of weeks later on September 17th. To be honest, that's all we've got to tell you. Take note though - two big games on PlayStation Portable. Y'know, the system does still get...
News Buser: PlayStation Home Is A Very Good Business Model, Quite Profitable
The only people still hating on PlayStation Home these days are those who haven't given it a second chance
To be fair, a service shouldn't take two chances to win people over, but Home's vision has taken a while to realise. In our opinion, it's finally got there. While we understand why the service might not be for everyone, it's definitely come on...
News David Cage Closes The Door On Heavy Rain DLC
Listening to David Cage in recent months, we've always got the impression that DLC for Heavy Rain was very much an afterthought
So, honestly, we're not surprised there have never been hard details on the prequel Chronicles. But, according to a Eurogamer interview, it seems Move implementation is what's killed the mini episodes. "Our approach...
News Surprise: Sony Confirm They'll Be Showing Stuff At TGS
E3's only just finished, GamesCom's on the horizon and then
.. Well, then there's TGS. A partial list of Tokyo Game Show exhibitors has been released, including plenty of familiar faces. SEGA, Square Enix, Capcom, Konami; they'll all be there. As will Sony. Over 138 companies are currently confirmed for the show, with that number certain to rise as...
News Yoshida: It's "About Time" For Lightbox Announcement
Starhawk
We write the title like it's an announced product, but actually, no one has a clue what Dylan Jobe and his team at Lightbox are up to. It's strongly anticipated that whatever the team's working on will play into the Warhawk franchise, but only the people working on it know for certain. So when will we find out for sure? Grilled by Joystiq ,...
News Eye Of Judgement's Servers To Close In September
Eye Of Judgement's never quite been a break-out success for Sony
The augmented reality card game still carries a fan-base though. If you're one those people still playing the game, well, hold onto your hat. Sony's announced that they're closing the game's servers on September 30th, according to a post on the European PlayStation forums. A few people...
News Japan Moderately Interested In Upgrading To 3D According To Survey
Sony loves 3D
They're pushing it so hard it's almost startling. They've made a bet on this technology, and they're determined to lead with it. While other electronics manufacturers are pushing the tech too, nobody is pushing it quite as hard as Sony. There is risked attached — 3D is clearly in its infancy and Sony are aware of that. But there has...
News Look! It's The Top Gear Test Track In A Video Game!
People like Top Gear
We're told it's a show about cars. It looks more like a show about buffoon's egos to us, but what do we know? Not a lot. Although, we do know when something's pretty. Like this shakey-cam footage of the Top Gear Test Track in Gran Turismo 5. Gorgeous.
News May NPD: PlayStation's Up The Rear, Red Dead Redemption The Big Winner
The NPD results are in for the month of May, and they're painting a particularly pleasant picture for fans of Westerns
Red Dead Redemption managed to shift 1.5 million copies in the US across both the PlayStation 3 and XBOX 360, with a decent proportion of sales (567k) coming off the PlayStation SKU. UFC Undisputed 2010 was the other PlayStation 3...
News Echochrome II Continues To Look Amazing, Includes A Level Editor
Echochrome II may just be the over-looked gem in PlayStation Move's launch line-up
Riffing off the concept of shadows, Echochrome II has you using the PlayStation Move controller as a flash-light, pointing at blocks to create stages for your character to walk on. Interestingly, Echochrome II features a level editor, which allows you to draw out...
Thursday1st Jul 2010
News Superhero Sackboy (/GIRL!) Daily: Mystique's Next In Line
The Thing
Iron Man. And now Mystique. We want this costume just for the skull belt. Looks great. There's more on this costume through at Marvel.com.</em>
News Superhero Sackboy Daily: Daredevil Next Up For The World Of Whimsy
Daredevil may be a blind ninja, but that doesn't stop him from being ridiculously cute
The radioactive superhero is due as part of LittleBigPlanet's massive Marvel update next week. As always, there's more through here.</em>
News Transformers: War For Cybertron DLC Fetches A Packet Online
Depending on the retailer you ordered Transformers: War For Cybertron from, you got a bunch of different DLC codes
Soundwave, Jazz and Demolisher were all rewards for pre-ordering the game. Now they're fetching over $100 on eBay. Seriously. A listing ending on Monday scooped a whopping $105 for the Amazon bonus, Demolisher. Crazy. The other codes...
News Metro 2034 Could Come To The PlayStation 3
Metro 2033 was an XBOX 360 and PC exclusive
Of kinds. This wasn't an exclusive bought with Bill Gates dollars, it was a result of time and small teams. Apparently, converting the original game would have taken 4A-Games six months. Not really the best use of the studios time, especially when they could be making the sequel, Metro 2034, and making...
News Sony To Nintendo: Stop Hating On Our Glasses, Yo
There was a mildly comical moment during Nintendo's E3 press conference when exec Reggie Fils-Aime had a good bash 3D glasses
He was building up to the announcement of his company's 3DS, a glasses-less portable device which uses clever screen technology to create a three-dimensional effect. Sony's Worldwide Studios boss, Shuhei Yoshida, reckons...
News The Worst Game Ever Is Teased For The PlayStation Portable
The iPhone's Crap Of Defense is widely considered to be the worst game ever
Not literally, apparently it's actually alright. It's just a marketing thing. A teaser image sent out by iFun4All suggests the game may be on its way to the PSP with a slight name change. Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder is likely to be the same worst game ever made, but on PSP...
News "Protector Trials" Single-Player DLC Headed To Bioshock 2 This August
2K's lifted the lid on the first set of single-player DLC that is headed to Bioshock 2 this August
The pack riffs on some of the best moments from the game's campaign, where you're tasked with protecting a little Sister from a host of Rapture's nasties. The new "Protector Trials" DLC will include six maps "based on favorite...
News Mortal Kombat Reboot Gunning For The "Most Robust Online" System In The Genre
Mortal Kombat's lead designer, John Edwards, has been talking up his game's multiplayer component
He's told GamingUnion that the reboot will have the most robust online fighting game system ever imagined. Were planning on having DLC for a lot of things, he said. Maybe new characters, new Fatalities, its pretty much open for anything...
News Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Continues To Look Properly, Properly Amazing
Scott Pilgrim loves Ramona Flowers (apparently)
The one problem? Her string of exes are standing in the way. It's time to beat them up — 8-bit stylee. Do want! Now! It's coming soon.
Rumour L.A. Noire Pushed Back Again?
Will L
A. Noire</a> ever release? The latest issue of XBOX 360-World magazine suggests it's still some time away - they're hinting at a Spring 2011 release for the innovative detective title. To be fair, Take Two revealed the date as the fourth-quarter of their fiscal 2010, which ends in March, 2011. Technically Spring starts around there so...
News SEGA Considering Bringing Saturn Releases To The PlayStation Network
SEGA Yosuke Okunari has revealed that his employers are currently considering the potential of porting SEGA Saturn games to the PlayStation Network
SEGA's already announced that Dreamcast games are set to make the jump onto Sony's digital store, but Okunari worries about the Saturn's popularity. When you look globally, the Genesis and Dreamcast...
News Sony Aware Of Fan Demand For ICO/Shadow Of The Colossus Re-Release
Sony's Worldwide Studios honcho, Shuhei Yoshida, has revealed that Sony are "very aware" of the fan-demand for an ICO/Shadow Of The Colossus re-release on the PlayStation 3
So he should be aswell, with the exception of cross-game chat, it's perhaps the most talked about unannounced PlayStation topic. In a video interview, he told Joystiq: As soon...
News Square Enix's Lord Of Arcana Announced For The PlayStation Portable
Square Enix has announced that their PSP multiplayer action title, Lord Of Arcana, will hit the PlayStation Portable
The multiplayer fantasy game will have you take on the role of a slayer in search of the power of Arcana. Did anybody say Monster Hunter? The artwork's been designed in collaboration with numerous successful illustrators, aswell as...
News Plain Sight Heads To The PlayStation Network With Move Support In Tow
According to the latest issue of EDGE , the third-person PC action title, Plain Sight, is coming to the PlayStation Network
But not only will the game land exclusively on Sony's digital store, it will also come complete with PlayStation Move support - a key feature seeing as the game's loose mouse-based camera controls were the hook of the PC...
Wednesday30th Jun 2010
News Superhero Sackboy Daily: The Thing Rocks Up In LBP
After the excitement of the Iron Man Sackboy reveal, Marvel keep dropping the goods
This time it's the cobbles-infected quarter of the Fantastic Four, The Thing. As always, there's more through at Marvel.com.</em>
News Earth-Shattering News: There's Another Yakuza Game In The Works (Honestly!)
We love the Yakuza franchise
Love it. It's consistently brilliant. But with a PSP Yakuza title in the works, we had hoped SEGA would take a break from their annual release schedule and take a bit longer with the next home-console entry in the franchise. They're not — there's a new Yakuza game in development right now for the PlayStation 3. Talk...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 30th June 2010
Special Offers (available until July 7) Blue Toad Murder Files Episode 1 (was £4
79/5.99 now £0.99/1.49) PixelJunk Monsters (was £3.99/4.99 now £2.39/2.99) PixelJunk Monsters Encore Pack (was £2.39/2.99 now £1.19/1.49) Ferrari Challenge Pack 2 (was £4.79/5.99 now £2.39/2.99) UFC Undisputed...
Rumour PlayStation Plus Required For Hulu On PS3
And so it starts
Feel free to bombard our inbox with your complaints of value-added services being, heaven forbid, charged for. According to some digging by Technologizer, PlayStation Plus will be required to run the recently announced Hulu Plus on the PS3. The site notes: The instructions below will help you install Hulu Plus on your PS3. Note:...
News White Knight Chronicles Heads To The PlayStation Portable
The latest issue of Famitsu magazine has revealed that White Knight Chronicles is making its way to the PlayStation Portable
Going by the game's title - White Knight Chronicles: New Project - we're assuming its progress is pretty early. No other details were given. The same issue's also the PS3's White Knight Chronicles 2 a 33/40. That's out in...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 29th June 2010
Sales FIFA Soccer 10: FIFA Ultimate Team Sale (now $2
49, original price $4.99) Section 8 Sale (now $14.99, original price $29.99) LittleBigPlanet - Statue of Liberty Costume Free</ul>Price Drops Don't Let Me Down (Slowly) by The Main Drag Permanent Price Change (now $0.99, original price $1.99) Super Stacker Permanent...
News PlayStation Move Stealthily Added To PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.40
What's that lurking beneath the depths of PlayStation 3's latest firmware update? PlayStation Move calibration? Yup, looks like Sony are planning ahead, with the "Calibrate Motion Controller" option that's magically appeared in "Settings" section of the XMB
The controller's due out in September. Until then, you can at least pretend to calibrate your...
News Final Fantasy XIV Launches In September, PS3 Version Pushed Back To March
Square Enix has announced that they'll release Final Fantasy XIV on the PC worldwide this September
The game will drop on September 30th, with a special edition hitting Europe a week earlier on the 22nd. Unfortunately, it's been announced that the PS3 version has been held back to March 2011. No reason was given for the delay, but we presume it's...
Tuesday29th Jun 2010
News Final Fantasy Versus XIII's Script Is All Finished Up
Ready for this: Final Fantasy Versus XIII's story and script is finished
Uh-huh, that's according to a Dengeki PlayStation quote from Tetsuya Nomura himself. Apparently the character design is all done and dusted too, so we'll get our first glimpses of the game's cast soon. We have to say, it's rather worrying that after years and years of...
News Activision Talking To Hasbro About More Transformers Games
Transformers: War For Cybertron was a really good game
Really good. It proves there's a market for good quality Transformers content that isn't tied into dodgy live-action movies. That doesn't mean every game has to be a shooter however. Speaking at BotCon, High Moon Studio's Matt Tieger and Hasbro's Aaron Archer took part in a little Q&A...
News PSP Firmware 6.30 Hints At NeoGeo & PC Engine Releases
One of PSP Firmware 6
30's main features</a> is the ability to group downloaded content. That's great, because PSP titles have different sized icons to PlayStation Minis and, honestly, we just can't stand the mess. These folders, however, have a story of their own to tell. Among the usual "PSP", "Minis" and...
News Coconut Dodge Is Perfect Practice For Your Game Face
This guy's trying to beat Maze 9 of Futurlab's excellent Coconut Dodge
He looks about like us trying to beat it... except we haven't got the same facial hair this dude's got. By the way, we checked out Coconut Dodge's new features and they're pretty rad. The new lives system helps you to get further than ever before, but it still maintains the...
The Game Critics' Best Of E3 2010 nominations have got out, with a variety of this year's stand-out titles listed
While it's a particularly strong showing, our heart goes out to Guerrilla Games who were given nothing but praise for Killzone 3 throughout this year's showing and have seemingly been pipped at the post. LittleBigPlanet 2 is also notably...
News Hulu Plus Heads To PlayStation 3 "Soon"
It's the announcement you've been waiting for -- Hulu is coming to the PlayStation 3
The announcement comes via confirmation of the Hulu Plus service, a $9.99 monthly subscription to heaps of TV content. You can read more about Hulu Plus through here. The service is already available on the PC and iPhone (among others), but is said to be hitting...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: PlayStation Plus Available Now
Hello readers
Just to let you know, Sony's new PlayStation Plus service is totally available for subscription right now. The service - which sets you back £40 / $50 for a year - gets you access to piles of content every month. Here in Europe a yearly subscription rewards you with a downloadable copy of LittleBigPlanet, while in the US you'll get...
News PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.40 Launches, Adds Facebook & PlayStation Plus Functionality
Heads-up, PlayStation 3's latest firmware update, 3
40, is now available to download. The update includes the functionality for Sony's new premium content delivery service, PlayStation Plus. But that's not all it does. Indeed, there are a host of new goodies added to the PS3 with today's update. For one, the PS3 photo gallery is now enhanced with...
News PlayStation Portable Firmware 6.30 Drops, Finally Allows Game Sorting
Let's be honest here, the big feature of PSP's latest firmware (6
30) is to make the system compatible with PlayStation Plus. But it does include one major feature, something we've been screaming about for months now - game sorting. Finally, those little square PlayStation Mini icons will not be clumped with the rectangular icons of our full PSP...
Monday28th Jun 2010
Review Transformers: War For Cybertron (PlayStation 3)
Transformers: War For Cybertron is set years before the events of the original cartoon series, commonly referred to as Generation One
Fans of the franchise will know that it's at the start of said series where the Transformers take their fight away from their native land of Cybertron to the energy-ridden plains of Earth. War For Cybertron, as the...
News Sackboy Iron Man Is Just A Little Bit Cute, No?
Is it Sackboy? Is it Iron Man? Nope, it's Sackboy dressed as Iron Man and looking all the better for it
This is the first Marvel and LittleBigPlanet cross-over. We're expecting a whole pile of new costumes in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for more. In the mean-time, you can see more of Iron Man Sackboy through here.</em>
Review Naughty Bear (PlayStation 3)
Naughty Bear's probably the best PlayStation anti-hero since the God Of War himself, Kratos
The mis-understood plushy just wants to be everybody's friend. But he's constantly ignored by the other bears of Paradise Island, who'd rather laugh at him than invite him to groovy birthday bashes. Naturally, this all results in the scorned super-ted turning...
News PSP-4000 Launching This Year According To Japanese Retailer
You know what the world needs? Yet another iteration on the original PSP hardware
Well, at least one Japanese retailer believes so, as they are showing a device called the PSP-4000 that's due out this year. Oh? Literally no other details on this yet. Could it be an update to the current PSP hardware? Or perhaps it's that new PSP everyone except Sony...
News LEGO Harry Potter Tops The British Sales Charts, Screams "Flipendo" At Red Dead Redemption
LEGO Harry Potter's stolen Red Dead Redemption's crown, and topped the UK sales charts this week
The plastic spell 'em up (which is getting rave reviews) managed to push everybody's favourite video game Western into second place after well over a month in the top spot. It was a pretty good week all round for new video game releases, with releases...
News Amazon France Drop Team ICO Collection Bombshell
We all know it's happening
The Team ICO Collection, that is. To be honest, it's probably already finished. "Why's it being held back then?" you scream. Marketing. Launch the Team ICO Collection a few months before The Last Guardian and you raise that studio's profile. Dramatically. Amazon France seem to know something we don't anyway.
News Split/Second Developers, Black Rock, Working On Unannounced PS3 Game
Split/Second's out the door, and it sounds like Brighton-based developers, Black Rock, are working on something new
That's according to a job listing posted on their website anyway, which notes "an unannounced game on Xbox 360 and PS3". The position - for a Technical Art Director if you're interested - cites experience in "motion...
News Downloadable Red Faction Title To Hit PSN Just Before Armageddon
Slowly, surely, publishers are starting to understand the download-only market
Downloadable prequels are one of our favourite things right now — they allow you to get your hands on a game before the full package drops. That's cool. And it looks like THQ's set to do a similar thing with Red Faction: Armageddon. Danny Bilson told CVG: Theres...
News PushSquare's PlayStation Picks: 28th-4th July 2010
Man, after last weeks pile of post-E3 releases, we've finally hit the Summer drought
Not many games this week, although the US is getting a handful of releases Europe got last week. Let's look at the picks then... PushSquare's PlayStation Pick Of The Week: Hot Shots/Everybody's Tennis The Everybody's (or Hot Shots depending on your neck of the...
News Sony Celebrates PSN Milestone With Sugary Treats, Yum
SCEJ has reached a milestone
There are now five-million PSN accounts in the Japanese wilderness. To celebrate, Sony's sent their publishing partners some commemorative sweets. These edible hard-candies are decorated with PlayStation controllers and PSPs. They were snapped by Shinji Hashimoto, the producer of Front Mission Evolved. Can we have some?
News More PlayStation 2 Collections On The Horizon, Ico Pweeeease
As anticipated, it sounds as though there are going to be more PlayStation 2 HD collections coming to the PlayStation 3
If the Sly Cooper Collection boxart wasn't a big enough giveaway, Sony's Worldwide Studios top-dog, Shuhei Yoshida, has told IGN "we are looking to continue to do these HD conversions". It sounds like there are a load...
News EA: The PlayStation 3 Is "On Fire"
Not literally
Don't call the fire-brigade... Yet. These are just the words of EA executive John Schappert. He's talking about one of the most exciting features of the Sony E3 press conference: Sony's alignment with third-party publisher EA. The PlayStation 3's getting a whole pile of exclusive content courtesy of EA, and people are curious to know...
News Dead Rising 2 Pushed Back A Month In The US, Europe
Expecting Dead Rising 2 in early September? Don't
Capcom's just confirmed that the game's been pushed back a month in both the US and Europe. It's now hitting October 1st in Euro-land, and September 28th in the US of A. No reason has been given for the delay, but if it means an extra layer of polish, it's probably for the best.
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