News Dynasty Warriors 7 Bringing 60 Characters from Historic China
Great battlers of history
Review Crazy Taxi (PlayStation 3)
Crazy Taxi's the perfect game to have sitting on your PlayStation 3's hard-drive
News These Awesome Nikes are Our New Favourite Move Accessory
Ten on the beau foot scale
News - 2010, Week 47
Saturday27th Nov 2010
News Dynasty Warriors 7 Bringing 60 Characters from Historic China
Great battlers of history
Dynasty Warriors 7 is coming to PS3 with full stereoscopic 3D support, as well as Move controls, with a cast of over 60 playable characters to slash their way through four ancient Chinese kingdoms. Popular characters from the series will return, as well as newcomers Bao San Niang, Sima Zhao, Sima Shi and Zhen Ji, each...
News Anton Mikhailov Talks PlayStation Move, Harmonix, Dance Central, EyeToy & Kinect
Anton Mikhailov believes that Harmonix's success with Kinect launch-title Dance Central is largely down to the developer's experience with EyeToy
Mikhailov revealed that Dance Central probably uses a tracking technique similar to that of their PlayStation 2 EyeToy title, AntiGrav. The R&D man also explained to Eurogamer why Sony passed on the...
News Korean Move Cosplay is the Way to the Country's Heart
Costumes out in the wild
We've seen plenty of Move costumes already – check out Norway's Move Men and Paris's fashion take for just two examples – and now it's the turn of Korean streets, with predictably odd results. Whilst the suits seemed to go down well with most punters, one plucky young chap took a swing at the controller, clearly confused...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: Gran Turismo 5 Patch 1.02 Available Now
Kazunori Yamauchi promised an update for Gran Turismo 5, and Kazunori Yamauchi has delivered
The promised multiplayer update patch released on the PlayStation Network this morning bringing with it upgraded server infrastructure while enabling enabling maximum power and weight restrictions for online races. We checked the patch this morning and...
News How Much Do You Like Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit? Enough To Watch A Trailer?
Here's a novel idea from Criterion and EA Games: watch a Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit trailer in order to unlock more content
EA's dropping three cars via a free DLC pack which they'll release once the embedded YouTube video scores one-million hits. You've got until December 12th to reach the tally. At the time of writing the video has received...
Friday26th Nov 2010
Review Beat Sketcher (PlayStation 3)
Who said games can't be art?
Beat Sketcher combines the art of “light drawing” and music creation to create a new and unique experience for PS3 gamers, and using the PlayStation Move lets budding artists draw highly detailed pictures and share them with friends and family. When the game is first loaded a thorough calibration process kicks in,...
News Blue Tongue Fills In de Blob 2's Move Multiplayer Mode
New interview reveals info
Blue Tongue's de Blob 2 is looking fantastic, as this trailer shows, and now studio creative director Nick Hagger has shed some light on the game's multiplayer mode. In a method that may sound familiar to gamers used to Super Mario Galaxy 2 veterans, a second player can pick up Move at any time and bring up a reticule on...
News Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Shifts One Million Units In Europe
It's only been a week, but already Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood has raked in sales of over one million units in Europe alone
The franchise has now sold a whopping 20 million units across three titles. Ubisoft anticipates the series will have hit 30 million by the end of next year. If you compare [the 1m in a week] with last years ACII sales...
News Sony Europe Reminds You of the Great Move Games Out Already
And some other treats on the way
Sony's Move line-up is growing on a weekly basis, with no fewer than 39 titles now available for the motion controller, so the company naturally wants to crow about the games by putting out a press release. We'll let Sony speak for itself, but as always remember you can get full reviews of these titles and many, many...
News Oh Good, More Publishers Tease Their VGA Announcements
This is getting pretty boring now
Is it really necessary for every publisher to release extremely obscure teasers for their VGA announcements? We get that they want to build hype, but good grief — there's been one of these every single day and the awards event is still a good three weeks away. No, we don't know what Activision's "Murder Your...
News 3D Ushers A "New Creative Medium For Games" According To Sony's Mick Hocking
Speaking at the Develop conference in Liverpool, Sony's Mick Hocking argued that 3D can offer more than increased visual depth, instead providing a "new creative medium" for the industry
The director of Sony's Liverpool studio (the Wipeout guys) stated that 3D technology can make games more natural and inviting to newcomers. "Doing things like...
News Japan Queues For Gran Turismo 5...
Gran Turismo 5 came out earlier in the week in Japan
There were queues at retailers all around Japan. Apparently this car driving lark is popular around the world. </em>
Thursday25th Nov 2010
More play than Create
Play, Create and Share are words that PlayStation fans have become very fond of in the last two years. Games like LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers both have gamers not only playing the games, but creating and sharing their own levels online with others across the world. EA has decided to get in on this trend with Create,...
Review Auditorium HD (PlayStation 3)
Challenge the mind and please the senses
What started as a PC Flash game years back has now been translated into a full HD experience in the form of Auditorium HD. A captivating music puzzle game with fantastic auditory and visual style, the PC original has already won awards for its unique style, and arrives on PlayStation 3 with exclusive content...
News Can You Beat this Sports Champions Disc Golf Record?
Tall order
Sony's fond of its by the numbers diagrams offering statistical fascination to anyone with a numerical interest, and now it's come up with a sheet dedicated to Move's most popular launch title, Sports Champions. Full of interesting statistics – did you know over 155 million arrows have been fired, of which 1.1 million have split? –...
News Move's Lightsaber Game Will be "Damn Sight Better" than Kinect's
Says Move engineer
The demo of Kinect Star Wars caught the imagination of Jedi fans everywhere, and Move's augmented reality capabilities combined with its 1:1 controller tracking is surely a recipe for a great Star Wars game. But whose would be better? You'll never guess which one Sony engineer Anton Mikhailov would favour. In a brief chat with...
Rumour PlayStation Phone To Be Announced On December 9th
According to a report on French website Nowhereelse
fr</a>, Sony Ericsson is to announce the oft-touted "PlayStation Phone" on December 9th. The site touts an invitation to the "most anticipated event of the past 10 years". Other popular websites have corroborated the story. MobileCrunch in particular has some juicy...
Ouch
Sony's R&D duo of Anton Mikhailov and Dr. Richard Marks have been nothing but professional in their discussion of Micrsoft's Kinect device over the past six months. But when it comes to Kinect Star Wars, Anton's got some strong opinions — mainly that it would be "damn better" on PlayStation Move. Speaking about the possibility...
News Deadstorm Pirates Leads This Week's European PSN Update
Plenty of new DLC for other titles too
Deadstorm Pirates is already available as part of Time Crisis: Razing Storm, but for gamers who fancied taking this nautical shooter for a spin they can now do so via the PlayStation Store. Released yesterday for £15.99/€19.99, Deadstorm Pirates was one of the stronger parts of Namco's Blu-ray shooting...
Rumour Spike Teaser Hints At New Resident Evil Game Reveal
If you follow the games media closely you might remember the press going mad over a Spike TV teaser which seemed to hint at the reveal of a new zombie game
Now Spike's dropped another hint, this time including a biohazard logo. It's all part of the build-up for the VGAs — are we on the cusp of a new Resident Evil announcement? There's not enough...
News Polyphony Pledges Title Update For Gran Turismo 5 This Weekend
Gran Turismo 5 is barely cold off the manufacturing line, but already Polyphony Digital's Kazunori Yamauchi is pledging huge updates for the title
This weekend's set to deliver the first update, with Kazunori promising it will "refine the usability of the game to make it a better experience". Fast work Kaz. We received a lot of demands...
News Kazunori Yamauchi's Not Sure If Gran Turismo 6 Will Launch On PlayStation 3
Polyphony Digital's gaffer, Kazunori Yamauchi, has told Eurogamer that he "doesn't know" if Gran Turismo 6 will launch on the PlayStation 3
Ten years ago it was easier to predict what would happen three years in the future, Yamauchi said at Gran Turismo 5's launch party in Madrid last night. Nowadays no-one knows what happens in the future...
Report Kaz Hirai Poised For Top Job At Sony
Gunning for first
SCE's current boss, Kaz Hirai, looks like he could be "Ridge Racing" his way to the top of Sony Corp, with a Bloomberg report placing him in the hot-seat to take Howard Stringer's president role. He'll face competition from Executive Deputy President, Hiroshi Yoshioka. Stringer took Sony's presidential job in 2009, but at 69...
News Gran Turismo 5 Issues Due To "Extreme Online Traffic Congestion"
We thought we were the only ones having issues with Gran Turismo 5's loading screens last night, but apparently our issues were shared by a majority of players
To cut a long-story emphatically short: Gran Turismo 5's online servers are getting raped. That's probably a good indication of the game's initial sales, but it causes a few issues for those...
News The 3rd Birthday Is Finished, Square Enix Turn Their Attention To Final Fantasy Agito XIII
The PlayStation Portable's Parasite Eve spin-off, The 3rd Birthday, is finished according to the Final Fantasy Agito XIII's director, Hajime Tabata
The lead's revealed that the entirety of The 3rd Birthday team has turned their attention to Agito, presumably seeking a launch at some point during our life time (or perhaps before the PSP2)...
News Kung-Fu Live Smashes Up Your Living Room Next Month On PlayStation 3
The Virtual Air Guitar Company has slapped a December 7th/8th release date on the bizarre "You Are The Controller" PlayStation Network title Kung-Fu Live in North America/Europe
The game, which will retail at a whopping £10.99 in the UK, uses the PlayStation Eye to place you in the game's bizarre pseudo-comic book world. It's going to depend how...
News Crytek Announces Warface From Its Korean Studio
As far as bad names go, Warface has got to rank pretty highly
Still, that's the name of Crytek's latest project currently in development at their South Korean studio. There are very, very little details at the moment, so enjoy the first screenshot above.</em> Update: Turns out this is a PC-only title. Nothing to see here PlayStation...
Wednesday24th Nov 2010
Review Crazy Taxi (PlayStation 3)
Crazy Taxi's the perfect game to have sitting on your PlayStation 3's hard-drive
The initial pang of nostalgia more than makes up for the digital download's asking price, but it's the game's time-wasting potential that will keep you coming back for more. Crazy Taxi is a game that's so good we actually broke our original Dreamcast copy from playing...
News These Awesome Nikes are Our New Favourite Move Accessory
Ten on the beau foot scale
Move's a lovely item to hold in your hands for sure, but if you wanted to show your love for the controller on your feet you've been all out of luck – until now. Sony and Nike have combined to create two limited edition pairs of sneakers to honour the launch of PlayStation Move and the upcoming arrival of Killzone 3. The...
Interviews Hydravision - Funky Lab Rat
Our Q&A escaped the evil scientists
Games with names like Funky Lab Rat don't come around too often, so we're happy to welcome this title onto the PlayStation Store. Released in Europe today, with a worldwide release to follow, Funky Lab Rat is a puzzle platform game that puts you in the squeaky shoes of Diego, a rat with the ability to control...
News Sony: "We Underestimated Demand for Move Controllers"
Might struggle for stock over Christmas
When putting together your PlayStation move set-up you probably didn't encounter many issues getting a Starter Pack, console bundle or Navigation sub-controller, but you may have struggled to lay your hands on a standalone Move controller. Peter Dille, Sony's marketing senior vice president in the US, has said...
News Joe Danger Finally Gets Playable Monkey, World Breathes A Sigh Of Relief
In a comical nod towards publisher rejection, Hello Games has added the monkey character Joe Danger so desperately needed to succeed as post-release DLC
The character joins a knight rider known as Sir Bonehead, Chicken Joe and a bunch of other ridiculous gubbins. The DLC is detailed in the trailer after the jump. If you haven't bought Joe Danger...
News Take a Behind the Scenes Look at TV Superstars
Spare yourself the pain of playing it
TV Superstars may not be the greatest party game on the PS3, but it's still interesting to hear Cambridge Studio discuss how the title came into being, what made the cut and what didn't. Over on the official PlayStation EU blog you can watch interviews with some of the key players in TV Superstars' creation as...
News Upcoming PSP Firmware Update Prepares For Qriocity
Sony's revealed that the PlayStation Portable's being prepped for a firmware update that will bring the platform holder's cloud-based streaming service, Qriocity, to the system
SCEA revealed on the PlayStation Blog: "PlayStation Portable system software update (v6.35) is coming soon. This is a minor update that prepares your PSP system for...
News PlayStation 2, It's Your Birthday! Oh, It's Your Birthday!
Where were you ten years ago today? If you're a European, you were probably unwrapping your shiny new PlayStation 2 console
Vu-whup. The system originally launched in Europe on November 24th, 2000. Ten years later it still holds a major store presence in most retailers. Incredible. The PlayStation 2 era was probably most famous for ushering a new...
News Alright, Enough Messing Around, Just Give Us Yakuza 4 Now
Bloody nora
If you frequent this site, you'll know that we adore the Yakuza franchise with passion. It's a brilliantly paced series and we love it. We've been waiting on Yakuza 4 ever since the third-instalment in the franchise was localised for the West. Knowing that the fourth game's coming, we've been trying to keep our hype levels in tact. No...
News This Is What Bayonetta Looked Like Before It Was The Bayonetta Inside Your Console
Remember Bayonetta? Yeah, that came out this year
Can you believe it? It's kinda hard, we know. Bayonetta then — that was the game that starred an American politician and ran at like 400 frames-per-second? Sure, but an original version of the game didn't move quite so fast. The YouTube video embedded after the jump reveals the game's early menus...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 23rd November 2010
PSN Stock Up for Winter Sales Top Gun Sale (PS3) (now $7
49, original price $14.99) PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap Sale (PS3) (now $3.49, original price $6.99) Deathspank Sale (PS3) (now $7.49, original price $14.99) Gundemonium Collection Sale (PS3) (now $7.49, original price $14.99) Joe Danger Sale (PS3) (now $7.49, original price...
News Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Nabs Animus Project DLC Next Month
Ubisoft's a batch of DLC for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood due to launch on December 14th on the PlayStation 3
The pack, known as the Animus Project 1.0, will be available for free. The update includes a brand-new game mode and map for multiplayer. Advanced Alliance will make the game's standard mode more difficult than the original with three teams...
The PlayStation 2 is ten years old in Europe today, and Sony's former head of Worldwide Studios, Phil Harrison, believes the platform holder will have a tough time matching PS2's record-breaking sales with the PlayStation 3
Speaking with Eurogamer, the Sony legend revealed that the "dynamics" are "slightly different" as the...
News Gran Turismo 5 Launch Trailer Celebrates The Title's Worldwide Release
It's the day we never believed we'd live to see -- Gran Turismo 5 is on store shelves all around the world
Right now. We know because we've seen it. Reviews have been dropping across the Internet all day, and while the general consensus seems to agree that this is still a video game (not the declaration of world peace like it's often been hyped to...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 24th November 2010
Special Offers (available until Dec
8) Gold Fever (mini) (was £3.99/4.99; now £2.49/2.99) Mahjongg Artifacts (mini) (was £3.99/4.99; now £2.49/2.99) Premier Manager (was £13.99/17.99; now £9.99/12.99) Prince of Persia Classic (was £7.99/9.99; now £5.49/6.99) Prince of Persia - Epilogue (was £7.99/9.99; now...
Tuesday23rd Nov 2010
News PushSquare Service Announcement: To Those That Received Gran Turismo 5 Early...
We're hearing some complaints around the 'Net this afternoon from those who received Gran Turismo 5 a day early
Apparently the game hangs on an early logo screen. This is not an issue with the game, it's because Gran Turismo 5's online servers have yet to be properly switched on. Remember: the game is not officially released until tomorrow. There...
Competition Win MediaTonic's "Who's That Flying?!" For PlayStation Minis!
We described MediaTonic's latest PlayStation Mini, Who's That Flying?
</a>, as an "essential addition to any Minis library" in our four-square review of the title last week. Bet you wouldn't mind snagging a free copy would you? MediaTonic's been kind enough to send us four download vouchers for the fantastic...
News PlayStation Move Wins Popsci's "Best of What's New" Award
Nabs "most immersive game controller" gong
We know Move works great, you know Move works great, and now Sony's controller has been honoured with an award in Popular Science magazine's "Best of What's New 2010" issue. Honoured in the always hotly-contested Home Entertainment category, Move was called the "most immersive game...
News Gran Turismo 5 Patch Unlocks Online Multiplayer
In a move presumably implemented to prevent piracy, Sony's announced that a day-one patch for Gran Turismo 5 will be required to unlock the game's multiplayer component
The 133mb update is apparently available now for those who've snagged a copy of the game early. For the rest of you — 12 hours to go.
News GAME & GameStation Detail Mega Midnight Launch Plans For Gran Turismo 5 In The UK
You might have started the week sitting on the fence with regards to Gran Turismo 5, but we know you're all happily playing in the field of "must buy" right now
So how about those midnight launches? For those of you in the UK, looks like GAME's getting the show on the road (pun intended) with 55 midnight launches nationwide. GameStation will also be...
News What's In The Gran Turismo 5 Signature Edition's Box?
If you've got a good hunk of cash burning a hole in your pocket, chances are you've been considering picking up Gran Turismo 5's Signature Edition
The gigantic package includes a bunch of extras including exclusive DLC cars, a key fob, USB stick, model car and more. It's all packaged within a contoured metal case. It's super classy. The...
News Kazunori Yamauchi: "I Really, Really Would Love To Try Making Some Other Type Of Game"
Kazunori Yamauchi, Polyphony Digital's gaffer, may have only just got finished with Gran Turismo 5, but the racing game veteran is already looking to the future
Recently Yamauchi revealed in an interview that work has already began on Gran Turismo 6, with the veteran furthering that it's "too early to talk about it". But in an interview...
News Shift Extended Flips Colours & Boggles Minds On PlayStation Minis This Week
We could attempt to explain Shift Extended's brilliant gameplay mechanic, but it'd be easier on our keyboard if we directed you to the trailer embedded above instead
The franchise which began life as an online Flash game is coming to PlayStation Minis with all its brain melting puzzles in tact. It's due out this week on the PlayStation Store.
News DoubleFine Announces Stacking For The PlayStation Network, Looks Bonkers
DoubleFine's announced the second game in their publishing partnership with THQ
The PlayStation Network title, Stacking, is pitched as third-person adventure puzzle game, set in a diorama open-world environment against a 1930s era backdrop. It's already sounding awesome, right? The game involves Russian stacking dolls — seriously. The...
News Sony Bringing 3D To Over 20 First-Party Titles, More Than 50 On The Platform
That 3DTV sitting in your local Sony Galleria's window might look like an unnecessary expense, but it's slowly becoming an essential purchase
What with the PlayStation 3 now supporting 3D movies and games, the upgrade's looking more and more justified. Just to hammer home the point, SCE's revealed that they have 3D functionality in the works for...
Monday22nd Nov 2010
News Exclusive Day One DLC for PDC on PS3
More players, modes and more
PDC World Championship Darts: Pro Tour isn't the first sports game from O-Games to make use of PlayStation Move – its previous release was the very playable John Daly's ProStroke Golf, and now the publisher is lined up at the oche with a new title on Friday. PS3 owners who pick the game up on launch day will be greeted...
Hold onto your hats folks, it's looking more and more certain that Uncharted 3 will finally be revealed to the world next month
Remember that post-VGA PlayStation exclusive announcement teased by Sony? Kotaku reckons it'll be a blow-out of Uncharted 3 which will be trailered during the VGAs. In fact, Kotaku's so certain they've cited their good ol'...
News PlayStation 3 Scores One-Hundred-And-Eighty, Nets Exclusive Hawaii 5-0-1 Downloadable Content
O-Games' upcoming PDC World Championship Darts: Pro Tour is not complete without the appearance of Hawaii 5-0-1 himself, and the PlayStation 3 version of the game is the only place you'll see him
Wayne Mardle (as Hawaii 5-0-1's known to normal people) will be joined by Peter "One Dart" Manley and the Las Vegas Desert Classic tournament in...
News SCEA Slashes PlayStation Network Prices For Black Friday
In the good ol' USA they have this thing called Black Friday
We're only aware of it on a foreigner's level, but apparently it involves people rushing into stores and buying ridiculously low-priced items. It sounds crazy to us, but whatever. Not one to refuse a party, SCEA's decided that the PlayStation Network should be in on the festivities,...
News Sony Ericsson's Gaffer Talks About Smoke & Fires, Hints At The Existence Of PSPhone
Sony Ericsson's CEO Bert Nordberg has virtually confirmed the existence of the long rumoured PlayStation Phone, though it's sounding more and more likely to us that the so called "PSPhone" will be more a "phone that plays good games," rather than an SCE branded product
Nordberg told the Wall Street Journal: Theres a lot of smoke, and I tell you...
News Lara Croft and the Guardian Of Light Gets Key Gameplay Feature... Finally
Are you still playing Lara Croft and the Guardian Of Light? It's actually a really good game, but with the release of Call Of Duty: Black Ops, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and the imminent arrival of Gran Turismo 5, chances are you've relegated Lara Croft's tight tushy to the side-lines
That's a shame, because Crystal Dynamics has finally released...
UK Charts Call Of Duty: Black Ops Holds Off Assassin's Creed & Need For Speed
It's testament to the strength of Call Of Duty that Black Ops suffered an 85% drop in sales last week, while Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood enjoyed the franchise's biggest launch in the UK -- yet still ended up finishing second in the British sales charts
The excellent Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit was also unable to rival Call Of Duty, landing in...
News Mindjack Jacks Minds (See What We Did There?) In January 2011
Square Enix has confirmed a January release date for Feelplus' third-person shooter, Mindjack
The game's due in North America/Europe on the 18th/21st of January. Japan will get it a little later on the 27th January. Honestly, we know very little about this game, so let's read the press-release together shall we? "Square Enixs new near-future...
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