Review EA Sports Active 2 (PlayStation 3)
EA Sports Active 2 is a compelling substitute to the real gym, with a good variety of well designed exercises and some excellent progress tracking tools
News Ubisoft Challenges You to Get Fit in Six in March
Get ready to shed some pounds
News Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Roster Update #8,642,213: Akuma & Taskmaster
We get that Capcom wants to keep Marvel vs
Guide LittleBigPlanet 2's LittlePlayStationMove Support
What you get for your money
We weren't the biggest fans of Need For Speed Shift
News - 2011, Week 03
Sunday23rd Jan 2011
Definitely sounds like Sony's being Sony again
Nikkei is reporting some colossus information on the PSP2 this evening. According to preliminary information on the device, Nikkei reports that Sony's next portable system will support 3G functionality and an OLED touchscreen. OLED screens are widely considered some of the best available on the market...
Saturday22nd Jan 2011
News Ubisoft Challenges You to Get Fit in Six in March
Get ready to shed some pounds
Ubisoft's set to bring a new fitness title to PlayStation Move, with Fit in Six heading to PS3 in March. The title refers to six core fitness areas – cardio, balance, upper body strength, lower body strength, core strength and flexibility – and will offer tailored activities for targeting each area, which have been...
We weren't the biggest fans of Need For Speed Shift
Functionally it was fine, but the experience was laden with bugs that really shouldn't be present in a game billing itself as a simulation racer. As such, Need For Speed Shift 2 Unleashed hasn't exactly been on our radar. The game's Limited Edition trailer has us sold though. Why? Listen to the...
News Kaos: Homefront DLC A Timed Exclusive Because Microsoft "Supported" Us
We're not familiar with the process of multiplatform game development, but reading the comments of Homefront's senior level designer Rex Dickson, it seems like developers want the platform holders to bend over backwards for every game coming to their system
Earlier in the week, Kaos announced that all future Homefront DLC would be a timed exclusive...
News We'd Almost Forgotten Just How Good Killzone 3's Guns Sound
Thank goodness for this multiplayer footage Sony's put up to celebrate Killzone 3's upcoming open beta
Just as we'd started to forget just how chunky Killzone's weapons sound, a smattering of gameplay footage arrives to remind us. Most exciting about this clip of Killzone 3's Bilgarsk Boulevard — the map looks huge, while still maintaining a...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 Already Surpasses Original's Player Records
LittleBigPlanet 2's only been officially out for around 24 hours here in the UK, and little more than a few days in the US, but it's already managed to smash the original game's player records
Studio co-founder David Smith told Eurogamer, "The user count is actually quite crazy - we've already massively outstripped our LBP1 record for total...
Friday21st Jan 2011
Review Modern Combat: Domination (PlayStation 3)
More bang fewer bucks
Question: how many times has a dinner been skipped or forgotten in favour of online shooting marathons on the PlayStation 3? Gameloft knows it’s happening daily, and with the price tag of a measly $7.99/£6.29, Modern Combat: Domination on PlayStation Network is as cheap as a skipped dinner, but is it worth going hungry? If...
News Dead Space 2 Includes Unlock Code For Awesome "Ser Isaac Of Clarke" Armour In Dragon Age II
Incestuous cross-promotion this may be, we still think it's awesome
Players who pick up a copy of Visceral Games' Dead Space 2 next week will be granted an unlock code to redeem the "Ser Isaac Of Clarke" armour set in Bioware's Dragon Age II. While Isaac Clarke's futuristic space-suit has been toned down to fit in with Dragon Age's...
News Ronnie O' Sullivan To Be The Face Of World Snooker Championship Real 2011
Three times world champion Ronnie O' Sullivan is to be the face of Dark Energy Sports' upcoming PS3 title, World Snooker Championship Real 2011
The developer promises the game is "the most realistic snooker experience yet seen on home console and PC". All the usual features are being touted: real players, real venues, real tournaments...
News PSP2 To Be Announced At Japanese PlayStation Meeting On January 27th
Six years ago Sony held an event in Japan called the "PlayStation Meeting"
The July 25th, 2005 meeting revealed some of Sony's early plans for the PlayStation 3. The January 27th, 2011 event labelled "PlayStation Meeting" is believed to lead to the long awaited unveiling of the PSP2. Andriasang's picked up on the name via a series of...
Rumour Metal Gear Solid HD Trilogy Coming To PlayStation 3
A high-definition remake of the original Metal Gear Solid trilogy is coming to PlayStation 3 if reports in Official PlayStation Magazine are to be believed
The magazine cites "insider whispers" as the source for the story, stating that the "first three" Metal Gear Solid games are set to be reborn on the PlayStation 3. It would...
News Visceral Games Chat Dead Space: Extraction On PlayStation 3
If you buy Dead Space 2 on the PlayStation 3, you'll get a little treat enclosed
The first run of Visceral's scare-em-up will include a free copy of Dead Space: Extraction — the Nintendo Wii light-gun shooter — complete with revamped "HD visuals" and fully PlayStation Move compatibility. Breaking the silence on the exclusive...
News Take A Quick Virtual Tour Of Sackboy's Birth Place
Media Molecule are probably quirkiest development studio in video games, so we found this short Youtube tour (embedded after the jump) of their office most intriguing
It's pretty much as we expected to be honest — there's a "pet wall" and lots of whacky light shades. Oh, and there's a table-tennis set-up too. Every office needs one,...
SCEE's announced that through February 3rd to February 15th players will be able to enlist upon the Killzone 3 open beta
The client will provide early access to Killzone's Frozen Dam multiplayer level, playable across three game modes: Guerrilla Warfare, Warzone and Operations. The offline multiplayer Botzone component will also be available. There...
News More LittleBigPlanet 2 Move Content Coming Later This Year
Expect it in months, not weeks
So LittleBigPlanet 2's Move support is just a free install of PlayStation Network title Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, but Media Molecule has confirmed it is working on other Move content for the title to be available later this year. The company will release a Play, Create, Share pack later this year adding plenty more...
News PlayStation Portable Version Of Thor Cancelled By SEGA
SEGA Europe's revealed to VG247 that it's cancelled the PSP version of the upcoming Thor video game
Alarm bells started ringing when the game mysteriously disappeared from SEGA's release schedule. SEGA told VG247 that "there won't be a PSP version".
News Duke Nukem Forever Confirmed For May 3rd Release In North America, May 6th Elsewhere
Mark the date: May 3rd is the day that pigs will fly and Hell will freeze
Duke Nukem Forever will launch in North America after 13-years of development chaos. The rest of the world will have to wait until May 6th for the monumental occassion, but hey, what's three days in the wider scheme of things? The moment fans all over the world have been...
News LittleBigTVAd Focuses On LittleBigCreators
SCEE's posted up the LittleBigPlanet 2 television advert over on the PlayStation Blog
The ad was created in conjunction with a number of high profile LittleBigPlanet level designers, and the results are kinda amazing. The coolest thing is that each of the levels are available to play now in the game. Our favourite is the Mediterranean Street Race, a...
LittleBigPlanet 2 doesn't support PlayStation Move out of the box, but Media Molecule's studio director, Siobhan Reddy, has told IGN that a "Play, Create, Share" pack for Sony's motion device is in the works and will be ready soon
Apparently the pack will be "announced in a little while". Well, the exciting thing to do with Move is,...
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Thursday20th Jan 2011
Guide LittleBigPlanet 2's LittlePlayStationMove Support
What you get for your money
The long awaited sequel to the hugely popular LittleBigPlanet has finally been released, but the release of LittleBigPlanet 2 has sparked some confusion with its spiffy blue “Move Support” label. Currently, the only Move support LittleBigPlanet 2 currently offers is the ability to install Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves...
Report Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 In Development Across Three Key Activision Studios
With Infinity Ward splintered after former heads Jason West and Vince Zampella were ousted from the company, a report on the LA Times' Company Town blog suggests all might not be rosy at the former premier studio
Apparently both Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software have been enlisted to support Infinity Ward developing the next Call Of Duty title,...
News Amazon Announces The Acquisition Of LOVEFiLM
Amazon's announced that they've acquired the European-based DVD-rental (and streaming) service LOVEFiLM for an undisclosed amount
LOVEFiLM launched an application on the PlayStation 3 late last year. According to VentureBeat, Amazon went ahead with the purpose because of the company's streaming solutions. Apparently, with 20 percent of the service's...
News LittleBigPlanet 2's Audio Sequencer Could Have Been A Stand-Alone Game
LittleBigPlanet 2 is crazy
Like, really crazy. It's so crazy, one of its level editing tools is practically a simplified digital audio workstation. That's bonkers. In fact, LBP2's audio sequencer was originally being considered as a stand-alone game. Ker-ray-zee. According to Media Molecule's audio lead Kenny Young, Sony pushed the developer to...
News Yakuza 4's Smashing People's Faces In From March 18th
Drop everything: open up your diary
What are you doing on March 18th? You've got a date with the nice young lady from the ASDA checkouts? Ahem, cancel it. Go on, we'll wait while you pull out that universally useful red Sharpie from your pencil case and put a big cross through it. Y'see, SEGA's announced that Yakuza 4's due out on March 18th in the...
News Tennis Titans Line Up In Super-Stylish Virtua Tennis 4 Trailer
It's been a while since we heard anything about Virtua Tennis 4, so it's pretty exciting to get a new trailer
Pretty convenient that it should drop on the same week 2K Sports detail Top Spin 4 too. Honestly, it matters squat to us. Traditionally Virtua Tennis and Top Spin have wildly different gameplay styles, so we'll be buying both to get our...
News Virtua Tennis 4 Reconfirmed For Spring Release, New Details Revealed
It's been a while since we got any information regarding Virtua Tennis 4, but in order to spoil 2K Sport's Top Spin announcements, SEGA's decided reveal all
On top of this evening's player roster trailer, SEGA's reconfirmed that Virtua Tennis 4 will release this Spring on PlayStation 3. All the PlayStation Move implementation touted last year is of...
News Sample Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's Free Animus 2.0 DLC
New game modes and new maps are the order of the day in Ubisoft's latest free DLC add-on for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
If ever you needed an excuse to stab people in the back, now you've got one.
News PlayStation Home's Exciting Espionage Title Launches In The US This Week
We've said it once, we'll say it again, and we'll continue to champion it until it sinks in: PlayStation Home is starting to get really, really exciting
It feels like Home's finally beginning to reach the potential it always aspired to. Spaces like Sodium One are what we won us over, so it's exciting to see more games implemented into Home's...
News Stacking Pops Onto The PlayStation Network On February 8th
DoubleFine's quirky Russian doll-inspired downloadable offering, Stacking, is due for release on the PlayStation Network on February 8th the developer's confirmed
The game will cost $14.99. We still don't know a great deal about the title, though we do know the protagonist will be able to assume the bodies of other characters to gain access to new...
News Let's Watch That Final Fantasy XIII-2 Trailer Again, This Time In English
Yeah, yeah, you might well have already seen the Final Fantasy XIII-2 debut trailer -- but have you seen it in English? No? Didn't think so
Better hit the ol' play button then. The music at the end of this trailer is ay-may-zing by the way.
Wednesday19th Jan 2011
Review EA Sports Active 2 (PlayStation 3)
EA Sports Active 2 is a compelling substitute to the real gym, with a good variety of well designed exercises and some excellent progress tracking tools
The heart-rate monitor makes exercising both fascinating and visually beneficial, while the game's sturdy presentation ensures you are motivated whatever your current fitness level. We'd never feel...
Review Angry Birds (PlayStation Minis)
Those with only PlayStation platforms available to them will find the Minis version of Angry Birds a perfect justification for their curiosity, but we'd urge some consideration first
The PlayStation Minis version of Angry Birds lacks features, despite coming in at a higher price. What's more, we're just not convinced the gameplay is all that great...
News Josh Olin Confirms Treyarch Are Committed To Call Of Duty: Black Ops On PS3
We told you it was an absolute load of hog-wash
Treyarch's community manager, Josh Olin, has hit the Twitter airwaves to confirm the studio are committed to Call Of Duty: Black Ops on PlayStation 3. Olin wrote: "<span>PS3 servers comments were taken out of context. Treyarch's committed to supporting the PS3 community with some great...
News Yes We've Seen The Call Of Duty: Black Ops Server Reports, And No It's Not Going To Happen
We woke up this morning to see a bunch of websites reporting that Activision were about to "pull the plug on the PS3 Call Of Duty: Black Ops servers
" We don't know how the story gathered steam, but we'd just like to reassure everyone that it's not going to happen. While Activision reserve the right to pull the servers on any multiplayer game,...
News Ubisoft Announces Fit In Six For The PlayStation 3, Move
Given the amount of exercise we exert while playing games such as The Fight and EA Sports Active 2, we'd like to think that the stigma surrounding video gamers health is slowly starting to vanish
For what it's worth, we genuinely think games like EA Sports Active 2 are a reasonable replacement for the gym, so how anyone can associate video games...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 18th January 2010
Updates TV Show King - Sale (PS3) (now $0
99, original price $4.99) Record Of Agarest War - Permanent Price Drop (PS3) (now $29.99, original price $44.99) Battlefield: 1943 - Permanent Price Drop (PS3) (now $9.99, original price $14.99) Resident Evil Director's Cut (PS3/PSP) (now $4.99, original price $9.99)</ul>Games Mass Effect 2...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 19th January 2011
Special Offers (available until Feb
2) Warhawk Complete Bundle (£15.99/19.99) Crash Commando (was £6.29/7.99 now £3.19/3.99) TV Show King (was £3.99/4.99 now £0.79/0.99) Split/Second High Octane Supercar Pack (was £1.59/1.99 now £0.79/0.99) Topatoi Episode 2: Pillar of the Skies (was £4.79/5.99 now ...
News Guerrilla Games: Killzone 3 "Feels More Fluid" Than Previous Entry
Guerrilla Games has reiterated its intent to appease "control lag" complaints with Killzone 3
The studio's told EDGE magazine that Killzone 3 is suitably "more fluid" than its predecessor: we were still tweaking and checking framerate, I checked this game back-to-back with Killzone 2 and have to say that it plays so much more...
News Sadly, It Looks Like Bizarre Creations Are Kinda Done
Bizarre Creations might have delivered the brilliant Blur last year, but sadly it sounds like the studio's days are numbered
Last we heard Activision were looking to offload the developer to a potential buyer, but it sounds like talks have fallen through. Activision Worlwide Studios' COO Coddy Johnson told Develop that the publisher
LittleBigPlanet 2's kinda out
Killzone 3's nearly out. But the cogs at Sony's overworked PR office keep turning; we've just realised we still know absolutely nothing about SOCOM 4's multiplayer component. That's not a problem though, because Sony's announced on the US PlayStation Blog that marked copies of Killzone 3 (Helghast and
Tuesday18th Jan 2011
Out Today Modern Combat: Domination (North America)
Get your shoot on
Your trigger finger may be itching in anticipation of going hands-on with Killzone 3 next month, but if you want a cheap title to tide you over then today sees the launch of Modern Combat: Domination on PlayStation Network. Your $7.99 gets you six multiplayer modes for up to 16 players, with five maps and the usual XP and weapon...
Despite being dedicated a whopping seven-minute trailer, the latest Final Fantasy Versus XIII footage doesn't really tell us much more than we already know
The combat looks suitably Kingdom Hearts-ish — a trait anticipated for a game coming from Tetsuya Nomura. There's plenty of flash and bang to the gameplay, as the protagonist runs across an...
News Portal 2 On PlayStation 3 Nets Cross-Platform Play, Cloud Storage & Steam Play
When Gabe Newell showed up at Sony's E3 press conference last year and stated that the PS3 version of Portal 2 would be the "definitive version," we assumed it meant we'd get an extra couple of levels and cloud storage
And we would have been happy with that. But what Valve's actually announced for the PS3 version of Portal 2 goes above and beyond...
News Top Spin 4 Smashes onto PlayStation Move in March
Will it be ace?
Looks like Sega's Virtua Tennis 4 won't be the only Move-enabled tennis game next year: 2K Games has just announced Top Spin 4 will launch in North America on March 15th, with PlayStation Move support from day one. Promising the largest-ever array of past and present stars of the sport – early shots show Andre Agassi and Pete...
News Top Spin 4 Drop (Shots) Onto PlayStation 3 March 18th In The UK
After yesterday's March 15th US release date announcement for Top Spin 4, we anticipated the UK date wouldn't be far behind
2K's just sent us confirmation that the PlayStation Move controlled tennis title will launch on March 18th in good ol' Blighty. The game will feature Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanovic (please stop losing! <3) on the...
Out Today LittleBigPlanet 2 (North America)
Sackboy returns
After months of betas, demos, teaser videos and more, Sackboy sequel LittleBigPlanet 2 is finally available to buy in North America. The game contains PlayStation Network title Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, a two-player co-operative adventure for Move and DualShock 3. Media Molecule originally stated that there would be more Move...
News Final Fantasy Type-0 Gets A New Trailer To Go Along With Its, Well, New Name
Final Fantasy Agito XIII is no more
It is now Final Fantasy Type-0. Re-confirmed for a summer release this morning at a Japanese press conference, Square Enix has also released a new trailer for the game which has inevitably leaked onto the 'net. See the results for yourself after the jump. If you want a quick synopsis of the trailer: it looks like...
News Final Fantasy XIII-2 Announced For PlayStation 3 By Square Enix, Due 2011 In Japan
The impact of a Final Fantasy announcement seems a little diminished after the relatively disappointing Final Fantasy XIII, but make no mistake, this is still huge
At their conference in Japan, Square Enix has just confirmed that Final Fantasy XIII-2 will launch this year (2011) in Japan. The game will be directed by Motomu Toriyama. Few details are...
News Final Fantasy XIII-2 Due In North America/Europe Next Winter, Leaked Trailer Is Go
Final Fantasy XIII-2 was only announced in Japan this morning, but Square Enix has already taken to the PlayStation Blog to confirm the game will release in Western regions "next winter"
While the period is a little shaky, we're taking that to mean anywhere from late-December to March. Presumably it'll be closer to the latter. In addition to the...
News Final Fantasy XIII Agito Renamed Type-0, Due This Summer
PlayStation Portable title, Final Fantasy Agito XIII, has gone through a name-change according to information seeping out of Square Enix's Japanese press event this morning
The game will be renamed Final Fantasy Type-0 and will ship on two UMDs when it launches in Japan this Summer.
Monday17th Jan 2011
News Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Roster Update #8,642,213: Akuma & Taskmaster
We get that Capcom wants to keep Marvel vs
Capcom 3</a> in the spotlight for as long as possible, but we're getting kind of bored with these bi-weekly roster update reveals. Just tell us the characters and move on for goodness sake. It feels like we've been reporting on these matters for months. Good news: Akuma and Taskmaster are confirmed...
News Crystal Dynamics: Keeley Hawes Won't Voice Lara Croft In Tomb Raider Reboot
What a downer to start a Monday morning on
We woke flowing with energy, but Crystal Dynamics has just kicked the wind out of our sails. Tweeting about the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, global brand director Karl Stewart has revealed that the brilliant Keeley Hawes will not be returning to voice Lara in the new game. It all started when Stewart...
News Sony Online Entertainment: Freerealms PS3 "In Submission", Due February/March
Well that's a turn-up for the books
Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play casual MMO, Free Realms, has long been rumoured for the PlayStation 3, but after years of no information, we'd assumed it was missing in action. Apparently not though, as Sony Online Entertainment's head honcho John Smedley has told Eurogamer that the game's currently going...
News Top Spin 4 Releasing In March, Nets PlayStation Move Support
Yes
Yes! YES! Seriously: get in! 2K Sports has slapped a release date on upcoming tennis title, Top Spin 4, stating that the game will release March 15th in the US. But that's not all that's got us excited; the game's PlayStation 3 boxart also comes with a PlayStation Move readily plastered all over it. This is basically our idea of heaven. The news...
News UK Sales Charts: DC Universe Online Smashes Into The Top Ten
Someone get hold of Batman and tell him to fake a smile: DC Universe Online's broken the UK's top ten software sales
The game, which released on PC and PlayStation 3, has been slowly gathering attention since the beta. You can read our initial thoughts on the game through here. We think it's pretty good so far. Elsewhere the charts are pretty much...
News These L.A. Noire Screenshots Are All About People's Faces
We're beginning to wonder if there's anything else to L
A. Noire</a> other than "OMGZ LOOK HOW GOOD THE FACES ARE WITH OUR MOTIONSCAN TECHNOLOGY!" Every single screenshot, trailer and piece of PR has focused on the same thing. The faces. Look at the goddamn faces. Y'know guys, we think Rockstar want us to look at the faces. As it...
News Catherine Demo Dated For January 27th Release On PlayStation Store
Atlus has finally revealed the anticipated date for the oft-teased Catherine demo
January 27th will mark the fateful day we all actually get to load up the bizarre looking title and get a glimpse of what it's all about. According to Siliconera, "players will be able to sample a section of the game's opening featuring event movies, anime movies...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 Smashes LittleBigWorldRecords Now!
The LittleBigWorldRecord is up and running
To celebrate the release of LittleBigPlanet 2 this week, Sony's aiming to smash a number of Guiness World Records. The event's taking place at the Sony Style store in New York City, with goodies promised for the first 500 people who show up tomorrow morning and buy the game. There's a bunch more information...
News HANG ON, LITTLEBIGPLANET 2 IS OUT THIS WEEK!!!
Man, this has really crept up on us: LittleBigPlanet 2 is out tomorrow in the US
That's crazy. It feels like we've been waiting forever but here it is. Finally. Even if you're in Europe, you've only got a few extra days to wait. There's nothing more we can really say. If you're human, you'll be pumped. Sit back, listen to the sub-bass, and check...
News L.A. Noire Sports Over 50 Hours Of Dialogue... 50 Hours!
Team Bondi's Brendan McNamara has lofted that L
A. Noire</a> sports over 50 hours of dialogue: We captured over 50 hours worth of dialogue in total, all using MotionScan its equivalent to about two full seasons of a TV show, he told IGN. Each case has its own twists and turns depending on the choices you make, leading you down...
News Call Of Duty: Black Ops' First Strike DLC Pack Gets Trailered
Microsoft might have spent a number of pennies securing exclusive DLC for Call Of Duty: Black Ops, but it's not going to stop us posting the package's first trailer
The DLC, called First Strike, features four new multiplayer maps and an additional zombie mode. Of the maps, Stadium and Kowloon look the most interesting from a visual perspective...
News Gran Turismo Anywhere Set To Launch In Early February
First announced during the final straight of Gran Turismo's agonising development cycle, Gran Turismo 5's "Anywhere" mode is finally gearing up for release this February
That's according to a Tweet from series honcho Kazunori Yamauchi anyway. He knows about these things. The mode will allow players to engage in B-spec races remotely using a computer...
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