News Helen Mirren & Jason Statham Join The Cast Of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Sort Of!)
Following a behind-closed-doors presentation at GDC last week, Naughty Dog's revealed the main antagonist from Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Feature Meet the PlayStation Move Heroes: Sly Cooper and Bentley
The Sneakiest Heroes on the Move
Talking Point Should Move Controls Become the FPS Standard?
Can you go back to twin sticks?
News SOCOM: Special Forces Release Date Revealed
Locked and loaded for launch in the UK
News - 2011, Week 10
Sunday13th Mar 2011
News BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II PSP Release Confirmed For Europe
Zen United has confirmed that it's bringing Arc System Works' BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II to the PlayStation Portable in Europe later this year
The game adds a bunch of new modes and features on top of those featured in the PS3 release, including new "unlimited" fighters unlockable through the game's new shop mode. Aksys Games, the...
News Insomniac Games Makes Play For Social Gaming Market With 'Insomniac Click'
We can't say we're all that familiar with the games on offer at Facebook, but we know it's huge business
Resistance developers Insomniac Games are obviously keenly aware of the potential of the online casual games space, as the company has just announced Insomniac Click, a new company division devoted to web and mobile games. While the endeavour is...
Saturday12th Mar 2011
News SOCOM: Special Forces Release Date Revealed
Locked and loaded for launch in the UK
SOCOM: Special Forces, or SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALs as it’s known in North America, has been confirmed for a European release, but sadly without a set release date. Today that has all changed, and Europe can expect to see SOCOM: Special Forces releasing on April 22, 2011 only three days behind the North American...
News Raiden's Still Wearing That Silly Hat In Mortal Kombat
We'd never tell him for fear of getting our head ripped off, but that lamp-shade Raiden from Mortal Kombat insists on wearing is a fashion nightmare
Seriously, look at him. How can he feel comfortable looking like that? The shame.</em>
News Soldner-X Developer Confirms Strategy RPG 'Rainbow Moon' For PSN
SideQuest Studios -- the developers of the rage inducing Soldner-X series on PlayStation Network -- are hard at work on a new title for Sony's digital platform
According to publisher eastasiasoft, Rainbow Moon is an isometric strategy RPG in a fantasy setting. The game's official website showcases a colourful hand-drawn style, and reveals that...
News Homefront's Launch Trailer Is All Like, "God Bless America!"
We're quite looking forward to playing THQ's Homefront next week, but we're a little bit concerned about one aspect of the game: the treatment of the ol' U-S-of-A
Being Brits looking in at American media, we're more than aware of the jaw-clenchingly patriotic tone that can consume products like Homefront. We're praying that the game — which is...
Friday11th Mar 2011
News Ape Escape Makes Its Escape From Japan
The Ape Escapes this Summer
The time for Ape Escape to finally make its debut on the PlayStation 3 outside of Japan is finally approaching. Ape Escape Fury! Fury! released a few months ago in Japan, but an official release outside of Japan has yet to be heard. Today that changed when the PlayStation Blog announced that PlayStation Move Ape Escape is...
News February NPD Sales: Killzone 3 Charts, Call Of Duty: Black Ops Rules
Total US game revenue was up year-over-year in February, from $1
3 billion to $1.6 billion. An increase in hardware and peripheral sales were credited for the gains, while software shrunk a bit between February 2010 and 2011. Despite dipping year-over-year, the software charts for February are littered with new games — Marvel Vs. Capcom 3...
Y'know what, we kinda feel for High Moon Studios
A little bit. They are clearly a studio heavily passionate about the Transformers franchise and its lore. Their last game, Transformers: War For Cybertron, must have been a dream come true for everyone at the developer. A good Transformers game based on the characters and setting from the original...
Review The Undergarden (PlayStation 3)
The Undergarden tries hard to jump aboard the zen-gaming hype train, but ultimately settles for the soulless bandwagon
Imagine if PixelJunk Eden got steamy with thatgamecompany's flow and somehow managed to produce a throng of sprogs. One child would be good at sports, the other drawing. The third child would be the super-intelligent one, knowing...
News Sony Ericsson Slaps March 31st Release Date On The Xperia Play In Britain
Sony Ericsson's confirmed it will launch the Xperia Play in Britain before the month's out, cutting things fine with a March 31st release date
The firm told MCV that the mobile-phone-coming-handheld-games-device will launch with six titles: Crash Bandicoot, FIFA '10 [apparently not '11 - Ed], Bruce Lee Dragon Warriors, Star Battalion, Tetris, and...
News Free Realms Finally Comes To PlayStation 3 On March 29th
After years of speculation, Sony Online Entertainment's finally attached a release date to the PS3 port of its free-to-play MMO, Free Realms
Get your pens and calendars ready, because March 29th is the date to mark. For those unfamiliar with the PC version, Free Realms is a kind of casual MMO that's totally free to play. Think PlayStation Home but...
News DC Universe Online To Launch Digitally On PlayStation 3
Despite the inevitable hard-drive hog, there's no better game we'd like to have sitting comfortably on our XMB than DC Universe Online
We're lazy. By the time we've got up, found the case, and popped Sony Online Entertainment's superhero MMO into our PlayStation 3, we don't actually want to play it anymore. But if it was saved onto our hard-drive,...
News Heads Up: Duke Nukem Forever Now Has An Official Website
Duke Nukem Forever now has an official website
Which is pretty crazy when you start to think about it. The game — which has been in development for, well, forever — is actually coming out in May (apparently). The website's packed with assets, terrible music and "hilarious" quips from the Duke himself. Click through here if you're...
News Sony Targets April 22nd Release Date For SOCOM: Special Forces In The UK
Y'know what really, really annoys us
When European and American games have different titles. It makes things so complicated. Do we call the game by its European name and isolate our American userbase? Do we call the game by both its names and write messy looking articles? Gah, it's a never-ending debate in the office whenever a new Hot Shots Gol-...
News Batman: Arkham City Releases October 18th In North America, October 21st In UK
Warner Bros has announced that the hotly anticipated Batman: Arkham City will be released on October 18th in North America and October 21st in the UK
The game — developed by British studio Rocksteady — follows up 2009's surprise hit Batman: Arkham Asylum. Freed from the confines of the Asylum, Arkham City aims to recreate the same atmosphere...
Thursday10th Mar 2011
Feature Meet the PlayStation Move Heroes: Sly Cooper and Bentley
The Sneakiest Heroes on the Move
PlayStation Move Heroes is a fully Move enabled game featuring a collection of characters from a few of Sony’s top franchises. This is the first time these characters have been featured together in the same game, and what better way could there be to bring them all together than with PlayStation Move. Who exactly...
Talking Point Should Move Controls Become the FPS Standard?
Can you go back to twin sticks?
There's been plenty of praise given to Killzone 3's PlayStation Move controls: precise and engaging, they help to take Guerilla Games' sci-fi shooter into the upper reaches of PlayStation 3 titles. Having spent major time with both control methods here at Movemodo, there's no doubt which scheme has the upper hand when...
Review StarDrone (PlayStation 3)
The joy of losing
The structure of failure in gaming isn't what it used to be. Limited lives and dwindling continues are dying out, instead making way for ever-replenishing health bars and multiple re-spawn points. Simply put, our video games are getting easier. While some titles certainly stray from this convention, for the most part, streamlined...
Rumour Concept Art For PlayStation Home Reveals Snazzy New Space
Sony's virtual world, PlayStation Home, could be getting a fresh lick of paint in the near future
That's according to some leaked concept art picked up by FourPlayerCoOp.com. The new screens demonstrate a cleaner, web 2.0 Home plaza, with a bigger emphasis on gaming made possible through the service's latest update. The art was apparently sent out...
News NGP Will Have Skyhook’s Core Engine GPS Built-in
Know where you are, anywhere
Skyhook, a leading developer of global tracking and positioning services whose name sounds unfortunately reminiscent of the fictional Terminator-producing corporation SkyNet, has implemented its Core Engine GPS system into everything from netbooks and tablets to smartphones and cameras. Next the company will be stuffing...
News Sony: NGP Development Began in 2008
A long time coming
The Playstation Blog has a lengthy video interview with Shuhei Yoshida, the head of Sony Worldwide Studios about the development cycle for the upcoming PlaStation NGP. In it, he reveals that Worldwide Studios first began working on the device back in 2008: Since the beginning of 2008, WWS have been officially involved in the...
News Grand Theft Auto IV Shifts An Extraordinary 20 Million Copies
Don't ever forget: Grand Theft Auto is big, big business
Despite it's brand-name dominance dipping slightly to the prominence of the Call Of Duty franchise, Take-Two has revealed that Grand Theft Auto IV has still managed to sell a whopping 20 million copies to date. That really is an extraordinary tally since the game's April 2008 release. In fact,...
News Sony Wins Court Injunction Against LG, Held PS3 Stock Released
The little patent disagreement between Sony and LG has been lifted, freeing some 300,000 PlayStation 3s that had previously been seized in Holland
You may remember LG was granted a preliminary injunction against Sony over an infringement on Blu-ray technology, but reports coming out of InsideGamer state that has now been lifted. Latest reports...
Rumour NGP to Hit Europe by November
Cross your fingers
According to sources leaked to online game site MCV, Sony is pushing for a European NGP release by November 2011, following an earlier promise by Sony boss Kazuo Hirai that the NGP would hit shelves somewhere in the world by the year's end. MCV says that third-party licensees claim that Sony has set “development deadlines” for...
News Wish You Were Here: SEGA Sends Their Greetings From Yakuza 4's Kamurocho
We don't know that we'd like to go on holiday in Kamurocho
Place looks like a bit seedy for our liking. It's the kind of seedy that we're going to lap up as we play through Yakuza 4 [it's out next week, squeee - Ed]. But in real-life... Yeah. Not our cup of tea.</em>
Rumour Sony's Releasing The NGP A Lot Sooner Than You Might Think
A stonking rumour on trade-magazine MCV's website this morning suggests that Sony are lining up a November 11th European release date for their next hand-held, the NGP
The report clashes with statements made by SCEA boss Jack Tretton earlier in the year, who stated that a worldwide launch was very unlikely. But the site reports that deadlines on...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: Firmware 3.60 Brings Online Storage, Enhanced PS3 Security
Hot-on-the-heels of yesterday's Online Storage announcement, Sony has released the latest PS3 firmware update
You'll be prompted to update to the latest firmware when you turn your system on, just scroll to the "System Update" tab on the PS3's menu. The new firmware brings with it the Online Storage feature detailed yesterday. Online...
News Hell Yes: Ape Escape Is Coming To The PlayStation 3
We tested out the PlayStation Move controlled Ape Escape game the moment its demo became available on the Japanese PlayStation Store, and we ended up liking a lot of what we saw
The game mixes traditional ape collecting with on-rails shooting, and wraps it up in a package that's befitting of the phrase "only in Japan". It's bonkers. And...
At some point, Square Enix decided it would be funny to troll games bloggers
As if Dissidia 012 FINAL FANTASY wasn't heinous enough, the publisher's just announced a kind of premium demo for the game entitled Dissidia duodecim prologus FINAL FANTASY. The taster comes with a unique scenario featuring Lightning, as well as the ability to carry any...
News Kaz Hirai Takes One Step Closer To The Ultimate Job At Sony
PlayStation's boss, Kazuo Hirai, has been promoted to executive deputy president at Sony, and is reportedly inches away from taking the top role at the company
A report on Reuters notes that the current head of Sony's network products and services division (which includes the PlayStation business) will take up his new position on April 1st. The new...
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Wednesday9th Mar 2011
Review TNT Racers (PlayStation 3)
The very definition of pre-pub entertainment: TNT Racers is a fun, throw-back multiplayer party game with a vibrant art-style and some quirky power-ups
It's really hard to say "top-down racers" without referencing Micro-Machines, but Keen Games and DTP Entertainment's downloadable racer, TNT Racers, shares more in common with Mario Kart...
News Peter Dille Leaves Sony Computer Entertainment America
Long-term SCEA marketing big-wig, Peter Dille, has took a sharp stage-right exit from the company
Dille worked with SCEA from 1991 to 1999, and returned in 2006 after a brief spell in charge at THQ. Dille's most recent role within SCEA saw him control marketing and the PlayStation Network. The reason behind Dille's exit is unknown, but the exec...
News Kaos Responds To Complaints About Homefront's Campaign Length, We Rant
Let's get this out of the way: THQ's upcoming FPS, Homefront, is about the same length as every other first-person shooter you've played over the last three years
Its campaign is about five hours long. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be. As is always the case when a shooter's campaign length is brought into question, there's a furore erupting...
News Sony Shuts Down A "Small Number Of Projects" At Its UK Studios
A report on GamesIndustry
biz</a> has revealed that Sony has opted to close a "small number of projects" at its UK studios. The shift in resources is set to take place at Evolution Studios, Studio Liverpool and Studio London. Media Molecule are reportedly unaffected, while Studio Cambridge were not mentioned. It has been decided...
Rumour Team ICO Collection Pushed Into The Holidays
If you were expecting to play Fumito Ueda's avant-garde PS2 releases remastered in glorious HD (and 3D) this Spring, well, we suggest you stop
A representative for K-Mart and Sears has said on the Cheap Ass Gamer forums that the Team ICO Collection has been pushed into the holidays. Looks like this Holiday, actually, from my last meeting with...
News Sorry UK, We Dare Is Too Risqu? For You Too
We haven't really said much about We Dare here on PushSquare
To be honest, we're not particularly offended by it, we just think it looks stupid. If you've not seen the trailer for Ubisoft's PlayStation Move and Nintendo Wii swing-'em-up, click through here. Be warned though, the video is not safe for work. We Dare was due for release in the UK this...
News PlayStation Plus Subscribers Net Online Cloud-Save Storage Service Tomorrow
Remember all that PlayStation Network maintenance? It was totally justified, as Sony's just announced Online Storage, a cloud-based save service for PlayStation Plus subscribers
The service will allow players to store game saves online, with a maximum capacity of up to 1,000 saves or 150mb. The service will be accessible via a new icon on the XMB...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 8th March 2011
Updates Castle Crashers Sale (PS3) (now $10
49, original price $14.99) Dead Nation Sale (PS3) (now 10.49, original price $14.99) Age of Zombies Sale (PS3/PSP) (now $2.50, original price $4.99) Ricochet Sale (PS3) (now $4.99, original price $7.99) Kung-Fu Live (PSN Exclusive) Sale (PS3) (now $9.99, original price $14.99) Shift...
News Epic Games: NGP Is A "Ridiculously Compelling Experience"
While the tech media continue to ensure the word-of-mouth surrounding Apple's latest device is nothing but rosy, actual game developers have been sharing their enthusiasm for Sony's new handheld the NGP
While the Internet continues to ignore the fact that there actually is a market for traditional handheld games (no matter how big or small!), Epic...
Sony has announced some scheduled maintenance for the PlayStation Network this evening
According to the PlayStation Blog, the service will be down from 16:05 PM GMT this evening through to 03:00 AM GMT tomorrow. You'll be unable to access the PlayStation Store nor manage your account during the downtime. If you want to play online tonight, you'll...
News Deus Ex: Human Revolution Releases August 23rd In North America, August 26th In UK
Square Enix has slapped a big juicy August 23rd / August 26th release date on Deus Ex: Human Revolution for the US and UK respectively
The announcement comes days after retailers accidentally broke the news. The game's currently available for pre-order in two different flavours. The standard edition comes with an Explosive Mission Pack, featuring a...
News White Knight Chronicles II, White Knight Chronicles PSP Head To Europe
Remember White Knight Chronicles? Sony and Level-5's RPG series took a long time to come to the West, and when it finally arrived it did so with very little fanfare
That's not stopped Sony from giving the franchise another chance though, as the platform holder's announced that both White Knight Chronicles II for PlayStation 3 and White Knight...
News ... And You Thought Mortal Kombat Was The Only Attraction On The PlayStation Store Today
Mortal Kombat's getting an exclusive demo for PlayStation Plus subscribers on the PlayStation Store today
But that's not the only attraction. Evolution's Matt Southern has taken to the PlayStation Blog to confirm that a MotorStorm: Apocalypse demo will also be going live this afternoon. You'll get to play on the Mainline track against fifteen other...
News Ok L.A. Noire... We All Know You Look Amazing, You Can Stop Teasing Now!
Another year, another Rockstar game, another potential game of the year
The PR cycle is now in full-flow for L.A. Noire. Everytime a new trailer pops into our inbox we can't help but wish that May release date would come sooner. It kinda reminds us of last year, when Rockstar employed the exact same strategy for Red Dead Redemption. We all remember...
Tuesday8th Mar 2011
News Helen Mirren & Jason Statham Join The Cast Of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (Sort Of!)
Following a behind-closed-doors presentation at GDC last week, Naughty Dog's revealed the main antagonist from Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
The Helen Mirren lookalike — named Katherine Marlowe — is the head of a secret society whose roots date back over four-hundred years to the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Naughty Dog's community manager Arne...
News Tiger Woods 12 Demo Strokes PlayStation Network Today
EA chips in
You can get your hands on Tiger's wood from today, as EA releases a free Move-enabled demo for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters on PlayStation Network across North America. The free trial of the game shows off the new True View first-person perspective that will hopefully make those clutch shots easier to pull off. It'll also explain...
Out Today PlayStation Move Heroes Demo (North America)
Non-Plussed
PlayStation Plus members lost their exclusivity on the PlayStation Move Heroes demo yesterday, as it's available from today for all PlayStation Network members across North America. With the game set for release in North America on 22nd March and following in Europe not long after — though the exact date is subject to some confusion...
News Red Faction Battlegrounds Brings Intergalactic Car Combat To PlayStation Network Next Month
As car-combat afficionados, we wondered what had happened to Red Faction Armageddon's downloadable aperitif: Red Faction Battlegrounds
THQ's been notably quiet about the Mars-based online Twisted Metal-esque PSN title ever since its announcement last year. But the publisher has now broken silence, telling Eurogamer that the title will launch during...
News The PlayStation Network Gets Spring Fever Starting This Week
Admittedly, the sun's been shining a little bit more here in frosty England
It still doesn't feel like spring yet, but there are tell-tale signs everywhere you look. It's about time too, the winter feels like it's been around forever. We don't know how the winter's been across the pond, but SCEA's promising to warm you up regardless. This week marks...
Rumour Did The Cast Of The Next Grand Theft Auto Just Leak Onto The Internet?
Grand Theft Auto V could be codenamed Rush
That's according to a Hollywood casting call picked up by video game spy Superannuation . The call includes a number of character descriptions, revealing a rag-tag group of personalities befitting of any Grand Theft Auto experience. Sounds like the misfits will be dropped into a modern-day Los Angeles...
News Explain BurgerTime HD Footage, Win Burger
The first footage of the recently announced BurgerTime HD is two things: crazy and awesome
It sort of looks like DataEast's 1982 classic, but then, it sort of doesn't either. It's how we'd imagine McDonalds in the year 2567. Which is why we'll buy you one of Burger King's finest if you can convincingly explain what the heck is going on in the...
Rumour Activision's Making Dance Hero... Of Course They Are!
Guitar Hero might be dead
DJ Hero might be dead. But Kotaku's reporting that Activision's working on a new game called Dance Hero. We don't know why we didn't call it earlier — of course they are. It just makes too much sense. All the elements align. Despite the lowering demand for plastic instrument games, the dance genre seems to on the rise. To...
Monday7th Mar 2011
News Europe Scores Ace Looking Persona 3 Portable Collector's Edition
If you're still dizzy from Atlus' latest release, Catherine, and are in need of a handheld come-down, we can't think of better title than Persona 3 Portable
The hand-held re-release of Atlus' cult RPG is not due out in Europe until "mid-to-late April", but publisher Ghostlight's gone live with some details on the game's collector's edition...
News PlayStation Move Heroes Euro-Bound in March
Serious-Sly
Fans of PlayStation franchises and PlayStation Move are just weeks away from ecstasy, as PlayStation Move Heroes is set for release in Europe this month, though the exact date fluctuates from source to source. Retail giants Gamestation and Game both have the game pegged for 25th March, while Sony's official site lists it for 30th March...
News Here's the SOCOM 4 Trophies You Ordered
Apart from the secret ones
Fresh from the details of the SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs beta last week, now Zipper Interactive has unleashed details of the Trophies you'll be able to earn in the finished game. Ranging from the super-simple to the sadistic, with a stack of hidden Trophies to unlock as well. The complete list is below, so start planning...
Feature Pix'n Love Rush on PlayStation Minis Review
To put it as simply as the game itself, Pix'n Love Rush is easily one of the best PlayStation Minis available
Sometimes the best things in life also happen to be the most simple. Fish and chips on a soggy park-bench is hardly avant-garde dining, but its hard to beat. In a similar regard, Sanuk Games' quirky platformer, Pix'n Love Rush, is an...
News Lara Looks A Little Less Rough In PlayStation 3's Tomb Raider Trilogy HD Re-Release
Spot of make-up and a touch of botox and look at that, good as new
Crystal Dynamics has released some comparison shots for their upcoming PlayStation 3 Tomb Raider Trilogy. The pack — which includes PS2 titles Tomb Raider Legends & Anniversary, in addition to PS3 game Underworld — has been remastered in HD (well the PS2 games have anyway)...
News Feast Your Eyes On Five Minutes Of Resistance 3's Multiplayer
Go boom
Insomniac Games officially lifted the curtain on Resistance 3's competitive multiplayer mode last week, revealing a slimmed down, more "intimate" mode compared to the previous game's bombastic 60-player epics This first gameplay footage shows off component for the first time, highlighting the personal tone of Resistance 3's...
News Plus Members, Today's Your Last Chance for Move Heroes Demo
Comes down tomorrow
PlayStation Plus subscriber? Want to play the demo of PlayStation Move Heroes? You'd better get downloading pronto, as the free trial will disappear into the PlayStation Network wormhole tomorrow. The full game launches in North America on 22nd March so you won't have too long to wait until you can play the finished game. Be sure...
News Oscar-Mike: Zipper Reveal SOCOM 4's Catalogue Of Trophies
According to Zipper's Jeremy Dunham, one of the biggest questions on SOCOM fan's lips these days is, "what kind of trophies can we earn in SOCOM 4?" Well, if you're one of those eager to know what activities are going to make your PlayStation 3 ding with the sound of success, wonder no more -- we've got SOCOM 4's full catalogue of in-game trinkets for you to peruse after the jump
Bronze Elite Ops Complete a Story Campaign mission on Elite Difficulty N00b Complete a Competitive Multiplayer game Good Game Complete a Competitive Multiplayer game of...
News Yoshida: Sony's Returned To Its Studio-Friendly Roots
Sony's Worldwide Studios gaffer, Shuhei Yoshida, has revealed in an interview that the company has returned to its "studio-friendly roots"
The PlayStation 3 is a notoriously complex system to develop for, but with NGP, Yoshida says that the platform holder has put developers first. Shuhei stated that external teams had "been essential" in...
News Sony Wants To Sell PlayStation Network Content In Retail Stores
SCEE's gaffer, Andrew House, has told trade-magazine MCV that the company is looking for a way to sell PlayStation Network titles in retail stores
American readers will already be aware of a similar program in the US, where digital content can be bought from GameStop shops, but there's currently no such initiative in Europe. Not yet, anyway. We...
News UK Sales Charts: Pokemania Swoops Over Britain (AGAIN!) As Killzone 3 Holds Strong
Not much to say from a PlayStation perspective on this week's UK multiplatform software sales charts
It's another commanding week for Nintendo's mini-monsters RPG franchise, as Pokemon Black and White occupied the chart's top two spots. EA's Fight Night Champion debuted in third, while balls-to-the-wall FPS Bulletstorm leap-frogged Sony's Killzone 3...
News David Jaffe Explains Twisted Metal's GDC Vanishing Act
We should have got a bunch more information about Eat Sleep Play's Twisted Metal reboot as part of GDC last week, but unfortunately the game was a complete no-show
In response to speculation surrounding the game's disappearance, David Jaffe has taken to his blog to explain that the showing was pulled in favour of a less-busy window. "We were...
