News Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Teased In Official PlayStation Magazine
The biggest game in the world returns soon
News Let's Dance with Mel B's Track List is Camp as They Come
Gloria Gaynor? Check
News Disney Interactive Attempted Sale Of Black Rock, No Buyer Found
Eurogamer is reporting that Disney Interactive tried to sell off a portion of Brighton-based studio Black Rock late last year, but couldn't find a buyer
News EA Invites You to Family Game Night 4 This Year
Four in a row, EA wins
News - 2011, Week 18
Sunday8th May 2011
News Wait A Minute, There Might Be Another Heavenly Sword Game On The Way?
Consider us completely caught off guard with this one
UK gaming magazine, PlayGamer, is hinting that Sony will announce a sequel to Heavenly Sword at this year's E3. It's unlikely that original developers Ninja Theory will be at the helm, as they are currently busy working on a Devil May Cry reboot for Capcom. Our top bet for taking on the franchise...
News No, Sony Was Not Running The PlayStation Network On Out-Of-Date Servers Without Firewalls
Last week it was common knowledge that Sony stored passwords in plain-text
That rumour was, of course, debunked publicly by Sony, when the platform holder was forced to come out and clarify that it in fact hashed its passwords — as is a common practice across many web environments. Prior to that, it was rumoured that Sony did not encrypt credit...
Japanese Charts PlayStation Portable Pretty Much Obliterates Everything Else
"But my friend told me the PSP was dead," said the crowds of readers
Boo to you, the PSP is on friggin' fire. Well, in Japan at least. Last week (ending May 1st), Sony's portable shifted a whopping 76,974 units. That's an impressive number alone, but when you take into consideration that the Nintendo 3DS only managed to shift 28,413 units over the...
Saturday7th May 2011
News Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Teased In Official PlayStation Magazine
The biggest game in the world returns soon
At least that's the message in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine. In a teaser for its July issue, the magazine depicts a large "3", hinting at none other than Modern Warfare 3. We all knew it was coming, right? Voice actor Craig Fairbrass had previously hinted that a Modern Warfare...
News PlayStation Network Restoration Ongoing, No End in Sight
Won't be this weekend
If you were hoping to get back online this weekend and catch up with your PlayStation Network friends, the bad news is that Sony won't have the service ready, it has confirmed. An update on the PlayStation Blog explained the initial announcement that the service would be restored by now was made before Sony had a good handle on...
News PlayStation Suite Could Be the Ace Up NGP's Sleeve
A world of PlayStation within easy reach
The word "PlayStation" is recognised by countless millions of gamers around the world: for many, it was their first taste of gaming, but time have changed and those players may have moved onto new devices. Sony knows this, so is launching the PlayStation Suite, a new initiative that opens up...
News Patience Is A Virtue: So, Errr, The PlayStation Network Ain't Coming Back Online This Weekend
Despite the optimism of Sony's previous PlayStation Network status update -- when Sony said it was in the "final stages of testing" the service -- it sounds like we won't be playing online anytime soon
Sony's communications director Patrick Seybold has posted an update on the PlayStation Blog stating that the platform holder is still "working...
News Rayman Origins Is Now A Full Retail Release, Due Out In The Fall
Rayman Origins made a huge splash when it was debuted as a PlayStation Network title at last year's E3, but since the game's promising announcement, Ubisoft has kept the Michael Ancel-developed platformer shrouded in mystery
Until today that is. According to GameInformer magazine [ via NeoGAF ], Origins is no longer a downloadable title and instead...
News Starhawk Reveal (Probably) Incoming Next Week
Dylan Jobe's next project -- hotly rumoured to be Starhawk -- is set to get an announcement on next Friday's GTTV
The site's schedule currently lists a "Sony surprise", but being the eagle-eyed investigative minds that we are, we already have a pretty big idea what that surprise might contain. Much of the American press was shipped down to...
Friday6th May 2011
News Disney Interactive Attempted Sale Of Black Rock, No Buyer Found
Eurogamer is reporting that Disney Interactive tried to sell off a portion of Brighton-based studio Black Rock late last year, but couldn't find a buyer
The news follows massive redundancies at the Split/Second developer. "When the new management came in, they tried to sell half the studio and keep half, and they apparently had one buyer...
News Wanted Corp Brings Top-Down Shooting to PlayStation Move
Annie, get your gun
Remember the days when top-down shooters ruled the arcade? Smash TV and its ilk have seemingly been left behind in the rush for first-person domination, but Zoo Games is bringing the genre back with the PlayStation Move-enabled Wanted Corp, due out later this year. The game follows two bounty hunters, Neal H. MadDogg and Irina...
News THQ Announces Free Character Creation Tool, Saints Row: Initiation Station
If, like us, you have a minor obsession with character creation features in games, then you'll probably want to know about THQ's Saints Row: Initiation Station
The free tool will allow you to create characters for the upcoming Saints Row: The Third before the game's big release. THQ says you'll be able to make characters "inspired by your...
News Sony Offers US Members a Year of Identity Protection
Too little too late?
PlayStation Network is on the brink of a third week of downtime, and Sony America CEO Howard Stringer has stepped up to the plate to introduce a new initiative for US account-holders: a free year of identity protection. Stringer made the announcement via an open letter on the official PlayStation Blog: A program for U.S...
News Burnout Crash Depicts 'Cartoon Vehicles' From A 'Top-Down Perspective'
Remember Burnout Crash, the rumoured PlayStation Network spin-off of the popular destructive racing franchise? Well, now we've got some concrete details on the unannounced game
According to the ESRB ratings board, this is a top-down racing game featuring "cartoon" vehicles and plenty of crashing. Apparently players will earn points for...
News Are Mass Effect and Battlefield Coming to NGP?
Rumour mill starts churning
EA recently forecasted its scheduled 2012 releases, and under the listings for Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3 the company revealed that handheld versions of the games are planned. EA did not reveal which platform the games would be released on, but seeing as the NGP can already port existing PS3 games to its hardware...
In a statement posted to the European PlayStation Blog this evening, Sony communications gaffer, Nick Caplin, has outlined SCEE's plans to reward PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners for their patience during the current PSN outage
Caplin said that PSN users would be given the opportunity to select two PS3 games from a list of five, with...
News Sir Howard Stringer Writes Public Apology To PlayStation Network Users
Sony's top gaffer, Sir Howard Stringer, has written a letter of apology to PlayStation Network users for the recent PSN data breach and downtime
In an open apology, Stringer said he was aware this "has been a frustrating time" for PSN users and that he was sorry "for the inconvenience and concern caused by this attack". Stringer...
News Catherine Screens Aren't Always The Most Exciting, Are They?
While we continue to be of the opinion that Catherine looks properly amazing, we're just not convinced screenshots do it the greatest of justice
Looking at two similarly awkward looking characters talking about marriage doesn't exactly instill us with enthusiasm. But hey, at least there's cigarettes and mustard in this screenshot.</em>
News There Are Like A Quadrillion Ways To Customise Your Character In Brink
Brink launches on PlayStation 3 next week, and Bethesda's been kind enough to send us some stats regarding the game
Aside from the dead boring stuff like there being 60 minutes of music and 26,000 lines of dialogue, Bethesda has also decided to let us know that there are a total of 102,247,681,536,000,000 unique character possibilities. We thought...
News Announcements Of Announcements: IO Interactive Warns Of Incoming Shrapnel Next Week
When we started this website, we made an internal pledge to cut out the metaphors that's so prevalent in games media
Sometimes we fail. We're failing right now actually, while we discuss aims and objectives that have nothing to do with this stor--... Ok. IO Interactive has Tweeted that "next week will be very good" and that we should...
Sony has announced overnight that it is partnering with Debix to provide all US PlayStation Network users with 12 months identity theft protection for free
Sony has confirmed a similar plan will take place in Europe, with details to follow shortly. North Americans will receive offer emails "over the next few days" including a promotional...
News Sony: PlayStation Network Rebuild Complete, In 'Final Stages' Of Testing
Sony's updated the PlayStation Blog with an optimistic post regarding the status of the PlayStation Network
The company announced that it had finished rebuilding the PlayStation Network, and was now in the final stages of "internal testing". The company didn't include a time-frame, but assuming the tests go swimmingly, we can't imagine...
Thursday5th May 2011
News CTA Digital Prepares to Launch Eye Clip and Mount
Not as painful as it sounds
CTA Digital continues to support PlayStation Move with new accessories, not least the PlayStation Move bowling ball, but its next release is a little less prone to ridicule. The Universal Wall Mount & Clip for the Kinect Camera & PlayStation Eye is a two-in-one solution that lets owners set the PlayStation Eye...
News PlayStation Move Up for Big Technical Innovation Award
Will it beat Kinect?
Prestigious UK industry magazine Develop has announced the list of nominees for its upcoming awards ceremony, and PlayStation Move is up for the Technical Innovation category where it competes against Kinect for Xbox 360. One of Move's biggest successes so far, Killzone 3 is also up for a well deserved Visual Arts award, and...
News We've Trapped Some Funky Lab Rat DLC Details
Say 'cheese'
Last month saw the release of new Funky Lab Rat DLC, but recent difficulties with PlayStation Network have prevented anyone from downloading it. In anticipation of the store's return we've collaborated with Hydravision to bring you details on what's included in the pack. Leaf through our Funky Lab Rat review and the DLC details below to...
News Is WipEout Trinity Sony’s NGP WipEout Title?
Mysterious title unearthed
Sony is already rumored to be readying a new WipEout game for the launch of the PlayStation NGP, but the title of the game has still not been set in stone. A recently uncovered domain name registration by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe reveals that it now owns the domain WipeoutTrinity.com, and has since November of...
News Zoo Entertainment Announces Wanted Corp For PlayStation 3, Supports PlayStation Move
The world needs more shooters
At least that's what Cincinnati-based Zoo Entertainment reckon. They've just announced Wanted Corp, an isometric shooter due for release on the PlayStation Network later this year. Playing as Neal H. MadDogg and Irina Zimoy, players will use various weapons and psychic abilities to battle their way through hordes of...
News Assassin's Creed: Revelations Officially Announced For November, Concludes Ezio's Story
Let's get straight to the bit you want to know: Ezio is back
Ubisoft has officially confirmed the existence of Assassin's Creed: Revelations, due for release on PlayStation 3 this November. The game will mark the conclusion of Ezio's story, which is now being dubbed as a "trilogy" by Ubisoft like it was intended all along. (Hint: it...
News EA Pulls No Punches: Battlefield 3 'Flat Out Superior' To Call Of Duty
EA's added fuel to the flames of the developing rift between Battlefield 3 and the next Call Of Duty title
Speaking at an investors conference overnight, EA gaffer John Riccitiello said DICE's Battlefield 3 is "superior" to Call Of Duty in every way. Riccitiello added that the publisher aims to take a big chunk of Activision's Call Of Duty...
News Quizball Goal Brings Football Trivia To PlayStation Network
Quizball Goal is such a neat idea we're wondering why it hasn't happened before
The upcoming PlayStation Network quiz game combines traditional arcade footy action with good old fashioned quizzing. The premise is simple, each time you try to complete an action on the pitch — such as pass, shoot or dribble — you'll need to use your sporting brain...
News Bethesda's RAGE Is Looking Seriously Purrrrdy In New Gameplay Trailer
Bethesda's popped us over a new gameplay trailer for id's upcoming first-person shooter RAGE
We haven't been convinced by the title's combination of first-person shooting and vehicular combat in the past, but it's slowly starting to win us over. There are not enough car combat games. Our initial distaste for RAGE's vehicular combat stemmed from the...
News Disney Interactive Confirms Lay-Offs At Split/Second Developer
Disney Interactive has this morning confirmed a "reduction in staff" at its Brighton based studio, Black Rock
The news follows overnight rumours of around 40 lay-offs at the studio behind Split/Second. An anonymous tipsters later clarified that the redundancies were likely to be in the hundreds. Disney Interactive Studios confirms a reduction of...
News "Duke, Thank God Nobody Stepped On You!"
Oh Duke, you will insist on winning us over
To be honest, we've no idea why you're the size of an action figure in this latest Duke Nukem Forever trailer. But what does it matter when it looks this fun?</em>
News Rockstar Outlines Social Club Features In L.A. Noire
Rockstar's Social Club is a great extension to games with a lot of content
You'll recall Red Dead Redemption allowing you to follow your progress online via the web portal. L.A. Noire will boast the very same feature, allowing you to track every last morsel of action that it will take to reach the coveted 100% completion mark, as well as...
News Splash Damage: It's Time To Put Colour Back Into The First-Person Shooter
Splash Damage understands
After years of moody, colourless shooters, we've become nostalgic for SEGA's famous Blue Skies. The team behind Brink feel exactly the same way, paving the way to one of the most colourful first-person shooters in years. It is time to put colours back in first person shooters, Splash Damage art boss Oliver Leonardi...
News A Nice British Lady Explains Brink's Battlefield
Given that Brink is an ambitious multiplayer-centric first-person shooter with a lot of quirky features, we think it was a shrewd decision for Bethesda to employ a nice-mannered British lady to discuss the game's unique perspective of the battlefield
She can talk about our "commarrrrnd post" all she likes. Right, guys?! Right?! You can...
News PlayStation Network Still Scheduled For Partial Return This Week
Hope is dwindling around the Internet as the days pass with very little information from Sony regarding the status of the PlayStation Network
Sony had previously stated that they were aiming to get the service back online "this week" (ending Sunday, May 8th). But as another day draws to a close, we're still without any precise confirmation...
News Mass Effect 3 Delayed For 'Larger Market Opportunity'
Last night, Bioware revealed it was delaying Mass Effect 3 in order to make the "best game in the series"
But overnight, EA boss John Riccitiello said the delay was instead intended to tweak the game's gameplay in order to reach a "larger market". "Essentially, step by step, [BioWare is] adjusting some of the gameplay mechanics and...
Wednesday4th May 2011
News Let's Dance with Mel B's Track List is Camp as They Come
Gloria Gaynor? Check
Ubisoft's attempts to get every single person in the world dancing to one of its video games show no sign of abating, as it's released the track listing for Let's Dance with Mel B. Lady Gaga, Gloria Gaynor and Culture Club rub shoulders with 50 Cent, Fatboy Slim and Pussycat Dolls, with 28 songs in total included in the...
News LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean Sets Sail On May 10th
Man, it's like release date central here at PushSquare
Every single press-release we've received this afternoon has included a release date announcement of some kind. This day shall henceforth be known as "the day all major publishers dated their games". Or something. Disney's the latest to join in with the festivities, slapping a May 10th...
News Canadian Lass Wants $1 Billion Compensation For PlayStation Network Data Breach
21-year old Canadian, Natasha Maksimovic, is currently enjoying her moment in the spotlight
She has filed a $1 billion (Canadian) lawsuit against Sony for the recent PlayStation Network data breach. That's about $1.04 billion USD [assuming we can use a currency converter correctly - Ed]. The suit was announced earlier this week by a Toronto law...
News Namco Bandai Tweak UK Release Date For Gravity Defying Inversion
Namco Bandai has pushed Saber Interactive's Inversion back a few days in the UK
The game will now release on February 10th 2012, a whole two days later than previously planned. The third-person shooter is a mix between Gears Of War and physics madness. Namco appear to be throwing a lot of resources at this game. For what it's worth, we're thrilled...
News Ruh-Roh: Sony Discovers 'Anonymous' File Planted On Servers
Despite multiple statements of innocence by the unnamed hacking group, Sony has told the US House Of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce that it has found clues of Anonymous' involvement in the PlayStation Network data breach
In a written letter to congress, SCE president Kazuo Hirai revealed that the platform holder had fallen subject to a...
News Mass Effect 3 Postponed Into Early 2012, 'Biggest, Boldest And Best Game In The Series'
Mass Effect 3's executive producer Casey Hudson has revealed on Facebook that the next installment in Commander Shepard's adventure will not debut until the "first three months of 2012"
The game was previously due out in the Fall of this year. "The development team is laser focused on making sure Mass Effect 3 is the biggest, boldest and best...
News Sony Adds Third Security Team To PlayStation Network Investigation
It's on like Donkey Kong, and you can't really blame Sony for wanting to get to the bottom of the data breach that will probably end up costing the company millions of dollars
A Reuters report published this morning suggests Sony has thrown a third security team at the PlayStation Network investigation. They will join the FBI and Homeland Security...
News DC Universe Online Players: Sony Online Entertainment's Got Your Back
Are you a seething DC Universe Online fan currently considering taking out a $1 billion lawsuit against Sony? Rest easy comrade, Sony Online Entertainment's detailed a Make Good plan that's sure to allay your frustrations when DC Universe Online gets its ass back online at some point this month
All players will be compensated with a 30-day extension...
News The Darkness II Steps Out Of The Shadows On October 4th, October 7th
2K's attached a date to the return of possessed hitman, Jackie Estacado
The Darkness II will release on October 4th in North America and October 7th in Europe. To celebrate the news, 2K has released a new trailer. We've embedded it above. It's short, but worth a watch.
News uDraw Brings Artistic Action To PlayStation 3
uDraw might not sound like the most instantly compelling idea in the world, but THQ's tablet controlled art franchise has been a roaring success on the Nintendo Wii
So much of a success in fact, the publisher has decided to let PlayStation 3 users get in on the action. Announced at a financial meeting last night, THQ gaffer Brian Farrell said the...
Tuesday3rd May 2011
Review Virtua Tennis 4 (PlayStation 3)
Come out swinging
The PlayStation Move tennis grand slam final between 2K Sports' Top Spin 4 and SEGA's Virtua Tennis 4 is a match-up between two totally different play styles: whereas 2K offered a simulation fully playable with Move, SEGA has stayed true to its series' arcade roots by limiting the motion control to exhibition matches and minigames...
News EA Invites You to Family Game Night 4 This Year
Four in a row, EA wins
EA's had considerable success with its Hasbro Family Game Night series on various formats, so it makes sense the publisher is ready to embrace the motion control revolution and bring the next instalment in the series to PlayStation Move later this year. Family Game Night 4: The Game Show will bring motion control to new...
News Pick Up Battle: Los Angeles and Get a Resistance 3 Demo
Seems a fair trade
Sony shooters have gone down the beta route with previous games, but if you didn't manage to get Resistance 3 beta access with SOCOM 4 you can still try out the game's single player mode with a free demo coming soon. 1up reports that the Blu-ray version of movie Battle: Los Angeles will include a 30 minute playable demo of...
News Sony: Yo, Only 900 Of Those Stolen Credit Cards Are Still Active
Just when the dust was starting to settle after Kaz Hirai's public apology for the PSN data breach, news of actual credit card theft reverberated out of Sony Online Entertainment over night
The division admitted to finding evidence of 12,700 stolen credit cards from a circa-2007 database. Sony has tried to play-down concerns, noting in a statement...
Rumour Saints Row Drive-By Cancelled On PlayStation Network, XBOX Live Arcade
What were we saying about LinkedIn profiles being the best source for all the hot video game news these days? The resume of Scott Rogers, a creative manager for THQ, has revealed that the Saints Row franchise might not "drive-by" the PlayStation Network after all, as the downloadable spin-off Saints Row Drive-By has been cancelled
This affects the...
News Rockstar To Digitally Release Selection Of L.A. Noire Short Stories
Rockstar has confirmed that it has partnered up with Mulholland Books to release a digital collection of short stories called L
A. Nore: The Collected Stories. Some of the short stories will focus on the characters and cases from the Team Bondi developed L.A. Noire video game. Authors being touted include Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale,...
News Sucker Punch: inFamous Was Okay, Nothing More
inFamous is one of our favourite games on the PlayStation 3
It's one of those titles that came out of nowhere, but the experience stuck with us for a long time. In an interview with Spong, Sucker Punch producer Brian Fleming has countered our positive opinion, stating the game was just "okay", a trait that has factored into its cult...
News PlayStation Positivity Restored: Fresh Wipeout Leaks Make Us Giddy
The PushSquare office was a sorry state this afternoon
Long faces and a general lack of enthusiasm were common-place, instilled from weeks of no PlayStation Network. But one rumour has totally changed our beaten perspectives. Now we're dancing around to Sophie Ellis-Bextor sporting our Assegai Appreciation Society t-shirts. Why? Fresh Wipeout...
News Resistance 3 Single-Player Demo To Come Packaged With Battle: Los Angeles
The value of the Battle: Los Angeles Blu-ray has just soared
We're not interested in the movie [apparently it's awful - Ed], but we are totally hyped about the Resistance 3 single-player demo that's set to be included alongside the film. Oh marketing departments. The Blu-ray will feature the infamous "boat" level that Insomniac's been...
News Please Make It Stop: Sony Online Entertainment Confirms Theft Of 12,700 Old Credit Cards
Just when you thought it was going to be blue skies and golden sunshine going forward, Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed that it has lost roughly 12,700 credit cards to the original PlayStation Network breach that struck SCE mid-last month
SOE stresses that this was not a second attack, and is a repercussion of the original PSN attack...
News More Fallout: New Vegas DLC On The Way, Dated By Bethesda
Bethesda's got juicy with details on three new sets of Fallout: New Vegas DLC due for release starting May 17th -- assuming the PSN is back online
The publisher's kicking things off with Honest Hearts, which takes place in the Zion National Park in Utah. Sent on an exhibition to the caravan resort, you'll quickly find yourself embroiled in a war...
News UK Sales Charts: Portal 2 Maintains Top Spot, Virtua Tennis Out Of Sight
We're blaming you for the lack of good motion controlled tennis games
Sort of. Granted Virtua Tennis 4 doesn't do a particularly wonderful job with its PlayStation Move support, but if no one is buying big brand tennis games with standard controller support, who's going to plump up the development costs for a Move exclusive? Virtua Tennis 4 managed...
Monday2nd May 2011
News Ruh-Roh: Sony Online Entertainment Suspends Services [UPDATED]
Just when you thought things were getting back to normal after Sony Computer Entertainment's public apology yesterday morning, Sony Online Entertainment -- the division responsible for Free Realms and DC Universe Online -- has pulled its services offline, including its websites and Facebook titles
The company said: "We have had to take the SOE...
News Catherine 'Love Is Over' Deluxe Edition Is Absolutely The Best Thing Ever
No one can accuse Atlus of misunderstanding the audience for its zany puzzle-platformer Catherine
The marketing team in North America has decided to go bonkers with Catherine's Deluxe Edition, eschewing traditional art-books and early-access DLC. Instead, Catherine's premium package ships in a "Stray Sheep" pizza box, the very same joint...
News Sony Clarifies Password Storage Techniques, No Truth To Credit Card List
If the PlayStation Network data breach taught us anything other than to be more vigilant, it taught us the meaning of the acronym FUD
"FUD. Fear, uncertainty and doubt, usually evoked intentionally in order to put a competitor at a disadvantage." The amount of scare mongering capitalising on Sony's limited communication was rife during the...
News Sony Stock Bumped Up In Wake Of PSN Breach Public Apology
After taking a beating last week, Sony's stocks have started to bounce back in the wake of a public apology from SCE president Kazuo Hirai regarding the PlayStation Network data breach
Reuters reports that Sony stocks rose two-percent to ¥2,304 early this morning. Alongside the apology, Hirai detailed a series of compensation packages designed to...
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