Review White Knight Chronicles: Origins (PlayStation Portable)
White Knight Chronicles: Origins eschews the complexities of the RPG genre, crafting a straight-forward co-operative experience that's well suited to the pick-up-and-play nature of Sony's portable platform
News Take Up Arms Again with Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012
Those animals just aren't staying dead
First Impressions Little Deviants
More than mindless mini-games
Out Today UFC Personal Trainer (North America)
Get it before it's octa-gone
News - 2011, Week 26
Sunday3rd Jul 2011
News Activision Gaffer Positive But Unsure About PlayStation Vita
Activision gaffer, Bobby Kotick, has said that his company is "super excited" about the PlayStation Vita, but remains unsure about the device's target audience
Because we're all supposed to be playing Angry Birds these days, remember. That's right, Kotick brought up the old "bu-bu-but smart-phones" as a cautionary statement about Vita,...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: Let's Recap
We counted down our most anticipated PlayStation games of the holiday season this week, touching on what we think are the five most intriguing titles of this year's end
Some of the games were included out of curiosity — Battlefield 3 and Sonic Generations might not be the best games of the year, but they are titles that we can't wait to play...
Saturday2nd Jul 2011
News Watch the PSVita Do Face Recognition and Giant Dinosaurs
Quite the capable camera
One of the PSVita's most alluring new features is it dual cameras, capable of creating some pretty impressive augmented reality. We've already seen how games like Reality Fighters can project street brawls into backyards, tabletops and looming cityscapes, and a video posted by Sony a while back gave us a brief glimpse of an...
News PlayStation Move Compatible Cricket Title In Development For PS3
SCE India has confirmed that the developers of the PS2's Street Cricket Champions, Trine Studios, are currently hard at work on a PlayStation Move enabled cricket title for PS3
The currently unnamed title is being developed with an Indian audience in mind, and is currently unlikely to release outside of the country. The game's due out in October.
News Kaz Hirai Promoted To Chairman Of SCEI, Andrew House Becomes CEO
What a difference a week makes -- or something
We've only been away six days or so, but the entire hierarchy of SCE has changed. Sort of, anyway. Kaz Hirai has been promoted to Chairman of SCEI, active as of September 1st. Presumably that means he will sit at the head of a big table wearing an expensive suit like in the Yakuza games. More surprising...
News Invizimals, Reality Fighters Developer Sticking With Sony For The Foreseeable Future
If you're a fan of augmented reality products, then you'll be delighted to learn that the developer of the Invizimals series on PSP, and Reality Fighters for PSVita, is sticking with Sony platforms for the foreseeable future
The Spanish based Novarama announced a new deal this week that will see more of the company's portfolio released exclusively...
News WayForward Officially Confirms Mighty Flip Champs! DX For PlayStation Minis
WayForward has officially announced Mighty Flip Champs
DX</a> for PlayStation Minis this week. The former DSiWare favourite will release on the PlayStation Network on July 12th. The game adapts to the PSP's single wide-screen by showcasing the "flip" based puzzle gameplay side-to-side. Check out the screenshot above for a better idea...
News XBOX 360 Favourite Limbo Comes To PlayStation 3
XBOX 360 owners have been raving about Playdead's stunningly macabre Limbo for just about a year now
This week the developer confirmed an imminent PlayStation 3 version to Joystiq, explaining that "Limbo is in production for PSN" and more details would be released shortly. Even better, the main Playdead team is handling the ports itself,...
News Media Molecule Taking A Break From LittleBigPlanet To Generate 'New Ideas'
This is a sweet story with a bitter after taste
British based developer Media Molecule has announced that it is considering taking a break from the LittleBigPlanet series in order to "focus on some new ideas". While this sounds like immediately wonderful news, it would be sad to see Sackboy sit quietly in the sidelines for a few years...
News Sony Continues To Apologise About The PSN Outage, Offers Tons Of PlayStation Home Stuff
What PlayStation Network outage? Seriously, perhaps it's just our blase reaction to the whole scenario, but do people still feel wronged by Sony's alleged inability to protect its data centre? Either way, SCEE is continuing its welcome back process by bunging you an approximated £65 worth of PlayStation Home gubbins
All the stuff is available from...
News Team ICO Moves Into Sony's Main Offices In Japan
Everyone's favourite arthouse development suite, Team ICO, has made a bold move into the head offices of SCE this week -- presumably so top figures like Kaz Hirai can ensure creative lead Fumito Ueda actually finishes the studio's latest title, The Last Guardian
Fumito described the move as a "major reformation of our development...
News Resident Evil 4, Code Veronica Look Pretty Purrdy In High-Definition
Capcom's released a comparison video of both upcoming Resident Evil high definition remakes
Both Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica are due out on September 8th in Japan. We're totally there day-one for Resident Evil 4.
News Huge Batman: Arkham City Reveal
Warner's bided its time with Batman: Arkham City's big gameplay blow-out
Embargoes, NDAs and general silence have shrouded the game's build-up. Now the publisher's decided to blow the doors off with a massive 12-minute gameplay trailer. No nonsense, just footage. The biggest problem with this reveal is that the game's not out until the end of the...
News Sony Demonstrates PlayStation Vita's 'Face Control' Technology
PlayStation Vita's 'Face Control' technology was demonstrated in Tokyo this week
It uses the Vita's front-facing cameras to super-impose animated character model overlays on top of the users. The technology is reasonably impressive, apart from when it's trying to detect blinking. That ends up looking a bit scary.
Friday1st Jul 2011
News Get a Taste of MotionSports: Adrenaline in October
Start gearing up
Ubisoft's first attempt at a Move-controlled sports game, MotionSports: Adrenaline, has just been confirmed for release around the world this October. The game will hit Europe on 7th October and follow up with a North American release on 25th October. Featuring sports including kayaking, jungle parkour, "extreme...
News Get Grease on Your PlayStation Move This November
Shake and shimmy with Sandy
The inexplicably popular musical Grease is coming to PlayStation Move later this year, with UK publisher 505 Games planning to unleash it on the Christmas crowds on 4th November. Last year the game released on Nintendo Wii to less than glowing reviews, but earlier this year 505 promised an improved Grease for Sony's...
Out Today Air Conflicts: Secret Wars (UK)
Shoot for the skies
Today Move finally becomes a flight stick as Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is released across the UK, with a European release to follow in two weeks. The World War I and II aerial combat game takes to the skies with 3DTV support and the ability to use Move to pilot 16 aircraft through nearly 50 missions. We've taken possession of a...
What other game could top our most anticipated list?
Naughty Dog's adventure opus, Uncharted, has gradually become one of the biggest franchises in video games The original launched to muted praise, but got a second wind of enthusiasm when it was one of the first retail titles to boast trophy support. For many, that patch introduced them to the...
Thursday30th Jun 2011
News SOCOM Fan Petitions Zipper for Better Sharp Shooter Controls
You can help too
SOCOM: Special Forces (or SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs to some) is designed to work with PlayStation Move and the Sharp Shooter, but there's still some room for improvement in the game's controls. Movemodo user Michel Filipe has begun petitioning Zipper Interactive to make some improvements, and he needs your help. Over at the official...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #2 - Batman: Arkham City
Rocksteady came out of nowhere
Batman: Arkham Asylum looked promising pre-release, but no-one really expected it to be quite the critical and commercial smash-hit that it was. We vividly remember spending a few moments with the demo before our review copy showed up the following weekend, and recall being blown away by the game's moody tone. But...
Wednesday29th Jun 2011
News Take Up Arms Again with Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012
Those animals just aren't staying dead
Having conquered the wild beasts in Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011, budding hunters will get the chance to shoot some more animals in Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2012, out this September. Using PlayStation Move or the Top Shot Elite gun that came packaged with the previous release, players can engage in new...
News New Move Demos and DLC Out in US PlayStation Store
Here's what's on offer
Waiting for a demo before you try out Gameloft's chart-topping Dungeon Hunter: Alliance? Now that painful waiting can stop, as the North American PlayStation Store has been updated with a demo and more Move-enabled content. Here's a brief overview of what's out there now. Dungeon Hunter: Alliance Demo: Dungeon Hunter: Alliance...
News What Do Resistance and The Beatles Have In Common?
They both started in England
An epic game needs an epic soundtrack, and Insomniac believes the score for Resistance 3 fits the bill. Composed by long-time Insomniac collaborator Boris Salchow, who previously worked on Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time and Resistance 2, the score was recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios, most famous for hosting...
Feature What's The Sodium 2 Space In PlayStation Home About?
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that Sony's tweaked the splash-image for PlayStation Home
Previously touted as a virtual world for PlayStation 3 owners, Sony now refers to the service as a "social gaming network". It's a transformation we've witnessed take place over the past several months, and it concludes with the implementation of...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #3 - Battlefield 3
Our anticipation for DICE's Battlefield 3 is a more a situation of curiosity
There's a venom in the gaming community that's wishing Call Of Duty would fail. The philosophy behind that sentiment is clear: Call Of Duty is a mainstream hit and people really dislike that. Battlefield is a popular alternative — an underdog if you will. Everything we've...
Tuesday28th Jun 2011
First Impressions Little Deviants
More than mindless mini-games
Once I arrived in Los Angeles for E3 2011, one thing I knew for certain - I had to get my hands on Sony's upcoming PSVita system while I had the chance. And while the games I had on my list of must-see titles mostly involved games like Hot Shots Golf and LittleBigPlanet, it was actually a title I hadn't given a lot of...
Out Today UFC Personal Trainer (North America)
Get it before it's octa-gone
The fitness games on Move so far haven't tried to build you into a fight-ready machine, but that sizeable gap in the market is closed today with the release of UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System in North America. The Move-enabled game has been developed with support from the National Academy of Sports...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #4 - Sonic Generations
Sonic's been stuck in a loop for years
We often feel like the franchise's heritage is a detriment to the series going forward. Those original SEGA Mega Drive titles were so important that it almost feels like nothing the publisher can do will please its fanbase anymore. But there is always the nostalgia card. Celebrating Sonic's 20th anniversary,...
Monday27th Jun 2011
Review White Knight Chronicles: Origins (PlayStation Portable)
White Knight Chronicles: Origins eschews the complexities of the RPG genre, crafting a straight-forward co-operative experience that's well suited to the pick-up-and-play nature of Sony's portable platform
Despite taking a critical beating worldwide, White Knight Chronicles has been a successful endeavour for Sony in Japan. With two iterations...
News Tintin is Coming to PlayStation Move
Start preparing your quiff
Here's something that may have passed you by at E3: Ubisoft's Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn game will arrive this year with PlayStation Move support. From the sounds of the official announcement, the Move controls will be implemented into the main adventure rather than coming as extra minigames, so you...
News Tear Deeper Into Columbia in BioShock Infinite
Tearing the worlds apart
Maybe it was the way that Rapture gripped us from beginning to end in the original BioShock, or maybe it was the way the game created such a surreal alternate lifestyle in the underwater city that it almost seemed like it could actually be lying in wait somewhere in the ocean depths. Today we grasp at every morsel of...
Review Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (PlayStation 3)
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is a surprisingly solid movie tie-in
The gameplay is knowingly straight-forward, but an abundance of decent set-piece encounters and a robust online multiplayer component make this spin-off an enjoyable, if entirely mindless affair. High Moon was onto something when it released War For Cybertron on PlayStation 3. The...
News New Dev Team Handling LittleBigPlanet Vita
With a little help from their friends
LittleBigPlanet on PSVita is going to be quite a bit different from it's previous iterations, thanks mostly to the system's touch and motion controls. The Vita's gyroscope, touch screen and rear touch-panel will allow us to interact with Sackboy and his world in all new ways, and open up a slew of fresh...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #5 - Team ICO Collection
Look: we get it
You've spent the past few years learning about how pivotal the Team ICO titles are, but you've never actually experienced them for yourself. You've looked on eBay, but the original PS2 titles fetch a packet. You've all but given up. Thankfully HD remasters do serve a purpose after all. With Sony readying a bundle of both ICO and...
