Review Revoltin' Youth (PlayStation Minis)
Open Emotion may have shed its trademark hand-painted visuals for Revoltin' Youth, but the developer has still managed to concoct a refreshing style that's complimented by some great audio work and solid level design
Review Hysteria Project 2 (PlayStation Minis)
In many ways Hysteria Project 2 is a step-backwards
News Meet the Cast of Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die
ChunSoft details more characters
News - 2011, Week 36
Sunday11th Sep 2011
News Whoops: Origin Leaks Syndicate Reboot Details
We know Starbreeze has been working on a secret project -- entitled 'Redlime' -- for months now
That project has long been believed to be a reboot of Peter Molyneux's classic strategy series, Syndicate. A leak within EA's own Origin website has confirmed the rumours. Someone at EA's getting a ticking off right about now. Unlike the original title,...
News Ubisoft: No Plans For Downloadable Child Of Eden
Ubisoft executive Tony Key has said that the publisher doesn't plan on releasing its PlayStation Move enabled 'experience', Child Of Eden, as a downloadable title
Despite solid reviews, the XBOX 360 version of the game famously bombed at retail earlier in the year. A PlayStation 3 release is planned later this month, with most retailers offering the...
News House Of The Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut Trailer Breaks Down The Package
The contents of SEGA's upcoming PlayStation Move-powered House Of The Dead: Overkill - Extended Cut are "longer, deeper and harder"
But don't forget — "you're mother won't like it". Catch the new trailer for SEGA's updated PS3 rails-shooter after the jump.
Saturday10th Sep 2011
Review 4 Elements HD (PlayStation 3)
Fire, Earth, Wind, Water and Heart
The first moments you spend with 4 Elements HD may have you thinking that the game is a little on the easy side, maybe even a bit simplistic. After you learn the basics of the tutorial and plow through some intro levels, you may even start to believe that you are really good at the game. Both of these assumptions...
News Resistance 3's First DLC Entitled 'Survival Pack', Extends Multiplayer
Resistance 3's barely had time to cool on store shelves, but already Insomniac Games has announced the title's first shot of DLC
Entitled the 'Survival Pack' — and due out on October 4th — the DLC adds the 'Invasion Mode' to Resistance 3's multiplayer for just $3.99. 'Invasion Mode' is a team-based resource management iteration of Resistance 3's...
News inFamous 2 UGC Update Adds More Options
Still playing around with inFamous 2's User Generated Content feature? A new update enables access to the game's biggest mini-bosses, the Titan and Devourer -- allowing you to craft your own mini-missions with the hulking enemies in tandem
Other additions include the ability to link your home-crafted stages together to create mini-campaigns, and a...
News Fresh Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD Screenshots Dropped Onto Facebook
Just Add Water's uploaded some brand new screenshots of its upcoming PlayStation 3 port of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
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News Observe Final Fantasy Type-0's Gorgeous Japanese Collector's Edition
Final Fantasy Type-0 will finally get its Japanese release on October 27th, and in order to celebrate Square Enix has revealed the game's breath-taking collector's edition
The pack includes a rather unexciting book of post-cards and three-disc soundtrack, but it looks absolutely lovely regardless. The set will run fans ¥12,760 exclusively from the...
News We Will Buy This Sonic Generations Collector's Edition (Partially Because We Are Nuts)
SEGA knows that Europe loves Sonic The Hedgehog best
(After all, Mega Drive was king here.) As such it's announced an exclusive Collector's Edition for the upcoming (and brilliant looking) Sonic Generations, exclusive to Europe. The package includes a bunch of stuff that's totally useless, but oh-so desirable, including: a statue of classic and...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 Updated To Version 1.06, Prepares For PlayStation Move
The majority of LittleBigPlanet 2's new PlayStation Move features will not launch until next week -- but Media Molecule's gone live with a new patch (v1
06) that at least prepares for the platformer's new motion controlled features. The patch includes the integration of a variety of new sensors designed for motion control support. Don't get too...
News The Original Crysis Tackles PlayStation Network Next Month
The PlayStation 3 may already play host to Crysis 2, but EA and Crytek has announced this week that that the original Crysis game will retroactively accompany it
The game is said to be 'remastered' on PS3, with new lighting effects and Nanosuit abilities. At the time of writing, no price has been announced.
News Sony Announces Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted 3 Themed DualShocks For Japan
Excited about the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception? Japanese gamers will be able to wear their anticipation with a couple of brand new, uniquely styled DualShock 3 controllers due for release in the East from early November
The Metal Gear Solid controller will see release in North America minus the Kojima...
News Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD To Boast PSN-Powered Co-Op
Being a Japanese focused PlayStation Portable game, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker's co-operative mode was all about social multiplayer
But the game's conversion to PlayStation 3 — via the upcoming Metal Gear Solid HD Collection — will side-step the need to get up close and personal, re-routing the game's co-operative multiplayer through the...
News Dead Island's First DLC Pack, Bloodbath Arena, To Debut Later This Month
Dead Island's first slice of DLC will debut later this month, developer Techland has announced
The Bloodbath Arena DLC pack will introduce four new maps with never-ending waves of zombies to battle. The DLC was first announced as a pre-order bonus, but will retail for $10 for everyone else. All XP and cash earned from the DLC will carry over to the...
News Max Payne 3 Launches March 2012, Introduces Multiplayer
Rockstar's lifted the lid on Max Payne 3
The anticipated sequel will launch in March 2012 on PlayStation 3. The third-person shooter sends Max to São Paulo, Brazil, tasked with protecting his family. While Max Payne 3's single-player campaign sounds like it's set to be a solitary affair, it'll be accompanied by a multiplayer component, pitched as...
News Sony Targeting Teens With New Euro-Exclusive PSP
While much of the Internet sat bemused at the announcement of a new PSP for Europe during this year's GamesCom, we were fairly calm about it
While the announcement of the device certainly took us by surprise, we also felt like it made a lot of sense. Sony's PSP strategy has shifted in recent years, with the platform holder targeting younger users...
News Sony Steps Up Security, Hires Former US Homeland Security Official
During the frenzy of this year's PlayStation Network outage, Sony said it was looking to hire a 'Chief Information Security Officer' in order to further bolster the protection of its user's information
That post has now been fulfilled by former US Homeland Security official Philip Reitinger. In addition to the 'Chief Information Security Officer'...
News Famitsu Unloads Bevy Of PlayStation Vita Content
Famitsu's dropped the bomb on another pool of PlayStation Vita content earlier this week
New games include Luminous Electric Symphony (presumably the Vita's previously announced Lumines title) and a few unannounced games. The unannounced titles include GameArts' hunting action game Ragnarok Odyssey and D3's Dream Club Zero — the latter being a...
News Sony Santa Monica Teaming Up With Plastic For Mystery PlayStation Move Title
Sony Santa Monica -- the guys behind the mainline God Of War titles -- are teaming up with Polish demoscene studio Plastic for a brand new PlayStation Move title
A teaser trailer has been released on YouTube (after the jump) showing a floating hand interacting with statues and trees in a forest. Plastic previously worked on the bonkers Linger In...
News August NPD: US Sales Dip Again, While Deus Ex Tops Charts
The North American video game industry has shrunk by 23 percent year-over-year during the month of August, according to data released by the NPD group
Analyst Anita Frazier explained, "the bulk of the decline can be attributed to the shift of the annual Madden release from August to September". Gaming hardware actually saw an increase...
News Housemarque Announces DLC For Dead Nation
Riding high on the exposure from Sony's recent outage apology giveaway, Housemarque has announced a fresh batch of DLC is coming to its twin-stick zombie blaster Dead Nation
Entitled the 'Road Of Devestation', the DLC sends players to a ruined laboratory. The pack's set to include new levels, weapons and enemies. Naturally it will support full...
News DJ Max Technika Jumps Onto PlayStation Vita
The DJ Max series has always had an appearance on the PSP, so its unsurprising to see the franchise jump onto the PlayStation Vita
A spin-off entitled DJ Max Technika was announced in a press release by Sony Computer Entertainment Korea this week. The game will make use of the PlayStation Vita's front and rear touch panels.
News White PlayStation 3 Comes To Europe & Australia In November
We've never understood why Sony doesn't release more iterations of its hardware around the globe
Japan has hosted a variety of different themed PS3 and PSP SKUs, but Europe and North America is still stuck in the stone-ages comparatively. Thankfully SCEE has decided to bring the white PlayStation 3 hardware to Europe and Australia, according to a...
News Ubisoft Announces New Driver: San Francisco Content
Done with Driver: San Francisco's enormous single-player and multiplayer campaigns? No problem
From September 15th Ubisoft's launching a content update that will bring 15 brand-new routes to the excellent racing game's roster. Then, for the following ten weeks Ubisoft will launch an additional ten routes, releasing one per week. But that's not all...
News Cubixx HD Slices Up North America On September 20th
Laughing Jackal has announced that its stellar full-PSN debut, Cubixx HD, will launch in North America on September 20th
If you haven't already read our review of Laughing Jackal's finest, click here.
Friday9th Sep 2011
Review Hysteria Project 2 (PlayStation Minis)
In many ways Hysteria Project 2 is a step-backwards
In trying to flesh out the ideas established in its predecessor, BulkyPix has crafted a game with more ambition and less polish, resulting in a frustrating mess of trial-and-error puzzles. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. It's an idiom we couldn't stop thinking during our...
Review Dead Island (PlayStation 3)
Holiday of the dead
Developer Techland is beginning to make a name for itself as a progressive, forward-thinking studio with some lofty ideas but not enough resources to realise them. Dead Island does not buck the developer's burgeoning trend. Part Borderlands, part Fallout, part Diablo, Dead Island is an inventive first person survival horror with...
There was a point in the Nintendo Wii's lifespan where the console was dominating the sales charts but disappointing hardcore gamers
Long-time Nintendo fans were tired of Wii Fit and Wii Play, they wanted something meatier to get their teeth into. But with developers ploughing the majority of their resources into the more traditional XBOX 360 and...
News Sumioni Trailer Draws In Some Demons
Acquire bringing ink action to Vita
There's a new game coming to PlayStation Vita from Acquire, and its about a mythical creature that uses magical brushes to summon spells and manipulate the surrounding environment. And no, it's not a port of Okami. Sumioni is a 2D action game starring a red demon granted with special ink powers that allow him to...
Thursday8th Sep 2011
News Everybody's Golf Move Patch In the Works for Europe
No date yet
It's been a while since Minna No Golf 5 — aka Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds*, aka Everybody's Golf: World Tour — got its PlayStation Move patch in Japan, with no word on if or when the controller would get support outside of Japan. Now we can reveal Sony Computer Entertainment Europe will add PlayStation Move support to the game in...
One of the few downsides of writing about PlayStation games day-in-day-out is that we rarely get time to experience the content on other platforms
While we keep up to date with the release schedule and details of competitive platforms, we never really get the time to play them any more. When your work includes knowing everything there is to know...
First Impressions Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One on PlayStation 3
Here's what we think.
Topping the brilliant Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time was always going to be a challenge for Insomniac Games. The developer's previous entry in its highly acclaimed platforming franchise neared perfection in terms of level variety, design, and combat. Short of sprucing up the graphics and adding more of the same, it's...
Wednesday7th Sep 2011
News First Resistance 3 Paid and Free DLC Announced
Due next month
Resistance 3 is finally at-hand, but developer Insomniac Games is already preparing follow-up content to extend your Resistance experience. On 4th October we'll see the Survival Pack launch for $3.99, introducing a new game type called Invasion, where you must hold nodes to earn points. You'll also get an XMB theme and four new skins,...
News Fresh Shots of Vita's Multimedia Interface Surface
How you'll organise your life
Japanese site Andriasang has posted some brand new shots of the PS Vita's multimedia interface, showing the web browser, photos, music player and more. The menu system has the same slick look as the rest of the PlayStation family, with the important addition of surprisingly unobtrusive buttons on the touch screen to...
Review Arkedo Series - 001 JUMP! (PlayStation 3)
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best
The Arkedo Series — originally developed for Microsoft's Indie Games channel by Arkedo Games, and ported to the PS3 by Sanuk Games — epitomises that straight-forward premise. The first in a series of back-to-basics gameplay ideas, Jump is an old-school puzzle platformer with a pleasingly retro visual...
Featuring one of the most influential survival horror games of all time, it's hard not to include the Silent Hill HD Collection on our list of most anticipated overlooked Holiday games
There are a number of high-definition remakes coming to the PlayStation 3 this year; most of them from big-name franchises. But despite the popularity (and quality)...
Tuesday6th Sep 2011
Review Revoltin' Youth (PlayStation Minis)
Open Emotion may have shed its trademark hand-painted visuals for Revoltin' Youth, but the developer has still managed to concoct a refreshing style that's complimented by some great audio work and solid level design
The game can feel tedious in places, but its still another solid entry in the Irish studio's growing catalogue of quality PlayStation...
News Meet the Cast of Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die
ChunSoft details more characters
The team that brought us 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors on Nintendo DS has let a few more images escape for their latest adventure game, Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die, giving us a glimpse of the game's entire cast, the odd numerical bracelets they wear, and some new info on two of the game's...
News LittleBigPlanet 2's Move Pack Finally Arrives Next Week
The Cakeling rises
It's been a long old wait, but LittleBigPlanet 2 will receive its PlayStation Move support next week. Titled LittleBigPlanet 2: Move Pack: Rise of the Cakeling, the add-on arrives with a laundry list of new content, including: A brand new story for LittleBigPlanet 2 – The Rise of the Cakeling with 14 new levels (5 levels, 7...
News Sony, With These Move Lifestyle Photos You Are Spoiling Us
Everybody smile!
In the past year we've had a lot of fun with PlayStation Move and you probably have too, but we bet you've never enjoyed yourself as much as the people in these new lifestyle photos from Sony. The shots feature all your typical Move situations: Mum working out, boys and girls singing and dancing together, but strangely no sign of...
News Expect Tales News on Vita "Very Soon"
Maybe "next week" soon
Namco Bandai's Tales series of RPGs is beloved around the world, with outings including Tales of Symphonia on GameCube and follow-up Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World on Wii, but PlayStation gamers have had plenty to enjoy too. There may be more titles heading to Sony platforms too, as series producer Makoto Yoshizumi...
Rumour Vita Reaches Japan on 12th November
Rest of world in March
According to an anonymous source confiding in French site GamAlive, PlayStation Vita will be available to buy in Japan from 12th November this year. We're expecting to hear official confirmation of the system's Japanese release date at next week's Tokyo Games Show, and as Sony has pledged the machine will make it to the Land...
It's curious isn't it: you long for a good co-operative platformer and two come along at once
We've only just finished championing Sony and Insomniac's four-player opus Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One, and now we're moving directly onto Rayman Origins. Ubisoft's delightfully French platformer series was iconic on the original PlayStation, but has...
Monday5th Sep 2011
News Dig In to These New Puss in Boots Screenshots
Kitten's got claws
THQ's just released some early screenshots for its first Move-enabled movie tie-in, Puss in Boots, and it's looking pretty decent, actually. The game will let you do all the things Puss himself enjoys: duelling, sneaking and serenading women with a guitar, apparently. We haven't seen the film yet, so maybe that bit will make more...
News Latest Asura's Wrath Screenshots Depict The Moments Before A Brawl
Capcom's released a handful of new Asura's Wrath screenshots
The images depict all sorts of carnage, but the shot embedded above did jump out at us. Perhaps it's the angry looking Buddha foes. Catch the full set over at Andriasang.
News Kevin Butler Returns for Resistance 3
General Butler rallies his troops
Self-proclaimed Vice-President of Sony PlayStation, funny man Kevin Butler returns in his latest video commercial for the upcoming PlayStation Move compatible shooter, Resistance 3. Butler dons a horse while armed with the PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter, and rallies up his troops to resist the Chimeran invasion...
Review Crazy Machines Elements (PlayStation 3)
Isn't it nice when things just work? It's a slogan that will live with a generation, as Honda took inspiration from Rube Goldberg for one of the most fascinating marketing campaigns of all time
Crazy Machines Elements may as well have been named The Honda Commercial: The Game, but we doubt developer Fakt Software could get the license. Citing the...
In at number five...
Earlier in the year we took a look at our top-five most anticipated PlayStation games of Holiday 2011. Since the beginning of time (sort of!) developers and publishers have used the run-up to Christmas to release their very best games. This year the charts are set to be dominated by some monstrous titles, such as Uncharted 3:...
News Insomniac Games Showcases More Of Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One's Arsenal
Check it out
Insomniac Games has gone live with another trailer outlining Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One's weapons. It's nice to see Insomniac's talent for creating crazy guns is still in tact. Catch the video after the jump.
