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Thursday27th Jul 2023
News New Red Dead Redemption Logo Fuels More Remake Rumours
Also a new RDR codename
Suggestions a Red Dead Redemption remake or remaster is in the works from Rockstar are doing the rounds again as Internet sleuths have uncovered a new logo for the PS3 title recently uploaded to the developer's website. First spotted by Twitter user Tez2, a site update from earlier today included a new reference within the...
Friday21st Jul 2023
News Sony's Infamous E3 2006 Conference Now Viewable in Clear 1080p
Giant Enemy Crab has never looked this good
Few video game press conferences are remembered more for all the wrong reasons than Sony's 2006 E3 briefing. It set the tone for a PS3 generation that didn't really get going until the PS3 slim steadied the ship, and now you can watch the two-hour disaster in crystal clear 1080p quality. Uploaded by Danny...
Thursday11th May 2023
Poll What's the Best PlayStation Startup Sequence?
PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5?
When you think of PlayStation, does a specific console startup come to mind? Sony's crafted some iconic system screens over the years — complete with some iconic sounds — but which one's the best? We know that's a potentially difficult question — and it might be wholly dependent on how old you are! — but it should...
Friday5th May 2023
Another accolade under the belt
Naughty Dog was already an award-winning studio, many times over, in fact, but Sony's shiniest first-party studio has another feather to put in its proverbial cap: The Last of Us has officially been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Previous titles honoured have included Age of Empires, Angry Birds,...
Friday14th Apr 2023
Random Horizon Forbidden West DLC Pays Homage to Classic Killzone 2 Moment
Cloud nine
Killzone 2’s trailer intro sequence is iconic. It was part of the infamous original E3 demo which turned out to be smoke and mirrors, but was later replicated in a re-reveal trailer for the final PS3 game. And now Dutch developer Guerrilla Games has paid tribute to it in a trailer for Horizon Forbidden West’s expansion Burning Sho
Friday7th Apr 2023
News Jack Black Calls for Red Dead Redemption Movie, Story 'Even Better Than The Last of Us'
We just need money, Arthur
We're in a pretty positive space with video games being adapted to movies and TV shows. The Uncharted movie, while critically panned, did very well at the box office, Sonic the Hedgehog and its sequel broke records, and HBO's The Last of Us show has been extremely well received. The latest doing the rounds is the
Sunday2nd Apr 2023
Soapbox Hold On, Is the PS3 a Retro Console?
Rory is having a time crisis
The passage of time. Weird one, init? Never mind the fact I just turned 30 this month and – dodgy knees aside – still feel about 21, there’s something else that’s got me all messed up this week. While plumbing the depths of the Twitterverse the other night, I stumbled across something that I didn’t...
Thursday30th Mar 2023
News Pour One Out for Team Fortress 2 on PS3, Which Is Now Offline After 15 Years
A good run
Back when The Orange Box first released on PS3, it was marked down as a disaster. Due to the complicated architecture of Sony’s system at the time, Valve passed on the project, and the port was handled by EA UK. The results were far from optimal: the game suffered from framerate issues, slow loading, and various other bugs. Despite all...
Soapbox I Can't Stop Thinking About Kung Fu Rider on PS3
Bums on seats
While casually browsing the Nintendo Switch’s painfully slow digital storefront this week, one game in particular caught my eye: it’s called, amusingly, Gekisou! Benza Race -Toilet Shooting Star- and the typo-laden description explains that you’ll be riding a bog in various racing scenarios. The provided screenshots look scrappy,...
Monday27th Mar 2023
Random Lars' Tekken 8 Rage Art Is a Reminder of His Time in Naruto Storm 2
Into the storm
Here's a random bit of trivia for you: Lars' new Rage Art in Tekken 8 — his super move, if you don't know what a Rage Art is — seems to be based on his ultimate attack from Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2. And yes, before you ask, Lars was in PS3 anime brawler. The maligned son of Heihachi Mishima featured as a playable...
Wednesday22nd Mar 2023
News Mirror's Edge Will Not Be Delisted from PS Store After all
Gotta have Faith
Update: The primarily single player Mirror’s Edge will no longer be delisted from the PS Store, after prior communication from EA had announced it would. The publisher says this was just an error, and it’ll remain in situ as long as the storefront remains open. The trio of Battlefield titles, however, will still be gone come the...
Monday20th Mar 2023
News Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes Was an Experiment Fans 'Didn't Understand'
Kojima had plotted a full-scale episodic series
Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes was a standalone prologue, designed to ease players into the eventual full game, Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. However, speaking on the game’s ninth anniversary, auteur Hideo Kojima has revealed that he also used the release as an experiment, which could have...
Sunday19th Mar 2023
Feature ICO At 21 - Remembering Fumito Ueda's Seminal PS2 Classic
ICOnic
ICO is a video game that makes me feel things. Things that I can’t quite describe. Ever since I first stepped foot in the castle’s plundered hallways, heard Ico’s footsteps echo through the abandoned corridors, and practically felt the gentle breeze roll through its silent, long-forgotten courtyards, it’s a feeling I just haven’t...
Thursday9th Mar 2023
News Widespread PS3, PS Vita Issues Preventing Fans from Downloading Games
It only does nothing
Sony’s legacy systems, the PS3 and PS Vita, are throwing a wobbly it seems. There are widespread reports, right around the globe, of purchased games not downloading properly from the PS Store. It’s unclear what the exact cause is: PS3 received a firmware update recently, which could potentially be related – but that...
Tuesday28th Feb 2023
News What Year Is It? There's a New PS3 Firmware Update Out Now
Strong and stable
The year may be 2023, but Sony’s just released a new firmware update for the PS3! No, that’s not a typing error: the Japanese giant has just updated its 17-year-old last-last-gen system. Don’t expect any major new features in version 4.90, though: this one is all about that all-important stability. “This system software...
Monday30th Jan 2023
Video Watching HBO's TV Show? Dig Deeper into The Last of Us' Lore
Smashing through that mighty thin ice to delve deep
The Last of Us is more popular than ever thanks to both the HBO TV series and The Last of Us: Part I remake. Regardless of whether you are watching the show or playing the game for the first time, there is a ridiculous amount of lore just waiting to be explored that neither medium fully uncover...
Thursday22nd Dec 2022
News Iconic PlayStation Franchise Gran Turismo Surpasses 90 Million Copies Sold
As series celebrates 25th anniversary
Gran Turismo, arguably the most iconic PlayStation franchise of all time, has surpassed 90 million units since its inception. As the series celebrates its 25th anniversary, creator Kazunori Yamauchi – who remains a force at developer Polyphony Digital – revealed the milestone in a reflective PS Blog post, in...
Random Infamous PS3 Hacker Quits Twitter After One Month
He was asked to fix it
All four of you may remember Geohot, the infamous code junkie who cracked Sony’s console in what was – worryingly – a gigantic PlayStation news story circa 2009. He recently re-emerged as part of Elon Musk’s ongoing social media soap opera, when he was tasked with “fixing” Twitter by the real-life Tony Stark...
Saturday17th Dec 2022
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for December 2022?
Plus or minus?
A whopping 22 games are coming to PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium next week for December's big update. Highlights include the excellent Judgment, a trio of Far Cry titles, the two Middle-earth games, and inspired CRPG Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Tuesday29th Nov 2022
Random Oddball PS3 Catapult Game PAIN Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Feelin' it
The early days of the PS Store were drastically different from what we all know and love today; the plaza was, effectively, a web page in those very early PS3 days. But it represented an important period of experimentation for Sony, and its output in that inaugural era of digital downloads reflected as much. One such game released...
Wednesday16th Nov 2022
News It Only Did Everything, Follow Up to Vita Means Life, Will Chronicle the Glory Days of the PS3
PlayStation's unofficial historian is at it again
Author Sandeep Rai is back at it again, launching a Kickstarter project to produce a comprehensive history of the PS3 in a lovely-looking hardback format. It Only Did Everything will chronicle the good times and the bad, from the console's turbulent launch to its triumphal comeback and everything in...
Tuesday8th Nov 2022
Guide All Resident Evil Games Ranked and Best Places to Start
A comprehensive guide to Resident Evil
The Resident Evil series is one of gaming's most popular and recognisable franchises, dating back to the PlayStation 1 and encompassing more than 25 years of history. With a hardcore following across the globe that hotly anticipates all upcoming entries — no matter where it's a mainline instalment or spin-off...
Friday4th Nov 2022
News PS Plus Premium Gets Five Ratchet & Clank Games on 15th November
Ratchet up
To mark the 20th anniversary of the Ratchet & Clank series, Insomniac Games is bringing five of the entries released on PS3 to PS Plus Premium. Available for streaming from 15th November 2022, the games are: Ratchet & Clank Ratchet & Clank: Going
Wednesday26th Oct 2022
News Beloved RPG Fallout: New Vegas Was First Meant to Be Fallout 3 DLC
Quickly realised it couldn't be
Fallout: New Vegas was originally designed as a huge expansion to Fallout 3, it's been revealed. Spotted by Eurogamer in a video celebrating Bethesda's 25th anniversary, executive produ
Wednesday19th Oct 2022
News Red Dead Redemption No Longer Playable on PS5, PS4 in a Troubling Sign of the Times
Git along, little Dogies
Red Dead Redemption was a landmark achievement in game design, one that few studios have managed to replicate in the more than a decade since the cowboy epic was released. But, like the age of the Wild West itself, Red Dead Redemption has become a relic of a bygone era, with the title no longer playable on modern PlayStation...
Friday14th Oct 2022
Thursday13th Oct 2022
News Sony Cocks Up PS Plus Reveal, Swaps Two PS3 Games for PS4
Ooops, they did it again
As has become a monthly tradition, Sony mucked up the PS Plus reveal for October 2022. Many had questioned why PS Plus Premium additions Limbo and Ultra Street Fighter IV were only being offered with cloud streaming on the PS3, when there are perfectly competent
Wednesday12th Oct 2022
News Jailbroken PS5 Deep Dive into Demon's Souls Unearths Legendary Ring of the Chieftain
Leave no stone unturned
Last week we brought you the titanic news that the PS5 has been jailbroken, allowing modders to delve into previously unexplored depths digitally and uncover secrets of rare repute. Well, Lance Mcdonald is at it again, and this time he has unearthed a fun easter egg left in the Demon's Souls remake by developer BluePoint...
Friday7th Oct 2022
News Mortal Kombat Celebrates 30 Years of Fatalities with Mind Blowing Montage
Get over here and watch it
Mortal Kombat is celebrating 30 years of brutality, and while fans had been hoping for a new game announcement – or, perhaps, a compilation of old ones – this montage trailer will have to suffice. To be fair, it’s impressive: it segues between classic retro footage of the old arcade Mortal Kombat games and modern...
Friday30th Sep 2022
News Last Call on Those Older Ubisoft Titles, Online Services to Get the Kibosh on Saturday
Farewell, my lovely
Ubisoft is about to make good on its promise of shuttering the online services of some of its older PS3 titles. If you have any lingering digital business that needs tending, now is the time, as the plug will officially be pulled this Saturday, 1st October. The full list of affected titles can be seen below. Assassin's Creed II
