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Features PlayStation Move Buyer's Guide
What's worth your money?
Now you've got PlayStation Move you need some great games to go along with it. These are some of our recommendations here at Movemodo to help you pick out the best games for your gaming style. If you want more information on any of the games, click on the titles for our honest, in-depth reviews or check out our forums and...
News Sony Launches Move Software Deal Across UK
Buy one, get one half price
Several online retailers in North America have offered cut price Move software, but now Sony's UK wing has launched a marketwide buy one, get one half price mechanic on its Move software. Major retailers including Game and Gamestation are both participating in the offer, so now might be a good chance to stock up on some...
News Merry Christmas from Movemodo!
Season's greetings to all
It's that time of year again when we manage to tear ourselves from our computers just long enough to sit through a massive Christmas dinner with the family and then endless repeats of the same TV shows we watched last year, but that's the magic of Christmas. We'll be taking a short break over the Christmas period, but we'll...
News Beat Sketcher Team's Christmas Video is Full of Cheer
Spreading the joy
Beat Sketcher hit the PlayStation Store a few weeks ago, so it's no surprise that some talented users have already created some fantastic videos using the programme, but we doubt any will be able to top this festive masterpiece from the game's audio director Ichiro Ebisu. Performing a live rendition of Joy to the World with...
News Blokus, echochrome ii and Top Darts Hit PlayStation Stores
Choose your title
This week's updates have brought a trio of new Move-enabled titles to gamers all over the world, as well as the long-awaited demo of LittleBigPlanet 2 and some cheap Move games too. Let's get on with the show. Blokus (Gameloft, $4.99/£3.99) – Based on the popular board game, this colourful family puzzler features online play too...
News PlayStation Plus Subscribers, Get Your Free MAG Trial Now
Well worth a shot
Online shooter MAG is already available cheaply in the Greatest Hits range, but if you're still not convinced it's worth the money then perhaps a PlayStation Plus-exclusive free game trial will help twist your arm. Subscribers to Sony's premium service will be able to play the game for free, with full Move support. You'll only be...
News Grab a Cheap Move Game in the European PSN Christmas Sale
Not a turkey in sight
It's the season of giving, and Sony Europe's present to you is money off a pair of Move-compatible titles in the European PlayStation Network store until January 5th. Flight Control HD was £3.99/€4.99, now £3.19/€3.99 – Firemint's air traffic control title gets a slight reduction. Have a read of our Flight Control HD...
News Dungeon Defenders Has the Most Colourful Dungeons Ever
Not another dim and grim outing
Dungeons are supposed to be grisly, foreboding places, lit only with torches and the sparks that fly from clashing swords. Not in the world of Dungeon Defenders though, which teams tower defence mechanics with elements of online RPGs, all wrapped up in a cartoon-inspired graphical style. You play one of a team of...
News Get Ready to Raid with Dungeon Hunter: Alliance in Early 2011
Going underground
Top-down action RPGs may be long past their 90s heyday when Diablo and its ilk ruled the roost, but Gameloft is handing the genre a revival potion in the form of Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, heading to PlayStation Network in 2011. You'll be able to team up online with three other hunters to plunder dungeons, rest in villages and do...
News Be Part of MLB 11 The Show with a PlayStation Move Minigame
Sony comes out swinging
Sony's MLB The Show series is without a doubt the greatest recreation of baseball ever committed to playable form, so the news that next year's entry MLB 11 The Show will support PlayStation Move is a welcome update to baseball fans everywhere. At the time of writing, it's believed only the home run derby mode will support...
News Modern Combat: Domination Shoots for PlayStation Network Next Month
Gameloft's FPS coming to Move
Move's a perfect fit for first-person shooters, so the news that Gameloft is bringing Modern Combat: Domination to PlayStation Network next month is enough to grab our attention. Further details to pique your interest include the smooth 60 frames per second graphical engine, full online multiplayer support and...
News New Patch Disarms Time Crisis: Razing Storm's Accuracy Issues
Crisis over, and about time
Time Crisis: Razing Storm is a decent compendium of Namco's arcade shooting games but issues with the cursor's accuracy arguably prevented it from reaching its full potential. Now the publisher has released a new, free patch to address the problem, enabling you to blast with full precision. This new update certainly ups...
News NaturalMotion's New Upgrade Could Bring Big Name Games to Move
Star Wars, GTA, Red Dead Redemption and more
NaturalMotion's Morpheme middleware (stick with us) just got an upgrade to version 3.0, with full support for PlayStation Move now included, meaning one of the industry's best behaviour engines just got better. If you've played Grand Theft Auto IV or Star Wars: The Force Unleashed you'll have encountered...
News Sarbakan Signs Up to Bring its First Move Title to Retail
More in the pipeline
Sarbakan is a veteran of game development, with over 700 titles under its belt, but you'd still be forgiven for having never heard of the Quebec-based developer. That won't last forever though, as the company has signed a deal with an unspecified publisher to bring a PlayStation Move title to retail next year. There's no further...
News Fire Up the PS3 Browser for a New, Move-Enabled Experience
New look for European homepage
If you launch your PlayStation 3 browser today you might notice a few changes to the standard homepage, which has been redesigned to look better on HDTVs and feature support for PlayStation Move. You'll be able to use the motion controller to browse through a range of trailers, news and features, with Sony promising...
News Insomniac Still Undecided on Move Support for Resistance 3
Maybe, maybe not
Sony's other first-person shooter juggernaut threequel for next year, following February's Killzone 3, Resistance 3 is set for release in September. According to developer Insomniac it's already playable from start to finish, but so far there's been no decision made on whether or not the game will support PlayStation Move or...
News Sony Europe Chief: Content, Not Marketing, Creates Success
Reiterates strong demand for Move
Head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Andrew House is an old hand at Sony by now, having joined the company way back in 1990, meaning he's seen pretty much everything games-related the company has done. In a recent interview with MCV he spoke of the key to Move's success: games, not marketing. We know a...
News PlayStation Move Shortage Draws Anger in New Zealand
Questionable practices going on
Standalone Move controllers are as rare as hen's teeth at the moment no matter where you live in the world, but particularly in New Zealand where the controller has been sold out for over three weeks. Has that stopped unscrupulous retailers from advertising the controller as "in stock" to get more sales?...
Talking Point The Games You Want Patched for Move
Have your say
Sony's Peter Seybold recently hinted that more PS3 games may get Move-enabling patches, something that naturally got us thinking: what would you want to see updated for Move? Here's just a couple of our choices. Modnation Racers: The cutesy creative racer is a great demonstration of what PlayStation Network can do, but we can't help...
News Combination of 3D and Move Crucial to Virtua Tennis 4 says Producer
Passing shots
Sega's Virtua Tennis 4 is one of the most promising Move and stereoscopic 3D-enabled titles for 2011, and it's this winning combination that producer Mie Kumagai believes will help the series to reach new heights. In an interview with TechRadar, Kumagai spoke of the advantages of using a controller that works in 3D space with a 3D...
News New PlayStation Move Heroes Screenshots Bash, Boom and Zap In
Lots of explosions
A PlayStation platform fan's dream-come-true, PlayStation Move Heroes takes Ratchet, Clank, Jak, Daxter, Sly and Bentley and puts them all in one Move-enabled platforming package. If you want to see new screenshots of the game, you've come to the right place. Sony's North American arm just flung these screenshots our way, showing...
News Sony Salutes Move's "Blockbuster Success", Hints at More Patches
All sewn up
The NPD figures for November are out, and Sony is pretty pleased with Move's performance, calling it a "blockbuster success" and suggesting we haven't seen the last of already-released titles receiving updates for the motion controller. Patrick Seybold, SCEA's senior director of corporate communications, had this to say: In...
News The New PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter is a Serious Bit of Kit
New accessory enters the kill zone
Move isn't short on plastic guns, but there's always room for one more, particularly when it's officially licensed and designed to get the most out of Killzone 3. The new PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter, to give it its official name, is set for release in February and is the first rifle-type accessory to come from...
Talking Point Why PlayStation Move Needs Uncharted 3
Naughty Dog holds the controller's future
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is real, announced by Sony for a release in 2011, most likely around Christmas time. Playable in stereoscopic 3D, its duck-and-cover gunplay would be a perfect fit for PlayStation Move yet the announcement makes no mention of Move support. It's Got Form: Forget the huge number...
News BigBen Aims to Strike it Lucky with New Move Software
Budget games on the way
The name BigBen Interactive might not ring any bells, but it soon will. The European manufacturer of Wii games including Cocoto Magic Circus, Pool Party and Western Heroes, each of which was released with a plastic accessory accompaniment, is set to release its first PlayStation Move games in 2011. The company didn't announce...
News 505 Games Bringing Brunswick and Zumba to Europe in February
A real mixed bag
Whether you want to burn off the Christmas turkey in Zumba Fitness or bowl a turkey in Brunswick Pro Bowling, you'll be able to do both from February as 505 Games announces European release dates for both titles. Or release date, rather: both games will launch on February 4th in the UK, and both will support the PlayStation Move...
News Pachter: Disney Epic Mickey Will Come to PS3 Eventually
It's a shoe-in
Disney Epic Mickey on Wii is raking in some pretty positive reviews around the world but, despite Warren Spector's insistence that it was made for Wii, Michael Pachter is in no doubt it'll appear on PlayStation 3 in the fullness of time. It will ultimately come there. Maybe they’ll do it as a Playstation Network game for a lot less...
News PlayStation Rewards Gets Move-Specific Quests Tomorrow
Another reason to Move
North American readers might already be participating in the PlayStation Rewards programme, an exclusive invite-only experience that seeks to honour regular PlayStation gamers with elite status, goodies and more. Tomorrow the package gets boosted with the introduction of Quests, and PlayStation Move is getting one of its own...
News Farming is Coming to Move with Rune Factory: Oceans
Become a cropper
Marvelous Interactive's Rune Factory: Frontier for Wii is an off-shoot of the company's popular Harvest Moon franchise, and it's coming to PlayStation Move next year in the form of Rune Factory: Oceans. Marvelous just released the first promotional video for the game showing off its revamped battle mode, with more combos and...
News This Move Keychain Torch May Be Cooler Than the Real Thing
It even lights up blue
Ever wish you had a small, portable Move controller you could put on your keychain and use to illuminate darkened areas? Your wishes just got answered, as US site DealExtreme is offering tiny LED torches for just $3.10. At less than three inches long and weighing less than 10g it's a truly tiny version of the controller, and...
News Get a Handle on Swords & Soldiers' Move Controls in New Trailer
A winning combination
If you haven't played Ronimo Games' PlayStation Network title Swords & Soldiers yet, you're now able to control your armies using PlayStation Move after a recent free update. Whilst the video below doesn't go into masses of detail about how the control system works, it's a pretty straightforward method: Move's cursor can be...
News The Fight's Transparency Patch is Out Now
See through it all
The Fight: Lights Out is very much an acquired taste, with many reviewers criticising the lack of transparent fighters to make landing your punches easier, and now developer Coldwood Interactive has released a free patch making a few tweaks to the title. The biggest of these is the ability to turn your pugilist see-through, which...
News Move Sales Reach 4.1 Million Units Sold Around the World
Count 'em
So far Sony has been tight-lipped about sales figures for its PlayStation Move peripheral, only saying it had shipped 1 million Moves to America and not commenting on actual worldwide sales figures. Now the company has opened its mouth wide to shout "4.1 million units sold worldwide" in the form of this new press release...
News Sony Could Update Move to be More Accurate, But Probably Won't
Would be as simple as a firmware patch
Move's technology is super-accurate, but according to Sony engineer Anton Mikhailov most studios aren't yet using the controller to its full potential, something we'd expect after just three months on sale. When they do maximise the controller's precision, they may find Sony moving the goalposts, as Mikhailov...
News Korean Move Cosplay is the Way to the Country's Heart
Costumes out in the wild
We've seen plenty of Move costumes already – check out Norway's Move Men and Paris's fashion take for just two examples – and now it's the turn of Korean streets, with predictably odd results. Whilst the suits seemed to go down well with most punters, one plucky young chap took a swing at the controller, clearly confused...
News Dynasty Warriors 7 Bringing 60 Characters from Historic China
Great battlers of history
Dynasty Warriors 7 is coming to PS3 with full stereoscopic 3D support, as well as Move controls, with a cast of over 60 playable characters to slash their way through four ancient Chinese kingdoms. Popular characters from the series will return, as well as newcomers Bao San Niang, Sima Zhao, Sima Shi and Zhen Ji, each...
News Sony Europe Reminds You of the Great Move Games Out Already
And some other treats on the way
Sony's Move line-up is growing on a weekly basis, with no fewer than 39 titles now available for the motion controller, so the company naturally wants to crow about the games by putting out a press release. We'll let Sony speak for itself, but as always remember you can get full reviews of these titles and many, many...
News Blue Tongue Fills In de Blob 2's Move Multiplayer Mode
New interview reveals info
Blue Tongue's de Blob 2 is looking fantastic, as this trailer shows, and now studio creative director Nick Hagger has shed some light on the game's multiplayer mode. In a method that may sound familiar to gamers used to Super Mario Galaxy 2 veterans, a second player can pick up Move at any time and bring up a reticule on...
News Move's Lightsaber Game Will be "Damn Sight Better" than Kinect's
Says Move engineer
The demo of Kinect Star Wars caught the imagination of Jedi fans everywhere, and Move's augmented reality capabilities combined with its 1:1 controller tracking is surely a recipe for a great Star Wars game. But whose would be better? You'll never guess which one Sony engineer Anton Mikhailov would favour. In a brief chat with...
News Can You Beat this Sports Champions Disc Golf Record?
Tall order
Sony's fond of its by the numbers diagrams offering statistical fascination to anyone with a numerical interest, and now it's come up with a sheet dedicated to Move's most popular launch title, Sports Champions. Full of interesting statistics – did you know over 155 million arrows have been fired, of which 1.1 million have split? –...
News Sony: "We Underestimated Demand for Move Controllers"
Might struggle for stock over Christmas
When putting together your PlayStation move set-up you probably didn't encounter many issues getting a Starter Pack, console bundle or Navigation sub-controller, but you may have struggled to lay your hands on a standalone Move controller. Peter Dille, Sony's marketing senior vice president in the US, has said...
News These Awesome Nikes are Our New Favourite Move Accessory
Ten on the beau foot scale
Move's a lovely item to hold in your hands for sure, but if you wanted to show your love for the controller on your feet you've been all out of luck – until now. Sony and Nike have combined to create two limited edition pairs of sneakers to honour the launch of PlayStation Move and the upcoming arrival of Killzone 3. The...
News PlayStation Move Wins Popsci's "Best of What's New" Award
Nabs "most immersive game controller" gong
We know Move works great, you know Move works great, and now Sony's controller has been honoured with an award in Popular Science magazine's "Best of What's New 2010" issue. Honoured in the always hotly-contested Home Entertainment category, Move was called the "most immersive game...
News Exclusive Day One DLC for PDC on PS3
More players, modes and more
PDC World Championship Darts: Pro Tour isn't the first sports game from O-Games to make use of PlayStation Move – its previous release was the very playable John Daly's ProStroke Golf, and now the publisher is lined up at the oche with a new title on Friday. PS3 owners who pick the game up on launch day will be greeted...
News TRON: Evolution's Move Controls are Light Cycle Only
Short but sweet
TRON: Evolution is due to de-rez Europe on Friday, and now we've had our first look at the Move controls we can confirm they're a bit disappointing. Considering the game's heavy combat focus and use of a throwing disc, you would have thought Move could have been used in any one of a number of interesting ways, but as it happens the...
Talking Point Why Are Accessories So Important Anyway?
What's the big deal?
We've reported on Move as an important factor in growing the accessory sector at retail, but with hardware and software figures falling year-on-year why is the success of plastic add-ons so important? Accessories Make Money: For retailers, accessories are key: profits made from add-ons far outweighs the margin on a new game or...
News This is What Move's and Kinect's Children Would Look Like
If manufactured very, very cheaply
When the Wii was released we saw countless cheap knock-offs flood the market – remember the Vii? – and now it looks like Move is about to receive its own sincerest form of flattery in the form of the "i-dong". (Really, we're not making these names up.) Displayed at a Chinese technology event, the...
News Check Out Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves Next Month
A taster of LittleBigPlanet's Move mode
Here's something we didn't see coming: Sackboy is about to get his own PSN-exclusive title, called Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves, and it's only playable with Move. A co-operative-only experience, the game needs one player with a Move controller and another with a DualShock 3, as players must team up to overcome...
News Snakebyte Announces the First Third-Party Move Controllers
And they don't look bad
German manufacturer Snakebyte has emerged as the first manufacturer to offer its own line of PlayStation Move controllers, starting in January 2011. Recent PS3 firmware updates have rendered some third-party controllers out of action, but Snakebyte has a cunning plan, equipping its controllers with the ability to receive...
News Navigation Support is Not Coming to NBA 2K11 After All
Will be in 2K12 though
If you've been playing the superb NBA 2K11 with PlayStation Move, you might have been disappointed that the Navigation sub-controller is unsupported, leaving you with a Move in one hand and DualShock 3 in the other. Whilst we presumed Navigation support would be introduced later in the game's cycle, 2K Sports' Community...
