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News Namco Announces The Tongue-Twisting Ridge Racer: Unbounded For PlayStation 3
Ridge Racer is back, but not as you know it
Announced today in San Francisco, Ridge Racer: Unbounded is an upcoming PlayStation 3 title in development at the promising Bugbear Entertainment. Racing fans will know that Finnish developer previously crafted the chaotic arcade racer FlatOut, a trait which looks to have been adopted by the new Ridge...
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...
Out Today Time Crisis: Razing Storm (North America)
Double barrel delights today
If The Shoot is a little casual for your tastes, you can still satiate your lust for shooting things with Namco's Time Crisis: Razing Storm, also out across North America today. As well as a series-first Online Battle Mode for up to eight players, there's extra bonuses in the form of included games Deadstorm Pirates and...
News 5.1 Surround Sound Coming To PlayStation 3 Version Of Enslaved In A Patch
We loved Ninja Theory's Enslaved a ton, but bizarrely the game shipped without 5
1 surround sound support on the PlayStation 3. Joystiq reports that the issue is soon to be fixed, so anyone holding out on picking up a copy of Enslaved due to the less than optimal sound conditions might want to reconsider now. "[The update] will be ready around...
News Metro-Cross Successor "Aero-Cross" Confirmed For PlayStation 3
Back in 1985 Namco released a futuristic platforming title called Metro-Cross
The ESRB's now revealed that a successor to the classic running platformer has been rated for release on the PlayStation 3. Aero-Cross will more than likely launch as a PlayStation Network downloadable title. No word on dates or price.
News Ninja Theory: Devil May Cry Wouldn't Stop Potential Enslaved Sequel
Ninja Theory's boss Tameem Antoniades has revealed that the studio's new Devil May Cry sequel would not stop the studio tackling a follow-up to next week's Enslaved
"We've been growing into two teams for the last year," he told Eurogamer ahead of the studio's presentation at this years Eurogamer Expo, "We've got capacity to do two...
News Enslaved DLC To Be A Totally "New Experience"
Enslaved's out soon, and with many publications slaving over their reviews for the main campaign, Ninja Theory's gaffer Tameem Antoniades has turned his attention to the games DLC
It's something he describes as an "entirely new experience" in an interview with Destructoid, explaining that it is not simply a case of a "few extra...
News Ninja Theory Detail The Background Behind Enslaved
And it all started with Ninja Theory's gaffer, Tameem Antoniades, reading a book
Years of development later - and the input of none other than Andy Serkis and Alex Garland - Enslaved's now a video game. A pretty bloody good one from what we've played too. This background videos probably interesting if you loved the demo, like we did.
News At One Point There Was Going To Be A CGI Enslaved Movie
Enslaved has literally shot to the top of our most-wanted list
The gameplay might feel a little automatic, but there's something about Ninja Theory's ability to create extremely cinematic experiences that has us hooked. We want to know what becomes of the lead characters Monkey and Trip. As such, the idea of a CGI movie accompaniment tempts us more...
News TGS 10: We're Probably More Excited About Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Than You Are
Tekken's series director, Katsuhiro Harada, has confirmed Tekken Tag Tournament 2 during the Tokyo Game Show today
The game's set to hit arcades, but a console port will undoubtedly follow. The game involves Tekken and tagging. Namco's released a trailer but it seems all kinds of so-wrong-it's-right to us. Either way, we're properly stoked for this...
First Impressions Enslaved: Odyssey To The West on PlayStation 3 Demo
The clock-hands are telling
It's late; we've finished writing for the day. But having tried out Enslaved: Odyssey To The West just moments ago, we had to get our thoughts down on digital paper. Ninja Theory's attempt at re-telling the classic Chinese novel "Journey To The West" has us hooked. It's been a while since we went into a game...
GamesCom 2010 Ever Wondered What A Time Crisis Game Looks Like With PlayStation Move?
A lot like Time Crisis, actually
Destructoid's got a whole bunch of Time Crisis: Razing Storm screens. You can check the lot through here.</em>
GamesCom 2010 A Super Early Look At Ryu Rendered In The Tekken Engine
Capcom's Yoshinori Ono and Namco's Katsuhiro Harada are at GamesCom to talk about their upcoming colloboration, Street Fighter X Tekken
While the focus of the presentation was to show European fans the same demo that was at Comic-Con, Harada also revealed some prototypes for the other cross-over game in development, Tekken X Street Fighter. Harada...
Feature Late To The Party #2: Ridge Racer Type 4 on PSone
It's hard to go back to racing games
It's a genre that's constantly evolving. While two-dimensional platformers and puzzle games remain fairly time-less — racing games evolve. It's funny, in fact, that I should return to the original PlayStation's Ridge Racer Type 4 just days after getting a hands-on with Sony's upcoming Gran Turismo 5. Despite...
News Namco Confirm New PlayStation 3 Exclusive Tales Game
We told you about all the Tales content heading to the PlayStation last week
The information wasn't official. But following a press conference this morning in Japan, Namco's confirmed the existence of all three upcoming PlayStation titles. The first, is a new PlayStation 3 entry in the Tales franchise. There's no title for the game yet, though the...
News New Tales Games Heading To The PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
The latest issue of Jump has revealed a slew of new titles in the "Tales" franchise that are heading to the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable
First up is a port of the Wii's Tales Of Graces, which will hit Japan later this year with some extra content added. That'll be followed up by a brand new Tales game on the PlayStation 3. There are zero...
News Super Street Fighter IV Characters Get A New Set Of Outfits This Fall
With all the excitement of Capcom's Comic-Con panel being attached to cross-overs, we almost forgot to mention the announcement of new DLC outfits for Super Street Fighter IV
The clothing pack is due this Fall and will feature a new alternative outfit for each character. Kotaku managed to snap a teaser of the new outfits which we've posted above...
News Comic-Con 2010: Screenshots Like This Get Our Pulses Racing
As an onlooking Servbot watches Tekken's Kazuya kick the crap out of Street Fighter's Ryu, we can't help but feel that the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken cross-over heading to the PlayStation 3 is probably the best announcement since sliced bread
Sadly, the producer of Capcom's game, Yoshinori Ono, reckons the project is still some time off -...
News Comic-Con 2010: The Street Fighter X Tekken Trailer That Will Have Your Fanboy Juices Running
Street Fighter X Tekken
It's a God-honest video game. T'was announced yesterday. For realsies. And here's the game's debut trailer. It shows Street Fighter's Ryu facing up to Tekken's Jin Kazama. It's all inky and blotchy. It looks amazing. Can we wait to play this? No we cannot.
Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has put an end to rumours regarding a possible Namco and Capcom cross-over; by announcing Street Fighter X Tekken (pronounced Street Fighter Cross Tekken)
The game's in development for the PlayStation 3. Joined on-stage by Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada, the duo proved the game's existence by playing a round...
As Alf Stewart would say: stone the flamin' crows
GameInformer's dropped a rumour of megaton intensity, claiming that Capcom and Namco are joining forces for two new games. No, that's not a misprint in our headline. Apparently both Capcom vs. Namco and Namco vs. Capcom are set to be announced this weekend. Whether they'll both come on the same disc...
E3 2010 Time Crisis: Razing Storm Announced, Exclusive To PlayStation 3, Includes Time Crisis 4
We're a sucker for Time Crisis
We just can't help it. We even bought the dodgy iPhone version — a touch screen version; we know, it's mad, without a gun it's not even Time Crisis. But it had Time Crisis written on it, so we bought it. Therefore, one particularly title hidden among Sony's PlayStation Move montage caused a minor squeel to utter from...
E3 2010 Pac-Man Championship Edition Heads To The PlayStation Portable & PlayStation 3
Namco's confirmed that the delicious Pac-Man reboot, Pac-Man Championship Edition, is set to make the jump across to PSP and PS3 via Sony's PlayStation Minis service
The Minis due this fall, and should land alongside the full PlayStation Network release of Pac-Man Championship Edition DX. So, basically, plenty of Pac-Man for your PlayStation this...
News Tekken 7 Announced, We Seem Like The Only Ones Excited
We love Tekken
Granted, the series has felt a little flat in recent iterations (particularly the hit-and-miss Tekken 6), but we still believe it's a solid fighting franchise, and due a return to its former glory. So it's with some excitement that we read a recent Eurogamer Portugal report, which declares that Tekken 7 is a real product currently in...
Rumour Is Time Crisis Heading To The Playstation Network? ACTION!
A trademark filing picked up by the eagle eyed ConnectedConsoles seems to hint at a Playstation Network re-release of Playstation classic, Time Crisis
Action! The trademark notes that the game will be distributed via "downloadable computer game software via a global computer network and wireless devices". The PSN then? What's interesting...
News Namco Gets Hit Hard, Sheds Profits & Staff
Namco's recorded a whopping $129million loss for the nine months ending December 31st, compared to a profit of $99
4million in the same period the year previous. That's a lot of money, yo. As a result the company has announced they are to cut the employment of roughly 10% of their workforce. That's gutting news for about 630 people.Since the...
News Tekken 6 Patch To Add Online Co-Op Scenario Campaign
The scenario campaign in Tekken 6 (essentially, a modern Streets Of Rage) was absolutely not the best thing about the game, but you have to admire Namco's will to tout it
Not only is it the focus of the game's menu, but it's also about to get a patch adding in online co-op. There'll even be voice chat. The patch is due on Monday.
News Roger Jr? Panda? Kuma? Why Are You All Missing From The Tekken Movie?
A leaked poster for the upcoming Tekken movie confirmed our fears
The movie will feature no Kuma, Panda or Roger Jr. There is literally no excuse for this in an age where CGI is basically properly amazing. We suggest you boycott this movie out of principle.
News Tekken 6 Patch Launches Tomorrow, Fixes Online Issues
Woohoo
We'll soon be able to actually, y'know, play Tekken 6 online. Namco Bandai have announced that a patch will launch tomorrow, improving connectivity between players and subsequently reducing lag. Namco are also improving the responsiveness of button inputs, and adding in a cancel option if you're unhappy with connection of your matched...
News Tekken 6 DLC Will Probably Free
Whilst most people probably care more about a Tekken 6 patch than DLC at this point, producer Katsuhiro Harada has commented on uk
playstation.com</a> that any released content for the game is likely to be free. We'll won't argue with getting something for nothing so, we look forward to some content. We look forward to a multiplayer patch even...
News RIDDDDDDDDDGE RACER! (Accelerated)
Remember when SCE's Kaz Hirai said "Riddddddddddge Racer"? Yeah, that's all we could think about when we heard Namco Bandai has trademarked the title Ridge Racer Accelerated
If, indeed, it's a Playstation 3 game, we hope they let Kaz announce it. Just for sarcasm's sake if nothing else.
News Tekken 6's Online Mode Is Going To Get All Patched Up According To Namco
We're reviewing Tekken 6 as we type, and rather enjoying it to be honest
It has its faults, but if you're a Tekken fan, there's no way you're coming away disappointed. Sadly, the game's online is probably the weakest part, with very hit or miss net-code leading to lag. Sometimes it's fine, other times it's less so. It's always playable, just not...
Rumour Tekken 6 Getting A PS3 Slim Bundle Too
Sony seem quite keen on bundling up Playstation 3s around the world right now
The problem is, there seems to be no real consistency over who is getting what. Take this statement from Sony UK regarding NextGamer.nl's uncovered Tekken 6 bundle, "We're not doing that bundle but one of the territories might be." Erm, ok. Seems like Sony are as...
News Are Microsoft Inadvertently Funding The Development Of Playstation 3 Titles?
A developer for one-time XBOX 360 exclusive Vampire Rain has spoken out about the trend of XBOX 360 exclusives being ported to the Playstation 3 a year later
We've already seen it happen with titles like Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope and Tales Of Vesperia amongst others. But why? The blogger writes that development on the XBOX 360 is easier. The...
News Playstation Home Rewards Included With Katamari Forever
You know what, people will moan about Playstation Home for the rest of eternity but we kind of like it
When you take it for what it is, Playstation Home can be a good place to just chill out with some friends and chat or play some pool or something. Which y'know, it's not going to replace a real gaming session, but we're not entirely sure it was...
News Watch Kratos Kick The Crap Out Of Kilik In Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny
We wrote merely minutes ago that we think Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny is quickly becoming one of our most anticipated PSP releases
This footage with Kratos confirms such suspicions. The game looks gorgeous. We're totally taken with how well Kratos fits into the universe too. Namco have done a fantastic job bringing Kratos' moves into a beat 'em up...
News Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny's Character Creation Is Just As Awesome As In Soul Calibur IV
Seeing this screenshot actually fills us with joy
The Soul Calibur series has always had some great customisation options but they peaked with Soul Calibur IV. To be honest, given the PSP's limited power and storage, we didn't expect to see character creation in Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny. But it's coming. In fact, Namco are teasing that Broken...
News Tekken 6 "Vengeance Trailer" Includes Slow-Mo & Electro
Is it ok for us to be the tiniest bit disappointed with this trailer for Tekken 6? Sure the electro and close-ups are cool but well, after Namco's very own Soul Calibur IV this game just looks terribly disappointing from a graphical stance
We're sure there's plenty way to go to polish things up but would we be far wrong saying this trailer doesn't...
We finally got a new trailer for the new Tekken game just recently and I thought it was ample time I shared it with you guys
I'm not actually sure if the game is in arcades or not yet so anyone in the know can holler in the comments section of this post. What I am waiting for is a concrete release date for the Playstation 3 version seeing as no one...
