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News Explodemon! Launch Trailer Is All Like, "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Y'know when you're proper pumped and you can like tense all your muscles and shake with enthusiasm? Explodemon
's</a> launch trailer is a bit like that. It's all like, "DRAMA! PUZZLES! DILEMMAS! PHASE SMASH! FLOOR SLIDE! DEFLECT! BRUTISH! KITCHEN SINK!" Thankfully for British studio Curve, it looks proper AMAZING! It's out this week...
News Yakuza 4 DLC Confirmed For North America, Gamestop Nets Exclusive Hostess XMB Theme
We know you've been sitting on your chair, anxiously waiting for more news on the North American version of Yakuza 4
Ever since we announced last week's European "Kuro" Edition, we know you Americans have been wondering, "What about us?" Worry not, SEGA's not leaving you out. Every new copy of Yakuza 4 will include all the...
News Atlus Pulls The Plug On Catherine's PS3 Demo
Atlus has removed the PlayStation 3's Japanese demo of Catherine, stating the teaser was oddly in "limited quantities"
We're assuming this has more to do with the level of international interest more than anything else. With the PlayStation 3 making it so easy to create regional accounts, we're assuming the Catherine demo got slaughtered with...
News Back To The Future Travels Through Time, Hits PlayStation Network February 15th
TellTale's slapped a big fat February 15th release date on the first episode of their five-part episodic adventure series, Back To The Future
PS3 players will be able to purchase a season pass for $20, which is 20% cheaper than the PC price.
News Fallout: New Vegas "Dead Money" DLC Coming To PlayStation 3 On February 22nd
Great little exclusive Microsoft
The first Fallout: New Vegas DLC, "Dead Money" (which hit the XBOX 360 before Christmas), is coming to the PlayStation 3 on February 22nd. Furthermore, Bethesda's confirmed that three more New Vegas DLC packs will release in the coming months, simultaneously on PS3, 360 and PC. What was the point Microsoft?
Report NGP Is A "Developer's Dream", Due In 2011
Eurogamer's managed to unearth the details from a top-secret SCEE presentation that took place in London yesterday
Attended by roughly 20 developers, Sony shared a wide range of information about its Next Generation Portable, including details on launch plans, specifications and marketing. One attendee, who's sensibly keeping himself anonymous,...
News We're Ashamed To Admit That We Will Play Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) For Trophies
Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) is widely considered one of the worst games on PlayStation 3
We're big fans of Sonic and SEGA games in general, but even we have to admit that the early PS3 title was shoddy at best. Having said that, we've already committed to playing through the game again. Why? Trophies. The game mysteriously appeared on this morning's...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 2nd February 2011
Playable Content Beat Sketcher (£7
99/9.99) Tetris (£7.99/9.99) Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 (£11.99/14.99) X-Men Arcade (£6.29/7.99) Killzone®3 Multiplayer Open Beta (Available from 11am GMT, Thursday 3rd February) EA Sports Fight Night Champion demo Crash Bandicoot 2 (£3.99/4.99)</ul>Add-On Game Content ModNation Racerso...
News Crazy Machines Elements Brings Amateur Invention To The PlayStation Network
Crazy Machines Elements, an upcoming PlayStation Network title due this Spring, promises to appeal to the "amateur inventor" in all of us
If you've ever considered wearing a lab coat and wire-frame glasses, the physics driven puzzle title might be made exclusively for you. While it's not the first game in the Crazy Machines franchise, Elements does...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 1st February 2011
Games Assassin's Creed II Deluxe Edition ($29
99) The UnderGarden ($9.99) Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2 ($14.99) Tales From Space: About A Blob ($14.99) Mega Man 2 (PSone Classic Import) ($5.99)</ul>Demos Fight Night Champions Demo Trinity: Souls of Zill O'Li Demo The UnderGarden Demo Add-ons EyePet Butterfly Pack (free) ModNation Racers...
Rumour I Am Alive Is, Well, Alive On PlayStation Network (Apparently)
I Am Alive was originally intended to be a unique, first-person survival horror game in a natural disaster setting
Since its exciting unveiling, the game's gone through a bit of a turbulent time. Original developers Darkworks were yanked off the project, with Ubisoft Shanghai put in charge. Ubisoft promised that the new studio would "totally...
News Splinter Cell Collection Infiltrating PlayStation 3 In March
Ubisoft's slapped a March 22nd US release date on their upcoming PS3 Splinter Cell Collection bundle
The package — which includes the original Splinter Cell, Pandora's Tomorrow and Chaos Theory — will also be available from the PlayStation Network. The game will support both high-definition visuals and 3D. Bizarrely, still no word on when...
News SEGA Confirms SEGA Rally Online Arcade For PlayStation Network, We Go Nuts
Easy right
Over jump. Long medium left. Checkpoint. Easy left, maybe. Racing games really don't get much better than SEGA Rally (we're ignoring boxart in that assessment). It's why we're properly pumped over a press release that landed in our inbox last night: SEGA Rally Online Arcade is coming to the PlayStation Network this year. The announcement...
News Original PSP UMDs Could Be Re-Released On NGP Gamecards
If you were smart (like us) you would have switched to purchasing your PlayStation Portable content via the PlayStation Store a long time ago
UMDs were clearly a dead format many years ago, regardless of your stance towards digital download content. Paying a little extra for digital games this past few years has paid off though. While the Next...
News DarkStalkers 3, Cyberbots, Mega Man 4 & More Coming To Japanese PlayStation Network
Capcom's confirmed on Twitter that they are bringing four more PlayStation classics to the Japanese PSN
Star Gladiator, Darkstalkers 3, Cyberbots and Mega Man 4 are all set to be added to the Game Archives. No word on pricing or release yet.
News Chime Super Deluxe Announced For PlayStation Network
British studio Zoë Mode has announced an updated version of XBOX 360 and PC puzzler, Chime, for the PlayStation Network
Chime Super Deluxe will launch on the PlayStation Network "soon" according to a post by the developer on the PlayStation Blog. While sliding blocks to complete puzzles, "players will create a unique remix of the...
Rumour PlayStation Cloud-Saving Coming To Plus Subscribers In Next PlayStation 3 Update
Perhaps preparing the waters for NGP's rumoured cross-connectivity features, Kotaku reports that cloud-saving is coming to the PlayStation 3 as part of the system's next firmware update (3
60). As anticipated, the feature will be restricted to PlayStation Plus subscribers and will presumably allow players to back-up their game progress in the cloud...
News Plants Vs. Zombies Finally Comes To The PlayStation 3 In February
PopCap's finally bringing popular tower defence title, Plants Vs
Zombies</a>, to the PlayStation 3 next month. The port will come via the casual game developer's long term relationship with Sony Online Entertainment. No specific release date or price has been announced yet, but we expect that to follow nearer to release. SOE also intends to...
By the way, the PlayStation 3 got a new firmware update the other day
We would have reported on it, only we were struggled to stay alive during the onslaught of NGP news. The firmware promised a bunch of "security updates", though it was cracked within minutes by the lovely homebrew folks that we don't talk about on this site. Seems there...
News Heads Up: Catherine Demo Hits The Japanese PlayStation Network
As previously promised, Atlus has released a demo for Catherine on the Japanese PlayStation Network
It's available to download now. The demo's size is 930mb.</em>
News Ghostbusters: Sanctum Of Slime Gets March Release Date
Atari's just sent word that their upcoming PSN co-op title, Ghostbusters: Sanctum Of Slime, will launch on the PlayStation Network this coming March 22nd
The game replaces the original Ghostbusters squad with characters first introduced in 2009's PS3 release, Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
News MotoGP 10/11 Dropping March 15th, Demo Due On PlayStation Network Next Month
Vroom
Capcom's confirmed a demo for MotoGP 10/11 will hit the PlayStation Network next month, as well as confirming that the game will release in North America on March 15th. The press release mentioned other details but we don't need to type them out. It's a motorbike game. You ride motorbikes. There are motorbikes in it.
News Avalanche To Announce New PSN Title "In A Month Or So"
Just Cause developers, Avalanche, have told Eurogamer that they'll be ready to announce their new title "in a month or so"
Top noggin Christofer Sundberg told the site that the game would be a PSN release, emphasising that the studio has two bigger projects in development that are still a way off. Our PSN project will be announced in a month or...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 25th January 2011
11 for 2011 PS3 Game Sale Comet Crash Sale (PS3) (now $4
99, original price $9.99) Costume Quest Sale (PS3)(now $7.49, original price $14.99) Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue Sale (PS3) (now $7.49, original price $14.99) Hoard Sale (PS3) (now $7.49, original price $14.99) Motorstorm 3D Rfit Sale (PS3) (now $4.99, original price...
News New StarDrone Screens Look Sparkly in 720p
Shiny shots from space
Move-controlled puzzle game StarDrone is heading towards its PlayStation Network release at a rate of intergalactic knots, and these new screenshots show it's shaping up very nicely indeed. StarDrone is tough to explain, so stick with us. A combination of puzzle, pinball and score attack games such as NiGHTS into Dreams, you...
News Dead Space 2 "Severed" DLC To Offer Additional Single-Player Campaigns
Dead Space 2 isn't even out here in Europe yet, but that's not stopping EA from announcing a chunky portion of DLC ahead of the frightful release
Dead Space 2: Severed will enhance the main game's narrative by providing "two standalone chapters in the single-player game". The DLC will follow Dead Space: Extraction's characters Gabe and...
News Promising PSN Exclusive Explodemon Detonates (Sorry) The PlayStation 3 On February 8th
We could fill this post with egrigious explosion puns
We'll save your sanity and get to more pressing matters: Curve Studios' brilliant looking Explodemon finally has a release date. The PlayStation Network exclusive title (that's totally not a rip off of Splosion Man) has been brandished with a February 8th (9th in Europe) release date. Sony really...
News Tumble Falls to Half Price in PlayStation Network Sale
$4.99 in North America
If you're after a cheap but engaging downloadable title for PlayStation Move, you could do a lot worse than pick up Tumble, the block-stacking, tower-building title that shows off the controller's range of movement as beautifully as any other. If you live in North America, you can now get 50% off Tumble as part of...
We checked
Mass Effect 2 is now available from the PlayStation Store for a whopping £47.99 / 59.99. Don't shoot the messengers. Don't even shoot Sony or EA. Unfortunately this is the stage we're at with digital distribution. Publishers can't undercut retailers because they still play such a huge part in the success of a product. Until we all...
News Killzone 3's Multiplayer Move Beta Launches Next Week
Get your trigger finger ready
In its efforts to get everyone playing Killzone 3 before it's available to buy, Sony's set to launch an open beta for the game next week, complete with 3DTV and PlayStation Move support. Come February 2nd in North America or February 3rd in Europe you'll be able to step onto the game's Frozen Dam level in one of three...
SCEE's announced that through February 3rd to February 15th players will be able to enlist upon the Killzone 3 open beta
The client will provide early access to Killzone's Frozen Dam multiplayer level, playable across three game modes: Guerrilla Warfare, Warzone and Operations. The offline multiplayer Botzone component will also be available. There...
News PlayStation Home's Exciting Espionage Title Launches In The US This Week
We've said it once, we'll say it again, and we'll continue to champion it until it sinks in: PlayStation Home is starting to get really, really exciting
It feels like Home's finally beginning to reach the potential it always aspired to. Spaces like Sodium One are what we won us over, so it's exciting to see more games implemented into Home's...
News Stacking Pops Onto The PlayStation Network On February 8th
DoubleFine's quirky Russian doll-inspired downloadable offering, Stacking, is due for release on the PlayStation Network on February 8th the developer's confirmed
The game will cost $14.99. We still don't know a great deal about the title, though we do know the protagonist will be able to assume the bodies of other characters to gain access to new...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 19th January 2011
Special Offers (available until Feb
2) Warhawk Complete Bundle (£15.99/19.99) Crash Commando (was £6.29/7.99 now £3.19/3.99) TV Show King (was £3.99/4.99 now £0.79/0.99) Split/Second High Octane Supercar Pack (was £1.59/1.99 now £0.79/0.99) Topatoi Episode 2: Pillar of the Skies (was £4.79/5.99 now ...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 18th January 2010
Updates TV Show King - Sale (PS3) (now $0
99, original price $4.99) Record Of Agarest War - Permanent Price Drop (PS3) (now $29.99, original price $44.99) Battlefield: 1943 - Permanent Price Drop (PS3) (now $9.99, original price $14.99) Resident Evil Director's Cut (PS3/PSP) (now $4.99, original price $9.99)</ul>Games Mass Effect 2...
Out Today Modern Combat: Domination (North America)
Get your shoot on
Your trigger finger may be itching in anticipation of going hands-on with Killzone 3 next month, but if you want a cheap title to tide you over then today sees the launch of Modern Combat: Domination on PlayStation Network. Your $7.99 gets you six multiplayer modes for up to 16 players, with five maps and the usual XP and weapon...
News Portal 2 On PlayStation 3 Nets Cross-Platform Play, Cloud Storage & Steam Play
When Gabe Newell showed up at Sony's E3 press conference last year and stated that the PS3 version of Portal 2 would be the "definitive version," we assumed it meant we'd get an extra couple of levels and cloud storage
And we would have been happy with that. But what Valve's actually announced for the PS3 version of Portal 2 goes above and beyond...
News Catherine Demo Dated For January 27th Release On PlayStation Store
Atlus has finally revealed the anticipated date for the oft-teased Catherine demo
January 27th will mark the fateful day we all actually get to load up the bizarre looking title and get a glimpse of what it's all about. According to Siliconera, "players will be able to sample a section of the game's opening featuring event movies, anime movies...
News Sony Online Entertainment: Freerealms PS3 "In Submission", Due February/March
Well that's a turn-up for the books
Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play casual MMO, Free Realms, has long been rumoured for the PlayStation 3, but after years of no information, we'd assumed it was missing in action. Apparently not though, as Sony Online Entertainment's head honcho John Smedley has told Eurogamer that the game's currently going...
News Bulletstorm Demo Kicks People In The Face On January 25th
Bulletstorm looks and sounds stupid
So stupid we've stopped posting the game's nonsense trailers on this site. We get that's part of the game's tone, but we don't like it. We hate it in fact. People calling each other crude names never was, and never will be funny. Still, the media seems to think Bulletstorm's a gameplay is worth a damn. We'll find...
News Smedley: DC Universe Online To Expand On A Monthly Basis
MMOs have arrived on the PlayStation 3 at last
We can prove it, as we just plonked our copy of DC Universe Online into the PlayStation 3. With the game now readily available, SOE's boss John Smedley has come out to reassure players that the game will receive monthly content updates. Youll get large new raids, new end-bosses to fight, new quests,...
News The UnderGarden's Coming To The PlayStation Network This Winter
As developers Vitamin G quirkily put it on the PlayStation Blog, "Congratulations
Youve hit rank 50 in another first-person shooter. Now its time for something completely different. Welcome to The UnderGarden." The UnderGarden is an experimental co-operative PlayStation Network title from Atari and Vitamin G. According to the developers,...
News New Modern Combat: Domination Trailer Shouts About Cheap Price
Bus tickets, sandwiches or gaming?
Next week's PlayStation Network release of Modern Combat: Domination has a lot going for it, with PlayStation Move support and 16-player deathmatch modes, but Gameloft wants you to know just how little it'll set you back next week, with its latest trailer pointing out the game will cost just €7.99. Lock your eyes...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 12th January 2011
Special Offers (available until Jan
19) UNO (PS3) (was £6.29/7.99 now £0.79/0.99) H.A.W.X. Supremacy Pack (was £7.99/9.99 now £4.79/5.99) Driver (PSone) (was £3.99/4.99 now £2.99/3.59) Tales of Monkey Island (was £13.99/17.99 now £7.19/8.99, available until Jan. 12) Permanent Price Reductions Alien...
News Mass Effect 2 Nets Simultaneous Blu-ray & PlayStation Network Release
We wondered what that "Mass Effect 2: Coming To The PlayStation Network In Six Days" lark was when we opened up the American PlayStation Store this afternoon
Seems like our curiosity has been answered over on the PlayStation Blog: Bioware's confirmed that the PlayStation 3 release of Mass Effect 2 will launch simultaneously on both Blu-ray and the...
News LittleBigPlanet 2 Teams Up With... Toyota?
Reinforcing the belief that LittleBigPlanet is the perfect marketing tool, Sony's announced that LBP2 will play home to some Toyota branded content
The free sponsored content will launch alongside Sackboy's latest game, and will include an XMB theme and a Prius level. The level will include a bunch of prize bubbles allowing you to build your own...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 11th January 2011
Updates Uno Permanent Price Drop (PS3) (now $4
99, original price $7.99) Dead Rising 2 Skills Pack Ninja Sale (PS3) (now $0.99, original price $1.99) Dead Rising 2 Skills Pack Psycho Sale (PS3) (now $0.99, original price $1.99) Dead Rising 2 Skills Pack Soldier Sale (PS3) (now $0.99, original price $1.99) Dead...
News Official PlayStation Application Hits The iTunes / Android Marketplace
As previously announced, Sony's launched a free "Official PlayStation Application" for iTunes and Android
We've just had a little play on the iOS version of the app, and it's pretty darn slick. The tool allows you to log into the PlayStation Network and check your trophies, as well as keep up-to-date with the latest news from the PlayStation Blog...
News Grip Games Bring Supermono's MiniSquadron To PlayStation Minis
Grip Games just sent word that they're currently working on bringing Supermono's iPhone hit MiniSquadron to the PlayStation Minis platform
The game's pitched as a "frantic shooter involving lots of little planes vying for the supremacy of the skies". It looks like some solid throw-away fun. The game was recently named as the #3 iPhone game...
News PlayStation Powered Xperia Phone Detailed (Again!), PlayStation Pocket Application Revealed
It seems you really can't quell a good leak when it gathers steam; the (still
) yet-to-be-announced Sony Ericsson phone with PlayStation features has been blown out overnight due to a manufacturing leak in Asia. Chinese website IT168 has the scoop, with Engadget reproducing the details in a language we actually understand. Well, kinda anyway. Though...