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News Genuinely Amazingly Good News: SEGA Rate Sonic Adventure DX As A New "Multiplatform" Title
We don't care what anyone says, the original Sonic Adventure is the best Sonic game in recent years
Even the GameCube remake, Sonic Adventure DX, was amazing - adding a few extras that forced us to play through the whole thing again. Brilliant. Thank goodness for an Australian rating filed for a "multiplatform" release of Sonic Adventure...
News Playstation 3 Ad Hoc Party May Come To The West As Early As Next Week
Ad Hoc Party has been a popular Playstation 3 application among Japanese gamers for over a year now
The West, well, we still haven't got it. But a trailer for fighting game Fate/Unlimited Codes hints at an end to the wait. The game's trailer, posted on the US Playstation.Blog, hints at playing online with "ad hoc party". Couple that with...
News Motorstorm: Arctic Edge Hits Retail September 29th, Becomes A PSP Go Launch Title
Motorstorm: Arctic Edge has been confirmed as a welcoming gift for the oncoming winter (boo
), launching on UMD September 29th and download on October 1st. Of course, that puts Motorstorm: Arctic Edge right next to Gran Turismo PSP as a spiritual launch title for the PSP Go, which launches on the same day. Both releases are priced at $39.99 and...
First Impressions Dead Nation on Playstation 3
Nowadays, zombie games aren't getting the attention they used to
We think it's probably fair to say we're all a bit fed up of them right? But, what if a newly announced zombie game was confirmed to be in development by Super Startdust HD developers, House Marque. Yup, thought that would catch you. Essentially, Dead Nation is very much Super Stardust...
News Smash Cars Hits The European PSN This August 27th
Creat Studios' latest (and maybe greatest) PSN title, Smash Cars, will hit the European Playstation Network this coming August 27th
The game will cost just 14.99/£11.99. Smash Cars is a trick-based RC toy racing game with tons of vehicle customisation and six player online multiplayer. We'll have a review for you really soon.
News Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Hits The PSP This October 20th
One-time Nintendo DS exclusive, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is on the precipice of a PSP release
Despite releasing no screenshots or trailers, the game has been pencilled in by developers Rockstar for October 20th. It will release on both UMD and PSP Go friendly digital download via the Playstation Store. Enhancements have been promised for the...
News Batman: Arkham Asylum Out In The US Today, Free Content On The Way
Batman: Arkham Asylum is pretty rad
As you'll know if you live in the US, because you'll probably be playing right now. Even though we wrapped up our review of the game over the weekend, we're yet to put it down. The thought of extended DLC makes us really happy. The game has an infobar that scrolls with latest news from Eidos' server while you...
News Latest Red Faction Guerrilla Multiplayer DLC Headed September 17th
There are three packs for Red Faction Guerrilla planned
We've already had the decent Demons Of The Badlands. On September 17th we'll see the second. The pack will cost $7 and will add the following content: New Maps (Playable on all but Siege): Puncture Broadside Compound Division Equilibrium Gradient Haven Remnant New Modes: Bagman Team...
News Heads Up: The PSN Might Be Down Right Now Where You Are
Don't worry if you can't connect to the PSN right now
No one can. Apparently. Even though we just got done logging off and everything was fine. Whatever. Sony have sent out an official notice to let you know that there will be some scheduled maintenance on their free online gaming service from 4:15PM to 9PM UK-time. Go find a world clock to find out...
News Timothy Bender Joins SCEA Ahead Of Sony's "Most Aggressive Holiday Season" Yet
The dude behing LiveScribe and LeapFrog, Timothy Bender, is to join SCEA
Raise your glasses folks! Tim has been appointed the role of Senior Vice President of Sales for Sony Computer Entertainment America, meaning his job is to make sure everyone knows how downright awesome the Playstation brand is. His boss, CEO Jack Tretton, had some nice things...
News FIFA 10 Demo Coming September 10th
If you, like us, can't wait to get your hands on the latest version of EA Sport's FIFA 10, perhaps you'd like to know that a demo is scheduled for launch on September 10th (17th if you're in North America)
The demo will contain Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Marseille, and Chicago Fire allowing you to play an exhibition match. The full...
News Square Enix To Bring Back Classic Franchise Thexder On The PSP & PS3
The ESRB are at it again, back-handedly rating games no one else knew about
This time they're "announcing" a reboot of the Square-Enix classic, Thexder. It'll be called Thexder NEO and has been rated for the PS3 and PSP. The game first appeared on the NEC PC-8801 before being ported to the NES and PC. According to the ESRB rating the...
News Sony Do Away With Bandwidth Fees & Other Developer Risks In Order To Attract Talent
If you're interested in developing PSP Minis, you should know that Sony are scrapping the bandwidth fee which charges publishers per gigabyte of transfer
The information discovered by GamerBytes also states that Sony will scrap the "minimum sales quota" demand that other digital distribution services like Nintendo's WiiWare and XBOX Live...
News Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen To Get The Real Transformers As DLC
August 27th will see the addition of the real Transformers character models to movie tie-in release Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
The DLC includes eight new playable characters based on the original Generation 1 Transformer designs. It also includes three new character skins, three multiplayer maps and an "Expert" difficulty setting...
News PSP Minis To Leave Content Up To The Developer's Discretion
A document discovered by PocketGamer suggests that Sony don't want to fall into the same trap as Apple's App store with their PSP Minis service
Despite Apple's gaming solution being respected for its scope and variety, it's often come under fire for its inconsistent censorship scale. PSP Minis, though, will remove the "requirement for content...
News The Kingdom Do Come To Save The Obese Princess
We already told you about chefs, ninjas and pirates coming to Fat Princess, but what about the king? Looks like he's heading to the party too
Titan Studios have been very quiet about these new characters — it'll interesting to see how they are implemented seeing as new classes could effectively change the entire game. Still, it's going to be...
News Money Waste Alert: Playstation Network Cards To Be Sold In Game Cases In Europe
Back when we thought the Wii was neat, we actually bought Wii Points for our console (Nintendo are very selective of the credit cards you can use with the system)
Said Wii Points were packaged in gigantic DVD game cases in Europe. Looks like Sony are about to do the same thing with PSN points cards. PS3-Sense have shots of the official packaging for...
News Gundam Outfit Brings Camp To Playstation Home
We're sure our homosexual readers won't take offence when we declare this Gundam outfit for Playstation Home avatars a teensy bit camp
The costume will come as a reward for those who watch the trailer for Kidou Senshi Gundam Senki Gundam (which is being bundled with some Slims in Japan) in the Playstation Home theater. The trailer is only...
News The English Final Fantasy XIII Voice Overs Are Done
Square Enix want you to know that the English voice overs for Final Fantasy XIII are done
Finished. Finito. With the voice acting totally done, we wish they'd cut a slice of the game out and put it on the Playstation Store for us to try. Come on Squeenix. Pwease.
News Chefs, Pirates & Ninjas Coming To Fat Princess
Titan Studios are teasing new classes for Fat Princess
The teasers on their blog come without explanation or description. Just words and images. Still, we can safely assume that Chefs, Ninjas and Pirates are heading to the multiplayer based title. While the other classes are pretty self explanatory, we're curious to see how the Chefs play. Will they...
News English Demo Will Be New & Downloadable, If It Happens
Those of you hotly anticipating a Blu-Ray release of an English version of the Final Fantasy XIII demo may be a little disappointed
If indeed an English demo ever does make it to the West, it's like to be downloadable. Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase commented, "we are thinking of providing it in a downloadable format." And what would a...
News The PSP Minis Keeping Coming, Halfbrick Studios Announce They Are Working On Four
The dominance of Sony's latest PSP Minis banner continues to grow following Tuesday's official announcement
Examiner have just confirmed that Halfbrick Studio banner. Confirmed are: Halfbrick Blast Off - a physics based sci-fi shooter. Halfbrick Echoes - an arty adventure title where spawned enemys walk the exact trail the player walked. Halfbrick...
News PSP Minis Wooing iPhone Developers Towards The PSP Go
Sony is starting to see, what it hopes, will be a migration of iPhone developers over to the new PSP Go
With Sony courting enough developers to already see 50 of their newly branded sub-100MB PSP Minis released before the end of the year, the switch is already starting. Develop are reporting that HoneySlug - a three-man London studio who have...
News Borderlands Demo Unlikely, Certainly Not Before Launch
Borderlands may be the hottest thing on the gaming press' lips but it's unlikely to enjoy a demo pre-release
Speaking to Joystiq, a 2K rep clarified, "Everyone is really, really focusing on getting the game done for release ... that's not to say there will never be a demo, just not before launch." Despite Borderlands being hyped to...
News GamesCom 09: Take A Look At Final Fantasy XIV Gameplay
Sony's semi-shock announcement from E3 '09 was Final Fantasy XIV
Here is the game being shown off at GamesCom. It looks very much like an MMO to us. To be totally honest, we have no idea what's going on in this video or how it compares to Final Fantasy XI (the previous FF MMO). All we know is that the graphics look pretty.
News The Beatles: Rock Band Album DLC Dated, Detailed
For those of you who are hardcore The Beatles fans, you're probably going to what some of the more obscure album tracks in your The Beatles: Rock Band game
Harmonix have you covered, they will eventually release the entire Beatles back catalogue as DLC. First up is Abbey Road on October 20th. It will cost you $16.98 to download the entire thing,...
News Sackboy To Be Lonely In LittleBigPlanet PSP, No Multiplayer Confirmed
For us, the selling point of LittleBigPlanet PSP is being able to create levels on the move
For some it will probably be participating in multiplayer sessions of LBP while in the garden or something. We're afraid if your someone looking forward to the latter, LittleBigPlanet PSP will not support online multiplayer. "It's the one thing we've...
News GamesCom 09: Further Details On Firmware 3.0
Hey y'all, are you all still excited about the new features coming to the XMB via Firmware 3
0</a>? We know we are. How'd you like to see a little bit more about what the new firmware can do, plus get a quick look at some alternative animated themes? You would? Hit the play button above!
News GamesCom 09: Sony's Digital Comics Service Reveal Trailer
Interested in comics? Got a Playstation Portable? Sony totally have your back with the Digital Comics service they announced at GamesCom yesterday
The service will provide access to hundreds of Marvel comics when it launches later in the year, with a host of other publishers to be announced in the future. This is actually something we have a close...
News GamesCom 09: Check Out Some PSP Minis In Action
Announced yesterday at their GamesCom conference, Sony detailed a new line of PSP titles that would be under 100MB and retail for a lower price
These titles fill out a new area of the Playstation Store known as "Minis" providing players with access to easily digestable, cheap games. We're pretty excited about Sony's latest line of games...
News GamesCom 09: Gravity Crash Is All Play. Create. Share. Too
Ever wanted to create your own retro inspired space shooter in a gorgeous HD environment
Just Add Water's PSN title Gravity Crash will let you do just that and then some. The game will also hit the PSP minus the Play. Create. Share. functionality.
News GamesCom 09: Singstar Home Space Is All About Grooving To Dizzee Rascal
Singstar is finally coming to Playstation Home, with a Space that packs jukeboxes, quizzes and dance floors
Exactly what more could you want from a Home space? The answer is of course "nothing". Still, the trailer teases more to come.
News GamesCom 09: Dead Nation Is Playstation 3 Exclusive From Super Stardust Developers
We posted about Dead Nation yesterday when the game's title leaked
Now we've got the trailer. The PSN exclusive is a zombie shoot 'em up from the developers of Super Stardust HD. Carrying a grindhouse like feel, it's an isometric shooter in a similar vein as Burn, Zombie, Burn!.
News GamesCom 09: "Hundreds" Of Marvel Comics Coming To The Playstation Portable
You'll be able to read all your favourite comics on the Playstation Portable very soon
Sony announced their new "Digital Reader" for the PSP at GamesCom today. While it's unknown exactly what content will hit the service, we currently know that "hundreds" of Marvel comics will be among the first on the system. It'll be...
News GamesCom 09: Sony Announce Playstation Portable "Minis"
We speculated that Sony might have an "App store" of some form up their sleeve at this year's GamesCom
PSP "Minis" are just that. The sub-100MB PSP downloads will feature on their own section of the Playstation Store, providing cheap content for the portable system. Fifteen titles will be available on October 1st to coincide with the...
News GamesCom 09: Video Store Heading To The European Playstation Network Soon
The Playstation 3 video store is finally coming to the European Playstation Network this Fall
The service launch in the UK, France, Germany, and Spain in November, with more areas to follow in 2010. The service will launch with a host of movies (for rent or purchase in HD or SD) but will soon branch out into local "televised" content...
News GamesCom 09: Water Is Heading To LittleBigPlanet Via DLC
Water has been confirmed as a downloadable extra for LittleBigPlanet
The potentially game changing add on hasn't been detailed in full at the time of writing, but we do have this amazing trailer for you.
News GamesCom 09: Playstation Network Paves The Way For... Dare We Say It?
The Playstation Network is going down today
Today is Sony's conference at GamesCom. Dare we make a link? Apparently it's for "maintenance" but note, the downtime will coincide minute to minute exactly against Sony's press conference. What could it mean? Seriously, what could it mean? We have hours until we find out.
News VidZone To Expand To New Territories, Get Improvements
VidZone has been a massive success story
With a million downloads and a ton of exclusives (ahead of the likes of MTV and more) it's hard to play down the service's rise to prominence. It's even taken the developers by surprise."It was difficult to assess how well it would do," Louisa Jackson, director of marketing for VidZone, told GI.biz...
News Earthworm Jim Is Coming To The Playstation Network
Rejoice
Earthworm Jim is coming to the Playstation Network. Interloft have granted Gameloft exclusive rights to develop and publish Earthworm Jim to Sony's Playstation Network."We are delighted to partner with Interplay to bring Earthworm Jim to multiple downloadable platforms," said Gonzague de Vallois, senior vice president, Gameloft...
News Mini Ninjas Demo Hitting The Ol' PSN This Week
Who wants to try out Eidos' adorable release Mini Ninjas? We do
Seriously. We think it's shaping up rather neatly and we're looking forward to the demo that's been confirmed to hit the PSN this very week. Mini Ninjas is all about Hiro, Futo and Suzume's adorable adventure, bringing peace and harmony to a world teetering on destruction. Sound...
News GamesCom 09: Unannounced Playstation Title "Dead Nations" Leaked Via Eurogamer
Eurogamer
de's</a> schedule for GamesCom hints at an unannounced Playstation game. Among the lofty names of Uncharted 2, God Of War III and Eye Pet to be shown at Sony's GamesCom conference, the words "Dead Nations" stand out loud and clear. Certainly as PushSquare editors writing about Playstation all day everyday, it's a game we've...
News GamesCom 09: Media Molecule To Announce Updated User Profiles, New Levels & Music Packs
We know Media Molecule are going to announce something at Sony's GamesCom conference on Tuesday
According to their official podcast, we have basis to believe the announcement will somehow involve the new Leerdammer update. Discussing the possibility of improved user profiles, an LBP staffer confirmed that such an update was "imminent" and...
News Holy Invasion Of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This? Coming To Europe Next Month
The game crowned with the longest acronym in the world - HIOP,B
WDIDTDT?</a> - is coming to Europe. The game is mixture of RPG, simulation and tower-defense. Naturally for such a mixed title a demo is warranted, which will hit the Playstation Store on September 3rd; the full game coming thereafter.
News Sony @ GamesCom 09: What To Reasonably Expect
The week of another massive games convention is upon us
Sony are scheduled to show up at the event next week and deliver a press conference on Tuesday 18th at 7:00PM CET. But what can we reasonably expect from the event? We look past the hype to deliver our expectations for Sony at GamesCom 2009. PS3 Slim With so many rumours in the Playstation 3...
News Some PSP Go Games Are Going To Be Very, Very, Very Cheap
With Sony positioning the PSP Go directly against the likes of the iPhone (perhaps moreso than their closest handhald gaming rival the DSi), it makes sense to offer some super cheap content
Like, $0.99 cheap. Perhaps offering credence to a PSP Go app store rumour, PocketGamer are reporting that Sony are to release a bunch of PSP Go titles at the 1,...
News Mavel Vs. Capcom 2 Soundtrack Hits The Playstation Network Next Week
Ok, so admittedly you won't be picking up one of these super-smexy vinyl discs that were distibuted at Comic-Com
However, there will be Marvel vs. Capcom 2 soundtrack goodness available for those of you who want it next week. There's no announcement on a price yet but we're kinda hoping they give it away. Or at least offer it as a freebie to those...
News Creat Studios Launch Smash Cars Onto The PSN This Thursday 20th August
It feels like it has been forever doesn't it? It's been an agonising wait for the next PSN title to come out of Creat Studios, but the day is finally upon us
Smash Cars will hit the Playstation Network this August 20th. That's next week folks. Awww, so many great games, so little time. Physics, stunts and online multiplayer are the serving of the...
News Rockstar To Release Beaterator On PSP
The much rumoured Beaterator game from Rockstar is to hit the PSP this September 29th (US)/October 2nd (Europe) via UMD and PSN download
Popstar Timbaland is on board for the release, claiming, "I've worked closely with Rockstar Games to make something completely unique. Beaterator is like taking my music studio and turning it into a suite of...
News Future Kiss Goodbye To PSW Magazine, A Tear Is Shed
There was a period a few years back when we dabbled with PSW magazine
Much as there is snobbery within the gaming press, we've always been fans of some of the more "mainstream" Playstation press. Sadly with stunted interest in Playstation, and a declining demand in printed press, PSW magazine are to say goodbye. "It's always...
