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Rumour God Of War IV To Feature Online Co-Op
Since its inception, the God Of War franchise has been all about its epic single-player experience
But if rumours in the latest issue of British magazine, PSM3, are to be believed, Kratos could be on the verge of heading online. The publication speculates that the next mainline entry of God Of War will sport online co-op and centre on the plot of...
News GameStop Claims The Last Guardian Is Cancelled, Sony Denies
Poor Shuhei Yoshida's Twitter feed is a sight for sore eyes this evening
The Worldwide Studios executive spent the best part of the night clearing up rumours that suggested Team ICO's troubled title, The Last Guardian, had been cancelled. It hasn't — but there's definitely some confusion over the matter. Rumours hit overdrive when customers...
Rumour Battlefield 3 Easter Egg Points To Possible Battlefield 2142 Sequel
An eagle-eyed Battlefield 3 player has spotted what looks like a hint at developer DICE's next game
An Easter egg hidden deep within Wake Island — which ships as part of the the game's Back To Karkand expansion pack — shows the number 2143 scrawled on a wall. Alone it means nothing, but fansite BF3Blog points out that DICE has a habit of...
News Capcom Teases New Dead Rising Game
Capcom has teased the announcement of a new Dead Rising game
A post on the franchise's official Facebook page suggests that protagonist Frank West is gearing up for a new undead adventure. "I'm getting packing for my new adventure - camera, notebook and baseball bat. What else would i need for a break in paradise? - Frank," the post says...
News The PlayStation Blog Gets Mysterious New Background
The PlayStation Blog's got a mysterious new background, presumably in preparation for the announcement of upcoming PS3 exclusive The Last Of Us
The image shows little more than foliage and sunshine, but it looks like a real-time screenshot. Meanwhile, the unannounced game's teaser website has updated with a similar image of trees. Interestingly,...
Rumour Digital PlayStation Vita Releases To Be Discounted By Up To 40% In North America
Take this one with a huge pinch of salt, because we can already sense the inevitable backlash
According to a report on Thrifty Nerd, a Sony representative at a recent PS Vita hands-on event has confirmed that digital releases for the upcoming handheld are set to get a hefty discount. The website claims that retail releases will be capped at $40,...
News PlayStation 3 Exclusive 'The Last Of Us' Teased, Dissected
There are still surprises in the video game industry
When GameTrailers' Geoff Keighley promised an unbelievable PlayStation 3 exclusive would debut at this year's VGAs, speculation automatically pointed towards the heavily rumoured Sony Smash Bros. But a brand new teaser trailer has proved us all wrong. The Last Of Us is the name of Sony's
News Sony: Plenty Of Surprises Planned For PS3 Before The Year's End
If you think Sony's done with PS3 for the year, you're dead wrong
SCEE's gaffer Jim Ryan has teased that there's still plenty of surprises to come before the year's out, though the suit wouldn't be drawn on specifics. "Theres a bunch of stuff at the back end of the year which Im very excited by, and youll hear about it over the coming...
Rumour Resident Evil 6 To Take Place In China?
It's only been a couple of days since the last Resident Evil 6 rumour, but that's not stopped online super-sleuths from digging up another
According to the resume of Chinese voice actress Wendy Mok, she's currently playing the part of a Chinese villager in Resident Evil 6. Does this point to a new setting for the unannounced game? Wendy Mok has...
Rumour ICO & Shadow Of The Colossus Developer Fumito Ueda Leaves Sony
The man behind two of Sony's most loved games -- ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus -- has left the company according to a report published by Eurogamer this evening
The website claims that the creative power-house is working on completing upcoming title The Last Guardian in a freelance capacity. Once finished, it's reported that Ueda will leave Sony in...
Rumour Multiplayer Dragon Age In Development
EA really is aiming to incorporate multiplayer into all of its franchises
According to a Kotaku report, the publisher is pushing Bioware to release an online arena based battle system as part of its action RPG series. The site claims that dragons will be playable in the multiplayer component, but is unclear whether the mode will be released as a...
Rumour Dead Space To Go First-Person And More
Kotaku's dumped a slew of EA rumours this morning, starting with the Dead Space franchise
The publication claims that the publisher is looking at "new ways to expand" the survival horror space series, and has a first-person shooter in the works. But apparently, that's not all. The publisher also has a Dead Space flight game in development...
News Resident Evil 6 Spotted On Voice Actor's Portfolio
The Resident Evil 6 speculation has died down a touch recently
The game was supposedly set to get a reveal at this year's Tokyo Game Show, but after the Japanese exposition came and went without a trace of the survival horror series, speculation has been unsurprisingly muted. Until now. Eagle-eyed Internet sleuths have uncovered the portfolio of...
Rumour Sony On The Verge Of Announcing Mascot Crossover Fighting Game For PS3
Gamers have speculated about the possibility of a Sony mascot fighting game for years, but we never believed it would actually happen
We were so wrong. Chalk this up under your rumour folder for now, but investigative gamers have all but proved that a "Sony Smash Bros" type game is in development at US developer SuperBot Entertainment...
Rumour Ubisoft Working On New Call Of Juarez?
Call Of Juarez: The Cartel didn't get the strongest critical reception, but it definitely had some cool ideas
Sadly the execution just wasn't quite up to snuff. But that's not stopping Ubisoft mulling over a sequel. According to The Gaming Liberty, players that synced The Cartel with their Uplay accounts have been sent a survey, asked to discuss the...
Rumour Microsoft Looking To Integrate Kinect Into Sony TVs
Take this one with a serious pinch of salt
According to a report on The Daily, Microsoft is looking to integrate its Kinect technology into next-generation televisions from the likes of Vizio and, erm, Sony. The report claims that Microsoft is looking to aggressively push the Kinect into as many living rooms as possible", including those...
Rumour MotorStorm Racing Onto PlayStation Vita?
According our buddies over at TheSixthAxis, Sony is preparing to make a MotorStorm Vita related announcement at a swanky soirée in London tonight
The site points to inside whispers and the Twitter account of Evolution developer Paul Rustchynsky, who's been cheekily dropping hints about making a "special guest appearance" at the event all...
News SEGA Job Listing Hints At The Reimagining Of A Beloved IP
SEGA is hard at work resurrected one of its most "beloved IP"
But don't expect that IP to include the familiar faces of Ryu Hazuki and Nozomi Harasaki, because it's SEGA of America that's handling the development. According to a job listing, SEGA is looking for an executive producer to work on a "a high quality product based on a reimagining of...
Report Major Sony Studio Shifts Focus To New PlayStation
On top of a bunch of XBOX successor rumours this week, EDGE has revealed via an unnamed source that at least one major Sony developer has switched attention to the next PlayStation system
According to the report, the Sony subsidiary has had an input on the graphics technology adopted by the new system. But which studio could it be? Our money is...
Rumour UK Magazine Employee Outs Grand Theft Auto V Details
If your eyes are averse to reading things that might be considered spoilerific, you might want to cover them up with a thick piece of paper and turn off your computer monitor right now
That is if the comments of one naughty British magazine employee regarding Grand Theft Auto V are to be believed. Assuming they are legitimate, then it's probably...
Rumour Grand Theft Auto V Releasing May 24th?
Tenuous one this, but still fun
NowGamer has spotted what it believes to be a cryptic release date in Grand Theft Auto V's debut trailer. There's lingering scene that focuses on a man erecting a 'For Sale' sign. Written on the curb to the right is the number '2405', which NowGamer hypothesises could point towards a May 24th release date. Before you...
News Sony Teases 'Surprise Announcement' For Jump Festa
It's always exciting when Sony teases the words "surprise announcement"
But it nearly always leads to a bunch of wild and unattainable expectations. So let's keep our hype gauge in check, then. Jump Festa, a Japanese games festival, is set to take place in Tokyo later this year. Awkwardly the event will coincide with the launch of PlayStation Vita,...
Ready for more ridiculous graphics and terrible accents? Good, because if rumours are to be believed Avalanche is hard at work on a new entry in the Just Cause series
The news comes via XBOX World magazine (sigh, we know), which claims that the game is due for release next year. We'll take a new Just Cause, just less Bolo Santosi this time ta...
Rumour Grand Theft Auto V To Feature Multiple Protagonists, Set In Los Angeles
Hot on the heels of yesterday's shock announcement, the rumour mill for Grand Theft Auto V has hit overdrive
Perhaps the most persistent rumour at the moment is that the game will take place in a "Rockstarified" Los Angeles — a rumour that's been running since before the game's announcement. Are we on the cusp of experiencing a...
Rumour Bethesda Temporarily Postpones Development Of Doom 4
Oh wow
Rumours are flying that Bethesda has temporarily postponed development of Doom 4 after the recently released RAGE didn't meet expectations. Apparently parent company Zenimax has "a serious lack of confidence in the project management at id," following the technical issues and luke-warm reviews surrounding RAGE. We thought the game...
Report Sony Studios Start Work On PlayStation 4 Projects
So it starts
Ironically on the week we've spent a lot of time pondering PlayStation 4. We got to thinking about Sony's next system when we came to the conclusion that Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception would probably be Naughty Dog's final PlayStation 3 game. We figured that by analysing the portfolio of Sony's internal studios, we could probably...
Rumour Beenox Working On Amazing Spider-Man Movie Tie-In?
Spider-Man: Edge Of Time is barely cold on store shelves
But already speculation is high about Spider-Man developer, Beenox's next project. According to sneaky photographs snapped by IGN at the NYCC, that project is a tie-in to next year's Sony Pictures' Spider-Man reboot. A poster snapped at the convention clearly shows The Amazing Spider-Man with...
Rumour Syphon Filter Returning On PlayStation Vita?
Syphon Filter's been out of the spot-light for some time
Once a mega franchise in the original PlayStation's arsenal, the series trundled through the PSP and PS2 era with some impressive but overlooked releases. But according to Official PlayStation Magazine, franchise creator Sony Bend is lining up a new entry in the series once it's done with...
News Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Pass Uncovered
Just get on with it EA
You're not fooling anyone. We know Mass Effect 3's going to have a multiplayer component of kinds. You may as well just announce it. It's pretty much confirmed anyway. A scan of a South African magazine lists the contents of a Mass Effect 3 collector's edition, with a "multiplayer pass" being amongst the goods...
News South African Retailer Prompts Jak & Daxter HD Collection Rumours
It's happening?
Now God Of War, Sly Cooper and Team ICO have each received an HD collection, speculation is sky-high as to which PS2 franchise Sony will pick next for PS3. It seems BT Games, a South African retailer, knows something we don't — as the store has added the (currently) unannounced Jak & Daxter HD Collection to its product...
News What's That, A New Co-Operative Shooter From IO Interactive?
Spin off
The last co-operative third-person shooter IO Interactive developed was the divisive Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. Despite taking a bit of a critical pounding, the game sold exceptionally well on the back of its unique visual style. So it wouldn't be a surprise if we did see another title in the series. And in a recent job listing for a...
News I Am Alive Curiously Rated By The ESRB
What the heck is going on with I Am Alive? The game's been mysteriously absent from any of Ubisoft's release schedules for years now, and yet its popped up on the ESRB's website this afternoon with a rating of "Mature"
That means the game's presumably finished and ready to be released somewhere. And it's not the first time it's been rated either —...
Rumour Final Fantasy X HD To Be Updated Using Final Fantasy XIII's Engine?
The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita version of Final Fantasy X might be getting more than a resolution bump if rumours are to be believed
According to PSTime, a full upgrade of the PlayStation 2 title is in the works using Square Enix's Crystal Tools engine. It's the same engine Square Enix is using to develop Final Fantasy XIII-2 and
News Ready At Dawn Working On New PlayStation 3 Title
The developer of the PSP's fine God Of War titles is heavy at work on a new title for PlayStation 3
The game is pitched as a third-person action adventure title in a Gamasutra job listing. Ready At Dawn's on the lookout for an animator and technical artist to work on the "exciting new IP". The American studio has a fabulous track record...
News Sony Santa Monica Staffing Up For New IP
God Of War developer -- and support team across many PlayStation projects -- Sony Santa Monica is staffing up in preperation for a new "unannounced IP"
The news comes courtesy of a job posting on Gamasutra, requesting the services of a level designer with "experience in designing or contributing to the development of an open world game"...
News We'd Buy Daytona USA All Over Again
Looks like SEGA's preparing to revisit another of its classic franchises
A listing for a new version of Daytona USA has popped up on the website of an Australian Classifications Board. Daytona USA previously popped up on SEGA Saturn and Dreamcast. If we had to bet, we'd guess this rating is part of SEGA's downloadable Dreamcast catalogue, which has...
Rumour Resident Evil 6 To Debut During Tokyo Game Show
Following on from previous rumours, EGM has hinted that Capcom might be preparing to announce Resident Evil 6 at TGS this week
Chatting with an anonymous source, the site's shadowy associate revealed that the series will go "back to its roots" with a revamp, with the main priority defining what made Resident Evil so great to begin...
Rumour Sonic Generations, Yakuza 5 Coming To PlayStation Vita
We predicted some time ago that SEGA's celebration of its blue-spined mascot would make the jump to PlayStation Vita, and if current rumours are to be believed it sounds like we were correct
TSSZ cite an anonymous source that notes the existence of a Vita version of Sonic Generations. The website predicts that the game will launch alongside the...
Rumour Super Monkey Ball Rolling Onto The PlayStation Vita
It's a shame that SEGA's excellent Super Monkey Ball series has dropped in importance in recent years, but we still hold a torch for the quirky platforming series and are excited to see a new title get teased for PlayStation Vita today
The game was accidentally revealed on the company's website, with a batch of new Super Monkey Ball screenshots...
Rumour Vita Reaches Japan on 12th November
Rest of world in March
According to an anonymous source confiding in French site GamAlive, PlayStation Vita will be available to buy in Japan from 12th November this year. We're expecting to hear official confirmation of the system's Japanese release date at next week's Tokyo Games Show, and as Sony has pledged the machine will make it to the Land...
Rumour Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Details Leaked
Modern Warfare 3 is still a few months off, but the upcoming Call of Duty XP event looks to be a treasure trove of information, as one leak presents
As an anonymous break-in at the Call of Duty XP event depicts in a YouTube video, MW3 will contain 13 maps, down from numbers previously seen in Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2. Carbon, Coast, Dome,...
News Amazon Looks Into Its Crystal Ball, Predicts Silent Hill: Downpour's Release Date
Mega-retailer Amazon
co.uk</a> has plumped up a November 4th release date for the previously release date-less Silent Hill: Downpour. Publisher Konami originally attached a late October release to the game, but has since gone quiet about the game's launch schedule. With the Silent Hill Collection due out in late October, the window would...
News Ubisoft Updates I Am Alive's Age Rating
Ubisoft has updated the age rating for its mysterious natural survival horror title, I Am Alive
The game — which has been missing in action for years now — had its age rating modified on an Australian government website just yesterday. The updated rating follows a slew of footage that leaked earlier in the week. Development of I Am Alive has...
Rumour PS3 to Drop to £199.99 in UK
That's cheap
It's Gamescom in Cologne at the moment and we've just heard an interesting rumour: Sony is about to announce a price drop for its PlayStation 3 console alongside a release date for PlayStation Vita. UK trade retailer MCV posted and quickly rescinded a story claiming the PS3 is set to drop to £199.99 in the UK. Thankfully we grabbed a...
News SCEE Confirms February/March Release Date For PlayStation Vita In Europe
It's not the most impressive news of the year: we already knew that the PlayStation Vita was scheduled to release 'early 2012' in Europe
But a paragraph of text on the Swedish PlayStati
News Evidence Mounts For Resident Evil 6
The LinkedIn profile of a CGI artist named Shannon Justison has referenced work on "Resident Evil 6's cinematics"
According to the artist's profile, work began on the project in June 2009 and is still underway. Justison works at an L.A. based film company called The Third Company — where she's presumably getting a rollicking as we type...
News DONTNOD Prepares For GamesCom Reveal With DualShock Controllers In Hand
Parisian developer DONTNOD has long been associated with PlayStation
The developer is believed to be working on a science fiction title, which is due to be announced at next week's GamesCom in Cologne. The developer has updated its Facebook page with photos of the development staff rehearsing for the announcement -- DualShock controller in hand we...
News Starbreeze's Syndicate Reboot Likely To Appear At GamesCom
Starbreeze has been quiet for far too long
The Swedish developer known for its work on the Riddick series has long been associated with a reboot of Syndicate, using the codename Project Redlime. Despite frequent rumours teasing the game's announcement, Syndicate is still unannounced. But according to reports it's likely to make an appearance at...
Rumour Official PlayStation Magazine Teases Resident Evil 6
Following the leak of the game's logo and word of a potential Tokyo Game Show reveal, Official PlayStation Magazine's added fuels to the flames of the Resident Evil 6 rumours
The magazine claims that "Operation Raccoon City will be followed up by another canon entry in 2012". As big fans of the Resident Evil series, we're officially...
Rumour PlayStation Vita Not Releasing Before 2012 In Europe
It's the news we've all been dreading, especially after we've had so many indications pointing towards a 2011 release, but NowGamer's citing retail sources that state the PlayStation Vita will not launch in Europe before 2011 is out
Only last week we got a retail flier indicating that Vita could launch on October 28th, but we stated at the time that...