Killzone 3 is going free-to-play. At least, part of it is. This week, the hosts of the PlayStation Blogcast confirmed Sony and Guerrilla Games will be gifting a limited version of Killzone 3’s multiplayer component to all PSN members, with an option to buy the full experience for $15. “[Killzone …
Read More »Playing PSP games on Vita: Sony shows how
While Sony has saved you the headache of paying to port your UMD-based PSP games over to Vita, the company’s adamant that backwards-compatibility remains a selling point for the system. To demonstrate this, the PlayStation Blog has a lengthy list of PSP titles and PlayStation Minis already set up for …
Read More »Platinum Games using PS3 as lead platform for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
The lead platform being used by Platinum Games for work on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is the PS3, Platinum producer Atsushi Inaba revealed today. While behind-the-scenes footage of the title has shown glimpses of Xbox 360 controllers used in development, these are used for the PCs on which Platinum develops …
Read More »Report: Ico/Shadow of Colossus director Fumito Ueda has left Sony
When it was first announced, PS3-exclusive The Last Guardian was one of our most anticipated games of 2010, then one of our most anticipated for 2011, and now we’re really excited for it in 2012. But the delays and the fact that we hadn’t seen the game in a long …
Read More »Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One review
Ready for another adventure with a certain Lombax and his robotic best friend? Insomniac’s next title in the R&C series: Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One takes on a different perspective, giving gamers a chance to play with up to four other teammates. With a new main co-op feature that …
Read More »The games of October 2011
October is the busiest month of the year. At least, that’s what we’re telling ourselves now, while we pretend November isn’t a thing that’s happening. November’s release list is even larger than this month’s, which is so large that reading this is taking valuable time away from everything you want …
Read More »Sony: Games are still #1 priority on Vita
Sony’s PlayStation Vita comes into a very different world than its original PSP joined. Mobile technology and increasingly digital-driven multimedia, not to mention social media, cloud-based gaming and all the other buzzwords getting between joypads and screens, have changed the gaming landscape, and the company’s focus on connectivity and networking …
Read More »PS3 will use Vita as a controller
The ability for Sony’s upcoming Vita to function as a PS3 controller was revealed by Sony Europe R&D manager Phil Rogers at Develop Conference 2011. The Vita/PS3 compatibility is very similar to the way the GBA and Nintendo GameCube could be used in tandem, but Rogers went on to give …
Read More »Nintendo slashing 3DS price tag, offering free games to keep current owners from rioting
Nintendo is taking drastic actions to give the 3DS a solid lead in the handheld arms race. Today the company announced it would be dropping the cost of its newly released system by over 30% in markets around the globe starting August 12th, bringing the US retail price tag down …
Read More »Resistance 3 hands-on preview
Over the past few months, we’ve gotten a few good looks at Resistance 3, and what we’ve seen so far has been awfully promising. Easily the grittiest installment in the series, Resistance 3 shows us an alternate 1957 in which the alien/mutant Chimera have won, and humanity’s been pushed to …
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