By Ron Duwell |
2004 was the first year gaming truly made the leap from a niche audience to a bit more of the annual blockbuster phenomenon it has become. I remember not being able to turn my head without some kind of AAA behemoth landing on the gaming…
By Ron Duwell |
We are all excited to see Terraria being ported to consoles. The indie hit has already sold two million digital copies through steam, and if Minecraft is any indication of the popularity of these world creation games on consoles, then you can expect that figure to…
By Ron Duwell |
We already knew that Persona 2: Eternal Punishment had been given a Teen ESRB rating and would be coming to the PlayStation Network sooner or later, but I didn’t expect it to pop up this quickly. With only a one week turnaround, Atlus’ hard-to-find PlayStation…
By Ron Duwell |
Sony has received a slap on the wrist for its 2011 PlayStation Network security breach. A U.K. Based watchdog group called Information Commissioner’s Office, ironically abbreviated as ICO, has hit the Japanese electronics giant with a £250,000 (approx. $400,000 USD) fine. While pocket change for…
By Ron Duwell |
Forgive me for taking last week off, but I’m pretty sure you were able to decide for yourself if you wanted to drop $10 on Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. A movie cash-in based on a film cashing in on…
By Ron Duwell |
E.X. Troopers is finally here to save us from this recent Capcom’s western focused creative binge! The mediocre wave of mass market pandering can finally end, and maybe Resident Evil won’t reek of Call of Duty leftovers anymore! Actually…no, this does not have a happy…
By Ron Duwell |
I do love me some Vanquish. Most will point to the long legged Bayonetta and her old school hack n’ slash as Platinum Games’ crowning achievement, but for my two cents, nothing they’ve done has topped this high velocity third person shooter. Shinji Mikami has…
By Joey Davidson |
Having played Okami when it launched for PlayStation 2 (and again when it saw a re-release for the Wii), the video Capcom decided to share tickled my nostalgia bone. This uninterrupted sequence of gameplay footage from the HD version of Okami takes place during the early portion…
By Joey Davidson |
UPDATE #2: In case the first update indicating that the pastebin work was entirely copied and pasted wasn’t enough, Sony has officially confirmed that this hack has not happened. The word comes via Twitter. We can confirm that the recent claim that PSN was illegally hacked…
By Ron Duwell |
SEGA Overwork’s Shinobi never gathered a huge following when released on the PlayStation 2 in 2002, but it’s still a personal favorite of mine. Devil May Cry had been released not even a year earlier and changed the way action games were looked at by…
By Ron Duwell |
Diablo-clones are a dime a dozen, and Sacred was never really an exception. The series has always distinguished itself with its difficulty, high fantasy settings and a more open-ended world, but beyond that, better options have always existed. A proper Sacred 3 is happening eventually,…
By Joey Davidson |
Okami will officially enjoy its third release on the PlayStation Network later this year. The new version, below the Okami HD banner, will enjoy remastered graphics, unlockable Trophies and PlayStation Move support. The latter of that category, I’ll be honest, is doing nothing for me. The…
By Joey Davidson |
Yakuza and Yakuza 2, possibly one of Sega’s last largely successful and loved franchises, are getting HD remakes for the PlayStation Network. The Japanese trailer you see above is a great way to catch both titles in motion. I actually have something to admit to the…
By Ron Duwell |
Kids these days have it so easy. Ever since the Lord of the Rings film trilogy rocketed the fantasy genre into the mainstream, game developers just can’t seem to get enough of Middle Earth. All I had growing up was that ridiculously hard Interplay RPG…
By Joey Davidson |
Capcom has elected to bring an HD remastering of the beautiful and lenghty Okami to the PlayStation 3 by way of the PlayStation Network this fall. The remake will feature 1080p visuals, unlockable trophies, PlayStation Move support and the ability to play the game with the…
By Ron Duwell |
Traditionally reserved for PC digital distribution sites like Steam, summer sales have burst into the console market thanks to the PlayStation Network’s loose pricing regulations and Sony’s strong support of the idea. The latest console publisher to jump aboard the Summer Sale bandwagon is Atlus,…
By Ron Duwell |
LIMBO attracted a lot of fans after being a surprise indie-hit on XBLA back in 2010. Fans who still can’t get enough of murdering that poor faceless kid over and over again can pick up the physical release Special Edition today from Amazon. Copenhagen based…
By Joey Davidson |
Capcom announced tuesday night, by way of both press release and the trailer included in this post, that their late PlayStation 2 masterpiece is getting an HD update for Sony’s current console. Okami HD is coming, and it will feature remastered visuals and PlayStation Move integration.…
By Joey Davidson |
As far as consoles go, Sony’s PlayStation 3 offers up the most bang for no money spent on getting online. Microsoft charges a nominal fee for premium membership, but Sony’s PSN service is free for the most essential gaming elements (like only play and demo…
By Joey Davidson |
In the words of the cover of one of the greatest books ever written, “Don’t Panic.” The PlayStation Network is down today. However, this is all part of a planned, scheduled maintenance outage. Newly formed PlayStation Digital Platforms Community Management team member Matthew Harper took to the…
By Killian Bell |
After revealing earlier this week that it expects to see a record loss of $6.2 billion for 2011, Sony is taking some drastic moves in an effort to pull itself out of the red. One of those is called the ‘One Sony’ initiative, which will…
By Joey Davidson |
Imagine playing the parts of four instruments at once in what appears to be a typical Rock Band setup, only you’re using a normal game controller and you’re doing it by yourself. That’s Rock Band Blitz, the downloadable title announced by Harmonix earlier today. The announcement…
By Joey Davidson |
Insomniac Games, the same studio responsible for Resistance and Ratchet & Clank, were once working on a pinball game for the PlayStation Network. The studio revealed by way of their Facebook timeline that 1080Pinball was a title they began development on in 2007. The company had…
By Joey Davidson |
Journey, the PlayStation 3 exclusive downloadable title from thatgamecompany, has officially become the fastest selling game on the PlayStation Network. The news comes as Jenova Chen, thatgamecompany’s Creative Director, posted the announcement and subsequent thank you to users on the PlayStation Blog. We actually recorded…
