All PS3 Features

EXCLUSIVE REVEAL of PAIN'S Abusement Park level (PAIN - PS3 Network)

Jul 7, 2008

It's been a good eight months since the anarchic, Jackass-inspired destruction-porn game PAIN hit the PlayStation Network, and the game is finally getting a second level. The good news is that the game's new playground - a massive, working indoor carnival called Abusement Park - is bigger, brighter and offers many more opportunities for bone-crunching hilarity than its predecessor. It'll also be released alongside two new characters (who we ...

Political terms re-defined by videogames (PlayStation 3)

Aug 29, 2008

Oh my divided stars and garters, there’s an election going on! And a damn important one at that. Kinda makes you want to know the issues, what’s at stake, which candidate addresses your interests, stuff like that. But golly, all that political jargon bores the shit out of us. ...

Ultimate Developer Battle (PlayStation 3)

Aug 28, 2008

It's the turn of real-life developers to duke it out, dust it up and do each other over like blood-hungry gladiatorial champions. We've taken 16 of the industry's best-known, best-respected and most beautiful developers and smashed them head-to-head in an entirely make-believe orgy of violence. Let the fighting begin! ...

Sexy, sexy ladies of Leipzig 08 (PlayStation 3)

Aug 27, 2008

You've seen E3's selection, now sample the European contingent. ...

How to draw videogame fanart (PlayStation 3)

Aug 26, 2008

I was graced with hands which lust to create. I did not choose to live within the both splendorous and torturous tower of artistic wizardry; the tower chose me. I am an instrument of aesthetics, a humble child of Aphrodite.

The world may never fully understand the deep pit of hot coals which glows and sparks with creativity within me, but I must attempt to impart some of my insight to the world. Raise your pencils and feel the passion build within you. Someday you too may be able to draw Mario as well as I. ...

The Top 7... "That’s a Dude!?" game characters (PlayStation 3)

Aug 25, 2008

"Damn, that girl is smokin... oh... that’s a guy?" Surely, we’ve all fallen victim to such a scenario. Not you, you say! You’re a hardcore gamer with 20/20 vision and a keen eye for Adam’s apples and moose knuckles? Fine! Many of us aren’t as perceptive, so we’ve decided to highlight those brave folk who upon casual glance, may not have gotten their sex across the first time. ...

Leipzig's best trailers (PlayStation 3)

Aug 22, 2008

In case you weren’t able to jet over to Leipzig and booze with surly eurotrash at the spiritual successor to E3, we’ve collected the show’s hottest videos in one easy place. Because of the show’s positioning in the product release calendar, it’s more about building hype for imminent fall releases and less about shock announcements. ...

Confessions of a professional gamer (PlayStation 3)

Aug 22, 2008

As a professional gamer, you get to travel, compete against the best gamers in the world, and make a living doing it. But is getting paid to play as sweet as it sounds? Meet the Championship Gaming Series' San Francisco team, OPTX. They just walked away from their last tournament with a fat purse of $150,000 after kicking ass in Counter-Strike: Source, Forza Motorsport 2, Dead or Alive 4, and FIFA 08. ...

Samus hearts Zelda (PlayStation 3)

Aug 20, 2008

Earlier this week, we posted an interview with Amanda, an artist whose work is featured on lesbiangamers.com. As a followup to this feature, we’ve been given the exclusive on the next illustration in the series. And we think it’s the hottest one yet. For your consideration, we hope you enjoy this rendering of Samus and Zelda in a loving embrace. Want to see the rest of Amanda’s work? ...

A picture history of videogame spaceships (PlayStation 3)

Aug 20, 2008

In terms of awesome, spaceships are right up there with pirates and ninjas and robots. To celebrate gaming's ongoing romance with booster-powered, warp-fast , proton-firing, wormhole-dodging vehicular imaginings, we thought we'd take a look back at almost 50 years of spaceships in games using the attractive medium of in-game and box-art imagery ...

The Top 7... Girl gamer stereotypes (PlayStation 3)

Aug 18, 2008

For Norris’ sake, we all know that girls play games. They play “hardcore” games, "casual" games, strategy games, adventure games, fighting games, mind games, games games games all the time every day. Can we stop with the “girl gamer” nonsense? ...

The Future According to Videogames (PlayStation 3)

Aug 14, 2008

Videogames often enjoy high-speeding along the temporal tightrope, conjuring its own make-believe predictions of how the next few thousand years or so in Earth history could pan out. So, laid out right here in the present is the future of the world according to videogames. Hold on tight, because we're doing the time warp from 2009 to 7268 ...

Console codenames: before they were famous (PlayStation 3)

Aug 13, 2008

What's in a name? Everything. Products live and die by their catchy or unique titles, and children, oh man are they in for a tough life if they're hastily named Richard Long or Nancy Weiner. Obviously the same goes for game consoles, which go through several stages of mock ups and codenames before they ever earn the right to sit next to Big Mouth Billy Bass on a Wal-Mart shelf.

Some of these you may know, others you may not. ...

10 industry-shattering stolen exclusives (PlayStation 3)

Aug 8, 2008

The biggest announcement at this year's E3 - that Final Fantasy XIII is going multiplatform - is about more than just a game being available to a wider audience. It's also a clear sign that the topography of the videogame industry has changed a little. ...

25 Annoying Things About Non-Gamers (PlayStation 3)

Aug 7, 2008

For years, we've endured their criticism. Gamers are immature. Gamers are immoral. Gamers are wasting time and money on silly, stupid toys. Nag nag nag. Blah blah blah. Now, with those same people snatching up Wiis, fumbling through Guitar Hero and pretending to finally "get" our hobby, it's time to turn the tables. What annoys you about non-gamers? ...

The Unfulfilled Promises of Virtual Reality (PlayStation 3)

Aug 6, 2008

“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind” - Dr. Lawrence Angelo, a terrible film (1992)

I was born in 1985, and thus grew up believing that by the mystical and far off Year 2000 I’d be testing my wits alongside Sherlock Holmes in a holodeck, plugging all sorts of electronic nonsense into my brain, and seeing the world through kickass bionic eyeballs. ...

The Top 7... games that affect real life (PlayStation 3)

Aug 4, 2008

You know that phrase people use when something "stays with you long after it's over?" Nothing fits that statement better than video games, and here we've collected the seven best examples of games that leap out of the screen and infect, impede or enhance your daily existence. In other words, you're still playing these reality-altering games even when the power's off.

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Top 10 Entries on Top 10 Lists (PlayStation 3)

Aug 1, 2008

If you’ve been reading gaming lists - magazine, internet or bar napkin - for as long as we have, then you’ve probably noticed a number of inclusions that seem to always make it. It’s like you can’t have a “Defining Moments”, “Worst whatever” or “Underrepresented blah” list without mentioning what every reader assumes will be the top pick. ...

Games vs Girls: Which is Best? (PlayStation 3)

Jul 30, 2008

We love games. We love girls. Would it be wrong to question which we love the most? Probably. So let’s do just that.

If you’re on this website it’s probably safe to say you love games. It’s also highly probable you love girls too. (By far most GR readers are guys, of which, according to accepted academic thinking, approximately only one in ten is gay.) So the vast majority of you love games and girls. ...

The most unlikely gaming lookalikes you'll ever see (PlayStation 3)

Jul 30, 2008

Want to see Nelson Mandela's digitized doppelganger in Wind Waker or to stare aghast at the unnerving mug shot similarities between his holiness the Pope and a short-assed nut job from Resident Evil 4? Of course you do. We've rounded up a dozen of the most uncanny face doubles that you're ever going to point your disbeliefing eyes at ...