Thursday 28 September 2006
With a little jet lag from the Tokyo Game Show, a new round of in-game action screens from PS3's Virtua Fighter 5 have arrived.
After its triumphant TGS appearance, where we couldn't tell the difference between the arcade game and the PS3 version, we're pretty excited to get lounge-side seats to the most intense fighter in town.
And while Sega's PS3 version of Virtua Tennis looks to be losing out on its online play, we hope both Sony and Sega put the time into
Our sister magazine PSM - laughably still printed on paper, for some reason - hits newsstands this week, and it packs in a few things you can't get anywhere else. Things like an exclusive four-page blowout on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, which sheds new light on a handful of the game's upcoming missions. There's also an interview with Rockstar Leeds' studio head, Gordon Hall, in which he talks about Vice City Stories' new take-over-the-town feature, Empire
Get your hands on a PS3... easy
You probably won't be able to buy one this November, but it shouldn't be too hard to get some time with a PlayStation 3 - behind glass, anyway. Sony has announced plans to install 15,000 playable demo kiosks of PS3 at retail locations in the US and Canada in time for the system's launch - five times what the company offered for PS2, our sister site Next Generation reports. It should be pretty simple to figure out if the thing's worth $600 when you see it in
Wednesday 27 September 2006
The latest screens from PS3 shooter Resistance: Fall of Man reveal the heroic cameo role a second player can take in the main game - check the images tab above for the action snaps.
In single-player, lead Nathan Hale is the only survivor of his US platoon after their counterattack on an alien-occupied UK goes wrong. But play in co-op, and the second player assumes the role of a more durable Yankee soldier who can accompany Hale throughout his journey, rather than
Wednesday 27 September 2006
Sonic creator Sega has acquired the rights to develop games based on the upcoming His Dark Materials fantasy movie trilogy, Hollywood mag Variety has reported.
While games-from-films-from-books are all the rage at the moment - whether it's EA's Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter games, or Vivendi's Chronicles of Narnia and Eragon titles - we're excited to see Sega continue to branch out with its game choices (and we're pretty fond of the books, too).
Hopefully the
Square Enix 3 Sony... but not too much
Exactly like a loverboy with one main lady and a couple of bits on the side, Final Fantasy creators Square Enix has pledged big support to the PS3 while giving Microsoft and Nintendo some lovin' as well. According to one of its senior executives, the company doesn't want to see Sony as the "overwhelming winner" this generation so the company doesn't plan to "support them too much." A funny quote, and kind of arrogant - but judging from the FFXIII hype we
Next Generation ran a feature today on their favorite games from last week's Tokyo Game Show. It outlines pretty much everything you need to know about the titles announced there. From Trusty Bell (in the US it'll be called Eternal Sonata) to Blue Dragon, they've got insights aplenty on the most pivotal titles that will hopefully make the trip to our
Tuesday 26 September 2006
The latest screens from PS3 showcase Heavenly Sword show some of the battlefield scales we can expect from the game - with a lot less fluttering banners than the original screens but some corking explosions to make up for it.
Nariko will be able to wield an "ancient bazooka" for dealing with the hulking siege engines, while the scores of troops are fodder for the lawnmower effects of her
Tuesday 26 September 2006
Following a Tokyo Game Show joyride that left us wanting more, a burst of new MotorStorm images have arrived in a typical shower of auto parts and unfortunate riders.
Playing the game it's clear that developer Evolution - creator of the World Rally Championship titles for PS2 - is enjoying getting its hands dirty in a way it never could have with the WRC license, and MotorStorm is shaping up to be one of PS3's more impressive early
Tuesday 26 September 2006
Immersion, the company holding the patent for controller rumble technology, has published the findings of the survey it commissioned on gamer response to the new PS3 pad's lack of vibration feedback.
After Immersion sued Sony and Microsoft over the use of controller rumble, Sony's response - other than fighting, and losing, an ongoing legal battle with the company - was to drop rumble entirely from the PS3 pad, thus cutting Immersion out of any PS3 profits.
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