PS3 Previews

Jak & Daxter dropped ten years ago. Yes, you're either thinking back on that reminiscing on your childhood, or you just got really depressed. Either way, this is your reminder that The Jak & Daxter Collection is around the corner. What you're watching is a quick rundown of Jak III and Jak III in glistening 720p, complete with audio commentary from associate producer Victor Harris from Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Five minutes into this prequel to the forthcoming sci-fi flick and we feel like we’re in one of the year’s most generic games. As we step off our transport into the alien planet Pandora, all the elements are in place for a generic third-person shooter. Main character who's a stoic military type with a crew cut: check. NPCs we have to seek out for missions: Oh yeah. A 40 foot monster that looks like a mad scientist has forced a hammerhead

Jimmie Johnson is a superstar NASCAR driver – he's the only person to ever win five consecutive Sprint Cup championships, and he's considered hands-down to be the greatest NASCAR driver of the past decade. The highest racing pedigree in the world doesn't automatically mean a game with his name on it will meet the same quality standards he's set for his own career, but from what we've seen so far, Anything with an Engine's NASCAR-meets-Mario-Kart approach looks promising...

Joe Danger is a game you need to know about. And if you do know about it, you need to know more. We've been following its progress at new indie dev Hello Games for quite a while now, and every time we play it, it just gets better.

A bright, funny, and very clever hybrid of platformer, racer, stunt trial and sandbox toy set, it's one of the most rewarding and imaginative download games we've played in a very long time. It's due for release on the PSN this June, and having recently spent a lot of time with the latest build, we're giddy with excitement. Hello say they want to 'make games that will put a stoopid grin on your face'. So far, we reckon they're succeeding. Here's why...

Despite the two wheels, the engine and the stopwatch, Joe Danger isn’t really a racing game. It’s been drawn with ultra crayons that make colours three shades too bright to look at, and every noise is a ‘pling’. We’re on to you, Joe. You’re a platform game in disguise...

What do LittleBigPlanet, bikes and Sonic and have in common?

With less than a month before PlayStation Move hits shelves, we're finally getting a (post-E3) chance to play some Move-controlled games for ourselves. Yesterday, we grabbed our bulbous Move controllers and took a swing at John Daly's ProStroke Golf. Wee!

Lots of crazy golf pants inside...

As the 2011 Rugby World Cup rages in New Zealand over the next two months – the championship match takes place on October 23 – a similar battle is taking place on consoles. Two games are vying for your time and money, attempting to capitalize on the ever-growing popularity of rugby union competition. While it’s not the “Officially Licensed Game” of the tournament, Johah Lomu Rugby Challenge is arguably the more compelling of the two. Sporting more licensed teams, leagues, and tournaments – and, oh yeah, one of the greatest players ever – it’s got fans buzzing. Naturally, we jumped at the chance for a hands-on preview...

During a special closed-door session in the final hour of E3 2010, Jenova Chen, co-founder of developer ThatGameCompany (flOw, Flower), sat down in front of an audience of journalists and told them a story about a NASA shuttle pilot he met some time ago. This pilot had told him about the people he'd met who'd been to the moon, and said that something changed in 100 percent of those people after they'd walked on its surface. Having just seen everything they'd ever known and loved reduced to a little blue marble in the sky, they felt consumed by awe and a sense of their own insignificance, and came back more spiritual, with a renewed curiosity as to what else might be out there.

That sense of overwhelming powerlessness that they felt, staring up at the Earth and the impossible vastness around it, is what Chen hopes to recreate with TGC's third game, Journey.