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E3 2006: The final word (E3 2006)

18/05/2006

Wednesday 17 May 2006 So, that was E3 2006. The most manic week of the gaming calendar has hurtled by once again in a tornado of news and a frenzy of game playing. Now, as relative calm returns and the chaos slowly seeps away, we look back on the big games, the big announcements, the highlights and the disappointments. Much of the week's hottest news happened before the doors had opened on E3, with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all making some big announcements at their pre-show ...

E3 has opened! And we're inside (E3 2006)

10/05/2006

Wednesday 10 May 2006 After all the talk, after all the pre-show conferences, after all the trailers and all the hype, E3 is finally open. And we're here! Yes, the vast LA Conference Centre has finally opened its doors and we are on the floor of the show itself, ready to bring you all of the breaking news, ready with informative and informed hands-on reports and ready with plenty of footage, right from the heart of ...

E3 show floor sneak preview (E3 2006)

10/05/2006

Wednesday 10 May 2006 With just hours to go until this year's E3 games show officially opens for business in Los Angeles, GamesRadar has managed to obtain an exclusive sneak preview of the show floor. As you can see from these photos, many of the stands are still under construction - including those for PlayStation 3 and Wii, both of which will be playable on the show floor. The Sony and Nintendo areas sit side-by-side in the LA Convention Centre's massive West Hall and are the focal points of ...

Old games, new screens (EA Replay)

6/09/2006

Wednesday 6 September 2006 You'll be able to play Road Rash, Desert Strike, Wing Commander and more while parking your behind on a bus soon, thanks to EA Replay, the PSP retro collection. We've uncovered some images of these old greats in their new widescreen-o-matic incarnations; just hit the image tab to see the ...

EA Replay unveiled (EA Replay)

1/09/2006

Megapublisher Electronic Arts announced today that it'll be dusting off 14 of its old 16-bit games - some classic, others less so - and jamming them together into a compilation called EA Replay, due to hit PSPs on Nov. 7. As has become standard for such collections, players will be able to challenge each other in certain games via an ad-hoc connection. Additionally, you'll be able to save your game at any point in any of the games (thank God) and unlock original game art as you play. Better ...

EA announce MegaDrive retro-compilation (EA Replay)

15/08/2006

EA have announced details regarding a retro-collection of MegaDrive titles for the PSP entitled EA Replay Vol 1.

Details Of Earthworm Jim Remake Revealed (Earthworm Jim)

29/09/2009

Gameloft revealed their plans to bring EarthWorm Jim back to the digital distribution services last month.

Twelve sequels we actually want (Earthworm Jim)

3/01/2008

Some people say you can have too much of a good thing, but we say they can bugger right off. A cake is good, right? But are two cakes bad? No, theyre just more cake, and we like cake so well take all we can get. Om nom nom. In gaming terms, the only thing better than a great videogame is a great videogame that acts as the start of a great franchise. Final Fantasy, Burnout, Super Mario Bros… We love them not only because theyre great but also because of what they later gave us. The only ...

Earthworm Jim put "on hold" (Earthworm Jim)

18/06/2007

Earthworm Jim for PSP appears to have been canned ... for now. Alissa Bell from Atari, who commented: "I believe EWJ is off the roster. May be revisited in the future, but the title is, as I hear it, on hold." Hopefully, this isn't the end of Earthworm Jim on PSP.

PSPgo - No Free Game Downloads Planned for North America (Echochrome)

25/09/2009

WorthPlaying contacted SCEA to find out if it planned to match the PSPgo Rewards program announced by SCEE this morning and was told that Sony had no plans at this time to match the European offer.

"There hasn't been any announcement yet that there will be an equivalent rewards program for North America..."

LittleBigPlanet, Braid, Left 4 Dead lead game developers choice award finalists (Echochrome)

9/02/2009

Gamasutra writes:

"Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet leads the nominees for the ninth annual Game Developers Choice Awards with seven nominations, organizers have revealed.

Number None's Braid follows closely with five nominations. Among the nominations for LittleBigPlanet is the coveted Game of the Year award.

Other nominees for that category include Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead, each of which received a total of four award nominations; Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto IV, which earned a total of three nominations, and Lionhead Studios' Fable 2. Winners will be honored at an awards show taking place during the 2009 Game Developers Conference."

echochrome PS3 Update Today: Trophies and User-generated Stages! (Echochrome)

11/12/2008

Tsubasa Inaba writes on the Playtation.Blog:

"We have kept quiet for a while, but we bring you good news today. The world of echochrome expands again!"

Time to destroy your mind again... (Echochrome)

1/12/2008

Echochrome Trophies Confirmed.

7 bronze
1 silver
2 gold

This is going to be rough...

71% More echochrome PSP, Coming Tomorrow (Echochrome)

8/10/2008

PSblog reports:

Hey, PlayStation Blog Readers!

Just when you were close to beating all your clear times on all 56 echochrome stages on your PSP, we have even more challenges coming your way!

An expansion pack for echochrome is coming to the PSN on October 9th for $4.99.
You can almost double the fun of the original with an additional 40 new stages to master. For those of you who don't have the original version, not to worry. We have a bundle pack ready for you guys and gals too, so you can pick up the game and expansion pack all at once!

Sony's PSP-3000 US Release Date Announced (Echochrome)

6/10/2008

Kezins.com reports that the PSP-3000 will be launched in North America as part of two packs. One of the packs will be the Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters PSP Entertainment bundles which will be released on October 14th. The other pack will be a 4GB Entertainment Pack which is due out in November. Both packs will be retailed at US $199.99.

Siliconera: Sound of Echochrome - Hideki Sakamoto Interview (Echochrome)

12/06/2008

With digital distribution making it possible for a greater variety of unconventional titles to reach the market, imaginative new forms of puzzle gameplay are emerging. Echochrome for the Playstation 3 and PSP, whose art direction mirrors the logic-defying line drawings of M.C. Escher, is one such example. The physical laws of the in-game environment are determined by the way the player manipulates the perspective, making illusions of perception the literal truth. For the music accompanying the game, Hideki Sakamoto has created a collection of classical music tracks, recently released in a soundtrack album by Team Entertainment. For this discussion on the sound of Echochrome, the composer joins Siliconera for a deeper look at the design underlying the innovative puzzle game and its original soundtrack.

3 Top PSN Titles Given EU Release Dates (Echochrome)

10/06/2008

Elefunk, Echochrome and Pixel Junk Eden have all been given release dates for Europe. They will all be available for download on the Playstation Store.

Elefunk - 26 June
Echochrome - 3 July
Pixel Junk Eden - July

Follow the link for more details about each of the 3 games.

User generated Echochrome levels incoming (Echochrome)

15/05/2008

Kumi Yuasa, associate producer of Echochrome, has confirmed that 20 new user-created levels will be released over the next few days.

Starting from today until May 21, the 20 levels will be made available to PS3 Echochrome players via the game's Freeform mode.

"The additional levels will appear at random in Freeform mode if you set your difficulty level to 2 or 3," explains Yuasa.

"The difficulty level is represented by the ...

Echochrome hits US today (Echochrome)

1/05/2008

Sony's mind-melting puzzler, Echochrome, is out on the US PSN today for your brain-aching pleasure.

In case you've not been following it, Echochrome is an innovative little title which sees you rotating simple 3D environments to create paths for a little walking make to traverse.

It uses a clever optical illusion mechanic, where obstacles like holes or gaps in the path disappear when you can't see them. It hurts just trying to ...

New Echochrome Screens shows how hard it is (Echochrome)

24/04/2008

Either you've already played the Japanese demo or you're about to play the American one, doesn't matter, Echocrome's teaser levels make things look easy. Pedestrian. As though the dev team came up with a neat concept, but couldn't think of ways to really push it. Yeah, no, that's WRONG. Look at these new screens. These later, harder levels are built for one purpose: to take your mental ass, wine it, dine it, then kick it.