Borderlands Postmortem
Gearbox talk last year's FPS/RPG.
Dana White Interview
The UFC's president speaks.
GameSpy Debriefings #115
Heavy Rain and ace attorneys.
PlayStation 3 Owners: Losing Trophies and the Will to Live thanks to PSN Bug
By Bryn Williams | PlayStation 3 News | Mar 1, 2010 3:20 AM | CommentYesterday saw a great many PlayStation 3 owners unable to connect to the PlayStation Network, play certain games on their machines and even lose precious Trophy data due to an unforeseen bug which hit Sony's online service. IGN Games picked up on the fact that users were not able to connect to their online accounts via the PSN and in turn, were not able to play games such as Heavy Rain which requires a PSN connection. Read More »
Bad Company 2 Slightly Less Bad for New Buyers
By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 26, 2010 2:55 PM | CommentFirst with Dragon Age: Origins and then with Mass Effect 2, Electronic Arts threw in a couple of DLC extras for those who bought the game new. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 makes this a clear trend: EA is using downloadable and unlockable content as a carrot to entice gamers to buy new instead of used. Read More »
Sony: PS3 Akin to an Expensive, Plastic Teenager
By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 26, 2010 11:13 AM | CommentYesterday we learned that Nintendo is in no hurry to create a Wii successor. Today, Sony said something quite similar. In an interview with Fast Company, SCEA America CEO Jack Tretton says his company has just scratched the surface with the PS3. Read More »
Is that a Massive God of War III Demo in Your PS3 or Are You Just... Nevermind
By Bryn Williams | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 26, 2010 5:34 AM | CommentWhile some PlayStation 3 gamers have been able to enjoy last year's playable E3 demo of God of War III for a little while now, Sony sends word via its gaming blog that everyone and their granny can now get in on the action. More after the break. Read More »
Just Cause 2: 35 Square Miles of Demo
By Bryn Williams | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 26, 2010 5:18 AM | CommentA tweet from Square Enix UK's community manager Mike Oldham confirms that the publisher will be releasing a 1.4GB playable demo of Just Cause 2 on March 4th. The demo will be arriving on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC (via Steam) and will apparently feature over 35 square miles of gameplay area. Read More »
Skate 3 Screens Do Not Require Plastic Skateboard Peripheral
By Bryn Williams | PlayStation 3 Screenshots | Feb 26, 2010 4:03 AMA set of new screenshots taken from EA's upcoming Skate 3 are currently doing the rounds, showing off various skaters doing their thing in one of the indoor parks that the game offers. Will Skate 3 match up to the high standards of the first two games in the series? Stay tuned for more coverage nearer to launch. See More »
Alpha Protocol Screens Not Shaken, Stirred
By Bryn Williams | PlayStation 3 Screenshots | Feb 26, 2010 3:59 AMTwo days ago we reported that Obsidian's espionage RPG Alpha Protocol is prepping to infiltrate gamers' homes on June 1st of this year. Even though the project has suffered a couple of tedious delays, it would appear as though things are finally back on track. Will it be too little, too late? Check out this new batch of snapshots and ponder the game's appeal. See More »
Borderlands: The Postmortem Interview
By Anthony Gallegos | PlayStation 3 Articles | Feb 25, 2010 5:21 PM | CommentHow did Borderlands go from being a realistic looking -- and quite frankly boring-looking -- Unreal 3 game to one of the most unique-looking games of 2009? How did Gearbox go from making WW2 games and Halo ports to creating a personality-filled world of its own? Was the game ever in danger of being cancelled? To find out these answers and more I recently chatted with Paul Hellquist, Senior Director at Gearbox, to gain some insight. Read More »
Report: Grand Theft Auto IV Budget was 1.16 Shenmues
By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 25, 2010 12:54 PM | CommentRockstar isn't afraid to spend Hollywood-blockbuster-level money on its games. According to a list compiled by gaming site Digital Battle, Grand Theft Auto IV and the currently in-production L.A. Noire are both among the most expensive videogames ever made. Hit the jump for the full list. Read More »
Videogames Assume Rightful Place Next to Rock 'n' Roll, AD&D as Great Cultural Evils
By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 25, 2010 11:20 AM | CommentIn the early '80s, televangelist Jimmy Swaggert spoke for a large, devout population when he declared, "All of the rock music being aired today is demonically inspired. Any individual listening to it is entering into communion with a wickedness and evil spawned in hell." Thirty years later rock fans still haven't morphed into demons, and the religious right has shifted its sights onto a new target: videogames. Read More »
Darksiders Demo Stumbles in Late, Reeking of Booze
By Bryn Williams | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 25, 2010 3:54 AM | CommentThe word from THQ this morning is that a brand-new demo of Darksiders has hit both Xbox 360 (Gold members only) and PlayStation 3. The game's been out on general release since earlier in the year, and has apparently shipped over 1.2 million copies to date. Read More »
Split/Second Screens So Fast They're Blurry
By Bryn Williams | PlayStation 3 Screenshots | Feb 25, 2010 3:17 AMThe developers of the excellent ATV racer Pure are at it again, although this time, the action is rooted firmly in the land of blisteringly fast concept cars. Black Rock's Split/Second is shaping up to be one of the most promising arcade-style racing games since the likes of Burnout Paradise. We've posted over 30 new images snapped from the "docks" area of the game, so take a look. See More »
Supervillian Forces Alpha Protocol to Reveal Launch Plans
By Mike Sharkey | PlayStation 3 News | Feb 24, 2010 5:51 PM | CommentObsidian Entertainment's anticipated espionage RPG Alpha Protocol missed its originally scheduled October release date, and things didn't look good as we approached the rescheduled "spring 2010" launch without a word from the company. But now it appears Obsidian and publisher Sega are finally on the same page: Alpha Protocol will hit the shelves on June 1. Read More »
Dead Space 2: In Space Everyone Can Hear You Scream
By Bryn Williams | PlayStation 3 Screenshots | Feb 24, 2010 3:12 AMIsaac Clark might not be making his second outing into the depths of deep space hell until the beginning of next year, but today, we've score a tasty selection of new images from EA's promising sci-fi horror sequel to keep us going in the short term. In December of last year we reported that Dead Space 2 would most likely be coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, but since then it seems as though the PC version of the game has been thrown into limbo. Fingers crossed, PC gamers... See More »
Outspoken: Dana White on UFC Undisputed 2010
By Gerald Villoria | PlayStation 3 Articles | Feb 23, 2010 7:18 PM | CommentUFC Undisputed 2010 is thye follow-up to last year's surprising hit, the result of a continued partnership between THQ and Dana White, UFC's outspoken president. White has famously commented on his distaste for EA Sports (the company snubbed him and the UFC a few years back, to THQ's benefit) and was eager to discuss the forthcoming UFC sequel and what it means for the sport. Read on for a sample of what White had to say during our first look at UFC Undisputed 2010. Read More »
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