Archive for March, 2009

Dark Void Site is Live, Decidedly Horizontal
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

For the curious, Capcom has recently put a new site in commission for their upcoming vertical shooter/UFO-hijacking title, Dark Void. It’s a simple site – you choose your region/language, and are then shown a “Rise Up” message. Funny phrase, considering the site stretches horizontally instead of vertically… Anyway, click the message and you are treated [...]

PlayStationLifeStyle is looking for Trophy Guide writers!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Are you are self admitted Trophy whore?  Would you like to help others achieve a high Trophy Level?  Can you write comprehensive Trophy Guides? If you said yes, then we might have a spot for you on our staff. Send an email to hr@playstationlifestyle.net to apply.  Give us a bit about your background, and a [...]

Wolverine to Cut Up the PS.Blog Tomorrow; First Trailer Out!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

In what is becoming a welcome and weekly feature over on the official PlayStation.Blog website, tomorrow will see yet another live chat. This time, the victim guest of the hour is X-Men Origins: Wolverine‘s Project Lead Dan Vondrak. The chat is scheduled to take place at Noon PST tomorrow, March11th. Can’t catch this one? I [...]

Spiders Head to the Red Planet in Mars the RPG
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Gamezine recently pointed out that French developer Spider is working on an all new sci-fi RPG called “Mars”.

European Ratings Reveal An Upcoming Silent Hill
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

According to the BBFC, a new Silent Hill game is coming to the European region. There has been no official announcement, but BBFC has given the game a rating. For those of you who are confused, the BBFC is the UK equivalent to the ESRB in the United States. No platform has been confirmed yet, [...]

Free Patapon 2 Mini-Game Drumming Your Way Soon
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

SCEE and Spil Games have collaborated today to let everyone know that through all this week, they are making available a PC/Mac Patapon 2 mini-game.  It showcases just a small sample of what you can expect from the sequel of the critically-acclaimed first game. So if you are not sure about purchasing Patapon 2, give [...]

Godfather II has Gone Gold, DA on Alert
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

EA ANNOUNCES THAT THE GODFATHER II HAS GONE GOLD Experience the Ultimate Organized Crime Game on April 7th Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that The Godfather® II has gone gold. The Godfather II game from Electronic Arts and Paramount Digital Entertainment will be available on April 7th in North America and April 10th [...]

Two More Ys Adventures await PlayStation
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Falcom has announced that they are working on 2 new Ys RPGs for the PlayStation brand, Ys Seven and Ys I & II Chronicles. Which platform they are to appear on has not yet been determined, although it is likely they will both be PSP titles. That’s based  solely on the fact that Falcom’s previous [...]

Insomniac’s ‘News’ Finally Revealed
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

When it was announced on Insomniac Games’ Twitter, that they would be revealing some news, everyone understandably got very excited. Then Insomniac sent out another tweet saying that the news wasn’t ‘earth shattering’ which took the level of excitement down a few notches… Well today the news has finally been revealed: Insomniac Games Honored as [...]

RE: Top 10 reasons the PS3 is failing (WTF?)
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

This is a rebuttal to a recent article by DigitalBattle entitled: Top 10 reasons the PS3 is failing While I really disdain giving this site the traffic, it’s not a bad read if you have a good sense of humor. For a moment I thought our beloved friends at the DigitalBattle had an issue with [...]

God of War III’s “Pop-Block” Trailer Pops Details
Monday, March 9th, 2009

The first real trailer for God of War III has been out for some time now, but over on Jonathan Hawkins’ blog you can see the same trailer with a “Pop-Block” feature. It’s basically a fancy form of text commentary, and it reveals some more juicy tidbits about the epic upcoming game. For example, the [...]

Multiplatform FFXIII Not as Good as it Could Have Been?
Monday, March 9th, 2009

The screenshot on the left is from when FFXIII was a PS3 exclusive.  The pic on the right is its current multiplatform state.  Will PlayStation 3 users be getting a lower quality version of FFXIII due to Square Enix’s greedy ways? Is this the fault of the Xbox 360? What are your thoughts? [Source]

Insomniac News is Not ‘Earth Shattering’
Monday, March 9th, 2009

Insomniac Games just updated their twitter again, this time “managing expectations”… Apparently, the news we just reported on is nothing major.  So don’t expect any Ratchet and Clank announcements or anything of that magnitude.  Whatever it is, it was still worth mentioning by Insomniac, so it still has us interested. Here is a quote from [...]

Insomniac to Reveal Some News Tomorrow
Monday, March 9th, 2009

Twitter is all the rage lately, especially in the gaming industry. In fact, some developers have been using their twitter accounts to let their fans in on whatever is going on with their games.  The most recent example is Insomniac, announcing a big game reveal tomorrow…  Insomniac’s tweet reads: Preparing to reveal some news tomorrow [...]

Resident Evil 5 PS3 Sells Nearly 4:1 vs. Xbox 360 in Japan
Monday, March 9th, 2009

The PS3 is moving in the right direction in Japan. Not only have console sales been stellar but Resident Evil 5 which is already released has been selling much better then the Xbox 360 version. Initial numbers indicate that the PS3 version pushed 222,000 units while the 360 version had only sold 56,000 units. It [...]