Archive for January, 2010

Pick Playboy’s Sexiest Bayonetta
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Most of us are familiar with popular men’s lifestyle magazine, Playboy. Following the magazine’s growing interest in video game affairs (heck, they even have their own video game awards with such prestigious nominations as best jiggle-factor), the editors have introduced a contest that is guaranteed to be a news highlight for the week. Read on to find out what it is! [...]

Fission Mailed for Metal Gear Solid Film
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

The film adaptation of the extremely popular Metal Gear Solid series has long been talked about, without much solid information coming to light. Sony and Kojima seemed deadset on releasing the film to millions of eager fans. However, without much tangible detail being announced, many gamers wondered if a movie would ever come to fruition. A recent [...]

Monsters (Probably) Stole Your PSP
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

London-based development studio Mediatonic will release their first game for Sony’s PSP and PS3 as a downloadable Minis title called: “Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess!” (MPSMP), in February 2010 var _CI = _CI || {}; (function() { _CI.counter = (_CI.counter) ? _CI.counter + 1 : 1; document.write(”); var script = document.createElement(‘script’); script.type = ‘text/javascript’; script.src [...]

Dr. Pepper and EA to Reward Gamers
Monday, January 11th, 2010

Electronic Arts is behind some of the most well-known franchises, including sports titles such as Madden as well as first-person shooters like Battlefield. With an arsenal of anticipated titles coming from EA this year, there is no doubt that they will be one of the leading gaming corporations of the year. Now after years of resounding [...]

Sony Working on New Disc Format, Possibly For PS4
Monday, January 11th, 2010

In a recent interview with Play3, Sony’s Senior VP of Product Development, Shuhei Yoshida said that the PlayStation 4 will use optical storage discs like Blu-Ray for blockbuster games. This was surprising considering Sony’s digital push with UMD-less PSPgo, and the trend the gaming industry has shown toward digital distribution. So if the PS4 is [...]

The Wait for Gran Turismo 5 is Almost Over
Monday, January 11th, 2010

It has been five years since the last full Gran Turismo title on a major platform, and five years of anticipation for Gran Turismo fans. Gran Turismo 5 has had one of the most elongated development processes in videogame history, and in return car enthusiasts worldwide have had to suffer through a drought of pristine [...]

John Koller Talks PlayStation 3D
Monday, January 11th, 2010

3D is the hot topic at this years CES and Sony is looking to position themselves as a winner. John Koller chats with Jeff Rubenstein from the PSBlog about PlayStation 3 and 3D. The PS3 is 3D ready and will only require a firmware update and of course the appropriate 3D display hardware.

Headshots & Friendly Fire: New Year’s Edition
Monday, January 11th, 2010

Congratulations, everybody! Another decade of gaming is behind us, and the 2010s look to be an exciting decade for gaming. Overall, 2009 was a great year for games. Not only did 2009 have great sequels like Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2, but it had great new IPs like Infamous and Batman: Arkham Asylum. Despite all [...]

Qriocity, Sony’s Newest Service Uses PSN ID to Sign into Other Sony Electronics
Monday, January 11th, 2010

A few weeks ago, a trademark filed by Sony was uncovered. Dubbed Qriocity, the title alone piqued our “curiosity”. Originally we speculated it may have been a Qore-like service for the PSP. However, it seems as though Qriocity is Sony’s first attempt at bringing PlayStation Network ID services to other Sony products including network enabled [...]

The 5 Biggest Facepalm Moments of 2009
Monday, January 11th, 2010

2009 was filled a lot of good memories and a lot of solid moves by the Sony and the rest of the gaming industry, but 2009 was not without its share of “what were they thinking?” moments. We look into the 5 Biggest Facepalm Moments of 2009.

New Spec Ops: The Line Screens Rises From The Sand
Monday, January 11th, 2010

Spec Ops: The Line was one of the best looking games revealed at last year’s Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, with an impressive trailer shown during the show. The game is a third person shooter and it is set in Dubai, India. Other than those slim details, 2K Games has been pretty silent about the [...]

Alice in Chains Rockin’ Rock Band Next Week
Monday, January 11th, 2010

ROCK BAND ADDS ALICE IN CHAINS FIVE PACK Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a five pack of songs from Alice In Chains will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system and [...]

Aliens Vs. Predator Demo To Slice You
Monday, January 11th, 2010

One of 2010’s hottest games, first-person shooter Aliens vs. Predator, focuses on the classic battle between the two species as well as the human Marines. Developers Rebellion, creators of the original title, have created a game that features both a booming single player campaign and a broad multiplayer with three different multiplayer campaigns to battle [...]

Unofficial M.A.G Trailer Shows Off Massive Potential
Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Among the most anticipated titles this year sits M.A.G, a record-breaking 256-player online first-person shooter. M.A.G, or Massive Action Game, was playable under Open Beta for the past week and thousands of PlayStation 3 owners worldwide were able to test the game out and provide feedback for the developers. Now that M.A.G is only weeks [...]

PlayStation Release Horizon 01/11/10
Sunday, January 10th, 2010

After a brief hiatus due to lack of releases, the PlayStation Release Horizon is back in action. Unfortunately, just because titles are starting to hit store shelves doesn’t necessarily mean they are plentiful. Such is the case with this week as we only see the releases of three titles across all PlayStation platforms.