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Rock of Ages Review (PSN)
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Rock of Ages is a one of a kind combination of racing and tower defense encased within a bizarre and humorous alternate historical take on the world. The result is something that is both absurd and original. var _CI = _CI || {}; (function() { _CI.counter = (_CI.counter) ? _CI.counter + 1 : 1; document.write(”); [...]

PSN Review – The Walking Dead: Episode 1 – A New Day
Friday, May 4th, 2012

Telltale Games has had some stunning game successes including the multi-season Sam and Max series and the very well adapted Back to the Future season. But fresh in everyone’s minds is the flop that was Jurassic Park. However, JP seems to have given Telltale an adequate enough testing ground to refine some of their bigger [...]

Wishful Thinking: Who Are the Usual Suspects of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale?
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Man last week was crazy! Last Thursday saw Gametrailers TV reveal something officially that most of the gaming community, especially those of us here at PSLS, knew well in advance. Yes, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is real, but one major surprise is that the game is slated for release this holiday season. However, the segment [...]

StarDrone Extreme’s Level Skip DLC is Skipping on Outta Here!
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

For those of you that read through Anthony’s review of StarDrone Extreme for the Vita, you may remember that one of the negatives he mentioned about the game was the rather insidious Level Skip DLC. The DLC cost $0.99 and allowed a player to skip an unlimited number of levels in the game after it [...]

Wishful Thinking: Possible DLC Ideas for Batman: Arkham City
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

The folks over at Rocksteady Studios are a tight-lipped ship of passionate programmers, artists, designers, and community managers. But a leaked trophy list for a rumored Harley Quinn centric story DLC for Batman: Arkham City renewed the debates from fans regarding which characters they would like to see introduced into Arkham City via DLC. This [...]

PSN Review – Skullgirls
Friday, April 20th, 2012

Within the last couple of years, the fighting game genre has been privy to a revitalization and has gone on to see a significant surge in interest from both experienced fighting game players as well as amateurs eager to learn more. But despite the spike in the number of new players coming to the genre, [...]

PSN Review – Shoot Many Robots
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Developer Demiurge has now released its first entirely original game called Shoot Many Robots for downloadable platforms. So has the studio that helped on titles like BioShock and Borderlands made something fun and exciting all on their own?

PS3 Review – Armored Core V
Monday, April 2nd, 2012

From Software’s Armored Core series has been a console mainstay since the original game was released back in 1997 for the PS1. But don’t worry if you haven’t been keeping up to date, From Software decided that rather than continuing the story from AC4 that they would reboot the series and take the mecha franchise [...]

New Darksiders 2 Trailer Shows What Happens When You Get In Death’s Way
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

In keeping with the torrent of Darksiders 2 news that has flooded our site today, THQ has just released a new CG trailer. Apparently, it’s the first part of a series as is noted by the ominous “To Be Continued” at the end of it. While the video doesn’t show off any crazy new gameplay [...]

Mad About Darksiders 2: Joe Madureira Speaks to PlayStation LifeStyle
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Joe Madureira has done a lot of things. He’s worked as a comic book artist for Marvel Comics, and even created his own comic series under the Wildstorm label called Battle Chasers. However, his experience with video games goes back to his time with Realm Interactive, which was later acquired by NCSoft, when he worked [...]

PS3 Preview – Darksiders 2
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Vigil Games’ second foray into the post-apocalyptic lives of the Four Horsemen features several exciting improvements upon the original, but the depth to the systems now present in DS2 almost makes the experience feel like a completely different series. So is that a bad thing for players out there that just want more of what [...]

PS3 Review – Binary Domain
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

If someone had walked up to me and said that the creator of the Yakuza franchise, Toshihiro Nagoshi, had created a squad-based, sci-fi themed, third person shooter, I probably would have written it off as heavy handed and a slow burn based solely on the design of the Yakuza game series. So imagine my surprise when [...]

PSN Review – Smash ‘N’ Survive
Friday, March 2nd, 2012

See if you can even survive playing this game.

PSN Review – Gotham City Impostors
Monday, February 20th, 2012

I’M NOT WEARIN’ HOCKEY PADS!

EA Contest Sends Mass Effect 3….To Space!
Friday, February 17th, 2012

In a contest of intergalactic (possibly even planetary planetary intergalactic) proportions, Electronic Arts will be sending copies of Mass Effect 3 into space using weather balloons. The balloons will be released from New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Berlin, London and Paris. Each one will be tagged with a GPS device, and intrepid fans can track [...]