Kotaku: Ps1

An Xbox, a PlayStation and Batman Walk Into a Bar...

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EDT

Actually, it's not a bar. It's a Chinese market, where this abomination hails from, bringing together the very worst in Xbox, PlayStation and ill-advised superhero movie sequels. More »

For $35,000, You Can Make Your Own PS1 Games

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:30:00 EDT

Website PlayStation Museum has a complete PS1 development kit, including everything you need to make a game, from coding it to burning master discs. And now it can all be yours. More »

Atlus Travels Back in Time to Tease Persona 2: Innocent Sin

Mike Fahey — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:00:00 EDT

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Atlus Faithful fan club members received a bizarre mailing today in the form of a newsletter dated June 23, 1999. What's significant about that date? Why that's when the only Persona game not to hit North America was released in Japan. How odd. More »

Someone Tell This Guy How Good Chrono Cross Is

Mike Fahey — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:20:00 EDT

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In today's Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter SecretMoblin openly admits to never having played the PlayStation classic Chrono Cross, and wonders if it's even worth playing. It's education time! More »

Sony Hasn't Always Hated Homebrew Development

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Sony's recent run of legal and now technical issues with hackers can be traced back to a single decision: that of removing the ability to run the Linux operating system on the PlayStation 3. While Sony cut Linux out of piracy fears, fans were upset that it brought to an end over a decade of custom tinkering and homebrew development on PlayStation consoles. More »

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of PlayStation Advertising

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT

The Sony PlayStation was the first ever console to truly pitch itself at an adult market. This meant that the machine's advertisements set a more mature, often strange tone that continues through to this day. More »

Re-Releasing Old PS1 Games Is Harder Than It Sounds

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:00:00 EST

I've often wondered just how "classic" games are re-released for a modern home console. Like, the process that actually goes into digging up the old code. So it was awesome today to get some answers on the subject! More »

This Real Final Fantasy Sword Does Some Real Damage

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:00:00 EST

As the main weapon from Final Fantasy VII, the "Buster Sword" is a video gaming icon. In this clip, a man makes a real, giant replica, then has another man run at a piece of wood and smash it to bits. More »

Imagine A World Without Grand Theft Auto

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:30:00 EST

Seems ridiculous, what with Rockstar's epic crime series still a benchmark for open-world gameplay, but did you know that the very first GTA came close to never being released? More »

Fans Bringing Japan-Only RPG To The West

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:30:00 EST

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is the sequel to role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner. Neither game was ever released in the West. That's not stopping some fans from bringing the former out here, though! More »

First Gran Turismo Was 15 Years In The Making

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST

When game designer Kazunori Yamauchi was a 15-year-old, he came up with an idea for a game he'd love to make: a racing game with with real cars and real physics. More »

Sony's Thoughts On Insomniac Going Multi-Platform

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Game studio Insomniac Games has created a slew of exclusive titles for the PlayStation platform. Franchises like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance are PlayStation hallmarks. The day of Insomniac making only PS games are over. More »

Yes, This Is The Best Final Fantasy VII Cosplay

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:00:00 EDT

By "best" I don't mean "most realistic", I mean the best. As seen on Topless Robot. More »

Namco Bandai Digging Into The Archives For Re-Releases

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:00:00 EST

Got an interesting press release today from Namco Bandai. It goes a little something like this. More »

The Following, Old Capcom Games Will Soon Be Available On The PlayStation Network

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:30:00 EDT

The days of people whining "where are my old-timey games on the PSN?" appear well and truly over. You've got Final Fantasy VII, you've got Metal Gear Solid, and soon you'll be getting a ton of Capcom classics as well. More »

Have You Been To An Arcade 7000 Feet Above Sea Level?

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Probably not. This one is located in the Indian city of Darjeeling (yes, like the tea). And while it's not much of an arcade, that's still pretty high. More »

Shut Up, Capcom Are putting PS1 Games On The PSN

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:30:00 EDT

Probably the biggest problem with the PlayStation Store (at least in the West) is that, inexplicably, there are so few PlayStation 1 games available. It's something people complain about often. And something Capcom are fixing. More »

Driver Coming To PSN Next Week

Mike Fahey — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:40:00 EDT

Ubisoft has announced that the PlayStation classic Driver will be hitting the PlayStation Network next Thursday, August 14th. The game puts you in the role of an undercover cop infiltrating a crime syndicate using his driving skills, something that happens on a regular basis these days. More »

MGS1 Will Not Be A PS2 Port

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:30:00 EST

Back. It. Up. Yesterday, Konami's American PR said that the version of Metal Gear Solid 1 included in the upcoming Metal Gear compendium would be shipping on a PS2 disc. Turns out that was a load of rubbish. The game will be shipping on two PS1 discs, just like it always has. Kojima Productions producer Ryan Payton tells us: More »

Yes, Sony Still Cares About Backwards Compat [Update]

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:00:14 EST

Remember when Sony took backwards compatibility out of the PLAYSTATION 3? That hurt. But, don't worry, it appears as though Sony hasn't totally given up on BC. A job listing for a development engineer has popped up on the Sony Computer Entertainment site. The job entails: More »

Sony Refunds UK PSN Users

Mike Fahey — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:20:42 EDT

PS3 owners in the UK who bought Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer and MediEvil from the PlayStation Store found their purchases ruined by shoddy emulation. Earlier this week the two titles as well as Crash Bandicoot 2 were removed from the store, and now Sony has informed customers via email that their money shall be returned in full to their PS wallets within the next seven days.

"You will be aware from the description of the product on PlayStation Store that some variation in functionality from the original PSone version is to be anticipated," the publisher wrote.

Time To Dust Off That PSP

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:22:11 EST

Dead serious: My PSP was covered in dust. I took it down from the shelf and recharged the battery. When I finally turned it on, I had to set the date and whatnot. The last time I had touched the device was when I left my DS in a Los Angeles hotel room and had to wait for Joel Johnson to ship that puppy back. More »

PS3 Won't Enhance PS1 or PS2 Games

kotaku.com — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:40:06 EDT

The PS2 does a pretty good job of making PS1 games more palatable. Will the PS3 have the same capabilities? Not really. More »

PSP Homebrew Crew Achieves PSX Emulation

egauger — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:20:14 EDT

When I first got my PSP I was all about the homebrew. I made custom backgrounds for my savegames and etc. One time, while waiting for a flight at an airport, I got so involved in my homebrew DOOM game that I missed my plane by about an hour. After that, I lost my taste for the elaborate fiddling that goes into getting homebrew to run. More »

Edge, DMA Reflect On The Making of GTA

Michael McWhertor — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:41:53 EDT

The first Grand Theft Auto for the PlayStation and PC was not the runaway success or critical hit that many gamers associate with the third proper entry in the series. Nor was it easy to create. In Edge Online's digital version of the print pub's latest "Making Of" feature, DMA's Brian Baglow recalls: "I sat through heated design meetings, which resulted in tears. Screaming, punches and arguments were common." Awesome. More »

Bleemcast Reminiscing At Retro Gaming

brownlee — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:40:10 EDT

Ah, the early days of emulation! When the legal ground was murky (or, at least, slightly more contested) and companies flagrantly sold emulators to the public. The Colecovision pulled it back in the 80's and the Dreamcast did it in the late 90's through Bleem. More »

Another Game Adaptation Rescued From Uwe

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 22 May 2006 17:22:45 EDT

Big time Hong Kong film director Stanley Tong (deer-in-headlights above) will be bringing the PS1 game Fear Effect to the silver screen. Tong (Supercop, Rumble in the Bronx and er, Mr. Magoo) has stepped up to direct the feature after it was optioned by chowderhead Uwe Boll. The movie's plot centers around a team of mercenaries fighting off demons and out to find a rich industrialist's daughter. The US $25 million flick is set to hit theaters in late 2007 or early 2008 and will be shoot in various locales, including Shanghai and Hong Kong. The film's producer described the adaptation as "Mission: Impossible meets Silent Hill." And this is apparently a good thing. —Brian Ashcraft More »

An X 360 Demo for PlayStation

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 17 May 2006 09:22:56 EDT

In 1998, Sony gave away this promo item, which features two demos that showcase the PlayStation's sound capabilities. One of the demos is a FPS that puts emphasis on "the explosion effects as it travels past you through sound." Woah, that sounds way cooler than it probably really is. And no, it has nothing actually to do with the Xbox 360. —Brian Ashcraft More »

Futher Evident Silent Hill Movie Won't Be Sucky

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:22:12 EDT

In a recent interview, Silent Hill scribe Roger Avary gushes, we mean gushes about gaming. He says, More »

PS1 Emu 4 PSP Pix

brownlee — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:40:07 EDT

PSP Updates have some leaked pics of the upcoming PS1 emulator for the PSP. Games will be downloaded to a UMD memory stick and run through the Games menu, which sounds reasonable. More »