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So, the new Twisted Metal game was quietly released yesterday. In honour of the affair, and the fact the game has also been picked up for a movie adaptation, here's some concept art from the latest entry in the long-running serires. More »
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The co-director of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Brian Taylor, will be both writing and directing a Twisted Metal movie. It's being produced by super nerds Avi and Ari Arad. More »
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Sony's new PlayStation Vita handheld sports a good amount of ways to connect with people. It will let you share your trophies, passively trade and unlock game content, and even broadcast how you're feeling about the games you're playing. More »
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Here's Sony's first video advertisement for the powerful PlayStation Vita, an ad that the publisher says will be plastered on Fox, Comedy Central, and ESPN (among other networks) in the near future. More »
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We continue to hear from people who have taken issue with the strange Taco Bell contest that claims to be giving a PlayStation Vita to customers every 15 minutes. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5884766&view=rss&microfeed=true In a Q&A over at the PlayStation Blog, Sony announced that the PS Vita's first-person shooter Resistance: Burning Skies will be released on May 29th. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5884803&view=rss&microfeed=true In a bit of disappointing news, Mojang's Daniel Kaplan has told Eurogamer that the developer has no plans to bring Minecraft to Sony's new PlayStation Vita handheld. More »
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Racing games on handheld systems can be a tough sell—with a smaller screen and lower hardware horsepower, it can be difficult to convey the sense of speed that makes great racing games great. The new PlayStation Vita handheld seems designed to address the racing genre head-on—its processing power is closer to a current-gen console than any handheld before it, and its sizable OLED screen seems custom-made for driving games. More »
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If you're in a hurry, you simply need to know that the PlayStation Vita is a very good portable video game machine that excels in ways that Sony hasn't bothered to hype. More »
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Out in the middle of the desert, a remote-controlled M249 Squad Automatic Weapon will unload its magazine into Sweet Tooth's iconic ice cream truck from Twisted Metal, releasing on Tuesday for the PlayStation 3. The trigger will be thousands of spacebars from across the Internet, and the finger on one of them can be yours. More »
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We've heard (as far back at 2010) Sony admit that it blundered big time by not publishing Demon's Souls in North America. Now we know why they passed. Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Computer Entertainment's head of product development, told Game Informer that he played two hours of the game as it was close to final, and walked away convinced it would be terrible. More »
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After posting its official unboxing teaser video on Thursday, Sony yesterday published this 12-minute guided tour of the system, explaining all of the features and benefits of the PlayStation Vita, with Guy Longworth, PlayStation's chief marketer, and John Koller, who is the boss of PlayStation's handheld division. More »
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Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo (The Japanese that Japanese People Don't Know) is a collection of real-life stories centering on a young Japanese woman as she teaches Japanese to a group of foreigners in Tokyo. More »
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Sony has released a list of the first 275 PSP games that will be available to be downloaded or transferred onto their new handheld Vita. Sony has put a note in the post indicating that the list is not complete, and that more games will be added in subsequent updates. More »
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The PlayStation 3 and PS Vita share the sort of relationship that the Previous Sony Portable could only dream of. Maybe the PS3 thought the PSP was the one, but now it's found something much more intimate and personal. More »
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According to a recent survey done by the Weekly Famitsu, for people who have purchased a PSVita, 59%* answered that they had purchased the 3G/Wi-Fi model, showing a relative popularity over the standard Wi-Fi model. More »
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The most recent PlayStation Store update has quietly delivered five PS Vita titles—discoverable by search—that show the digital versions costing between $3 and $5 less than their retail versions. More »
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I don't whether to laugh or cry, but word coming out of Sony's behind-closed-doors Destination PlayStation event has it that a LittleBigPlanet kart racing game is in development. More »
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Sony has told Kotaku that there will not be a North American version of the UMD Passport program, which would allow PlayStation Vita users to transfer their PSP discs to the upcoming handheld. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883089&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's last night's split-second appearance by Jerry Lambert, the actor best known for playing mascot Kevin Butler. "Giddy-up now, Deion," Lambert says to legendary NFL cornerback Deion Sanders. Presumably later he tried to sell him a PS3. [Thanks, Rob!] More »
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What the latest Inside PS Vita is trying to say is that by purchasing a Vita you're becoming a member of a global gaming community connected by glowing threads of gaming-infused light, wrapping about you like a brilliant cocoon in which you'll never feel lonely ever again. I might be reading a bit much into it. More »
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On Feb. 8th, Sony is launching the System Firmware Ver. 1.60 for the Vita. Here is some of what this update contains: a new Map application, video recording, and Mac OS support. More »
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A routine bit of maintenance on the PlayStation Network last week has gone a little pear-shaped, it seems, with users in Europe complaining that post-update they've been unable to access content they've already paid for. More »
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Game Informer (owned by GameStop) this weekend announced that more than 3,300 GameStop locations in North America have demonstration units of the PS Vita available for people to come by and play. I'd advise calling first to see if your local store is letting it out for everyone to handle. More »
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Just because the PS Vita isn't out for another ten days in North America doesn't mean you can't start picking up your launch games in advance. This poor little guy looked so out of place in Walmart's PlayStation section I just had to take him home. More »
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In an email to PlayStation Network subscribers, Sony told subscribers that their PlayStation Network accounts will now be known as "Sony Entertainment Network" accounts. Not that this does away with PlayStation Network as a name. Sony says PSN "will be aligned with Sony Entertainment Network." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5882250&view=rss&microfeed=true According to Sony, the PlayStation Store's search function is buggy and not working. The Tokyo-based electronics company is investigating and working on a fix. Sit tight. [PlayStation Japan] More »
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Sony invited a group of Japanese press to its offices to check out upcoming PS Vita game Gravity Rush. These types of tours can start to blur into each other, with game developers giving the press the hard sell. But this tour had something I'd never seen before: whiteboard drawings! More »
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Game Informer Magazine has posted three screens from their new cover story on The Last of Us, the upcoming PS3-exclusive zombie-adventure game from Naughty Dog, the studio behind the Uncharted series. More »
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Today, Sony announced its recent financials, and the Tokyo-based electronics giant is hemorrhaging money. More »
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Sony has posted an interesting glimpse behind the scenes of Naughty Dog's upcoming The Last of Us, showing the human actors who bring the game's characters to life. More »
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Gravity Rush is one of the PS Vita's most compelling titles. Keiichiro Toyama, creator of the Silent Hill series, served as the game's Creative Director. But he didn't make the game alone. More »
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As has been expected for a while now, Sir Howard Stringer's replacement as President and CEO of Sony Corporation when he steps down in June will be Kaz Hirai, a long-time champion of the company's PlayStation brand. More »
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Sony has confirmed games for its upcoming Vita handheld will be a bit cheaper to purchase as downloadable digital games than it would cost to buy a physical disc. More »
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Despite the fact almost every games writer I've ever spoken with loves the thing, the general public has, so far, not exactly warmed to Sony's latest handheld video games console. More »
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Widely expected to be the case, to the point that studio chief Ted Price was surprised it made big news, Insomniac has confirmed that it is finished with the Resistance series it started in 2006. More »
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Gravity Rush, née Gravity Daze in its native Japan, is a stunner. So is this ad, which features a schoolgirl, an old lady, and floating apples. More »
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The Nintendo Network is the Kyoto-based game maker's upcoming service that envisions digital game distribution and, most likely, downloadable content. Nintendo is outfitting the Wii U controller with tech that could radically change the way gamers shop. More »
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