Dry those tears, PlayStation All-Stars fans. Your beloved game isn't quite dead yet. It managed to makes its way to PlayStation All-Stars Island, where Sony and Coke Zero are... oh god, what are they doing to it? Look away, baby. Just look away.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale fans, I am here to crush your dreams. There is no hope of additional DLC. There will be no more stages. Sony's Santa Monica Studio, the studio in charge of the game (for as long as it continues), flat-out shut the door. But free costumes!
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale at one point had plans for a Gravity Rush/Journey crossover stage, according to images leaked by one of the game's artists. Whether it was meant to be DLC is kind of a moot point, as the only post-release support the game is now getting is online match-making.
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Sony has cut ties with PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale creator SuperBot Entertainment, just days after the development studio laid off a number of its staff.
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Starhawk's Emmett Graves joins PlayStation All-Stars on Feb. 12. The download is free. Kat of Gravity Rush is included.
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About a week ago we all got the opportunity to get our hands on Sony's brawler, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
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Robot Chicken's brand of geek humor gets a lot of mileage from imagining the messed-up stuff fictional characters get up to when they're not busy being all heroic or villainous. So, yeah, a breakroom filled with the cast of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale would be boiling over with all of the shame and neediness …
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If you think about every major video game publisher whose games you ever played, certain staple characters may come to mind. Recalling those characters might even bring a smile to your face, and remind you of the fond memories you had playing as each of them.
The first two (free) DLC characters for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Kat and Emmett, will be arriving in 2013.
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Looks like PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale's final boss will be Polygon Man, the short-lived mascot for the PS1.
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With two days to go in the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale beta the game's developer, SuperBot Entertainment, has released this video covering the basics of the game. It's an attempt to answer a lot of the questions the studio has been fielding since the beta opened Oct. 16, but it also functions as a video…
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From the moment the concept leaked around Thanksgiving last year, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has been slapped with labels like "PlayStation Smash Bros." So, OK, fine, here you go. A bona fide Sony Smash Bros., courtesy of four Super Smash Bros. Brawl modders.
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You can check out the beta for Sony fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale starting tomorrow, assuming you are A) a PlayStation Plus user or B) a Vita owner.
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Oh my beloved Nariko, I shall not let any of those unworthy ruffians touch an oddly-rendered hair on your beauteous head when you make your grande return in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
PlayStation All-Stars' newest fighter is Evil Cole. Is Sony running low on characters? Bring on Happy Kratos!
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Sony's new Cross-Buy feature augments Cross-Play between PlayStation 3 and PS Vita by offering copies for both systems in one package. Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time join PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale as games that give you both platforms for the price of one.
Sony's mascot fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has been bumped back to November 20.
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The closed beta for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was released earlier this week. While it's in no way a complete product (it's a beta, after all) there were some things about it I loved and hated. Watch the video above to find out.
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will get a public beta this fall, following a private beta that, over the weekend, was said to reveal eight more characters from the game's roster and what appeared to be all of its stages.
