And Lo, A Video Game Soundtrack Announcement I Actually Care About
Hohokum is coming for the PS4, PS3 and Vita. It's a beautiful game, one I've been hanging out for since last year, but I'm now even more excited after hearing about the soundtrack.
Sony Video Game Exec Makes the Leap to Owl Noises
Let's see. The game is Destiny of Spirits: Asia. That's voice actress Kana Hanazawa. But she's voicing Tsukuyomi, the female character on the television screen. Who's voicing the owl? Why Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida.
The Time True Detective's Director Made A PlayStation Commercial
This PlayStation Vita commercial is nearly two years old. If you live in the United Kingdom you've probably seen it before (I don't, and haven't). I post it tonight, though, because of who made the clip: Cary Fukunaga.
A Game Where You Decide What Your Companions Say (And How They Say It)
Freedom Wars is the upcoming hunting game for the PS Vita where you play a prisoner working off a million year sentence. In the game, players work together along with android companions called "Accessories." Apparently these Accessories can talk and I want to hear what they have to say.
A Vita game I can't stop playing: If you've got a Vita, check out Surge Deluxe, a highly enjoyable (and addictive) electro-charged tile-matching game from Futurlab. At a certain point it clicks, and you'll be hooked. Futurlab's next game will be Velocity 2X for Vita and PS4.
The 12 Best Games For the PlayStation Vita
The PlayStation Vita is the $250 $200 handheld that the world either desperately needed or needed not at all. It could go either way in this era of rampant cell phone gaming, where many games are played with nary the press of a button or flick of a stick.
Fez is coming to all PlayStation platforms on March 25. Polytron's indie hit is a cross-buy offering, meaning the copy you buy for PS3, PS4, or PS Vita is good on all the other devices, and save files may be shared among them.
The Week in Games: Humble Folks Without Temptation
This week we're going down to South Park to have ourselves a time. Other releases include the next episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two and hot damn, some simulation farmin', hell yeah.
The Week in Games: Garden Warfare and Thief
Thief arrives on the PC and both PlayStations and Xboxes this week, along with Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare on Xbox 360 and Xbox One and the latest Castlevania for PC and the previous-gen consoles. Call of Duty fans on PC and the PlayStations get the Onslaught DLC this week, too.
Meet The Game Makers Who Actually Enjoy Reading Internet Comments
Rex Crowle and Christophe Villedieu don't say the kinds of things most of the video game developers I've ever spoken to say. For example, when they're feeling down they... go to Twitter to see what people have to say about their game.
It's the middle of the month; that means new games on PlayStation Plus. Tomorrow, Remember Me is free to subscribers on PS3; for PS Vita, it's Street Fighter X Tekken. That means today is your last day to download Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed on Vita and Poker Night at the Inventory 2 on PS3 before they cycle…
The Week in Games: There's Money in the Banana Stand
Rayman Legends makes its way to Xbox One and PS4 this week, followed by Strider's long-awaited return to the PlayStation and Xbox consoles, plus PC. But the week's big gorilla arrives on Friday, with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Wii U.
MLB The Show Launches April 1 on PS3, Arrives in May for PS4
MLB 14 The Show will release April 1 on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita and will arrive in May on PS4, Sony said today, ending an anxious stretch for baseball fans wondering if they would be playing a new version of the game on Opening Day.
Happy Valentine's Day Week—here is a beautiful new romantic trailer for Final Fantasy X, a video game about an athlete's illicit love affair with a woman who's just trying to save the world. The HD remakes of FFX/FFX-2 are out on PS3 and Vita next month.
The Week in Games: Lightning Strikes
The week's big new packaged release is Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, with a couple of bundles and re-releases arriving with it on Tuesday. The MMO World of Tanks fully launches on Xbox 360 on Wednesday, and The Last of Us gets its prequel, Left Behind, on Valentine's Day. Here's the week in games:
The Week in Games: Back in Business with Bravely Default
We now return to our regularly scheduled The Week in Games, now that we have enough titles to properly justify discussing an upcoming week for them. Key releases are Bravely Default on 3DS, the latest episode of The Wolf Among Us, and The LEGO Movie Video Game doing a Full Ginsburg on all eight (8) current platforms.
My Quest to Play 3DS Games on My TV
Have you ever dreamed of playing your 3DS games on a big screen TV? I know I have. While many people are happy to play their portable at home or on the road, if given the choice, I will always choose the TV. But as 3DS can't output to a TV, I've always had to just grit my teeth and accept it—that is until now.
PlayStation Vita Slim Hits The UK Next Week
The thinner, non-OLED version of PlayStation's latest portable makes its way from Japan to the UK next week. As we ponder a North American release, PlayStation Access celebrates with a Vita model comparison music video.