First, it sounded like the yawn of a giant supercomputer as it stretched itself awake. Then, like a genie coming out of a lamp. They're all burned into our memories. What's been your favorite PlayStation start-up screen?
Would it be possible to transform League of Legends into a JRPG, specifically, Final Fantasy VII? The answer is yes!
You might think you know everything there is to know about the PS1, but I bet there's at least one thing in this video by Vsauce3 that you find new or surprising.
The Minecraft creator has recently tweeted the picture to the left/above, adding that the console—a gold-colored PlayStation 1—was part of a "VIP invitation to an E3 event from Sony." So shiny. Unfortunately, no word if it actually works—without cables, Notch has no way to power the thing on. [Thanks, NeoGAF!]
So the official list of Vita-supported PS1 Classics is pretty barren
Between todays's news that the Sony Liverpool studio—originally known as Psygnosis
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Almost a year ago to the day, I wrote a piece on Sony's Net Yaroze
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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.
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.
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.
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!
Sony's recent run of legal
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.
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!
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
By "best" I don't mean "most realistic", I mean the best. As seen on Topless Robot.
Got an interesting press release today from Namco Bandai. It goes a little something like this.
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.
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.
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.
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