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Could PS3 Deals Be Indicator of Looming Price Drop?
A friendly tipster sent in this picture they say they snagged at a GameStop showing that the national retailer will be offering a $50 gift certificate with any purchase of a new Playstation 3. The deal, we’re told, kicks off on March 3. If you’re not in the mood to wait, Best Buy is currently…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2009 -
Rumor: PSP 2 Won’t Have UMD Drive
The new Playstation Portable won’t feature a UMD disc drive, according to Acclaim developer David Perry. “I hear Sony FINALLY has the PSP 2. And thank goodness, they’ve removed the stupid battery-sucking UMD disc drive. I’m excited!” Perry wrote on both his Twitter and Facebook accounts. It is unclear if he has seen the rumored…
By Brian Crecente Published February 25, 2009 -
Destination Playstation
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: A Bad Day (Not Mine, Not Even Yours) Lots of Playstation news hitting today, what with Destination Playstation taking place this week. It looks like both the Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable have a pretty impressive line-up for this year. And that’s only the stuff we know about. How do…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
Sony: Record Growth and Momentum for Playstation in 09
Sony Computer Entertainment remains confident in their approach and strategy for “another record year of growth and momentum” for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3, SCEA CEO and president Jack Tretton said. Talking to a gathering of retailers and developers at the annual Destination PlayStation event, Tretton called 2009’s line up of games for both…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
Recession Boosts Gaming Pawns
A spike in gas prices followed by the deepening recession has led to all-time highs in pawn profits, the Chicago Tribune reports. Chief among the items sold? Video game consoles. “We’re seeing a lot of expensive video game systems, PlayStation 3s and X-Box and others, and a lot of LCDs (flat-screen televisions),” Ace Pawn Shop…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
Stoked: The Mountains
Stoked features five mountains that you can snowboard all over after being helicoptered in. Here’s a quick look at some of the mountains in Alaska, Chile and Japan. This looks pretty amazing, but can a realistic snowboarding game succeed enough to warrant a sequel. It seems like it’s always been a struggle in the past.
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
Resident Evil 5 Declassified Packed With RE Background, Details
Following in the footsteps of their excellent Street Fighter IV Training Manual, Capcom just sent me a copy of their guidebook for Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil Declassified is packed, packed with details about the upcoming game. The 39-page glossy mag includes a quick table setter for the upcoming game, detailed write-ups of the Kijuju…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
Warhawk Command Center Coming to Home
Finally! That amazing sandbox for Warhawk’s in-Home presence we first heard about last year is coming to the Playstation 3. The Warhawk Command Center space in Home will feature “a new place to socialize and strategize featuring the sand table.” The space arrives this week. From what we’ve heard, using a three-dimensional “sand table” replication…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
LittleBigPlanet, Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed Coming to PSP
Hot from this week’s annual Destination PlayStation meeting comes news of LittleBigPlanet, Rock Band and Assassin’s Creed for the PlayStation Portable. Rock Band Unplugged will include Wi-Fi support and a “fully-featured in-game store” for downloadable content in the North American and Europeans markets. This fall will see the release of MotorStorm Arctic Edge and LittleBigPlanet…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
Square Enix Invades Steam
Adding to their ever-expanding list of publishers, Valve today announced a deal with Square Enix to bring their PC games to download service Steam. Beginning April 9, The Last Remnant will be available for purchase via Steam. After the action role-playing game hits the service Square will continue to add to its roster of games…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
Activision to Publish Bakugan Game
It was only a matter of time before the soaring popularity of card and toy game Bakugan was snatched up by a developer and turned into a video game. Activision today announced they’ve signed a deal with Nelvana Enterprises to develop and distribute a video game based on the toy and animated television series. The…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
Recital The Second
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Did You Watch The Oscars? Hope you had a nice weekend. We did. We went to Tristan’s second guitar recital on Saturday. He played with a group in front of maybe 60 people. Man, that kid has nerves of steel. Being out in front of everyone doesn’t seem to bother…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009 -
Resident Evil Gets a Complete Reboot With RE6
With less than a month to go before Resident Evil 5 hits, 1Up is digging into the game to unearth a lot of new information including an interesting interview with the game’s producer. If this short intro to the week-long package can be believed, it sounds like Jun Takeuchi has finally come to the same…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009 -
Sony Takes Over Movie Theater, Opens Playstation Playroom
A Playstation playroom will be just one of the Sony plugs at a new movie theater opening in a LA suburb this week. The Muvico Entertainment-run theater in The Oaks shopping center will use Sony’s 4K SXRD digital projectors in the theaters, 16 Sony LCD televisions at the snackbars and have a bank of Playstation…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009 -
Electronic Arts Adds Microtransaction to Real Golf
Last week’s DICE summit kicked off with a game of golf in the Nevada desert. To keep things interesting, and raise a bit of cash for charity, Electronic Arts added microtransactions to the game. We heard about the event through some of the coverage last week. It involved golfers buying power-ups that could move golf…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009 -
Reviews
Halo Wars Review: A Fistful of Spartans
Halo has been safely nesting in the loving hands of Bungie for more than seven years. And it’s excelled as a first-person shooter, proving finally that you can make a great shooter on a console. In Halo Wars, gamers return to the beloved Xbox franchise to explore its early days in a real-time strategy title…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009 -
Nintendo Teases Pikmin Wii With a Plant
Nintendo sent a message plant to Kotaku Tower today along with a postcard from Pikmin’s Captain Olimar to tease the upcoming North American Release of New Play Control! Pikmin. The plant will, in a week or so, unfurl to reveal a single word. Probably Pikmin!
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009 -
Parent Group Issues Warning For The Lost and Damned
Unlike some other, over-the-top parenting groups, Common Sense Media takes a more, well, common sense approach to its look at the multimedia children are exposed to. Recently, the group warned parents off of Grand Theft Auto IV’s The Lost and Damned, pointing out that the game is laden with mature content and should be “kept…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009 -
Watch a Unicorn Review Street Fighter IV
New York-based comedy improv group Action Pals sat down in GameDaily’s offices to produce this dead-on review of Street Fighter IV. The group take to task Capcom for their Mexican stereotypes, hamburger-chested women, and call out little know Street Fighter spin-off, Street Fighter for Girls. Did I mention that one of the reviewers is a…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009
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