LittleBigPlanet Gets a Free-To-Play Hub On PS3

Today, Sony revealed LittleBigPlanet Hub, a free-to-play take on LittleBigPlanet. Players will be able to dress up, do challenges, and more. Here’s the trailer.

Borderlands 2 Coming To Vita Next Year

Gearbox’s hybrid RPG-shooter is making a portable appearance on the PlayStation Vita, Sony announced today at their GamesCom conference. Borderlands 2 will be published by Sony for Vita and out in 2014.

PS Vita Price Cut to $199; Memory Cards Reduced, Too [Update]

The price PlayStation Vita’s price has dropped to $199 in North America and 199EU. It takes effect immediately. Sony also is trimming the price of the Vita’s proprietary memory cards in both regions. The 32GB and 16 GB memory cards both will get $20 reductions—dropping to $79.99 for the 32GB and $39.99 for the 16GB.…

Gran Turismo 6 will launch on Dec. 6 for PlayStation 3. The game will feature concept vehicles exclusive to Gran Turismo 6 made by several automotive and non-automotive brands alike, and in some cases these concept cars will be manufactured in the real world.

Our First Look At The PlayStation 4’s Menus In Action

Today at Gamescom, Sony demonstrated the PlayStation 4’s menus and interface for the first time. Also, they unveiled a lovely leather chair! Sony president Shuhei Yoshida kicked off Sony’s Gamescom conference sitting in a high-backed leather chair and navigating the PS4’s user interface, hopping between a number of different functions and firing up a game…

Watch Sony’s Big PS4 Press Conference Live, Right Here [Update: It’s Over]

Sony is in Germany talking all things PS4—games, release date, etc.—and we’ve got a stream for you right here. UPDATE: Conference is over. Original post follows: Maybe we’ll even hear some Vita news. Price cut? New games? Robot-transforming mode? Check out the embed below for a live look at Sony’s big GamesCom press conference, which…

An Ode To Splinter Cell’s Original Voice Actor

With the release of Splinter Cell: Blacklist today (in at least some parts of the world) I thought it time we look into the horrible fact that Michael Ironside, the man who would not free Willy, is no longer the voice of Sam Fisher. Will the world crumble due to this fact? We cannot yet…

Battlefield 4 Is Doing Its Best To Impre–Watch Out For That Ship!

This is what competition gets you. It gets you a development studio, DICE, trying to convince you that they are making the best military first-person shooter of the year. Today, they’ve made their latest pitch while uttering the word someone in their studio or in the EA marketing team cooks up the word—”Levolution”—in order to…

Stop Making Peggle 2 So Damn Sexy, PopCap

Revealed this morning as an Xbox One timed exclusive, Peggle 2 got a little more stage time at EA’s Gamescom presser than it did at E3, parading about its balls and pegs like it was in some sort of first-ever gameplay trailer. As pretty as all many of the other Xbox One games coming this…

Garden Warfare Introduces You to the Zombies (and Zombie Buttcrack)

Scientist, Soldier, Engineer and All-Star are PopCap’s take on the popular shooter classes in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, coming next year to Xbox One. The Zombies’ Engineer looks like a guy you don’t want to get behind, either. The game will feature online matches of up to 24 players, plus a four-player online cooperative…

The Battlefield 4 beta will kick off in early October, EA announced today. Platform details to come.

Patrick Stewart Makes Soccer Sound Like The Best Thing Ever

Who cares about football? Not the NFL version. You know, the soccer kind? Most of the world cares. Plus: Patrick Stewart. And in this new hype trailer for FIFA 14, Stewart just might get skeptics interested as well. Well done, Captain. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…

Titanfall Delivers Another Trailer, and It Is Breathtaking

There is a good reason Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall vacuumed up a bathtubful of awards when it was unveiled at E3, and you see a lot of them in this latest trailer shown today at Gamescom 2013. This throwdown is from a mode called “Attrition,” played on the Angel City map, and the seamlessness of the…

EA Sports UFC in May? Brian Hayes of EA Canada, developer of EA Sports UFC just said the game is “about nine months away from release.” That would mean the mixed-martial arts title would be due for a May 2014 launch. So far, EA Sports has said only Spring 2014. A first look at gameplay…

Minions! Moral Decisions! Dragon Age Inquisition Is Sounding Good.

Is the third time going to be the charm for BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise? If this dev diary is accurate to how the game is turning out, it just might! You’re an inquisitor. You run the place. You send minions on quests. You make moral decisions. And the game you’re in looks damn good. Inquisition…

Command & Conquer: Episodic, story driven missions will be coming to Command and Conquer next year, Victory Games said on stage today at Gamescom. The missions may be played alone or cooperatively.

The first expansion to Plants Vs. Zombies 2 will be set in the future, the game’s creators at PopCap just announced at a Gamescom EA kick-off event. The free-to-play game has already been downloaded some 16 million times since its release last week.

The Sims 4 Will Let You Manipulate Sims’ Emotions

The Sims 4, targets for a 2014 PC release, will have “emotion-based gameplay,” according to Rachel Franklin, exec v.p. of the game’s development studio Maxis. She was presenting the game today at an EA Gamescom event in Germany. “From angry to flirty, from sad to happy, you can now explore the gamut of human emotions…

Watch Electronic Arts’ Gamescom News Conference Live Right Here

Electronic Arts has news from Cologne, Germany for Battlefield 4, the next Plants vs. Zombies, Need for Speed Rivals, and the first look at gameplay for EA Sports UFC. You can watch it all here live at 10 a.m. EDT. The presentation will also unveil The Sims 4 and deliver news from FIFA 14 as…

Have You Ever Seen Ryse: Son of Rome‘s Co-Op Gladiator Movie?

We’ve seen plenty of combat in Xbox One’s Ryse: Son of Rome, but where’s the love? Why, it’s in the game’s cooperative multiplayer mode, which combines the thrill of gladiatorial combat with the convenience of modular furniture. It’s like fighting to the death with friends in Ikea.