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Sony Announces Slim PS3 – It Lives This September!
Kaz Hirai, head of all things PlayStation, announced that the long-rumored PlayStation 3 Slim will be in stores the first week of September. [UPDATED with official pic] Hirai noted that it will be have the same features and function of the current PS3, with a 120 gb drive. It will be 33 percent smaller, 36…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
“Hundreds” Of Marvel Comics Coming To PSP
Marvel comics will be readable (legally!) on PSPs in the coming months. At their Gamescom press conference today, Sony announced the November launch of a digital reader for the PlayStation Portable. Details are scarce about what content will be on the service, but one bit of content is locked: Marvel Comics. The Spider-Man publisher’s Ira…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 Firmware 3.0 Adds New XMB, Dynamic Themes, Avatars
PlayStation 3 firmware 3.0 is coming soon, bringing with it new XMB functionality, a status indicator, a friends list redesign, dynamic themes, avatars, and much more. Announced during Gamescom and highlighted at the PlayStation blog, firmware 3.0 doesn’t revolutionalize the way we navigate the PlayStation 3, but it does bring some welcome changes. The most…
By Mike Fahey Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony 2009 Gamescom Presser Liveblog Spectacular
What secrets will Sony reveal at its Gamescom 2009 press release? The PlayStation 3 Slim? A PS3 price cut? Join us on our voyage of discovery! Click to viewSony’s Gamescom 09 Press Event Spectacular
By Mike Fahey Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
LittleBigPlanet Gets All Wet
You’ll soon be able to fully realize your LittleBigPlanet BioShock level, as Media Molecule announces the addition of water to the game in a future update. How has the LittleBigPlanet community survived this long without real water? Sure, we’ve had cardboard water, but that isn’t quite the same. Now the Super Mario Bros. levels can…
By Mike Fahey Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gabe Newell “Gearbox” Poker Game Was “Tall Tale”
The story Kotaku ran yesterday regarding the origin of a poker game deciding whether Valve’s Gabe Newell or Randy Pitchford could name their company Gearbox was a “tall tale,” Pitchford told Kotaku this morning. I regret presenting it as fact. The story in question originally ran on Joystiq, which presented a lengthy e-mailed anecdote from…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Sony Says “Watch this Space” at Gamescom
Sony’s potentially news-heavy press conference kicks off live here in Cologne at 10:30. a.m. We’ll be there live blogging it from the floor so make sure to check on Kotaku to follow along. In the meantime check out pics of some of the ads plastering the E Werk including one mammoth tease.
By Brian Crecente Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect 2: Meet Grunt
BioWare has revealed the second party member to join Commander Shepard’s motley crew in Mass Effect 2, Grunt, a violent and unpredictable Krogan fighter. Grunt joins the assassin Thane as part of Shepard’s decidedly darker posse in the second game in BioWare’s epic space adventure. He may be untamed and untrustworthy, but he’s an important…
By Mike Fahey Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Dante’s Inferno Dated For February 2010
Electronic Arts announced at its Gamescom press conference the final date for its action adventure Dante’s Inferno, the God of War-like game based ever so loosely on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Dante’s Inferno now has a hard date of February 12, 2010 in Europe, and a date of February 9, 2010 in the United States,…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Ships In March, Something Amazing Planned
“When Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ships in March, it will deliver the best online multiplayer experience ever,” Karl Magnus Troedsson, Battlefield’s executive producer announced today. We’ll know soonish. Publisher EA announced that the DICE’s next military shooter will ship for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 2 in the U.S. and March 5…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Persona 3 Ported To PSP, Bringing Female Lead Character
Role-playing series Persona is coming to the PSP later this year with Persona 3 Portable. The game appears to differ from the PS2 version of Persona 3 as the game’s hero seems to be a heroine. Few other details are currently known, but the game will be out in Japan on November 1. New features…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Brutal Legend Demo Out Next Month
EA has just announced that a demo for Double Fine’s Brutal Legend will hit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September. UPDATE: Double Fine president Tim Schafer specified September 17 as the official relase date for the demo during EA’s Gamescom press conference. “We just couldn’t wait,” Double Fine president Tim Schafer said in…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Report: Xbox 360 Failure Rate Over 50 Percent
It’s that time again! Time to talk about Xbox 360 failure rates — you know, the Red Ring of Death and all that jazz. In a survey of the print edition of Game Informer, nearly 5,000 readers were surveyed about the consoles. Here’s how console failure broke down: ¥ Xbox 360 has a 54.2 percent…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
I Saw This Lady At The Train Station, Got Her Autograph For The Kid
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Ich Bin Gamer Hello! I’m back. Busy weekend, filled with living relatives, dead relatives and drinking. I also spent an afternoon at Takashi Murakami’s studio — how’s that for awesome? While at Shin Osaka Station, I lined up to buy some takoyaki at a food stall. In line behind me,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Gamescom 09: Gran Turismo 5, Fable III, The News Keeps Coming
Gamescom 09 coverage.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 Slimpocalypse Countdown: British Retailer Slashes PS3 Prices
British supermarket retailer ASDA have slashed the price of the 80GB PlayStation 3, ahead of a belief that Sony will soon be discontinuing the model. Speaking with GI.biz, a representative from the chain said that the PS3 is not only being reduced to £250 (from £300), but will also be bundled with Terminator Salvation, Terminator…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
Saints Row Added To Games On Demand
Those who felt that Microsoft’s initial line-up of 360 Games on Demand was a little bland, a little lacking in Busey’s teeth, today’s your day: Saints Row has been added to the service. Xbox.com says it’s 3000 Microsoft Points, and that it’s available for Australia, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, North America, Singapore and Taiwan.…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 18, 2009 - Uncategorized
PS3 Slimpocalypse Countdown: More PS3 Sell-Outs In Japan
PS3 inventory in Japan continues to dry up. As we posted late last week, certain retailers no longer are carrying the console in stock. They’re sold out. The issue seems to be more wide spread than intially thought. Granted, it’s impossible to account for every store in the country, but, according to Japan’s Akiba Blog,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 18, 2009