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Why Does PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale‘s YouTube Page Have A Tag For Super Smash Bros.?
Some might say that Sony’s upcoming brawl game, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, is something of a Super Smash Bros. clone. Maybe Sony agrees. PlayStation® All-Stars Battle Royale E3 Trailer [YouTube]
By Jason Schreier Published June 4, 2012 -
Harry Potter’s Author Helping Sony With an Interactive PlayStation…Book…Thing
It’s either the cutest or the most ridiculous thing we’ll see at this year’s E3, but it’s a thing: Sony has developed an interactive book. It’s called Wonderbook (trailer above), and it works by being read in front of a PlayStation Eye camera, which can turn the pages into interactive animations on a TV screen.…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 4, 2012 -
Final Fantasy VII, Tomb Raider, Other PS1 Games Coming To Vita This Summer
Sony will bring its PS1 Classics service to Vita this summer, it said today at its press conference. Announced games so far include Tomb Raider, Arc the Lad, JetMoto, Final Fantasy VII. Presumably the lineup will be a lot more robust when it’s actually out, like the actual PS1 Classics that are currently available on…
By Jason Schreier Published June 4, 2012 -
Report: Sony Close to Buying a Cloud Gaming Service, Potentially Transforming Future of PlayStation
Sony might be in talks to acquire either OnLive or Gaikai—the two biggest cloud gaming providers—according to a report on Edge that follows up on previous articles on MCV and VG 24/7. The speculation jibes with comments previously made by a Gaikai executive about this coming E3. It begs the question: what if a console…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 30, 2012 -
The Sworcery Guys Will Be Making Beautiful Music for Sound Shapes
Just like an all-star music festival where awesome acts keep announcing that they’ll be showing up to play, upcoming PlayStation Vita game Sound Shapes keeps pulling in top-notch talent to its creative roster. Game-loving celebrity DJ Deadmaus is contributing to the game and now he’ll be joined by some bonafide indie gaming superstars. Two of…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 17, 2012 -
Kotaku East
The Final Fantasy VII That Could’ve Been
Most modern-day gamers know or at least know ofFinal Fantasy 7. The monster hit that single-handedly brought the Playstation into the fore-ground and secured its place for years to come. Now, 15 years after its initial release, director Yoshinori Kitase has released some of the few remaining development notes to the Weekly Famitsu. Among the…
By Toshi Nakamura Published May 17, 2012 -
A PlayStation 3 Game Will Be Part of a Church Service This Sunday
Move over, Sunday service collection plate. You’re being replaced this coming Sunday by ThatGameCompany’s Flower, as the brightly colored PlayStation 3 title becomes possibly the first video game to be incorporated in a religious service. The idea for bringing Flower to church started with Andy Robertson, a writer who runs the GamePeople website and writes…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 10, 2012 -
See How Papo & Yo Tries to Recreate the Fantastic Realities of Childhood
“I want to take all these rich kids into a poor environment and make them realize they can enjoy it.” That’s a bold statement from game designer Vander Caballero, who’s leading the development of Papo & Yo But the upcoming PlayStation release aims for bold things, like letting players experience the dysfunctional relationship Caballero had…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 10, 2012 -
One Man’s Quest to Redesign a Video Game
Jet Moto, aka Jet Rider, is a bit of a cult classic from the PlayStation days. It did well enough to get a bunch of sequels, but even then, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen a new game in the series. Which has upset designer Ian Galvin, enough to drive him to imagine…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2012 -
Gravity Rush Looked So Damn Beautiful From the Very Beginning
Raise your hands if Gravity Rush is the reason you got a PlayStation Vita or plan on getting one. Wow, that’s a lot of hands! All the anticipation for Gravity Rush comes from the game’s combination of a clever core mechanic with a unique aesthetic. A new post over at the PlayStation Blog shows a…
By Evan Narcisse Published May 3, 2012 -
CultureTotal RecallOmega Boost’s Intro Might be the Coolest Thing 90s Video Games Ever Did
This is Omega Boost. It was an OK shooter released in 1999 on the PlayStation. I remember it, and pay tribute to it here today, not for the game, but for everything around it. Like the incredible FMV intro sequence, which goes from corny to amazing to “wow those aren’t bad props and costumes for…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2012 -
This Acid-Trip Game Looks Amazing, Even When I’m Playing It Wrong
I’ve never experimented acid or done any kind of psychedelics. People say it’s great, except for all the flashbacks and stuff. From my never-tripped point-of-view, Dyad looks like it simulates an chemically altered mindstate pretty damn well. It’s got a lot more going for it than just that, though. Shawn McGrath is making Dyad and,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 16, 2012 -
The Xbox 360 Is Ridiculously Old And Now We Can Prove It
The Xbox 360 is very, very old. It’s older than the iPhone, which came out a year and a half after we got the 360. It’s older than Barack Obama’s presidency by three years. We got the Xbox 360 before three even-year Modern Warfares and the three Call of Duty games that came out in…
By Mike Fahey Published April 13, 2012 -
Report Claims That These Are the Next PlayStation’s Processing Specs
Following up on news broken by Kotaku on Sony’s next PlayStation, IGN is reporting that the console codenamed Orbis will use two AMD chips for graphics and processing. Citing unnamed sources, the article says that the Orbis might be sporting AMD’s A8-3850 APU and Radeon HD 7670 GPU. The 7670 is an update of the…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 4, 2012 -
Sony’s Smash Bros. Rip-Off is Looking for a Name
The first-party fighting game it seems Sony is almost certainly working on doesn’t have a proper name beyond a working title of “Title Fight”. Most people just call it “that Sony Smash Bros. game”, since in concept it sounds almost identical to Nintendo’s famous brawling franchise. Going by these images though, it looks like Sony…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 4, 2012 -
Sketches of ‘PlayStation Orbis Features’ Surface, Then Disappear
The design firm Coque Design may have worked on illustrations for certain features of the next PlayStation, according to pictures a tipster spotted on its website today. The pictures, which have since been removed from the site, were labeled “Illustrations & Sketches for new PlayStation Orbis features.” Orbis is the codename for Sony’s next gaming…
By Jason Schreier Published March 28, 2012