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Collector Who Wanted Crappy Demo No One Wanted Speaks
Isn’t $710 a bit much for a crummy PSOne demo – seemingly worthless when it was handed out 12 years ago? The collector who won the bidding for NBA 2-Ball thinks he got a steal on the price. Speaking under the pseudonym “Richard,” the winning bidder told Multiplayer Games that the disc’s rarity and the…
By Owen Good Published May 23, 2010 -
A Very Special Cameo
Alpha Protocol is a spy game that SEGA is publishing. Know what I spy? A SEGA Saturn. The console, was released in the West in 1995 and discontinued there in 1998, struggled against the PlayStation and the Nintendo 64. But here it lives on! Alpha Protocol was originally slated for release last October. It will…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2010 -
Solid Snake Through The Years
This is 1987 stealth game Metal Gear. The box shows protagonist Solid Snake at the age of 23. Let’s review and see how he stacks up over the years — courtesy of 2ch, the world’s largest bulletin board. Here is snake at 27 years-old in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. And at 33. And at…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2010 -
120 Metal Gear Solid Discs, But With A Catch
Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation 1 is a two disc game. If you could have 120 discs, which would you want disc 1 or 2? You can only have one! Disc 2 it is! An eBay seller is not giving away 120 MGS disc 2 discs, but selling them. Yours for US$499.95. Why? Who…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 21, 2010 -
Truly Great Cinema Comes To The PS3
From Fellini to Ford. From Clouzot to Capra. And everything in between. Online movie site Mubi.com is making its way to the PS3 and bringing its fantastic library of cinema with it. From the PlayStation Europe Blog: “We are MUBI and we are basically transforming your PS3 console into your own online cinema. (You can…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 18, 2010 -
Crappy Demo No One Wanted Sells for $710
It didn’t come close to breaking records set recently by other rare titles, but NBA 2-Ball, a freebie PSOne disc given out at the 1998 NBA All-Star game, probably set a mark for demos. The item sold last night with a winning bid of $710, better than double the opening bid of $300, which some…
By Owen Good Published May 12, 2010 -
PlayStation Hacker Won’t Do Hard Time
The teenager who got so miffed at Sony over a game of SOCOM that he hacked the company’s website has been sentenced for his crimes. He will not be hung, drawn or quartered. Instead, the boy must now serve 250 hours community service, and also pay Sony Computer Entertainment the sum of $5000. If that…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 11, 2010 -
“The Best Video Game System”
The Kontorland KT-103: It’s the Dreamcast meets the Sony PlayStation meets I-don’t-know-waht. Even SEGA mascot Sonic the Hedgehog “seems” to approve. Then, of course, SEGA probably has no clue about this. In case you missed it in the first pic. More like challenge the limits of intellectual property! The console is made by Kontorland, which…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 10, 2010 -
Crappy Demo No One Wanted May Be Worth a Ton Now [Update]
At the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, fans received discs with the demo for a PlayStation game called NBA 2-Ball. The game was pretty bad – possibly defective – but it’s extremely rare. So a surviving copy may be extremely valuable. A New Jersey man provided pictures of the disc to a blog that a while…
By Owen Good Published May 1, 2010 -
Brother Stabs Brother Over Video Game Argument
From Chile comes another tragic tale of a sibling murdered over a video game console. The BBC reports on an incident involving two brothers, aged 16 and 18, a PlayStation of undetermined number, and a kitchen knife. According to the report, the younger brother became angry when his older sibling turned on the PlayStation without…
By Mike Fahey Published April 29, 2010 -
The Console With The Best Game Scores Is…
According to Japanese game magazine Famitsu, that is. The publication has crunched the review scores and has listed the platforms in order with the best library of games. In the current issue of Famitsu, reviews until late 2009 were considered. Famitsu grades scores on a scale of 40 points out of 40. For games to…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 25, 2010 -
Report: Sony To Launch New PlayStation Smart Phone In 2010
The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony will release a new smart phone “capable of downloading and playing PlayStation games” later this year, as well as a competitor to Apple’s iPad that may also play PSone titles. The Journal notes that the original PlayStation game-playing smart phone is being developed by Sony and mobile handset…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 4, 2010 -
Ghost In the Shell Live-Action Script Draft Incoming!
Steven Spielberg, filmmaker and part-time game designer, plans to make a live action version of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell futuristic cop manga. Scribe Laeta Kalogridis is hard at work on the screenplay. At a recent Q&A for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (she wrote the script), Kalogridis revealed that she’ll “turn in a draft…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 4, 2010 -
When PlayStation Meets Hurt Locker
A recent Fox News report has shown that while video game controllers can sometimes be used by US and British forces in combat, they can sometimes be used against them as well. This clip shows a humble PlayStation 1 controller, seized by US forces in a raid on a bomb-making “factory” in a remote village…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 1, 2010 -
Italian Teen Stabs Father Over FIFA 2009
An Italian man giving video game advice to his son Sunday evening was repaid with a 15-inch kitchen knife to the neck. A 46-year-old storekeeper identified as Fabrizio R. was watching his 16-year-old son, Mario, play EA’s FIFA 2009 on the PlayStation Sunday evening. According to reports, the father began giving his son advice on…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2010 -
Sony Takes on CES 2010: This Time It’s Personal!!!
Join us as we sit in on Sony’s Consumer Electronics Show presentation today live in Las Vegas. Join in the chatter and see if Sony brought any bombs or mega bombs with them to the Strip. Click to viewSony CES 2010
By Brian Crecente Published January 6, 2010 -
Iraqi Kidnap Victim Subjected To PlayStation
British hostage Peter Moore will soon be returning to the UK from Iraq, after spending the last six months of his two-and-a-half year period of captivity with only satellite television, a laptop, and a PlayStation to keep him occupied. Peter Moore and his four bodyguards were kidnapped in May of 2007 by what is understood…
By Mike Fahey Published December 31, 2009 -
Sony Trimming More Costs
2009 wasn’t the best year for Sony, at least financially. So the Japanese company is looking to trim a little more of its overheads, specifically with the way PlayStation games are distributed. Previously, Sony Computer Entertainment’s distribution arm and that of the rest of the company were entirely separate operations. In 2010, though, they’ll be…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 28, 2009 -
When Can We Expect Rival Schools On PSN or XBLA? “Never”
That’s a long time, never. When asked when school yard fighting game Rival Schools would be appearing on the PlayStation Network, Capcom spokesperson Chris Svensson replied. “There are IP clearances and rights we no longer have (particularly pertaining to voicework/soundtrack I believe) so our IP management group has told us it can’t be re-released,” Svensson…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 11, 2009 -
The Making And Death Of Pac-Man Ghost Zone
Namco’s Pac-Man Ghost Zone never made it to retail, never saw the inside of the more than 100 million original PlayStations that Sony eventually sold over the console’s lifespan. But it was playable, at least by a select group. One part of that select group is the PlayStation Museum, which offers a fascinating little making…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 7, 2009