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Smash Bros. Creator Reviews the PS4

As creator of tent-pole franchises like Kirby or Super Smash Bros. you might think Masahiro Sakurai is a pure bred Nintendo loyalist. So what do you think he has to say about Sony’s newest console? “First off, the console looks cool.” Sakurai wrote in his semi-weekly column in Weekly Famitsu. “As hardware evolves, people tend…

Pro Wrestling Is So Much Better With Sonic and Gabe Newell

We’ve already seen great characters created using WWE 2k14‘s deep character creation toolkit, but why stick to superheroes when the possibilities are endless? So Jerma on YouTube went completely crazy and created an entire tournament with characters that are just out of this world. Sonic above is just the tip of the iceberg. Here’s Glue…

Deception IV Will Make You into a Sadistic Monster

In Deception IV: Blood Ties, the latest game in the Deception series, you play as a demon princess whose castle is constantly being invaded by various groups of heroes. Fighting them off requires the careful placement of brutally violent traps that will have you feeling like a sadistic monster in no time flat. Good –…

​Sony Wants You To Know That They Have A Next-Gen Shooter, Too

There’s going to be a metric ton of Titanfall chatter this week: how awesome it is/isn’t, whether the online functionality is a triumph/failure, and tips for playing it. That’s all well and good for Xbox One and PC players. But what about PS4 owners? Well, Sony would like to remind its faithful that a high-profile,…

One of the best things to do in South Park: The Stick of Truth is to wander around and check every corner for funny references. I bet Stan’s father already called the number on that Minecraft ad. He had some issues finding out how to tame a Minecraft horse in one of the episodes… Dayshot…

The Time True Detective’s Director Made A PlayStation Commercial

This PlayStation Vita commercial is nearly two years old. If you live in the United Kingdom you’ve probably seen it before (I don’t, and haven’t). I post it tonight, though, because of who made the clip: Cary Fukunaga. This wasn’t that big of a deal when the commercial was released. It is now. Continuing Sony’s…

Three Tips For Playing Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition

Earlier this week, Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition arrived on the PS4. It’s a tweaked, graphically enhanced version of the already-good 2010 PS3 game; a relentless, arcade-y zombie shooter made by Housemarque, the same people who made Super Stardust and Resogun. Just like the original, the PS4 version is a fun game, and often a difficult…

Unpredictable anime-inspired space combat in the palm of your hands. That’s what you’ll get when the indie-developed Galak-Z—already slated for release on PS4 and PC— hits Vita later this year.

We knew that JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle was coming to the West, but we didn’t have exact dates. Now we do. Bandai-Namco’s fighter hits PS3 in Europe and Australia first, on April 25, with the US release following four days later, on April 29.

Watch Us Build Death Traps and Brutally Murder Heroes

In Deception IV: Blood Ties you play a demon princess whose castle is being constantly invaded by heroes. Your only recourse? To build Rube Goldberg-style traps to kill the trespassers. Check out the video above to see exactly what it is like in action. Deception IV: Blood Ties was released in Japan for the PlayStation…

Sony America CEO Jack Tretton Steps Down

The head of PlayStation in the U.S., Jack Tretton, has stepped down, the company announced today. His last day will be on March 31. Shawn Layden, who is executive vice president and COO of Sony Network Entertainment International, will take Tretton’s position as of April 1. “This is a result of a mutual agreement between…

This Is Not the Lego: The Hobbit Trailer You Were Expecting

Go ahead and guess how this trailer for the PS4/PS3/WiiU/XboxOne/Xbox360/PC/Vita/3DS Spring 2014 game is going to play out. You’ll probably guess wrong. Well-played Lego marketing people. Hopefully this game can be good despite being the third major Lego game since October. The last two, Lego Marvel Superheroes and The Lego Movie Videogame were terrific. To…

A Game Where You Decide What Your Companions Say (And How They Say It)

Freedom Wars is the upcoming hunting game for the PS Vita where you play a prisoner working off a million year sentence. In the game, players work together along with android companions called “Accessories.” Apparently these Accessories can talk and I want to hear what they have to say. In Freedom Wars, Accessories act as…

I’m Terrified of Hard Choices, But This Game is About Hard Choices

Whenever I’m given an option in a game, be it choosing what my character says or how he/she acts, I always want to make the “best” choice. So when I’m faced with two equally bad options, I lock up – and right off the bat, it looks like Nippon Ichi Software’s newest game is going…

A Vita game I can’t stop playing: If you’ve got a Vita, check out Surge Deluxe, a highly enjoyable (and addictive) electro-charged tile-matching game from Futurlab. At a certain point it clicks, and you’ll be hooked. Futurlab’s next game will be Velocity 2X for Vita and PS4.

Child Of Light‘s Co-Op Channels The Spirit Of The Wii

While Ubisoft’s charming platform role-playing game Child of Light is skipping Nintendo’s last-gen console, the spirit of the Wii lives on inside it’s utterly charming co-op gameplay. The game’s circle of light co-op partner reminds me of so many Wii games — titles like Super Mario Galaxy, where player two could take up the Wii…

Guacamelee! is coming to the Wii U, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox 360 as Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition This version includes all previous DLC for the game and adds some new levels and boss battles. No word yet on a release date, other than “coming soon.”

Killzone Shadow Fall‘s first multiplayer expansion detailed, two free multiplayer maps released. Coming in April, The Insurgency Pack adds the Insurgent class, along with new weapons, abilities, and Elite Mode difficulty for single player. The Cruiser and Hangar multiplayer maps are available free today. Check out the PlayStation Blog for more info.

The PS4 Gets The Ultimate Version Of PixelJunk Shooter

In my opinion, Q-Games’ PixelJunk Shooter and Shooter 2 are the best twin-stick shooters on the PlayStation 3. This summer, Double Eleven is combining both into PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate for the PS4 and Vita. Here are nine reasons it’ll be even best-ier than before. Richard Snowdon from the Double Eleven production team laid out the…

”It’s not my fault people keep killing themselves.” The latest environment trailer for Frictional Games’ upcoming space horror game SOMA adds voices to excellent effect. I’d be happy just wandering these halls and listening to people talk. Knowing Frictional, there’ll probably be things try to kill me too. Always with the killing me.