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First Look at Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee HD

Here’s the debut screenshot for Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee HD, the hi-def remake of the 1997 PlayStation classic. The game will be a remake from the ground up, apparently, with both 3D graphics and 2D gameplay. Oddworld [Facebook via VG247]

See How Sound Shapes Turns Your Vita Into A Fully Fledged Music Sequencer

I’ve had my eye on Sound Shapes for a good long while; the music-platformer-sequencer isn’t quite like any game I’ve played before, and I’m entirely enamored of its approach to musically integrated level design. In this video, Queasy Games’ Jonathan Mak puts together a track using the built-in level editor. As you can see, it’s…

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It Looks Like the PS Vita, But It Has an Xbox Name and an Android Logo

This is the Droid X360. It’s an Android powered PS Vita-looking device with a touch screen and nine different emulators for Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. Phew! It also has HDMI-out, a micro SD slot, mini USB port, 8GB of onboard storage, a…

This Strategy RPG Series Sure Loves The PSP

The Summon Night series is coming to the PSP. For those who don’t know, Summon Night is a strategy simulation RPG series from Banpresto (Namco Bandai for the DS versions). Summon Night and Summon Night 2 were both released on the Sony Playstation in 2000 and 2001 and later rereleased on the Nintendo DS in…

The PS Vita Still Struggles After Six Months, But The Solution Is Obvious

The Playstation Vita hit stores in Japan on December 17th, 2011. Since then, sales performances for the powerful little handheld have been… “Not meeting expectations” would be a mild way of stating it. This week, Weekly Famitsu covered the past 6 months of the Vita’s fight in the game market. As of July 7th, the…

Sound Shapes Ain’t A Loser, Baby. It’s Got Three New Tunes From Beck.

The best music collection to come out all year may just be upcoming PS Vita game Sound Shapes. It’s already got tunes from Jim Guthrie and Deadmau5 and now adds new music from still-skinny-after-all-these-years superstar Beck. According to Pitchfork Media, the singer/songwriter best known “Loser” will be contributing new works “Touch the People”, and “Spiral…

The Head-Trippy Dyad Descends Onto The PlayStation Store Today

Music lovers rejoice—Shawn McGrath’s splendid racing/music/freakout game Dyad arrives on the PlayStation Store today. We’ve done a lot of pre-release coverage of McGrath’s game, and Chris Person just reviewed it today There’s plenty of other stuff up on the PlayStation store as well—find the full list at the PlayStation blog

This Sure Looks Like the Next PlayStation 3

A series of photos attributed to a filing with the Brazilian equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission appears to give the first look at the case of a redesigned “superslim” PlayStation 3, which last week was rumored to be in manufacturing by Sony. The Brazilian site Tecnoblog reports that the unit’s model number in…

Dyad, Rhythm Thief and Theatrhythm: Three New Music Games For Three Different Audiences

Just over the halfway mark, 2012 has already provided an embarrassment of riches for music game fans. We’ve had music games of every shape and color, with many more on the horizon. If you like gaming and you can keep a beat, chances are there’s a game out there that you’ll enjoy. Over the past…

The Kama Sutra PlayStation Game Pitch Sony Turned Down

Game publishers get all manner of weird game pitches. Sometimes, one man’s weird pitch is another man’s potential goldmine… especially when sexual positions are involved. In an interview over at Eurogamer, Sony producer Pete Smith talked about a pitch the company once got for a game for the PlayStation 2’s EyeToy camera based on the…

Street Fighter Expert Joins Sony to Dragon-Punch PlayStation All-Stars Into Shape

The man who became synonymous with Capcom’s fighting games will now be helping Nathan Drake, Fat Princess and Kratos knock each other out. Most gamers first got to know Seth Killian as Mr. Evo, after he helped start the internationally renown fighting games tournament that re-energized the community of fans dedicated to that genre. Then,…

This Playstation Move Steering Wheel Must Be Seen To Be Believed

If I were to ask you what the one thing was that it would take to get you to dust off your Playstation Move, my guess is that you wouldn’t say a steering wheel attachment. Well, too bad! The fine folks over at Sony will be rolling out this bad boy in the hopes that…

The Spice Girls & PlayStation Just About Sum Up The Late 1990s

Just in case you woke up this morning feel good about life, music or the PlayStation, here’s Spice World, released in 1998. It featured the vocal talents of all five Spice Girls! Which is about all it featured, really.

Sony’s Best Commercial in Years

For around a decade, Sony and its various advertising agencies managed to create not only some of the most memorable commercials in gaming, but straight-up of the most memorable advertisements. While things haven’t been too bad lately – Kevin Butler has his fans, and as corny as it is, “Michael” was a neat idea –…

This PlayStation Strategy-RPG Is Looking Pretty Neat

You might have heard of Rainbow Moon when it was announced late last year, but now that it finally has a release window—late July for U.S. PlayStation Network users—I’m starting to get psyched to play it. Rainbow Moon will run you $15 on the PlayStation Network. Check out the game’s official Facebook page for more…

Now This Is How You Start Out A Video Game

Kirk was like “yo Jason write me something for Kotaku Melodic” and I was like “yo okay.” So immediately I went to YouTube and found the opening video to Suikoden II, aka the greatest intro to the greatest video game of all time. Just watch. Watch the way it opens, setting the stage with an…

I Asked Sony: ‘Why Did You Wind Up In Third Place?’

I spent most of my interview at E3 with Sony’s head of hardware marketing, John Koller, talking about the PlayStation Vita and what in the world is going on with Sony’s lovely handheld. But today I’m going to tell you about how he responded to a question about the PlayStation 3, a most basic question…

Here’s Proof That Final Fantasy VII Will Actually Run On Your Vita

In case you were worried that the Vita couldn’t handle your PSOne Classics version of Final Fantasy VII or something, here it is in action. It looks great, too! You might not be able to tell from the video, but the graphics are really slick. Square’s classic role-playing game will be available this summer when…

Beyond: Two Souls is Basically Heavy Rain Meets Ghost Trick

After seeing a lengthy demo of a level from David Cage’s new game Beyond: Two Souls, that headline is more or less the best way I can describe it: The somber, occasionally stilted tone and QTE-style controls of Heavy Rain coupled with the non-corporeal hijinks of Ghost Trick. Starring Ellen Page. All things considered, that’s…