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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…
While the official reveal of Sony’s next home console could still be months away, if not longer, Kotaku has today learned some important details concerning the PlayStation 3’s successor. For one, the console’s name—or at least its codename/working title—is apparently Orbis. And it’s being planned for release in time for the 2013 holiday season. The…
You can get the third Persona game for $20 on the PlayStation Network for your PSP. Other discounted games include the first and second Personas, Knights in the Nightmare, and Crimson Gem Saga. [PlayStation Blog]
There’s a question that has been passed around the gaming industry for decades now. It’s been debated on blogs and message boards, discussed in countless GameStops and Best Buys. It’s what we’re all asking. “When are we going to get a more realistic foosball game?” Today, we have the answer. Developer Grip Games is bringing…
The man who helped usher in the PS3 for Sony will now be the Xbox 360’s chief evangelist in Europe. Microsoft’s announced that Phil Harrison—formerly president of Worldwide Studios for Sony’s PlayStation division—has joined the tech giant’s leadership team. Harrison assumes some of the duties left open by the exit of respected game designer Peter…
With Sony’s PlayStation Suite, Xperia smartphone owners can enjoy PlayStation titles on their handsets. Starting today, Sony revealed the 21 PlayStation 1 titles that can be downloaded for ¥600 (US$7.30) a pop on the Xperia NX and Xperia acro HD via PlayStation Suite. They are: Addie no Okurimono：To Moze From Addie, Arc the Lad, Bealphareth,…
It’s hard to look cool when you’re playing most music video games. You may think you look cool with your dinky plastic guitar or humorously scale-sized drum set, but in reality you look like… well, a person playing a plastic instrument. At a recent Penny Arcade Expo, a group of contest finalists assembled on-stage to…
I’ve been wanting to get my hands on upcoming PS3 exclusive Papo & Yo ever since hearing how it draws on the bittersweet childhood of designer Vander Caballero. A playable build at GDC gave me my wish and the video above shows the first few minutes of the game from Montreal-based developer Minority. There’s a…
South Carolina Lt. Governor Ken Ard resigned this morning following a longrunning scandal during which he admitted he used his campaign funds to buy iPads and PlayStation 3s, news outlet TalkingPointsMemo reports. According to the report, Ard spent $3000 on a PlayStation, clothing, iPads, and his wife’s cell phone bill. He spent a total of…
While it’s unfortunate to still have to be writing this in 2012, when most games have their multiplatform houses in order, it seems that the PS3 version of Mass Effect 3 has a lot of trouble sticking to its assigned 30 frames-per-second. As a video on Eurogamer shows, while both game suffer from slowdown when…
There’s a touch of the macabre to seeing it laid out like this, I grant you, but for the most part the effect of seeing an original PlayStation and its controller stripped bare and put on display is just lovely. Things Organized Neatly [Tumblr]
British retailer Play.com has accidentally leaked the names of four upcoming PlayStation Vita titles, according to a news report published today. Update 2: In a statement to Eurogamer, Play.com confirmed that the above image is fake. Update: Some folks have questioned the validity of this image. More information below. A tipster sent gaming website Eurogamer…
PlayStation Suite is Sony’s concept that “certified” PlayStation games will be available on Sony’s mobile devices. Today, Sony revealed that it “will offer a more streamlined content development environment for content developers—from large game development companies to small, independent shops.” A closed beta launched last fall, and the upcoming open beta will incorporate feedback to…
News of Dyad has been out there in the ether for a little while (we’ve even written about it). The in-development PS3 game combines racing and music, imagining players as a single particle flying along at warp speed. Lancing and combining with other particles causes changes in the music, triggering tones and textures. The second,…
A hacker says he used a bot to scam Taco Bell into sending him a PlayStation Vita during the “Unlock the Box” contest. Using an automated program to generate codes for Taco Bell’s Vita contest-turned-debacle, a message board user named “Sinister” says he managed to win one of Sony’s new handheld systems. Writing in a…
Four days after its release on U.S. shores, the PlayStation Vita passed the one million sales mark worldwide. Sony has sold a total of 1.2 milion Vita units in Japan, the U.S., and all of its other territories as of February 26, it said in a press release today. The powerful portable system first launched…
I’m still a little shocked. I mean, I love my football and I generally love my FIFA, but if you’d told me two months ago that the single best game available at the Vita’s launch would be this, a handheld port of a game that’s just in time for the end of the European season,…
If you haven’t yet played PS3 adventure Heavy Rain, and want to, don’t watch this. It contains a pretty big spoiler. If you have, though, or haven’t and don’t care, or haven’t and want to see drama, take a look at what reader David came up with for his media arts interview at Sheridan College.…
The House of Sonic’s dropped a vague but drip-filled teaser that strongly suggests that the beloved inline-skating, graffiti-tagging Jet Set Radio game will be hitting modern consoles soon. The killer soundtrack and high-contrast, brightly colored cartoon art style made developer Smilebit’s Dreamcast game a hit, but Sega never reissued the game—even as they’ve rolled out…
For the PlayStation 3, when it came to the console’s graphics, Sony partnered with Nvidia to produce the RSX ‘Reality Synthesizer’ GPU. According to a report on Forbes, though, for the PlayStation 4, Sony is partnering with Nvidia’s arch-rival AMD instead. Citing “former AMD employees”, the Forbes report says “the processor designer may play a…
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