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Here’s What Japanese Gamers Suggest for Holiday Gifts

The Christmas season is upon us once again (as was frightfully apparent from the Christmas songs that started playing sometime around, oh, November 1st… (seriously, at least wait for Thanksgiving to be over)), and soon gifts will be piled under the Christmas tree for all to see and wonder at what goodies are contained within.…

PSA: Hawken—the mech-based first-person shooter—is in open beta as of [later] today.

Don’t Let a Cyborg Interrupt Your PlayStation Game

The latest PlayStation ad is trumpeting this holiday season as a “good chance” to pick up PlayStation games and hardware. Retro super hero Kikaider pops up to remind a family of just that. This is actually a Japanese pun as the character’s name “Kikaider” (キカイダー) carries the nuance of “machine” (機会 or “kikai”). Here, Sony…

That BioShock Vita Game Still Doesn’t Exist

Here’s what we know about BioShock Vita: Ken Levine announced it was a thing during last year’s E3, and planned as an entirely new universe. Not a port, but they might need outside developer support on it What we don’t know if it’s actually going to be made. In the video above, you’ll see Irrational…

Men Massaging Each Other With Video Game Controllers

The DualShock. When you look at the original PlayStation controller, you probably see an iconic game controller. These guys see something they can press into each other’s backs. Mitsuhiro Saitou, a writer from Japanese site Daily Portal, became a pro masseur. With his newfound knowledge of pressure points, he decided to see if the original…

PlayStation Boss Trolls Nintendo In The Sweetest Way Possible

This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Folks at Sony own Nintendo game machines. They own the Xbox 360, too. And the same is true of those companies, too. So, it’s no shocker that Shuhei Yoshida, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studies, just got a Wii U. It’s also no shocker that he loves…

Uh Oh, PlayStation Games Failed to Hit the Million Award in Japan

Sales figures are typically pretty boring! Except for when, they’re interesting. And by interesting, I mean telling. Recently, Sony held the PlayStation Awards in Japan. This is a publicity stunt—and usually a dull one at that—in which Sony gives awards to those domestic studios which sell a certain number of units, such as over a…

Sony Could Be Making A PlayStation Controller That Can Split In Half

Yesterday, a patent filed by Sony Computer Entertainment way back in May of 2011 was finally published, revealing designs for a new PlayStation Move controller that’s essentially a Sixaxis crossbred with the OG Move and given the power to split in twain. Combiform team, eat your heart out. The patent application (dug up by TheSixthAxis)…

Sony Sold 525,000 PS3s Last Week

The week of Thanksgiving marks one of the most important retail milestones for sellers of things. We’ve got a ballpark figure for how many people brought the new Wii U. (Around 400,000.) And Microsoft bragged about all the Xbox 360 units they shifted into people homes, too. (750,000 for those guys.) So, what about Sony?…

New Vita Bundle Gets You A 3G System, Unit 13, And One Year Of PlayStation Plus For $300

Starting next week you’ll be able to get your hands on this new Vita bundle, which includes the 3G system, the game Unit 13, and one year of Sony’s excellent PlayStation Plus service (which comes with a lot of free games). That’s $300. The catch? This bundle comes with a 4 GB memory card, the…

The Vita Is A Great System—Too Bad Sony Screwed It Up

Have you checked out that Vita game? You know—the one that’s a shoddy spinoff of a big-name series? Perhaps Call of Duty: Declassified, which currently has a whopping 32% on Metacritic? Or Uncharted: Golden Abyss, a game that our Kirk Hamilton called “a cut-rate version of the Uncharted games that most people have already played”?…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The Vita Gamer?

Here we have yet another handheld gamer, and the Vita gamer needs holiday love, too. Perhaps more so than any other gamer, since the pickings are still somewhat (at least relatively) slim. What suggestions do you have for the Vita gamer? Watch out for our editors’ picks down below, but feel free to add yours,…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The PlayStation Gamer?

Does your gaming friend or relative have a PlayStation 3? Maybe you want to buy them one. But even if they already do own Sony’s home console, your friend, relative or puppy (don’t judge) might need some new games. So what will it be? Drop your suggestions down below, while our editors do the same.…

Good News: Vita Is Getting A New Uncharted This December. Bad News: It’s A Card Game.

Now this could very well be an excellent card game, but it’s still a card game. Clearly not the action-adventure experience you might think of when you hear the name Uncharted For more on this upcoming Vita game—called Uncharted: Fight For Fortune—head on over to the PlayStation Blog

$200 Gets You These Black Friday Bundles for the Vita and PS3

Black Friday is coming. With that sales-pocalypse in mind, Sony’s just announced a bunch of hardware + software bundles to entice consumers to pick up their home console and handheld. Most of the deals will include games exclusive to Sony hardware— the exception being a Lego Batman bundle for Vita—as well as a PlayStation Plus…

The Day I Said Goodbye To My PS3

I purchased my glossy black partner on January 30th, 2007. Since then it has run over 50 PS3 games, a bunch of PS2 and PS1 games, and probably hundreds of Blu-ray and DVD movies. But I had to bid farewell to my dear friend; my PS3 displayed the dreaded Yellow Light of Death, better known…

Yep, The PSP Is Still Getting Games. This One Is A Strategy-RPG.

It’s called Ragnarok Tactics, and it’s a tactical role-playing game set in the world of Ragnarok Online. Trailer’s above. Out today on disc for $30 and on the PlayStation Network for $25, the game actually looks pretty interesting. I’ve never played Ragnarok Online, but I’m always a sucker for a good strategy-RPG. (Although nothing has…

PlayStation: The Official Magazine Is Shutting Down

Magazine publisher Future US will end circulation of PlayStation: The Official Magazine this year. As first reported by Game Informer, P:TOM will shut its doors alongside Nintendo Power this holiday “Future US can confirm it will end production of PlayStation: The Official Magazine with the last issue slated for the Holiday 2012 issue,” a Future…

Portable Gaming Rules in Japan

One of the more noticeable differences between the East and the West is the prevalence of the handheld console. The popularity of handhelds in Japan is fairly understandable. For one thing, the high population density makes open space one of the island country’s most precious commodities. Also, the widespread use of public mass transit leads…

Persona 4 Golden Continues To Look Ridiculously Awesome

Here’s a new trailer for the Vita remake of Persona 4, which Atlus will release on November 20. Anyone buying a Vita just for this? I’d totally consider it if I didn’t have one already.