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Zangief Vs. The Universe
Zangief proves once and for all that even goat-horned, laser-shooting dinosaurs are no match for the Red Cyclone. A compilation video takes a look at Zangief pile-driving foes into submission over the years. The highlight reel contains footage from nearly every Street Fighter game Zangief has starred in, with a few omissions such as the…
By Aulistar Mark Published July 8, 2010 -
Sony’s Thoughts On Insomniac Going Multi-Platform
Game studio Insomniac Games has created a slew of exclusive titles for the PlayStation platform. Franchises like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance are PlayStation hallmarks. The day of Insomniac making only PS games are over. Earlier this year, Insomniac struck a partnership with Electronic Arts to make a new franchise for both the PS3 and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 8, 2010 -
Sony Shows Its Faith In 3D
The people behind the PlayStation have been proudly promoting their 3D wares throughout the year, but today at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, Sony brought some of its biggest guns, as executives presented its new technology push. Top Sony executives Sir Howard Stringer (CEO and President), Stan Glasgow, (Chief Operating Officer), Michael Fasulo,…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 9, 2010 -
Twisted Metal PS3 Accidentally Confirmed?
During the latest episode of Bonus Round, analyst supreme Michael Pachter may have accidentally let the cat out of the bag about Playstation 3 car combat racer Twisted Metal PS3. The analyst mentioned the game while talking about solid games coming to the PS3 that don’t have Move support. David Jaffe says via Twitter it…
By Brian Crecente Published May 30, 2010 -
How The Pros Mock Nintendo
For two decades, people have been paid to make fun of Nintendo. These professionals are hired by big companies that either hate Nintendo or consider Nintendo to be semi-ridiculous. (Irony: These pros never laugh last.) Here are their finest works. We’ll start with a recent example, to put this trend in a modern context. We’ve…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2010 -
Using A PlayStation As A Tattoo Gun
A man detained in the United Kingdom has had a PlayStation – or what was left of a PlayStation – confiscated by authorities after he was caught using it as a tattoo gun. The man, from Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in West Sussex, had apparently been using the internal motor of a PlayStation 1…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 24, 2010 -
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