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A Ton Of Indie Games Are Coming To PS4 And Vita
Well then. At their Gamescom press conference, Sony just announced a bootload of indies that will be making their exclusive console debuts on PS4 and/or the PlayStation Vita, including Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and Rogue Legacy. N++ will be appearing on PS4, while Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Volume…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 20, 2013 -
This Cool PS4 Game Looks Like Wind Waker Had A Baby With Ico
Part Ico, part Wind Waker, part Journey, and 100% pretty damn awesome-looking, this is Rime, announced today at Sony’s presser in Germany. It’s being developed by the Spanish studio Tequila Works, previously responsible for the horror game Deadlight
By Jason Schreier Published August 20, 2013 -
This story begins with the end of the world: Here’s the trailer for for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, a spiritual successor to thechineseroom’s Dear Esther, shown during the PlayStation news conference today at Gamescom. The game will release on PlayStation 4, but no timeframe was given.
By Owen Good Published August 20, 2013 -
Music festival tycoon: Big Fest, a new game in which players become a virtual music promoter, will be coming to PlayStation Vita, Sony announced. Sony said the game’s soundtrack will feature unsigned real-life bands, giving players a chance to help a new act get discovered.
By Owen Good Published August 20, 2013 -
Good news, Fez fans. Today during their Gamescom press conference, Sony announced that the brilliant indie platformer Fez is coming to Vita. Team that game up with Spelunky, and it looks like my Vita’s gonna gradually transform from a JRPG machine into an indie platformer machine.
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 20, 2013 -
PS Vita Price Cut to $199; Memory Cards Reduced, Too [Update]
The price PlayStation Vita’s price has dropped to $199 in North America and 199EU. It takes effect immediately. Sony also is trimming the price of the Vita’s proprietary memory cards in both regions. The 32GB and 16 GB memory cards both will get $20 reductions—dropping to $79.99 for the 32GB and $39.99 for the 16GB.…
By Owen Good Published August 20, 2013 -
Our First Look At The PlayStation 4’s Menus In Action
Today at Gamescom, Sony demonstrated the PlayStation 4’s menus and interface for the first time. Also, they unveiled a lovely leather chair! Sony president Shuhei Yoshida kicked off Sony’s Gamescom conference sitting in a high-backed leather chair and navigating the PS4’s user interface, hopping between a number of different functions and firing up a game…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 20, 2013 -
Watch Sony’s Big PS4 Press Conference Live, Right Here [Update: It’s Over]
Sony is in Germany talking all things PS4—games, release date, etc.—and we’ve got a stream for you right here. UPDATE: Conference is over. Original post follows: Maybe we’ll even hear some Vita news. Price cut? New games? Robot-transforming mode? Check out the embed below for a live look at Sony’s big GamesCom press conference, which…
By Jason Schreier Published August 20, 2013 -
An Ode To Splinter Cell’s Original Voice Actor
With the release of Splinter Cell: Blacklist today (in at least some parts of the world) I thought it time we look into the horrible fact that Michael Ironside, the man who would not free Willy, is no longer the voice of Sam Fisher. Will the world crumble due to this fact? We cannot yet…
By Leo Wichtowski Published August 20, 2013 -
Battlefield 4 Is Doing Its Best To Impre–Watch Out For That Ship!
This is what competition gets you. It gets you a development studio, DICE, trying to convince you that they are making the best military first-person shooter of the year. Today, they’ve made their latest pitch while uttering the word someone in their studio or in the EA marketing team cooks up the word—”Levolution”—in order to…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2013 -
Stop Making Peggle 2 So Damn Sexy, PopCap
Revealed this morning as an Xbox One timed exclusive, Peggle 2 got a little more stage time at EA’s Gamescom presser than it did at E3, parading about its balls and pegs like it was in some sort of first-ever gameplay trailer. As pretty as all many of the other Xbox One games coming this…
By Mike Fahey Published August 20, 2013 -
Garden Warfare Introduces You to the Zombies (and Zombie Buttcrack)
Scientist, Soldier, Engineer and All-Star are PopCap’s take on the popular shooter classes in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, coming next year to Xbox One. The Zombies’ Engineer looks like a guy you don’t want to get behind, either. The game will feature online matches of up to 24 players, plus a four-player online cooperative…
By Owen Good Published August 20, 2013 -
The Battlefield 4 beta will kick off in early October, EA announced today. Platform details to come.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2013 -
Patrick Stewart Makes Soccer Sound Like The Best Thing Ever
Who cares about football? Not the NFL version. You know, the soccer kind? Most of the world cares. Plus: Patrick Stewart. And in this new hype trailer for FIFA 14, Stewart just might get skeptics interested as well. Well done, Captain. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 20, 2013 -
Titanfall Delivers Another Trailer, and It Is Breathtaking
There is a good reason Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall vacuumed up a bathtubful of awards when it was unveiled at E3, and you see a lot of them in this latest trailer shown today at Gamescom 2013. This throwdown is from a mode called “Attrition,” played on the Angel City map, and the seamlessness of the…
By Owen Good Published August 20, 2013
