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Whips, Blowguns and Alligator Wrestling In Assassin’s Creed III Liberation On The PS Vita

At Sony’s Gamescom press conference, we got a look at a new montage of gameplay footage from the fall’s Vita exclusive Assassin’s Creed III Liberation. In the video, Liberation protagonist Aveline broke out some new tricks, from a guard-dropping blowgun to a bullwhip to some heavy alligator wrestling. Last week, I saw more of the…

There’s A New Killzone Coming To Vita

A new Killzone game called Killzone Mercenary is coming to PlayStation Vita, Sony said today at Gamescom. Here’s how Sony describes it on the PlayStation Blog: Designed specifically for the PlayStation Vita platform, Killzone: Mercenary is a first-person shooter that makes full use of the device’s graphical and input capabilities. It was built on the…

You’ll Be Able To Play PS1 Games On Your Vita Starting August 28

You can get PlayStation Classics like Final Fantasy VII and Tomb Raider on your Vita starting August 28, Sony said today at Gamescom. The service was first announced this year at E3 Here’s the list of games Sony has announced for initial support: Tomb Raider Final Fantasy VII Wild Arms Twisted Metal 2 Cool Boarders…

You’re the God of a Paper World in Media Molecule’s Tearaway

Paper hero Iota has a message for the real world, and only you can aid him in his heroic effort to escape the paper world inside your PS Vita in Tearaway, the next game from LittleBigPlanet creators Media Molecule. Iota is a tiny paper messenger tasked with breaking out of his wood pulp world with…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Vita Will Be Out This November

Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified will be out this November, Sony said today. It will have four-on-four multiplayer, Team Deathmatch modes, and other Vita-exclusive content. Sony will also sell bundles that feature both the game and PlayStation Vita systems. Here are more details from the PlayStation Blog: Developed by the team at Nihilistic Software,…

Free Vita Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time with Cross-Buy

Sony’s new Cross-Buy feature augments Cross-Play between PlayStation 3 and PS Vita by offering copies for both systems in one package. Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time join PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale as games that give you both platforms for the price of one. Ratchet is a new download-only…

Characters from Devil May Cry and Ape Escape will appear in PS All-Stars Royale, Sony says, confirming an earlier leak

You Don’t Want a Boyfriend, What You Want is Mr. Spock

Fresh from Gamescom in Germany we have a new trailer and screens from the upcoming Star Trek game, showing off how well Kirk and Spock work together and the vicious new look for everybody’s favorite alien lizard men, the Gorn. Thanks for the headline, Nerfherder

This New ZombiU Trailer Will Teach You How To Properly Slaughter Zombies

Don’t forget to burn their heads off. Bash in their dead skulls. You know. The usual. ZombiU is out for Wii U later this year.

Only Assassin’s Creed Could Make Naval Warfare This Exciting

Having showcased Assassin’s Creed III‘s naval warfare elements at E3 2012 and again at the San Diego Comic-Con last month, it’s obvious Ubisoft is proud of this aspect of Connor Kenway’s adventure. As well they should be — this is the first time naval warfare in a video game hasn’t made me want to take…

Bad Hotel is the Next iPhone Game You Should Care About

Yesterday, I kept telling my colleagues about Bad Hotel. You need to play this game, I told them. It’s cooler than all of us combined. (Maybe that’s not so hard?) Bad Hotel? They were confused, because it doesn’t even sound like the name of a video game, let alone a good one. And then I…

New Gameplay Footage Proves Dead Space 3 Is Pretty Damn Scary

Here’s new gameplay footage for horror game Dead Space 3, which will be out February 5, EA announced today at Gamescom. Check it out!

Battlefield 3 Premium Edition Gives You Everything for $69.99

Due out September 11 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, the Battlefield 3 Premium Edition combines the original game, all expansion packs and a multiplayer head-start kit into one $69.99 package. Want to play Battlefield 3 but worried everyone else is too far ahead? Well they are, and there’s nothing 15 different weapons,…

New Medal of Honor: Warfighter Trailer Shows Off Multiplayer Shooting

Here’s a new multi-player trailer for Medal of Honor: Warfighter, shown off at EA’s Gamescom press conference today. It’s got a brief look at co-op mode. Warfighter is out October 23 for PC and consoles.

Here’s Video Footage Of The New SimCity‘s ‘World’ Multiplayer Mode

Shown off at Gamescom today during EA’s press conference, this new trailer shows off how global connections in SimCity will work. SimCity is out February 2013 for PC and Mac.

PC transit simulator Cities in Motion is getting a sequel, but the teaser trailer for CiM 2 just doesn’t show much.

A Proper Origin Client Coming to the Mac, Origin Improvements Outlined

Following up on this morning’s news of SimCity coming to Origin for the Mac in February, the Origin client proper is coming to the Mac as well, giving Apple gamers a taste of the fresh new features coming to EA’s online service. EA’s Peter Moore took the stage at the company’s Gamescom press conference in…

The Simpsons iOS Game Comes Back This Week

Springfield is going mobile once more. You’ll be able to get your hands on The Simpsions: Tapped Out, which Electronic Arts pulled earlier this year after overwhelming demand, later this week. “Quite honestly, we bit off a bit more than we could chew to start with,” EA’s Peter Moore said on stage at Gamescom while…

Need for Speed: Most Wanted’s Newest Trailer Shows Off Crash-Crazy Multiplayer Racing

The reel above highlights a bit of the multiplayer action in the upcoming Need for Speed game, with the competitive play and co-op challenges I talked up in my preview showing up in gameplay for the first time.

7 Must-Watch Minutes of Remember Me, Capcom’s Very Cool, “New” Sci-Fi Game

At first it looks like Assassin’s Creed, but it’s futuristic, stars a lady and… wow, this game looks cool and goes places AC has never gone. Seven minutes of footage, mostly stealth and platforming, as our heroine tries to trick her target into killing himself. You’ve seen it before, until the part where you’re playing…