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PAL PlayStation Store Update: Uh, Hmm…

Think last week’s PAL update was bad? It was! This week, though, is just as bad. Maybe even worse. On the bright side, there’s TMNT. On the not-so-bright side, there’s…not much else. Some add-ons, some wallpapers, and that’s about it. What, not even a crummy PS1 game, Sony? Week like this, we’d have taken a…

Hey Look, It’s Some Square Enix Countdown Clock…

…and, yeah, it’s counting down to something. There’s a large “4” on the page, below a countdown clock that will end on July 6. Maybe this has something to do with that “Four Warriors of Light” trademark the company filed… NEW GAME [Square Enix via One Last Continue]

PlayStation Boss Gets A New Deputy

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai got himself a new second-in-charge today, with the appointment of Kunimasa Suzuki to the role of Representative Director, Deputy President of SCEI. Suzuki, who has been with Sony since 1984, will “assist [Hirai] in managing the day-to-day operations of the PlayStation business”, with a specific responsibility for strategy and…

Vague Update On New Mistwalker Game

Developer Mistwalker, the folks behind Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, are hard at work on a new game. Mistwalker head and Final Fantasy Hironobu Sakaguchi blogs about it. Sakaguchi is having meetings in Tokyo about the game, and the title’s game system is “almost done”. According to the designer, “It makes tactical use of ‘confusion…

British Retailers Down On The PSPgo

As far as we’re concerned, the PSPgo is a slick piece of hardware, but as far as two British game retailers are concerned, it may as well be a poison pie with boogers sprinkled on top. “From my point of view I’ve got to think, ‘Do I want to stock this?’ Right now I can’t…

Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver Dated For Japan

Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver have a street date for Japan: September 12. Priced at the equivalent of US$50, these are tenth anniversary remakes of Pokémon Gold/Silver. The original Gold and Silver appeared on the Game Boy and sold 23 million copies worldwide. Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver will be packaged with…

This Is (Probably) The Longest Beard In Video Games

Probably. I’ll have to revisit Quest for Glory II, and check the Dervish’s to make sure. Regardless, the LittleBigPlanet Druid’s beard is long. Longer than Tim Schafer’s. Longer, even, than Gandalf’s. And that’s official.

If New Super Mario Bros. Wii Was In Fact Old Super Mario Bros. Wii…

What if, instead of looking a lot like the DS version of Mario Bros., New Super Mario Bros. Wii looked more like the NES versions of Mario? Or the SNES version? Well, then it’d look like this. Gotta say, that Super Mario World one looks pretty damn hot. [Mama Robotnik @ NeoGAF]

Uncharted Movie Incoming

Everyone’s favorite guy in a blue jeans, Nathan Drake, is the latest video game looking set for a big screen version. Columbia Pictures is working on a movie adaptation of the million-selling-game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. The flick is being penned by Kyle Ward, who is writing the film version of Kane & Lynch starring Bruce…

New “Sega” Handheld Coming

The days of Sega manufacturing hardware are over. But in these days of licensed technology and retro appreciation, Sega hardware still lives on, in this case with the return of the Nomad, Sega’s handheld Genesis. Now called the Retro Gen, and being released by hardware company Innex (who you’ve heard of before), it’s a handheld…

Square Enix Perfecting FFXIII Summons

We’ve seen two Final Fantasy XIII summons: the Odin summons from heroine Lighting (pictured) and Shiva from bandana dude Snow. The lady motorcycle summons, aka Shiva, is all kinds of unique. It goes so far over the cliff that it bounces right back into awesometown. Lighting’s Odin summons? Less so. The Japanese internet has been…

There’s A New Korg DS-10!

This video is, well, amazing. It’s producer Nobuyoshi Sano doing his best Steve Jobs impersonation as he presents to the world a new, improved version of the Korg DS-10 synthesiser for the Nintendo DS. Built to take advantage of the DSi, DS-10 Plus multiplies the output of the original synthesiser title, giving you four analogue…

Dragon Quest IX Only Saves One Game At A Time

Dragon Quest IX allows up to four players play co-op via the Nintendo DS’s local WiFi. That’s great. Know what’s not so great? According to the game’s box art, only one game can be saved at a time. This seems like a decision based on the size of the DS cartridge. Perhaps. Other DQ have…

Yup, You Can Now Buy Silver DualShock 3 Controllers

As expected, Sony have officially announced that the range of DualShock 3 colours has increased by 1, with the release of PS3 controllers in a fetching shade of silver. Strange the pads are announced but not the silver console itself, but then, SCEA works in mysterious ways. For example, what’s the deal with those White…

Iran Not Blocking Online Games

Cell phone and internet communications in Iran are reportedly being jammed by the government to prevent to the flow of data. But there’s more ways to communicate electronically than that. Interactive media like gaming does not appear to be impacted to the same extent as cell phone and email. According to network security blog Security…

PlayStation Home: By The Numbers

The director of PlayStation Home, Sony’s Peter Edward, has disclosed to Gamasutra a number of interesting facts about the platform/service, including the registered userbase, demographics and advertising statistics. Registered Users: According to Edward, Home now has “7 million inhabitants”, of which 3 million hail from Europe, and those “inhabitants” have downloaded 6 million “virtual items”…

Erotic Game Developer Explains Foreign Access Web Blocking

Minori, developer of adult PC titles like Bittersweet Fools and Angel Type, explains why the company has blocked website access outside Japan — to protect you. While accessing the Minori site from Japan poses no problems, those outside the country have been greeted with this message: This website cannot be browsed excluding Japan. Some foreigners…

Japanese Hardware Market Feeling A Bit Better, Thanks

After a few weeks worth of shrinking sales, the Japanese hardware market saw signs of improvement, as almost every platform saw increases. Minor increases, mind you, but a positive trend upward nonetheless. The only platform not to improve was the Xbox 360, which doesn’t currently have a game in the Media Create top fifty sales…

You (Sorta) Owe Dead Space To Aristotle

Some deep reading over on Gamasutra on game design and narrative (courtesy of Company of Heroes narrative designer Stephen Dinehart) could be my next graduate school adventure. The feature, Dramatic Play, analyzes the intersection of interactive media, drama and games as well as the classic tenants of play and storytelling that make or break a…

Sony Encouraging Non-Gaming Apps On The PSPgo

While the new PSPgo will be a gaming console first and foremost, Sony have announced that games won’t be the only thing supported on the platform. Speaking with CNET, Sony’s Al De Leon has said: One thing we did announce at E3 was a significant reduction in the price of development tools for PSP. The…