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God of War: Ascension Refrains from Violence Against Women

God of War: Ascension Refrains from Violence Against Women

Video games are accused a ton of things. From miscreant behaviour and deflated intelligence to violent shootings and other manic sprees. One of the more valid criticism, however, has been how the vi... Read More

Sony Confirms The Last Guardian is Still in Development

Sony Confirms The Last Guardian is Still in Development

As many people are aware, rumours have been running rampant on Final Fantasy Versus XIII's cancellation. Versus was meant to be Square-Enix's vision and Kingdom Hearts director Tetsuya Nomura's late... Read More

Iwata not worried about Sony and MS revealing powerful consoles in 2013

Iwata not worried about Sony and MS revealing powerful consoles in 2013

Satoru Iwata has mentioned that he is not worried about Sony and Microsoft producing significantly more powerful consoles and he has revealed that the next-gen consoles could be revealed in 2013. "... Read More

David Perry: Publishers say “PC is cool, but I wish you could do this with console”

David Perry: Publishers say “PC is cool, but I wish you could do this with console”

David Perry seems very pleased with Sony's Gaikai acquisition and he has mentioned that publishers will be happy with the said acquisition because they heart always belongs on consoles. "It... Read More

Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Review

Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes Review

Lego games have a formula that works. Take on an existing popular property, give it a Lego twist, wrap it up in oodles of charm, back it up with some solid if predictable gameplay mechanics, and the... Read More

Sony’s GamesCom conference dated

Sony’s GamesCom conference dated

Sony has announced its GamesCom conference date and expect major announcements from them soon, most notably, the PS3 super slim, and a lot of things for the Vita. The conference will be held on... Read More

Marvel Pinball Avengers Chronicles Review

Marvel Pinball Avengers Chronicles Review

Here again, for the third time in less than a year, I am faced with a rather unique conundrum: that of reviewing a pinball game. A bad pinball game is still easy to review, noting as I can all the s... Read More

Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat Review

Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat Review

This generation has seen multiple genuinely great, quirky games being developed for and published via Xbox Live and Playstation Network, the digital delivery networks for both those platforms. The exi... Read More

Limbo would have been on PSN first if Sony didn’t insist for IP rights

Limbo would have been on PSN first if Sony didn’t insist for IP rights

XBLA's crown jewel Limbo would have been on PSN first, but talks with Playdead failed because Sony wanted the IP rights to the game. It's Sony's policy to get the IP rights of any third-party exclu... Read More

Images of PS3 ‘Super Slim’ CECH 4001 revealed

Images of PS3 ‘Super Slim’ CECH 4001 revealed

Sony was reportedly working on a new PS3 model titled CECH 4001 series, and the FCC filing revealed a drastic redesign, which now appears to be true as some images have been leaked on a Portu... Read More

Sony to start manufacturing first-party PS3 games in India

Sony to start manufacturing first-party PS3 games in India

Sony India's Atindriya Bose has confirmed to MCV India that local replication of their first-party titles is something they are looking at, and currently they are working on the tax implications so... Read More

Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue Review

Marvel Pinball: Vengeance and Virtue Review

There's usually a problem reviewing pinball games, and that is that these games are what they are- pinball simulators that either play well, or they don't, and there is nothing more to be said about t... Read More

PS All-Stars Battle Royale release date and pre-order bonuses outed

PS All-Stars Battle Royale release date and pre-order bonuses outed

Sony has revealed the release date for PS All-Stars Battle Royale and it comes out on different dates for various regions: October 23 and 24 in the US and Europe respectively. They will also r... Read More

Sony: Retail is absolutely vital or PS4 and Xbox 720 will suffer

Sony: Retail is absolutely vital or PS4 and Xbox 720 will suffer

Almost everyone in the industry is repeating the digital distribution is the future spiel, but Sony's UK vice president has shot this down and has mentioned that retail is extremely important for ... Read More

Microsoft: Our top 4 franchises “outsell like the top 11 Sony franchises”

Microsoft: Our top 4 franchises “outsell like the top 11 Sony franchises”

Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios, seems to be in a jolly mood after recently calling the Wii U graphically equivalent to the Xbox 360. He's at it again, though, saying t... Read More

Microsoft responds to Sony’s Gaikai acquisition

Microsoft responds to Sony’s Gaikai acquisition

Microsoft has responded to Sony's Gaikai acquisition by saying that they value the cloud tech a lot and have been providing such services to 40 million Xbox Live members. "The cloud has been a ... Read More

Pachter: Gaikai buyout a ploy by Sony to sell more TVs

Pachter: Gaikai buyout a ploy by Sony to sell more TVs

It seems like Michael Pachter is forgetting that Sony Computer Entertainment has bought Gaikai, not Sony as a whole. It makes a difference, the former means the move is solely for their gaming divis... Read More

Seth Killian joins Sony after leaving Capcom recently

Seth Killian joins Sony after leaving Capcom recently

This is really big, as Sony has acquired a vital talent at their in-house studios. Seth Killian, former Capcom fighting man and community manager, has joined the company and will work on PlayStation... Read More

Editorial: Sony’s Gaikai acquisition and the PS4 backwards compatibility dilemma

Editorial: Sony’s Gaikai acquisition and the PS4 backwards compatibility dilemma

Sony recently announced that they have acquired Gaikai - a cloud gaming service. Of course, there were rumors of this well before E3, and while both companies had declined that anything of this so... Read More

Sony buys Gaikai for $380 million, new cloud service on the horizon

Sony buys Gaikai for $380 million, new cloud service on the horizon

Sony has acquired cloud service Gaikai for $380 million, and with this acqusition it aims to create a new service using Gaikai technology "ensuring that it continues to provide users with truly inno... Read More