Dutch retailer, Bart Smit is currently listing Nintendo’s 3DS at 170 Euros, which roughly translates to $200 and £140. Seriously?! If you’re keeping score, that’s merely $10 more than the DSi XL, and even more hilariously, less than a PSPgo.
Weasley stands out from the bunch. Today you'll find a demo of the magical LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 on the PlayStation Store. Eurogamer awarded a whopping 9/10 to this marvellous recreation of Rowling's story. But then, not all of us are overgrown children. Are we? You'll also find demos for Aqua Panic HD and Death Track: Resurrection. Read more...
Our very own GamesRadar E3 awards have already delivered the definitive final word on this year's show. But stay alert gamers - there's more E3 awards to come! And these are kind of a big deal.
Japanese feature surging West. Tuesday's PSP firmware update appears to have paved the way for downloadable NeoGeo and PCEngine/TurboGrafx-16 games. Folders for both formats were added to the XMB menu, according to Tom's Guide. There they'll sit with folders for established content such as Minis and PSN games. NeoGeo and PCEngine/TurboGrafx-16 games are already offered to PSP owners in Japan ...
(29 Jun 2010) But still not cross-game chat.
Sony's Live rival going for Gold. Sony's new premium subscription service PlayStation Plus has been released for PlayStation 3. This feature arrives with firmware version 3.4. In addition, this adds network photo sharing, video editing and uploading, star ratings for Store content, more power saving options and better Facebook connectivity. Sony has also taken this opportunity to roll out ...
More new PSP rumours emerge
Nintendo's machines dominate. The latest Japanese sales charts show DS dominating the field, selling twice as many units as the nearest competitor, PSP. Specifically, the three versions of Nintendo's handheld - DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL - combined to sell 53,523 units, according to Media Create. Sony's handheld managed 21,766 sales. Nintendo's flagship console Wii is also back on top, selling 19 ...
Ready at Dawn have out-done themselves this time
Gaming on the iPhone just got an upgrade. With Thursday's release of the iPhone 4 following on the heels of Monday's iOS 4 update, the iPhone just became more graphically impressive, more socially connected, and a more powerful device in the challenging game market.
No announcement on a new handheld either
Plus: DC Comics! New offers! SEGA sale! There's plenty on the PlayStation Store this week, notably the arrival of Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. This revamp wowed on XBLA last summer and should do no less on PS3. There's also the entrance of the full, six game bundle of Blue Toad Murder Files. This costs just £18. Eurogamer's review of Blue Toad Murder Files: Season One tells all ...
As with Marvel's own iPad app --itself built by Comixology--DC's free app lets you browse series, purchase individual issues (which run between $1 and $3), and even opt for push notifications to alert you when new issues of a series are out.
Listen now... So, E3's properly over now. Let's talk about it some more in the podcast. In the wake of the world's biggest game show TalkRadar UK's three brave podcasters are washed up in a studio to try and remember just went on last week in Los Angeles.
Stop spoiling the awesome with meaningless numbers!
Update tidies, speeds, fixes. Sony has updated the Digital Comics Reader for PlayStation Portable. You can read instructions about how to download the update on the PlayStation website. Version 2.01 allows you to delete comics, which will be better grouped in collections, although all deleted content can be downloaded again free of charge. Database tweaks mean flicking through your collection ...
E3's over for another year, leaving us to examine trailers and screenshots, save our pennies up for 3DS and catch up on some much-needed sleep.
November 2nd 2010. This is the launch date for Gran Turismo 5, one of the most anticipated racing games of all time. Well, in North America at least - rest of the world TBA, at time of writing).
It’s Monday, which can only mean one thing – a round up of the top 40 UK charts . Red Dead Redemption is #1 for the 5th week running, Super Mario Galaxy 2 holds onto #2 with 2010 FIFA World Cup still at #3.
You can't go wrong with the old black and red combo
PSP is a very healthy platform
(18 Jun 2010) He also happens to be the former head of Sony in the UK
PSP; £29.99; cert 15+; Konami The Sony PSP is almost the forgotten handheld console. Compared to the ever changing and ever popular Nintendo DS and iPhone/iPod Touch (and now the iPad), the PSP feels like yesterday's toy. Last year's neat but commercially underperforming download-only PSPGo didn't help matters either and a skimpy release schedule shows publishers are not sold either. Which is a ...
In order to keep pace with 3DS. David Reeves, 14-year veteran of Sony and now chief operating officer of Capcom Europe, has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that Sony needs to release a true sequel to the PSP quickly if it expects to compete in the handheld market. Rival Nintendo has this week revealed the 3DS in detail, wowing the masses at the annual E3 conference with hands-on ...
Cricket! Peace Walker! Mario Tennis! This week may be all about E3, but don't go thinking it's all about E3 - even though it is - because it's also about some games being sold in shops and that. The ones below most specifically. This week's biggest release is undoubtedly the excellent Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on PSP, recipient of a healthy 8/10 review last week and one of the richest ...
PSP Minis, casual download titles created for Sony’s handheld device, are something of a poor relation to both the slew of iPhone gaming apps and theDSi Ware range.
In recent years, most Formula 1 games have been Sony-published affairs, and while many were worthwhile racers, it was difficult to find exciting off-the-track features, or significant year-over-year improvements.
Sony placed 3-D gaming, motion-sensor interface and the expansion of the PSN's functionality at the centre of its E3 keynote presentation. It even found time to show off some games, too.
Ready At Dawn has another stab. Curious to learn more about the new PSP God of War game revealed last night? Well, Sony's fact sheet bundle can sort you out. God of War: Ghost of Sparta is developed by Ready At Dawn and due out this autumn. It's a single-player affair, as with its PSP predecessor Chains of Olympus, and picks up after the end of the first PS2 God of War game, with Kratos ...
200 Euro, out this autumn. Sony has announced plans to release a subwoofer built-in, all-in-one surround sound system for the PlayStation 3 this autumn worldwide. The Surround Sound System uses "cutting-edge technologies, including Sony's S-Force PRO Front Surround Sound" to create a surround sound effect from one speaker parked in front of your TV. The system will go on sale for 199 when it ...
So the rumours were true. Sony is introducing a paid-for PSN membership in the style of Xbox Live Gold. But is it worth upgrading? What exactly does it offer than you can't get on PSN already? And are those offerings worth the an extra fifty dollars/euros?
Sony has been talking up the benefits of 3D gaming at a press briefing at the E3 gaming show in Los Angeles.
As the last of the Big Three to hold its E3 press conference, Sony had the unenviable task of showing up what Microsoft and Nintendo had already gotten onstage and done. Were a comedy bit by Kevin Butler and a shock appearance by Gabe Newell enough to put Sony's rivals to shame?
Though most of the gaming world expected mega-publisher Sony to reveal a whole new PSP console at its E3 press conference, someone forgot to tell Sony. Instead, the talk centered around the arrival of 3D gaming, the importance of motion controls in Sony's current strategy, and a strange combination of beards, Coca-Cola, and sassy urban kids ripping on Kevin Butler's clip-on necktie.
Sony is backing 3D gaming big time. In fact, the message made at their E3 conference was that they want PlayStation 3 to do for 3D what it did for Blu-ray.
Nintendo’s E3 conference started off with a video of Zelda, now titled fully Zelda: Skyward Sword . Here, the Motion Plus is used to give Link free movement of his sword – at one point during the video Link waved it in circles to make a door with eyes go dizzy.
They only talked about everything
While Microsoft and Sony argue over who has the best new motion controls, Nintendo today revealed it’s already moved on to something new.
(15 Jun 2010) Announced with PSP spinoff title.
(15 Jun 2010) 3D-enabled, portable shooting in your pocket.
Thomas Cook Airlines has become the latest carrier to charge passengers for in-flight entertainment.
Looks very much like it. Sony has whacked up a countdown clock for what very much looks like a new Patapon game. The clock is visible on the Japanese PlayStation site amid stormy noises. Every few seconds a lightning strike plays and a background image that looks uncannily like Patapon is partially illuminated. Read more...
In less than 48 hours, Microsoft's E3 2010 press conference will kick off four days of non-stop videogame insanity.
Mario Galaxy 2 wins software top ten. The latest Media Create data has revealed that PSP was the best-selling bit of games hardware in Japan last week, with more than 23,000 units shifted. PS3 came in second with 18,951, to be precise, just outdoing the Wii on 18,818. Over 10,000 DSi LL units were sold, while the figure for DSi came in at 8,000. Microsoft managed to shift another 3000 Xbox 360 ...
Rob Coppinger THE INQUIRER £2,000 to play 3D asteroids
E3 kicks off next week. Because we have a fear of air hostesses (and in-flight meals) we won’t be attending. We will though be covering the conferences from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and writing a round-up of all the other good stuff announced.
Remember a couple days ago when we reported on a voice actor saying he was working on an unannounced Kingdom Hearts game, which we thought was called Recoded? Now Square Enix confirmed its existence in a list of the games they’re showing at E3. But how correct were the rumors?
Plus four minis and a couple of demos. Sony has updated the PlayStation Store early ahead of today's planned PSN downtime, which starts at 4pm BST and could go on for over eight hours. As we've pointed out an increasingly silly number of times, today's big one is the lovely Joe Danger, a 2D stunts and platforming bike game that costs £9.99 / 12.99. There are also new minis - Gold Fever, Mahjongg ...
Sony Vegas Movie Studio is a powerful video and editing program that can handle any kind of video project. Unlike some editing programs the interface is very plain. This isn't a problem, in fact it's quite the reverse as it never distracts from the important job of editing videos.
Some applications do one thing really well. Some apps do lots of things quite nicely. The recently added Dilbert app in the Ovi Store is thankfully the former.
"Stolen" screens show collapsing city. Some rough off-screen snaps of a game purporting to be MotorStorm 3 have appeared on the net, showing an apparent move in setting to an apocalyptic, collapsing city for the off-road racing series. French site PS3 Gen (via Kotaku) has the pics, which it calls "stolen". A title screen shows the MotorStorm 3 logo over a cracked and burning skyline, identified ...
Badmouthing PS3-exclusive Killzone 2 was among the many arguments Bodycount developer Stuart Black employed in pitching his own console shooter. , bashing Killzone 2 and other games as a means of selling his own creation.
Badmouthing PS3-exclusive Killzone 2 was among the many arguments Bodycount developer Stuart Black employed in pitching his own console shooter. , bashing Killzone 2 and other games as a means of selling his own creation.
(4 Jun 2010) Nintendo DS sees a software resurgence.
(4 Jun 2010) Wii and PS3 in galactic battle for top position.
What a funny old week this one is. The biggest new game out, a term which I’m using loosely, is motorbike sim SBK X on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. Blackbean have been knocking these out on a yearly basis so they should be pretty good at it by now.
Kaz Hirai confirms that Sony's PlayStation Network will keep free elements but rumours abound of a premium service to follow.
Kaz Hirai has announced that Sony's PlayStation network will gain a premium subscription-based service later this year
So, it looks even more likely that our dreams of an HD Ico and Shadow of the Colossus may be indulged. Why? Sony has been putting around a new questionnaire, the subject of which is enhanced PS2 remakes.
Cohort Studios' Lol Scragg talks Move title The Shoot
New digital TV tuner could be on the way. A producer at Sony's Cambridge studio has suggested that the team is working on a new version of the PlayTV digital TV tuner for PS3. "We're still working on Play TV, Play TV 2," Mark Green said when asked what the studio was currently working on by Spong. His comment is buried in an interview about LittleBigPlanet PSP. Sony recently confirmed that the ...