Console game development takes time, but action-platformer The Kore Game: Outvasion From Inner Earth has taken more than most. In the works for nearly a decade and having passed through the hands of three publishers and three developers, it has the potential to be absurdly polished or a colossal dud. …
Read More »HD Sly Collection gets split up for for PSN release
Having pulled a successful caper by remastering Sony’s Sly Cooper Collection for PS3 play, Sanzaru Games is dividing the loot for the titles’ PSN release. Sanzaru’s HD reissues of the Sucker Punch series have been issued with fresh individual PEGI ratings (opens in new tab); details haven’t been released, but …
Read More »InFamous: Festival of Blood is the fastest-selling PSN game ever
Sony has announced that InFamous: Festival of Blood, the standalone spinoff from this year’s InFamous 2, has become the fastest-selling digital title in the history of PlayStation Network in the time since its late October launch. IGN reports (opens in new tab) that the Halloween-themed title racked up the sales …
Read More »Assassins Creed Launch trailer explains the conspiracy-laden plot as clearly as can be expected
Ezio has been the star of Assassin’s Creed for the last three years, and within the game’s story, he’s been killing Templars for three decades. For better or worse that’s got to come to an end eventually, and it looks like Ezio is about to ride off into that Renaissance …
Read More »Saints Row: The Thirds Initiation Station beta launches
THQ has just launched the beta for its Saints Row: The Third character-creation app, the Initiation Station. Starting today, Saints Row and Red Faction fans will be able to try out the avatar generator, which slots into the SR3 community and allows you to cobble together your very own Frankengangster …
Read More »Ubisoft/Sony nearly ready to sign off on Assassins Creed movie
Ubisoft Motion Pictures is close to announcing a partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment to adapt Assassin’s Creed into a major Hollywood production, says Variety. The studio, first announced in May, has been commanding attention from a number of top studios with the property. Sony’s bid for the Assassin’s Creed film …
Read More »Assassins Creed Revelations hookblade explained in elegant and grisly detail with new trailer
Ezio Auditore’s proof that old dogs can learn new tricks, at least when it comes to murder. In Assassin’s Creed Revelations, the aging Italian protagonist heads to the Middle East and picks up some fresh skills from his Assassin brotherhood, as he gains the Ottoman Hookblade. Hiding in the same …
Read More »Journey now coming out spring 2012
Though flying out to Japan for Tokyo Game Show was loads of fun, TGS was all the weaker thanks to the absence of The Last Guardian, as the beautiful looking game that we once hoped would hit the PS3 this year seems to be a ways off. Still, we could …
Read More »Classic game appreciation section: Ico
I like to think that ‘Ico’ means ‘beautiful thing’ in some exotic foreign language. Because it is truly a thing of beauty. I’m not just talking about the dreamy fairytale vistas surveyed from the game’s many vertiginous parapets, or the golden radiance of the sun flooding through some towering window. …
Read More »Saints Row: The Third gets hacker-heavy Deckers trailer
Volition’s new trailer for Saints Row: The Third focuses on the Deckers, a rival “hacker” gang who appear to celebrate every cyber-cliché ever advanced by confused people in the last 20 years. And if you think that’s a bad thing, you may be unfamiliar with the concept of the Saint’s …
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