The Bullring Centre in Birmingham, England, is one of the largest shopping centres in Europe. Imagine our surprise when we pop into the centre, only to see Sony had come out in full force to promote the PlayStation name to the public, with a truly impressive display.
Sony's PlayStation and Vaio division has just reported a 24.2 percent drop in sales compared to Q2 2008, down from 465.2 billion yen to 352.6 billion yen. Losses for this period widened from 40.6 billion yen to 58.8 billion yen.
At TGS 2009 Kojima Productions released two different demos of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. One was available for all at sites such as IGN, and another exclusive to Konami’s TGS 09 show room floor. This new demo is said to contain the missing level from the downloadable demo, aswell as extras. Some of these extras are; New control scheme A third control scheme is said to be “unlockable”. Unlock [...]
The latest Japanese software sales for October 12th – 18th, courtesy of Media-Create. Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver topped this week’s charts, to the surprise of… absolutely no-one. 1. Pokemon DS (DS, Ninendo) – 165,000 2. Wii Fit Plus (Wii, Nintendo) – 118,000 3. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Wii, Nintendo) – 63,000 4. Inazuma Eleven2 DS (DS, Konami) – 60,000 5. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3, Sony) – 54,000 [...]
Riding on the back of last weeks huge PlayStation Store update, this month sees a hefty amount of new content being added to the European story. Highlights include two of the Fallout 3 content packs (Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta), Tomb Raider Legend, and (finally), Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? PS3 Content Special Offers -Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) (£16.99/€20.99) -Magic Carpet (PS One) (£3.99/€4.99 -Populous (PS One) [...]
Almost every fiction is based on something else, and adventure games were no different. The first seeds were sown in the 1970s...
With the recent release of the Brütal Legend demo (which is awesome, by the way, you have to check it out) it got me thinking about demos, and their value in today’s gaming society. When I was a younger man, during the PS1 days, my new console came packed with a demo disc, usually featuring one or two levels from released or upcoming games. And it was great, because it [...]
Alongside today’s monster update of PSP titles on the PlayStation Store, the new “Minis” range of titles (small, pick up and play game at a cheap price), always went up on the PlayStation Store. And here’s the full list of them all! PSP MINIS (both regions) Tetris (£3.99/€4.99) PEGI 3+ Fieldrunners (£3.99/€4.99) PEGI 3+ Pinball Fantasies (£3.99/€4.99) PEGI 3+ Vempire (£3.99/€4.99) PEGI 3+ Brainpipe (£3.99/€4.99) PEGI 3+ Puzzle Scape Mini [...]
Sony's new all-digital, all-download handheld rendition of the PlayStation Portable went on sale today, one definitely can't complain about a lack of content, thanks to the addition of over a hundred PSP titles to download from the PlayStation Store!
A nine minute trailer, and some gameplay videos for the PSP-exclusive Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker surfaced at the Tokyo Game Show today, and they're really quite impressive to look at.
