The latest in cool commercials comes from Sony, this time with the PlayStation 3‘s Long Live Play marketing campaign. The ad below features your favorite native PS3 characters, like Nathan Drake, Infamous’ Cole, Kratos and Solid Snake. Also included are Final Fantasy XIII‘s Lightning, Isaac Clarke from Dead Space and even a silent appearance by Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal. Check it out below the cut. It’s really awesome and [...]
With every announcement and every trailer, Sonic Generations looks like it’s going to make good on its promise of being the greatest Sonic game of this console life cycle. Bringing back levels from the highly loved Sega Dreamcast, this featurette focuses on levels from Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2 and GameCube’s Sonic Heroes.
Genre: Hack-and-Slash Action | Developer: SCE Japan Studio Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment/NIS America Platform: PlayStation 3 | Players: 1 | Rating: T (Teen) For a time, it was considered an unwritten requirement that all videogame adaptations of popular anime would be fighting games. Considering how the majority of series feature characters with superhuman abilities usually based on martial arts or other mystical techniques, this genre-labeling worked well, but created a [...]
Oh man. I know one staffer here who is going to be super excited about this. The official trailer for Starbreeze Studios‘ Syndicate reboot has finally been released. Set for a February 21st, 2012 release date and being published by EA, this trailer shows off some of the fast-paced action in store for the reboot of the 1993 franchise. It doesn’t seem to be anything like the old days, and [...]
Subtlety is the name of the game, except the name of the game is actually Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. More specifically, the beta of the multiplayer of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. The beta ran for a couple of weeks, first only for PlayStation Plus members and invitees, but after a while it opened up for everyone with a PS3.
Hey, true believers! X-Men: Destiny from Activision is set to arrive tomorrow, September 27th, for North Americans! The game emphasizes choice as you take the role of three newly created mutants, Aimi Yoshida, Grant Alexander and Adrian Luca. Of course, no X-Men anything would ever be complete without appearances from our favorite mutants, so you’ll definitely be seeing familiar faces like Pyro, Juggernaut, Iceman, Magneto, Mystique, Emma Frost and many [...]
Spoiler: David Hasselhoff is in this. Criterion Games and EA are bringing you the ever-popular “Crash” mode from Burnout as a standalone downloadable title on the 360 and PS3. The 360 version, however, has the distinct advantage of being Kinect-enabled, so you can use gestures to execute special moves with your vehicles. CRASH! is all about causing as much mayhem as possible, so hold onto your steering wheels, because things [...]
Coming at you from Ratloop is a part side-scrolling action shooter, part chickentastic game called Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken, exclusively for the PlayStation Network. Hardboiled Chicken is out to stop the penguins of Albatropilis from taking over. He’s a bird on a mission and no feathery fiend is going to stand in his way as he Rambos his way through the immoral regime threatening to take over. You can check out [...]
Hey, you. Yeah. You there. You want an early copy of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception? You do? I got the goods, man. Or rather, AMC Theaters does. If you’re in the area of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York City, or Dallas from October 18th to the 20th, you’re in definite luck. AMC Theaters has announced an extra special event where you can see Naughty Dog‘s new game [...]
This just in: Brand new copies from the first run of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations will have the first Assassin’s Creed included. If you haven’t played the first game, it’s boring, repetitive and awfully cool for its time, because you get to be Assassin Batman. It also introduces us to Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad, one of the most legendary members of the Assassin Order and one of Desmond’s descendants, along with Ezio Auditore [...]
