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Review: Dragon Ball Z – Ultimate Tenkaichi (PS3)

October 28, 2011 – 12:44 pm |

I really liked last year’s DBZ game, Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit 2. It felt like the franchise had finally achieved some serious attention with a game that was both deep and fun.
This year, we …

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The PSN Outage Headlines Are Getting Ugly

April 21, 2011 – 5:00 pm | 2 Comments

I’m not one to throw stones at service outages — computer systems will have problems from time to time — but when I fired up my PS3 for the first time in a week to …

Two Aragami Too Many

April 20, 2011 – 10:02 pm |
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The massive tiger-like Valjra leapt down the ruined city block, slammed into Tatsumi, knocking her out, and spun 180 degrees to get ready to charge again. Soma was flat on the ground off to …

Minecraft 1.4 and 1.5: A Public Service Announcement

April 14, 2011 – 12:40 pm |
minecraft 1.4 creeper

The Minecraft creepers would just like to remind you that while it’s all well and good to use a bed to skip over nighttime, and it’s nice to get excited about taming a wolf, don’t …

Ones to Watch: PS3, PSP for April 2011

April 3, 2011 – 8:53 pm |

April is another strong month of releases on Sony’s platforms, even on the PSP which is always said to have “no games out for it”. The PS3 gets a game that promises cross-platform play …

Free Realms: How Would I Know To Do That?

March 30, 2011 – 6:37 pm | 2 Comments
free realms goblin troll thing

Update: Another tweet, this one from an SOE employee, clued me in to a Free Realms support web page that listed common issues with the game and led me to call technical support. …

Free Realms Launches on PS3, Sort Of

March 29, 2011 – 5:47 pm |
Free Realms PS3 Could Not Launch The Game

The long promised day that Free Realms would launch on PS3 has arrived with a bang. Of sorts. It’s now available as a 29 Meg download from the Store, which then launches and …

PlayStation Move Ape Escape Coming Summer 2011

March 17, 2011 – 10:30 am |

Back on the PlayStation 1, Ape Escape was one of the first games to really put dual analog sticks to good use. The franchise is one of my favorites featuring gadget-enabled platforming, cartoony sci-fi, …

DC Universe Online Pricing Packs Get Competitive

March 10, 2011 – 1:00 pm | 2 Comments
DC Universe Online logo

The PlayStation Blog has news of DCUO becoming a digital download on the PlayStation Store sometime soon, but the price tag is pretty steep. That’s the full $60 for the client software and first …

Minecraft Nabs Five GDC Awards, C418′s Soundtrack Released

March 5, 2011 – 12:20 pm | 2 Comments

Mojang’s debut title from Markus Persson, the indie hit Minecraft, earned a slew of impressive awards this week at the Game Developers Conference and the related Indie Game Fest. Notch (Markus) was on hand …

Hulkageddon IV: It’s Not Just For Miners Anymore!

February 18, 2011 – 10:30 am |
Hulkageddon IV

Shards of metal from rogue drone wrecks twinkled in space, reflecting the light of the nearby star. My trusty hobgoblin drones had returned and were orbiting my mining spaceship as its three strip miner …

Xperia PLAY: Separate and Unequal

February 15, 2011 – 3:30 pm |
Xperia PLAY

The Xperia PLAY — the so-called Playstation phone — was finally announced on Sunday just ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The Sony Ericsson phone is apparently the first in a line …

PlayStation 2 Celebrating 150 Million Consoles Shipped

February 14, 2011 – 10:00 am |
Sony PlayStation 2

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone, and if you find yourself thinking back on warm, wonderful memories of good times, you’re not alone. Sony today is smiling with that distant look in its eyes and thinking …

Ones to Watch on PS3/PSP for February 2011

February 5, 2011 – 4:37 pm |

Killzone 3 is the headliner on the PS3 this month and there’s a multiplayer beta live right now for those who want to have a taste of the full experience. It’s rated M for …

PlayStation Next Generation Portable, Suite Announced

January 27, 2011 – 12:00 pm | 2 Comments

The successor to the PlayStation Portable has been announced by Sony, code named the Next Generation Portable or NGP, and they took some time at their press event to demonstrate some of the system features …

City of Heroes Double XP Weekend Jan 27-31

January 25, 2011 – 5:00 pm |
City of Heroes Double XP weekend 1/27 to 1/31

City of Heroes would just like to take this opportunity to remind you that they are not a Free To Play game. Oh, I mean, that you can re-activate your account and get double …

EVE Online Incursions Begin Today

January 25, 2011 – 10:01 am |
EVE Online Incursion

The multi-step process for deploying the latest EVE Online expansion Incursion apparently completes today with the beginning of “a new era” — the invasions into high security space (and everywhere else I imagine) by the …