News/Announcements

What is a Little Big Pop Up Shop?

Apparently it’s a place in Manchester where children draw sackboy, and play some of the game. 
According to the email the nice people there “get children and business men to draw pictures of sackboy with crayons then play bits of the game and be shown how to make things with Popit. It sounds like they all [...]


Burnout Bikes dated

For all those Burnout fans out there, here’s something to look forwards to. Come September 18 the new Burnout Bikes will be released.
We’re finally able to announce that our latest free downloadable Burnout pack bikes will be out 18th September!!!
if your not up to date with the new update for Burnout Paradise, here’s the lowdown.

Pick [...]


WipEout HD dated and priced for North America

WipEout HD has finally been priced and dated for North America. The game is confirmed to run at 1080p 60 frames per second, have trophies, motion steering via SixAxis controller, online play and a lot more.
Daimion Pinnock, Producer, SCEA today has shared the official North American release date on the Playstation.Blog. WipEout HD will be [...]


Silent Hill Homecoming UK boxart and possible release date

ToTheGame.com have got their hands on the final boxart for the European version of Silent Hill Homecoming. Not only that but the website has listed the game to be released on the 28th of November 2008. Don’t take this serious though, Konami havent spoken about an actual release date, but have recently said it has [...]


Killzone 2 Producer: “Lets try to unlock PS3’s power”

The Playstation 3 has more power than you think! According to the producer of Killzone 2 the PS3 is a lot more futureproof.
The machine itself is a lot more futureproof, there’s a lot more to it – the whole idea of SPUs and the cell processor, I think they’re a lot more enticing, because there’s [...]


The Eye of Judgment Set 3 expansion pack arrives in October

Just got a quick email to say that the Set 3 expansion pack for The Eye of Judgment will arrive on the 16th of October 2008. The following will be included in the expansion:
New 100-card expansion pack brings new creatures, powers and gameplay

New cards give players amazing new creatures, abilities and attack options
New features make [...]


2 new Tekken 6 characters revealed

According to the members of Tekken Zaibatsu Forums, two new characters have been revealed for Tekken 6: Bloodilne Rebellion. One is called Alisa Boskonovich and the other called Lars Alexanderson.
Below are two shots, not very clear shots but hey, its something.

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Capcom speaks about exclusive titles

Capcom have spoken about their policy on platform exclusive games stating that all major titles launched during the next fiscal year will be developed as multi-platform games.
All major titles launched during the next fiscal year or thereafter will be developed as multi-platform games
Capcom are now attempting to repair that damage they have caused by saying [...]


MyBUZZ US goes live

With much excitement Jenny Barbour announced on the Playstation Blog that MyBUZZ has gone live in the US. You will be using MyBUZZ to create your own personalized quizzes on MyBUZZquiz.com and then play them online or in-game.

The quizzes will have eight questions with right and wrong answers. which you’ll be able to put in [...]


8 to 12 hours playing time with Heavy Rain

Yes it’s true if your planning to do a single walk through you will only need 8-12 hours to finish Heavy Rain.
Quantic Dream boss David Cage, let know

We’re still in the middle of production, so I can’t really tell you the exact time of the game, but we’re targeting a game between eight and [...]


Rise of the Argonauts to see the light in November

A RPG game to be liked by fans, RotA will take you through skills trees to climb, branching conversations options, equipment and weapon hoarding, argonaut recruitment, a big ship to fill with people and lots of side stories and quests to do with decent rewards.
Codemasters will be planning to release this game in Europe in [...]


Exclusive content for PS3 version Mirror’s Edge

The people over at PS3 Informer discovered that Mirrors Edge will have exclusive content for the PS3. Seems EA and Sony reached an agreement to release this content.
After some rumours surfaced about the PS3 version being a timed exclusive they got squashed this DLC seems like a decent present to make it up with the [...]


New 80gig PS3s have 65nm RSX chips

A few weeks ago Engadget made an article explaining that the new 80GB PS3 models provide minimal power savings and could have the new shrunken 65nm RSX chips.
Edepot has now confirmed the rumor and has stated that the new 80GB models will indeed have the 65nm RSX chips under the hood.
Take a lookat the model [...]


Eternal Sonata to come out in October

The PS3 version of Eternal Sonata will out on October 21st. Namco Bandai this know through a newsletter.

This might not sound exciting to those who played it on the xbox 360 but this version will get new characters (Crescendo and Seranade), extra cutscenes, new costumes, additional quests, and new music.
October is getting more and [...]


Cast of MK vs DC Universe known

Midway let the list of the cast of MK vs DC Universe known. Except for Scorpion and The Joker we saw in some footage we can also expect the following characters.
Mortal Kombat will represented by:

Scorpion
Sub-Zero
Sonya
Jax
Shang Tsung
Liu Kang
Raiden
Kitana
Kano
Baraka
Shao Kahn

DC Universe will counter it with:

Batman
Superman
Catwoman
Green Lantern
The Joker
Shazam
The Flash
Wonder Woman
Deathstroke
Lex Luthor
Darkseid

Get ready to pick this game up on [...]