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Not only can you download Vita games early , you can buy boxed copies of first-party titles early as well. GameStop currently has copies of Little Deviants , Uncharted , Hot Shots , Wipeout 2048 , and ModNation Racers in stock online right now. They ship within 24 hours, the site notes, or you can use the site to check for stock at your local store
Let’s be honest, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning ’s quality came as the first nice surprise of 2012. Our quibbles with this first installment in what we hope to be a lasting series didn’t detract from it being a great fantasy RPG . Although other outlets weren’t as smitten as us, the RPG from Big Huge Games, a studio that built its rep on real-time strategy series Rise of Nations , is getting some solid reviews.
At CES , we scored a backstage demo of Table Soccer , one of three augmented reality games that show off PS Vita’s Wide Area Augmented Reality capability. Today, Sony Santa Monica Sr. Manager Dave Thach returns with two new augmented reality games, Fireworks and Cliff Diving
Activision and Double Helix have announced a video game adaptation of Battleship , the Hasbro Studios/Universal Films adaptation of Milton Bradley’s Battleship . Set for an April European release and a May North American release, Battleship will combine aspects of the classic board game with FPS gameplay.
Wondering what kind of difference Skyrim ’s high-res texture pack makes to the game’s already gorgeous PC graphics? The folks at HardOCP are all over that .
Sports fans – I’m psyched to give you a sneak peak at the new Miami Marlins ballpark in South Beach, courtesy of MLB 12 The Show . Have a look at where new acquisitions Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, and Heath Bell will be calling home this year… After winning two World Series in less than 20 years since their inaugural 1993 season, 2012 ushers in a name change and a new ballpark for the Marlins.
Hi, everyone. We are releasing a new system software update (v4.10) for PlayStation 3 today that will include a few minor changes that we want to make you all aware of.
Call of Duty Elite premium members playing Modern Warfare 3 on Xbox Live will receive the next batch of DLC, Overwatch, on February 21. Overwatch puts players in a construction site at the top of a New York City skyscraper, with a very real chance of dropping 70 feet to the sidewalk as an added risk. If you have trouble visualizing that, check out the gallery below.
Will the armies of Hell bend to your whim? The latest Army Corps of Hell trailer certainly seems to think so, at least if you have a PlayStation Vita and plenty of free digits. Take a look at how that control plays out just above
Today the Jak and Daxter Collection launches exclusively on PS3 . Now, over a decade since the Jak and Daxter series originally premiered on PS2, I’m so proud to see the legacy of Naughty Dog ’s work brought together for the first time ever on one Blu-ray Disc. The Jak and Daxter Collection brings some of your favorite J&D adventures — Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II and Jak 3 — to life like never before.
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for Vita won’t just be a straight port of the PS3/Xbox collection (of upscaled ports). Hideo Kojima revealed that the portable release will have at least some Vita-exclusive features, including Vita-specific control tweaks. “You can slice enemy’s throat with knife if you flick the touch pad behind,” he said, referring to the throat-slitting maneuver in Metal Gear Solid 3 .
Just a reminder for those whose minds have been addled by ” Crazy Chocobo :” the first FFXIII-2 DLC , a Coliseum battle with Lightning and Master Sergeant Amodar, is available now on Xbox Live, and will be on PSN when that updates this afternoon. Gallery: Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2/7/12) PSA: Call down Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC today originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
Presumably, the universe will be saved at the end of Mass Effect 3 , but it won’t be the last we hear of the franchise, according to executive producer Casey Hudson. The staff at BioWare is “probably too busy to feel sad” about the end of its space-faring trilogy, Hudson recently told the UK’s PlayStation 3 Magazine (via CVG ). Not that there’s anything to be sad about, as Hudson noted “there will be more Mass Effect for Mass Effect fans, I’m sure.” We know that a Mass Effect anime is in the works, though more games are certainly a possibility, as are more comics and ( hopefully error-free ) books
