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E3 2010: Sony Presser and the Noticeable Absences

THE Kevin Butler breathing life back into the crowd.

After Microsoft’s dismal showing yesterday, Sony seemed poised to pour on the heat, gaining even more momentum as the 360′s image was repurposed for a casual market. While Sony wasn’t able to really wow anyone with their exceedingly long showcase, they managed to avoid any real traps. [...]

Bullet Point BS: 4/15/2010 – NPD? Arglebargle!

You may have noticed every gaming blog in the world publishing five or six stories today in rapid succession to discuss the US videogame sales figures from March. This can mean only one thing: the NPD figures are out! The PS3 had perhaps its best month ever for software sales thanks to strong performance from God [...]

Blind Review: God of War 3 -An Exclusive!

Welcome to the latest in our long running, fan favorite and potentially future award winning series of exclusive blind reviews. Today we’ll be looking at God of War III, a PS3 exclusive developed by Sony’s Santa Monica studio scheduled for release on March 16th, 2010. Without further ado, or the benefit of having played even a [...]

Exhibit A: Are you being “gouged”?

This week the new download-only PSPgo was released to a surprising amount of rancor across the web. Certain sites have published ill-considered, extremely negative reviews of the device citing things like a high price and no upgrade path for existing PSP owners. Of course, if you take existing owners out of the equation, and you really should (there’s [...]

And that’s why I make fun of you!

PS3 turns average gamers into paragons of mercy.

Yesterday the whole of the internet was all a twitter about an apparent PS3 ad campaign from Chile which, among other things, depicted a gamer giving a blood transfusion to Rommel, a famous Nazi general. The story spread like wildfire as everyone was in a hurry to badmouth [...]

Version 1.3 of Playstation Home threatens fabric of space-time

Remember, end of the world sex is always lady's choice.

Thursday will see the release of the latest version of Home for the PS3. The patch to 1.3 will add the long awaited ability to launch any game from within Home’s virtual world. The update also adds new item types and emotes for your avatar. More controversially, [...]

Furious PSP-3000 attacks Tokyo!

A glimpse of the beast seconds before it swooped down, crushing dozens.

Lost in the torrent of news coming out of the Tokyo Game Show last week, perhaps the biggest story was an attack on the city’s populous by an enormous, enraged PSP-3000.

36 people attending the convention were killed in the rampage that lasted over two [...]

Did the PSP Go bang Jim Sterling’s mom?

Cause that’s kinda the impression I’m getting after like 14 negative stories he has written about the new device in the last two days over at Destructoid.

He’s bitching about the price, about the lack of packed in accessories and now about the lack of an upgrade program for people who already own a bunch of UMD games. [...]

Pricing strategies are HARD!

Reporting on a Destructoid interview with SCEA’s Eric Lempel, Joystiq chose to discuss the expected ‘pricing parity’ for downloadable PSP games compared to retail versions. From Andrew Yoon’s commentary:

While the PlayStation Store is simply offering games at normal retail price, many retailers engage in price wars to gain the loyalty (and dollars) of consumers. Unfortunately, owners of [...]

Joystiq: The Internet leader in OLD NEWS

In their thrilling new expose, “PSP Go allows players to save and resume state“, Joystiq scoops the competition by re-reporting a Gamespot UK discovered feature of the soon to be released revision of the Sony portable. You see, the PSP Go will have a handy-dandy feature allowing you to save a game at any point, use [...]