As staunch PlayStation Network supporters with nine titles released on the service thus far, Creat Studios and TikGames announced today that they have teamed up with Sony to launch a branded PSN storefront. Like Capcom’s equivalent, it will serve as a dedicated publisher page or hub to promote titles developed by Creat Studios and TikGames, in addition to themes and […]

This should get interesting. Taken aback by Sony’s decision to remove the ability to run third-party code and operating sytems through OtherOS on PS3, George “geohot” Hotz has responded by issuing a terse warning on his personal blog, urging those interested in the exploit and retaining OtherOS functionality to skip the soon-to-be-released firmware 3.21 update. Hotz’s statement, verbatim, is below:

Update: George Hotz responds. Sony has announced that the next PS3 system software update — firmware 3.21 — is  slated to hit the PlayStation Network on April 1 and will remove the OtherOS feature present on units prior to the slimline revision, due to “security concerns.” While Sony neglected to delve into further detail, these “security concerns” likely stem from […]

2K has stamped a date on its oft-delayed mobster shooter Mafia II, announcing that the title will release in North America on August 24. A European release will follow on August 27. Players assume the role of Vito, an Italian descendant. Desperate and struggling to escape a life of poverty, he turns to organized crime, joining the ranks of the […]

If 400 square miles of land prime for wrecking havoc and destruction on wasn’t enough of a reason to pick up Square Enix’s Avalanche Engine-powered shooter Just Cause 2, perhaps this is. In an obvious homage to the hit TV show LOST, flying over one of the game’s distant islands suddenly triggers a plane crash, inviting players to search and […]

Those who pre-order Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands at any GameStop location will receive an unlock code to a exclusive survival game mode, Ubisoft revealed today. As its name implies, the mode thrusts players into a battlefield riddled with endless of hordes of enemies. Free of an imposing time limit, the objective is to kill as many foes until […]

Media Molecule’s creation platformer LittleBigPlanet is due for the sequel treatment, if comments made by Sony Benelux marketing managing Folkert Langeveld are any indication. Unaware that the title had not been officially announced yet, Langeveld let slip in an interview with Dutch site Tweakers that LittleBigPlanet 2 will utilize the new PlayStation Move controller. To what extent, is unknown at […]

Developer BioWare has launched a countdown clock on its official website, the significance of which remains a mystery. It’s counting down to something, obviously, but what is anyone’s guess. More Mass Effect 2 DLC? Game reveal? In all likelihood, we’re willing to bet that it at least deals with one of BioWare’s existing properties. Suppose we’ll find out soon enough, […]

Square Enix CEO and president Yoichi Wada just might have single-handledly set the Final Fantasy fan community on fire. It’s one thing when employees on the creative end express interest in developing a product but when the top brass follow suit, that’s when you know things are inching closer to reality. The company is exploring the possibility of a Final […]

Square Enix today announced that sales of Final Fantasy XIII have eclipsed the one million mark in North America alone. The numbers were tallied up over the first five days following the March 9 launch, making FFXIII the fastest-selling title in franchise history. Altogether, more than five million units have been shifted worldwide, bringing cumulative global shipments of all main […]

Q-Games’ president Dylan Cuthbert offered up two pieces of news for PixelJunk fans today, revealing that PixelJunk Monsters 2nd Lap is hitting PSN later this spring and already-released PSP title PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe is making the jump to UMD.

Rockstar has sent word that Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City – its single disc compilation of all Grand Theft Auto IV DLC released to date – will now arrive April 13 on PS3 and PC, marking a two week delay. This minor setback came about following a request issued by Sony Europe to make some “minor content changes” […]

Square Enix’s supersized free-roam demo for Just Cause 2 has eclipsed the 2 million downloads mark, the company announced today. In a tantalizing statistic, players have driven the distance equivalent of trekking to the moon from earth and back four times in-game according to internal data collected by Square. Shocking to say the least. The destruction-themed shooter hits retail and […]

Resident Evil creator and former Capcom producer Shinji Mikami plans to form a studio of his own following the completion of Platinum Games’ third-person shooter Vanquish. Called Tango, the studio will be based in Tokyo, offering opportunities in game development to young talent.

To date, the independently-ran Insomniac Games has remained as a staunch supporter of Sony and its PlayStation brand. Their loyalty may overstep those bounds in the not so distant future, however, as IGN reportedly has it on good authority that Insomniac intends to branch out and develop titles on platforms outside of Sony’s platform landscape. These plans could very well […]

Developer Xaviant has chosen to adopt the scalable CryEngine 3 middleware for its upcoming single-player action RPG Lichdom, Crytek announced today. The title is targeted for a multi-platform release on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Screenshots did not accompany the announcement, unfortunately. Seeing Crysis 2 in action on consoles blew us away, so we’re excited to see how another developer […]

Victorious for the month of February, that is. While industry sales on the whole took another year-over-year slump, the latest figures from NPD paint a rosy picture for Microsoft. Throughout February, 422,000 Xbox 360 units were shifted across the US, edging past Nintendo’s venerable Wii by around 25,000 units. Whether or not this strong momentum will continue remains to be […]

THQ’s Core Games executive VP Danny Bilson has revealed that a follow-up to destruction-centric shooter Red Faction Guerrilla is slated for release in March 2011. In terms of gameplay and setting, Bilson said in a recent interview that the upcoming title can be described as hybrid of sorts between Guerrilla and the original Red Faction. Bringing the mass destruction antics […]

Sony is throwing a fair amount of support behind its just-announced PlayStation Move motion controller, which should come as no surprise, seeing as the company likened the impending fall 2010 release of the device to a “platform launch” during its GDC 2010 press briefing. In an interview with the PlayStation Blog, SCEA president Jack Tretton shed light on the amount […]

At its ongoing GDC press conference, SCEA finally pinned a final moniker on its PS3 motion controller. Hint: it’s neither Arc nor Sphere. It’s called PlayStation Move. Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida proclaimed that it has the potential to “breath new life into games.” Additionally, plans for a $100 PlayStation Eye and Move bundle package were announced. No word […]