Plan on pre-ordering Rockstar’s upcoming crime thriller L.A. Noire? The company has teamed up with various retail outlets to offer specific incentives ranging from unlockable detective outfits to additional cases for the player to solve. Look past the break for the complete list. Featuring some of the finest facial expressions to grace gaming yet, L.A. Noire is due out on PS3 and […]

With Epic Games having pledged its support for Next Generation Portable at this year’s PlayStation Meeting in Japan, this tidbit of news comes as little surprise. The company announced today that it has opened up Unreal Engine 3 licensing for NGP, calling the tech inside Sony’s portable powerhouse a “true game-changer.” Now that’s a vote of confidence. Epic’s Mark Rein […]

Sony’s announced today that Patapon 3, the third installment in its rhythm-based tribal adventure series, will hit store shelves and PSN on April 12. It’ll come at the budget-friendly price of $19.99. Building on the franchise staple of quirky visuals and charming gameplay, this entry places a heavy focus on online multiplayer, boasting four-way competitive multiplayer battles that compliment the […]

Not wanting to be outdone by yesterday’s Battlefield 3 tease, Bethesda releases the first-ever gameplay trailer for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, backed by an epic score performed by renowned video game composer Jeremy Soule. To sum up: it’s glorious.

As an answer to the PS3’s FAT file system limitations on external drives, a developer simply known as “anonymous” has released a library that can add read support for NTFS-formatted volumes. Dubbed libpfsm, it supports “simultaneously connected devices” along with hot swapping capabilities and multiple partitions. The complete breakdown of features on offer is below:

The Necromorph-infested corridors of Dead Space 2 will frighten players once more on March 1, when the ‘Severed’ DLC pack hits Xbox Live on March 1. A PSN release will follow on March 2 in Europe. It’ll cost $6.99 or 560 MS Points, depending on your platform of choice. Spanning two chapters, players assume the role of Gabe Weller, a […]

Years in the making, developer DICE has released a new teaser trailer for Battlefield 3, giving us the first look at real-time gameplay. Set in Iraqi Kurdistan, the footage — split across short cuts — depicts U.S. Marine soldiers mired in a conflict against hostile PLR forces. It’s safe to assume the footage was taken off PC, as DICE recently […]

It’s been just a few weeks into the recently announced PSP Genesis competition and we’re already beginning to see some promising entries turn up. Say goodbye to the hassles of dealing with plugin conflicts with C4TurD4Y’s Sepulka, a selective plugin loader. While it’s main draw is to allows users to load custom firmware plugins on a per-game basis, it also […]

That amusing rap aside, things aren’t looking so rosy for famed iPhone and PS3 hacker George “Geohot” Hotz. While Hotz himself was hoping for a quick victory, Sony’s long-winded legal case shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that he’s in for the long haul. As a result, he’s now set up a defense fund […]

Danger Close, the creative force behind the single-player campaign in last year’s Medal of Honor reboot, has announced that development on the next title in the series has commenced. In a recent blog post, producer Greg Goodrich thanked fans for their continued support, further noting that the company is “very excited to be marching forward on the next title.” While […]

Sony’s pinned a date on its electrifying superhero sequel inFamous 2, announcing today that it will hit store shelves on June 7 in North America. Additionally, Sony confirmed the existence of the “Hero Edition.” Priced at $99.99, it’s a special edition box set that includes “a highly detailed 8.5” Cole MacGrath statue, a sportable sling pack modeled after Cole’s own […]

Retail tracking firm NPD has released its hardware and software sales analysis for the month of January, showing a 5 percent year-over-year decline in industry sales. Despite the stumble, Activision has reason to celebrate, as Call of Duty: Black Ops is still dominating the software charts at no. 1. Elsewhere across the spectrum, Ubisoft landed three titles in the top […]

The cat’s out of the bag, it seems. According to a recently posted job listing on industry site Gamasutra, Blizzard is working on a version of Diablo 3 for consoles. The listing seeks a senior producer with a minimum of 4 years industry experience, in addition to having shipped at least one “AAA console title in a sr. producer role.” […]

Update: Hit the break for a brief teaser trailer and screenshots. Ubisoft today announced plans to extend the single-player and multiplayer component of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood with new DLC entitled The Da Vinci Disappearance. Due out in March on PSN and Xbox Live, the content chronicles the fall of the Borgias in Rome, during which Leonardo Da Vinci is kidnapped […]

Publisher Konami today confirmed that the first batch of DLC bits for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow have been delayed into March. While development has wrapped up, it’s currently held up in certification, according to producer David Cox on Twitter: We just finished it, so it’s gonna be a couple of weeks at least in submissions. Sorry for the wait but […]

Initially announced in 2007, Techland’s Dead Island has returned, with an all-new trailer to boot. IGN has the exclusive on a preview, calling it a “first-person zombie-slasher/action-RPG” set on a luxurious island overrun by bloodthirsty zombies. As foreboding as the premise sounds, it looks glorious. The game places a heavy emphasis on survival and melee combat. More often than not, […]

Predictability, in the interests of preserving integrity of PSN, Sony issued a statement today in which it confirms that those “running unauthorized or pirated software” are at risk being of banned. Any user detected using circumvention devices or related hacks will have their access to PSN “terminated permanently” by the almighty banhammer. Hardly surprising to see Sony respond in this manner. It […]

With Killzone 3 poised to become one of this year’s biggest PS3 releases, it only seems fitting to give it special treatment. And that’s exactly what Sony is doing, with a Killzone 3 hardware bundle. It comes equipped with a 160GB hard drive, along with the game itself and of course a base PS3 unit. Look for it to hit […]

Sony Computer Entertainment president Shuhei Yoshida has told Edge Magazine that that company remained conservative on adding features to NGP, noting that it had a set price range in mind from very beginning. As a result, a number of ‘cool’ elements were set aside in the conceptualization stage to meet this price goal, a lesson Sony says it learned from […]

It’s official, Assassin’s Creed isn’t taking a breather this year after all. Ubisoft boss Yves Guilemot broke word in an investor call for the company’s Q3 2010-2011 financial results that it plans to divulge information on the next Assassin’s Creed in May. This comes alongside word that Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, the latest title in the franchise, has shipped 6.5 million units to […]