Lack of Demand Blamed For No UMD Conversion Program
Two weeks after revealing that Vita owners outside of Japan will not be able to convert their PSP UMD game collection into digital versions playable on Sony’s new handheld, the company has provided an explanation for why it made that decision. It isn’t particularly unreasonable, though it probably won’t be of much consolation to those [...]
Warp Review: A Downloadable Puzzler That’s Equal Parts Bloody And Brilliant
“Some say I’ve been lazy,” admits the King of All Cosmos in the opening sequence of Touch My Katamari. “Phoning it in.” This is meant to be hilarious — that crazy King, always so pompous, yet vain enough to be stung by criticism! — but the wittiness of the whole thing is badly undermined by [...]
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The Vita’s Challenge: A History of Portable Competition
Today marks the official U.S. launch of PlayStation Vita. It’s a great system, but it has its work cut out for it. Nintendo’s 3DS is making serious inroads after a soft launch, and Sony runs the very real risk of seeing history repeat itself. To date, Nintendo has triumphed against every handheld competitor to challenge [...]
Rejuvenated 3DS Could Provide a Home For Mid-Tier Games
In what can only be described as a remarkable turnaround, the 3DS has gone from struggling badly enough that it necessitated a steep price drop to breaking a record by reaching 5 million units sold in Japan faster than any other platform. It took 52 weeks to reach that milestone, compared with 56 weeks for [...]
Syndicate Review: Starbreeze’s Latest Excels at Co-Op But Falters in Single-player
“Some say I’ve been lazy,” admits the King of All Cosmos in the opening sequence of Touch My Katamari. “Phoning it in.” This is meant to be hilarious — that crazy King, always so pompous, yet vain enough to be stung by criticism! — but the wittiness of the whole thing is badly undermined by [...]
Categories: Games Tags: Coop, Excels, Falters, Latest, Review, SinglePlayer, Starbreeze's, Syndicate
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Review: Good Shooting Paired With a Sloppy Story
“Some say I’ve been lazy,” admits the King of All Cosmos in the opening sequence of Touch My Katamari. “Phoning it in.” This is meant to be hilarious — that crazy King, always so pompous, yet vain enough to be stung by criticism! — but the wittiness of the whole thing is badly undermined by [...]
Categories: Games Tags: ***Good, Alan, American, Nightmare, Paired, Review, Shooting, Sloppy, Story, Wake's
Black Ops 2 Gives Treyarch the Chance to Own Call of Duty
Look up the word “workmanlike” in the dictionary and you might see a boxshot of Treyarch’s Call of Duty: World at War. The game earned good, if not astounding, ratings from critics and sold amazingly well — just not enough to match Call of Duty 4. Treyarch has spent the better part of the past [...]
A Peek Inside Vita’s Development
As the man in charge of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida (above) oversees the teams behind Uncharted, Gran Turismo, Little Big Planet, and many others. And for the past few years he’s also played a key role on Vita, serving as a sort of middleman between the company’s software teams and its hardware division. At [...]
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