MediaMolecule’s wildly popular Little Big Planet is coming back for seconds. The sequel will ship this year with a revamped Popit (“you can bring your characters to life, compose your own music, direct cinematic masterpieces, wire controllers directly in to your contraptions, connect easy to use switches, microchips and circuit boards …
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Def Jam Rapstar To Be Published by Konami, Reveals Initial Tracks
Today, Konami announced that they’ll be publishing in-development music game Def Jam Rapstar for Holiday 2010.
The opportunity here for Konami is get back a little bit of their swagger back in a genre that they actually helped create. Karaoke Revolution and the Beatmania series were early examples that helped create an audience for …
Get in on Lost Planet 2′s “Kill Big for Charity” Program
Published by Capcom, Lost Planet 2 puts players on a hostile planet where the environment’s an enemy and every minute’s a struggle to survive. To help survivors of natural disasters in the real world, the company’s announced an innovative charity partnership where downloading the demo will increase contributions to the Music for …
MOVE-ing On Up: Hands-on With the PS3’s New Motion Controller
After Peter and I took in the Sony press conference that announced the Move controller, we joined the hundreds of other people gathered at the event to finally get our hands on the thing.
The first game we checked out was Crave Entertainment’s Brunswick Bowling. It’s already available for the Wii but this PS3 Move version took …
PSA: PlayStation Home v1.35 Inbound
Home is where the heart is.
Or where you go when you’re really bored.
Sony will be rolling out Home v1.35 tomorrow and it promises decreased load times and a revamped World Map that’s been streamlined to help you navigate Second Life Home. I don’t think I’ve ever gone into Home.
This streamlined interface features
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Borderlands Opens Up “Secret Armory” This Week
Borderlands reloads with new downloadable content this week. The Secret Armory of General Knoxx is the third add-on pack for Gearbox’s post-apocalyptic FPS and raises the game’s level cap to 61. Gearbox billed their game as a role-playing shooter when it came out and all the loot the FPS throws at you makes it the video game …
America’s Top Game Tester: Sony Announces the Cast of Its New Reality Show
Seriously: Sony Computer Entertainment is producing a reality show about contestants competing to be an official PlayStation game tester. To prove it’s really happening, SCEA just announced the cast of the show, whose collective list of favorite games and characters suspiciously references titles that you can only play on the …
Choose Your Own Adventure in Psychological Thriller ‘Heavy Rain’
Heavy Rain is sort of like those Choose Your Own Adventure books from our childhood, where you’re able to decide what you want to do and then turn to the corresponding page to see what happens.
But in the PlayStation 3 game, obviously, the stakes are much higher, and you’ve got a lot more choices than just page 10 and page 33. In …
I Mixed Drinks, Stomped on Scorpions in the PS3′s Bizarre New MMO ‘Sodium One’
Today I went back Home. To PlayStation Home, that is.
The PlayStation 3′s online, avatar-based social networking community is filled with plenty of other player avatars, mini-games, shops, music, advertisements and video previews. I’ve only hung out in the virtual world a handful of times since the beta launched about one year ago …
Sony Confirms Facebook Coming to PlayStation 3
Look at that. Rumors about the PS3 getting Facebook were swirling last week and the PS team has just confirmed that the upcoming firmware update (v3.10) will include Facebook. Linking your PSN account to Facebook will give you the option of updating your Facebook feed with Trophy and PS Store updates. Because your friends really want to …
