It’s a decision sure to thrill Nintendo: Sony says its upcoming PlayStation Vita uber-gaming handheld won’t make it to the U.S. or U.K. this year after all, though it may still launch in Japan, as planned. Yep, all those rumors floating about in the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami about the device missing its planned …
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‘Battlefield 3’ Sales Predicted to Hit 11 Million, First Look at Multiplayer
Everyone with a console knows that this fall’s biggest FPS showdown will be when EA’s Battlefield 3 and Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 come out within weeks of each other. And, as fans leaning toward one title or another have fired shots on comment threads all over the web, speculation’s run rampant over which war title will …
Activision’s Field Generals Talk ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’
How important is Modern Warfare 3 to Activision? It’s being co-developed by three separate studios: Infinity Ward (still going after the exit of the studio’s founders), Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. Glen Schofield comes to Activision from EA, where he worked on the first Dead Space and Dante’s Inferno.
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Modern Warfare 3: Blowing Up Wall Street and Hands-On with Spec Ops
So far Activision’s only shown a handful of single-player levels from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, one of this year’s most anticipated games. I talked about two levels from the solo campaign–”Hunter Killer” and “Mind the Gap”– in my E3 2011 coverage and a comparison between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, and recently got the …
Infinite Possibilities: Ken Levine Talks About the New ‘BioShock’
Very few games have the kind of anticipation surrounding them that BioShock Infinite does. The first BioShock came out in 2007 and got hailed as a modern-day classic almost immediately for the way it wove character development, environmental design and philosophical underpinnings into a chilling and hypnotic experience.
BioShock …
Cat vs. Bat: Hands-on with ‘Batman: Arkham City’
My hands-on time with this year’s Bat-game revealed a few things to me.
The new criminal ghetto in the sequel’s Gotham City is big. Very big. You’ll face off against even more thugs–and more kinds of thugs–in Arkham City. But Batman will have a powered-up set of attacks and gadgets. The combat system features tiers of execution …
First Steps: Impressions of the ‘Journey’ Multiplayer Beta
Journey may be simultaneously the simplest and trickiest game to describe in quite some time. There’s been a veil of secrecy around the upcoming PSN exclusive for months now, with eager fans only getting the vaguest hints about the multiplayer game from dev studio thatgamecompany. But the makers of artsy cult hit Flower launched a …
Deathmatch: ‘Battlefield 3’ vs. ‘Modern Warfare 3’
Video game grudge matches rarely come this perfectly designed.
This fall, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 come out within weeks of each other, trying to capture the free time of millions of gamers worldwide. But, it’s not just the fact that both titles are realistically styled war games set in what’s pretty much the …
‘Gran Turismo’ Player Places Second at Le Mans 24 Hour
In 2008, Lucas Ordoñez of Spain was a 22-year old gamer and devoted motorsport fan pursuing his MBA.
Now, in 2011, he’s living out his dream behind the wheel of roaring V-8 engines, pushing his Signatech team’s racecars up to 170 mph around some of Europe’s most prestigious racetracks.
(More on TIME.com: Study: The Average …
Radiation Sickness: Duke Nukem Forever Review
I remember the first time I saw Duke Nukem Forever, which was about a year ago. Surprise was the only word I could use to sum up my feelings. This legendary piece of vaporware existed? It was playable and funny and self-aware too? Man, if it could come back from the edge of oblivion, then it might actually be good …
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Spain Nabs Alleged ‘Anonymous’ PlayStation Network Hackers
The hackers behind recent attacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network may be less anonymous than they’d hoped. The New York Times is reporting that police in Spain say they’ve nabbed three individuals allegedly involved in recent hack-intrusions against Sony’s PSN (among other cyber-iniquities). The three were arrested independently in the
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E3 2011: Sony Leads with Apology for PlayStation Network Outage
Sony bigwig Jack Tretton kicked things off at E3 2011 last night exactly as we hoped he might, owning the PlayStation Network outage from his first word, and even managing to crack a joke and tease the press, who’ve certainly benefited traffic-wise from Sony’s misery.
“This isn’t the first time that I’ve come to an E3 press conference …