Monthly Archives: February 2011

Ahead of its full publication later today, the Livingstone-Hope report has made sweeping recommendation in changing the education curriculum of those looking to enter the UK games dev industry.

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Being the top of the pops at a fighting game no one plays for the fighting can’t be easy. After all, how do you make time for the legions of challengers who want to boot you right out of your throne?

The answer, as it turns out, is the same you’ve undoubtedly given to most of life’s major quandaries: robots.

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See that name above? Project Dark? Forget it. The next game from the creators of Demon’s Souls is now known as Dark Soul.

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SCEA’s announced that the Helghast from Killzone will make an appearance into ModNation Racers as part of DLC hitting the United Front DIY title. A Helghast-themed mod and racer is yours to buy for $1.99 when the US PS Store updates tonight.

Thanks, US PS Blog.

According to info on an upcoming GDC panel for PlayStation Move, something known as “Move Server” will be shown off by Sony, which will detail official PC support for the motion controller.

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Want to kick back and take a load off with some of your favorite PlayStation classics? Well then, buy an Android phone. (Or, we suppose, a PlayStation.)

Alternatively, if you absolutely must bring your pals Cloud, Crash Bandicoot, and Car From Gran Turismo with you on the bus, you could always wait. But – based on recent comments from SCE CEO Kaz Hirai – you might want to get comfortable.

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Sony’s announced it’s to launch a new “Satin Silver” version of PlayStation 3 in Japan.

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Wondering what sort of monstrous DRM beast you’ll have to slay to get at the meat of Dragon Age II?

Let’s put it this way: you’ve certainly had to tussle with far, far worse.

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When is a patch not a patch? When it’s on a console, apparently, and becomes a mandatory title update. Rock Band 3 is due for a doozy, increasing your options for triggering overdrive on various instruments, fixing the PS3 keyboards distortion, and adding support for the ill-fated, smoke-machine sporting stage kit.

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Japanese specialist publishers Viz Media are set to release an English translation of Miyabe Miyuki’s Ico novelisation. Now you can suffer beautiful confusion in multiple formats.

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The flood of 3DS images which completely fail to suggest 3D effects continues. Today’s hot contender is Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, with ten new screens showing character switching, roomy level design, and one of the titular drops.

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If you like peering at tiny virtual DS screens while giggling with utter delight, do I have a treat for you. Two new Okamiden trailers have skipped joyfully in, bursting at the scenes with adorable gameplay footage designed to cause squinting.

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Oh sure, medieval combat is fun, what with the thundering hooves and flashing swords and what not, but what does Mount&Blade: With Fire & Sword have to offer? A hair-raising trailer, perhaps. Prepare to think of the year 1653 in a way the history books rarely manage to convey.

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Forget all this twitchy science fiction stuff; Hearts of Iron III is where the grand strategy’s at. Paradox Interactive have released a developer diary for the staggeringly open-ended WWII title’s second expansion, For the Motherland, highlighting the new partisan warfare system, improved politics, and resource usurpation.

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Lead writer Ed Stern has said he’d like players to experience the same moral confusion and uncertainty while playing Brink as in the original Deus Ex.

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