Category Archives: Sony

Lei Fang and Zack walk into a circus ring. A giant tiger jumps through a hoop of fire and smashes Lei Fang into the air. The punchline is, I’m not joking: this is the newest trailer for Dead or Alive 5.

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Warner Bros. has sent some great behind the scenes footage showing the acclaimed voice team behind Batman: Arkham City. Watch Mark Hamill physically transform into the Joker within.

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High Moon Studios was perfectly happy to jump through hoops in order to get the Dinobots in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, because Grimlock and company are the most awesome.

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As in the UK, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will favour US retailers with exclusive DLC characters. Best Buy and Amazon offer both Michelle Chang and Angel with pre-orders, while GameStop pre-orders include four characters, with Ancient Ogre and Kunimitsu making up the numbers. The tag-team fighter arrives on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September.

EA Sports has released a patch for the recently released expansion, FIFA Euro 2012, correcting those troublesome freezes.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 contains three different play modes – campaign, multiplayer and zombies – because Treyarch boss Mark Lamia understands not everyone’s after the same experience all the time.

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Bethesda has announced mounted combat for Skyrim via a free title update. Those who have the game on Steam should make sure the beta version is up to date and try it out. No date just yet, but it will land on consoles as well. Patch notes can be found on the Bethesda Blog. There’s also a video of it in action below, courtesy of RipTen.

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Andriasang has posted new information on Tokyo Jungle, which focuses on the various equipment your animal character can don. One interesting bit of gear, is roller skates for elephants, which help the animal to move faster. There’s also a sumo wrestler belt for the Japanese Tosa dog which helps it run faster for some odd reason. No word on whether hippos can wear tutus or not. The post also delves a bit into mini games, such as hunting giant rabbits.

The opening intro to Persona 4: Golden has been released by Atlus. The intro was created by Madhouse, and it’s very colorful and 70s-disco looking. Persona 4 Golden will release this fall on Vita. Thanks, Siliconera.

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Sony has posted a “making-of” video for LBP Vita. The featurette basically gives you a peek behind the curtain of the game complete with footage and the developers chatting about the costumes, levels and whatnot. The game is expected to go into beta soon, with invites coming “soon,” as well. Box art is below.

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Square has released a new video for United Front’s Sleeping Dogs. Dubbed 101, like a college course, it gives you a look at the game’s many features. Watch it below courtesy of Gematsu, which also has a set of screenshots posted. Game’s out in August.

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Konami is teasing folks again, and this time, the tease points to a website called, The Dragon Returns, which is supposedly Castlevania: Lord of Shadows 2. The date on the site points to Konami’s pre-E3 presser which takes place on May 31. A NeoGAF user looked at the page’s source code, and found “CLOS Teaser Page” listed. The teaser is also up on Facebook. Earlier this week, it was reported the game would not only arrive on PS3 and Xbox 360, but Wii U as well with the later interacting with the 3DS title Mirror of Fate. Both titles are in development at MercurySteam.

Bioware has announced its Mass Effect 3 Rebellion DLC Pack will release for Xbox Live, PSN and PC on May 29 in the US and the following day in Europe on PSN.

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Clever Beans has announced When Vikings Attack for PS3 and PS Vita. The game will be released via PSN and is an “all-action fighting adventure,” where a group of Viking invaders “1,200 years late to the party” come to town and wreck havoc. Players are tasked with forming a posse which will use items in the environment to hurl at the Viking hordes. The game will contain adventure and versus gameplay modes with anywhere from one to four players and it supports full cross-play and saves between PS Vita and PS3. More information will be made available on the title at E3, but until then, have a go at the trailer below.

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VG247 has learned that Sony is to announce a cloud gaming deal with either Gaikai or OnLive at E3, apparently allowing streamed games on PlayStation hardware. Details are light, but the news expected to be announced in the Sony press conference on June 4.

THQ has unleashed its live-action trailer for Metro: Last Light, showing the game’s alarming vision of a world during a nuclear holocaust in 2013 Moscow.

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Atlus Japan has released the box artwork for Persona 4 Arena, showing off Persona 4′s protagonist battling it out with newcomer Labrys.

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Much-loved game designer Warren Spector has revealed that he had “a four-game storyline arc” and “at least three games worth” of gameplay innovation planned for Epic Mickey before work even began on the first game.

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Details on Ron Gilbert’s Double Fine game, The Cave, have come to light, and as artwork teases have previously hinted, the game stars seven characters: the adventurer, a hillbilly, a knight, the monk, the time-traveler, the scientist, and twins.

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Konami has announced the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for Vita will be released on June 29 in Europe. The title, which contains Sons of Liberty and Snake Eater releases in the US on June 12, and it was thought to be releasing the same day in Europe as well. We’ll send a mail.