Video Game Characters In Real Life on Facebook
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Sony's New CEO Sets His Aim on the Games Market By Lyle Smith
Kaz Hirai won’t be Sony's new CEO until April 1 of this year, but that didn’t stop him from already being in the spotlight.
According to Mantanweb, during Sony's quarterly earnings briefing, Hirai stated that Sony's intention is to claim the “number one position in digital imaging and games.”
Hirai listed digital imaging, games, and mobile as the areas that Sony hopes to improve as core businesses. As CEO, he plans to use profits from PS3, PSP, and PS Vita sales as... More »
Japanese Sales Figures: Vita Makes Gains, But Only Slightly By Josh Harmon
Hell may have just gotten a little icier, as the latest batch of Media Create sales figures bring some good news for Sony's struggling PlayStation Vita.
Not only were Japanese Vita sales up nearly 25% during the week of January 23-29, the system also managed to achieve two important milestones for the first time since launch: outselling the PSP, and having a game make the top 20. That game was Tales of Innocence R, which debuted in the number 3 slot behind fellow newcomers Armored Core V and Resident Evil... More »
Doctor Who And The Single Screenshot Of Little Significance By Elizabeth DeLoria
If you know any Doctor Who fans (or are one,) you’ll know all too well that we are horrendously patient people. So forgive us, if you will, for getting just a little bit excited over a single screenshot.
The Doctor Who facebook page has released a screenshot from Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, a game that is going to eventually come to PS3, PC and Vita at some point this year. We don’t know when, or even why it’s taking so long to settle on a release window, but we understand that time is... More »
Resident Evil 6 Wallpapers in HD
Resident Evil 6 wallpapers are available for 1080p HD and 720p HD resolutions and are best suited for Desktops, ps3 backgrounds wide-screen displays, laptops, iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch. More »
PSP Hating, Motorcycle Riding Bad Boy Sets Little Kid Straight By Elizabeth DeLoria
There’s a man in Osaka who doesn’t play by anyone’s rules but his own, and he doesn’t care what you think, man. He only cares about two things - the open road, and kids who’re still playing PSPs.
On January 12th, a grade school student in Osaka and one of their friends were playing video games outside on their PSPs. It was about 5.30 in the evening when this rebel without a cause approached the two, not happy at all about that PSP in the kid’s hand.
"Why you own a... More »
Atari, Ubisoft, and Codemasters to Pirates: "Hey, Give Us Money or We're Telling!" By Addison Langford
People never seem to know an effective way to deal with the people of the internet. This is evident from the way the whole Ocean Marketing incident went down and how the government has been handling SOPA. Here we have yet another example of the wrong way to handle hardcore internet users; Atari, Ubisoft, and Codemasters have all came together to threaten pirates.
The threat is simple, give us money or get sued. And how exactly do these companies plan on tracking down their nemesis pirates? Why with the 100% foul proof... More »
LittleBigPlanet Franchise Announces 6 Million Levels Created By Lyle Smith
It has been announced that a combined total of 6 Million levels had been created by gamers for LittleBigPlanet and its sequels.
The announcement was made via a tweet by @LittleBigPlanet:
6 Million levels! A Year ago this week we launched LBP2, since then you guys have made 2.5m levels - you are amazing! <3
What percentage of the levels are actually playable and not just random obscene objects, we will never know. Still very impressive though!
The LittleBigPlanet franchise was... More »
Sony On Vita Sales: 'Meh' By Elizabeth DeLoria
The Vita sales have been a little bit concerning recently, but that’s okay. It looks like Sony’s more concerned with quality over quantity.
According to SCEA’s hardware marketing director, John Koller, it’s working out just fine despite the sales figures because the Vita’s reputation is so strong. “If you look at the word-of-mouth factor, it’s really strong because people are bringing it home and really enjoying it,” Koller said, speaking to GameSpot at CES. “That... More »
'A lot rests on Vita success,' says Sony By Lyle Smith
It was a "pretty tough year," said Andrew House, Head of Sony Computer Entertainment, adding that a successful launch of the Vita in North America would boost employee morale in an interview with The Guardian.
However, House also said that all of the hardships Sony endured (Japanese earthquake and tsunami and the PlayStation Network hack) have brought the company closer together.
“Yes, it has been a pretty tough year, no question,” he said. “If I draw a positive out of it, I... More »
Star Wars: The Old Republic Sets a Guinness Record By Lyle Smith
Star Wars: The Old Republic has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records in the Gamer’s Edition of the longstanding series of books.Star Wars’ second venture into MMORPG world has achieved an extraordinary feat: the game sets a record-breaking effort as the Largest Entertainment Voice-Over Project ever with more than 200,000 lines of recorded dialogue performed by several hundred voice actors. Not only does it make it a far more ambitious recording project for any game, but also for any a feature film as... More »
Corpse Party Deconstructed
By Colette Bennett 
While the visual novel may be a big deal in Japan, it hasn’t really found its footing in the US, although there are certainly dedicated fan translators out there who have gone to great lengths to make sure that hardcore fans can play some of the most well-known ones, such as Higurashi no Naku Koru Ni. There are also rare instances where a visual novel gets a proper US release, as in the case of Chunsoft’s 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, which tells the story of a group of people trapped on a sinking ship... More »
How to Win at Christmas: Christmas Katamari Style By Elizabeth DeLoria
Christmas is over and we’ve entered the New Year - but the New Year is a special time of looking at other people’s Christmas decorations and thinking ‘why the hell didn’t I do that?’ Such is the case with this awesome Katamari Christmas ball.
Traditional Christmas trees aren’t for everyone. Fake ones can be pricey and real ones put pine needles all over the floor. Some of us don’t have the space, while others just can’t be bothered going to all that... More »
Top 10 Best Games of 2011
By Ian Miles Cheong 
Games of the Year 2011
It's that time of year when we get to pick out our favorite games and gush about them, and tell you why we love them. Saying that they're 'great' or 'awesome' simply doesn't cut it, so we'll try to go into a bit of detail about why we picked the games we did.
With so many games to choose from, it was hard for us to narrow it down to ten—but we think we managed. It should also be surprising how some of the games that managed to edge out the... More »
