Three Casual Gran Turismo 6 Questions, Answered Casually

You may love Gran Turismo. I don’t play them. Just not my thing. But when I see Gran Turismo 6 running in the corner of a Sony PlayStation event in Santa Monica, I ask the only GT-related questions I can think of.


I Don’t Remember Virtue’s Last Reward Being About Breast Slapping

Sometimes prior to a game’s release, companies create a flash game tie-in and post it on the game’s official webpage. Earlier this week for example, Capcom released an Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies demo that is playable in your web browser. And before Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy was released in Japan, Square Enix released Social Theatrhythm, a social game where you pretty much do nothing — other than spread word of the game through social media.


Just How More Detailed Are PS4 Characters Over PS3 Characters?

Last week, Guerrilla Games released a report on the studio’s PlayStation 4 reveal demonstration, which had people playing a real-time demo of the new Killzone game. It’s mostly super-technical, but there’s still enough interesting stuff in there for regular folk to get something out of.


Gran Turismo 5: This Is Just A Tribute

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Gran Turismo, reader Ilya made this tribute clip that rivals anything developers Polyphony Digital have made for the series over that time.


Panopticon’s Future London Is Chock Full Of Monsters And Explosions

There’s a webpage titled “Panopticon” which, for a while, was counting down to something. Now, a trailer’s been revealed. It features a dystopian-looking London, ridiculous HAL 9000 headbands, and lotsa fighting.


The First Time I Played The Last Of Us…

Was a year ago, but it was brief, just to prove that it was a real game so I could vote for it for a pre-release E3 game critic’s award…


Killzone Mercenary Is The Vita FPS With Crotch-Stabbing

The PlayStation Vita is a good, powerful handheld machine that’s run some piss-poor first-person shooters. After rushed, clunky Resistance and Call of Duty shooters, the system will get a Killzone in September. It merely needs to be mediocre to improve Vita FPSing dramatically.


Creators Discuss How Awesome Diablo III Will Be On The PlayStation 4

As part of its continuing mission to make sure everyone’s all excited about the next console, the PlayStation Blog has posted seven minutes of three Diablo devs talking about how great Diablo III is going to be on the console oh my god you guys.


Sony’s Weird “Break-Apart” Controller May Actually Become A Thing

Though not from Sony. Despite reportedly toying with the idea back in 2008, the platform holder has to date never followed through with the idea of a controller that can break apart into two pieces.


Accused PlayStation Hacker Smashes Computers, Gets House Arrest

Todd Miller is one of the men accused of being behind the 2008 PlayStation Network hacks. Last week he was sentenced to 12 months house arrest, but here’s the thing: authorities couldn’t prove he was involved.


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