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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land It goes without saying that Journey is amazing, but I have a feeling you may be over hearing me fawn over it, so I’ll just give you the facts! Journey, the game you should all play as instructed by me, is being released on March 15, but if you happen to be a PlayStation+ member, you can get access to the game a week early.
Speaking to Industry Gamers, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has claimed that Sony has learned lessons from its handling of the PSP, and will focus on providing unique experiences that can only be delivered on via a handheld console.
Sony’s next-generation handheld gaming console, the PlayStation Vita, goes on sale next Thursday (February 23). But who is offering the cheapest pre-order deals? Planhacker has crunched the numbers and found there’s not much in the way of discounting going on.
Yesterday we broke the news that three major Australian retailers would not be stocking the PlayStation Vita, but stock is still arriving for specialist retailers and, today, the PlayStation Blog posted some pics of stock destined for Australia. Damn, that’s a lot of PlayStation Vitas…
Sony Ericsson made a lot of noise in 2011 regarding ‘Playstation’ phones, but aside from a single model, it’s all been a bit quiet since then. Now it’s emerged that the first company outside of Sony to get Playstation certification will be HTC.
Remember that Sony ad that everyone was making a fuss over a while back? The ‘Long Live Play’ ad that had everyone saluting ‘Michael’? The one featuring real life representations of Solid Snake, Kratos, Nathan Drake et al? Well the production company who helped create it has released some behind the scenes photography of the shoot, and it’s quite interesting. My favourite shot? The one where ‘Nathan Drake’ had to stand on a box so he can look taller than ‘Lightning’ from Final Fantasy XIII.
This makes complete sense, but it’s nice to have it confirmed — according to Shack News Sony has stated that downloadable versions of PS Vita games will be 10% cheaper than their regular box retail counterparts.
The last thing I want to do is start another debate about video game storytelling. That sounds almost as fun to read as an article about any other dead horse that we’ve repeatedly body-slammed over the last few years.
So much is made of NFL 2K5 and the blaze-of-glory conclusion to its rivalry with Madden NFL that it’s easy to forget another title once threatened EA Sports’ glamour franchise. In fact, the Madden team also feared NFL GameDay until the end.
