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EB Games Is Selling The PS Vita For $199

It’s a deal that isn’t necessarily plastered all over the store or even on its website, but EB Games is currently selling the Wi-Fi version of the PS Vita for $199. If you’ve been waiting for a price drop to check out a genuinely underrated system with a fair whack of decent games to play, now is the time!


At Least One Gamer Is Pissed At Sony For This Misleading Vita Description

Earlier this year, Kotaku reader Lewis bought a PlayStation Vita. He bought two 32GB memory cards: one for games and applications, and the other for music. “I figured I could use it as an MP3 player as well as a gaming console,” Lewis told us. “Unfortunately, that is not the case.”


Sony And Nintendo, Best Friends Forever

Two decades ago, Sony and Nintendo were prepared to partner on a CD-ROM drive for the SNES. Things went sour. The deal fell apart. And Sony went their own way, eventually launching the PlayStation and paving their own path to success.


The Vita Scores Our First Handheld R18+ Game

Unlike the last Ninja Gaiden R18+ classification, which went to the family-friendly Nintendo Wii U, this one goes to Sony. The PlayStation Vita will host our first handheld R18+ game, which has been awarded to Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus — the twice-altered slice ‘n dice action game from Team Ninja.


Sony Offering Six Free Mobile Games

Over the next six weeks, Sony will be offering six free mobile games on the PlayStation Mobile service. The offer will refresh every week with a new game available, starting this week with Samurai Beatdown, and ending February 20th.


EscapeVektor Vita Slated For Jan 22nd in U.S., Canada, Mexico

Captain Vektor is trapped in a hostile computer, and it’s up to you to get him out – Pac-Man style. Sydney-based studio Nnooo, responsible for games like Pop and Spirit Hunters Inc, are bringing the retro-styled EscapeVektor to the Vita on January 22nd, after enjoying successful releases on Wiiware and 3DS, and those who get this “complete edition” will enjoy even more Vektoring.


This Alarm Clock Turns Waking Up Into A Multiplayer Video Game

This is it, video games. You’ve hit your peak. Things aren’t getting much better than Wake-up Club, a free game that comes out Tuesday for Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld.


Developers Of These Free Games Aren’t Looking For Quick, Easy Cash

Free to play. Free. To. Play. Sounds good, but watch the fine print. With most games these days, when something is free, you tend to get what you pay for. Generally, you’ll end up getting a fraction of the actual game with the rest being either unattainable or incredibly hard to get to without pulling out your credit card, or you’ll be bombarded with messages asking you to fork over some cash in order to get rid of the messages asking you to fork over some cash.


Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD Remake Comes To PS Vita December 18

Oddworld Inhabitants’ cult hit has enjoyed a fresh wave of re-appraisal ever since HD remakes for the game popped up recently. There’s been a Vita version in the works, but a previously stated mid-November release date has come and gone. Now dev studio Just Add Water has tweeted that the shinier version of Stranger’s Wrath will hit Sony’s portable in about two weeks.


The Vita Is A Great System — Too Bad Sony Screwed It Up

Have you checked out that Vita game? You know — the one that’s a shoddy spinoff of a big-name series? Perhaps Call of Duty: Declassified, which currently has a whopping 32 per cent on Metacritic? Or Uncharted: Golden Abyss, a game that our Kirk Hamilton called “a cut-rate version of the Uncharted games that most people have already played”? How about Resistance: Burning Skies, which Kotaku boss Stephen Totilo called “a mediocre new first-person shooter that has no excuses for underachieving“?


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