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For $US35,000, You Can Make Your Own PS1 Games

8:30PM June 16, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Website PlayStation Museum has a complete PS1 development kit, including everything you need to make a game, from coding it to burning master discs. And now it can all be yours. More »

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Atlus Travels Back In Time To Tease Persona 2: Innocent Sin

8:00AM May 20, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Atlus Faithful fan club members received a bizarre mailing today in the form of a newsletter dated June 23, 1999. What’s significant about that date? Why that’s when the only Persona game not to hit North America was released in Japan. How odd. More »

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Sony Hasn’t Always Hated Homebrew Development

2:00PM April 29, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Sony’s recent run of legal and now technical issues with hackers can be traced back to a single decision: that of removing the ability to run the Linux operating system on the PlayStation 3. While Sony cut Linux out of piracy fears, fans were upset that it brought to an end over a decade of custom and homebrew development on PlayStation consoles. More »

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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of PlayStation Advertising

2:00PM April 14, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

The Sony PlayStation was the first ever console to truly pitch itself at an adult market. This meant that the machine’s advertisements set a more mature, often strange tone that continues through to this day. More »

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Re-Releasing Old PS1 Games Is Harder Than It Sounds

10:00PM February 1, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

I’ve often wondered just how “classic” games are re-released for a modern home console. Like, the process that actually goes into digging up the old code. So it was awesome today to get some answers on the subject! More »

In Real Life

This Real Final Fantasy Sword Does Some Real Damage

8:00PM February 1, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

As the main weapon from Final Fantasy VII, the “Buster Sword” is a video gaming icon. In this clip, a man makes a real, giant replica, then has another man run at a piece of wood and smash it to bits. More »

PC

Imagine A World Without Grand Theft Auto

7:30PM February 1, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Seems ridiculous, what with Rockstar’s epic crime series still a benchmark for open-world gameplay, but did you know that the very first GTA came close to never being released? More »

Nintendo

Fans Bringing Japan-Only RPG To The West

9:30PM December 30, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

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First Gran Turismo Was 15 Years In The Making

1:00AM November 25, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

When game designer Kazunori Yamauchi was a 15-year-old, he came up with an idea for a game he’d love to make: a racing game with with real cars and real physics. In 1997, he finally released that game, Gran Turismo, on the PlayStation. More »

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Sony’s Thoughts On Insomniac’s Going Multi-platform

9:00PM July 8, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

Game studio Insomniac Games has created a slew of exclusive titles for the PlayStation platform. Franchises like Ratchet & Clank and Resistance are PlayStation hallmarks. The day of Insomniac making only PS games are over. More »