As PlayStation Network outages this time of year may arouse fears and bad memories, Sony wants everyone to know a 12-hour blackout tomorrow is entirely intentional and necessary for “routine scheduled maintenance”.
The excellent old role-playing game The Legend of Dragoon will be out as a PS1 Classic for the PlayStation Network on May 1. Dragons! [PlayStation Blog]
There are fighting games that seek to capitalise on the sexier aspects of girl-on-girl fighting, and then there’s Skullgirls, where characters like Double trade sexy for scary with a twist of Gradius.
Revealed about three weeks ago, Avengers Chronicles is the next series of tables that Zen Studios is making for its Marvel Pinball and Pinball FX 2 downloadable games on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, respectively. Here’s the first trailer for one of those tables, World War Hulk.
Lots of indie platformers these days are basically Mario with a twist. The quality of the game, then, relies hugely on that twist. Braid was an incredible game because the time-manipulating twist so fundamentally changed the template set forward by Super Mario Bros. that it became its own whole thing.
Ubisoft’s I Am Alive will be coming to the PlayStation 3 next month. It’ll be available on the PlayStation Network on April 4. You can check out our review of the 360 version here.
I think I may have gushed over this one enough, so now it’s your chance! Journey came out late last week, but it’s a relatively short game and I’m guessing plenty of you have played through the entire thing — possibly more than once — so what did you think?
At the end of the Game Developers Conference, everyone is usually exhausted. I sure was — it had been five long days of standing and walking, of typing and recording and listening, of engaging in long, heated conversations about video games. Also long, heated conversations about Buffy, which seemed to be the most popular non-game subject for the conference.
