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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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First Details On Sony’s Weird PlayStation Tablet

7:10AM February 17, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

Sony has another PlayStation-powered product coming in the form of an unusual Android-based tablet device, currently dubbed the “S1″. Like the recently (and finally) confirmed Xperia Play phone from Sony Ericsson, the rumoured gaming tablet will also play PSone games. More »


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ESRB Lists Xenogears, Three Other PS1 Classics

1:30PM December 30, 2010 | Owen Good

Four classic titles from Squaresoft (now Square Enix) have been rated by the ESRB for release on the PSP and PS3, indicating an imminent release to the North American PlayStation Store. More »


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15 Years Of PlayStation Domination

2:20AM September 10, 2010 | Mike Fahey

Fifteen years ago, Phillips, Sega and 3DO were struggling to get North American consumers to accept CD-based gaming. On September 9, 1995, Sony came along and showed them how it’s done, changing the face of gaming as we knew it. More »


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Look At (Almost) All The Light Guns

7:00AM August 31, 2010 | Stephen Totilo

One of the experiences that unites gamers is that so many of us have picked up a plastic gun and pointed it at our TV. History has given us dozens of light guns. Here, a gallery of greats and not-so-greats… More »


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Homoerotic Shooter Re-release ‘Cho Aniki’ Outed For PS3

8:40AM July 13, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

Muscle-bound side-scrolling shooter Cho Aniki is coming to the PlayStation 3, according to a new rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. That’s good news for fans of Speedo-wearing studs who fight similarly ripped, nearly naked dudes. More »


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Collector Who Wanted Crappy Demo No One Wanted Speaks

3:00AM May 24, 2010 | Owen Good

Isn’t $US710 a bit much for a crummy PSOne demo – seemingly worthless when it was handed out 12 years ago? The collector who won the bidding for NBA 2-Ball thinks he got a steal on the price. More »


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Crappy Demo No One Wanted Sells For $710

10:30AM May 13, 2010 | Owen Good

It didn’t come close to breaking records set recently by other rare titles, but NBA 2-Ball, a freebie PSOne disc given out at the 1998 NBA All-Star game, probably set a mark for demos. More »


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Crappy Demo No One Wanted May Be Worth A Ton Now

5:00AM May 2, 2010 | Owen Good

At the 1998 NBA All-Star Game, fans received discs with the demo for a PlayStation game called NBA 2-Ball. The game was pretty bad – possibly defective – but it’s extremely rare. So a surviving copy may be extremely valuable. More »


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Digital Re-Releases Deal Damage To Collections’ Value

10:40AM December 17, 2009 | Owen Good

Who doesn’t love it when golden oldies get a re-release over the PlayStation Network or Virtual Console? Game collector, that’s who. MTV Multiplayer examined collectable game values and saw many nosediving after getting a reboot on the current generation. More »