The dawn of the Playstation brought with it some epic video game franchises. Without Sony consoles we wouldn’t have such characters as Solid Snake, Lara Croft or even Spyro The Dragon. Have you ever thought about how cool it would be to have characters like Kratos and Nathan Drake pitted against each other in a fight to the death? Or even sack boy having a brawl against Crash Bandicoot? Well soon your wishes maybe granted Title Fight appears to be [...]
Rumours hit the internet todaythat at E3 this year not one but two new consoles are going to be announced. After a painfully long wait it finally looks as though both Microsoft and Sony will be announcing the next generations of the XBox and PlayStation family. The first site to make this announcement was mvcuk.com. They stated that ”MCV’s third-party publishing sources claim the firm had signalled to partners this will happen.” Ben Parfitt MVC’s online editor also tweeted about the news saying “Obviously we [...]
This years Eurogamer Expo gave the PlusXP team their first opportunity to get some hands on time with the newest addition to the Playstation family, the PS Vita. With such an exciting opportunity to try out this new tech on offer it is not surprising that most the team wanted to share their first experiences with the Vita, and what better way to do this than with a good old fashioned round table discussion. Want to know more about the [...]
Contributed by Andrew Highton Since February 1 2007, gamers have had the chance to extract more satisfaction from a particular game by merely completing specific criteria for an in-game challenge. Games have been given a whole new depth and in many ways have become more appealing to players just by having these. That date was when Microsoft made it mandatory for developers to implement achievements into all games from then on requiring an allotted amount of achievements that would total [...]
One of the current “rumours” going around is the PSP2. The reason I put rumours in quotation marks there was because “Something that everyone knows is going to happen and devs have got their hands on and are making games for it but we have to stupidly refer to it as a rumour because no-one has actually officially announced it” was a bit too long to repeatedly refer to and hilariously pointless to abbreviate into acronyms. So yeah, back to [...]
In the older days of console gaming, all systems were separate – NES games would only work on the NES, Sega Mega Drive games would only work on the Mega Drive, and so forth – but since I was young, and only ever owned one current console at a time, it wasn’t a big issue – when I had a Sega it was all I ever played, and I never had to consider the concept of compatibility. However, not much [...]
Recently I did a post on how arcades are a dying breed, and have been for about the last decade or so. One of the reasons I gave for this statement was this generation of home consoles, have finally caught up with their arcade counterparts and are now beating them down to the ground as we speak. Earlier in the year, my family turned to what some Xbox fanboys might call ‘the dark side’ and got a PlayStation 3. Now my mum [...]
With Naughty Dog opting for a more realistic style title with Uncharted, they managed to create a very enjoyable game with a good mix of Tomb Raider style exploration, Gears of War reminiscent gunfights, great characters and plenty of unlockables. After enjoying the first, I was eager to get my hands on the sequel, with Nathan Drake embarking on a brand new adventure in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The demo began with a dramatic scene of Nathan clinging for his [...]
With every generation comes a battle of consoles – the clash between Sega and Nintendo with the Mega Drive and the SNES, later with the Sony taking the mantle as Nintendo’s N64 rival with the Playstation. Then the Playstation 2 dominated the gaming world, as Nintendo remained steady with the GameCube, and Microsoft entered the ring with the Xbox. But where are we now? It’s a constant discussion, between friends and ‘fanboys’ – which, ultimately, is the best console? Microsoft’s [...]
As of today the Sony ps2 in the US Canada and mainland Europe will be cut. The 9 year old console in all three regions has been cut to the 99 dollar/euro mark. But there has been no change in the UK with the SCEUK rep confirming and i quote “there are currently no plans to cut the price of PS2 in the UK.” So why is this? The ps2 is still surprisingly in high demand over the world. Even I’m looking for [...]
