At GDC today, PlayStation showed off and announced pricing for its entrant in the Virtual Reality race, the PSVR, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at how much PlayStation’s entrant is going to cost: $629.95. I think that price shocked a lot of people, actually. I mean, $629 is still a lot […]
Read more "PlayStation VR pricing announced"Gamers have strong opinions on French game maker David Cage, but his film noir game Heavy Rain is undoubtbly his best, offering an engaging narrative about the lengths that a father, Ethan Mars, will go to find a kidnapped son. The game first appeared on the PlayStation 3 and while the narrative was what made […]
Read more "Heavy Rain Remastered reviewed"Gravity Rush first appeared on Sony’s PS Vita handheld console and it made great use of the handheld’s touch screen and tilt capabilities to guide the game’s heroine Kat around a city called Hekseville, under siege by an alien race called the Nevi. Central to the game is Kat’s ability to manipulate gravity – a […]
Read more "Gravity Rush Remastered: When going upside down helps a lot"Fourteen days into 2016 and reckon I’ve already played my PS Vita more this year than I did for much of last year. I put that down to two things: a) Going on holiday, so my Vita was a nice portable way to replay some of my favourites like Gravity Rush and TxK and b) […]
Read more "How Mike Bithell’s Volume has made me play my PS Vita more"Is Paris Games Week a new games show? I’ve never heard of it before (which doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been going for a while, of course). Anyhoo, PlayStation had a press even 6am this morning NZ time and showed off a whole swag of games for the PlayStation 4and stuff, like PlayStation VR, Uncharted […]
Read more "Paris Games Week: Colour me impressed, Sony"As a trained writer by profession (I was a newspaper/online journalist for 22 years), I love writing so I’ll take any opportunity I can to hone my craft and inflict my prose on the ever-suffering world, whether they want to read it or not. So in this, a case of shameless self-promotion of my own […]
Read more "And now, a case of shameless self-promotion …"Over the course of three games, adventurer Nathan Drake, the star of developer Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series, has climbed a lot of cliff faces and shimmied down a lot of drain pipes, all in the name of finding ancient treasure, most of it done with a witty quip or a punch or three. Drake is […]
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