6 Jan

Bombay Playstation Experience

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Gamers in Bombay have a little bit of fun coming their way this weekend, as Sony is hosting a 48-hour gaming experience in Phoenix Mills, from 1pm – 9pm on both Saturday and Sunday. The entry is completely free for anyone interested and it sounds like it should be a lot of fun – the [...]

28 Oct

PSP-3000 Defect Prompts Secret Recall

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The PSP-3000, the new slim model of the handheld, has met with disastrous failure in North American and European markets (though Japan is lapping it up). On top of that, a hardware defect – interlacing artifacts – has been reported. It occurs during very fast motion on the screen, where the scanlines forming an image [...]

19 Oct

LittleBigPlanet Qur’an Update

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Update: It seems the song is question is one Tapha Niang, sung by Muslim African artist Toumani Diabate and released about two years ago as part of Boulevard De L’independence. The quotations themselves have also been identified:
‘kollo nafsin tha’iqatol mawt’: ‘Every soul shall have the taste of death’
‘kollo man alaiha fan’: ‘All that is on [...]

19 Aug

Secret Agent Clank

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by Kuriakose Saju
When they first appeared on the scene nearly six years ago, the duo were considered “one of the best games to be seen since consoles became polygonal.” It was the age of the PS2 and this particular shooter/ platformer deprived me of many hours of possible boredom. I remember guiding Ratchet and his [...]

18 Aug

Capcom still in the (PSP) game

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Despite the lack of regular releases on the PSP, even with heavyweights like Crisis Core and Secret Agent Clank being available and The 3rd Birthday, Kingdom Heart: Birth by Sleep and Final Fantasy Agito XIII still several months off, sales for the handheld have been steady. Good news for Sony: Not only did the PSP [...]

16 Aug

No LittleBigPlanet on PSN

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LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule’s puzzle platformer, world creation software, the tentative “Next Big Thing” and all around Sack-Boy chronicle, will be releasing only on Blu-Ray for the Playstation 3 and not on the Playstation Network store.
The title had been delayed for nearly a year due to extra content being added to justify a disc release. Ironically, [...]

15 Aug

PS3 Portable: One Side, PSP

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When Sony released the portable screen attachment for their first Playstation, fans immediately lapped it up. For once, there was a real 3D gaming solution on the go (of course, the PSX’s new, slimmer clam-shaped design wasn’t too shabby either).
Naturally, with the PSP and the DS you’d think that we’re coming even closer to having [...]

4 Jul

PS-2 to be out by Diwali

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Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) will be launching the fourth version of Playstation-2 (PS-2) by Diwali this year. This will simultaneously be released in the European and Indian markets, said SCE country manager (playstation) Atindriya Bose to ET.
The higher-end version promises to be slimer, sleeker and more suave in its looks. There will be no more [...]

25 Mar

Patapon: Drum and play God

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by ess-cee
Think Patapon, and the immediate mental jump is to LocoRoco – the visual style, the adorably cute characters and the gleeful singing and shouting as the tumble about happily… Beyond that though, Patapon is nothing like LocoRoco, though that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Patapon is really a lot of different genres meshed into one, [...]