PS Vita gives new life to established titles
There were two types of PlayStation Vita games at E3. On one side there was a cluster of completely new games, and on the other, there were titles that had built a following on the PlayStation systems...
View ArticlePS Vita’s most intriguing titles: Little Deviants, Sound Shapes and Gravity
Although the new twists on familiar games helped the PlayStation Vita shine at E3, it was the original projects that carried it. The titles that tended to attract my attention were the ones that used...
View ArticlePlayStation Vita launching in North America on Feb. 22
Finally, fans waiting for Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Portable successor have a release date. It’s Feb. 22, 2012. It comes a little more than a year since the system was announced. Back then, it was...
View ArticleWipEout 2048 delves into its fictional past to bring series into the future...
For the first time in years, I’m excited about a WipEout game. This doesn’t happen often. During the past few iterations through WipEout HD, WipEout Fusion and WipEout Pure, the series has petered out....
View ArticleSound Shapes likely to strike a chord with the creative types (preview)
Every game that focuses on user-generated content comes out incomplete. I’m not saying that it’s a flaw; it’s part of the design. Sure, the stages developed by designers are impressive, but the best...
View ArticleNot a straight port, Mortal Kombat on Vita offers fun extras (preview)
Mortal Kombat returned to form on consoles last year by returning to the fighting game’s roots. Riding the resurgence of genre, NetherRealm Studios borrowed elements from titles like Street Fighter IV...
View ArticleBeck adds his turntable, microphone to Sound Shapes
I’ve had my eye on Sound Shapes for a while now. It was the game that stuck out most when I first had hands-on time with the system back in E3 2011. It continued to impress me at preview events. The...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed: Liberation features heroine with different personas (preview)
The Assassin’s Creed series first foray onto portable systems wasn’t pretty. The problem was that the PlayStation Portable couldn’t handle the open-world gameplay, not mention the fact that it lacked...
View ArticleOn Vacation: My portable video games playlist
Sorry, if I’ve been quiet lately. I was vacationing in Washington, D.C. Nothing official though I did visit the White House. I was just checking out the sights and doing a little research on the...
View ArticleFive quick thoughts on the PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 was revealed this week. Sort of. The clouds didn’t part and the system didn’t descend from the heavens promising to cure cancer and end war. Sony did show the new philosophy and some...
View ArticleMLB 13 The Show almost a home run (guest review)
By Nick Roth Guest reviewer MLB 13: The Show for PS3 lives up to the hype, again. If it’s broke don’t fix it, however, the best-selling baseball game franchise still has to come up with a reason for...
View ArticleGuacamelee! offers a new flavor of Metroidvania adventure (preview)
Being an indie developer, DrinkBox Studios has the freedom to make unusual choices. After finishing Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, the team got together and tossed out ideas. This horizontal...
View ArticleDisney Infinity will be the must-have toy of 2013
Come August, Disney will be able to print money. That’s when the Mouse is expected to release Disney Infinity, a game that essentially takes ideas of Activision’s Skylanders series and multiplies it by...
View ArticleE3 2013: Hands on with Tearaway and Killzone: Mercenary
Although the PlayStation 4 drew most of the attention at E3 2013, Sony’s other systems had a few highlights of their own. The PlayStation 3 boasted Gran Turismo 6 and Beyond: Two Souls. Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleKillzone: Mercenary is the best of an adequate bunch (review)
With its dual analog sticks and shoulder buttons, the PlayStation Vita is a natural fit for first-person shooters. Unfortunately, its list of FPS titles is short and full of unmitigated disasters....
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Quick Look: Road Not Taken
WHAT IS IT: The Road Not Taken is best described as puzzle-based Roguelike. It’s a game where players have just one life per campaign as they take control of a ranger whose mission is to rescue...
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