The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character, a remastered version of the PS Mini title, still provides the same fun and colourful atmosphere on the Vita. Players control an orange octopus in an effort to retrieve all of its offspring scattered throughout the world. Birds, bulldogs and projectile-throwing hats are…
Read MoreSony pulled no punches with its Japan show. It’s not just the the announcement of a new Vita model, nor was it the announcement of the Vita TV. Sony unveiled a load of Japanese-developed games for the PS4 (much of which is exclusive), and it’s that software support that could…
Read MoreIt’s been a big day of announcements for Sony. Of all the announcements of new games and new Vita hardware, was the most exciting announcement of all: The Vita TV. This little device allows players to take their Vita, PSP and PS One games and play them via Dualshock controller…
Read MoreSony has announced an all-new PlayStation Vita model that it hopes will be more attractive to a broader, more casual audience than the original console. Given that Sony’s messaging in the lead up to the release of the original Vita was that it was a console for “serious” gamers, this…
Read MoreFloating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims was originally a PS Mini title for the PSP, and one that was held in high acclaim. It was a unique horizontal shooter in the same vein as The Game Atelier’s Flying Hamster, but wasn’t quite as much fun as, in my view, the…
Read MoreAccording to the Wall Street Journal, Sony is very close to reaching a deal with media giant Viacom to stream live TV over the Internet. TV is one of the few areas that Sony’s entertainment portfolio doesn’t cover, and in the face of the sheer focus on TV that Microsoft…
Read MoreThe improved conditions of the Japanese Yen has helped Sony realise a profit for its business for the past financial year quarter. Total revenues increased by 13 per cent year on year to ¥1712.7 billion ($17.3bn US), thanks in part to the improving exchanges of the Japanese Yen, as well…
Read MoreThe Dynasty Warriors franchise has fascinated me, from a gaming culture point of view. Here is a game that in its homeland of Japan consistently rates both with the critics and on the charts, and yet when it is released in the west there is always, inevitably, a vocal group…
Read MoreLast year’s mobile-exclusive RPG Adventure Bar Story wasn’t the finest example of the genre, but it had a charm about it, in no small part because the game’s scenario was written by Shinichi Yoshiike – a minor legend in Japan’s game industry for his work on the Atelier series, amongst…
Read MoreTrials HD meets a sandbox in a game that’s seriously flawed. I don’t really want to beat up on developer baKno’s Motorbike. Really, I don’t, but there’s just so much wrong with this game that I don’t think I can come up with anything positive to say about it. Motorbike…
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