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Sony wants the PlayStation Vita experience to be unique
0By: Moses Abaortae | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The consumer electronics giant does not want ports of console games making their way to the Vita as it looks to avoid the mistakes it made with the PlayStation Portable. The PlayStation Portable was Sony’s first venture into the portable gaming market and the console did rather well for itself, especially in Japan, where it is selling a considerable number of units for its ag...
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Dark Souls creator was misquoted on Easy Mode comments
By: Moses Abaortae | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized Namco releases a statement clarifying Hidetaka Miyazaki’s earlier statement on introducing an easier difficulty setting for Dark Souls in order to make it more accessible for gamers. When Demon Souls was released as a PlayStation 3 exclusive all those years ago, it was something that many gamers had not experienced, pain. The game was brutal, unforgiving and brilliant, despit...
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Sony announce Wonderbook release date
By: Moses Abaortae | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized Book of Spells to retail for $39.99 Sony’s latest peripheral to make use of the PlayStation Move and PlayStation Eye as Wonderbook: Book of Spells is set for release in the United States on the 13th of November. Revealed during Sony’s E3 Press C...
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PlayStation Vita sales triple following release of game
By: Musa Afridi | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The release of Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA for the Vita has seen the console’s sales jump from 9,700 units to over 45,000 units in a matter of seven days. Japan was where Sony released their PlayStation Vita first. In fact, the console was on sale in the region in December of last year before it was eventually released in February 2012 in the rest of the world. The sales fi...
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Top 5 overrated video games of all time – Part 4
By: Jason McCarthy | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
2. Grand Theft Auto Surprised? I do not blame you since this franchise attracts big scores the same way honey attracts bees. Grand Theft Auto, or more commonly known as GTA, is loved by a major portion of the gaming community, a fact that is proved by its commercial success. Everyone seems to be in love with everything about the game, the gameplay, the storyline, the concept...
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Top 5 overrated video games of all time – Part 3
By: Jason McCarthy | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
3. Pokémon I know adding the immensely popular role-playing franchise will get me cussed by a lot of gamers who have had spent countless hours on their Game Boy collecting pokémons , training them and then using them to fight other trainers. The concept behind the game is very nice and I admit it is tailor-made to become addictive. The very desire to collect as many pokém...
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Top 5 overrated video games of all time – Part 2
By: Jason McCarthy | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
4. Gran Turismo Ever since I was little, I have loved playing with cars. Nothing felt more satisfying then humming the sound of the engine with occasional screeching sounds while rolling my toy cars over every possible surface, be it a leg, dining table, floor, father’s leg (yes I remember doing that and getting slapped badly as a result. Oh boy, I sure need to delete this me...
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Top 5 overrated video games of all time – Part 1
By: Jason McCarthy | September 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Playing video games is the most attractive form of entertainment for some people as it allows them to actually allows them to experience everything firsthand rather than being a mere spectator. The gaming industry has been gladly catering to the entertainment needs for many years now and has introduced thousands of games in the market so far. Some of these games were nothing to...
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iOS gets Canabalt type Rayman game
By: Moses Abaortae | September 11th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Rayman Jungle Run is the latest offering by publisher and developer Ubisoft for Apple devices and anyone who has played Canabalt will see similarities between the two games. However, Jungle Run is far from a rip-off of the other title, as it simply falls in the game genre. The gameplay is varied, the setting different and the environments are much, much richer and vibrant than ...
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Deadmau5, Flo Rida and Kasabian feature in FIFA 13 soundtrack
By: Moses Abaortae | September 11th, 2012 | Uncategorized
EA has released the list of artists and their respective songs that gamers will be listening to in FIFA 13 and it includes some rather big names from the music industry, which one expected to be honest. FIFA 13 fever is upon the world as the game nears its eagerly anticipated release date. The previous instalment in the long running football simulation series, FIFA 12, sold a r...
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