The PSP has become home to a growing number of PS3 ports, from Super Stardust to LittleBigPlanet , but rarely has a portable rendition of a PS3 game remained so faithful to the original as ModNation Racers on PSP. (Well, perhaps with the exception of PixelJunk Monsters .) ModNation Racers is launching simultaneously on PSP and PS3, and unlike many previous cross-platform titles, this racer loses almost nothing in its portable conversion. The career mode is nearly identical on both platforms, even featuring the same CG animated cutscenes in both.
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The creators of Final Fantasy XIII have been notoriously tight-lipped about the Fabula Nova Crystallis trilogy, a series comprised of FFXIII , Final Fantasy Versus XIII and the PSP-exclusive Final Fantasy Agito XIII . During a GDC panel titled “The Crystal Mythos,” director Motomu Toriyama gave a few scant details about the other two branches of the trilogy, and the few similarities connecting the entries in the franchise’s 13th series. Toriyama’s main point during his presentation is that Agito and Versus won’t be sequels to the recently released Final Fantasy XIII — they’ll both have their own unique set of characters, gameplay systems and overarching stories.
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Plenty of attention has been lavished on one nontraditional Japanese RPG this week — but Sega sneaked out another one alongside Final Fantasy XIII . Luckily, enough reviewers remembered that Yakuza 3 exists to provide a decent swath of reviews.
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Sony Worldwide Studios VP Scott Rohde had the onerous task of introducing the first PlayStation Move games at Sony’s GDC press conference last night. We caught up with the executive after the show to talk about Sony’s plans for exploiting motion control and if hardcore gamers should be concerned about the future of the PS3 games library. Our complete interview with Rohde follows: It’s obviously going to take internal resources to develop games for PlayStation Move
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click to enlarge It’s impossible to avoid comparisons between EA’s upcoming Medal of Honor reboot and Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare series … so, I’ll just get it out of the way: Medal of Honor unapologetically follows in the footsteps of Call of Duty .
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What do Cerny Games’ Mark Cerny, Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor, Microsoft’s Corrinne Yu, and Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart have in common, besides being game developers? Absolutely nothing
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You know how Kratos’ battle against the gods of Olympus is known for its massive, insane action sequences spread throughout? Well, some genius (or likely several geniuses) at Sony’s Santa Monica Studio had the brilliant idea of making a whole game just out of those incredible moments.
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” Split/Second is like Burnout , except the world around you is the thing that gets smashed into bits.” – Joystiq’s E3 preview I had the fortune of spending about an hour with Black Rock’s upcoming, destruction-laden Split/Second , and, like Xav before me, I had a total blast (sorry about the pun, folks). The idea of using the environment as a weapon is a novel twist, keeping racers on their toes throughout the entire race. Stay vigilant, or else a helicopter might just drop an explosive on top of you.
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Why do zombies eat brains?
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After you heard what we had to say about Final Fantasy XIII , you may very well now be itching to finally get your own hands all over the thirteenth entry in the FF series from Square Enix. Lucky for you, dearest reader , we’ve got news of a couple ways to save some dough on your purchase this week.
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