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New Wonderbook trailers walk with dinosaurs, encourage homebrewing
These new trailers for future Wonderbook games Walking with Dinosaurs and Book of Potions show what appear to be happy, well-adjusted children enjoying Sony's augmented reality peripheral, but if you look closely you'll discover a terrible secret. That's right, these kids are augmented reality fabrications themselves! Horror of horrors! Tremble as your fragile grip on reality is shattered! Okay fine, that's not even the least bit true, but this dinosaur thing does look pretty educational, even if these kids are overselling their zeal. We're not so sure about teaching children to drink strange foaming liquids they've mixed together themselves, though.
Now Playing: June 17-23, 2013
Jump into the ultimate retro-style meta RPG experience this week with The Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Now Playing: June 10-16, 2013
Survive this week with The Last of Us... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Free Portal 2 In Motion co-op DLC out today on PlayStation 3
The PlayStation Move-powered "In Motion" expansion for Portal 2 received a free batch of DLC today on the PlayStation 3, developer Sixense Studios announced. In Motion owners can immediately access the new content by installing a patch released today on the PlayStation Network. Sixense's "Non-Emotional Manipulation" DLC adds a co-op campaign to In Motion, allowing two players (using two PlayStation Move controllers) to team up in split-screen or online cooperative modes. Cross-play with PC players via the Portal 2 MotionPack is also supported. A patch released last year added PlayStation Move support to Portal 2's core campaign and co-op levels, though Move-specific gameplay mechanics such as Portal Surfing and Scaling are exclusive to Sixense's expansion. Both Portal 2 and the In Motion expansion are currently on sale for 20 percent off in the PlayStation Store. PlayStation Plus members get an additional 40 percent discount off the sale price.
PSN Tuesday: Remember Me on PS3, Limbo on Vita, Deus Ex free for Plus
This week PSN gets Remember Me for $60 as a full PS3 download (and here's our review). Also on the docket is Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, which hits PSN for $20. Vita gets Limbo for $15, Toro's Friend Network for free, Quell Memento for $5 and Paint Park Plus for free. Class of Heroes 2 hits the PSP this week, and it's now in the Vita store for $25. PlayStation Plus members can grab the PS3 game Deus Ex: Human Revolution for free, alongside a 10 percent discount on Grid 2 ($54), and 40 percent off Portal 2 ($9.60) and its Move-enabled DLC, In Motion ($4.80). Let's Fish: Hooked On is half off on Vita for Plus members this week, for $10. Sony has some secret content in store for June, according to PlayStation Digital Platforms Community Manager Paul Sullivan, and it just so happens there's a large gaming convention right in the middle of this month. Keep your eyes peeled.
Now Playing: June 3-9, 2013
Mess with peoples' minds this week with Remember Me... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Sony hires Morgan Stanley, Citigroup to consider entertainment IPO
Sony has brought in major financial help from Morgan Stanley and Citigroup as it considers billionaire Daniel Loeb's proposition that it breaks off and sells its entertainment division, Bloomberg reports. Loeb, who owns a 6 percent stake in Sony stock worth $1.1 billion, wants Sony to sell as much as 20 percent of its entertainment business. Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai previously said the board would consider Loeb's offer. Loeb, with Third Point LLC, sent a letter to Sony on May 14 arguing an entertainment IPO would allow Sony to focus on its electronics arm, which has seen nine consecutive annual losses.
Now Playing: May 27 - June 2, 2013
Fight for control over powerful alien weaponry in Fuse... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Now Playing: May 20-26, 2013
Shoot up the old west this week with Call of Juarez: Gunslinger... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Now Playing: May 13-19, 2013
Head back underground this week with Metro: Last Light... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Now Playing: May 6-12, 2013
Outwit time this week with the QUBE - Against the Qlock DLC... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Now Playing: April 29 - May 5, 2013
Head back to the 80s and see 2007 as the future this week with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Now Playing: April 22-28, 2013
Fun, sun and the undead await you this week in Dead Island: Riptide... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Wonderbook's 'Diggs Nightcrawler' due this holiday [update: May 29 in EU]
To date, the library for the PS3's augmented reality Wonderbook is one game deep: just Book of Spells. Wonderbook owners will have a second game to play "this Holiday," roughly a year after the first, when Diggs Nightcrawler arrives. [Update: May 29 in Europe!]The PlayStation Blog posted a development diary and a gameplay video today, revealing the good news: Diggs Nightcrawler looks pretty interesting! The time developer Moonbot spent figuring out how to implement gameplay appears to be paying off. It's a (cute) noir mystery set in a series of virtual books, each of which is a setpiece for investigation, conducted by folding the book, touching the pages, and otherwise manipulating the world as if it really did come out of a book. Imagine what Wonderbook developers could come up with if they iterated a third time.
Mad Dog 2: The Lost Gold takes aim at PSN
Mad Dog 2: The Lost Gold hits PSN this week with a Move control scheme, a fresh HD scrub-down, new difficulty modes and Leaderboard support . The Lost Gold follows Mad Dog McCree's HD PSN launch in January.The Lost Gold will have a "fully unlockable trial experience" for everyone to try out the game for free. The trial for McCree is live now if you can't wait to get your full-motion video gaming on.
Now Playing: April 15-21, 2013
Jump into the superpowered brawl this week with Injustice: Gods Among Us... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Now Playing: April 8-14, 2013
Experience one luchador's journey through the land of the living and the dead this week with Guacamelee! Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Seen@GDC: Playground games
Die Gute Fabrik lead designer Douglas Wilson is comfortable asking people to make fools of themselves, as he demonstrated during his panel at GDC on Friday, "Three Folk Games To Inspire Radical New Video Games." Wilson emphasized the impact that physical, playground games can have on modern video game development, bringing players together outside of the screen. They certainly influenced Wilson's convention-famous motion game, Johann Sebastian Joust.Wilson asked for volunteers from the audience to step on stage and play three games that influenced Joust: Standoff, Listelanse and the Danish Clapping Game. See a handful of eager audience members hitting themselves and dueling with wooden spoons in the gallery below, and read more about each game after the break.%Gallery-184408%
Now Playing: March 25-31, 2013
Visit the city in the sky this week with BioShock Infinite... Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut out April 30
4/30 ... in the coffee ...Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut, which has SWERY's signature on it so you know how director's cut-ty it is, will be released on April 30 in North America, both as a retail game and as a PSN download.Pre-orders of the retail version from "participating retailers" including GameStop and Amazon will receive DLC "so plush, that Agent York (and Zach) will feel like their investigation in the small country town of Greenvale just turned into a vacation." The announcement from publisher Rising Star Games explains that the DLC will "expand the mystery beyond the original game and let Agent York (and Zach) live it up in Greenvale."Like everything else about this game, man, we don't know.
