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PlayStation All-Stars final boss is mathematical
PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale is polished off and ready to ship, and Sony Santa Monica marks this glorious occasion with a video of the complete opening cinematic, which teases the game's final boss. Brace yourselves – it's Polygon Man.Polygon Man was Sony's mascot for the PlayStation in mid-90s North America, but was replaced before the actual console launch. With that in mind, he probably holds a fair bit of resentment for the PlayStation franchises popular enough to make it into Battle Royale.Check out the complete opening cinematic above, with Polygon Man looming over everything right at the end. Battle Royale launches on November 20.
PS All-Stars Battle Royale live-action TV ad, the European take
This European TV ad for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is an interesting take on the live-action vid rolled out by Sony last month. The guy supposed to be Drake looks like the one person who didn't dress up at a Halloween party.
All-Stars Battle Royale ad sees PlayStation heroes fight in live action
When you think about it, this was a predictable step from the creators of last year's "Michael' commercial for PS3. After successfully expressing the thoughts of live-action PlayStation characters, this ad for PS All-Stars Battle Royale shows the time for talking is over. Maybe because the budget was blown on fancy special effects; Nolan North doesn't come cheap, you know.Though it doesn't quite match the brilliance of last year's ad, it's another imaginative and fun effort for what will hopefully be a game with similar qualities. On a side note, live-action ads seem to be the rage at the moment. Last week Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Halo 4 got their real on, and now All-Stars Battle Royale follows suit. If only Nintendo would join the club.
PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale brings the party to iam8bit this week
Los Angeles' trendy video game art house iam8bit is hosting a one-night event for PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, with the final release code playable for the first time in public. The event is dubbed the LA Beatdown, and it takes place on Wednesday, October 24 from 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. at this location.LA Beatdown is completely free to enter and includes the following goodies: the game playable on a 25-foot widescreen; exclusive, one-time-print t-shirts and posters with art by Boneface for the first 500 attendees (check out the design above); a museum-style exhibit featuring characteristic items from each Battle Royale character; a photo stage with props from the game; and complimentary alcoholic beverages for those 21 and older. Vizzi food truck will be parked outside as well.Entrance is first-come, first-serve, so if you're in the LA area start planning for a thumpin' hump day now.
PSN Tuesday: PS All-Stars beta, Silent Hill: Book of Memories, free Payday for PS Plus
Continuing its Day 1 Digital promotion, PSN has launch-day downloads of Doom 3: BFG Edition and 007 Legends available today. On top of that, all PS Vita users can hop into a PS All-Stars: Battle Royale beta. PS3 owners can get in on it too, but they'll need a PS Plus subscription.Silent Hill: Book of Memories launches today for the PS Vita, and PS Plus members can add Payday: The Heist to their Instant Game Collection. There's also a large Halloween-themed sale discounting select spooky games and DLC, the complete list of which you can see over on the PlayStation Blog.
PS All-Stars beta open tomorrow for PS3 Plus members, all Vita users
PlayStation Plus members have the privilege of beating up Kratos tomorrow. A public beta of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is due to launch tomorrow on PS3, and it'll be opened up to everyone on October 23. All Vita users will have access to the beta tomorrow, Plus or not.The beta limits character choices to Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Killzone guy, Sly Cooper, Parappa, and Fat Princess, and allows four-player tournaments in the Metropolis and Hades stages.
PlayStation All-Stars features writing by Ken Levine
The PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale team has been very careful to treat the game's many franchises with respect, said director Omar Kendall in an interview with Polygon. "We take this very seriously, and sometimes the IP holders know best, and obviously we want to present the characters in the best way for the developers and the fans," he said, after noting that Irrational creative director Ken Levine wrote the dialogue for the Big Daddy / Little Sister character. According to Kendall, Levine "wrote every line of script and dialogue" for the pair.The same care went into every character, with each studio getting "complete, 100 percent approval" on its characters, he said. That includes characters owned by Sony studios, like Nathan Drake, the star of Naughty Dog's Uncharted series.As for Levine's script, we're presuming it includes several instances of "Mr. Bubbles" and "MMMRRUUUNGGHHH!"
PlayStation All-Stars backgrounds brought to the foreground
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale doesn't just mix up characters in the playable roster: the stages are weird combinations of Sony franchises interacting in unexpected ways. The video above showcases some of these combinations, including God of War/Patapon, Jak and Daxter/Hot Shots Golf, and Novastorm/Kileak the DNA Imperative.Okay, we made one of those up.
PlayStation All-Stars lets UK fans choose special cover character
Sony is allowing UK fans to vote on cover candidates that will appear on "special, high-gloss sleeves" of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Sony is working with UK retailer Game for the cover vote.Fans have ten characters to choose from: Heihachi Mishima, Sackboy, Radec, Ratchet and Clank, Parappa the Rappa, Kratos, Jak and Daxter, Nathan Drake, Big Daddy and Cole McGrath. Voting takes place on the PlayStation All-Stars Facebook page; clicking "Like" on a character's image adds your vote to his visage.
Rumor: Gravity Rush's Kat in PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale
There isn't a lot to go on with this latest PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale character rumor, but if we've learned anything from the last few, it's that we should probably pay attention to leaks and speculation.The above picture (full-sized and uncropped here) appears to show the PlayStation All-Stars character bio of Kat of Gravity Rush fame. The style is consistent with the official site's existing bios, but we were unable to locate Kat's bio ourselves through clever URL manipulations or otherwise. For now, we're keeping this in the "maybe" pile, but we'll also keep our ear to the ground and will update with any new information that surfaces.
Heavenly Sword's Nariko, MediEvil's Sir Daniel Fortesque PS All-Star vids
Nariko and Sir Daniel were revealed yesterday for PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, but here are their standalone videos announcing their inclusion in the brawler. The drip continues on the announcements, confirming what's been already leaked.
Nariko and Fortesque confirmed for PlayStation All-Stars [update]
Two more characters have been announced as members of the PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale roster, both of which attach firmly to either side of the "deep cut" spectrum: Nariko of Heavenly Sword fame, and MediEvil's Sir Daniel Fortesque.As has been the case with the last few All-Stars character reveals, both Nariko and Fortesque were originally rumored a few weeks ago when files pulled from the beta found their way to neoGAF. Nariko's fighting style is described as "high risk, high reward" by designer Seth Killian in the video above, while Fortesque is said to be much slower and more methodical. Both characters, however, use weapons culled from the annals of their respective series' history.Update: The video originally embedded above, belonging to Gamespot, has been set to private. We have replaced the video with a mirror located here and have updated this post's source link to reflect that change.
PlayStation All-Stars public beta now accepting applications
The PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale public beta starts on September 11, lasting one week to September 18. Anyone interested in being a part of the frantic action can sign up on the PSN beta site right now.Players chosen will be notified via email, get a voucher code for the download on either PS3 or the PS Vita, and receive "test night information." Presumably, developer SuperBot will aim to test specific heroes, modes, or stages, so it'll direct players that way.If you don't make this early cut, you'll have to wait until the full game arrives on November 20.
Metal Gear's Raiden cutting into PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale roster [Update: Video]
Raiden from the Metal Gear Solid series is officially in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Lead game designer Seth Killian shows off Raiden in a video on Gamespot.Raiden's strength lies in one-on-one attacks and air combos, and his level 3 super involves trapping all of the other players under boxes for easy pickings. Characters in All-Stars generally have about two dozen moves, but with his combo chains, Raiden has three or four dozen, Killian says.We first heard rumblings about Raiden in All-Stars back in July, alongside a major character leak.Update: We've added the official trailer showing off Raiden's slick moves, just up there.
Shocker: Evil Cole McGrath is in PlayStation All-Stars
The latest "new" character to be revealed for PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale is Evil Cole McGrath. Based on the trailer, he looks a lot like regular Cole McGrath, who also happens to be playable. The big difference: Evil Cole is eviler. Seriously, dude's a jerk.
Sony's 'Cross Buy' promo headed to North America and Europe, Japan undecided
Sony's "Cross Buy" promotion isn't just for Europe – SCE president of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida took to Twitter to clarify that the PlayStation 3/Vita promo is also headed to the United States. Japan, however, isn't so lucky. At least not yet. " PS Vita-PS3 Cross Buy price promo is coming to both Europe and North America. My quote by Famitsu was meant as 'not decided for Japan yet,'" Yoshida said. A piece from Famitsu was picked up yesterday (via Andriasang) that was misunderstood to mean the promo is exclusive to Europe.PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale was revealed during Gamescom 2012 to be the first retail game from Sony launching with the Cross Buy promo – if you buy either version of the game, you get the other version for free. Sound Shapes and Motorstorm RC already employ the promo, albeit on PSN. A variety of other upcoming first-party Sony games also support the promotion. Incidentally, we also support the promotion, because it's super boss.
Dante, Sackboy, Ratchet, Clank and Spike join PlayStation All-Stars' roster [Update: Now with trailers]
DmC's Dante, LittleBigPlanet's Sackboy, Ratchet and Clank's, well, Ratchet and Clank, and Ape Escape's Spike have just been revealed as playable characters in PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale during Sony's Gamescom press conference in Germany.All five four of these characters – Ratchet and Clank fight as one – were included in that leaked character roster we posted near the end of last month, which gives us hope that the other "unannounced" characters listed (Nariko, Raiden, Sir Daniel Fortesque, etc) may in fact be totes legit. The game will launch for PlayStation 3 and Vita in November, but people with both systems will only need to buy it once.Update: Trailers for each new character have been added beyond the veil.
PlayStation All-Stars leads PS3/Vita 'Cross Buy' program
Buying PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale on PS3 will grant you a free Vita copy, Sony announced today. Other games benefiting from the program include Sly Cooper Collection and Ratchet & Clank: Qforce. The initiative is called "Cross Buy" and can only be seen as wonderful news.It's essentially the same thing seen for recent PSN games like Sound Shapes, but now for retail games. And with a name!
PS Blog: PlayStation All-Stars delayed a month [update: confirmed]
An item on the front page of the PlayStation Blog (above) reveals a new November 20 release date for PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, representing a delay of just under one month from the multi-mascot fighter's original October 23 release date.However, the link on the PlayStation Blog article does not open up a full article, leaving that headline on the front page the only official announcement for now. We've contacted SCEA for more information.[Thanks, Locke_Daemonfire!]Update: The post is up now on the PS Blog, confirming the new date of November 20 for North America and Latin America. "This will let us spend more time polishing and tuning the game, and it will give us a chance to incorporate some of the great feedback we're receiving from the current limited beta to ensure we are creating the best possible fighting game experience," said SuperBot president Park Chan.
PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale videos school us on Sly, Fat Princess and more
Sony has unleashed several strategy videos for specific characters in PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, highlighting moves and tips for Kratos, Parappa, Sly Cooper and more.
