Today Atlus' Manager of Public Relations and Sales Aram Jabbari has announced that 3D Dot Game Heroes is going retro on PS3 this coming May and shared a launch trailer (below).

To quote: Many words and terms are frequently thrown around in relation to classic gaming: retro, old school, and so forth.

Often, games will be referred to as throwbacks, praised for their...

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Today Sony's Social Media Manager Jeff Rubenstein has shared details of the White Knight Chronicles PS3 Online System... which includes voice chat, as follows:

On the first day of Tokyo Game Show, Level-5 took us on a tour through the online system of White Knight Chronicles. Now even if you’ve been keeping up with the previously-released Japanese version of the game, this will be...

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Quantic Dream has announced that it is selling its motion capture data (as seen in Heavy Rain) in library packages to other game developers.

The offering will be what Quantic Dream calls "the industry's first high-end, off-the-shelf solution for real-time 3D character animation."

Considering they spent nearly a year doing motion capture work on Heavy Rain, it...

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This weekend PS3 Patch 1.40 is available for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.

Changes include the following, to quote:

New Features
• Support for downloadable content has been added
• Trading between two players on the same console is now possible
• Added the 'Find me' option to the leaderboard

Bugfixes
• A rare crash was located and...

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If you're already a PSP owner, you probably own a collection of PSP UMDs. But let's say you want to upgrade to the PSP Go, what do you do with all your UMDs then?

Sony said they are looking into the dilemma, and are exploring opportunities.

To quote: Now that Sony's press conference is over and the PSP Go has officially been unveiled to the public (beyond last...

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PC Gaming Alliance research indicates desktop game sales rose 18 percent worldwide last year; installed base stands at 228 million.

According to the PCGA's 2008 Horizon's Report, PC gaming software saw revenues reach $12.7 billion in 2008 which is a rise of $1.9 billion, or nearly 18 percent.

Overall, the study found that the PC software and hardware market...

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Gameplayer has received word on what one of the new games to be announced by Square Enix at E3 2009 and it is an MMO that's a console exclusive for the PS3.

To quote: At the time of writing we had been requested to not divulge the names or giveaway said titles, but we’ve just received new information about one of those three games that comes with no such restrictions. So...

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Does the InFamous PS3 demo leave a good impression, or make you want to leave the game?

Last night I had the opportunity to play through Sony’s upcoming super-powered exclusive InFamous.

After spending several hours—yes, there are literally hours worth of things to see and do in the demo alone—romping through Empire City I have several thoughts I would like to...

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The Cinematic Mod 10 is under construction, and new screenshots show the Bump Maps for rocks, the 'worth seeing' HD objects and an enhanced Alyx figure (below).

According to the modder Fakefactory, the Cinematic Mod 10 is in Pre-Beta phase and so the screenshots possibly don't represent the final graphics.

Most interesting are the laboriously modeled and textured HD...

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With the advent of the latest generation of video game consoles and PCs that are almost infinitely expandable, developers are being pushed to their limit to create the latest and greatest game of all time.

There’s no doubt that some developers have been delivering: games like Metal Gear Solid 4, Grand Theft Auto 4, Killzone 2, etc. With games like these nowadays, it’s...

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