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Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation Announced For Vita

During the Sony press conference at E3 today it was revealed that the previously untitled Assassin’s Creed game for the Vita will be called Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation. Read more…

E3 2012 – Ubisoft Press Conference

Ubisoft have just finished their press conference for E3 2012 and as you would expect it was packed with content. Under the tagline of “Life Powered Play” it included announcements from Just Dance 4 and Wii U exclusives to Assassin’s Creed 3 to a new high-tech espionage shooter. Read more…

Fixed Cameras In Games

This article contains thematic spoilers after the first paragraph.

With the recent release of Silent Hill HD, I’ve been revisiting one of my favourite games of all time Silent Hill 2. It’s a wonderfully atmospheric game with more than a few touches of the abstract, but there’s a lot to the presentation style that creates the sense of psychological tension and introspection. It reminded me of two other games that vary in similarity, but that use the same method of presentation; Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. They all utilise a fixed camera. Read more…

Resistance: Burning Skies

Like many others, I have been waiting with bated breath to see what a first person shooter on the Vita would be like. The unit obviously has the potential to be great and with the sales not going too well, perhaps a FPS is exactly what the system needs to jump start its popularity. Resistance: Burning Skies is the first of the genre on the Vita and being a first-party title you would expect it to come out guns blazing and showing off exactly what we can expect. Sadly that isn’t quite what has happened. Read more…

StarForge

Check out the trailer below for ‘Starforge’. Described as a ‘3D game with infinite procedural terrain, customizable landscape, no loading screens.’ It’s free to play and from the trailer, it looks like the love child of Minecraft and Halo and we bet this is going to become one massive game as it progresses. Read more…

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Beta)

You know the drill. T’s vs CT’s. Everyone who has played games of any sort or, heck, even used a computer in the last ten years has probably heard of Counter-Strike, or CS, as it’s often called. Read more…

YouTube for Vita Announced

Sony Computer Entertainment have just announced that a YouTube app for the Vita will be released towards the end of June. Read more…

SCE Australia Announce 2 New Move Games

Sony Computer Entertainment Australia have today announced two new titles for the PS Move, Sports Champions 2 and DanceStar Party Hits. Both titles are slated for release later this year, and both are follow ups to other successful Move titles. Read more…

Sorcery (Move)

Dust off your Move controllers and flex your spell casting wrist boys and girls, because Sorcery is here and it’s bringing carpal tunnel inducing fantasy to your living room. Read more…

Episode 32 – Pre-E3 Bonanza
Duration: 01:17:05 • Size: 35.29 MB

The whole crew are finally back together this week with Lucas, Tim, and Susie all joining Matt. They discuss what they have been up to and then unfortunately as soon as they begin their discussion about E3 predictions technical issues hit and interrupt. The second half of the podcast has Lucas and Matt continuning the E3 predictions conversation by themselves. Check out the show and let us know what you think, and we hope you have a laugh and enjoy it!

 
Lucas
The Podfather/Convo Controller
Super salesman by day, Batdad and Gamersutra by night. As a self-confessed technology pacifist, he prefers to sit on the console-war fence and play games on his PC.
Matt
PlayStation Fanboy/Motormouth
Electrician by trade and yet also highly skilled at finding time to game around work and family commitments. A PlayStation fanboy with a platinum count and obvious podcast bias to prove it. Thinks DC is clearly superior to Marvel. Has been known to rant.
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