When Sony announced the PlayStation Vita a little under two years ago at E3 2011, gamers were electric with excitement over the first handheld that seemed to be able to truly match the experience of home console gaming.
Fast forward to just past the first anniversary of the PS Vita where things are looking very grim. Sony seems to have all but given up on saving their powerful game machine, instead opting to focus their efforts on the upcoming PS4, while surrendering the portable market to Nintendo’s 3DS.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, but I’m not here to recite every failure of the Vita. I’d rather talk gamers out of the worst possible use of their precious dollars in gaming currently.
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (PS3, 360, PC): From the developer behind the incredible Far Cry 3 comes a love letter to the 1980s. Set in a dystopian 2007 society, players will experience “an 80s VHS vision of the future” where they have to “get the girl, kill the baddies and save the world.”
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The rumor mill has been abuzz lately with speculation that Sony is abandoning their successful Dualshock brand of controllers in favor of something a little bit different. Apparently, Destructoid has gotten a hold of a photo of an alleged prototype controller for an Orbis dev kit, or for those not familiar with the console code names, the PS4.
More info after the break.
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Sony Releases New PlayStation Teaser
In an apparent sign of big things to come, Sony has recently launched a PlayStation teaser on their YouTube page.
Titled as “#PlayStation2013,” the 45-second teaser lives up to its name, ambiguously teasing the shapes of its controller buttons for most of it, then revealing the date Feb. 20, 2013. While mysterious in nature, and despite the fact that Sony commented that they’ll only reveal their new console after Microsoft reveals theirs, many believe that the date will be Sony’s official leap into next-gen gaming.
What do you all think?
[YouTube, electricneonpanda]
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“Killzone: Mercenary” Debut Gameplay Trailer
It’s been hard to recommend a PS Vita lately with its bare library and releases that have all but dried up. Following the big promises made by Sony at its debut, it finally looks like a shooter may finally take advantage of the dual thumbsticks on the portable.
Killzone: Mercenary looks to capture much of the series’ trademark action, offering a futuristic, gritty feel to portable gamers. Pulling from events of the second and third games of the series, the game will be attempting to suck-in new players while appealing to fans of the franchise.
Killzone: Mercenary hits store shelves September 17, 2013.
[PlayStation YouTube Channel, IGN]
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Announced during IGN’s IPL 5, head of Team Ninja Yosuke Hayashi unveiled that a PS Vita version of DOA 5 would be coming early next year.
The new game will be titled Dead or Alive 5 Plus and will be the second foray for the main series on portable consoles after a very good showing with Dead or Alive Dimensions on the 3DS (find our review of it here). DOA 5 Plus will apparently include new features not in the original release, although none were announced at the time.
Also mentioned was an update to the PS3 and 360 versions of Dead or Alive 5, which should be coming in the near future.
[Joystiq]
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Wii U: Highlighting a packed Thanksgiving week is Nintendo’s next-gen hardware offering, which features a controller outfitted with its own touchscreen that can be used to enhance gaming experiences, or just to use when someone else wants to watch TV. Launch day was yesterday, so if you’re reading this now and forgot to run out to pick one up, good luck finding one! Retailers are sure to be sold out.
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PlayStation Plus’ value for its $49.99 annual membership just keeps getting better. It already gives PS3 users 12 free regularly rotating games and discounts and, starting next week, subscribers with a PS Vita will be able to access free content as well.
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For those excited about the upcoming PlayStation 3 fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, it’s confirmed that the game will be available for the PS Vita, too — and that includes the DLC.
Hit the break for more details on the crossover fighting game.
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Borderlands 2 (PS3, 360, PC): Gearbox’s sequel to their epic shooter ups the ante by taking millions of lootable guns and adding bazillions more. With new classes, skills, enemies, a complete overhaul of the story, and the same great co-op campaign, gamers will be lost in Pandora for a long time to come.
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Another classic game of the last generation is headed to PSN, so everyone who missed out the first time won’t be able to fathom skipping over it again.
Priced at the usual $9.99, Tim Schafer and Double Fine’s legendary action-platformer Psychonauts will become available on PSN beginning on August 28 and officially enshrined as a “PS2 Classic” from hence forth. The game will only be on the North American PSN store to start, but it will likely be headed to other PSN regions before long.
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“Tokyo Jungle” Thinks Wild Animals Are Taking Over On September 25th
Tokyo Jungle is one of those “only in Japan” games that, as weird as it is, is strangely appealing to look at and really makes gamers want give it a try.
Taking the role of one of over 50 animals, players will try to not only stay alive in the concrete jungle of Tokyo, but try to thrive and form packs to dominate the wild. The game will be made up of two different modes, single player and survival, but the only thing that will really matter in the end is how long you can stay alive as a monkey.
Tokyo Jungle will be released September 25th on PSN for $15.
[Kotaku, YouTube]
“The Last of Us” Is Willing To Do Anything To Survive
Perhaps the best trailer to come out of Gamescom today is from Naughty Dog’s upcoming game, The Last of Us.
Desperately doing anything to survive, Joel and Ellie are out on the road and minding their own business until they get ambushed by other survivors. What follows is a thrilling example of the grit and tenacity that gamers have drooled over since the game was first unveiled earlier this year. And the finale is a chilling example of the harsh world Joel and Ellie are living inside of.
The Last of Us is expected to be released in 2013 on the PlayStation 3.
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“Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified” First Trailer From Gamescom
The biggest shooter franchise in the world is headed to the Vita this year, but it’s looking pretty rusty on Sony’s portable.
Being developed by Nihilistic Games—responsible for the mediocre games PlayStation Move Heroes and Resistance: Burning Skies—the shooter appears to be a port of the two-year-old Black Ops and is looking decidedly last-gen, but is trying to make up with it by bringing lots of portable action.
Also announced was 4 vs. 4 online multiplayer with the staple modes like Team Deathmatch and Kill Confirmed. Classic maps are being tailored to fit the smaller Vita and new maps will be added into the mix.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified will hit store shelves November 2012 on the PlayStation Vita.
[Polygon]
