April NPD: Injustice Gods Among Us beats down the competition

April NPD: Injustice Gods Among Us beats down the competition

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 16 May

Has it been a month already? I’m still busy playing through all the games I bought in March, and apparently a lot of you guys are too: according to the NPD sales data released today, April was a pretty slow month for the industry. Only 4 out of the top 10 bestselling games for the [...]

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Western Fans Might Finally Play The “Last Mission” In Final Fantasy X-2 HD

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On: 13 May

News about Final Fantasy X HD has been a fairly constant stream of side-by-side screenshots for comparisons, but aside from word getting out that the PS3 version of the remastering will include Final Fantasy X-2 for free, there hasn’t been much talk about extra content. Thanks to popular Japanese magazine Famitsu, through Yahoo, we now [...]

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Sony posts first net profit in five years

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 09 May

Today Sony announced that they generated approximately ¥43 billion in profits (about $458 million at current exchange rates) during the 2012 fiscal year. This marks the first year in half-a-decade that Sony hasn’t reported an overall loss. The company is hopeful that this trend will only continue with the impending launch of the PS4.

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PS3 Final Fantasy X HD will include Final Fantasy X-2, Vita version sold separately

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Handheld, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On: 19 Mar

According to Siliconera, the latest issue of Japan’s Jump Magazine has revealed that the Square-Enix’s upcoming HD “remastering” of Final Fantasy X will also include the game’s direct sequel, Final Fantasy X-2.

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Namco Bandai, Final Fantasy games 50% off on PSN

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On: 06 Feb

The Playstation Store is hosting some great deals these week, as both Square-Enix and Namco Bandai are slashing the prices of some of their most popular digital games in half.

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Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony celebrate strong holiday sales

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 29 Nov

The busiest week in retail has come and gone, and now that the sales are over and the crowds have dispersed, the big 3 console manufacturers have already started their yearly pissing contest to see who “won” Black Friday.

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PS Vita gets new hardware colors, Playstation Plus service

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Handheld, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On: 19 Sep

In addition to the redesigned PS3, Sony had a fair bit of Vita news to share: following handheld tradition, the Vita will be getting two new hardware colors this Fall (in Japan, at least) Red and Blue. More exciting than that though was the announcement that the Playstation Plus premium service would finally be extending [...]

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Sony: It’s “too early” for a Vita price cut, system won’t get cheaper until after 2012

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, PSP / Vita On: 16 Aug

The Vita is a cool piece of hardware. It’s powerful, it’s stylish, and it offers some potentially innovative new ways to play games. Despite all that, the system has been selling rather poorly — even the 3DS, who people quickly labelled as “doomed” after its rocky launch, managed to sell faster. Sony has admitted as [...]

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Sony remembers the Vita exists, announces “Cross Buy” program and new games

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, Handheld, PSP / Vita On: 14 Aug

Pretty much every Vita owner collectively spouted “WTF?” when Sony only spent a few moments at E3 talking about their new handheld, and Sony’s reluctance to talk about the future of the system during E3 caused a lot of overly emotional nerds to begin proclaiming “The Vita is doomed!” Well, Sony isn’t rolling over to [...]

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Popular PS3, Vita titles getting substantial price drops next week

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 08 Aug

If you’re on a budget but somehow still manage to own a PS3 or a Vita, you’ll be glad to hear that Sony is instituting some pretty substantial price cuts on their most popular games next week.

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Phantasy Star Online 2 confirmed for a western release

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, PC, PSP / Vita On: 09 Jul

Good news, fellow PSO addicts: today Sega officially announced that Phantasy Star Online 2 will finally hit North American and European PC’s early next year.

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12 new characters hit Street Fighter X Tekken as DLC

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita, Xbox 360 On:

This weekend the world’s best fighting game players gathered at the EVO 2012 tournament, and Capcom used the occasion to announce the line-up for Street Fighter x Tekken’s upcoming DLC pack, which hits PSN and XBL on July 31st.

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