Upcoming New Etrian Odyssey: Millennium Girl is a remake of first Etrian Odyssey, due out in Japan this June

While we've only just gotten our hands on Etrian Odyssey IV a few weeks ago, a new installment of the first-person dungeon crawling franchise is due out in a couple of months.Siliconera reports that the upcoming title New Etrian Odyssey: Millennium Girl will be released for the 3DS in Japan on June 27.If this seems like a short time between games, remember that Etrian Odyssey IV came out in Japan in July 2012,...

Read More

Top 5 tips for getting started in Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Being a beginner in the world of Monster Hunter is an extremely daunting experience. I mean, the series simply isn't designed for newbies to the action-RPG genre.Though the people that playMonster Hunter are friendly and welcoming enough, they're too busy concentrating on the next set of armour or big weapon upgrades to spend time teaching n00bs about the basics.Put simply: this situation sucks.So, I've decided to compile some...

Read More

Review: Legend of the River King for 3DS

When you're presented with a game that has the word 'legend' in the title, you know you're in for some form of epic journey.Images of vast open worlds, intricate storytelling, and deep lore all flood into your mind, perhaps triggered by the word's association with Nintendo's Zelda series.When you start up Legend of the River King, you're met with something considerably less meaty than the title might suggest.A soleless adventureTaking...

Read More

Get dust in your eyes with creepy new screens for 3DS title Cult County

Mutant Mudds developer Renegade Kid is returning to its grungy horror roots with upcoming 3DS eShop title Cult County.Revealed at PAX East, Cult County's grainy screenshots hark back to the dev's earlier, scarier works Moon andDementium.In these Cult County images, you are given a classic first-person perspective view of a dusty-looking environment, complete with withered trees and a decidedly creepy-looking...

Read More

A Brief History of Luigi's Portable Appearances

"It's a-me: Mario!" are words you won't be hearing in this particular video history lesson.That's because today we're celebrating Luigi's portable appearances, and not those of his slightly more famous brother.This brief but bountiful moving pictures analysis of Luigi's gaming history should be essential viewing for anyone who's ever had any questions about Luigi's career on handheld consoles.So, yes, the curious beginnings...

Read More

Craft weapons, battle enemies, and attempt to avoid permadeath in Terraria for PS Vita

Publisher 505 Games has announced that Minecraft-esque 2D action-RPGTerraria is one of the more than 100 titles that will be released on PS Vitasometime this year."We're all huge fans of Terraria and have been overwhelmed by the support we've received from the existing community since we began working with the property," Tim Woodley, 505 Games's head of global brand, said."It's been amazing to see how many of those...

Read More

Review: Carnage Heart EXA for PS Vita

Who hasn't played a game and thought, at some point in their life, that they'd quite like to one day create and build their own slice of fun.Titles like LittleBigPlanet let us enjoy a world of creation in which we can frolic and enjoy the simplicity of building a fun and vibrant environment to explore.Carnage Heart EXA, just like the PSone original, doesn't look at creation in quite the same way. In fact it's rather binary. Actually,...

Read More

GDC 2013: Necrosoft confirms Oh Deer! and Gunhouse coming to PS Mobile

Indie outfit Necrosoft has announced its plans to release What would Molydeux? game jam creations Oh Deer! and Gunhouse for PlayStation Mobile.Speaking at GDC, Necrosoft CEO Brandon Sheffield describes Gunhouseas a game about, unsurprisingly, "a house made of guns".Apparently, Gunhouse players will have to use this architectural wonder to "defend orphans from alien invaders" by redirecting guns and...

Read More

This week on the PS Vita Store: Sly Cooper, Dead or Alive 5 Plus, and Machinarium

Hold on to your dual analog sticks, folks: the PS Vita Store is absolutely rocking tonight.Ahem.In terms of new Vita downloadable software, there are some big-name releases, some cult indie classics, a free PS Plus game. The works, basically.Let us not delay. Let us dive right into it...Full-price releasesWe Europeans have been dealt a pretty slick hand this week as far as digital PS Vita releases are concerned.Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time is...

Read More

Clamber over pie charts in infographic-inspired Vita-exclusive Metrico

Dutch indie outfit Digital Dreams has just released the debut trailer for its infographic-oriented Vita action-puzzler Metrico.We are, of course, accustomed to seeing line graphs and bar charts inPowerPoint presentations. The guys over at Digital Dreams have decided, though, that data charts deserve a break from all those dull Microsoft desktop programs.So enraptured was Digital Dreams by the aesthetics of infographics, in fact, that...

Read More

Review: Germinator for PS Vita

In-between grabbing the big blockbuster and high-profile indie games on handheld, it's always nice to have a bash at a few smaller arcadey releases.Germinator takes the gameplay behind the Bust-a-Move bubble-popping series and puts a germy spin on it, giving you a number of diseases to get rid of through the time-honoured pursuit of matching stuff.It's fun in small doses, but a lack of any real tactics or direction stalls the...

Read More

Review: Switch Galaxy for PS Vita

Sometimes a concept is so appealing it begs to be revisited, improved, and enhanced. That's clearly what Liverpool-based Atomicom has done with Switch Galaxy - this PS Mobile release is an augmented version of the Android and iOS title Switch.The game engine has been overhauled, the structure changed, and the entire concept given a well-earned lick of paint. The result is one of the most impressive PS Mobile titles yet.As in Switch,...

Read More

Sony confirms that more than 100 indie, AAA, and first-party titles are heading to PS Vita in 2013

Worried developers and publishers aren't giving Sony's PS Vita the attention it deserves? Worry no longer, you poor child.Don Mesa, Sony's director of product planning and platform software innovation, has told IGN that more than 100 titles will be released on Sony's powerhouse portable in 2013.These include indie hits like Hotline Miami and Thomas Was Alone; big names like Final Fantasy X HD and Killzone:...

Read More

Wrestle your way to true love in PS Vita brawler Guacamelee! from April 9th

Are you familiar with Guacamelee! You should be. We did bring it to your attention all the way back in June 2012, after all.Okay, we'll refresh your memory.Guacamelee! is a "Mexican-themed co-op-multiplayer dimension-swappingMetroid-vania beat-'em-up platformer" that's been developed with help from SCEA's Pub Fund program.We're telling you all of this because Guacamelee! is due to be released very soon....

Read More

GDC 2013: Punishing indie favourite Spelunky dropping into the PS Vita's cave this summer

It's official: unforgiving indie favouriteSpelunky will be diving onto PS Vita this summer.Mossmouth's compulsive - but cruel - platformer first prompted PC gamers to start singing its praises / tearing their hair out back in late 2008 when it appeared online in freeware form.Though it may look like a standard 2D platformer at first glance, the game's randomly generated levels and permadeath mechanic could have been pulled straight from...

Read More

Spooky silhouette puzzler Limbo is heading to PS Vita

Denmark-based developer Playdead will port its haunting puzzle-platformerLimbo to PlayStation Vita, according toIGN.Originally released on Xbox Live Arcade, Limbo is an atmospheric game about a small boy and his quest to find his sister.This kickstarts a spooky adventure - through dimly lit forests and run-down cityscapes - and a series of ingenious puzzles and gruesome deaths.This bleak monochromatic game is presented in...

Read More

Rumour: ESRB website listing outs Jak and Daxter Collection for PS Vita

A listing for a Vita version of the Jak and Daxter Collection recently appeared on the ESRB website, indicating that Sony is planning to publish the compilation trilogy soon for its handheld in North America.Released last winter for the PlayStation 3, the Jak and Daxter Collection includes HD remakes of three classic PlayStation 2 platformers from Naughty Dog's successful franchise - Jak and Daxter: The Precursor...

Read More

Team17 working on 'ultimate handheld version' of Worms for PS Vita

Debbie Bestwick, the managing director of Alien Breed developer Team17, has revealed in an interview with Red Bull that her company is working on a Worms game for Sony's PS Vita."One big Worms game we can mention is a game for the PS Vita that we are working closely with Sony on, this will be the ultimate handheld console version releasing later this year," Bestwick said.Unfortunately, Bestwick didn't...

Read More

How to grab latest PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale brawlers Issac Clarke and Zeus for free

Last week, Dead Spaceprotagonist Issac Clarke and Zeus from the God of Warfranchise pulled on their gloves and entered the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale ring.Good news, folks: if you have a Network Pass for Sony's recently released PlayStation 3 hit God of War: Ascension, you can download the DLC pack that contains these new brawlers for free.That's according to a post on Sony's official PlayStation...

Read More

Review: Alien Breed for PS Vita

Alien Breed is a bit of a classic. At the start of the early '90s, it was the game that made Team17 a success and allowed the studio to go on and create the huge Wormsseries.20 years later, it sure feels prehistoric, with level design that boils down to "here are some doors, corridors, and aliens - have fun!"And yet we found ourselves warming to this special edition release, because it's the definitive way to play Alien Breed -...

Read More

The Walking Dead: The Game to shamble onto PS Vita later this year

Sony has revealed that The Walking Dead: The Game will be shuffling onto the PS Vita before the year is out.In a chat with IGN, Sony's director of product planning and platform software innovation, Don Mesa, spilt the beans regarding the latest port of Telltale's acclaimed episodic adventure."Having [a studio] like Telltale, a very successful indie developer, coming in to support us sends a strong message," Mesa said.It's safe...

Read More

Multiplatform game engine Unity is expanding to PS Vita and PlayStation Mobile this year

Unity Technologies has announcedthat it will work with Sony to make its monstrously popular game engine available to PS Vita and PlayStation Mobile developers later this year.The Unity multiplatform engine powers a massive number of iOS games, like spooky box fiddler The Room, upcoming zombie killer Dead Trigger 2, and RPG Ravensword: Shadowlands.According to Unity Technologies CEO David Helgason, the engine's biggest USP...

Read More

Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and Thomas Was Alone heading to PS Plus in April

After March's strong PS Plus freebie pairing of Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection and Puddle, Sony knew it had to pull something impressive out of its digital library to impress Vita-owning PS Plus subscribers this month.Rather interestingly, though, the PS Plus curator isn't going down the mainstream über-franchise route with this month's complimentary software.Instead, Sony is giving you PS Plus subscribers the chance...

Read More

The new trailer for Dragon's Crown shows how cool a Dungeons & Dragons arcade game can look

We still don’t know when Dragon's Crown will make its way to North America, but we know that it sure will be pretty when it gets there.A new Japanese trailer for the 2D fantasy brawler surfaced today and while it's still a bit light in details, it shows off the glory of the game's hand-animated, 2D graphics wonderfully.Based on the venerable Dungeons & Dragons arcade game Tower of Doom, Dragon's Crown offers players...

Read More

Dogfight your way to victory in Vlambeer's Luftrausers for PS Vita

Around six or seven months ago,Ridiculous Fishing developer Vlambeer told us that it would "consider" bringing dogfighting title Luftrausers to "mobiles" once it'd finished work on the Mac and PC versions. Today, Vlambeer's Rami Ismail has confirmed on Sony's US PlayStation Blog that Luftrausers will definitely be coming - not to mobiles - but to the PS Vita handheld instead. According to the blog...

Read More

Review: Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon for 3DS

According to Nintendo, 2013 is "The Year of Luigi" - although, realistically, Mario's lanky brother is still playing second fiddle in most of his upcoming exploits, including Mario Golf: World Tour and Mario and Luigi: Dream Team.Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon is where Luigi really needs to shine if he's going to live up to his billing. And shine he does - generally in the direction of nasty ghosty things and the like.This sequel...

Read More