If you own a PS2 and have never played either of the first two God of War games, you should consider yourself a failure as a gamer.  These titles not only represent the pinnacle of PS2 game development, but they also created one of the most popular and feared characters in all of gaming: Kratos.  If you missed the chance to play them, you missed out on some of the best hack and slash action adventure gameplay ever created.

Luckily, Sony is not content leaving the God of War games to sit and collect dust in the PS2 catalog.  As of today they have announced they will be bringing the first two titles to the PS3, in one full HD collection.  Read on to find out more. Read more… »

It’s time for the PS3 firmware to finally leave the terrible twos behind and upgrade to the new and exciting version 3.00.  Later this evening the new firmware update, originally announced earlier this month at Gamescom, will finally be unleashed upon the public for mass download.  Along with it will come a laundry list of features including multiple cosmetic and navigation related changes, which are sure to make everyone’s experience a little bit better.

In case you’ve forgotten what the new features are, or if you never saw them to begin with, hit the jump for a complete list. Read more… »

The PSN garage is becoming continually clogged with waves of exclusive, cheap and cheerful racing games. Toy Home and GTI Club + were always the frontrunners, but now there’s another one with Smash Cars, a new RC racer from Creat Studios.

These games pride themselves on being both fun and accessible slices of low fat goodness, so how does Smash Cars fare after pulling up alongside its established neighbours? Read more… »

Extracting what Avi Winkler, Senior Games Designer at A2M, has spilled regarding their upcoming shooter WET, he says gamers shouldn’t dismiss it due to A2M’s family-friendly background. That said, we probably won’t. The Eliza Dushku-casted game is rated Mature (M), and as the demo proved, swearing is indeed part of the foray. The same goes for the buckets of blood.

Check inside to read the extract from the interview with Gamer Limit.

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He kinda looks like Gizmo, is almost as cute and is invading your Playstation 3 this year. Sony’s Eyepet has the potential to be this year’s must have Christmas gift for younger gamers, tapping into the same market that made Nintendogs such a success for Nintendo. While I don’t fit into that demographic I still really want one, he’s just so damn cute!

Read on for the release date and the official trailer in all its sugar coated awesomeness.

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BAM!

The first screenshot from Grand Theft Auto IV‘s soon-to-be-released DLC, The Ballad of Gay Tony, was just released.

But wait, there’s more!  Hit the jump.  Do it now!

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[Join Aussie Jeff Effendi and American Christopher Matulich as they both review the newest iteration of Wolfenstein: intro by Jeff]

You’d think that a man with the initials ‘B.J.’ would try his best to stay away from special operation reports, but yet, here we are again, discussing the latest entry in id Software’s Nazi-killing franchise. Aptly titled plain Wolfenstein for current-gen gamers, Agent Blazkowicz’s latest adventure once again sees our hero gunning down up-to-no-good henchmen of Hitler’s.

Wolfenstein doesn’t play like your run-of-the-mill World War II first person shooter (FPS); it takes place in an alternate timeline, a time when Germans spoke with bogus American accents. This, in turn, has also meant that gamers aren’t locked to the same old discourse of the Allied v Axis battles, corroded, rusty rifles, pointy Balaclavas and Stalin’s moustache. That said, there’s probably only one question you want answered: Just how good is a war that allows you to revolt against occult-experimenting Nazis? Read more… »

In our upcoming interview with A2M’s Senior Games Designer, Avi Winkler stated that there may not be any future downloadable content (DLC) for their highly anticipated acrobatic-shooter, WET. Despite the increasing trend of both multiplayer modes and micro-transactions on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, A2M believes that these extensions may detract the game’s overall experience.

Hit the jump for the official word from our interview with A2M.

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Cry no more fight fans, SNK Playmore has just announced the UK release date for its gorgeous looking 2D beat ‘em up, The King of Fighters XII.

The best part? We won’t have the annoying glitches everybody else who got it before us had!

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With Guitar Hero 5 less than a week away from release, Activision has announced that the era-defining frontman of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, will be a playable character in their latest installment of the successful guitar simulation franchise.

Hit the jump for some further details. Read more… »

It’s a NFS: Shift overload – yet another trailer has been released for the upcoming racer, demonstrating its racing simulation capabilities whilst giving you a tour of Road America.

You can watch the new trailer after the break, and, as a bonus, some screenshots featuring every car in the game have also been unveiled – view all 72 cars here.

I smell a playable demo coming soon.

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This Christmas looks to be a promising period this year, particularly for the Playstation 3. There are already some high profile exclusives on their way, but today marks another one to add to that list with Ratchet & Clank Future: a Crack in Time, which is now scheduled for release on October 27th.

There has been little coverage on this title so far, but after Tools of Destruction the anticipation for this sequel will no doubt rise accordingly, as more coverage of this Pixar esque game is released.

A European release date has yet to be announced however, but hopefully it won’t suffer the same fate as a certain Up which we have yet to enjoy despite it being released a good 3 months ago everywhere else. Sorry, just had to get that off of my chest.

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