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God of War: Ascension PS3 bundle has you seeing red
Why do they always make the cool system bundles after I purchase them?
Keeping with the tradition of making me regret my purchases (I still wish I bought the NES-style Game Boy Advance), Sony has announced the God of War: Ascension “Legacy Bundle,” which will hit stores on March 12th.
For the low, low price of $349, this bundle includes the God of War Saga compilation (which features all the God of War games released, including the PSP outings), the new God of War: Ascension and a 30-day trial for PlayStation Plus. The system is a Garnet Red PS3 with a very robust 500 GB hard drive, easily enough room to hold all the freebies you’ll get during your 30-day PS+ subscription.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged God of War III, God of War: Ascension, God of War: Origins Collection
Bethesda soundtracks now available on iTunes
Still got leftover credit from all those iTunes gift cards you got for the holidays and don’t know what to spend them on? Well, Bethesda just made your music-purchasing decisions a whole lot easier. Starting today, you can buy the soundtracks to the following Bethesda games:
Dishonored ($9.99)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind ($9.99)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ($9.99)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ($15.99)
Fallout 3 ($11.99)
Fallout: New Vegas ($11.99)
Rage ($9.99)
Just click on the above names and you’ll be taken right to their corresponding iTunes page. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to listen to some Fallout 3.
Posted in Etcetera, News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Dishonored, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Rage, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Madden NFL 14 will celebrate 25th anniversary of the series on August 27
Stop the presses! EA Sports has announced that Madden NFL 14 will be released on August 27. Giving the green light to another Madden game was surely a tough decision for company executives, but they’ve decided to give the team at EA Tiburon another chance.
Madden NFL 14 will be the 25th annual release in the series, stretching all the way back to 1989’s John Madden Football. In fact, EA is even asking gamers to “Check back soon for more details regarding Madden 25.” So it might not be known as Madden NFL 14 at all.
I wonder how John Madden wants to celebrate his silver anniversary? I’m guessing with a nice, juicy piece of turducken.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Madden NFL 25
Latest Earth Defense Force 2025 gameplay trailer asks “Victory or Destruction?”
Have you been sitting in front of your computer, madly refreshing D3 Publisher’s YouTube Channel in hopes of finding a new Earth Defense Force 2025 trailer? Just me? OK, then…
But if you’re like me, you’ll be happy to know that a new trailer featuring two minutes of gameplay footage from Earth Defense Force 2025 has just been uploaded. It ain’t much, but if you’ve been caught in the EDF’s web, it’s certainly something.
Earth Defense Force 2025 will be released sometime this year for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Earth Defense Force 2025
Sony is revealing “the future” of PlayStation on February 20
Sony is no stranger to the practice of teasing gamers with a fancy trailer and promises of a big announcement only to reveal another trailer (in fact, they did it yesterday). But the consolemaker has announced that their next big announcement will be revealed to the world on February 20 at 6 PM (Eastern Time). The teaser trailer above, dubbed “See the future,” includes a lot of pretty colors and four familiar shapes (a Circle, a Triangle, an X, and an O).
So what future should we be on the lookout for, Sony? Is it the PlayStation 4/Orbis? A Vita refresh? A new entry in a long-running series for the PS3?
Or is it just another stupid commercial for a commercial? As they say, “once burned, twice shy,” so you’ll forgive me if I’m not jumping up and down over yet another teaser trailer… yet.
Posted in News, PS3, PS4, Vita
Tagged PlayStation Meeting 2013
Grand Theft Auto V release date set for September 17
When I think about Spring, I think about Easter, PAX East, and baseball. What I don’t normally think about is the month of September. But I guess the folks at Rockstar Games think a bit differently from me as they’ve announced that the official release date for Grand Theft Auto V will be September 17, 2013. Let me just check a calendar… nope, September definitely doesn’t fall within the Springtime.
According to Rockstar, the additional development time is required to create the “massively ambitious and complex game” and that it “simply needs a little more polish to be of the standard we and, more importantly, you require.”
I guess we can stop referring to May as the month of Rockstar, huh?
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Grand Theft Auto V
Sony unveils teaser for God of War: Ascension Super Bowl ad
Do you know how you know you’ve crossed over into the twilight zone? I do. You enter the twilight zone when a video game publisher releases a cryptic teaser trailer like yesterday’s “Game Day” video, which is itself a teaser for another teaser trailer they released less than 24 hours later.
Got all that? Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense to me either.
But that’s just what Sony did. On Tuesday, the publisher pushed out the 17-second “Game Day” teaser that promises a further reveal on February 1. Today, Sony released a slightly longer teaser trailer for what we now know is a God of War: Ascension Super Bowl ad. This teaser again ends with the promise of more details on February 1. It’s neat, but it also makes the “Game Day” video a teaser of a teaser of a trailer.
And who wants to be the one to tell Sony that Super Bowl XLVII is actually scheduled for February 3?
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged God of War: Ascension
PSN Today: Crysis 3 beta, GTA Vice City, Hitman HD Trilogy, more
It’s another big week for the PlayStation Store as Sony and Electronic Arts have added a Crysis 3 open beta to the PSN. The beta is available to download for free by all PS3 owners from now until February 12. The digital download version can also now be pre-ordered through the PS Store, so you can be sure you’ve got it first thing on February 19.
Also available this week is Square Enix’s Hitman HD Trilogy. The up-rezzed versions of Agent 47’s second, third, and fourth games are available as separate PSN downloads or as one combined bundle.
Going back in time a bit, this week also sees the addition of a trio of games that were previously available as disc-only releases including Platinum’s Bayonetta, Konami’s Zone of the Enders HD Collection, and Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (that one’s a PS2 Classic).
There’s even that’s new to the PlayStation Store this week. You can read all about them after the break. And don’t forget to visit the PlayStation Blog for a list of this week’s new game add-ons. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged Bayonetta, Crysis 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Hitman HD Trilogy