Final Fantasy Origins, Choplifter HD added to PlayStation Store

Posted on January 11, 2012 by John Scalzo

The first two chapters of the Final Fantasy saga were added to the PlayStation Network yesterday. With the addition of Final Fantasy Origins to the PSone Classics line, Square Enix has also ensured that all nine PSone games in the franchise are now available to download from the store. Speaking of Final Fantasy, a Final Fantasy XIII-2 demo was also made available to download yesterday.

Also available this week is Choplifter HD, “a classic arcade adventure, reimagined in stunning HD!” Players will be able to pilot their chopper through frantic war zones while rescuing survivors and raining down destruction.

Here’s what else you can grab from the PlayStation Store this week:

PSN Games

Crazy Machines Elements ($9.99)
Hundreds of totally wacky chain reactions are just waiting to be created! Experience the latest chapter in the international, multi award-winning Crazy Machines series: “Elements”. This time with next gen visuals!

PS3 Full Games

Sports Champions ($29.99)
Sports Champions will let you and your friends physically engage in an array of competitive sporting activities as you go head to head in six events. With the easy to use PlayStation Move motion controller, anyone can crush, spike and smoke the competition in the ultimate sports showdown.

Toy Story 3: The Video Game ($19.99)
In the Toy Story 3: The Video Game help Buzz, Woody, and the rest of the toys ensure no toy gets left behind. Dive into all new heroic adventures in Story Mode or let your imagination run wild in the exciting new open world of Toy Box Mode.

And for a full rundown of all the new game add-ons and demos available this week, head over to the PlayStation Blog.

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Modern Warfare 3 Content Season trailer hints at single-player expansion

Posted on January 11, 2012 by John Scalzo

Are you ready to go behind-the-scenes of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Content Season, specificially the new maps, “Liberation” and “Piazza?” Then you’re in luck, as Infinity Ward has released a video detailing all of the work the team is putting into the first of 20 content drops they have planned for Modern Warfare 3 in 2012.

Most interesting of all is the fact that Robert Bowling, Community Manager at Infinity Ward, strongly hinted that the team is planning at least one expansion to the single-player campaign when he summed up the new content that’ll be available for Modern Warfare 3: “Awesome multiplayer, new Spec Ops missions, extensions to the story, new game modes that we can add…”

The last (and so far, only) time a Call of Duty game received a single-player expansion was 2004’s Call of Duty: United Offensive.

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The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection Review: Revisiting Perfection

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Nicole Kline

The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is something many gamers have anticipated for a long time. Hardcore fans of the series and those who never had a chance to play these two masterpieces were equally excited at the opportunity to play the games remastered and in high definition. The highly awaited Blu-ray disc also includes some bonus features, including the ability to play the game in full stereoscopic 3D. It’s a perfect package, with enough here to fill the appetite of nearly any gamer.

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Daily Scoop: January 10, 2012 – Two-shirt Tuesday!

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Nicole Kline

It’s a balmy Tuesday, with the promise of a lovely night. New demos are on my schedule for this evening, as well as a game I’m reviewing on the iPad. You’ll just have to wait until the review is up to know what that game is, though. It’s a delightful secret!

Let’s see, what’s up for today in the world of deals? Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games is the Aksys game Fate/Extra LE. This PSP game is on sale for $29.99 today only. Also, this week at Amazon, get $50 in promotional credit when you buy the Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect. Personally, i’m waiting for the Xbox 360 Limited Edition Kinect Star Wars Bundle…

Two awesome t-shirts today, both of which I want! Hit the jump for details…

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Nine months of CoD Modern Warfare 3 DLC announced

Posted on January 10, 2012 by John Scalzo

You knew they were coming, and now, Activision has announced the details of the first two downloadable maps for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Scheduled to drop January 24 for Xbox 360-owning Call of Duty Elite subscribers, “Liberation” and “Piazza” will bring the war to Central Park and a serene Italian villa. In “Liberation,” players will find “a vast, militarized landscape, ripe for long-range sniper and LMG fire, with mounted turrets on either end that lend power to anyone brave enough to expose themselves in exchange for deadly firepower.” Meanwhile, “Piazza” is considered “the idyllic Italian getaway that is anything but, where tight corners and branching pathways pose great risk at every turn.”

Call of Duty Elite users will also receive a variety of content drops throughout 2012. At least once per month, Activision plans to unleash a new piece of content on the CoD Elite community. In addition to the maps, another piece of content will launch in mid-February with two more scheduled for March. All told, at least 20 pieces of DLC will be released for Modern Warfare 3 between now and September.

All of the CoD Elite content drops will be available first for Xbox 360 owners with PC and PS3 subscribers getting them “at a later time.”

But speaking of March, that’s how long non-Call of Duty Elite subscribers will have to wait to get their hands on these maps, when the first “Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection” will be made available for download.

That’s the sound of Activision selling many more CoD Elite subscriptions. Dismissed!

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 tees off on March 27

Posted on January 10, 2012 by John Scalzo

Are you ready to tee off in 2012? EA Sports has announced that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on March 27 (sorry Wii owners).

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 will Kinect/Move support, 22 professional golfers (including Rory McIlroy, Rickie Fowler, and Bubba Watson), 16 courses, and “Total Swing Control.” According to EA Sports, Tiger Woods 13 will feature the “most significant leap forward in swing mechanics in over a decade.”

In addition to enhanced controller controls and brand new motion control, Tiger Woods 13 will include several new modes. In “Tiger’s Golf Legacy,” players will be able to relive Tiger’s career on the links from his child prodigy days all the way up to the present. And with “Online Country Clubs,” players will be able to create their own exclusive country club and compete with their friends online.

Finally, players looking for an extended golf outing will be able to purchase The Masters Collector’s Edition for $69.99. It’ll include five additional courses, the Augusta National’s Tournament Practice Facility and Par 3 Course, an authentic Green Jacket Presentation, and “a chance to explore the hallowed grounds like never before.”

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Silent Hill HD Collection will now scare gamers in March

Posted on January 10, 2012 by John Scalzo

Konami has informed Game Informer that the Silent Hill HD Collection won’t be available in stores on January 24 as previously announced.

The compilation package, which contains Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3, will instead be released sometime in March. This new release date will actually push the HD Collection into competition with Silent Hill: Downpour, which also has a March release date.

That’s a lot of Silent Hill for PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers to handle.

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Blizzard confirms Diablo III is coming to consoles

Posted on January 10, 2012 by John Scalzo

Blizzard hasn’t been shy about telling the world they were working on a “controller test” for Diablo III. However, they have also been quick to point out that a console version of the game wasn’t being officially announced as its release wasn’t a certainty.

But as of today, it is.

Blizzard Community Manager Micah Whiple was asked to confirm or deny the existence of the console version of Diablo III by another Twitter user and, with a simple “Yup,” confirmed that the game is no longer PC exclusive:

TaNGoIX:
@Bashiok can you confirm or deny Diablo 3 coming to consoles? Thanks.

Bashiok:
@TaNGoIX Yup. Josh Mosqueira is lead designer for the Diablo console project.

Obviously, it is much too early to speculate about a date for Diablo III’s debut on consoles (or even which consoles it’ll appear on, for that matter). But confirmation that it’s a real game and not just a test is a good first step.

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