A new game, When Vikings Attack, has been announced for the PS3 and PS Vita. In this all-action fighting adventure, a battalion of Viking invaders, 1200 years late to the party, are causing havoc in your town. Imagine getting together a posse of local citizens, then ripping up a phone booth or picking up a car, and hurling it at the advancing Viking hordes.
A new video showing off the PS3 to PS Vita cross-platform gameplay and features of Foosball 2012 has been released. First of all, when you buy Foosball 2012, you’ll get it for both the PS3 and PS Vita for a price of a single PSN game. The same applies for DLC content that you will be able to buy.
Ubisoft have announced their E3 2012 line-up, which consists of Assassin’s Creed III, Far Cry 3, Rayman Legends and Rocksmith. Unannounced games will also revealed at their invite-only press conference on June 4th 2012. “This year’s E3 promises to be one of our biggest and best yet,” said Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft.
The PlayStation Network will be offline for scheduled maintenance from 16:00 (BST) Thursday 24th May until – 08:00 (BST) on Friday 25th May. During the maintenance window, the PlayStation Store will be inaccessible along with other PSN related services like the PlayStation Blog.
Earlier this month, all the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves DLC was made available in North America for free. Today, SCEE is following suit by making the same DLC available in Europe for free. The DLC will only be free until June 27th 2012 so be sure to grab it before then.
When it comes to Flash content, the PS Vita can’t compete with smartphones and tablets. Although the console is still very new, Flash compatibility is one of the features that can help the PS Vita compete against the likes of the iPhone and Android smartphones – of the two platforms, only Android smartphones support Flash.
Sony has outed another game ahead of E3 next month. “Bullet Run” will be a free-to-play shooter, and has been in development for the past two years by German developer ACONY Games. The online title will support up to 20 players over 6 maps.
The first two Uncharted games are turning into digital downloads on the PlayStation Store later next month. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Game of the Year Edition) will land on the PlayStation Store in the downloadable PS3 game section on June 26th.
Sorcery is the first of its kind, a full-fledged action adventure created natively for PS Move. The game has been in the making since the first announcement back at E3 2010, and will finally launch across PAL regions tomorrow. In the mean time, check out the Launch Trailer below.
Michael Pachter, analyst and all round videogames industry celebrity, has urged Sony and Microsoft to consider the impact that locking out pre-owned software will have on consumers. Both the PlayStation 4 and next Xbox may potentially lock-out second-hand games, but Sony’s Jack Tretton went on the record to say locking out used games is “anti-consumer”.
