With only two days until Santa drops gaming goodies down your chimney, what better way to relax, rewind and review the year gone by with a special festive edition of Access TV? Episode 14 is now available to watch online, right here, and reveals the winner (and four runners up) of the Access Game of the Year.
Sony has announced that the PlayStation Vita will come with a few extras when it launches in February 2012 in Europe and North America. The PlayStation Vita will come bundled with six AR Play Cards and a voucher code to download three AR games, all for free.
Sony has confirmed the recommended retail prices (RRP) for PS Vita game cards, that’s boxed copies of games that you buy from physical retailers, as well as official prices for the memory cards and accessories for the portable console. The console will have a fantastic line-up for launch, available at a range of prices between €29.99 and €49.99.
Telltale’s latest epic adventure, Jurassic Park: The Game, is now available to download in Europe from the PlayStation Store. Jurassic Park: The Game takes players back to Isla Nublar – the site of Jurassic Park – during the events of the first movie. It allows you to experience Jurassic Park as they never have before in an interactive format.
This bit of news is likely to cause disappointment to players who tend to purchase second-hand games. On the PlayStation Vita, trophies can only be unlocked for the first player that uses the game. If you purchase a second-hand game, all the game data on the card needs to be reset before the second player can earn trophies.
A new update for Sony’s Tablet S has introduced the ability to sync the PS3’s DualShock 3 controller to the device. The update, listed as Android version 3.2.1 Update 2, is 19MB is size and now available to download for your tablet.
Sony has managed to sell a total of 321,407 PlayStation Vitas on December 17 (the day it was launched in Japan) and 18, according to Japanese video game magazine Famitsu [JP]. This pretty solid number means that big S has sold about 46% of its initial shipment of Vitas (which is rumored to be around 700,000 units) in 48 hours.
If you are one of the select PSN gamers invited to take part in the Starhawk Private Beta, you better make the most of it over the holiday break. As of Tuesday, January 3rd 2012, the lights will go down on the Starhawk Private Beta until the Public Beta is announced.
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