Gaming has been growing with the female market for several years now. In fact, there number of male to female games are slowly reaching equal numbers. According to Nielsen, around 45% of active gamers are female. Even more surprising is that that PSP is more popular with female gamers, with 52% of owners being female.
A group of hackers over at the haxnetwork are claiming that they have successfully discovered a method that will allow you to boot back-up copies of PS3 Blu-Ray games using MotorStorm. Whether or not the exploit actually work remains to be seen. Naturally, Sony won’t be too happy to see their un-hackable console finally being exploited to run illegal copies of games.
VidZone has hit another major milestone since it was launched back in June 2009. Its taken VidZone exactly five months to rack up another million downloads, bringing the total to over 2 million downloads in total. VidZone is “officially the biggest dedicated music video streaming application in the world”, according to Ben Creasy, Head of Production for VidZone.
The first PlayStation Store update of 2010 will feature the Dark Void demo from Capcom. The playable demo will be available on the PlayStation Store from January 7th 2010 will the full game scheduled for release later this month, on January 22nd 2010. The demo will give you a fantastic introduction to the game and is a great cross section of the broad experience you’ll get in the full game.
The heroes of Army of Two: The 40th Day Salem & Rios have come to London from their home in Montreal to help promote the launch of their brand new video game. The pair’s antics, captured in a new trailer released today, show Salem and Rios speaking with BBC 1Xtra’s Rampage Crew – Mike Anthony and Treble T – getting Kara Tointon to do their make-up, signing copies of the game for fans (including The Inbetweeners star and robot dance maestro Blake Harrison), rocking out with music act Pint Shot Riot, and generally creating havoc all over the city. Check out the trailer below.
If you find a PSN user causing trouble, cheating or offending anyone you can report the user to Sony who can then take appropriate action. Cheating is one of the main reasons we recommend reporting, as these players spoil the fun for everyone. This could involve exploiting glitches in the game to get ahead or use of other non-permitted action.
You can use Sony’s Grief Reporting service to report such users.
The wild boys of the SSC face hell again in this sequel to the hit third-person teamwork-based shooter. Army of Two: The 40th Day reunites Salem and Rios as they’re forced to survive in a city under siege. The sequel includes more co-op moves for players to use at any time, which will allow for completely different strategies and options in battle, adding up to a bigger, more organic and immersive co-op experience.
Uncharted 2’s co-op multiplayer missions are certainly popular among players, and its likely that Naughty Dog will be expanding the available missions. Speaking with G4, Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells has said “So for future DLC, could we add more co-op? Probably more in the arena-style type of gameplay, like our Survival and our Gold Rush modes.”
PlayStation Home is the place to be today, thanks to Sony. You will be able to watch the 2010 ball drop in the Central Plaza at 11:59PM on December 31st 2009. You won’t have to go out in the cold and you can still enjoy the company of your friends. When the ball drops, you will receive exclusive items for use in PlayStation Home.
Mat Thomas, a game designer at United Front Games, has created a walkthrough video to talk about their approach to the racing and give you an insight into the philosophy around developing the handling, weapons and AI. Thomas talks about the different racing elements including the weapons available and things you can do to build up your boost bar, and some information on the game’s Artificial Intelligence.
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