Update #1: This giveaway has now ended. Thank you for your interest!
Update #2: I can announce that the winner is Glenn! Well done, your copy will be on its way to you very soon
Would you like to snag yourself a brand-new, sealed copy of LittleBigPlanet?
Yes, I bet you would. Read on to find out how.
Empire Blog attacks character of Aunt May– I feel that the attack is a little bit on the harsh side! What do you think?
Aunt May is supposed to be the hero’s role model and the wise, kindly heart of the franchise. In reality, she’s a humourless, boring windbag — Yoda without the lightsaber, kung fu skills or amusing wordplay.
PlayStation.Blog’s CES 2009 updates– Want to know the latest? There’s no place better than straight from the horse’s mouth.
I don’t really know what I was expecting from the PSP version of this great game, but I fancied killing a few birds with one stone: using the PlayStation Store naitively on the PSP, then buying and running a downloadable game.
Before I get ahead of myself, I’ll just give you the lowdown. Super Stardust HD was the blockbuster PlayStation Network title of 2007 which attracted plenty of attention in 2008 by being the first game ever on the PS3 to support Trophies by means of a patch.
Super Stardust Portable aims to capture the essence of its bigger brother, and share the magic on the small screen with PSP gamers. I have to admit that I don’t really see much of what captured my attention with the first game, in this portable version. Read on, and I’ll tell you why…
This is a guest post by Elle, who you may remember from the old City In The Clouds blog. She now blogs at elle87.wordpress.com
I have finished the entire game, and very surprisingly I feel extremely let down, despite it giving me hours of entertainment intermingled at times with severe frustration, especially as I had big expectations for it. Why, you ask…? Well read on!
LocoRoco 2 is very much similar to the original LocoRoco, but has been advanced, in many ways… for there is more interaction. The first noticeable difference being the annoying world map, where you literally, at times, have to go the whole way round the world to find where your next point of adventure lies. Each level within its own planet section has a theme, whether it be a snowy setting or a jungle.
The second difference is that the LocoRocos can swim. It’s hard to figure out at first to get the LocoRocos where you want/need them to go. My top tip though is to beware of the creatures you meet, and remember the saying: never judge a book by its cover!
Updated January 2009
You can think of this as part 2 of my previous post, ‘An insight into how faulty PS3s are dealt with‘. That article dealt with the straightforward replacement of a faulty console and the issues surrounding warranties. This article deals with backing up the data of your PS3, and when things go wrong…
At the weekend I was playing LittleBigPlanet but after I had completed a particular level, instead of the next one loading up the screen went totally white and the system seemed to freeze. The PS3 then restarted and spat out the disc. I’d had enough gaming for one night anyway, so I turned the system off and went away.
I came back to the PS3 the following day only to find that none of my PS3 disks would load. It was the same with DVDs and CDs. I have to admit, I then panicked. But it was weird because apart from that, the rest of the PS3 worked totally fine. I could play games that were on the hard disk, connect to the PlayStation Network, and browse the PlayStation Store. But what use is a PS3 that won’t load game disks?
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LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid costume and level Packs: better than sliced bread– You know I’m absolutely going to get this! Probably the first compelling reason to spend money on a LBP content pack is here. Click the link and watch the video; I dare you not to be impressed (it also has 11 extra Trophies!). I need to persuade my bro to do some multiplayer on LBP though, it looks so much fun…
The Killzone 2 FAQ– The most definitive FAQ I’ve ever seen. If it ain’t covered, it ain’t worth bothering about. Hats off to the guys at Joystiq!
Yes, I own GTA IV, but have I really played it yet? Absolutely not. At the time of GTA IV’s release, I was happily engrossed in playing Race Driver: GRID. At the back of my mind from previous experience of past GTA titles, was that each games requires an enormous investment of time. An investment I wasn’t willing to make without Trophies.
You’re probably thinking “Yes, Los Havros has really done it this time. He’s finally sold himself out, putting thoughts of Trophies before the game itself”. Fair enough, but this is my rationale for doing this. The only game that I’ve been willing to play through for possibly the 4th or 5th time for Trophies has been Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Yet Uncharted has nowhere near the number of hours of gameplay that GTA IV has.
If I had already played through GTA IV, I doubt that I’d start from scratch again just for Trophies. I’ve even seen quite a large number of posts from gamers who have stated exactly that. Secondly, my time is precious these days. I don’t actually have enough time to play each game in turn for 100% completion. Even a game that I have actually completed like Uncharted, hasn’t been completed 100% as I haven’t collected all the Trophies for it yet.
So I suppose either over the Christmas period or through 2009 I vow to make a start on GTA IV by completing as much of the story as I can, and see how far through the Trophy system I can make it. This isn’t a cast iron promise though, as something may inevitably crop up (there’s also the new ‘easier’ patch for PixelJunk Eden to consider). But there you go. I swear that after I’ve finished my degree I’ll be king of the jungle gym… of gaming. Possibly.
Anyone got any games they haven’t yet started, but they’re going to have a decent crack at this Christmas?
