This year’s E3 felt like a watershed moment for indie gaming and a large part of that is due to Sony. It’s amazing as a consumer to see them embrace smaller studios crafting unique games, given their early days as a console creator. During the PS1 era, they were seemingly against 2D gaming and wanted [...]

Welcome to This Week in Gaming, where we take a look back at some of the most newsworthy events in gaming history from last year to even decades ago that happened this very week. Take a gander at some of the highlights and see which spark nostalgia and which may still be news to you. [...]

DUST 514 is a big game with big implications. For starters, it’s a companion piece to the outrageously successful MMORPG EVE Online, which has something of a hardcore, cult-like following at this point. Secondly, it’s a persistent online shooter that does quite a bit you haven’t seen before, or at least much of, in the [...]

Tomorrow, in North America, Sony will be offering an “Ultimate Deals” sale on the PlayStation Network. The sale will consist of ten specific games and their respective DLC content at a highly discounted price. Standard PSN members can expect to get themselves a 65% discount, while PlayStation Plus subscribers will earn up to 75% off. [...]

So Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX, despite having a painfully typical Square-Enix name, is looking to wrangle up a new generation of gamers by giving them a compilation consisting of a few of the installments in the series in one complete package. To set the stage for the upcoming North American release, Square released today [...]

In the midst of all the industry hustle and bustle, it’s easy to miss out on certain games. Titles that haven’t been marketed well, smaller projects from unknown developers, timing issues that resulted in games being overshadowed by bigger, more recognizable series; regardless of the reason, great games slip under the radar all the time. [...]

So, cross-over features are pretty cool, right? Unfortunately, the act of portables and consoles communicating with one another doesn’t happen as often as it could or should. Team Ninja, the studio behind Dead or Alive 5, hopes to remedy that. According to Famitsu, the upcoming DOA5 Plus for PlayStation Vita will feature Cross Play in [...]

Namco Bandai Games recently unveiled their upcoming Jump Ultimate Stars-inspired fighter, Project Versus J. Up and to today, all we have known about the game is the released teaser image which appears to showcase the silhouette of three prominent characters from the Shonen Jump line of anime and manga: Goku from Dragon Ball Z, Luffy [...]

In typical fashion, those in the Land of the Rising Sun are being treated to a snazzy new Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance-themed PS3 that is set to release alongside the game in February. The sleek bundle comes complete with a 250GB harddrive, special edition controller and a handful of exclusive downloads. According to rumors, specific [...]

Black Friday is one of The United States’ biggest shopping events and there were a number of deals regarding games and game consoles this year. Microsoft and Nintendo both posted their impressive figures and now Sony has done the same. SCEA has announced they sold over 525,000 Playstation 3s between November 18th and the 24th, [...]