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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that the PlayStation editions of Ghostbusters will be released in June. The highly anticipated game will launch in PAL/European territories in co-ordination with the 25th anniversary edition of the blockbuster movie. Atari, who were due to be publishing all editions of the game, has said that the other editions [...]

Sony’s anticipated PlayStation 3 title LittleBigPlanet has suffered a global release delay. It has emerged that references to the Qur’an on an in-game music track are the cause of the delay. Sony has apologised and is rectifying the situation, with the game’s release date now expected in mid-November.  All retail copies of the game have been recalled, [...]

Hands up anyone who hasn’t seen the South Park episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft”? Good, that means I don’t have to explain the bit where Cartman gets his ‘mum’ to hold a potty so he can ‘go’ without leaving the game. Well for anyone who has done this, been asked to do this or even [...]

The official Playstation blog is carrying details on the launch of the free Metal Gear Online play test. If you’ve got yourself a key (sorry Sony, UPVC), you’ll be able to download the client tomorrow (or, for our newsletter chums, yesterday), and begin play on April 21st – May 5th. So possibly today, or tomorrow [...]

“PlayStation Network is extremely interesting because it’s a more flexible space,” states Riley Cooper, of Tomb Raider Anniversary fame. In the good old days before I discovered the PC was the answer to my gaming needs, consoles were straight forward. All the controllers were pretty much the same, there was none of this online malarkey… [...]

Fed up with being ripped off by gold farmers? Want a trustworthy way of buying your way to the best equipment in Everquest? Well it looks like your prayers are answered. Yesterday, Live Gamer announced that it had raised $24 million to build a “legitimate market for virtual trading”. Think of it as an ebay [...]

Are you sick to death of playing games on your PC? Of course you not, after all you’re not insane or anything? Are you? Having said that, maybe like a guilty schoolboy outside an adult bookstore, you’ve been recently tempted by one of the other spanky looking game machines winking suggestively at you from the shelves? Shame on you, Gameshadow can’t possibly [...]

Recent announcements from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have shown the differing costs of launching a console: Microsoft’s shares rose more than 10% yesterday after their quarterly results announcement showed strong results in the Vista and Office divisions, while sales of Halo 3 pushed the consumer division, which includes the Xbox 360, into profit. Nintendo announced it has [...]