Calvin Chu

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It seems an earlier rumour regarding the possible inclusion of the long-awaited In-Game Xross Media Bar feature is beginning to look solid. Too long has PlayStation 3 owners wanted such a feature as it will indefinately bring the PlayStation 3 one step closer to the Xbox 360. Tasks such as replying to a message from […]

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If you live in London like me, you’ll be please to know that Hideo Kojima will be at the HMV Store on Oxford Street come Monday June 2nd. He’ll be signing 300 pre-release Metal Gear Solid 4 game sleeves (exclusive to HMV). The price? A £5 deposit, and you have to pre-order the game at […]

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Rockers! The downloadable content which has been available to the US is now accessible to Europe on the Xbox Live Marketplace. I’ve already purchased a few songs which I know I want, but as for the rest I will be buying them in the future once I’ve exhausted the vast number of songs already on […]

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For more than a decade Polyphony Digital has blessed us with their highly successful series, Gran Turismo. Combining realistic physics and slick presentation, Gran Turismo ushered in a new wave of driving games which moved away from the arcade genre to incorporating more realistic qualities of driving and racing in general. Now with the PlayStation […]

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One of the games I least expected to enjoy on the Xbox 360, Viva Piñata, turned out to be one of my all-time favs. Now to my surprise it’s getting a sequel. And to think I thought Rare has gone and left it alone, how wrong I was.
Titled Viva Piñata 2: Trouble In Paradise, the […]

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Good news. Play.com just added the listing for a Limited Edition of the highly anticipated PlayStation 3 title, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Bad news? You have to cough up 80 quid for it.
Immediately this will have some fans throw up their arms and cry “WTF?” But, this is what you get […]

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PlayStation Day 2008 has come and gone here in London. Here are some things announced during the presentation which caught my eye:

Killzone 2 Delayed til February 2009
LittleBigPlanet Confirmed for October 2008
PlayStation Home will still remain in Beta and not be released any time soon.
Resistance 2 will have a larger focus on Co-op and social […]

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Have you ever seen those insane videos of people playing 2D top down arcade shooters with the hand eye coordination that could put even professional sportsmen to shame? Have you ever watched one and said “Yeah I could probably do that” only to fail miserably? Well, if you want to have another go and fail […]

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In the past 20 months or so I’ve had my Xbox 360… wait, let me rephrase. In the past 20 months or so I’ve had three Xbox 360s, two of which RROD’d and currently on my third, one thing has never been far from my thoughts is how goddamn loud the thing is.
Now I don’t […]

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