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  • Watch Dogs will Disrupt the industry and PS4 gamers will benefit most

    Ubisoft is one of the industry’s most prolific game publishers this generation, thanks in no small part to the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Since 2010, the stealth-action series has become an annual juggernaut, shifting millions of copies and implementing new tweaks to the formula –...

  • Why the Silent Hill franchise boasts one of the greatest videogame heroes of all time

    Warning – this article contains major spoilers for Silent Hill 2! Silent Hill 2 is often revered as one of the most influential horror games of all time, and more importantly, one of gaming’s most polished offerings in terms of storytelling. Yes, it plays like your rudimentary third-per...

  • This Week's Top Stories: April 15 - 20, 2013

    Welcome to another instalment in our weekly news digest where the team at PSU Towers picks our favourite slices of gaming gossip from the past seven days. See below for the week’s highlights. - - - - - - - - Yoshida: PS4 and PS Vita were developed simultaneously In the latest issue of Ed...

  • Do video games need dinosaurs? Primal Carnage thinks so

    Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Colossal creatures like the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Brachiosaurus roamed about the Earth just as we not-so-colossal humans do today. Unlike the dinosaurs, we humans have cars, computers, tea, and written language. Yet, despite our technology and ho...

  • PS4 needs a better PlayStation Store - Here's 10 ways to start

    When Sony announced the PlayStation Store redesign that went live late last year, gamers were promised a faster, easy-to-use storefront that would streamline the buying process and put exciting content in our hands with immediacy. These lofty initial goals leave the PlayStation Store's current state...

  • Fix PS3 HDMI problem with troubleshooting guide

    This guide aims to help those having problems with HDMI blank screen/no signal issues with the PlayStation 3. Try these steps in order. If none of them work then there may be a problem with your display or PS3 console. Reset Video Output 1. Put your PS3 on standby. 2. Unplug the power lead. 3. ...

  • OPINION: European Commission shoots down tax incentives for U.K. game industry, but its logic is absurd

    The ever-waging fight for tax breaks in the U.K. game industry is known all too well by developers. The sheer opportunities that would blossom from offering tax breaks to developers are overwhelming. But the idea has been dealt another smack in the teeth with the European Commission--the U.K.'s anal...

  • Confessions of a Trophy whore

    Welcome to PSU.com's hit series on the world of gaming. Join our hosts Skip Williams and Max Platinum as they give you the inside scoop on a myriad of topics in gaming. From how to catapult up the Trophy rankings to debating about the current console war, don't change that channel as there might eve...

  • Podcast Derailed - Episode 39 - Guacamelee, Chicken Wings, Defiance

    This week join Don Oliveira, Kyle Prahl, Ben (Chille) Shillabeer-Hall, Will Robinson and, eventually, Rob Zwetsloot as we talk about everything from Mountain Dew to Zelda. I hate when episodes are this far apart. It really throws us off. Take the episode headline, for instance; “Chicken Wing...

  • Defiance pilot episode review - "one of the worst TV shows I have ever seen"

    As a fan of the Defiance MMO I sat down with eager anticipation to watch the first episode of the TV show wondering if it was going to be worthy of being linked to its videogame counterpart. The Defiance TV show has a lot to live up to, it's not supposed to be just another sci-fi drama but also lin...

  • Free-to-Play(Station)?

    Over the last few years the free-to-play market has grown dramatically, with almost all MMOs forced to go (sometimes immediately) free-to-play out of sheer demand. On average, people do not want to pay a subscription anymore for their massively multiplayer online fix. Games like World of Tanks and L...

  • Lasombra Files Episode 27: Hammer Time

    Welcome to season 3 of the Lasombra Files, PSU’s weekly hit program. Follow the story of Lasombra and V as they try to solve an inter-dimensional murder mystery of ostentatious proportions, while at the same time shining the spotlight on gamers around the world and in our community. We ...

  • Japan: take a look inside a Namco Arcade

    Arcades might be dead and dying in North America, except for some select hot spots like Funspot, which thankfully refuse to die out. However, in Japan arcades are living strong and are very popular. Video game companies over in Japan run their own arcades, like the SEGA ones seen in the Yakuza ser...

  • DUST 514 and EVE Online: CCP knows how to keep its community in the loop

    Over the past 10 years of EVE Online development, CCP has released a large number of videos and devblogs aimed at keeping its userbase up-to-date with the latest developments in the game. Coupled with solid forum attention by developers, a good raport has built up between the gamers and game creator...

  • 3 things that could have made BioShock: Infinite even better

    BioShock: Infinite finally hit shelves on March 26 after five years under the knife at Irrational Games, and for many has proved every bit as good as Ken Levine and his team promised. Reviews have been almost universally glowing – including our own dissection of the first-person shooter here &...

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