5 Reasons It Pays *NOT* to be an Early Adopter of the PS Vita

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Like the shadiest of ‘doctors’ in the uncleanliest of back streets, this week, I’ve been trying to hawk vital organs on the Internet (only my own, I can assure you).

On Twitter I proclaimed ‘who wants a lung? I’ll even give away a kidney, for a price!’ and such, multiple times, hoping, begging and pleading that someone with a screw loose would take a body part in exchange for money – money I wanted, no, needed, to spend on a PS Vita – which comes out today.

For the most part, I was joking (though I did come very close to offering plasma up on eBay), I’ve become so convinced that I need a PS Vita that I probably would have (and maybe still will) do anything to get my hands on that delicious, powerful, slice of handheld gaming heaven.

It may, perhaps, come as a massive shock to you that I am now providing you with a handful of reasons why you shouldn’t invest in Sony’s latest gizmo.

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New FIFA Street Trailer Teaches You How to Panna, Embarrass Opponents

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FIFA Street is probably one of the only games where a prerequisite for winning is to make a complete and utter fool out of your opponents – the old fashioned ‘dribble like a baby, kick like a beast’ method won’t work. If you can’t embarrass them, you’ll have a serious challenge on your hands if you want to win, like climbing a giant slippery slope of football terms and sports-based acrobatics.

This latest video for the game is the key to learning how to succeed, providing you with the must-know tips to scoring more goals in FIFA Street.

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MLB 12 : The Show First Look Trailer

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As far as first looks go, this one is at the premier end of the scale. In fact, I’d even go as far as to say that this new trailer for MLB 12 : The Show takes the scale, destroys it, thwacks what’s left with its baseball bat and then pitches the remnants into the stands for good measure.

In true trailer fashion, it boasts “enhanced realism”, but that really didn’t need to be stated as our first taste of in-game footage looks (and even feels) incredible. (Apparently the game also has “full PlayStation move controls” too, which isn’t necessarily something to be proud of so you know, yin and yang).

It’s not the “#1 Rated Sports Game” for nothing.

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Competition Time! – Win a Winter Wonderland Dynamic Theme for PS3

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I understand that some of you who visited the site yesterday may have felt a little alienated because of the post on Xbox 720 rumours,  due to your loyalty to its rival console, the PlayStation 3.

Which is why today I’m going to try and win you over with a competition!
I may not be able to pay your electricity bills or provide you with hot water bottles in these chilly, Winter months but I can warm your hearts, (well, I can spruce up your PS3 theme anyway) with this dynamic Winter Wonderland theme (pictured above), complete with a cheery snowman and actual moving snow.

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PS4 and Xbox 720 to be Revealed at E3, Everything they Should and Shouldn’t Do

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This post comes fresh off the news that Sony and Microsoft will be announcing the successors to the current gen of consoles at this year’s E3 in an effort to compete with Nintendo’s next console effort, the Wii U (source).

I’m a skeptical woman, both consoles are rumoured, even if they do come from a highly reputable source, but I’ll still refuse to believe either console’s’ existence until I have the actual, tangible product in my arms and the reality has set in that I now have no money or a social life thanks to them.

However, one can cross all of their fingers, toes and other crossable body parts that come June 2012, both will be confirmed by the Microsoft and Sony bigwigs themselves but until then I’ve put together a list of all of the things we should hope are included (or avoided) in the new next-gen platforms.

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Starhawk Beta Review

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Let it be known that I am not the best at shooter games. If I were a real soldier, I’d be the one who unwittingly unloads an entire magazine of bullets into her fellow cadet’s foot and then apologises because ‘I thought the safety was on’. My not-so-finest hour had me cooking a grenade (in game) for so long that I blew my entire party to itty bitty virtual pieces. Oops.
 
So I was wary about how well I’d do in the Closed Beta for Starhawk’s multiplayer, which combines run-and-gun combat with vehicular warfare. But even with my lacking skills it’s clear that this is not your average online mode.

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2011 Christmas Gaming Gift Guide

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If ever there was a time for you to be freaking out about your lack of gift giving ability, that time would be now. There are only 5 days until Christmas and it’s inevitable that you get your last purchases in before it’s too late and you end up re-gifting that ugly (now moth-eaten) sweater that you got from your Aunt several years ago.

Below are some of my top gift picks for the gamers on your list. And if you have any suggestions for presents, feel free to leave them in the comments.

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EXCLUSIVE : Has The Last Guardian Release Date Been Revealed on Amazon?

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It’s been a busy news week for The Last Guardian as Sony have confirmed that both the game’s creator, Fumito Ueda, and the executive producer, Yoshifusa Hayama, have left the development studio of the title with the former only working on the game on a freelance basis.

This is a week that is set to get even busier as the dog/mouse/bird hybrid creature-thing and it’s boy protector seem to have gotten an actual release date, as listed by Amazon.

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Spike VGAs 2011 : The Last Of Us

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Picture the scene : a population infected by a plague, enraged mutants preying on the innocent and healthy, the last remaining survivors trying to do just that, survive. It sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard of before, right? Oh don’t give me that look, I know the premise of The Last Of Us sounds like a half-baked slice of oversaturated gaming pie but I’m willing to bet my life savings on it playing out like the exact opposite.

The Last Of Us (which is a PS3 exclusive) seems to be your atypical survival horror zombie slash ‘em up, you’re fighting the undead, you’re fighting rebels who are trying to jump you for a packet of rations and you’re fighting for your life, but what sets TLOU apart from the likes of the more arcadey Dead Rising and the eerie slasher-flick-esque Dead Space is that it’s developed by Naughty Dog. These guys aren’t just the Kings (and Queens) of quality video game development, they’re the whole entire monarchy.

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New Uncharted 3 Drake’s Deception Screenshots Feature Combat and Sand, lots and lots of Sand.

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He may be the best looking man on PlayStation, he may get to live out the adventure fantasies from our wildest dreams and he may also have two of the best-looking beauties (who, unfortunately, do not exist in real life) willing to risk their lives just for a chance to fight alongside him yet, despite all this, I feel a little sorry for the guy. I mean, he has to traipse through the desert for hours on end and do you know how hard that stuff is to get out of your socks? And on top of all that, he has to kick the asses of countless burly henchmen just for a chance to breathe easy amongst the masses of sand. Tragic.

One thing he does have going for him, besides the whole being perfect thing, is that the pixelated world he inhabits is hella pretty, even if a lot of it is sand, see for yourself after the break.

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