Valkyria Chronicles III Didn’t Make it to American or European Markets…Will Valkyria Chronicles IV?

Either you like the Valkyria Chronicles series, or you don’t.  It’s one of those series that people have trouble classifying: while it’s clearly a strategy-driven series, it also has RPG/JRPG elements.  The first game in the series received nominations and won multiple awards in the RPG category – nominated by GameTrailers for “Best Role-Playing Game,” awarded “Playstation 3 RPG of... more.

Playstation boss Jack Tretton has said at the Web 2.0 summit that Sony will be releasing their upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld gaming product on February 22, 2012. This will go on sale in U.S., Canada, Europe and Latin America on that day. Many will be surprised at the date, because it will miss the end of year holiday sales and it is an unusual time to launch the product. Sony are cl... more.

Epic slo-mo has taken over this final pre-release trailer of Formula One 2011. The video is set to music composed by John Sponsler and Tom Gire, the people who wrote the additional score for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  Heroic stuff. Now try to watch the trailer and not think about transformers. F1 2011 is being developed by Codemasters for all major platforms (except for Wii). The... more.

Sony has announced that the Vita handheld, due in Europe in early 2012, will support Facebook, foursquare, Skype and Twitter. What's more surprising, these applications will be available for free. Vita, although not a phone (against early speculation) already features 3G internet and GPS. Here are some other specs: A 4-core processor of yet unknown frequency, but similar to the one Apple us... more.

Selling over 16 million units since it's creation in 2005, Laughing Jackal shouldn't  be ignored for this new release. Available in August on the PSN, Fighting Fantasy: Talisman of Death retains certain features like the classic dice-rolling rule set. Fighting Fantasy is a series of role-playing gamebooks, and targets a certain RPG audience. This release, for those familiar with the seri... more.

Earlier today Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced that the UK development firm Double Eleven had just signed a deal with them. Know for it's work on LittleBigPlanet, Double Eleven will become an exclusive developer for Sony platforms like the PS3. Double Eleven was initially founded  in 2010, by former Rockstar lead engineers. As aforementioned the new development team is ... more.

The 15th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was recently held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Spanning from June 7th to June 9th the show debuted a number of new games and new gaming hardware, at almost every level. It would be impossible to cover all which transpired during E3 in a single article, so we decided to focus on the 3 main console developers. There are many articles flo... more.

As a prelude to the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever, Apogee  today has announced the release of Duke Nukem: Critical Mass. Initially confirmed for both the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, only the DS version has been announced officially so far. This allows players utilizing portable devices to kick some ass, Nukem style! The storyline plays out with our hero, Duke Nukem, visiting the future to find... more.

Electronic Arts has released a new Virtual Playbook video for the upcoming Madden NFL 12 game. The game is set to be in stores August 30th and will be available for the Wii, PS2, PS3, XBox 360, PSP and Nintendo 3DS. This will be the 10th installment of the Madden NFL series and will showcase some new additions, including 25 new plays. We will also list a few of the additional features known... more.

Rumours have been circulating about a press release from Sony, claiming a press conference will be held to address the PSN outage. Seems like an odd day of the week for this, but all we can do is share the information we have collected. The press conference will be held at 2:00 PM JST, on Sunday May 1st. We here on Kitguru have been following this closely, starting with myself on the Gaming new... more.