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Murdered: Soul Suspect – Gamescom Trailer

Murdered: Soul Suspect, the upcoming “Ghost Detective” game from publisher Square Enix and developer Airtight Games was showcased this week at the annual Gamescom conference in Germany with a new trailer. Previously revealed at E3 2013, Soul Suspect has you taking control of Detective Ronan O’Connor, who after dying in the opening scenes of the game, has to track down his own killer as a ghostly apparition. The fact that you’re a ghost and can’t acutally...

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The Biggest Games Coming to the Vita from Gamescom

A few months ago I started work on an article titled “Ten Indie Games We Want On the Vita.” It was a slow and arduous process of trying out loads of indie games and contacting developers to ask them “Vita?” Some of them got back to me, other required research into old articles posts and the deep recesses of NeoGAF in an attempt to connect some dots. So why am I bothering to tell you about a failed article? Because nearly every game on that old list is now coming to...

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PS Vita Price Drop – Why It Matters

At Gamescom yesterday, Sony officially announced a much needed price drop for their struggling handheld, PS Vita. Dropping from the launch price of $249, the Vita will now be available at all retailers for $199. Fifty dollars is a decent drop in and of itself, but Sony went one further and have also discounted to price of Vita’s proprietary memory cards, which consumers, myself included, have always found too expensive.  This price drop couldn’t have come at a...