Sony Playstation 2 News

The Warriors , a PS2 Classics release, will arrive on PlayStation Network on Tuesday, May 28th in North America and Wednesday, May 29th in Europe, Rockstar Games announced.

The biggest eyebrow-raiser with last week's Gran Turismo 6 reveal was that it's launching on the PS3, and not the PS4.

When asked to name 3D platform games most people would name Mario. Then possibly Ratchet and Clank or Jak and Daxter, maybe a few might even mention Crash Bandicoot.

Video games are big business. The industry is worth around $80 billion, and although games can be played on PCs and phones, the industry is still dominated by dedicated consoles, according to The Economist .

Microsoft claims it can do everything, from the traditional playing of games and films to reading your heartbeat and making conference calls.

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Not to be confused with Mega Man 10 , Mega Man X introduced players to new mechanics such as dashing, wall-jumping, and finding hidden upgrades throughout the levels, something which would carry on and become an essential part of each X game to follow.

The offers below run for two weeks, from today until May 22. Sony didn't specify, but the discounts might not go live until the PS Store's regular weekly content refresh later this afternoon.

This week's PlayStation Store update brings the release of Techland's first-person shooter Call of Juarez: Gunslinger , along with an upgraded, HD version of Insomniac Games' PlayStation 2 platformer Ratchet: Deadlocked .

The debate around video game violence and whether it leads to actual violence has once again come to the fore this year since the Obama administration asked for funding to study the matter.

Unfortunately, the video posted on YouTube was a teaser for the final reveal that Sony says will come on June 10 at its E3 2013 press conference.

At Sony's PlayStation pre-E3 event in Santa Monica, The Last of Us' art director Eric Pangilinan explained that he isn't concerned about The Last of Us getting lost in the buzz currently surrounding next-generation video game consoles, more specifically the PS4.

It's perhaps a little ironic that the creators of some of the most beautiful console games ever made so very rarely promote their games using actual in-game footage or screenshots.

In the fall of 1980, a little yellow circle named Pac-Man with a bottomless appetite chomped its way onto our Atari consoles and into arcades.

IGN reports that Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi announced that Gran Turismo 6 is in development and will be releasing on the Playstation 3 sometime during the 'Holiday 2013' window.

Namco Bandai Games, the company behind the upcoming "Dark Souls 2," may be releasing a new remastered compilation for the Playstation 3. According to a report by the NeoGAF forum, the publisher is planning to port "Tales of Symphonia" and "Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World" to Sony's high-definition console.

Busted out of death row, inmate James Earl Cash wakes up to find himself in a snuff film directed by a man who calls himself Starkweather.

Following last week's decidedly light lineup of new content on the PlayStation Network, this week's roster features a pretty hefty selection of titles from a wide variety of genres, including retail game Metro: Last Light , the official launch of Dust 514 , a few PSN titles and the PlayStation 2 Classic, Manhunt .

Remember when Namco Bandai producer Hideo Baba promised a " Tales of -filled year" a while ago ? Well, if a new report is to be believed, you can expect one of those fillings to be a PS3 HD remaster of fan favourite, Tales of Symphonia .

Always a halo product for the PlayStation brand, Gran Turismo's reputation as the top-tier console racer has remained the same since its debut.