Sony is lowering the price of PSP and PS3 Minis in February. The first sale starts this Thursday, 4th February and runs until Thursday, 18th February. Kahoots, Vempire, Breakquest, Majohngg Artifacts and Dracula all drop from £2.99/€2.99 to £1.74/€1.99. Fieldrunners and Pinball Fantasies go from £3.99/€4.99 to £3.46/€3.99, and Bloons falls from £3.49/€3.99 to £1.99/€2.49. The European PlayStation blog also promises you free Minis during February, as well as wallpapers, themes and that sort of thing. Specifics aren't...

This week's biggie is Mass Effect 2, at least for those people that own a PC or Xbox 360. I'm not going to bang on about it. And there are other games of note this week. Take MAG, the multiplayer shooter for PS3. This is genuinely groundbreaking for a console game; 256-player battles online with a pseudo-MMO framework to level-up within. Zipper's creation may not appeal to all, but certainly all should take heed. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom should provide a breath of fresh air for Wii owners this week. It's a fighting game by Capcom; a rare ad...

Codemasters has thrown bank robbery game Hei$t in the bin. The ramifications of this move are that Codemasters will, by-and-large, no longer publish externally created games. "After a much extended development period, Hei$t has been terminated as a project and removed from our release schedule. Codemasters is focusing its future portfolio on high quality titles that will, in the majority, be developed and produced by our internal studios," read a company statement. Codemasters' decision comes after external games like Rise of the Argona...

Mistwalker, the studio established by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, is working on a new game for the Wii. That's according to a website which has just popped up. There's nothing much to see other than a fancy title image, the Wii logo and the unsurprising letters "RPG". The game is called The Last Story, which doesn't come as much of a surprise either - Nintendo trademarked said name last September. But back then we didn't know Mistwalker was involved, which is significant. After all, this is the studio set up by Final Fa...

hahaha its not really that big btw Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said he's not convinced that the new Apple iPad is actually going to be all that. Speaking to the New York Times he said the iPad offered "no surprises", adding, "It was a bigger iPad Touch." Nor is Iwata a big fan of 3D gaming, though he thinks movies like Avatar are all right. He said Nintendo will be looking into the possible effects on health of playing games over a longer period, as opposed to watching a two-hour film. Plus there's the image issue. "I have d...

EA Sports this morning revealed FIFA Online, a free-to-play, web-based PC title "aimed at football fans, not just gamers". The title, which goes into closed beta next month with open beta kicking-off in the summer, was unveiled to journalists by EA Sports top dog Peter Moore, at an event held at third-rate Premier League stadium Stamford Bridge. FIFA Online uses the FIFA 10 engine and takes advantage of the full FIFA database, including content for the forthcoming World Cup title, covering 30 licensed leagues, 500 teams and 15,000 playe...

Project Natal(pronounced , nah-tahl) is the code name for a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform. Based on an add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, Project Natal enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller through a natural user interface using gestures, spoken commands, or presented objects and images. The project is aimed at broadening the Xbox 360's audience beyond its typically hardcore base. Project Natal wa...

Bungie has said once and for all that Halo: Reach doesn't use Project Natal. "Halo: Reach is NOT a Natal title and is being developed expressly with the traditional Xbox 360 controller in mind," the developer wrote on its website following the publication of screenshots and information late last month. The studio also addressed various other rumours that sprang up around the coverage. For instance, you will be able to pilot the Falcon in both campaign and multiplayer. Many other wacky internet rumours, however, turned out to be wacky...

Mature games may be prohibited on Microsoft's new online PC and Xbox 360 platform, Game Room. To avoid laboriously rating hundreds of retro titles individually, MS has decided to classify Game Room itself. The ESRB has deemed the service suitable for anyone aged 10 or over, and any game falling within those perameters can be sold at publisher's and platform holder's leisure. The problem surrounds games rated for older audiences, such as Mortal Kombat, Metal Slug and Street Fighter. "Games available for download within Game Room will car...

BioWare's galactic PC and Xbox 360 RPG Mass Effect 2 has entered the UK all-formats chart at number one. The EA-published sequel sold twice as many copies as Mass Effect 1, which was published by Microsoft. And BioWare's popularity meant a boost for Dragon Age: Origins this week, which re-entered the chart at 31. Sony's big PS3 exclusive MAG debuted in fourth, and Capcom's fighting game Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars missed the top 40 and finished sixth on the Wii chart. Previous All-Formats leader Just Dance was pushed int...