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Second Dimension: The Warrior’s Code Interview

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Broken Joysticks

The fighting game community (FGC) has grown from holding local events at smaller venues to occupying ballrooms at four-star establishments with talent from all across the globe attending. Major sponsors such as Capcom, Namco Bandai, and others are responsible for the development of some of the world’s most famous franchises in gaming, and a central tournament featuring the top fighting talent from across the world. With major prize pools, fighting games are now reaching a platform that can be compared to traditional eSports.

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Broken Joystick’s March Madness Giveaway Starts Today!

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Everyone loves free games, and we’re back with yet another giveaway to celebrate spring. We are giving away 28 gamest through our website, FaceBook and Twitter over the course of the next few weeks. In addition to Steam Versions of the four base games from the Humble Android Bundle we also have codes for Realm of the Ancients for PSN and several codes for Fray Reloaded. Keep your eyes out, to make it easy our first Website based code is in the “read more” for a certain Steam game. As always it is first come, first served!

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New Characters Join The Battle Royale

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Broken Joysticks

It was announced today by Lead Game Designer from Sony Santa Monica Seth Killian, during his visit to the IGN offices that the next DLC for PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale has been decided and dated. Isaac Clarke, the main character of the Dead Space series and Zeus, from the God of War series. Along with those two is a stage which is a hybrid of MediEvil and The Unfinished Swan. No price has been announced for this pack but the date was set for March 19, 2013. Below is a video preview for the two characters and the stage along

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PS4 Controller Prototype Images Emerge

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

We’ve done a lot of reporting on the PlayStation 4 these past few weeks and now it looks like images from the unannounced system’s development kit are starting to pop up all around the web. From destructoid to gametrailers, anonymous sources have given the world its first look at two different prototypes for the PS4’s controller. The controllers design pays homage to the Dualshock design of the past and, as rumored, adds a touch sensitive pad, similar to the one on the back of the PlayStation Vita, to the face of the controller. The grips on the controller, as well

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Activision Registers Four New Skylanders Domains – New Game Imminent?

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Joshua Rust

After posting a $500 million dollar profit in the United States alone, it’s safe to say that Skylanders is/has become an annual franchise. While none of these four domains are actually linked to a website it, it’s apparent that Skylanders is here to stay – no matter what Disney has to say about it! Here are the four domains that were registered by Activision just a few days ago: SkylandersKaosAlliance.com SkylandersNanoForce.com SkylandersSuperForce.com SkylandersSwapForce.com For reference,Skylanders Giants’domain was registered early 2012 and it released October 21st, 2012. So it’s quite probable that we will see the next Skylanders game later this year.

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Sony Cuts Ties With SuperBot Entertainment

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Broken Joysticks

It has been announced just recently via Kotaku that Sony has decided to cut ties with SuperBot Entertainment, better known to many as the creators on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. This news comes off the heels from their announcement a few days back that they had to lay off some of their staff members. All of the title’s future content will be handled by the Santa Monica Studio.

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New PS4/Orbis Details Revealed: Controller Changes & More

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Following up on the news that Sony may reveal the PlayStation 4 (also known as Codename Orbis) later this month, is a report from EDGE that reportedly reveals several new details about the unannounced console. We already knew that the technical specs under the hood would be very similar to what Microsoft has planned, but now we have details on the system’s launch date and controller. Click after the jump for a breakdown of all the latest details.

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Sega Girls! New DLC for PS Vita

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Jason Nason

Sega fan website SGCafe has put up some screen capture from a recent livestream which detailed a new card pack for PS Vita “free-to-play” title Samurai & Dragons. The first “Segakko 13” pack will contain personified images based on Sega’s home consoles. All thirteen such consoles are represented and artist Kei has turned all of the consoles into ‘anime girls.’

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Kojima: Metal Gear Rising Originally Starred Grey Fox

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance once was set to star the original cyborg ninja, Grey Fox (Aka. Frank Jager), according to series creator Hideo Kojima. Speaking with IGN he states the original idea was shot down in favor of newly augmented bad ass Raiden after considering feedback given to him by staff at Kojima Studios. He felt that passing on some of the responsibility regarding the direction of the series to younger designers was key to its continued success. “It was my staff in Kojima Productions that insisted on Raiden, and I respected their idea … In my personal opinion, I

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New Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory Screens

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

Are you excited for NIS America’s upcoming localization of Hyper Dimension Neptunia Victory? The game is only two short months away and we’ve got a four page gallery just filled with brand new screenshots. Check them out for yourself: We’ve got screengrabs of the battle system, cutscenes and some simply off the fall stuff (check out the featured image above if you don’t believe me!). Hyper Dimension Neptunia Victory is the third console release in the series, after 2011’s Hyper Dimension Neptunia MK2  and the original Hyper Dimension Neptunia. This latest game transports series protagonist Neptune to the year 1989

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The 2012 Top Five

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Broken Joysticks

Editor’s note: Staff at Broken Joysticks will be sharing their top five games, or game related stories, from 2012 throughout the week. We’re continuing the feature with the top five from our editor, kashhoward. For me, 2012 was a year with many games I anticipated releasing to great success, and some falling short due to various choices. Since I’m always playing fighters, it’s less common for me to purchase the newest games. While I had to omit some games that I never got to play from my list, here are my top five games of 2012.

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The 2012 Top Five

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Jason Fayta

Editor’s note: Staff at Broken Joysticks will be sharing their top five games, or game related stories, from 2012 throughout the week. We’re starting the feature with the top five from our contributing reviewer, Jason Fayta. It’s hard to believe 2012 is over, and it’s equally hard to believe we’re already two weeks into 2013. Overall, I found 2012 to be a solid year for releases, but I can’t say there was a title I was completely enamored with, which lead to some difficulty in rounding out my top five releases from the year. However, as I went through my playing

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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories Coming To PSN In Two Weeks

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Rae Michelle Richards

N.I.S’ Disgaea franchise has been delighting Strategy RPG fans for almost a decade now with its quirky sense of humor, colorful art style and awesome writing. If you missed out on the original PS2 version of Disgaea 2, Cursed Memories, or its PSP remake, Dark Hero Days, than the news that the original version is heading to the PSN through Ps2 Classic may interest you. Price at $9.99 it should be accessible to even the most frugal gamers among us. If you haven’t to your feet wet with this franchise, perhaps this is a great starting point. Check  out a

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God of War: Ascension Beta And Other PS+ Goodies

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Broken Joysticks

Some of you may have remembered about five months ago I mentioned some information about God Of War: Ascension (for those who don’t review here). Today, the US Playstation blog revealed that the multiplayer beta is open for PlayStation Plus subscribers, no word yet if the beta will open for non-plus members. 

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Epix Coming Soon To PlayStation 3 And PlayStation Vita

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Broken Joysticks

Via the PlayStation blog, Sony Computer Entertainment of America annouced that the premium entertainment network EPIX will be coming to PS3 and PS Vita this year. The service offers over 3000 classic and recently released films, concerts, sports, comedy specials, and original programming. Epix, which is currently available via cable, satellite  xbox 360 and others, will be a free download on PSN and subscribers will be able to instantly stream their content on their PS3 or PS Vita. Popular releases like Thor and The Hunger Games are among moves that will be offered. Epix will launch on PlayStation 3 this quarter while the

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