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Rock Band Gets New Tracks for the Wii and PS2

Rock Band and Guitar Hero, the two main competitors in the world of music simulation, have created a new market in the form of downloadable songs, which you can get online and then use in the game. It is estimated that the Rock Band DLC content has generated over 10 million song sales since the game was released in N...

6 May 2008
03:58 GMT

Anime RPG Announced for Playstation 2

You have to love that naive, big-eyed, zany hairstyles and overall erotic appearance. This is what anime is, after all: innocent looking chicks doing some really nasty jobs (and I'm not talking about hentai-like stuff). Of course, such characters will always be noticed and people will buy the games in which they...

9 April 2008
03:07 GMT

Mana Khemia Alchemists of Al-Revis Gets North American Release

The fourth title in the RPG series, Mana Khemia Alchemists of Al-Revis shipped to retailers across North America, together with a Limited Edition that includes the original soundtrack, a quick synthesis chart and a full color poster nicely boxed in a premium cover. And if you are a fan of Japanese anime chicks, you&#...

2 April 2008
13:06 GMT

PopCap Hits Ready to Invade the PS2

Yes, there are at most 10 types of casual game concepts out there and developers keep rebuilding them, changing the graphics or the story a little - but they are still the same. Yes, all these games keep selling. PopCap, at least, is one of the companies that came with some new things and, why not to admit it, they r...

11 March 2008
03:59 GMT

Persona 3 FES Pulls the Trigger in North America

First of all, you should know that you don't need to have the original Persona 3 game in order to play P3 FES. Then, you should know that this PlayStation 2 game will come in North America with 2 discs, which basically make it a two-in-one kind of game, since it features a brand new chapter that promises to brin...

26 February 2008
09:16 GMT

Iridium Runners Sprint to Your PlayStation 2

Since some solid rumors regarding a price drop for Sony's PS2 video console to $99 were heard this week, people could get the false impression that the PlayStation 2 is dead. Well... they couldn't be wronger than that - the PS2 is alive and doing great. Actually, following this newest release from Southpeak...

20 February 2008
07:20 GMT

PS2 Exclusive Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power Is Available for Purchase

PlayStation 2 owners that love playing quality historical simulation games have all the reasons to be happy right now: Kou Shibusawa's Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power is available for purchase from North American retailers, as well as different online game shops. The game has already been released in Ja...

7 February 2008
05:04 GMT

Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360, God of War for PS2

It seems that the "Stuff" of War titles have decided to team up and deliver some really interesting pieces of news. And having in mind that calling "Gears" or "God" of War just stuff could be considered by most of the gamers a real blasphemy or a sign of noob-ness, you can probably imagine how big this is.First of al...

5 February 2008
04:34 GMT

Arcana Heart Brings Girls to Fight for Your PlayStation 2

What could be better than fighting against a female character in a classic 2D beat'em up game? Fighting against 11 beautiful female fighters, Arcana Heart's developers, Atlus, say. And they might be right... but they don't quite manage to implement that "beautiful" part, in my humble opinion. Still, th...

1 February 2008
05:18 GMT

Persona 3 European Release Dated

Not having this game was a real loss for the Europeans, but things are about to change really soon, since Koei has announced that their hit RPG Persona 3 will be released on PlayStation 2 consoles in Europe starting the 29th of February this year. Awesome!Persona is an unique RPG coming straight from Japan and taking...

30 January 2008
06:56 GMT

The Big Hit: Xbox and PlayStation 2 Consoles Filled with £12,000

Don't get too excited and don't start searching inside your gaming console just yet - it's not like a dream come true or something similar, it's more like the biggest nightmare. Because this discovery comes hand in hand with the word "illegal". And when The Entertainment & Leisure Software Publis...

28 January 2008
10:00 GMT

Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Challenges the PS2

Fast cars, sweet tracks and the smell of hot rubber are a delight for every car lover out there. Not to mention the dream idea of driving a Ferrari. And if this seems like a dream that will never come true, System 3 is ready to prove you wrong with Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli. The game was initially announced fo...

25 January 2008
06:04 GMT

Golden Times for Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power

PlayStation 2 owners might have a reason for joy, since a new title is close to be released exclusively for the gaming console by Koei. Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power is a historical simulation set during the 16th century in the Feudal Japan and it comes from "The Man" itself - Kou Shibusawa, Koei's co-...

23 January 2008
04:35 GMT

PS2 Thrives On! 'Iridium Runners' Set for February Release

SouthPeak Games is the next publisher to reveal some of its 2008 products, just after Atari, announcing their first PlayStation 2 game for 2008: Iridium Runners. As everyone can see, Sony's PS2 still remains a platform worthy of every bit of attention from renowned developers and publishers, seven years into its...

14 January 2008
05:34 GMT

Happy Birthday PlayStation 2!

The Sony PlayStation 2 console has just turned 7 years old and it's ready to go to school and learn new things like surpassing the sales of all other major gaming platforms nowadays. Sony Computer Entertainment America must be having one hell of a party right now, celebrating my personal favorite console. If yo...

29 October 2007
10:42 GMT

Call of Duty 3 Unlockables (PS2)

Call of Duty 3 is the third installment in the Call of Duty video game series. It has been released for all three seventh generation video game systems: the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. It has also been released on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. In addition to the single-player campaign, Call of Duty 3 features a w...

3 September 2007
03:55 GMT

New Motion-Sensing Controller for the PS2

Where does the PS3 SIXAXIS come from? Is it a gift from the Gods or alien technology? A couple of critics have supported the theory that Sony "borrowed" the idea from Nintendo, after seeing the Wii in action at the 2006 E3. Since the Wiimote-Nunchuck combination has become the standard of motion-sensing control in g...

15 August 2007
08:03 GMT

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I have to begin by saying that I hate Harry Potter and any media product associated to it, be it book, audio CD, movie or game. However, while playing this title I had to leave the prejudice aside and judge the game without taking into consideration my subjective opinion that would have given the title a straight fo...

30 July 2007
03:06 GMT

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army Unlockables (PS2)

Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs the Soulless Army is a console role-playing game published by Atlus for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. The game is a real-time spinoff from the Megami Tensei/Megaten franchise. Unlike any previous Megaten game, Raidô Kuzunoha is set in the past, specifically the 1920s, ...

27 July 2007
05:39 GMT

Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia - Unlockables (PS2)

Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia is a media-mix work produced by a team of Banpresto and Gust. It comprises the PlayStation 2 game "Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia", the comic "Ar tonelico -arpeggio-", the OVA "Ar tonelico", and several drama CDs. The story begins on the floating landmass named Sol Ciel with a tower name...

25 July 2007
05:44 GMT

Dark Cloud Glitches and Unlockables (PS2)

Dark Cloud is a series of console role-playing games by Level-5 with elements of action and simulation games. There are currently two entries in the series: Dark Cloud and Dark Chronicle (known as Dark Cloud 2 in the U.S.), both of which are exclusively available for the PlayStation 2. The series has been compared t...

20 July 2007
06:41 GMT

Champions of Norrath Glitches and Exploits (PS2)

Champions of Norrath (CoN) is an online-capable action role-playing game for the PlayStation 2, set in the EverQuest universe. It is playable with one single player or cooperative for up to four players. However, with a Network Adapter, players can take the game online with others and kill others or join to form gro...

20 July 2007
06:10 GMT

Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana Unlockables (PS2)

Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana is a console role-playing game developed by Japanese developer Gust for the PlayStation 2. This game is the first one of the PS2 Atelier Iris saga. The Atelier strategy RPGs have been released on various consoles in Japan since 1997. Despite its long run and popularity in Japan, Atelier Ir...

20 July 2007
05:55 GMT

Arc the Lad: End of Darkness Unlockables (PS2)

Arc the Lad: End of Darkness (Arc the Lad: Generation in Japan) is the second game from the Arc the Lad series on the PlayStation 2, the first being Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits. This is the only Arc game to, instead of a tactics-style battle system, feature a more of a real-time battle, Online-play battle s...

20 July 2007
05:41 GMT

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie Codes and Unlockables (PS2)

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is a first person shooter action adventure game based on the 2005 film King Kong. It is a collaboration between the film's director Peter Jackson and famed videogame designer Michel Ancel (Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil), remarkable in that such true cr...

18 July 2007
06:20 GMT

Eragon Codes and Unlockables (PS2)

The game is based upon the recent Eragon film, which is in turn based on the book Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. The games were released on November 14th 2006 in the United States of America, on November 24th 2006 in the European Union and on November 23rd 2006 in Australia in order to coincide with the release of ...

18 July 2007
06:00 GMT

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Unlockables and Bugs (PS2)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a computer and video game that was released in 2004, concurrently with the movie release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third in the Harry Potter series. Both the game and the movie were based on J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkab...

18 July 2007
05:42 GMT

Star Trek: Encounters Codes and Secrets (PS2)

Star Trek: Encounters (formerly known as Star Trek: Battlestations) is a video game, which was released on October 4, 2006, for the Sony PlayStation 2 console. The game was developed by Scottish studio 4J studios for Bethesda Softworks. It is an arcade style shoot-em-up game and takes ships and characters from all f...

17 July 2007
05:29 GMT

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Unlockables (PS2)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a computer and video game that is based on the fifth installment of the popular Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling and the film adaptation. It was released on June 25th in the US, June 28th in Australia and June 29th in the UK and Europe for PlayStation 3, PSP, PlayStati...

17 July 2007
05:15 GMT

Tales of Symphonia Unlockables (PS2)

Tales of Symphonia takes a novel approach to character recovery. The RPG standbys of inns and recovery items exist, but characters can also learn recipes from an eccentric character known as the Wonder Chef, who is usually disguised as an out-of-place item, like a magazine rack (as he was in Tales of Eternia). If th...

17 July 2007
04:35 GMT

Tales of Destiny Unlockables and Difficulties (PS2)

Tales of Destiny is a video game remake pertaining to the RPG genre published for the PlayStation 2 console by Namco on November 30, 2006 in Japan. It is a remake of the original Tales of Destiny for the PlayStation. The remake features overhauled hand-drawn sprite-on-3D-background graphics similar to those of Tales...

17 July 2007
03:51 GMT

Tales of the Abyss Codes and Unlockables (Playstation 2)

Tales of the Abyss is a console role-playing game developed by Namco Tales Studio and published by Namco. It was released for the Playstation 2 on 15 December 2005 in Japan, celebrating the Tales series' 10th anniversary. The game is the sixth of the series to arrive in North America and did so on October 10, 2...

16 July 2007
08:22 GMT

Tales of Legendia Easter Eggs and Unlockables (PS2)

Tales of Legendia, the seventh main game in the Tales series, is a role-playing game that was developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It takes place on an island that can move like a ship and features the first Tales main character that fights with his fists. The game was released ...

16 July 2007
08:05 GMT

Shane Kim Interview - Timing A Price Cut for Xbox 360

In a recent interview with a well known gaming site, Shane Kim, corporate VP at Microsoft Game Studios answered a few questions regarding the company's strategy in answering Sony's price cut for the PS3. Kim, as Sony's Peter Moore, doesn't exactly see a price reduction occurring with the PS3 at th...

13 July 2007
05:48 GMT

Lighter PlayStation2 is Shipping to Retailers

Wait a minute, I thought the PS2 was history... Guess I was wrong. According to MaxConsole, Sony has started shipping a lighter by 300 grams PlayStation 2, also acknowledging that the AC adapter has also been cut in terms of weight. However, the most interesting thing about the whole deal would be that all this is oc...

9 July 2007
08:10 GMT

DS Gets Cooperative Puzzle Platformer 'Cookie & Cream'

Not a day goes by that the DS doesn't get a new addition and today is no different as Agetec has revealed that Cookie & Cream has shipped to North American retailers for Nintendo's dual-screened handheld. This title is a superb blend of puzzle and platform, being rated E for Everyone, making great use of th...

30 June 2007
18:06 GMT

Transformers: The Game Codes (PS2)

Transformers: The Game is the name of multiple versions of a video game based on the 2007 film Transformers, all of which were released in North America in June 2007. Home console versions are being developed by Traveller's Tales for the PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, and PC. A different PSP version was developed by ...

28 June 2007
04:03 GMT

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

It's that time of the year again, when tons of sequels and follow-ups to numeros movies and games are released, with great expectations and big disappointments for the fans. The movies and games based on Marvel comics have usually been average media products, if not failures and still there's an avalanche ...

27 June 2007
11:39 GMT

SSX Tricky Cheats and Secrets (PS2)

SSX Tricky is a snowboarding video game, the second game in the SSX series. It is so similar to the original SSX game (with a few new features, including "Über Tricks") that it has been referred to by many as an "upgrade". In SSX, players choose one of several varied characters, participate in races or trick competit...

26 June 2007
05:07 GMT

SSX 3 Passwords and Unlockables (PS2)

SSX 3 is a snowboarding video game published by Electronic Arts and developed by EA Sports BIG, which was released in late 2003. It is the third installment in the SSX series and is THX approved. As in previous SSX titles, players choose one of several characters, participate in races or trick competitions and earn ...

26 June 2007
04:39 GMT

Haunting Ground Passwords and Secrets (PS2)

Haunting Ground (known in Japan as Demento) is a video game developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 2 games console in 2005. It was originally designed to be part of the Clock Tower series of video games, but this was scrapped early into its development. The game shares ma...

26 June 2007
04:30 GMT

NHL 2003 Unlockables (PS2)

NHL 2003 is the eleventh edition of the popular EA Sports NHL series, a hockey video game. NHL 2003 introduced a new feature, the GameBreaker. It is activated once a player performs enough "dekes" and it is used to help change the momentum of the game, such as scoring a big goal, delivering a big hit or winning a bi...

25 June 2007
03:44 GMT

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 Codes, Glitches and Secrets (PS2)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is a 2002 racing video game, serving as the debut Need for Speed (NFS) title of Black Box Games and the first Need For Speed for the "next-generation" of consoles.Hot Pursuit 2 draws primarily from the gameplay and style of Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit; its emphasis was on evading th...

22 June 2007
09:23 GMT

Silent Scope 3 Easter Eggs and Unlockables (PS2)

Silent Scope 3 is a shooter on rails style game created for the third time by the well known game development company Konami. This shooter is the true third installment of the video game series, Silent Scope. This video game had been released during the month of October in 2002 only on the Playstation 2 game console...

21 June 2007
09:33 GMT

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior Cheats and Unlockables (PS2)

The game is made up of 21 levels, taking place in a variety of settings from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. There is a wide variety of Tau and Imperial weapons available to the player. However, only two weapons can be carried at a time, one of which must be a Tau weapon. In addition to these, the player is armed wit...

21 June 2007
08:57 GMT

Major League Baseball 2K6 Cheats (PS2)

2K Sports Major League Baseball is a series of Major League Baseball video games, developed by Visual Concepts and Kush Games, and published by 2K Games. There have been 4 games in the series: 2004, 2K5, 2K6 and 2K7. All games were created for each MLB season. The series was created in 2004 after Visual Concepts tea...

20 June 2007
05:17 GMT

Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends Unlockables (PS2)

Dynasty Warriors 5 is a Chinese beat 'em up video game and the fifth installment in the Dynasty Warriors series, developed by Omega Force and published by Koei; the game was released on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is based on the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. The gameplay of D...

20 June 2007
05:02 GMT

Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra Gameplay Hints and Ending Video (PS2)

In this title, for the first time in the Xenosaga series, attacking during battle is done by making selections from a menu rather than using the square, triangle and circle buttons to perform various combos. The menu selections include attack, tech, ether, special attack, item, guard, change and escape. When any com...

20 June 2007
04:48 GMT

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King Unlockables and Hints (PS2)

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is the eighth installment of the popular Dragon Quest/Warrior series of role playing games from Square Enix Co., Ltd. (formerly the Enix Corporation). It was developed by Level 5, Inc., who also worked on the Dark Cloud series for the PlayStation 2. Dragon Quest VIII spo...

19 June 2007
03:20 GMT

The King of Fighters XI

Having played the great Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 fighting game, it's pretty tough not to have high expectations when playing another title pertaining to the genre. And it's not just any title, but the last installment in the famous The King of Fighters series, one that rings a bell for the arcade...

17 June 2007
15:28 GMT


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