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Lost Planet 3 wasn’t perfect. But, despite being an overly familiar shooter, the story it told and the main character that players controlled manage to feel more meaningful than most other action-centric games out there. It felt like the cast’s relationships to each other and their own feelings were at stake. It also felt like you were playing to have a regular guy make good on promises to his family—and not just for the run-of-the-mill world-saving plotline. Still, it could’ve been better. Lost Planet 3’s producer says that the game could’ve echoed more of the over-the-top style from the previous Lost Planet games.Read more...

Lost Planet 3 is rough at times, with boss battles and backtracking that you’ll get frustrated at. But the game’s characters made me want to persevere through its sub-zero challenges. One of the ways you get to know them is in confessional-style videos that pop up every so often in game. Some of them are pretty moving. WARNING: MILD SPOILERS FOLLOW.Read more...

One of these days, Jeff, Vinny, and Brad are going to find that planet, and it will be glorious.

After reading his review, I sat down with Evan to play through a mission in Lost Planet 3. It's a surprisingly fun and well-made game, and now you can see it for yourself! Read more...

We said Lost Planet 3 is a "game about attempting to get on with it and failing miserably." So, let's get on with it...

• Game Trailers (77/100): "It's true that a lot of the game feels standard issue; nothing's really broken but there's certainly a bit of awkwardness. In the end playing Lost Planet 3 is very much like taking a job on a remote ice planet: most of the work is pretty ordinary, but there are enough bright spots and interesting people to make it a job worth taking."
• IGN (62/100): "But the biggest frustration of Lost Planet 3's level design is its lack of consistency. Getting locked in the mech and auto-killed instead of ejected sucks. Can you grapple that ledge? Probably not, but you have to check. Can you fall off that cliff? Probably not, but just when you've gotten used to the idea that an invisible wall will stop you, you fall to your death."
• Game Informer (60/100): "I don't hate Lost Planet 3. There's still a base satisfaction to popping orange Akrid weak points and mopping up goo. I even made a point to track down most of the hidden collectibles. The first two games balanced out any unsavory elements with mega moments and straightforward fun. The third entry simply doesn't have enough thermal energy to overcome its many problems. "
• Eurogamer (40/100): "Level design is a problem in the exterior scenes: the game's world is so cramped and divided by loading screens I genuinely couldn't tell you which bits are the hubs and which are the spokes, and that hurts your sense of stomping freedom in the rig. But the interiors are just lazily strung together shooting galleries which pinball Peyton between objective markers on flimsy narrative pretexts."

Early on in Lost Planet 3, main character Jim Peyton says "I'm here to work." The 32-year-old isn’t a prophesied savior or a man of action who's sworn vengeance for fallen comrades. He's a dad who taken on grueling work so that his family can survive in a future where Earth’s energy woes have led to riots and global strife. That average joe backdrop—and the things that spin out of it—make this sci-fi shooter a shade more interesting than most others.Read more...

An elderly Jim Peyton would like to get a few things off his chest before he dies - the secrets, the lies, the many battles of youthful days gone by. Also, the huge rocks that just fell on him.

As his granddaughter scrambles to pry him out of a cave-in coffin, she's drawn into an epic flashback that beats a season of Dallas, both in terms of length and inopportune timing. We're not meant to take this as a vocal description of every granular detail of Lost Planet 3, of course, but it sure feels that way sometimes.

"And then I waited for the mega crab monster to charge me ... again," Peyton sputters. "So, I rolled out of the way ... again ... and I shot it in the back and then ... wait, I think I reloaded my gun first and THEN I rolled." He expends another pained breath. "Have I mentioned how I shot the glowing weakpoint?"

Geez, Gramps, just get on with it.

What’s the best way to advertise an entertainment product such as Lost Planet 3? Perhaps you’d describe to people what the stand-out features of the product are, explaining precisely what experiences lie in wait? Maybe you’d choose to entice them with the promise of a powerful narrative? Or, as Capcom do here, you could simply describe, in horrific detail, what happens to the human body when it is exposed to extremely cold conditions. “Your eyeballs frost over and, as ocular fluids freeze, rupture in their sockets.” Eek. I think my eyeballs just flinched. Once I’ve recovered from the shock, I’m going to expend a great deal of time and energy attempting to convince Werner Herzog to re-record the narration in the trailer. It would be beautiful.

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As a prequel to Capcom's ice-cracking shooter series, Lost Planet 3 will disintegrate the mysteries that have dogged us since 2006's Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. Why do the snarling inhabitants of planet E.D.N. III insist on flaunting their weakpoints? Why don't astronomical objects stop and ask for directions? How did the condition get so ... extreme?

We'd rather not spoil any of that, so instead we'll show you the game's warm protagonist, his big bipedal rig and the on-foot combat in our new video preview.

Lost Planet 3, developed by Spark Unlimited, is due on August 27 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Here we see another missed opportunity to use Destiny's Child's 2001 hit, "Survivor," in a video game trailer. When will those marketing departments ever learn?

Lost Planet 3 footage has emerged via Japanese site 4gamer.net, and when I say footage, I mean actually that. Not cutscenes, 90% company logos, nor close-ups of characters’ faces with worried expressions. The game, moving about. It’s so novel I almost didn’t understand what I was looking at! Although I eventually realised it was building-sized aliens and giant stompy robot suits. VIDEOGAMES!

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Take a look at the Lost Planet 3's single-player and multiplayer, and further uncover the secrets behind E.D.N. III.

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We scour Lost Planet 3 in a revealing first interview with Capcom Producer Andrew Szymansk! We focus on this upcoming PS3 prequel’s alien ecosystems and design philosophy. Then we turn to talk of tea, Diet Coke, and Quentin Tarantino before delving into the North American new releases for next Tuesday April 30th, 2013.

Happy birthday, Justin!

We scour Lost Planet 3 in a revealing first interview with Capcom Producer Andrew Szymanski focusing on the prequel’s alien ecosystems, talk tea and Tarantino, then delve into North American new releases on PSN and retail for Tuesday April 30th, 2013.

Stuff We Talked About

• Sooooooul Sacrifice
• Lost Planet 3
• Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Thomas Was Alone
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
• Katamari Damacy
• Coffee, tea and Diet Coke

Send us questions and tips: blogcast@playstation.sony.com

The Cast

• Sid Shuman – PlayStation Social Media Manager
• Nick Suttner – PlayStation Account Support Manager
• Aram Jabbari – PlayStation PR Manager

[Editor’s note: PSN game release dates are subject to change without notice. Game details are gathered from press releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.]

• Thanks to Cory Schmitz for our beautiful logo and Dormilón for our rad theme song and show music.

Pre-ordering Lost Planet 3 at GameStop will grant five "unique" multiplayer characters, a squad which includes gas mask-wearing soldier "Hunk" from any number of Resident Evil games. The player also receives some Rig (read: giant robot) upgrades, specifically a "tungsten carbide drill" hand and a big ol' "pressurized claw" for squeezing space bugs and (we assume) other, less interesting applications.

Lost Planet 3 arrives on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on Tuesday, August 27.

Do you want to know about Lost Planet 3‘s multiplayer content?! Do you?! DO YOU?! Well, good. You can see the new news below, in the snowy wastelands of… below the jump.

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Grappling hooks, glowing bugs, turrets, mechs and snow? Must be a Lost Planet 3 multiplayer trailer. The game launches this August.

Capcom have found a new way to announce a delayed release – send out a press release that is written as if it were a travel brochure. For younger readers, allow me to explain that travel brochures were a collection of pictures of holidays that people dreamed of and couldn’t afford before Google Earth existed and everybody just looked at that instead. They always smelled slightly toxic. Capcom’s travel brochure is actually advertising computer games but says things like: “For the more adventurous traveller why not embark on the trip of a lifetime to E.D.N. III…brave the extreme and unpredictable conditions as Lost Planet 3 arrives on August 27 in North America and August 30 in Europe.” To which I say, ‘that sounds like a terribly dangerous holiday’ before adding ‘wasn’t Lost Planet 3 supposed to come out in June’?

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Our trek through E.D.N. III takes us to NEVEC's base of operations on E.D.N. III. This latest Lost Planet 3 commentary showcases what you're able to do in your base, and introduces several main characters.

Check out Jim's first arrival at his E.D.N. III base in this Lost Planet 3 gameplay video.

Want to see the opening of Lost Planet 3 without Capcom and IGN's commentary? This is your place!

Jim sets out on his first mission on E.D.N. III, and you can watch it all play out in this Lost Planet 3 video.

IGN and Capcom take you through Lost Planet 3's opening moments, starting with Jim's rather rough landing on the icy planet E.D.N. III.

Is Jim ready for his first mission in Lost Planet 3? He'd better be. Capcom and IGN walk through the first major encounter with the Akrid, including Jim's first use of his rig!

Lost Planet 3 would like you to know that it has a plot, with characters, betrayals, twists and all sorts of things like that. Judging by this new trailer, it’s basically the plot of Fern Gully, Dances With Wolves and Avatar, except colder. I can’t help but think that’s a step down from Lost Planet 2′s narrative, for which I have the original script here:

Act One: It is not snowing. A moderately sized gun appears.

Act Two: It is still not snowing so there is a steaming, tropical jungle now. A large gun appears.

Act Three: There is such an incredible lack of snow that everything is a desert now. An enormous gun appears. Oh, and a mech too, I guess.

Let’s see what sort of scrape Bearded Space Jim has gotten himself into today.

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Despite an initial target of early 2013, Capcom has now announced that Lost Planet 3 will hit Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on June 25th in North America and June 28th in Europe. The news comes along side a bevy of new info for the title, including a batch of new screenshots and the game's box art.

Capcom tells us the release dates for Lost Planet 3 are June 25 in North America, and June 28 in Europe. The game was previously earmarked for early 2013, but early 2013 has all but come and gone, so a delay isn't too surprising. Spark Unlimited's third-person shooter is a prequel to the events of the first game, despite it being called Lost Planet 3.

Check out all of the North American retailer-specific pre-order bonuses on the Capcom blog.

#lostplanet Originally pegged as an early 2013 release, publisher Capcom has announced that Lost Planet 3 won't be coming out until June. Specifically, it'll be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on June 25 in North America and on June 28 in Europe. More »

Capcom tells us the release dates for Lost Planet 3 are June 25 in North America, and June 28 in Europe. The game was previously earmarked for early 2013, but early 2013 has all but come and gone, so a delay isn't too surprising. Spark Unlimited's third-person shooter is a prequel to the events of the first game, despite it being called Lost Planet 3.

If reading the Lost Planet 3 preview from our Tokyo Game Show coverage isn't your thing, here's the demo in video form. Or, you could read along while watching the video. Right eye on the text, left eye on the video.

#lostplanet Via Capcom, here's some cool new footage (with developer commentary) from Lost Planet 3, out next year for PC and consoles. What do you think? More »