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That castle wasn't going to ghost itself.

#ps3 The PlayStation Move can be flummoxed by bright sunlight. That's the one stress test Sony's new motion controller failed in a series of trials involving a range of lighting conditions and human distraction to which we subjected the Move. More »

Hold on to your Mawashis.

Demo available for Shinji Mikami's epic sci-fi third-person action shooter.

Witness the horror.

#dlc If you missed out on the preorder bonuses for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, fret not! Square Enix is more than happy to sell them to you as part of three packs of downloadable content going on sale today. More »

Behold, the greatest screenshots of all-time.

Final Fantasy fans may have been dismayed by the delay of the Final Fantasy XIV beta yesterday, but be dismayed no more! Square Enix has announced that the "critical bugs" have been exterminated and the North American beta will actually begin today at 7:00pm Pacific Time (10:00pm Eastern / Joystiq Time).

Meanwhile, the European beta (available in the UK, France and Germany) will begin September 2 at 2:00 GMT and the Japanese beta is set to start on September 2 at 11:00 JST. Once the beta begins, just head over to the beta portal to start the registration process.

Get your voice into a game.

#clips Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension isn't hitting stores until September 7 in North America, so you've got a week to sit and watch the game's launch trailer over and over again. More »

European PS3 owners have a lot on their plates this week -- largely in the form of DLC releases for Red Dead Redemption, BioShock 2, MAG, ModNation Racers, Split/Second: Velocity, Kane and Lynch 2 and more. Not particularly tickled by any of these expansions? Well, maybe you'd prefer to do some complimentary ninja flips in the free demo for Vanquish. That doesn't do it for you either? Then you're just impossible to please. You should probably leave.

Choose your platform to view the corresponding release list:
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#guide We've posted more than a baker's dozen of Move reviews and 22 original videos showing off the gameplay and look of Sony's motion controller. But this post goes out to those of you who like the static. More »

The Financial Times is reporting that "sources in the media industry" believe Sony will announce a subscription-based music and video download service, launching initially on PlayStation 3 and PSP before branching out to other Sony devices. An announcement of such a service could be made as early as later today -- the report expects it to be revealed in Berlin at IFA 2010 during Sony's press conference.

Don't expect to see the service by the holidays, though -- FT's sources say it won't be out until sometime next year "as deals are confirmed with all the major labels and studios." We'll be following IFA throughout the day for any announcements, and our friends at Engadget are on the ground in Germany, so keep an eye out for more in the coming hours.

The big day has finally arrived! If you haven’t already signed up, the God of War: Game Directors Live is hours away, and our Facebook Fan Page is filling up with respondents.

That said, be sure to show up early as seating is first come, first served, and there’s only a total of 150 seats available.

This will be your last reminder. Be sure to RSVP!

Date: September 1st, 2010 (aka, “today”)
Time: 4-7pm
Location: El Portal Theater (5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601)

You must be at least 18 years old or accompanied by a parent. ID will be checked!

Now… what’s a God of War event without prizes? Here’s a sneak peek at some of prizes we’ll be giving away at the event:

God of War: Ghost of Sparta Entertainment Pack on 11/2/10

Available at launch on November 2nd, this limited two-tone, black-and-red PSP Entertainment will be signed by all five game directors.

God of War Franchise Bundle

Receive the entire God of War franchise signed by each of the five game directors. Includes the God of War Collection (God of War, God of War II), God of War III, God of War: Chains of Olympus, and God of War: Ghost of Sparta (on 11/02/10).

And ONE God of War exclusive premium item to be announced and given out at the event! You’ll have to attend to find out what it is…

Additionally, all God of War Live attendees will walk away with a limited edition God of War OMEGA PSP strap and a voucher to download the God of War: Ghost of Sparta Demo!

Every End Must First Begin…

#ps3 The PlayStation Move controller requires that you set a PlayStation Eye camera above or below your TV. Don't think that'll work for you? Neither did I, until discovering this trick. Try it yourself. More »

To celebrate its collaboration with Digital Reality on Sine Mora, Grasshopper Manufacture printed up some shirts. To celebrate the fact that Grasshopper's handling the sound for the new downloadable shooter, the developer is giving those shirts away in exchange for shooter sounds ... made with your voice.

Upon playing Super Scribblenauts, it becomes readily apparent why you'd want to use the d-pad to manipulate the game's hero, Maxwell. So why wasn't that an option in the first game? Joystiq asked 5TH Cell Creative Director Jeremiah Slaczka, and were told that the original touch-screen input didn't draw any complaints -- at least not from casual players. "We haven't gotten any emails from casual users," he told us this week, "that are like, 'Hey, I don't like the controls.' It's the hardcore users that are like, 'I play Mario all of the time, and I'm a hardcore gamer, and I'm used to these kinds of controls, and what's what I want."

Though controlling Maxwell directly with the d-pad may seem an obvious choice, it wasn't the first time around. "Maxwell's actually an AI," Slaczka said. "So it wasn't just like throw the d-pad controls in." Maxwell was programmed to respond to the rest of the game's systems rather than just follow button directions, and so it didn't occur to the developers to control him directly. "You'd have to overwrite all of the code that we'd built up for him. So in the second one, we basically did that." The team "stripped out" all of the behaviors and responses that had been coded, and created the option for "one-to-one player control."

For his own part, Slaczka says he doesn't care which option players use, but he'll stick with the stylus. "This isn't a platforming game," he said. "This is a puzzle game. Unfortunately, it has a platforming-type feel to it. So we said for the second one, that's fine, we'll address it, we'll give you both. And we actually fixed up the stylus controls, too, so Maxwell doesn't run away as you tap -- when you let go he stops. So we made it way better."

Innovative reinvention of the classic strategy game receives release date.

#psp The latest entry in PS3 exclusive series White Knight Chronicles won't be coming to Sony's home console. It will arrive on its PSP. And as previously mentioned, it's a prequel. More »

A bright-eyed MMO.

#clips We're kinda, sorta in love with the Playstation Move's Sports Champions. Here's why. More »

You can breathe a little easier if you've been eagerly anticipating Telltale's five-episode Back to the Future series, as USA Today has just confirmed some of its key inclusions:

1. Marty McFly and Doc Brown
2. Christopher Lloyd voicing Doc Brown
3. Hill Valley
4. 1985
5. BttF screenwriter Bob Gale's guidance
6. The DeLorean

We've worked with a team of experts to prepare a list of things we still need confirmed for the episodic game to allow our hearts to open and our expectations to run free, like majestic, time-traveling ponies:

1. Hoverboards.
2. Huey Lewis

Seriously guys, what's up?

The sequel proves to be worth the wait.

Blizzard Entertainment issued a press release this morning to report that over 3 million copies of StarCraft 2 have been sold worldwide in the game's first month of release. While it's always wise to approach publisher estimates with a measure of skepticism, we must admit that this milestone seems plausible. The game sold half that amount in its first two days on the market, leaving the rest of the month to sell that same amount.

"We appreciate all the enthusiasm that players around the world have shown for StarCraft 2," Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime said. "It was important to us to deliver an overall gameplay experience that was accessible, balanced, and fun, and it's been gratifying to see how strongly the global community has already embraced the game." Not that the people who bought it on day one were concerned with accessibility, after years of training on the first StarCraft.

See how you'll make sweet music on DS.

Cute critter images.

Get to know the warriors with these images of the main characters.