No complete series of Spaced = no sale, Sony.

Sony Europe’s new video rental and download service is yours for the plundering on PlayStation Network this side of the Atlantic. Fancy catching up with X-men Origins: Wolverine on your PSP? Jump in. Oh wait, that’s the other one.

You’ll find the new features under “Video Store” on the PS Store. There are reportedly over 2,000 flicks on offer, with rentals priced from €1.99 (good for a fortnight, or for 48 hours after beginning playback) and full purchases from €7.99. Launch titles include Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Valkyrie, Bruno, Dead Space: Downfall and the new Star Trek film.

Naturally, SCEE is celebrating the service’s first birthday with a promotion or two. Already got a PSN account? You can pick up The Da Vinci Code for free if you buy Angels and Demons. Not on PSN yet? Register between 19th and 30th November and a complimentary copy of Transformers will hit your digital doormat. Swimming in riches, us PlayStation Networkers.

Full press release below. UPDATE: Sony’s released a trailer.

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Posted by Ed on 18/11/09 in News, Spotlight, and tagged with download, film, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Portable, PS3, PSN, PSP, rental, Sony, VDS, video, Video Delivery Service.
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Soap isn't shedding any tears over missing mod tools.

Has Modern Warfare 2 had the most SHOCK and SCANDAL-ridden development period EVAH? Of course not. That honor can be accorded to one game and one game only – the unforgettable Pac-Man World (Three dimensions? Back-story?! A pet dog?!!).

Still, Infinity Ward’s magnum-opus-till-the-next-one has stirred up a fair bit of fuss between unveiling and release. Let’s review the key dates and events with the aid of a few choice video clips…

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Posted by Ed on 16/11/09 in Features, Spotlight, and tagged with compilation, Modern Warfare 2, PlayStation 3, PS3, xbox 360.
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Morning, Valve – what have you got there? Another TV spot for Left 4 Dead 2, featuring the musical talents of Clutch? Don’t mind if we do.

Posted by Ed on 05/11/09 in Adverts, and tagged with advert, Clutch, Electric Worry, Left 4 Dead 2, TV.
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Some day we’ll look back and laugh at how we frothed over the release of Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2. Some day. Providing we aren’t otherwise preoccupied dropping nukes on obstinate flag-campers.

It’s out next week. Get lubed up.

Posted by Ed on in Jawdroppers, Spotlight, Trailers, and tagged with Infinity Ward, launch, Modern Warfare 2, soiled underwear, trailer.
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The eyes. THE EYES.

If you could just tear your eyes away from that Modern Warfare 2 pre-order for a second, I’ve got some downloadable games to pimp.

Stop Stress: A Day of Fury is about anarchic average Joes destroying the physical emblems of a high-pressure urban existence, like toilets, shelves and security guards. As such, it’s going head to head with PlayStation Network’s PA!N.

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Posted by Ed on 04/11/09 in Gameplay, Trailers, and tagged with Aleph, DSiWare, Flipper, Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: Rush, Stop Stress: A Day of Fury, trailer, WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade.
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A site has appeared for the new American McGee’s Alice game, complete with stop-motion teaser trailer and 2010 release date. The trailer gives us the willies. Probably in a Freudian sense, yes – this IS Alice in Wonderland after all.

The game’s coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. We love you, new EA.

UPDATE: Apparently the site and trailer are fan-made.

Posted by Ed on 02/11/09 in Fan-Made, Spotlight, and tagged with Alice, American McGee, EA, remake, sequel, teaser.
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Travel with me now to an age of mighty heroes and unsanitary animal fixations – an era when men were real men, women were real women, and miniature giant space hamsters were real miniature giant space hamsters.

The hot-headed berserker Minsc and his possibly-extra-terrestrial companion Boo are among Baldur’s Gate’s most fondly remembered characters. Youtube user Sargoth85 has dug up a few sound-bites for your amusement and instruction.

Posted by Ed on in Fan-Made, Game Music, and tagged with Baldur's Gate, BioWare, Boo, miniature giant space hamster, Minsc, soundtrack.
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Remember when LEGO wasn’t cool? We’re struggling, and we used to build upsettingly true-to-life plastic hands out of the stuff, then leave them in people’s lockers.

With Harmonix’s hard-rocking spot of license integration hitting North American stores tomorrow, the sometime pre-school toy range has never seemed hipper. Check out the launch trailer.

Europeans get it on 27th November.

Posted by Ed on in Spotlight, Target Footage, Trailers, and tagged with EA, geeky yet somehow cool, Harmonix, launch, LEGO Rock Band, MTV, music, trailer.
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Rockstar’s released new Gay Tony material in the form of an advert for one of the parodic TV shows set to appear in the expansion. If you’re a fan of such fine, upstanding Japanese entertainment products as La Blue Girl and Idolm@ster, best not click play. The claws are out.

Posted by Ed on 27/10/09 in Adverts, Spotlight, Trailers, and tagged with advert, anime, Ballad of Gay Tony, Grand Theft Auto IV, GTA, GTA4, Princess Robot Bubblegum, satire, spoof, trailer.
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Ubisoft’s put the first episode of its spin-off series Assassin’s Creed – Lineage on Youtube. We thought it was the best piece of CGI we’d ever seen till we realised that most of it was genuine film footage. Bah.

They’ve really thrown the kitchen sink at this one. Wish the swordplay was that seamless in the game.

Posted by Ed on in Adverts, Spotlight, and tagged with Assassin's Creed - Lineage, Assassin's Creed 2, cool, film, Part 1, Ubisoft.
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