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Interested in Resonance of Fate but afraid of being burned by another tri-Ace RPG? If you have access to a Japanese PlayStation Network account or (less likely) a Japanese Xbox 360, you can sample the game today. Sega released a demo of the gunplay RPG in Japan, with a tutorial that Siliconera reports is easy enough to follow along with even in Japanese. We were able to suss out the mechanics during TGS with little issue, but we doubt the downloadable demo includes a Sega rep, as our TGS demo did.

What won’t be easy to follow along with is the story and dialogue — but referring once again to Star Ocean 4, maybe that’s not the worst thing.

Resonance of Fate demo available on Xbox Live and PSN in Japan originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on December 23rd, 2009 at 6:00am by JC Fletcher
Filed Under: demo, end-of-eternity, japan, psn, resonance-of-fate, rpg, sega, tri-ace, xbla

The MAG beta cycle is coming to a close, and the good people over at Sony decided to share MAG’s box art on Sony’s Official Blog today.

If the box art doesn’t get you excited enough, they also posted some stats that they gathered over the last month of the beta’s run.

• More than 42,000 matches were played over the course of the full public beta (August 17 – December 5).
• During October’s beta period alone nearly 534,000+ miles were traveled in-game by MAG players each week.
• During the final month of the Beta 4 and 4.5 periods (November 9 – December 5):
  • Of the more than 65,000 players that logged on, 17,000 of them qualified for Squad Leader, 3500 people qualified for Platoon Leader, 1100 folks made it all the way to OIC, and 206 dedicated warriors made it all the way to the level 60 experience cap.
  • Nearly 18 million kills were made and an excess of 700 million shots were fired.
  • The Top 3 most played maps all belonged to the Sabotage mode. They were, in order, Syr Darya Uplink, Darien Network, and Copper Hills Relay.

To see this, and more stats collected from the beta as well as a list of MAG’s star players, visit MAG’s Official Blog.

Posted on December 10th, 2009 at 4:42pm by [email protected] (The Games Are Evil Family)
Filed Under: News, Playstation 3, mag, psn

They said it couldn’t be done — and for good reason, considering how difficult it must be for a creature to stretch its own body to a length of 576,682,810 miles. However, thanks to a little help from Namco Bandai, Noby Noby Boy’s community-driven “Girl” has managed to extend her torso from Earth to Jupiter, unlocking a new playable planet for all of the game’s inhabitants.

Make sure you check out the video after the jump to get a sense of what eating your own butt whilst aimlessly traversing a gas giant feels like. We can’t believe we just had a reason to write that sentence. Thank you so, so much, Noby Noby Boy.

Continue reading Noby Noby Girl has stretched her way to Jupiter

Noby Noby Girl has stretched her way to Jupiter originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 9:00pm by Griffin McElroy
Filed Under: girl, jupiter, namco-bandai, noby-noby-boy, psn, stretch

If you’ve downloaded firmware 6.20 for your PSP, you’ll be able to access the Digital Comics service, featured under the new “Extras” section of the XMB. While the PlayStation Store won’t offer comics until next month, Sony is offering fans an early sneak peek at the service by offering free codes through the official PlayStation Comics website. Americans will be able to get the first issue of Transformers: All Hail Megatron, while Europeans can download the first issue of Aleister Arcane.

Each issue will take about 40MB of space on your Memory Stick / PSP Go. To get your trial codes, visit the PlayStation Comics website.

[Thanks, Simon R.!]

Try PSP Digital Comics with these free codes originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 3:00am by Andrew Yoon
Filed Under: Comics, Digital comics, aleister-arcane, psn, transformers

The PlayStation.Blog has been kind enough to make a walkthrough video of Sony’s brand new adhocParty service for PSP/PS3. With this program, games that don’t have Infrastructure multiplayer modes on PSP can be played online through the PlayStation Network. Essentially, the PS3 uses some evil voodoo magic to trick the PSP into thinking it’s playing Ad-Hoc with others.

The program is available for free on the PlayStation Store right now. To see the video, click past the break.

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This is how you throw an adhocParty originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 10:00pm by Andrew Yoon
Filed Under: ad-hoc-party, adhocparty, psn