The PS Vita is on offer at Best Buy in North America starting June 10th until June 16th. If you purchase a PS Vita for $249.99, you will get a $50 gift card you can use to buy accessories or games for your new console. This is yet another suggestion that the PS Vita is about to get a price cut worldwide.
Sony doesn’t really have much to worry about when the Wii U hits the market. The Wii U, which is an updated Wii console (new hardware specs and design) and a tablet style controller dubbed the Wii U GamePad, works similarly to the cross-platform features of the PS3 and PS Vita. But, will it mean Sony finally enables remote play across all PS3 titles? And, will the Wii U succeed?
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, scheduled for release in late October, is now available to pre-order from the PlayStation Store as a digital download. You can only pre-order the game via the PlayStation Store on the PS3, however.
Japanese developer Grasshopper Manufacture have announced that five games will be available to download for free by PlayStation Plus subscribers. The games, which were developed my Students in Japan, will be available to download on June 21st 2012.
Amazon has introduced a cash back promotion for the PlayStation Vita in Japan this week. The promotion, which runs until July 31st lets gamers purchase a 3G PS Vita, a game, and a 4GB memory card to get a discount of around ¥5,000 (approximately £41, $63).
Check out some live gamplay videos of some of the PS Vita’s top upcoming games. Find gameplay videos covering all three days of E3, including LittleBigPlanet for the PS Vita, Soul Sacrifice and When Vikings Attack.
Wake-up Club is an PS Vita application that makes waking up social. It works by syncing up the alarm clock with other PS Vita owners who set their alarm for the same time. What makes it even more fun is that you can earn trophies for waking up. Check out some footage of the app from E3.
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation was announced at Sony’s E3 Press Conference, featuring the series’ first female assassin. The game is set in 1765 Louisiana, and you play as Aveline De Grandpe, an assassin of African/French heritage. When the Spanish come knocking, it’s up to her and the resisting remnants to fight back.
At E3 2012, Sony has a PlayStation Vita loaded with seven playable PSOne Classic titles, including Final Fantasy VII, Wild Arms and Tomb Raider. A Sony Rep claims that every game currently available title in the PSone Classics catalog will be available for play on Vita with no exceptions.
Sony has released more videos and trailers showing games from the E3 2012. You can see videos from our first round-up here. Again, all these trailers were left out of Sony’s E3 Press Conference. The PS Vita has some great games out there, but sadly Sony didn’t promote them enough.
