A new game for the PS Vita has been revealed. KickBeat is a music game; it just doesn’t look like one. KickBeat follows in the tradition of controller based music games, like Patapon and Frequency. Although its beat-matching mechanic is not complex and will be familiar to fans of the music game genre, KickBeat does a couple things that make it different from anything else you’ve played.
A new video showing off the PS3 to PS Vita cross-platform gameplay and features of Foosball 2012 has been released. First of all, when you buy Foosball 2012, you’ll get it for both the PS3 and PS Vita for a price of a single PSN game. The same applies for DLC content that you will be able to buy.
If you are looking for a bargin on PlayStation Vita games, you’ll be happy to know that Sony has sneakily dropped the price of three first party titles to just £11.99 (from a RRP of around £29.99). The three games are: Everybody’s Golf, ModNation Racers, and Reality Fighters.
With Resistance: Burning Skies scheduled to be out in a week’s time, new screenshots have been released to show off how polished the game looks on the PlayStation Vita. There isn’t a visible HUD in the screens so it’s unclear if the screens are actual gameplay or cut-scenes.
Yet another Augmented Reality game is heading to the PlayStation Vita. The new title, PulzAR, joins the AR Play line-up in June, turning any surface into a puzzle game with the use of the AR Play cards that came with your PS Vita.
If you don’t own a 3G PlayStation Vita, you can still game on the go using an Android mobile or iPhone. The Android is the best option as internet tethering is standard on the latest phones, while iPhone users will be charged extra to enable tethering. All you need to do is enable Wi-Fi tethering on your device and connect to the hotspot using your PS Vita.
According to reports, beta email for LittleBigPlanet on the PlayStation Vita have started going out, containing a PSN code to download the beta from the PlayStation Store. The beta registration opened around two weeks ago. Naturally, no everyone who applied for the beta will get access.
Mobile developer Cave have cancelled their two Vita games currently in production, according to a note in the latest Famitsu magazine. Two titles were being developed for the PS Vita, including a social game making use of the PS Vita’s features, including the use of Near to check-in and in-game coins based on how far you’ve travelled with the game.
