The PlayStation Network has been giving readers a bit of trouble today, so we dropped a line to Sony to get the down low on the down time, most of which should be behind us.
Both North America and Europe seem to have been affected by the PlayStation Network outage, though only Europe received any sort of official acknowledgement of network issues via the official forums.
The PlayStation Network is currently undergoing maintenance, which should last until 19:25 tonight. You will not be able to sign into the PlayStation Network during …

Another victory for Martian guerillas today, as THQ announces three packs of downloadable content for Red Faction: Guerrilla, beginning with Demons of the Badlands, which takes players to an all-new section of the Martian landscape.
Of course the new areas included in August’s Demons of the Badlands DLC are still a rather coppery color, but the action is guaranteed to be fresh. Demons is a destructive single-player story arc that takes the players outside of the boundaries set in the main game. Hopefully there’s a great deal of content stuffed into …

We said goodbye to the Greeks at the end of May. At this end of June we say so long to these fine folk. Wish them well as you chat here about video games.
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To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Texas to Texas
Ah, I miss Texas… No, really. Hope to get back there this holiday season.
Mini-Bash had his school summer festival with all the kids dressing up in yukatas, dancing and singing. The teachers performed as well with some very, very impressive Japanese drumming.
It’s hard to tell from the clip — but there is another row of drummers in the back and a couple more that were on the sides. The kids did not know the teachers where planning this (and practicing …

Let’s! Sony is asking questions, and you are giving answers. What Sony wants to know:
“How appealing would each of the following potential features be if a new public space was created that was dedicated to the PlayStation brand?”
That’s the main question, and Sony then breaks things down into smaller, bit-sized polling that covers everything from PlayStation dev video interviews to trailers of upcoming games to the history of PlayStation.
Feel free to answer in the comments below. Or not. YOU DECIDE.

The delightfully-named United Cutlery make things with blades on them. Some are practical for use around the home, others are practical for use only with effeminate half-dressed demon fighters.
Like this replica of “Red Queen”, from Devil May Cry 4. It’s 42 inches long, and has real steel, and real leather. Crazy. It’ll only be available through Capcom as a Comic-Con exclusive, and should be a limited run, so get on it.
If, that is, giant video game swords are your thing. If not, admire the craftsmanship then keep on movin’.
United Cutlery …

If you’re a WoW player, you’re one of two things. You’re Alliance, or you’re Horde. That’s it. That’s where the line is drawn. Or…it was. Pretty soon, that won’t matter anymore.
Blizzard have begun work on a new service that will let players switch sides. Alliance to Horde. Or Horde to Alliance. Whichever way you want to turn your coat, you’ll be free to do it.
There’ll apparently be rules governing the use of the service, but in a nutshell, here’s how Blizzard explain it:
There’s still much work to do and many …

Dreamkiller is a first-person shooter starring a “punk rock chick psychologist” who projects herself into her patients’ dreams to cure their psychotic behavior by killing their nightmares.
Sound familiar? If it does and you’re not thinking of the anime, Paprika, it’s likely because Dreamkiller sounds a lot like Painkiller. Painkiller you might remember is that 2004 PC first-person shooter about a guy murdering his way through Purgatory developed by People Can Fly. You might also remember its 2007 sequel, Painkiller: Overdose, which was way less popular and developed by Painkiller fans …

By Leigh Alexander. At the E3 debut of Project Natal, Microsoft’s Don Mattrick called the controllers we’ve known and loved “a barrier separating video game players from everyone else.” Wait. Isn’t that the point? Should video game controllers really disappear?
We’ve heard a million times about how the cultural presence of games is growing exponentially thanks to the watershed of Nintendo’s motion control, burgeoning casual audiences and IP that now more neatly spans the world of film, games and books than it has in the past.
At that same E3 event, renowned …

id Software‘s annual gathering of Quake, Doom and Wolfenstein fans will happen August 13th to August 16th. And it will happen at a new location, the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas.
QuakeCon festivities were previously announced to throw down at the Hilton Anatole Hotel, but it appears that id Software and company have had a change of plans. That means, if you’ve already booked a room, it’s time to book a new room, now at the lovely Gaylord Texan Hotel & Convention Center. Trust me, if you haven’t been there, say …