DC Universe Online Is Now Mere Months Away.

If you’re still getting your breath back after that incredible cinematic trailer for DC Universe Online, well, we apologise. Why? Because we’re about to send you on a hype-fit all over again. Shall we just get it over with? Ok — Sony Online Entertainment’s upcoming super-hero MMO will drop on November 2nd. That’ll be both on PlayStation 3 and PC.

SOE were keen to stress that you won’t need a PlayStation Plus subscription to play the MMO, though you will still need to pay a monthly fee regardless of your PSN account type.

Gah – November 2nd’s not really that far away is it? This is actually an important release for the PlayStation 3 — Sony’s long been touting the beginning of an MMO revolution on home-consoles, and this is the start of it. We’re really curious to see how the game works out.

"I'm Head Of The G Corporation Don'tchaknow?!"

As an onlooking Servbot watches Tekken’s Kazuya kick the crap out of Street Fighter’s Ryu, we can’t help but feel that the upcoming  Street Fighter X Tekken cross-over heading to the PlayStation 3 is probably the best announcement since sliced bread.

Sadly, the producer of Capcom’s game, Yoshinori Ono, reckons the project is still some time off – citing a 2012 release date is on the cards. Ono said that the game’s early announcement was for the fans — and while we’re grateful, we can’t help but feel that the 18 month wait’s going to be agonising.

Street Fighter X Tekken. It’s a God-honest video game. T’was announced yesterday. For realsies. And here’s the game’s debut trailer. It shows Street Fighter’s Ryu facing up to Tekken’s Jin Kazama. It’s all inky and blotchy. It looks amazing. Can we wait to play this? No we cannot.

If Anybody Has Any Information On This Lady (/Man?!), It Would Be Gratefully Appreciated.

This week wasn’t supposed to be like this. I had a whole other series prepared for this week’s There’s No Place Like Home. I was going to do my best Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and make-over my Personal Space. But in my quest for fancy neon lamps, this happened [see photographic evidence above]. As I clicked the shutter of my PlayStation Home camera, I was photobombed.

Allow me to relay; as part of my other planned feature (now dramatically postponed), I was beginning my quest to create the perfect Personal Space. I’m a fan of lights though, and having done my research (YourPlayStationHome.com is incredible) I found that the PlayStation Minis events space was home to some cute little Minis-themed neon lamps. Something I had to have.

I took off on my journey to the Minis Event Space. It’s one of the most visually busy areas I’ve yet to experience in PlayStation Home, with a depth of strong visual effects and plenty of banner advertising for the PlayStation Minis that the space is promoting. After a short game of FreezeBall – which is a unique take on billiards – I took to the Duels area where I’d need to compete to win my light.

The Minis Duel is basically a multiplayer version of pairs. I went in expecting nothing but was pleasantly surprised by the experience. Pairs is, by its nature, a pretty simplistic game. You put a batch of cards face down, turn two over at a time and try to match a pair. Here, the cards are replaced by PlayStation Minis icons – but the game’s much more complicated than you might initially assume. Playing against an opponent, you’re able to plant bombs, shuffle cards and view sections of the grid. The game actually requires a degree of skill, and while I lost my first two games, I found myself managing to trick an opponent into stepping on one of my bombs. I won the match and got my lamp. Hurrah.

One of my favourite things about the Minis space are the giant floating PlayStation Network logos at the front. I decided, before I went back to my Personal Space to begin preparation for my makeover, that I’d take a mug-shot of myself in front of one of those Network balls. I readied my camera and took a pose. Suddenly, just as my finger slipped over the shutter, the lady pictured above ran into view and stole my thunder.

She waited for the shutter. Stared at me for a second, and then went merrily on her way. Now it’s true, I could have taken another picture and moved on from this whole ordeal. But I’m not having it. This lady clearly needs a lesson in discretion when it comes to other people’s photography. Thus, I decided to hold back the planned edition of There’s No Place Like Home to appeal to the Home-sphere — do you have any information about this lady who rudely photobombed my mugshot. Answers on a post-card please.

“There’s No Place Like Home” is PushSquare’s bi-weekly letter from PlayStation Home, penned by virtual world newbie Sammy Barker.

Capcom & Namco's Revealed Both Street Fighter X Tekken & Tekken X Street Fighter For The PlayStation 3.

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has put an end to rumours regarding a possible Namco and Capcom cross-over; by announcing Street Fighter X Tekken (pronounced Street Fighter Cross Tekken). The game’s in development for the PlayStation 3. Joined on-stage by Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada, the duo proved the game’s existence by playing a round of the game live on a PS3.

Interestingly, while Street Fighter X Tekken was the focus of the presentation – it wasn’t the only game announced. Harada revealed that Tekken X Street Fighter is also in development at Namco HQ. While Street Fighter X Tekken will play out on a 2D-plane via the SFIV engine, Tekken X Street Fighter is rumoured to take advantage of the three-dimensional Tekken engine.

No date’s been announced, but it’s some way off apparently. The fanboy in us is doing backflips right now.

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Here’s some shaky-cam footage of Street Fighter X Tekken in action, courtesy of iPlayWinner:

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition's Just Been Announced By Capcom.

Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono has just confirmed that Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition is in development. Ono wanted to reassure fans at the “Street Fighter IV and Beyond” panel that the company “haven’t forgotten about Street Fighter III.”

Apparently, work’s only just started on the game so it won’t be out for a while. But it’s definitely happening. Ono added, “We’ve announced it now, so they can’t stop us from making it.”

An Announcement From Irrational's Imminent It Seems.

It’s been three-years since Ken Levine’s Irrational Games started work on “Project Icarus”, but we’ve still not heard a peep about what’s in development. That could all change next month however, as the studio are sending out invites to a New York event on August 11th. One might assume that an announcement will follow.

Levine already confirmed in January that the game would be announced this year, and we’re assuming the studio aren’t going to waste everybody’s time by inviting them to an event with no information. So August it is.

This footage shot on the Comic-Con show-floor (courtesy of LittleBigPlanetLand), shows off one of LittleBigPlanet 2’s story levels. It looks as brilliantly crafted as you’d expect, with plenty of bouncing about and use of the new grapple-hook mechanic. We can’t wait.

If you weren’t already aware, Sony announced a bad-ass Collector’s Edition for the US yesterday. You better go order quick though — supplies were described as limited yesterday and it’s been selling like hot-cakes since then.

[Thanks VG247]

Don't Worry, Split-Screen Twisted Metal Sessions Are Back In Vogue.

David Jaffe’s confirmed during a Comic-Con panel last night that the Twisted Metal reboot will be getting split-screen multiplayer. However, the game won’t be supporting 3D or PlayStation Move, something the crowd were presumably pretty stoked to hear (why you’d want less optional features in a game is beyond us).

There’s a full break-down of what happened at the panel through here. Kotaku’s also got some canned artwork from the game early in its developmnet.

MMO trailers are always misleading. They succeed in getting you hyped for a product, but they’re never really close to being representative to the game they are promoting. It’s hard, therefore, to go a bit doo-lally over an MMO trailer, because at the end of the day you’re shouting about a piece of CGI.

Still, this Comic-Con trailer for DC Universe Online is particularly stunning. It’s due on PlayStation 3 and PC later this year.