Gamescom 2012 News

Star Wars: The Old Republic has received another world event, titled the Grand Acquisition.

If you read our E3 preview of Star Wars 1313, then you'll get a pretty good feel for what's in this trailer just released for Gamescom 2012. Some good battle scenes, but not much actual gameplay.

SimCity will be hitting the Mac next February, and allow cross-platform play with PC owners.

Hitman: Absolution will sport a "Contracts" mode, which lets you create specialized missions or take on ones designed by IO to challenge your friends asynchronously.

Perhaps the most significant firmware update developed for the Vita handheld is the upcoming release of 1.80. Not only will the system update add support for PSone games, it will offer a bevvy of other improvements for owners of Sony's new handheld.

Want early access to the God of War: Ascension multiplayer mode? Sony has just announced a global beta for PS Plus members.

Killzone for Vita finally has a name and a release window. Coming from Guerilla Games, the upcoming Vita installment of Sony's exclusive FPS franchise brings "the same powerful engine" of Killzone 3 to the handheld.

Sony debuted two new PlayStation 3 titles from Japan Studio at its Gamescom press briefing today: Rain and Puppeteer.

After spending years on the LittleBigPlanet franchise, Media Molecule has revealed their next brand new IP: Tearaway, a paper world where you can help the hero Iota just by touching the back of your Vita.

Sony took time to show off yet another PlayStation Move exclusive game at its Gamescom press conference. Until Dawn is a "teen horror" game coming in 2013.

Sony has announced that PlayStation Plus' cloud storage feature is upgrading to a full GB of space, up from 150 MB.

Games developed for PlayStation Mobile will be distributed via the PlayStation Store, and Sony has confirmed that games purchased for one platform will be playable any other device registered to the same PlayStation Network ID.

Sony shared more information about Black Ops: Declassified at its Gamescom 2012 conference, including campaign and multiplayer details.

Sony has confirmed that PlayStation All-Stars will be a "Cross Buy" game. What does that mean? It means if you buy the PS3 version of the game, you'll get the Vita version of the game for free as well.

Electronic Arts is expanding Origin to more platforms, including Mac, Android and Facebook, while adding such things as achievements and free-to-play games.