Wow! We had 151 entries in total for this giveaway, and Two Tribes was so happy about it, that they gave us more codes so we could pick more winners! The random lucky ones are: Kane112 (Twitter Entry) The_Nmac (Ticket Entry) Maplesniper (Bonus Entry) stu123 (Ticket Entry) chronorayven (YouTube Channel Entry) schrnkuk (Ticket Entry) Darklurkr23 (Ticket Entry) Insomniac_24_7 (Twitter Entry) wolfkin (Video Entry) Ajescent (Twitter Entry) Check your Inbox as I’ve sent you a PM with your code. Keep earning those points, we have a lot more giveaways coming soon for our loyal members!

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Winners Of The Toki Tori PSN Giveaway

Well, what a giveaway this was! We received a massive 113 entries in total for this giveaway, and I’m sure we would have received more if we kept it open for a bit longer! Before I announce the winners, I must definitely send a very huge thank you to Evolution Studios and 4Gamers for providing all the awesome the prizes for this giveaway – we couldn’t have done it without you! Congrats go out to the following winners (and lots of jealousy is sent their way as well): MotorStorm – Pacific Rift (1 x copy each) – PS3 EdEN Nikibaby219 insomniac247 Cheeto kennygk MotorStorm RC – PS3 & PS Vita (EU Codes) mynameisbarry SteveOKenoby Oly 4Gamers Compact Racing Wheel arsenalfox Can all the winners please PM me their details (Name & Address) so I can take care of this?. As for the winners of the MS:RC codes, please check your Inbox for the codes. Thank you to everyone who entered – keep your eyes peeled on the site for more giveaways, or if you’re itching to win something now – check out the giveaways currently running (see banners above)! If you’re not already following me, Evolution Studios or 4Gamers on twitter – what are you waiting for? Get following! Follow @anisjolly Follow @4GamersElite Follow @MotorstormRC

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[Giveaway Winners] Yes, This Is A Huge MotorStorm Giveaway

We had 63 entries in total for this giveaway, and the five random winners are: Wolfkin (Facebook Fan Page Entry ) mynameisbarry (Ticket Entry) Insomniac_24_7 (Twitter Entry) mowmow (Google+ Entry) Maplesniper (YouTube Channel Entry) Keep earning those points, we have more giveaways coming soon!

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[Winners] Hungry Giraffe Giveaway

Our friends from Bandai/Namco and CyberConnect2 games handed us some Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations swag! One lucky winner will get a BRAND NEW copy of the game, including 6 of the pre-order cards, and a 2nd place winner will get all 6 of the pre-order cards! Anyone that ever wanted to get in the story of the popular anime can pick this game up and play through story mode where it essentially retells the whole series up to date! With 75 characters to choose from, this game is both gorgeous and addicting! Hit the jump to see all the details. “Developed by CyberConnect2, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™: Ultimate Ninja® STORM Generations is the latest rendition in the smash hit ‘NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja Storm’ series of games. The title will power the series into the future by revolutionizing online play and ramping up the number of playable and support characters far beyond any NARUTO game in the wildly popular franchise. Players will compete in a variety of online battle modes with their favorite NARUTO characters, including Naruto and Sasuke. NARUTO fans have been waiting to see more of Zabuza and Haku since the launch of the original Manga, and now they will have their chance! These are just a few of the many new ninja in the game. All this, together with the original Japanese voiceovers and lovingly crafted presentation faithful to the NARUTO franchise ensures that NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM Generations offers NARUTO and gaming fans a torrential downpour of NARUTO ninja fighting action and adventure!” *Sorry, but this giveaway is for NA only.* You have until 12:01 AM April 4th PAC to get your entries in. Please like & follow NAMCO Bandai and CyberConnect2 on Facebook & Twitter. It’s because of them we are having this giveaway! So show them some love. Follow @filthierich Follow @cc2information Follow @paulfierce [Worth up to 5 Entries] Purchase Lottery Ticket for 125 Points for a entry into the lottery. Here are all the possible ways to earn points . [Worth 1 Entry] Like the giveaway post on the lottery page (not the actual post itself) via Facebook. Then post a comment to your facebook wall from the lottery page. [EARN 35 Points] [Worth 1 Entry] Follow @ps3blogdotnet on Twitter. Then there will be a tweet button. You just have to click that & tweet the exact text in the pop-up . Then a notification will pop up saying your entry was successful. [EARN 35 Points] [Worth 1 Entry] Use the Google +1 button on the lottery page (not the actual post itself), then share on your Google+ profile to complete your entry. [EARN 35 Points] [Worth 1 Entry] First, be a fan of our our Facebook page . On the left sidebar, there is a [Giveaway] link. Go there and at the bottom there is a “Enter Contest” button you can click for your Facebook PS3Blog.net Fan Page entry. Note: Make sure you’re logged into PS3Blog.net before you click the button. [EARN 10 Points] [Worth 1 Entry] Subscribe to our YouTube Channel . We will post a bulletin. Follow the link & it will count as your YouTube entry. Note: Make sure you’re logged into PS3Blog.net before you click the link. [EARN 10 Points] [Bonus 3 Entries] After you have purchased at least one lottery ticket you are eligible for video entries. Make a video saying why you want to win. It can be funny, unique, strange, etc. Have fun with it. Include PS3Blog.net and the name of the item being given away in your video & in the title of the video. Then use the button above to submit your video for review. Also leave a comment below with a link to your YouTube video. [EARN 30 Points] Here are the most recent YouTube video entries for all lotteries on PS3Blog.net with the most recent ones displayed first.

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[Giveaway] Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations

The Mass Effect series, which Bioware began in 2007, at last draws to a close—and it goes out with a bang. The review in brief: Mass Effect has a deep story and lore that are supported by fun and varied combat mechanics, great graphics that show off an original and unified environment aesthetic, thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue recorded by generally fine actors (many of whom you might well recognize, from Martin Sheen to half the cast of Battle Star Galactica ), and a surprisingly engaging new online co-op mode. My concerns with the game are generally niggling criticisms that shouldn’t put you off from throwing yourself into the Mass Effect universe. For those of you who have missed the hype over the years, Mass Effect is a space opera rendered as a third-person action role-playing game. You play as Commander Shepard, a human special operative marine, who in each game must put together a task force whose mission is to thwart the imminent invasion of the Reapers, a race of cyborg horrors who threaten to eliminate all advanced organic life in the galaxy. In the meantime, you learn a staggering amount about the history of the galaxy and the races that populate it, you engage in smaller-scale disputes between combative factions, and you engage in very personal relationships with your teammates. And you make tough choices. Not everyone will survive every game, nor is there any guarantee that you, Shepard, will in fact survive any of the games. Shepherd with a sniper rifle and cryo ammo As in other role-playing games, you pick your character’s gender and your class, among six possible classes. One cool innovation of Mass Effect is that it sports essentially two forms of “magic” in the universe: There are “tech” powers that have machine-oriented effects, such as disrupting enemy shields, creating combat drones, and hacking enemy battle droids. Then there are “biotic” powers, which are Jedi-like force effects, such as creating a temporary black hole that pulls enemies helplessly toward it, and telekinetic effects that pull enemies helplessly through the air or throw them with violent ragdoll physics against walls or off ledges. Magic aside, there is also a warrior-like skill tree that focuses on gunplay augmentations. Mass Effect has six classes to choose from: Soldier (warrior), Engineer (tech), Adept (biotic), and three that are hybrids of the above. Combat plays out very differently depending on your class choice and your advancement decisions. Class selection It is important to note that Mass Effect is not an open-world game in the model of the Elder Scrolls games. You progress through a series of well-designed maps, though you have some freedom in choosing the order of the missions that you take on. But you can never return to any of the maps. There’s a trade-off here for the player. I love open-world games, but I appreciate that the more linear design affords a tighter narrative structure as well as tighter design of individual maps. And the game looks amazing. It has a strong visual style and even an identifiable color palette that will be familiar to players of the previous Mass Effect games. Who can forget the electric blue and dusty rose lens flares that pepper the game’s visual experience? And despite the narrow focus of the game’s aesthetic vision, the game takes you to worlds and starships designed by different races over different times, and each locale feels wholly original. The biotic and tech power effects look more explosive than ever, and gun fights look spectacular. The game just looks great—better, in fact, than many games that attempt greater verisimilitude. London's burning Mass Effect 3 offers a multi-player experience, which is a first for the franchise. Like others, I was dubious at first; the multiplayer largely seemed like a money-making ploy by the developers. First, your actions in multiplayer games have some effect in the single-player experience. In order to get the “best” endings in the single-player game, it behooves one—though it is not absolutely essential—to play some multiplayer games before finishing the campaign. And to play multiplayer at all requires either a new copy of the game or purchase of an “online pass,” as EA Games has been pushing for the past couple of years. Multiplayer mayhem But my doubts were assuaged as I began actually playing the game mode. It’s a hoard-style game that pits you and three other online players against eleven progressively harder waves of enemies. You choose your class, just as in the single-player experience, and you can rank your character up to level twenty, unlocking new and improved combat abilities. There are (only) six maps and three different enemy factions against whom you can play. Multiplayer turns out to be a great deal of fun, especially when your teammates are representing different classes and you all are working together, making the best use of your individual abilities to target different threats. Communication is key, and it’s sadly lacking in my online experience, but hey, I still get a kick out of winning awesome battles with a bunch of silent randoms in my party. I’ve put about fifteen hours into multiplayer, and I will probably continue to play it for some time. Without fresh maps or new game modes, though, the experience will doubtless become stale. Punishing bad robots in multi-player I spent forty-four hours playing the single-player campaign of Mass Effect 3. I did everything I could possibly do: I talked to everyone at length, completed every side quest, and so on. One of my friends beat the game in ten hours fewer than me, and I would imagine that one could well beat the game in twenty hours or less if one really wanted to. But I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to. The story is engrossing, my relationships with my team mates (developed over the course of the Mass Effect series) feel real and authentic, and I feel increasingly like an awesome Jedi superhero as I play the game. A few criticisms: As I mention above, the game is shorter than previous titles. It sports fewer “cities” that one can visit than the earlier games as well. Resource mining has been streamlined, which is probably good on the whole, but the obsessional part of my personality would have rather appreciated a somewhat heavier accent on exploration and mining. The quest log is a bit of a disaster; it doesn’t update as you complete parts of quests, and it doesn’t provide much, if any, direction for where to go to complete them. Finally, the game’s resolution is, well, enigmatic as you may have heard, but no spoilers here—let me just say that I was not displeased with the ending. Lens flare! It never gets old. If you’ve played any of the Mass Effect games before, then you already know whether you’ll like Mass Effect 3. If you’re new to the series, then I would discourage you from starting with this title. Get the first game (not available on the PS3) or get the second game for the PS3 and play the “interactive comic book” intro that catches you up on the events of the first game and lets you make some of its key decisions. If you’ve played any of the previous games, definitely do play ME3 on the same platform and import your old character. The game imports thousands and thousands of decisions that you’ve made in your past games and takes them into account as it shapes the ME3 universe. It’s impressive and immersive— ME3 absolutely feels as if it’s my game, populated by my friends and my enemies, and I have to continue to live with the tough choices that I’ve made in the past. Mass Effect 3 is a great game. It’s an emotional ride supported by great gameplay mechanics and a beautiful graphical style. And most importantly, it provides a fitting conclusion to a long history—a living narrative to which most players of the trilogy will have devoted a minimum of one hundred hours of their lives. The game feels important and meaningful, and it’s a fine example of how video games can, indeed, offer deep and carefully plotted dramas. So, if you’ve never played a Mass Effect game before, do yourself a favor and start at the beginning. If you only read Tolkien’s The Return of the King, well, you’d just be confused, right? Start with The Fellowship of the Ring— or Mass Effect 1— and work your way forward from there. Better get started soon… the galaxy needs saving. Review Pros Cons Deep story Memorable characters and relationships Awesome Jedi-gunslinger action Fine conclusion to an innovative series Shorter than previous titles Some interface quirks Enigmatic ending is either brilliant or a bit of a let-down Rating 97% Review based off of a retail version of the title purchased by reviewer and had been completed prior to review.

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[PS3 Review] Mass Effect 3

Just a little over a week ago we introduced you to 4Gamers , a UK based PlayStation Approved accessory brand. We also gave their COMM-PLAY Performance Gaming Kit a once over, which comprised of a Stereo Gaming Headset with a noise cancellation mic, a Dual Charging Stand and a slick Gold Plated 3D ready HDMI cable. We’ve been holding off on giving away the kit due to the eagerly awaited PS Vita launch, and now that’s out of the way – you now have a fantastic chance to win this rather unique Performance Gaming Kit. To be in for a chance to win this rather amazing prize, and then check out all the ways you can enter to win after the jump! We’d like to give a HUGE thanks to 4Gamers for providing us with the goods. If you’re wondering on whether this prize is worth a punt, then why not have a read of my review? Remember, the more you do, the better your chance to walk away with a COMM-PLAY Performance Gaming Kit! Please like & follow 4Gamers on Facebook & Twitter. It’s because of them we are having this giveaway! So show them some love. Follow @4GamersElite [Worth up to 5 Entries] Purchase Lottery Ticket for 150 Points for a entry into the lottery. Here are all the possible ways to earn points . [Worth 1 Entry] Like the giveaway post on the lottery page (not the actual post itself) via Facebook. Then post a comment to your facebook wall from the lottery page. [EARN 35 Points] [Worth 1 Entry] Follow @ps3blogdotnet on Twitter. Then there will be a tweet button. You just have to click that & tweet the exact text in the pop-up . Then a notification will pop up saying your entry was successful. [EARN 35 Points] [Worth 1 Entry] Use the Google +1 button on the lottery page (not the actual post itself), then share on your Google+ profile to complete your entry. [EARN 35 Points] [Worth 1 Entry] First, be a fan of our our Facebook page . On the left sidebar, there is a [Giveaway] link. Go there and at the bottom there is a “Enter Contest” button you can click for your Facebook PS3Blog.net Fan Page entry. Note: Make sure you’re logged into PS3Blog.net before you click the button. [EARN 10 Points] [Worth 1 Entry] Subscribe to our YouTube Channel . We will post a bulletin. Follow the link & it will count as your YouTube entry. Note: Make sure you’re logged into PS3Blog.net before you click the link. [EARN 10 Points] [Bonus 3 Entries] After you have purchased at least one lottery ticket you are eligible for video entries. Make a video saying why you want to win. It can be funny, unique, strange, etc. Have fun with it. Include PS3Blog.net and the name of the item being given away in your video & in the title of the video. Then use the button above to submit your video for review. Also leave a comment below with a link to your YouTube video. [EARN 30 Points] Here are the most recent YouTube video entries for all giveaways on PS3Blog.net with the most recent ones displayed first. Keep your eyes peeled for more 4Gamers accessories being reviewed on PS3Blog.net – we may just have another headset to giveaway Closing date: Saturday, 3rd March 2012 Note: This giveaway is open to US, Canada and UK residents only.

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[Giveaway] Stereo Gaming Headset, Dual Charge Stand and a Slick Gold Plated HDMI Cable

In total we had 196 entries in this giveaway, pretty impressive numbers. Thank you to all that entered, we had some great video entries too! I think the only other giveaway that got more entries was the PS Move giveaway. I picked a winner at random and Diggitydave won! We will be contacting you later today. Keep earning those points, we have more giveaways planned!

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Winner Of Lord of the Rings: War in the North Collectors Edition

We had 43 entries in total for this giveaway, and the five random winners are: Wolfkin (Google+ Entry) Jason (Ticket Entry) Insomniac_24_7 (Ticket Entry) mowmow (Google+ Entry) SubMonkey (Ticket Entry) Keep earning those points, we have more giveaways coming soon!

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[Winners] Orbit Giveaway

Another week is upon us and the podcast is back with FooBear and myself. It’s always good to sit down and record these things each week! So tune in and listen to the two of us discuss everything from Skyrim, Dark Souls, as well as a flurry of the games to be released in 2012! I’ll make sure not to ramble on too much here, that way you can get to the entertainment quicker. So enjoy! Enter the secret word(s) mentioned in the PS3BlogCast to earn 75 points. The first 10 people to enter it correctly get double points! As always, we want to remind you that the PS3BlogCast is listed on iTunes! So please subscribe and rate/review us there. You can also leave a voicemail for us by calling PS3-888-BLOG or if you want to contact us via email for us you can do so here . We have a dedicated forum for the PS3BlogCast so you can leave your questions and feedback there as well. Here’s a list of some things (or everything) we discussed: PS4 Rumors Squashed Games of 2012 Perhaps no PS4 or Xbox at all? Dark Souls DLC FooBear gets Skyrim! Skyrim 1.4 update inbound Bethesda wins the Fallout lawsuit Taco Bell is giving away Vitas Secret Word

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PS3BlogCast Episode 32

I was surprised we had so many enter this giveaway. We had 256 entries in this giveaway! Thank you to all that entered. I picked 5 winners at random and the winners are: ZFM12, Darklurkr23, Oly, SubMonkey, EdEN. Congrats to the winners! Keep earning those points, we have more giveaways coming!

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[Giveaway Winners] PS3Blog.net Has Hit 1 Million Points!