
The knife is even quicker to use because you can tap any part of the screen not already assigned to something else to swipe your blade. The ability to independently aim your grenade throw while shooting in another direction is a new tactical wrinkle for the series, and one that will surely be leveraged by experienced players. To hurl a grenade, you simply drag the grenade icon to the area of the screen where you want to throw it, or hold it to cook the fuse before you lob it. In fact, after inverting the Y-axis, I didn’t bother asking the devs on hand about the controls – everything was where I expected it to be.Īccess to the knife, flashbang, and frag grenade that are assigned to L2/R2 or 元/R3 on PS3 are easily accessible on the front touchscreen. The full round-up of new content can be found on the EU PlayStation blog.So how is developer Nihilistic adapting Call of Duty to PS Vita? After playing a round on the new “Shatter” map, it’s clear their goals were to change as little as possible. There's also a PS3 demo of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, a DLC-rich version of Saints Row: The Third (£33.99) and, on Friday, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed for £29.99. The expansion includes a handful of extra courses and Move support for the entire game. It costs for £7.99 and Plus subscribers get 30 per cent off. Portal 2's In Motion DLC for PlayStation Move does launch, however.

As for CS:GO, we still have no new news to impart I'm afraid."


"I'll update everyone when I have a confirmed date. "I don't want to promise a precise timeframe for Retro City Rampage as that is subject to late change, however, it should be in the next few weeks," PlayStation blog manager and ex-Eurogamer man Fred Dutton said. So no, Sony hasn't tried to sneak out the terminally-delayed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or Retro City Rampage.

This week's PSN Store update is otherwise a quiet affair, with few other names ready to take on Call of Duty's launch week. Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, the colon-filled PlayStation Vita version of Activision's shooter, will be available to download today from the EU PlayStation Store.
