EyePet

Official PlayStation Magazine - Review Scores (UK) [December: Issue 38]

The PS3 releases this month have been as strong as ever, and fortunately the great games are still flooding in for Christmas time. This month's OPM reviews the greatly anticipated Italian stealth simulator, FIFA's ugly sister, the epitome of the PlayStation fighting genre, a game where you ferociously make flailing arm movements at your TV to cater for your "virtual pet" (yeah right, you crazy man) and many more. Hit the jump for the latest scores. Read more »

EyePet Gets a US Release Window

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EyePet has been confirmed for a US release 'in time for the holidays'. Admittedly, that's not so much a release window as a garage door, but at least it's been confirmed for release in the US, as it was previously seemingly an EU-only affair. So, you've just got to wait for 'in time for the holidays', whenever that is.

In the mean time, you can watch a video at Engadget or read Joystiq's E3 impressions. It's the cutest thing you'll ever play with on any kind of games console, it uses the Playstation Eye to show the EyePet (the creature shown above) onto the screen as if it was on the floor in front of you. It's called 'augmented reality' and it's showing up all over the place lately - ever the DSi is doing it. Still, this looks to be the most impressive-looking use, so we're looking forward to it, if for no other reason than to put an adorable creature onto a plane and crash it.

We may be pure evil.

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