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The US Playstation Store has updated June 26 2008 and the following has been added:-

Add-on Game Content

PAIN Nigel Character ($0.99)
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock “I am Murloc” World of Warcraft Single (free)
Rock Band
* “Crackity Jones” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Dead” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Debaser” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Gouge Away” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Here Comes Your Man” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Hey” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “I Bleed” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “La La Love You” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Monkey Gone to Heaven” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Mr. Grieves” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “No. 13 Baby” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Silver” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “Tame” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* “There Goes my Gun” – the Pixies ($1.99)
* Doolittle album ($18.99) – This album includes “Crackity Jones,” “Dead,” “Debaser,” “Gouge Away,” “Here Comes Your Man,” “Hey,” “I Bleed,” “La La Love You,” “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” “Mr. Grieves,” “No 13 Baby,” “Silver,” “Tame,” and “There Goes My Gun” by the Pixies.
* “Dreamin’” – Weezer ($1.99)
* “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived” – Weezer ($1.99)
* “Troublemaker” – Weezer ($1.99)
* Weezer Pack 1 ($5.49) – includes “Dreamin’,” “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived,” and “Troublemaker” by Weezer.

Game Demos (free)

Hot Shots Golf Out of Bounds Demo
Top Spin 3 OFFICIAL DEMO

Game Videos (free)

Battlefield: Bad Company Accolades TV Spot
Battlefield: Bad Company Preston’s Blog
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway – Ubidays Trailer
Call of Duty: World at War
The Incredible Hulk Trailer
HAZE Launch Trailer
HAZE Song Trailer

Movie and Blu-ray Trailers (free)

The House Bunny trailer
So I Married An Axe Murderer Blu-ray Disc trailer
Men In Black Blu-ray Disc trailer

PS3 Themes (free)

PAIN: Nigel Theme
PLAYSTATION Network Theme

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Here is part 1 to Gamersyde’s Resistance 2 videos. In this video you will witness multiplayer action and you can see how smooth this game runs with up to 60 people playing on the same map. There is also some singleplayer action too. Resistance 2 will be released by the end of the year.

Resistance 2 gameplay video B-Roll part 1

Resistance 2

Resistance 2 Screenshots.

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During Sony’s recent presentation in Japan, they announced that upcoming exclusive role playing game, White Knight Chronicles will be released FY08. What does this mean? It means that the game could be released any time from now up until the 31st of March 2009.

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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel will be released for the Playstation 3 this fall. Ascaron Entertainment announced this today and also said that the PS3 version will have enhanced graphics, 5.1 Channel Dolby Surround Sound and support drop-in cooperative play, as well as other multiplayer gaming modes via the Internet.

Sacred 2 also features two player shared screen on one PS3. Player can simply pick up a controller and press start to join their friends.

Click here to see some screenshots of Sacred 2.

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Heres a new trailer of Square Enix’s upcoming action game for the Playstation Portable, Dissidia: Final Fantasy.

“Dissidia: Final Fantasy’s genre has been described as “dramatic progressive action” and its graphics will be in three dimensions.”

Dissidia: Final Fantasy video trailer 2

According to playstationlifestyle.net it seems the PSN friendslist limit of 50 persons has been increased but to which amount currently isn’t known yet.

The author did not have a problem of reaching the limit recently but due to a friend notifying him of this ‘change’.

Then one of my friends messaged me saying they just counted their friends and they have over 50. I didnt believe it and i assumed he had also counted himself. So i tried this myself and i counted a total of 55 friends plus myself. I had to do this three times and i came with the same figure.

If this is the case it might be that firmware 2.36 increased the limit. This is understandable as with HOME approaching your friends list might increase much rapidly.

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Update: Seems the limit is now 100 if we believe tazzer1 on the GameTrailers.com forum

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Our friends over at ps3attitude have news on the Playstation 3 delivering worldwide daily news. Sony announced today during Sony Strategic Meeting in Tokyo that a service that will allow PS3 owners to view daily world news interactively.

“The system, billed under their Life with PlayStation brand, allows you to zoom around a virtual globe (not unlike the one in the Folding@Home application) and gain world news from various cities. The service will allow later on for geo-tagged pictures to be viewed on the globe, and is part of a whole slew of non-game services Sony are planning for the future.”

Basically when you turn on your PS3, Sony want to present you with the latest news and the information you require. This new service is called Life with Playstation.

Head over to ps3attitude for more information on this.

If you missed the screenshots of the trophy screen, head over to the post and check it out. Meanwhile PS3Fanboy has its hands on some more unconfirmed screenshots of the gamer card or gamer profile.

“Our sources have got back to us with a couple more images today. These images show off the third page of the user profiles (seen above) which contain some basic information on the player.”

The above image is just basically the same profiles we see now but it looks as though it has been skinned up. The same About me and My languages are still here, nothing new though, just a new look.

The second image is what it looks like when your viewing someone else gamer profile or gamer card.

Remember these are unconfirmed shots. They are probably real and we’ll find out on the 30th when Firmware 2.4 is released.

Altair won’t be returning this year according to this article. If you scroll half way down you can see that Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America states:

there’s no new “Assassin’s Creed” this year, despite its sales success. “When we bring it back, there will be more anticipation for it,”

So all they want is anticipation? Won’t they get that anyway? Doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing anything at E3 in that case.

Here are 8 screenshots of Atari’s horror title, Alone in the Dark. Check the great screenshots out!

Rpgfan.com have the latest details regarding the Playstation 3 version of Eternal Sonata. Bandai Namco Games announced that Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume (Eternal Sonata in the US) will be released on the Playstation 3 in mid-September in Japan – more than a year after it was released for the Xbox 360.

Its all good news for PS3 owners because the developers have used this time to make some changes to the game.

• Two new playable characters
• A new quest and the option to change a character’s outfit
• A new dungeon
• A revised scenario with multiple endings
• New songs by pianist Stanislav Bunin and composer Motoi Sakuraba

Eternal Sonata will be released September the 18th in Japan for 6,980 yen.

For all those Far Cry fans out there that want to have a look at Far Cry 2 in action here’s a twenty minute video showing the greatness of this game. Far Cry 2 promises an all open world and i think it delivers that. The following video was captured at the Dreamhack LAN show in Sweden. Enjoy.

Far Cry 2 public presentation at DreamHack Summer 2008

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The European Playstation Store has updated June 26 2008 and the following has been added:-

PS3:
Metal Gear Solid Database
Commando 3 Demo

Add-ons:
Pain: Nigel Pack (69p)
World Of Warcraft Track

Other:
Prince of Persia Trailer
Prince Caspian Trailer
Call of Duty World At War Trailers

PSP:
Pursuit Force (£14.99)

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At Sony Group’s Mid-Term Corporate Strategy Meeting several Presidents of different division showed slide shots of a 2008 summer start/roll out of the video services.

Some Key Game initiatives that were discussed:

1. Expand content and services available on the network platform
2. Continue to expand the PS3 customer base through the strength of Blu-ray Disc
3. Accelerate PS3 sales through upcoming key franchise software titles
4. Continue PS3 cost reduction initiatives

With these initiatives set they hope to capitalize as well on the rapid grow in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries.

To achieve profitability in the Fiscal Year 2008, they will need to work on cutting down costs by chip shrink and reduction of components while strengthening the management.

Sony also wants to increase the network and wireless connectivity between products, not only limited to the Location Free, PSP and PS3. So that the customer can enjoy as many content as they have in their network.

After the break you’ll see more slide shots from SCEI’s President Kazuo Hira presentation.

Webcast of the meeting (Windows Media Stream)

Sony Group Strategy (FY 2008-2010) (pdf)

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According to this Neogaf forum post, Square Enix have announced that they are committing to releasing their classics on the Playstation Network Game Archives. They started this yesterday (June 25th) for Japan by releasing Xenogears and Einhander on the PSN for 600yen each.

There are twelve key titles that they plan to release on Game Archives. Lets hope this comes available for the rest of the world.

Here’s the full list of games that were released in Japan on the PSN.

Xenogears (Square)
Einhander (Square)
Astronoka (Enix)
Rakugaki Showtime (Enix)
Raystorm (Taito)
Fighters Impact (Taito)