Talk Playstation 3 News

If you live in Australia and looking to snap up one of them free Playstation 3’s with a new Bravia television, look no longer because Sony Australia has reported that they have all gone and sold out.

Sony Australia was giving away a 40GB PS3 with each purchase of its BRAVIA 1080p FULL HD LCD. There were only 35,000 available.

This offer ran from the 1st of July and finishes on the 31st of July (tomorrow), but it seems like they have all sold before the offer ended, well done Sony!

For all those manga lovers, Afro Samurai promises to follow the series created by Takashi Okazaki. Check this video out from Comic Con 2008.

No word on release date yet.

Do what needs to be done.

Afro Samurai Comic-Con 08: Bloodbath Gameplay (Cam)

Gametrailers has posted an exclusive video of Vampire Rain: Altered Species. Vampire Rain is developed by Artoon and published by AQ Interactive. No release date has been stated yet.

If you fail, you face a fate far worse than death.

Vampire Rain: Altered Species Exclusive Action Trailer

New information on LittleBigPlanet has emerged from Comic Con 08. ConfusedCartman from lbpcentral.com manage to spend around an hour and a half with the game.

First of all, check this video out, it’s a tutorial level from the game.

ConfusedCartman wrote up a good article on the game and summed up good points, here’s what he has to say.

Character Customization

• There are a huge amount of customizable items, from hats to glasses to shoes to pants to zebra outfits and everything in between.
• There is a Tron suit you can wear in the game, along with a killzone helmet and mask.
• Not only that, but there are about 25 different materials and designs that you can choose to have your sackboy made out of, including 3 types of camo.
• There are held items that you can choose from, such as a wooden sword and a magic wand(a stick with a star on the top). You can’t use them as weapons, but when you slap while holding an item you hit them with said item.
• You can slap just about any kind of sticker you can think of on your sackboy, so you can essentially make your own designs.

Level editor

• For those of you that don’t know, you can switch back and forth between flying and running around by pressing *down* on the d-pad.
• When everyone has a menu open, the menus auto-adjust to the top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right corners to keep the screen clear.
• LBP comes with a nice 10 premade vehicles or so(I drove a lowrider!), but as with everything else you can edit them as you like.
• Logs burn. You can make a log, or anything out of wood, really, and set it on fire. We made a floor full of burning logs and then we drove a monster truck over them.
• There are “triggers” that you can place to have events happen right when you want them to. For example, you can make it so halfway through swinging on a rope across a gap, the rope snaps and you fall down to another area.
• Anything you can think of, you can make. Just be careful when making a “Sonic” level or a “Mario” level, because that won’t fly on the servers. Name it something generic that won’t warrant deletion.
• If you want to make carpet, you can. All you have to do is take a picture of some carpet, apply the sticker to something thin and soft(sponge, for example), and save the item.
• If you made a kickass vehicle, you can make that vehicle collectible through your level. For example, you could reward players who made it past a particularly difficult portion of your level with a buggy you made, which they could use at any time throughout making their levels. This applies to items, such as carpet, as well.
• The size of your crater on the moon corresponds directly with the amount of items you can place on a level. This way you can have a minigame taking up a small crater, while a full, hour long level would take up one of the largest craters.

The Construction Yard

• This is the level I got a chance to play three times.
• Eric was really stressing the term “Coopetition”, which is cooperating so you can compete for the collectible items and points. For example, there was a lever that would slide a girder across a gap. It requires two people(at least) to complete. One would move the girder across using a lever, the other would grab the chunk of sponge at the other side, which the first player would now bring back with the same lever. That sponge was required to reach a certain height, so you could collect more goodies. In my case, I stood on the sponge with a friend while another guy dragged it across, and right before we got there I slapped my friend off so I could have the stuff to myself. That, essentially, is coopetition.
• The developers love to hide goodies that you have to find later. I didn’t notice all the stuff I could eventually collect until the third playthrough. If you’ve ever played Portal, and you know that usually there is more than one way to beat a level, the same applies here. The more difficult task you accomplish, the more collectibles they reward you with.
• At any point, you can bring up a sticker which is basically a live image recorded from your PS Eye. When you stick the image on a surface, it takes a picture at that moment, so you can tack yourself onto the walls in a level(or whatever else you feel like doing).

Emoting

• Emoting is awesome. Using the d-pad, you can select three different degrees of sadness, anger, happiness, and fear. For example, you press up to smile, press it again to smile big, and press it again to be ecstatic with your tongue hanging out.
• If you hold R2, the right stick becomes a controller for your right hand. The same goes for L2, the left stick, and the left hand.
• The sixaxis controls which direction your head is facing, and it was surprisingly intuitive.
• If you click and hold L3, the sixaxis controls your hips instead of your head.
• Using a combination of these, I made my guy do a pretty kickass hula dance. I forced him to do it, though, so he was pretty scared at the time.

Head straight over to lbpcentral.com to find out what his final words are.

In this video the developer takes you on a tour and basically demonstrates the game to you.

Why would you play as anyone but Superman? Find out now.

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Comic-Con 08: Developer Demonstration

Namco Bandai’s fighter Soul Calibur IV was released in North America but which version had the best start? The Playstation 3 version of the game led over the Xbox 360 version in launch sales at Amazon.com on Tursday morning.

The PS3 version was ranked at number 9 while the X360 version came in at number 11. What’s spiked this then? Could it be the exclusive character? Could it be that the game runs better on the PS3?

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Here’s 16 brand new Killzone 2 screenshots to cast yours eyes on. The game looks better and better each time i see a new screenshot, check them out.

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Are you looking forwards to Dark Void, a game created by Airtight Studios and published by Capcom. Dark Void is due out sometime this year, probably towards the end.

Become more and more like the Watchers as you adopt their technology.

Dark Void Comic-Con 08: Cam Weapons Walkthrough

Did you want to know more regarding the upcoming Trophy patch for Uncharted. IGN has been speaking with senior manager of marketing communications of Naughty Dog, Arne Meyer.

First of all there will be a total of 48 trophies to collect in Uncharted, 47 of which are related to what you do in the game, for example, finding treasures, hand to hand or gun combat. The 48th Trophy is the Platinum and you can achieve this by collecting all the other Trophies.

If you head straight over to IGN and read the full Q&A you will find a lot more information.

PS3 System Software Update Firmware Version 2.42 is now live. Official word from Sony:

Just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up that a PS3 firmware update (v2.42) is now available for download. This update improves the playback quality of some PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation format software.

Apparently it appears that Trophies have been optimized and are loading far quicker than before.

The Madden NFL 09 demo will be released in this weeks Playstation Store update. EA has confirmed the demo and here’s what they have to say:

The Madden NFL 09 Demo showcases some of the new and exciting features in Madden NFL 09.  The demo begins with the user being loaded into the all new Virtual Trainer to begin the Madden Test. The Madden Test is a Madden aptitude test of sorts, that is used to assess your Madden IQ, which drives the users custom difficulty and play settings. The Madden Test consists of 4 core game play mechanics: Passing, Rushing, Pass Defense, and Rush Defense. Gamers will be taken through the entirety of the Madden test and then given their final Madden IQ.

Once the Madden Test is completed and with the your Madden IQ decided, gamers are then brought into yet another all new feature, Madden Moments. Madden Moments allows for users to replay a team’s key moment from the 2007 season. Upon entry into this mode, you’ll see a brief overview of the moment, which is the Giants final Super Bowl-winning drive. With about 2 minutes to go, you will take over the reins of Eli and the Giants and begin their march to victory. Once the moment has been completed, users will be allowed to restart the moment as many times as they want.

The demo will not contain any audio commentary to keep the file size at the lowest possible.

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It seems that the Playstation 3 version of Soul Calibur IV is better than the Xbox 360 version. According to the IGN review, they state “SC4 is more polished and quicker on PS3.”

“Despite the aforementioned concerns, Soulcalibur IV is a lot of fun and I highly recommend it, especially — as I said before — to fans of the series. The game runs well, looks beautiful, sports great music and obviously has enjoyable combat. The PS3 and 360 versions are just about identical (barring the differing guest characters), though I felt that the optional install on the PS3 made things feel even quicker and more polished. In the end, both are worthy members of a long- standing series and you won’t be disappointed with the purchase.

Now get that soul burning.”

So, if you install it onto the PS3’s hard drive your in for a better experience.

This is a Playstation 3 theme called ‘Killzone 2 w/ 2.4 Icon Support’ and the author of this theme is REDNAVE.

If you don’t know how to install a theme on to your Playstation 3, click here for a step-by-step guide on how to install a Playstation 3 theme.

Click here to download this theme.

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Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai says that first party titles and Blu-Ray capacity set the Playstation 3 apart from the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.

Mr. Hirai believes that PS3’s unrivalled first party line up and Blu-Ray capabilities mean the console enjoys better exlusive content than it’s rival machines.

Hirai said the following:

“On the exclusivity front – whether it’s downloadable or not – one of the unrivalled strengths we have, and we’ve proven this time and time again, is the power of our internal worldwide studios. Our first-party product is obviously platform exclusive and is the best out there.”

“We’ve talked about a raft of great titles, whether that’s Little Big Planet, Resistance 2, Socom, God Of War 3, Killzone 2, MaG, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift.

“Secondly, if we talk about Blu-Ray, there’s a lot of capacity there. Our discussion with a lot of the publishers is about how the PS3 version of a game has the capacity to exclusive things consumers will be interested in – interviews with the makers of the game, documentary on the franchise or ‘making of…’ footage.”

“That’s as well as additional weapons, levels, tools and characters. Those things very much differentiate our offerings over and above other versions of the same game.”

Looks like Kaz has every confidence in his future proof machine.

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Capcom has confirmed that the 2D platform game, Bionic Commando Rearmed remake will be released on the Playstation Network on the 14th of August 2008.

Bionic Commando Rearmed will feature a full remake of the NES classic and features an expansive single player campaign. Also, a two player co-op mode has been added to Rearmed with the option of four players to go head to head in a multiplayer mode.

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