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The US PlayStation Store Update for this week is quite impressive. With 3 demos, and a pair of downloadable games. Here’s the full rundown on what you will find in the US PS Store:

Downloadable Games

• Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty ($14.99)
• EA SPORTS Live Score Tracker ($0.99)

Add-On Content

• Hot Shots Golf Out Of Bounds: Kratos Character ($1.99)
• HAZE Domination Pack (free)
• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Dragonforce Track Pack ($6.25)

Game Demos

• The Last Guy Demo
• STAR WARS The Force Unleashed Demo
• NFL Head Coach 09 Demo

Trailers

• Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty Launch Trailer
• inFamous Leipzig Trailer
• Warhawk Fallen Star Video
• The Last Guy Cities Trailer
• PAIN Clown Toss Mode Trailer
• PAIN Hot n’ Cold Mode Trailer
• Vampire Rain Altered Species Trailer 5
• Vampire Rain Gameplay Trailer #2
• BiA Hell’s Highway Making of #1: Operation
• Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway Making of #2: Roll Call
• Madden NFL 09 Backtrack Video
• Madden NFL 09 Rewind Video
• Madden NFL 09 Virtual Trainer Video

Themes & Wallpapers

• Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty Theme
• inFamous Theme
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty Wallpaper
• Motorstorm Pacific Rift Leipzig Wallpaper
• TNA iMPACT! Wrestling Wallpaper (x3)

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Many people were wondering whether bots will make it into Killzone 2. After reading gamepro’s multiplayer preview, they mention bots will be in the game..

Eric Boltjes, senior online designer confirmed that A.I bots will be available to both online and offline games. Whats better is the fact that these bots will mimic human behavior and use all special abilites just like a normal player would.

So for those that want to practice before the real deal, you now can!

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Sony confirmed to MCV that the new models shown at Leipzig have been priced for the UK.

The PSP-3000 will cost £149.99 and will be available from October 31st.

The 160GB PS3 will cost £339.99. Date has been set for this release in the UK

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Wondering what the hell EyePet is? Watch the following trailer from the Games Convention 2008.

Click through for a press release.

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If you missed all the action and didn’t get to attend the Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig, don’t worry. Below is a video of the full Sony Press Conference that happened yesterday.

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According to a report from Engadget Japan the LCD screen on the new PSP has a more colorful, a stronger contrast ratio, and a faster response time.

The stats show that:

• Color gamut is twice as wide.
• The contrast ratio is improved 5 times.
• The response time has doubled

This is very good news to gamers who complained about ghosting. Count this in with the screen being able to resist glare (must still be tested in the field) and you could say this is a good upgrade of an hardware.

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Another LittleBigPlanet gameplay video to check out. After seeing trophies revealed in an earlier video, here’s a video of some climbing.

Perilous planks of pink! Can sackboy make it out alive?

LittleBigPlanet GC 2008: Climbing Cam Gameplay

VG247 are seeing a closed demo of the game at the Games Convention, and Quantic’s David Cage is walking through the demo that extends and includes the trailer released yesterday. 

Here’s the list:

• You only control the head shoulders of the character, to move you just press a button. 
• The main character is investigating a number of disappearances and will be going to the house of a taxidermist. 
• Everything is context sensitive.
• The interface is designed for emotion, whatever you feel the character feels. 
• The protagonist is a journalist trying to get a story. Inspecting the house she finds dead women strewn about. 
• SIXAXIS is used to open windows and look through keyholes.
• There are different endings to each scenario depending on how the player plays. 

Coming from Eurogamer, Quantic Dream has confirmed there will be a demo of the game before the game releases, and it will steer away from the main story line. 

Quantic Dream has also hinted of future downloadable content to extend the main story, and for future titles. 

Heavy Rain is due for release in 2009, stay tuned to TalkPlayStation.com as we get more news on this game.

Bethesda Softworks has confirmed the release dates for their upcoming game Fallout 3. The game will be released in North America on the 28th of October 2008 and in Europe on the 31st of October 2008.

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This is what Europe gets this week:

Playable Content

• Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty (£9.99)
• International Track & Field – PS1 (£3.49)
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo (Free)

Add-On Content

• Buzz! – National Geographic Safari Quiz (£4.99)
• HAZE Domination Pack (Free)
• Everybody’s Golf – Kratos (£0.69)
• Guitar Hero III – DragonForce Track Pack (£3.99)

We think most people are looking out the most to the ST:TFU demo.

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The new expansion pack for Warhawk will be available by the end of the month, and will include a new map: Tau Crater, and a Jetpack for foot soldiers.

Warhawk™: Operation: Fallen Star expansion pack
The third expansion pack for mighty online warfare title Warhawk, Operation: Fallen Star introduces the remote, forested Tau Crater – the site of a crashed Chernovan warship containing invaluable experimental technology. With the Chernovans trying desperately to salvage the ship, the Eucadians have arrived with a view to stealing it for themselves. This pack brings ten new battlefields to the Warhawk experience – as well as the Infantry Jetpack – a personal rocket pack that allows soldiers to soar above the fray of battle into the aerial realm of the Warhawks themselves.

With Incognito continuing to support the Warhawk fanbase, the game continues to get better and better. Don’t forget the FREE 1.5 update is coming on August 27th. The 1.5 update is going to include Trophies, Custom In Game Music, Training Tutorials, and more.

Joystiq was kind enough to release a trailer of the new expansion pack.

We even got some screenshots. Courtesy of Kotaku

After a number of delays and problems with Wipeout HD, the futuristic racer made it to Leipzig and here’s the trailer that was shown.

Gravity is about to end.

Wipeout HD GC 2008: Trailer

Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed that it has a new service for over 23 PAL countries which is totally free of charge. The new service is called Vidzone, known for streams of music and video and is seperate to the Playstation Network music service. Vidzone will allow unlimited streaming of music on demand for free. The service is due to launch early 2009.

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Here’s a trailer for the Japanese tactical role playing game developed by Sega exclusively for the Playstation 3 and will be release on the 11th of November 2008 in North America.

Storm the front lines in Sega’s newest tactical RPG.

Valkyria Chronicles GC 2008: Trailer

Alyssa Casella over at the PlayStation.Blog gave a rundown on how the PS2 SingStar songs can be played on the PS3 SingStar. The ability to play your PS2 SingStar songs on the PS3 version is enabled through a disc swap feature. 

While playing a SingStar PS3 disc, at the song select screen, hit the [select] button to swap discs and play the songs from the inserted disc. The songs are not saved to the hard drive.

The feature can be used on all current PS3 models, a system update is not necessary but a game update will be necessary. The feature will also work on future SingStar PS3 titles.