News/Announcements
The weapons in Resistance 2
Lets take a look at the weapon in Resistance 2. This isn’t the final list and more weapons could be added.
# Carbine
# Bullseye
# Splicer
# Auger
# Medic Gun
# Magnum
# Fare Eye Sniper
# Scout Gun: Semi-Auto Sniper Rifle
# Rossmore Shotgun
# Lark
# Mini Gun
# Bellock Grenade Launcher
# Reapers
# Air Fuel Grenade
# Normal Grenade
Weapons Revealed in Trophies List
# Bellok [...]
No price cut this year for PS3 says Sony
For those of you waiting for a price cut before you purchase a Playstation 3, you might as well not wait because Sony has said they will not be cutting the price this Holiday season.
Patrick Seybold, director of corporate communications at Sony Computer Entertainment America told Edge Magazine this:
As previously discussed we aren’t making any [...]
Premium Themes in the Playstation Store
Sony has announced that they will be releasing premium themes in the Playstation Store. They have linked up with Smobile & Disruptive Media Publishers, to distribute premium themes from PlayStation Network.
Here are a couple of examples.
We plan to offer approximately 6-10 new “Premium Themes” a month. So be sure to check back often to browse [...]
Sony sending out Killzone 2 beta invites to PSU members?
A member of the Playstation Underground has apparently received an email to let them know they’ve been accepted into the Killzone 2 beta. Here’s a screenshot.
Whether this is real or fake is beyond us but it looks legit. Any of you got anything?
Source.
Some character names revealed for FFXIII and FF Versus XIII
The Tokyo Game Show 2008 is underway and information has been revealed regarding the characters in Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Not a great deal, just some names.
FFXIII
Lightning might be voiced by Akeno Watanabe. Nomchan seems to have a name, it’s Sarah or Senon.
FF Versus XIII
The Prince is named Noctis, and the [...]
Tekken 6 No Longer PS3 Exclusive
Yes you read the title right, during Microsoft’s TGS Conference, it was revealed that the game is going to the 360 also. Here’s another game that can be scratched off the list of PS3 Exclusives.
With the costs of games rising and the economy slowing down, the list has been simmering down for the Sony front. Lets hope [...]
Resistance 2 public beta to start October 17th?
The Resistance 2 public beta could start on the 17th of October according to Play.com. If you head over to their Play.com you will see in the description that if you pre-order the game you could have access to the beta.
Pre-Order Resistance 2 from Play.com and receive access to the Resistance 2 BETA. Requires PlayStation [...]
Fifa 09 produces record breaking sales
Fifa 09 has broke records with a successful first week of sales. The newest Fifa game outsold last year’s game by around 37.5%, this set new records. 42% of the sales were on the Xbox 360, 40% on the Playstation 3, 11% on the Playstation 2 and the remaining were shared by other platforms.
Good news [...]
Qore Episode 5 will hit PSN this Thursday
A few of you have been emailing in asking if we know anything about Qore Episode 5. Kevin Furuichi, Executive Producer, PlayStation Network has made a post on the Playstation.Blog with all the details you need.
The following games will be showcased.
Fallout 3
Resident Evil 5
Dead Space
Shaun White Snowboarding
There will of course be come downloadable content tha [...]
Playstation Home is a step closer
Are you wondering where the hell Home is? Kevin Furuichi, Executive Producer, PlayStation Network has been leaving comments on the Playstation.Blog stating that Sony are working on the current Extended Closes Beta.
If you are a Qore subscriber you could be in luck because they are trying to get Qore members into Home before the official [...]
White Knight Chronicles Online Play
White Knight Chronicles online play is now official. Here’s some minor details regarding that aspect of the game. The game consists of 3 major parts:-
Story Part
Live Part
Quest Part
Basically the Story and Live parts are seamless and a Town Square is mentioned.
Speculation here, but my guess is when you enter a city, you get transferred to [...]
Newers PS3’s go to 128mb flash from 512mb
Ps3news.com recently purchased a new Playstation 3 to find out that the newer modelshad one single 56-pin flash chip and was 128mb in size. The older PS3’s have 2×256mb 48-pin chips.
To our surprise, he was unable to dump more than 16MB of it! At first, we believed that the other blocks in the flash were [...]
Far Cry 2 to run at 720p but not 60FPS
Far Cry 2 is set to run at 720p, however it won’t run at 60 frames per second. Multiplayer producer Richard Gaetan says:
We wish it would be 60 frames a second, but no. With the world so big – even in multiplayer the biggest maps are pretty huge – the dynamic grass that can catch [...]
Game releases for PSP, Oct 6th
With games being scare on the PSP, this month will be important to many consoles and game developers as it’s probably the most packed game release month in years.
On the PSP there will be NBA Live for all regions and like with the PS3 releases for this week, NBA ‘09: The Inside will come to [...]
New boxart shows PSN access through PSP
On Amazon you can pre-order the Limited Edition Entertainment Pack with the new PSP-3000 and a 4 GB Memory Stick PRO Duo.
What is most interesting with this pack is the display of the PSN logo which has never been seen on previous boxarts with a PSP. Also The screen on the PSP shows the Playstation [...]
