News/Announcements

LittleBigPlanet US, Europe and Japan release dates

I bet you are all confused about the LittleBigPlanet release dates. Media Molecule have officially revealed the dates for US, Europe and Japan.
In the US LittleBigPlanet will begin shipping the week of October 27th and so depending how close your nearest shop is to the trucks you may have your hands on a copy that [...]


Musician Behind LittleBigPlanet’s Delay Responds

The man behind the delay of LittleBigPlanet has responded to the community. Toumani Diabate defends himself by telling BBC news:
It’s quite normal to play music and be inspired by the words of the Prophet Mohammed. It’s my way to attract and inspire people towards Islam.
Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain disagreed:
Muslims believe [...]


PS3 Bundle Deal

Wal-Mart has a PS3 Bundle Deal, and you will receive a $75 Gift Card too. Contained in the Bundle Deal are 80GB PS3, choice of PS3 Game*, choice of Blu-Ray Movie*, Blu-Ray Remote. The Bundle will total out to be $468. 
* meaning among a list of offered products. 
The listed choices of games are: 

MotorStorm 
Resistance Fall of [...]


World at War multiplayer better than CoD4’s

Apparently, Call of Duty: World at War’s multiplayer is better than Call of Duty 4’s says World at War developers Treyarch. Treyarch senior producer Noah Heller said in an interview with VideoGamer.com that World at War’s multiplayer feels much better than any Call of Duty I’ve had a chance to play.
Infinity Ward is a great [...]


New patch for Socom Confrontation coming

Sony has admitted that the Socom Confrontation server is rocky. Seth Luisi, Director of Development at Sony’s U.S. game division has said that the game gets 25,000 users at peak and a consistent 100,000 logins per day. Luisi has mentioned that Sony are hard at work, working on a new patch to sort out server [...]


Far Cry 2 classes revealed

So, yesterday you got information about pre-ordering Far Cry 2, today you get information on the classes you’ll be able to play in the game.
Each class can choose a primary weapon and a side arm. You can’t just choose any they have to be appropriate. You can carry explosives such as frags or molotov cocktails. [...]


Bioshock DLC coming Nov. 20th

With little details or price on what the Challenge Room content will bring to the PS3 version of Bioshock, 2k announced the release date for the downloadable content to be set for November 20th.
You could you first hear (and see) about this exlusive DLC at E3 but there has not been much info after that.
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MotorStorm Pacific Rift gets earlier release date in Europe

Once the release date was November 14th, now it appear MotorStorm Pacific Rift will arrive on the Playstation 3 on November 7th. Atleast that is what the official UK site of Playstation says.
Evolution Studios will bring us ATVs, rally cars, buggies, motorbikes, race trucks, mudpluggers and Big Rigs and Monster Trucks in this new edition.
Check [...]


Get a free LittleBigPlanet game..

If you live in Australia that is. Seems SCE Australia has a deal planned for their consumer base.
With every Playstation console that you buy, you will get a copy of LittleBigPlanet.
So your thinking this is a bundle or something, well it isn’t. This is really a free copy of LBP with every new console [...]


Prince of Persia Classic on the Playstation Store this week

From this thursday you’ll be able to get the classic game Prince of Persia.
Most of you have probably played it on the PC and remember the annoying traps and tough guards. Well Ubisoft have spiced up this remake a bit by adding a new 3D engine to render the game.
Not only can you expect [...]


Yoda coming to the PS3

This all sound so familiar, but this time it’s for real.
Namco Bandai announced that you will be able to get Yoda on the PS3 as a DLC. Originally an exclusive for the Xbox 360, footage popped up of Yoda fighting Dark Vader a few months back. Some claimed it was very good editing while [...]


Extra missions for those who Pre-Order Far Cry 2

We’re not sure is this is a worldwide thing but UK retailer HMV are offering four extra missions for those who pre-order Far Cry 2. The following missions are supposed to give players hours of extra gameplay.
The Georgian
The Georgian informant has gone into hiding at the Fuel Depot in UFLL territory, find him and discover [...]


BioShock gets patched, here’s two updated screenshots

The demo of BioShock that was released on the Playstation Network a few weeks ago was a slight letdown. Playstation 3 fans were annoyed that they were to get a ‘bogged’ down version of the game. This is what the demo looked like.

Now then, here’s what the game looks like after the patch.

Hopefully this has [...]


Two PSN logins for Resistance 2 in the future

Most of you have heard about Resistance 2’s online capabilities. The game will feature split screen online play through a co-op story mode, i bet most of you are wondering if your friend will be able to login into his/her PSN account.
The answer is yes and no. It will not be available from launch but [...]


Listen to the banned LittleBigPlanet song

Ok, so most of you if not all of you know that LittleBigPlanet has been delayed because the muslim community wasn’t happy about one of the games background music.
So what was the song in question? After doing some research it seems to be called ‘Tapha Niang’. Head over to  Toumani Diabate’s MySpace page and listen [...]