News/Announcements
Burnout Paradise Bikes Are Now Available
The Burnout Bike patch are now available for download. You’ll be able to choose between 2 different bike sets, and you’ll get 70 more challenges, and a night and day setting.
It’s really nice to see that Criterion games has been showing support for the community and the game for free. The remaining updates that we [...]
Why the PS3 has a mandatory hard drive
Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida explains why Sony decided against Xbox 360’s optional hard drive and that a mandatory hard was to provide seamless gameplay and solid digital distribution for every Playstation 3 owner.
“It’s one of the things we really supported when the hardware specification was decided for PS3,”
“Like Microsoft did, we could have [...]
WipEout HD Trophy List
WipEout HD has recently been priced and dated in North America. One of the features is that the game will support the new trophy system and below is the full list of trophies.
Bronze Trophies
Uplift - Obtain a medal for every cell in Uplift
Warped - Obtain a medal for every cell in Warped
Frenzy - Obtain a [...]
Socom Confrontation update 1.30 now available
Just a quick heads about the new Socom Confrontation update. It is now available to download. Lets hope it fixes what needs fixing.
Below are the update notes.
* Abnormally long network synchronization issues when some users in a game have a poor network connection. This issue causes 4-7 minute (or longer) load times when late joining [...]
Open Beta of Home will not feature video sharing
The first public release of Home will not feature video sharing. This feature allowed you to invite your friends into your apartment and watch videos from the T.Vs you placed. This is not happening in the open beta.
Video sharing was one of the most talked about feature for Playstation Home, our guess is that they [...]
Socom Confrontation Beta 1.30 Patch details
For those of you that are in the Socom Confrontation Beta, a new patch is on the way and will be released sometime today. Here’s the run down of the 1.30 update.
* Abnormally long network synchronization issues when some users in a game have a poor network connection. This issue causes 4-7 minute (or longer) [...]
Vote to have TimeSplitters 4 exclusive to the PS3
Free Radical have launched a new poll in which they ask users to vote where they want to see TimeSplitters 4. At the moment the Wii is winning the poll but the PS3 is coming in at second place. For those of you that want to see TimeSplitters 4 on the PS3 click here to [...]
Life with Playstation… now available again?
According to the Playstation.Blog Life with Playstation is now available. To access this free service you need to first download it by selecting the Folding@Home icon under ‘Network’ on the XMB.
Life with PlayStation provides a stunning interactive globe, a 3D world map that you can twirl around to see live cloud movement courtesy of the [...]
Reasoning to Why Brothers In Arms Took Long to Develop
Brothers In Arms Hells Highway was originally scheduled for release back in 2006, but the game was plagued by delays.
In an interview with MTV Multiplayer, Gearbox Software explains why it’s taken so long for the game to release.
“In previous ‘Brothers in Arms,’ we had farmed out the PlayStation versions to other developers who were PlayStation [...]
Sony and David Jaffe Being Sued
SCEA and designer David Jaffe are being sued on allegations of God of War copyright infringements.
The plaintiffs allege that in 2002 they sent their work to Sony Pictures as well as agents who also did business with SCEA. Bissoon-Dath and Barrette-Herzog note that the original God of War shipped in 2005 and that David Jaffe apparently said [...]
Life with Playstation accidentally launched
We reported earlier that Life with Playstation was available… for some. Sony has now confirmed that this was a mistake and wasn’t supposed to be available.
“Today, while testing the application, Life with PlayStation was available for download temporarily, by mistake,”
Sony are to make an announcement shortly regarding the release date for the application.
“We will make [...]
End War Dated For UK
Ubisoft’s Real Time Strategy Game End War will be releasing on November 7, 2008.
This is no traditional real time strategy game, instead you use your voice to control your units.
Developed by Ubisoft’s Shanghai studio, EndWar replaces traditional controls with a unique voice command system, allowing players to take control of the battlefield by issuing their [...]
Call of Duty 4 Double EXP Weekend
Just wanted to remind everyone that the Double EXP Weekend kicks off this week. Starting Thursday the Variety Map Pack will be half off, putting the price at $4.99.
Starting this Thursday the 18th (and going till the 25th), we’re going to be kicking off a full week of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare promotions [...]
Life with Playstation now available
Sony has released the 2.43 firmware update but nobody knows what exactly it does. This is what it could have done. Playstation Lifestyle has posted a short tutorials on how to get into Life with Playstation. Here’s how.
Load up Folding@Home and it will tell you that an update is available, proceed with your download, and [...]
Little Big Planet Release Bumped Up in UK
In a post by PS3 Fanboy, a press release states that Little Big Planet in the UK will be coming out on the 24th of October. That’s 5 days before the rest of Europe will be getting it, and 3 days after North America gets it. The game is close to releasing just a month [...]
