News/Announcements
Rise of the Argonauts to see the light in November
A RPG game to be liked by fans, RotA will take you through skills trees to climb, branching conversations options, equipment and weapon hoarding, argonaut recruitment, a big ship to fill with people and lots of side stories and quests to do with decent rewards.
Codemasters will be planning to release this game in Europe in [...]
Exclusive content for PS3 version Mirror’s Edge
The people over at PS3 Informer discovered that Mirrors Edge will have exclusive content for the PS3. Seems EA and Sony reached an agreement to release this content.
After some rumours surfaced about the PS3 version being a timed exclusive they got squashed this DLC seems like a decent present to make it up with the [...]
New 80gig PS3s have 65nm RSX chips
A few weeks ago Engadget made an article explaining that the new 80GB PS3 models provide minimal power savings and could have the new shrunken 65nm RSX chips.
Edepot has now confirmed the rumor and has stated that the new 80GB models will indeed have the 65nm RSX chips under the hood.
Take a lookat the model [...]
Eternal Sonata to come out in October
The PS3 version of Eternal Sonata will out on October 21st. Namco Bandai this know through a newsletter.
This might not sound exciting to those who played it on the xbox 360 but this version will get new characters (Crescendo and Seranade), extra cutscenes, new costumes, additional quests, and new music.
October is getting more and [...]
Cast of MK vs DC Universe known
Midway let the list of the cast of MK vs DC Universe known. Except for Scorpion and The Joker we saw in some footage we can also expect the following characters.
Mortal Kombat will represented by:
Scorpion
Sub-Zero
Sonya
Jax
Shang Tsung
Liu Kang
Raiden
Kitana
Kano
Baraka
Shao Kahn
DC Universe will counter it with:
Batman
Superman
Catwoman
Green Lantern
The Joker
Shazam
The Flash
Wonder Woman
Deathstroke
Lex Luthor
Darkseid
Get ready to pick this game up on [...]
Socom Confrontation Beta Invites (Qore) being sent out
Special thanks to EUGENIO who posted the email that users will receive if they have been invited to the Socom Confrontation Beta via Qore Episode 1.
PLAYSTATION(R) UNDERGROUND(TM)
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Hooyah Qore Members,
Thank you for purchasing Episode 01 of Qore(TM): Presented by
the PLAYSTATION(R)Network, or for making the big leap and
deciding to become an Annual Subscriber as of Episode 01.
Because [...]
Call of Duty 4 gets a price cut
If you still havent bought Call of Duty 4 yet then your chance to buy it might be now. Call of Duty 4’s purchase price has gone down from $59.99 to $39.99 making this possibly the best budget game available. It won’t be cut forever though, it will last until the 14th of September 2008.
By [...]
Afterthoughts With Ryan Payton
This is the final interview he gave when he was working at Kojima Productions, he gives his thoughts looking back on working on Metal Gear Solid 4. Not only that, the team didn’t even know how Metal Gear Solid 4 was going to turn out when they released their teaser trailer “Nowhere to Hide”.
1UP: “Nowhere [...]
Shuhei Yoshida Talks about the PS3 and PSP
In an interview with IGN, they talk about the future of Sony’s PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. You also get to learn some of Shuhei’s history with Sony.
IGN: How are you settling in your new role?
Shuhei Yoshida: I think it’s going very well actually - I’m in the middle of moving my base from the [...]
Bioshock demo coming
On the official site of 2K Games, representative of 2K, Elizabeth announced that we can expect a demo of the PS3 version of Bioshock on October 2nd.
If you like the demo then or can hold out for longer you’ll be rewarded with the game release on October 21st
Source, via PSU
Pain has new expansion
We haven’t covered this PSN game very well but SCEA let know on the Playstation Blog that Pain has a expansion named The Amusement Park.
The expansion bring quite a bit of game play evolution from the development side and substanial input from people who post on their community site. They’ve been looking at the amount [...]
In the category SOE….
If you live in the US you probably already noticed that there is a full game on the US Playstation Store by the name of Jeopardy.
For those of you that don’t know this game, it has been one of America’s longest running and popular quiz shows till date.
Shalom Mann studio head of Sony Online Entertainment, [...]
WipEout HD Gets Priced for UK
The future racer just got priced by Sony. The price for the remake will be £11.99. Its surprisingly cheap than everybody was expecting.
That, for just over a tenner, is a bargain especially if you haven’t even played the PSP original, WipEout Pure.
The date for the game still has not been announced, but CVG says one will [...]
LittleBigBlu-ray
Alex Evans of Media Molecule was asked a question by gamesindustry.biz, if the Blu-ray disk would be filled. He responded by saying
Erm, yes - I believe a Blu-ray single layer is 20GB and a dual layer is 40GB, but we’re filling up the Blu-ray. One of the things on there is we’re having a lot [...]
Call of Duty 4 Double Exp Weekend
fourzerotwo made a post on his blog dating that the PlayStation 3 Double Exp weekend will begin next week on September 18th. During that weekend you’ll be able to game with the developers, and that’s not all. They will discount the Variety Map Pack during the weekend by 50%.
Please note this begins next weekend.
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