News/Announcements

Rock Band DLC, PAX being fixed

Harmonix let know on there forum that a fix is on the way for the PAX pack which was released onto the Playstation store a couple of days ago.
It seems the issue was caused by the songs ‘Livin on the Corner of Dude’ and ‘Catastrophe’ (fitting title) by MC Frontalot.
People who downloaded these songs or [...]


SOCOM beta having a hard time.

SCEA apologised to the beta testers of SOCOM: Confrontation for the abnormal latency, crashes, disconnections, long load times, login errors and community features such as clans and stats not functioning correctly (or at all)
Despite it still being in beta SOCOM: Confrontation showed similair issues Metal Gear Online had during it’s first days in (public) beta [...]


MotorStorm Pacific Rift Demo Coming For a Select Few

Well since North America is able to get the demo a full month early then the public through Qore, some of you in Europe were beginning to wonder if you will have the chance for the same. According to Three Speech, Sony will send out an e-mail to some of you with a voucher to [...]


Metacritic’s First Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Reviews: Ouch!

LucasArt’s most ambitious gaming project to-date is the soon to be released Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for PS3, XBox 360, Wii and other platforms. After fours years of waiting - from concept to completion - and multiple delays, the long-awaited game is the first next-gen development by the small studio. It is the first [...]


Sony expands it’s Playstation R&D division

One of Sony’s subsidiary companies SN Systems will be launching a new satellite office in Dublin, Ireland. This will be matched with a company-wide recruitment drive.
The Dublin office will be lead by Matt Bush who has been at SN Systems for the last nine years. This office will focus on the Research and Development of [...]


Dead Space gets a dangerous release date

Where games get pushed back for a reason unknown to many of us. Dead Space seems to be creeping closer towards us.
In Dead Space, players assume the role of engineer Isaac Clarke, an ordinary man forced to use “strategic dismemberment” as a means of tackling a vicious alien infestation aboard a deep space mining [...]


No GC08 PSP bundles for UK

Over at Gamesindustry.biz some doubt was cast on which bundles the UK might be receiving.
David Reeves announced at Leipzig that Sony would be releasing 2 new bundles for the PSP.
These are the silver PSP-3000 plus Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, and black PSP-3000 plus 4GB Memory Stick. The United Kingdom won’t be getting these [...]


Call of Duty: World at War gets dated for NA

PSU let there readers know that Activision Treyarch confirmed November 11, 2008 as the release date for Call of Duty: World at War in North America.
Call of Duty: World at War returns to the familiar World War II setting depicted in the first three titles of the critically acclaimed FPS series, with the game [...]


New PSP has same battery strength

John Koller, Direct of Hardware Marketing, let consumers know that PSP-3000 has equivalent battery life to the current PSP(-2000).
He said
While the enhanced screen of the new PSP draws a little more power, our engineers in Japan worked to reduce the power consumption of the overall system including its components, so you won’t have to worry [...]


Updated: BioShock 2 in Fiscal 2009 on PS3, XBox 360

BioShock 2 is coming in fiscal year 2009, Take-Two’s earning statement confirms. Its release would be likely sometime next holiday season.
The report’s formatting had PS3, XBox 360 and PC initially next to BioShock 2 however, since then it has been revised with “TBA”. With BioShock coming soon to the PS3, the odds of whether BioShock [...]


Rock Bands DLC broken

If you downloaded the PAX Pack DLC for Rock Band you might have encounter a problem, according to poster on the Rock Band forum the pack doesn’t work at all.
The person who brought this to light posted
I just downloaded the PAX pack on my PS3 and I can’t play the songs. They all show [...]


Midnight Club: LA gets new date

Despite having a record third-quarter financial Result, Rockstar announced some less great news that Midnight Club: LA would be delayed till October 21st in North America and October 24th in Europe.
Seems Take-Two is going to use this extra time to polish up the game and make try to make sure the game doesn’t get [...]


Watch out for the Home Beta scam

The folks at PS3Fanboy brought a scam to light which is used to try and steal you PSN password + email.
“Home Beta Injector” claims to be a program to generate a redemption code for the Home beta by simply inputting a valid PSN e-mail address and password.
Sounds great doesn’t it? It sounds to great and [...]


PAIN Trophies delayed

Travis Williams has updated us on where the PAIN trophies are up to. There is bad and good news. Lets get the bad news out of the way.
The PAIN trophy update will not be available today but Travis said sometime in September.
Amusement Park will release in September, but not 9-4 like we originally planned. The [...]


Team Ninja working on 3 new games

The team behind the Ninja Gaiden series are working on three new games. Speaking at a press conference in Japan, newly appointed Tecmo president Yasuharu Kakihara announced that the development team are hard at work, working on three new games. No idea what the games are or what platform they will be on.
“Tecmo is a [...]