News/Announcements

Blu-Ray represents 14% of total home media market

Remember when everyone though Blu-Ray was going to be a big flop? They though wrong because consumers have spent a whopping $60 million on Blu-ray titles last week and this represents 14% of the total home media market.
Blu-Ray see’s an increase of 167% in sales, reported by the Home Media Magazine. The Dark Knight made [...]


PlayStation 3 to Support 3-D Gaming

Beginning in 2009, Sony, Blitz Game Studios, and Meant to be Seen are working together to make gaming coming to life in 3-D. This also means that blu-ray can be supported also. For this technology Blitz Game Studios will make use of their Blitz Tech Engine. 
I have received confirmation from Blitz Games Studios that Sony [...]


Resident Evil 5 Box Art

Capcom released a new box art for their game, Resident Evil 5. 
 
Capcom Announces New Box Art for Resident Evil 5
Capcom proudly presents the official box art for Resident Evil 5, coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 March 13, 2009.
The new box art imagery gives players a sneak peak into the nightmarish world of Resident Evil [...]


Home Beta Version 1.04 Released

The latest patch to the Home beta has brought in beards to customize your avatar with. One thing was removed to the latest patch, and that is the voice chat. 
As before, the purpose of the update was to ease user log-in into the service. 
The reason for this maintenance is to ease the difficulty some people [...]


White Knight Chronicles gets an almost good rating

Famitsu got it’s hands on White Knight Chronicles to test this game of it’s potential. The results a score of 29/40 (7,8,7,7) .
How did this PS3 exclusive get this score, well the reviewers didn’t care for a number of elements in the game, such as the in-game menus, battle controls, chatting (apparently it was [...]


More LittleBigPlanet costumes on the way

After the festival pack being announced, Old Snake finally gets it’s appearance in LittleBigPlanet.
In this release you can get Meryl, a Screaming Mantis and Old Snake but here are also special deals like a full Character pack and a Level Pack. PS3Fanboy feel that we might expect a little bit more in in the Level [...]


Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars gets patched

More on patch news, Psyonix Studios will have a patch out today. But there is more, the game has received a price drop of $5 making it $9.99 to any willing customers.
Expect the update to contain the follwing things:

New “Cosmic” arena
Improved performance in network games
A server browser has been added during matchmaking
Players [...]


Mirror Edge Time Trial available in demo

While only the tutorial and a small piece of the story were available in the demo (Which you can download from the Playstation store), Dice has now told us of way to try out the Time Trial in the demo.
By entering a 16-digit code in the Play Time Trial menu you are able to unlock [...]


Playstation Home in Asia shows the rest how they should do it

While the people in Europe complain about having almost nothing except login errors and the people in North America midly content with what they got, Playstation Home in Asia is throwing stuff at their user base every other day.
The latest additions which will be out today will include a Namco Bandai space and lounges [...]


Playstation Home down for maintenance

You read it before, but here is some more information from the Playstation Blog.
At this moment the Home servers are down (from 12 midnight PST) and the maintenance will take about 6 hours to finish.
During this maintenance, SCEE will update Home to 1.04. The update will temporarily disable the voice chat feature within Home, but [...]


Playstation Home patch coming this Thursday

TedTheDog over on the European Playstation forums has let everyone know that a patch will be released for Playstation Home this Thursday. Ted says the patch will be the first step in tackling the connection issues, namely the C-931 errors.
We’ll be patching Home this Thursday and part of this change will be the first step [...]


Level packs coming to LittleBigPlanet

You was first introduced to a number of costumes for Sackboy, things are going to change and you will be introduced to exciting new LittleBigPlanet level packs. Level packs will cost you $2.99 and will include several new items including new costumes, cool objects, decorative items and numerous stickers to put into your levels.
In this [...]


Fallout 3 patch for Playstation 3 is available

It was known that Fallout 3 would get trophies in an upcoming patch when talked about in in November.
That patch is out now and available worldwide to fix some errors and finally add those much demanded trophies.
The fix was aimed for the bug that caused your Playstation 3 to freeze every time you got [...]


No staff cut in Playstation division

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves has revealed that Sony will not be cutting jobs in the Playstation division despite the current economy.
We’re certainly not planning to cut back in personnel at all. Half of our personnel are in the development of the games, that’s an investment. We’re not scaling down at all,
To my [...]


Disgaea 3 coming to Europe afterall

Disgaea 3 will be released in Europe after many people thought that it would only be release elsewhere. Square Enix officially confirmed this in a recent press release.
The game will be released in PAL territories early 2009. Click through for the press release.