News/Announcements
Getting into the expended Closed Beta of Home
The last window of opportunity to get into the Home beta before it gets the Open tag is by downloading the Playstation Home theme from the US Playstation Store. This will add you to a list of potential people to be selected to enter the expended Closed Beta
At the end of August the closed beta [...]
Socom Confrontation prices announced
The Socom team are happy to announce price details for their upcoming third person shooter, Socom Confrontation.
The game will be released on the 14th of October 2008. You can choose from the following packages.
$59.99 SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
(Bundle Version)
Includes SOCOM Confrontation, a newly designed Bluetooth® Headset for the PLAYSTATION®3 system and exclusive Behind the [...]
Madden NFL 2009 patch details
For those playing Madden 2009, here are the details of the upcoming patch for the sports game. The patch is expected to be released around the 12th of August 2008.
Now for the details from Madden 09 producer Phil Frazier.
Patch #1 (currently with MS/Sony for certification)
1. Changed default quarter length of online leagues to 5 minutes.
2. [...]
BioShock survivor mode details
2Kgames has released some news on the survivor mode that will be in the Playstation 3 version of the game. It is believed to be a hard difficulty mode.
Want to know a little more? Check out this Q&A.
How does this differ from Hard Mode?
You’re more vulnerable, enemies are tougher, every resource is more precious.
How will [...]
Warhawk Trophies, the full list
Have you found all the Trophies in Uncharted Drake’s Fortune and looking for another game to collect Trophies in? Keep an eye on Warhawk as the 1.5 update will be released on the 27th of August 2008. The update will add Trophies and various other features.
There are 57 trophies, 36 Bronze, 13 Silver, 7 Gold [...]
Battlefield Bad Company conquest update now live
The new Battlefield Bad Company patch is now live so when you go to play the game you will be prompted to download the new update that adds Conquest mode that works with 4 maps.
Official word:
A brand new multiplayer mode is here, and it’s free!
Content includes the traditional Battlefield multiplayer game mode, Conquest. Conquest focuses [...]
Don’t delete your Resistance save files
Why? Because there could be carry over bonuses. According to Kotaku, save game files from Resistance Fall of Man could carry over to Resistance 2 and reward you with bonuses. I imagine this would be the same as the Ratchet & Clank games.
Source.
Eye Of Judgment World Championship
On the Playstation blog Brian Keltner, Public Relations Specialist announced that the EoJ World Tournament will start on August 14th (@ 12.00 AM PST) and last untill August 21st.
This will be the first official global EoJ Playstation Network tournament.
Warhawk 1.5 update to add JetPacks
The Warhawk 1.5 update will add a new vehicle type and that vehicle type is Jetpacks! The 1.5 update seems to be getting bigger and bigger adding Trophies and a possible offline game mode.
Kotaku has confirmed the Jetpack rumor to be true.
Civilization gets patched
On the official 2K forums Elizabeth one of the official Community Managers posted the (provisional) 1.20 patch notes for Civilization Revolution.
Here are some of them:
Wonder and Artifact Pack Functionality
New Wonder and Artifact Packs appear in the single player game and have full Civilopedia entries accessible inside the game and on the main game menu when [...]
Team Ico’s new game not reached critical stage yet
Team Ico boss, Fumito Ueda has confirmed that their upcoming Playstation 3 title has not yet reached the critial stage of production.
“I’m not feeling any pressure at the moment because time is not critical yet,”
“Production has not reached the critical stage. The company is very reasonable thanks to my achievements in the past. So, although [...]
Naughty Dog: We’re only using 30% - 40% of the PS3
Speaking with Three Speech in an interview, the Naughty Dog team is believed to be using just 30 to 40 percent of the Playstation 3’s power. This is what Richard Lemarchand Co-Lead Game Designer of Uncharted has to say:
“That’s why we think we’re probably only using 30 or 40 per cent of the power of [...]
500 different endings for Fallout 3?
In Bethesda’s upcoming RPG, Fallout 3, there is to be 500 different variations to end the game. Speaking with TotalVideoGames.com, Pete Hines speak about Fallout 3. The game is to last around 20-100 hours depending on what you do, but 500 endings?
TVG: Err… no, just end states, as in the final scenes. Is there a [...]
The Last Guy released August 28
The Last Guy is believed to have a release date of the 28th of August 2008. Sony Computer Entertainment has indicated this release date and will appear in the Playstation Store update on that day
In The Last Guy you see the action from the air. This makes the game easy to drive and 14 world [...]
Warhawk update 1.5 to introduce offline modes
After finding out that the upcoming Warhawk update 1.5 will add more than 50 Trophies to the game, we’ve also read that it will add offline modes.
Gamesblog.ugo.com think that the mention off offline tutorials (training) will allow you to play against bots.
the brief mention of offline tutorials. I want to know how robust this new [...]
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