News/Announcements
No price cut yet for the Playstation 3
According to Signal Hill analyst Todd Greenwald, Sony will hold its ground against an Xbox 360 price cut, which has been all but confirmed.
Greenwald said:
“We do not expect a price cut on the PS3 just yet,
Sony appears to be focused on profitability right now, and actually has some momentum behind it now with the Blu-ray [...]
10 vs 10 confirmed for FIFA 09
10 vs 10 will be featured in EA Sports upcoming football game, FIFA 09. The Line Producer, David Rutter, spoke about the PS3 version and said:
“We’ve managed to get 10 v 10 this year online through strength of will and technological nous. [But] we want to make sure the control system for controlling goalkeepers is [...]
Soul Calibur IV install could be optional
After the recent article on game install for the Playstation 3, here’s another regarding Soul Calibur IV. The Soul Calibir 4 IV install option is not a whopping 6.7GB, and the confirmed size of the install is 2.85GB.
There are reports saying that this could only be mandatory and will not require an install, but if [...]
25 characters in Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm
The latest issue of Qore features coverage on Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm and is believed to feature a whopping 25 characters in the game to choose from. According to the game designers, you can choose from 25 different characters in total with additional support characters.
Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm
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No Final Fantasy XIII at E3?
Square has issued a press release regarding E3 2008. They inform us of what will be shown and seen at this years E3. By looking at the press release there is no mention of Final Fantasy XIII… should we be worried about this?
Anyway, what will Playstation be seeing from Square Enix?
THE LAST REMNANT™ (PS3)
STAR OCEAN: [...]
Cagney Software Update is now available for PS3
But only in Japan at the moment. The 3rd free update to Burnout Paradise is available in Japan and will be available this morning at the following times:
9:00am GMT
1:00am Pacific Time (US)
4:00am Eastern Time (US)
10:00am BST (British Summer Time)
11:00am for the rest of Europe
We look forward to seeing PS3 fans in Paradise City tomorrow, and [...]
Teaser site opens for The Last Guy
The Last Guy is a title Sony trademarked sometime back. Since then, not a lot has been said about this particular title apart from receiving an E10 rating from the ESRB.
If you take a look at the teaser site, all you can see is a bunch of red stickmen marching. What is noticable is the [...]
Fallout 3 banned in Australia
Fallout 3 has been refused classification in Australia. The Office of Film and Literature Classification has given an RC to Fallout 3, developed by Bethesda. It is now illegal to sell Fallout 3 in Australia.
No one yet knows as to what made Fallout 3 get the ban. Kotaku think it maybe something to do with [...]
Konami announce confirmed games for Leipzig
Konami have announced their games for Leipzig. Silent Hill Homecoming and PES 2009 are said to be attending the this year’s Games Convention in Leipzig.
“Konami goes into this year’s Games Convention with a very, very strong line-up that mixes familiar titles with exciting new concepts,”
Here’s the full press release Konami have issued.
Konami readies Leipzig line-up
Publisher [...]
40GB PS3 to be replaced?
The 40GB Playstation 3 could be replace according to a Wal-Mart memo. The Wal-Mart memo states that the 40GB PS3 hardware will be replace, it says:
“Item will be replace with a new model in early August”
This doesn’t mean it will have a bigger hard drive, it could be the smallest thing such as putting a [...]
Capcom’s full E3 line up
Over at the Capcom-Unity blog, they have revealed what they will be showing at E3, and its looking pretty good. Here’s what Capcom will be showcasing:
Street Fighter IV: Final arcade code running on a heaping handful of arcade machines.
Resident Evil 5: Game of show? Quite possibly!
Dark Void: Also playable, also awesome. Snazzed up since CAPTIVATE08 [...]
GameStop game list with release dates
When gamers were buying Metal Gear Solid 4 at midnight from Gamestop they were given a list of titles they could pre-order that night with a five dollar discount. Check the list out and it may indicate the games your after.
Here’s the first part:
And now the second:
The noticable titles are; Resistance 2, BioShock, InFamous and [...]
Customer service will replace bricked Playstation 3’s
After being on the phone to Sony UK and Sony USA regarding firmware 2.40 and bricked Playstation 3’s, they told me that they will replace your PS3’s free of charge as long as you can prove its really bricked and not working with firmware 2.40 installed. How the hell are you supposed to do that? [...]
Super Stardust HD 4.00 Back online
The Super Stardust HD 4.00 patch is now back online as rumoured on the Playstation.Blog. 4.00 will allow users who didn’t get chance to download the patch before it was removed from the servers shortly after PS3 firmware 2.40. The 4.00 patch adds trophy system into the game.
The patch came hours after the launch of [...]
Why firmware 2.40 bricked PS3’s
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has sent ThreeSpeech the following statement regarding firnware 2.40 bricking certain Playstation 3’s.
“The PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) system software version 2.41 is now available for update from July 8, 2008. With this update, we have fixed the problem that prevented a limited number of PS3s from activating properly after updating to version 2.40, [...]
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