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Sony is trying their best to keep Playstation Network free for their userbase and the latest attempt could upset a few publishers as Sony will introduce a bandwidth fee on the Playstation Network.

So what does this mean to us? Absolutely nothing, but to publishers it could mean something. Sony will be charging publishers a bandwidth fee when PSN users download content. This fee will cost 16 cents per gigabyte downloaded, this fee does apply to free and paid content, publishers are only charged for the free stuff for the first 60 days of Network availability.

You are probably thinking that 16 cents isn’t alot but if you do the maths it can add up drastically. 1 million downloads of a 1GB demo will cost a publisher $160,000, so what will make them release a free demo on the store if they have to pay for it?

It probably doesn’t seem as bad as this, afterall the network is still free for users.

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So the US Playstation wesbite got Playstation Network Functionality and Europe was wondering if they would get the same.

Well, we can confirm that the eu.playstation.com website has now been updated to feature PSN functionality. If you are from Europe, head over to the site, login and view your trophies etc.

In November PlayStation integrated your PSN ID with playstation.com. After tomorrow you will be able to track you trophies from the sites.

Some good news. The Playstation Network has exceeded 20 million members worldwide since it launched 2 years and 3 months ago.

This number is as of February the 20th 2009 and covers 55 countries. check out the press release below.

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Noby Noby Boy will be released on the Playstation Network today for you do purchase and download and then of course play. What is this game about?

You’ll take control of a worm thing called Boy, using the left analog stick moves the front of Boy, the right stick will control the back. Moving both ends in opposite direction, you will stretch Boy to great lengths. You will earn points by how much you stretch during gameplay.

the concept is to stretch Boy. But with that said, there are many other ways to enjoy this game and they are totally up to you. Again, that is where the difficulty of describing the game lies. This game may let you run into something totally beyond your imagination or may not at all. You may totally hate the unexpected or you may love it as I did. I hope the players can find those unexpected elements fun.

Of course, Trophies are in the game.

Below is a video if you are curious.

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There are alot of Playstation Network games being released however there are even more that we’ve never even heard of. Check out the list below.

• No Gravity
• Wheel of Fortune
• Burn Zombie Burn
• Ragdoll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic
• The Punisher: No Mercy
• Bomberman Ultra
• Celfactor Ignition
• Flock
• Texas Cheat-em
• Diner Dash
• Comet Crash
• Hammer Fall
• Underfire
• Watchmen
• Worms
• Zen Pimball

The ones we’re looking forwards to are Worms and The Punisher: No Mercy.

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The German USK rating board has revealed that Worms is making its way to a Playstation Store near you. Worms has already been released on the Xbox Live Arcade (since 2007) and has proved to be popular, with more than 500,000 downloads.

Is this the reason why Codemasters plan to release the game on the PSN? No one knows yet as to which version PS3 owners will be getting, but we’re guessing it will be exactly the same as the one on XBLA.

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Alot of people were sharing their PSN accounts with others so they could download games or even trade games. Yes, this is illegal and wrong but it still happened until now.

A friend of ps3clan.nl logged into his PSN account only to find that he couldn’t play the games he downloaded of someone elses PSN account. When this user tries to launch a game a message appears stating the copyright stuff. Furthermore, according to this article, it sounds like the person that has shared the game is also having the same trouble.

All we can say is be very wary of this and stop sharing PSN games with others because this could happen to you if it hasn’t already done so.

It is clear … SONY has, after downloading to a maximum of 5 consoles apparently found something on the ‘illegal’ downloading PSN games against them.

they have found a way (the Sony employee that I spoke was’ t already have MAC addresses, etc.) to find out whether it is actually YOU PSN account / game, and not those of someone else.

Play safe.

Good news for Playstation Home users and Arcade lovers because Namco is bringing it’s classics to Playstation Home. The following games are confirmed to be making their way; Xevious, Galaga, Pac-man, Digdug and Dragon Spirit.

Obviously the games will not be free, you have to buy the Namco Arcade to play them in Home. The only worry at the moment is no confirmation on an American and European release, Japan will be getting it soon.

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Just in case you missed some parts of CES 2009, heres something to refresh your mind. Below are a host of Playstation Network stats if your interested.

* All time top download – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Variety Map

o Top three downloaded TV Shows last week
+ 24 Season 7
+ Watchmen Motion Comic Season 1
+ Family Guy Season 7

Good eh? The all time top downloaded game off the store is Pain, a game which i dont have yet. Maybe one day though.

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Just announce Red Bull Air Race comes this Week  To Home. This Update also comes with the Diesel and Ligne Roset store fronts (US only) and a Free Resident Evil Degeneration T-shirt (Only if you watch the sneak peak at the Home theater)

EDIT: A offical post has been made on the European PlayStation forum, you can now enter the Red Bull area through your World Map. And the Diesel store has also been updates. So there were 2 new items discovered.

Elixor, Community Team Leader has made a post over on the European Playstation Forums and let everybody know that there will be a lot of PlayStation Network maintenance this month.

Here is a list of planned maintenance NSP during the month of January 2009.

* On 15 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time) on 15 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time)
* On 16 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time) On 16 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time)
* On 21 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time) on 21 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time)
* On 22 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time) On 22 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time)
* On 23 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time) On 23 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time)
* On 26 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time) on 26 January 2009 from 05:00 to 08:00 (French time)

During this maintenance you may be disconnected from the PSN for a period of about 20 minutes.

Thank you for your understanding.

For the lucky people that have got into the Playstation Home Beta will notice that there is a new update available to download. This brings the version to 1.01.

No official details on what this update does, it could be just a few tweaks here and there. We can tell you that the file size is 26MB in size.

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Recent news suggest that Playstation Network could soon be global. What does this mean? It basically means that Europe may not have delays in getting PSN content. So, when the Playstation Store updates it will update worldwide? We hope so!

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That’s right! There’s a European version of Qore in the works and it will be called Official PlayStation Magazine HD.

Expect hi-def videos, game demos and other content. You will of course have to pay for it just like the people in America pay for Qore. It will be distributed weekly over the various European PlayStation stores.

No price information has been noted yet. Stay tuned for more news soon.

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