Official SOCOM headset revealed

The official Socom headset has been revealed and here are the pics below. The Blu-ray version of Socom Confrontation will include a Blurooth headset. The design of this Bluetooth headset is much more classier and this one is made specially for gaming. It even has the official Playstation logo and branding on. You will be [...]


Metal Gear Solid 4 shifted 8 times more PS3’s

Kaz Hirai, the Playstation president, during Sony’s mid-term strategy meeting looked at Metal Gear Solid 4 as an example of what the Playstation 3 can offer. Hirai mentioned that MGS4 shipped 3 million units worldwide in the first two weeks of going on sale.
Kaz Hirai said:
“the first title to fully utilize the capacity of dual [...]


White Knight Chronicles release date confirmed for FY08

During Sony’s recent presentation in Japan, they announced that upcoming exclusive role playing game, White Knight Chronicles will be released FY08. What does this mean? It means that the game could be released any time from now up until the 31st of March 2009.
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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel coming this year for PS3

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel will be released for the Playstation 3 this fall. Ascaron Entertainment announced this today and also said that the PS3 version will have enhanced graphics, 5.1 Channel Dolby Surround Sound and support drop-in cooperative play, as well as other multiplayer gaming modes via the Internet.
Sacred 2 also features two player shared [...]


PSN Friends list increased?

According to playstationlifestyle.net it seems the PSN friendslist limit of 50 persons has been increased but to which amount currently isn’t known yet.
The author did not have a problem of reaching the limit recently but due to a friend notifying him of this ‘change’.
Then one of my friends messaged me saying they just counted their [...]


PS3 to deliver worldwide daily news

Our friends over at ps3attitude have news on the Playstation 3 delivering worldwide daily news. Sony announced today during Sony Strategic Meeting in Tokyo that a service that will allow PS3 owners to view daily world news interactively.
“The system, billed under their Life with PlayStation brand, allows you to zoom around a virtual globe (not [...]


More gamer profile pages revealed

If you missed the screenshots of the trophy screen, head over to the post and check it out. Meanwhile PS3Fanboy has its hands on some more unconfirmed screenshots of the gamer card or gamer profile.
“Our sources have got back to us with a couple more images today. These images show off the third page of [...]


No Assassin’s Creed 2 this year

Altair won’t be returning this year according to this article. If you scroll half way down you can see that Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America states:
there’s no new “Assassin’s Creed” this year, despite its sales success. “When we bring it back, there will be more anticipation for it,”
So all they want is anticipation? [...]


Eternal Sonata PS3 details and information

Rpgfan.com have the latest details regarding the Playstation 3 version of Eternal Sonata. Bandai Namco Games announced that Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume (Eternal Sonata in the US) will be released on the Playstation 3 in mid-September in Japan - more than a year after it was released for the Xbox 360.
Its all good news [...]


Roll out of video services starting in the summer of 2008

At Sony Group’s Mid-Term Corporate Strategy Meeting several Presidents of different division showed slide shots of a 2008 summer start/roll out of the video services.
Some Key Game initiatives that were discussed:
1. Expand content and services available on the network platform
2. Continue to expand the PS3 customer base through the strength of Blu-ray Disc
3. Accelerate PS3 [...]


Square Enix to release classics on PSN Game Archives

According to this Neogaf forum post, Square Enix have announced that they are committing to releasing their classics on the Playstation Network Game Archives. They started this yesterday (June 25th) for Japan by releasing Xenogears and Einhander on the PSN for 600yen each.
There are twelve key titles that they plan to release on Game Archives. [...]


Firmware 2.4’s XMB features revealed

Below is the list of final features in Playstation 3’s firmware 2.4 update that is due very soon. CVG have managed to get their hands on the final list of features.
“full 2D trophy support will be in the XMB update and there will be four types: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.”
The platinum trophy is only [...]


PS3 System Software Firmware 2.4 announced

Thats right, it has been officially announced well not exactly but an announcement will be made on the 30th of June 008. A video walkthrough will be available on Monday.
Thanks to this Neogaf post confirming it.


30 New echochrome levels on the way

Playstation.Blog announced that 30 new echochrome levels will be released in the coming two weeks starting on Thursday. Only one of these usermade levels was from outside the US and Canada.

The levels will appear at random in freeform mode on the difficulty your playing. But in freeform mode you will first get the levels [...]


Infamous screenshots and info

ThreeSpeech have managed to get some new screenshots and information about upcoming hero game, Infamous.
First of all here are the screenshots:

And now for some info on the game…

“In the aftermath of an urban disaster, an everyday guy finds himself with extraordinary powers. What he does with them is up to you. Welcome to inFamous; the [...]