RE5: No shooting while running
From what we’ve seen in the trailers and videos from E3, you can’t shoot while running in Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 has this same problem and quite a lot of people complained about it. The stop and shoot mechanic is back.
We contacted Capcom regarding this issue and they sent a quick response back:
“At [...]
Limited USB connectivity in new 80GB PS3
The new 80GB Playstation 3 model, announced at E3 is believd to have limited USB connectivity and no backwards compatibility with Playstation 2 games.
The 80GB will come with the same feature set as the pared down model. So limited USB connectivity and no backwards compatibility with PS2 games.
This means that there will be no USB [...]
New Final Fantasy Exclusive for the PS3?
If you listen to the latest 1UP Yours E3 2008 podcast you will notice that it has some rather interesting rumors on an unannounced Final Fantasy game for the Playstation 3. Listen to the podcast, towards the end of the cast, Shane mentions that he has been speaking to some people from Square Enix, who [...]
E3 2008 awards
G4TV.com has compiled a video with a bunch of awards for games at E3. The following Playstation games won awards; Resistance 2 won Game of Show award and LittleBigPlanet won it all by winning THE game of the show.
Here’s the videos.
PS3’s missing games at E3
So, E3 is over and a lot went on. Sony lost exclusivity to Final Fantasy XIII but managed to keep Metal Gear Solid 4 and other titles such as Final Fantasy XIII Versus. Some people thought Sony’s press conference went well others say they weren’t too impressed with it.
Let’s take a look at the missing [...]
Reasons why 2009 > 2008 for PS3
So what has the Playstation 3 got to offer in the year 2009 and how it will be better than 2008. Don’t get me wrong, 2008 has a very strong line up with the following games being released; Socom Confrontation, Wipeout HD, LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm 2 and Resistance 2. It doesn’t stop there, 2009 will be [...]
PAL Regions to get Open Home Beta
David Reeves has announced that PAL regions will be able to get the Home Open beta at the same time as the American and Japanese regions.
No date was stated but the promise has been made that EVERY region will be able to enhoy the Home Beta. The Open Beta is due to start later on [...]
Europe to get 80GB SKU
Presdent of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe David Reeves confirms that the 40GB SKU will be replaced by the new 80GB SKU and will happen on the 17th of August.
Sony will be replacing the 40GB model with the 80GB and the price of the 80GB will be £299.00 or €399.00. David Reeves said:
“In PAL, we will [...]
Sony announces 2008 line up
Sony has announced its 2008 line up of games. This year you’ll be able to purchase the following games on the Playstation 3:
(please not this is fiscal year 2008, so thats anywhere from now until March 31st 2008.)
LittleBigPlanet
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
Quantum of Solace
SOCOM: Confrontation
Ghostbusters
Killzone 2
The Agency
Soul Calibur 4
Resistance 2
Mirror’s Edge
Resident Evil 5
Guitar Hero: World Tour
NBA ’09 [...]
E3 2008 Sony Press Conference re-cap
Did you miss the Sony Press Conference at E3 2008? No problem, here’s what went down.
Over 130 games coming for 2008, including NCAA Football, Tiger Woods, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Warrios Orochi 2, Singstar Pop, Yakuza 2, Madden, and Mercenaries 2.PS3
Resistance 2 footage shown, trying to escape the Leviathan. 8 player co-op and 60 [...]
E3 2008: Playstation Store updated
The latest Twitter post on the official Playstation twitter page states that the store has been updated to include new wallpapers and E3 2008 trailers.
PLAYSTATION Store Update: new E3 trailers and wallpapers up now!
Source.
Link your PSN username FAQ
It appears that Sony has added a nice addition to their online forums where you can link your PSN to your forum account. There’s a lot of feature included such as viewing your friends online etc. Follow this FAQ to find out more.
ID Linking FAQ
What is the PLAYSTATION®Network?
The free service from PlayStation® that allows you [...]
Trophy support confirmed for Bioshock, Home as well?
With 2k Games ready to publish Bioshock, Andrew Rudson programmer at Digital Extremes let’s us know in a blog that Bioshock PS3 will support trophies.
He says:
Each Trophy is graded based on its relative difficulty: bronze, silver and gold being the most difficult. Additionally, there is one platinum Trophy per title, which is automatically unlocked after [...]
How to turn PS3 off while in-game with firmware 2.4+
Quite a lot of users have emailed in asking how they can turn off their Playstation 3 while in-game. Firmware 2.4 added in-game Cross Media Bar and when you press the PS button it brings up the XMB. I’ll answer the question in this post so its a bit more wide spread.
To turn the system [...]
PS3’s RAM and RSX explained
There has been a lot of talk about the Playstation 3’s Random Access Memory (RAM) vs Xbox 360’s RAM, saying that the 360 has more RAM to work with etc. Here’s an article to explain the situation of its RAM.
Just so you know that the PS3 has 512MB of RAM (256 for video and 256 [...]
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