Konami’s Leipzig event plans
Konami has readed their Leipzig line up and here’s the information:
Games
– PES 2009
– Silent Hill Coming Home (PS3, Xbox 360)
– Castlevania Judgement (Wii)
– Dancing Stage
– Rock Revolution
– Lost in Blue (Wii, NDS)
– Eledees: The Adventures of Kai and Zero (NDS)
– new releases
Stage shows + presentations
– Hideo Kojima (Will discuss Metal Gear Solid 4 and Metal [...]
Home is not social networking, it’s about gaming
Sony has cleared things up regarding it’s Home service. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Darren Cairns and Liam Wickham at the Develop Conference event outlined that the focox of Home is on gaming and not social networking.
“Home is not a social network - it’s focused on games. It’s a visual representation of the PlayStation community.”
My personal [...]
Metal Gear Online rewards shop opens
Just a quick one. The Metal Gear Online Rewards Shop has now opened. Click here to check it out.
Playstation division turned a 51 million dollar profit for Q1
Sony has released their fiscal earning figures and according to the report, Sony sold around 1.56 million Playstation 3’s in the first quarter of 2008 taking the total sales to 14.4 million. Just 700,000 were sold in the first quarter of 2007, so thats a huge leap forwards.
Sony’s gaming division made a profit of 51 [...]
Playstation 3 is now EA’s biggest earner
Well well, what a difference a year can make. This time last year the Playstation 3 earnt Electronic Arts around $13 million, this time however, the PS3 earns EA around £139 million! Thats 969% year on year change. The PS3 is miles ahead of the Xbox 360 who earnt EA around $81 million. The second [...]
FIFA 09: Some new information
FIFA 09 is set to be the best football game ever created and the lads over at fifasoccerblog.com have new information from their visit to EA sports in Vancouver.
Here’s what they have to say:
1. Be a pro is 4 seasons offline
2. They have a new EA locker where the game tactics and formations an stuff [...]
35k PS3s with Bravias TVs are sold out in Australia
If you live in Australia and looking to snap up one of them free Playstation 3’s with a new Bravia television, look no longer because Sony Australia has reported that they have all gone and sold out.
Sony Australia was giving away a 40GB PS3 with each purchase of its BRAVIA 1080p FULL HD LCD. There [...]
LittleBigPlanet information from Comic Con 08
New information on LittleBigPlanet has emerged from Comic Con 08. ConfusedCartman from lbpcentral.com manage to spend around an hour and a half with the game.
First of all, check this video out, it’s a tutorial level from the game.
ConfusedCartman wrote up a good article on the game and summed up good points, here’s what he has [...]
PS3 Soul Calibur IV leads over XBox 360’s
Namco Bandai’s fighter Soul Calibur IV was released in North America but which version had the best start? The Playstation 3 version of the game led over the Xbox 360 version in launch sales at Amazon.com on Tursday morning.
The PS3 version was ranked at number 9 while the X360 version came in at number 11. [...]
Uncharted Trophies Q&A
Did you want to know more regarding the upcoming Trophy patch for Uncharted. IGN has been speaking with senior manager of marketing communications of Naughty Dog, Arne Meyer.
First of all there will be a total of 48 trophies to collect in Uncharted, 47 of which are related to what you do in the game, for [...]
PS3 System Software Update Firmware Version 2.42 live
PS3 System Software Update Firmware Version 2.42 is now live. Official word from Sony:
Just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up that a PS3 firmware update (v2.42) is now available for download. This update improves the playback quality of some PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation format software.
Apparently it appears that Trophies have been optimized and [...]
“SC4 is more polished and quicker on PS3.”
It seems that the Playstation 3 version of Soul Calibur IV is better than the Xbox 360 version. According to the IGN review, they state “SC4 is more polished and quicker on PS3.”
“Despite the aforementioned concerns, Soulcalibur IV is a lot of fun and I highly recommend it, especially — as I said before — [...]
Hirai: Rivals can’t compete with PS3’s exclusives
Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai says that first party titles and Blu-Ray capacity set the Playstation 3 apart from the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.
Mr. Hirai believes that PS3’s unrivalled first party line up and Blu-Ray capabilities mean the console enjoys better exlusive content than it’s rival machines.
Hirai said the following:
“On the exclusivity front [...]
Bionic Commando Rearmed released August 14 on PSN
Capcom has confirmed that the 2D platform game, Bionic Commando Rearmed remake will be released on the Playstation Network on the 14th of August 2008.
Bionic Commando Rearmed will feature a full remake of the NES classic and features an expansive single player campaign. Also, a two player co-op mode has been added to Rearmed with [...]
Project[M] from PlayNC coming soon
If you head over to the PlayNC website, you will see that it has a holding page for an upcoming project called ‘Project[M]‘. There is a message saying ‘Coming in 20080731′ which is basically this Thursday so check back then. I wonder what this could be?
