Game releases from Oct. 20th

With one major title missing in this week’s releases there are still games like Bioshock, Midnight Club: LA Remix, Far Cry 2 and Dead Space (For Europe) to ease the pain.
Here is the list of Playstation 3 releases.
North American Games:

Rock Band 2 [Special Edition]
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Disney Sing It
Eternal Sonata
The Legend [...]


Battlefield: Bad Company patch will bring trophies

With Ea’s and DICE’s upcoming patch the Playstation 3 will get the same ‘achievements’ as on the 360.
Here are the listed trophies:
Bronze Trophies

Always get paid in gold bars - Complete ‘Welcome To Bad Company’ on normal
Action, not words - Complete ‘Welcome To Bad Company’ on hard
Not even a nugget - Complete ‘Acta Non [...]


Interesting bit about Home at TGS

With some information related to the Playstation Home beta for Japan, there was some interesting info in SCEJ’s press release.
You already know from us that the Japanese version of Home recently got 24 third party developers and publisher on board to make there own area’s and/or more.
Well it seems that there will be a large-scale [...]


PS3 sales hit all-time low

VideoGaming247 showed us the sales chart of the japanese market of last week and it looked pretty bad for the PS3.
It’s been out sold by the Xbox 360 for the 4th week running. There is some good news for the Sony camp though. The PSP has sold almost 20000 units more then it’s big brother [...]


Newers PS3’s go to 128mb flash from 512mb

Ps3news.com recently purchased a new Playstation 3 to find out that the newer modelshad one single 56-pin flash chip and was 128mb in size. The older PS3’s have 2×256mb 48-pin chips.
To our surprise, he was unable to dump more than 16MB of it! At first, we believed that the other blocks in the flash were [...]


Playstation 3 sales are better than expected

The Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable are selling faster than they are expected to and are on target to meet full-year sales targets even if the current economic crisis hurts holiday demand according to Sony themselves.
Jack Tretton, Chief Executive of Sony Computer Entertainment of America says the console is driven by solid demand by video [...]


Final Fantasy VII defined the RPG genre says Molyneux

Molyneux recently spoke about the Playstation 3 recently but now he’s said that Final Fantasy VII defined the RPG genre. Speaking to VideoGamer.com earlier this week, Peter Molyneux has said that he considers Square’s Final Fantasy VII to be the game that defined the RPG genre.
“I always remember back to Final Fantasy VII, when I [...]


Get ready for the 5th FIFA Interactive World Cup

With the release date of Fifa 2009 around the corner the start of the fifth Fifa Interactive World Cup Qualifications will start on the same date.

The FIWC is a season-long tournament mirroring the real world of football in which gamers from all around the world can participate playing Fifa 09. This tournament is only available [...]


PS3 Keypad, Bluetooth headset and DualShock 3 price cuts

Amazon.com recently cut the prices off the Bluetooth Headset and Keypad for the Playstation 3. The online retailer slashed both the Headset and Keypad to $39.96 down from MSRP of $49.99. The Headset is scheduled to be released in North America on the 30th of September, the Keypad has a date of 30th of November.
Not [...]


Latest reviews from PSM3 Issue 106

PSM3 Issue 106 has quite a lot of reviews for a lot of good games including Bioshock, Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, FIFA 09, Pure and Mercenaries 2: World In Flames.
Below is the full whack.
PS3/PSN Games
Bioshock: 93%.
As fresh today as it ever was, Bioshock’s an essential PS3 play.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009: 88%
Sterling footy action but the [...]


Killzone 2 Producer: “Lets try to unlock PS3’s power”

The Playstation 3 has more power than you think! According to the producer of Killzone 2 the PS3 is a lot more futureproof.
The machine itself is a lot more futureproof, there’s a lot more to it – the whole idea of SPUs and the cell processor, I think they’re a lot more enticing, because there’s [...]


MyBUZZ US goes live

With much excitement Jenny Barbour announced on the Playstation Blog that MyBUZZ has gone live in the US. You will be using MyBUZZ to create your own personalized quizzes on MyBUZZquiz.com and then play them online or in-game.

The quizzes will have eight questions with right and wrong answers. which you’ll be able to put in [...]


8 to 12 hours playing time with Heavy Rain

Yes it’s true if your planning to do a single walk through you will only need 8-12 hours to finish Heavy Rain.
Quantic Dream boss David Cage, let know

We’re still in the middle of production, so I can’t really tell you the exact time of the game, but we’re targeting a game between eight and [...]


New 80gig PS3s have 65nm RSX chips

A few weeks ago Engadget made an article explaining that the new 80GB PS3 models provide minimal power savings and could have the new shrunken 65nm RSX chips.
Edepot has now confirmed the rumor and has stated that the new 80GB models will indeed have the 65nm RSX chips under the hood.
Take a lookat the model [...]


Dead Space gets a dangerous release date

Where games get pushed back for a reason unknown to many of us. Dead Space seems to be creeping closer towards us.
In Dead Space, players assume the role of engineer Isaac Clarke, an ordinary man forced to use “strategic dismemberment” as a means of tackling a vicious alien infestation aboard a deep space mining [...]