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Friday, Nov 6
News: Elite Squadron on PSN Store refresh
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is the most prestigious arrival on PlayStation Store this week. The PSP action-strategy costs £31.99/€39.99, however, and early reviews are downbeat. Other special offers include echochrome Micro (now £3.99/€4.99) and Syphon Filter: Combat Ops (no...
News: Yamauchi: GT5 cost $60m to make
Polyphony Digital chief Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that Gran Turismo 5 cost a meaty $60 million to make. Presumably a large portion of those funds were spent on developing the PlayStation 3 engine - a cost that could be considerably trimmed for a next instalment on the same hardware.
Wednesday, Nov 4
News: Buzz! Quiz World due out next week
New PS3 title Buzz! Quiz World will be released on 10th November, according to the US PlayStation blog. Extra rounds include Over the Edge, where contestants who get answers wrong are turfed into a pit of goo. The Sofa vs. Sofa mode has been expanded to work with eight players.
Monday, Nov 2
Face-off: Xbox 360 vs. PS3 Face-Off: Round 22
As usual, the words are backed up with a battery of comparison shots, and pristine quality h264 videos too - all derived losslessly from the HDMI ports of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. In a slight departure from the presentations of past, the cropped 632x500 vids are now history. They did th...
Friday, Oct 30
News: PS3 sales up compared to last year
That's an increase from the same period last year, during which 2.4 million machines were shifted. But losses grew in the Network Products & Services Division, which is in charge of PlayStation. They rose from ¥40.6 billion to ¥58.8 billion. Sales fell 24.2 per cent to hit ¥352.6 billion. PSP s...
Thursday, Oct 29
News: SOCOM Fireteam 3 dateless in Europe
US going to the PSP ball in January. For the moment, we can only sit and watch as the US prepares for release on 12th January. That date was announced overnight on the US PlayStation blog, and represents a small delay for the PSP game there.
News: Around 140 million PS2s now sold
Sony has released a bundle of treats for stat fans to celebrate nine years of PlayStation 2. More than 485 developers have produced nearly 10,000 games for the console. SOCOM is one of the most popular franchises, with more than 530 million hours of online play logged - equivalent to 60,000 y...
Wednesday, Oct 28
News: GOW Collection US date, Trophy list
Sony has confirmed that the God of War Collection is due out in the US on 17th November and announced the Trophy list. GOWIII design director Todd Papy wrote on the PlayStation Blog that some of the Trophies were based on stories and inside jokes from the first two games' development on PS2.
Tuesday, Oct 27
News: Brink has dedicated servers on PC
It's been a bone of contention recently after Infinity Ward decided to go with peer-to-peer on PC for Modern Warfare 2. However, Wedgwood later confirmed to Eurogamer that the game's use of PlayStation Network and Xbox Live would mean the usual peer-to-peer situation on consoles.
Friday, Sep 25
Opinion: News: PSN: Lost Planet 2, Ninja Gaiden demos
Sony has updated the PlayStation Store and the highlights are Lost Planet 2 and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demos for PS3 and the long-awaited first downloadable content for the PS3 version of Fallout 3 - the Broken Steel pack that ups the level cap.
Wednesday, Sep 16
Patch: News: New PS3 firmware update issued
Fixes issues with Uncharted. So which software would that be, precisely? Writing on the US PlayStation blog PSN boss Eric Lempel confirmed, "Yes, this will fix the issues that some users have experienced with Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune."
Tuesday, Sep 15
Review: Gran Turismo
When it was first announced alongside the PlayStation Portable, Gran Turismo 4 Mobile was a statement of intent. PSP, the videos argued, would be the only handheld for which you could buy games that look and feel like the ones you buy for the home. The intervening five years, however, which h...
Thursday, Sep 10
Patch: News: PSP firmware updated to 6.00
Sony has announced that the PlayStation Portable firmware will be updated to version 6.0 "soon", cautioning that it's just a minor update. Beyond that, there's a new "security patch" and "Network Update" has been renamed "System Update".
Tuesday, Sep 1
Patch: News: PlayStation 3.0 firmware released
What's New, iPlayer, Friends overhaul. Sony has updated PlayStation 3's firmware to version 3.0. The bumper update - supposedly the last big one of the year - promises dynamic themes, avatars, a "What's New" panel, a redesigned status indicator and a Friends list overhaul.
Saturday, Aug 1
Review: PSN Roundup: PC Engine Special
Now the Japanese branch of the PS Store is starting to explore the pre-PlayStation generation, stocking its Game Archives with a selection of PC Engine relics playable on both PS3 and PSP. There are four titles to begin with, each of which is an 8MB download. Since the Largest HuCard Ever hel...
Tuesday, Jul 7
Review: Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits
A very long time ago, when PlayStation 2 was still king of the world, before Wiimotes and Milo & Kate and prior, even, to the launch of Xbox 360 (celebrated with a prescient cover image by Time Magazine, I just discovered), Guitar Hero was an expensive import luxury: a novelty rhythm ga...
Wednesday, Mar 25
Review: Suikoden Tierkreis
Konami's flagship RPG series has never been characterised by technological superiority, instead building its small but vociferous fanbase on gritty storytelling and a narrow, collect-'em-up focus. But despite the developer's best efforts to make the most of what they have here, iro...
Wednesday, Jul 16
Patch: PlayStation Store covered in E3 goodies
UK - Warhawk gets a beefy title update this week too. Hero is the first of two new modes, and picks one person to be hero on each team. ... Warhawk 1.4 patch is live Videogamer.com all 3 news articles
