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Friday, Nov 20
News: Gravity Crash lands on PSN next week
Out today are Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao, Critter Crunch and the original Metal Gear Solid. Invincible Tiger is the fast and fun Kung Fu game that supports 3DTV, should you have one, and Critter Crunch is a puzzle game you can find out more about on the PlayStation blog.
Thursday, Nov 19
News: Hirai: PSN subscription a "possibility"
Sony appears to be considering a subscription model for PlayStation Network that would sit alongside the existing free membership. SCE will further increase sales by offering users new entertainment through the combination of hardware, software, peripheral and PlayStation Networ...
News: LittleBigPlanet on PSP Store today
Sony has told Eurogamer that the PSP version of LittleBigPlanet will be uploaded to the PlayStation Store in Europe today ahead of the game's retail release tomorrow. It will cost £21.99 online. Green said Sony was "currently working around the clock to get this issue worked out". In a separa...
News: Sony clarifies video downloading issue
Sony has confirmed you will be able to play games while downloading content from the new Video PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service - providing you're playing offline. Once the gameplay doesn't require the additional bandwidth, the background download can be restarted or will c...
Interview: Enslaved
Enslaved may be published by Namco Bandai rather than Sony, and may be on Xbox 360 as well as PlayStation 3, but Ninja Theory's latest still has a lot in common with its PS3 exclusive, Heavenly Sword - Gollum Serkis is returning to wax lyrical in his own inimitable, rubber-faced way, and the...
News: PSN to get 50+ new movies per week
Following the launch of the new PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service, Sony has revealed at least 50 films will be added to the library each week. European product marketing director Mark Hardy told Eurogamer, "There are over 2000 films available to start with. The plan is to update t...
News: PS3 and PSP both get new firmware
PS3 gets the bump to version 3.1, introducing a little bit of Facebook integration, changes to photo viewing and friends list tweaks. We wrote some more about that the other day, and now the European PlayStation blog has pictures and stuff.
Wednesday, Nov 18
News: PS3 cross-game chat on the cards?
Thorpe was replying to reader comments asking after the feature on his PlayStation Blog post about the next, Facebook-packing firmware update. However, it seems he said too much, because his comment has subsequently been deleted.
Tuesday, Nov 17
News: Sgt. Pepper released for Beatles: RB
Today on 360 and Wii, Thursday on PSN. The second full album add-on for The Beatles: Rock Band is released this week. The seminal 1967 work Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is out on Xbox Live and the Wii Shop today, and will appear on PlayStation Network as part of Thursday's update.
Monday, Nov 16
News: Facebook features due in PS3 update
The next PlayStation 3 firmware update will allow you to post Trophy and PlayStation Store activity to your Facebook news feed. With the advent of firmware 3.10, which is due "soon", developers will be able to code features in their games that post to the news feed as well.
News: Metal Gear Solid on PSN this week
Konami has announced the arrival of Metal Gear Solid on the PlayStation Store this Thursday, 19th November. It was this PSone game that took the series 3D and established Hideo Kojima's creations as some of the best in the world. Metal Gear Solid will cost £7.99.
News: FBI using PS3s to catch paedophiles
As reported by AXcess News, investigators are using Sony's consoles to perform password-cracking calculations. "Bad guys are encrypting their stuff now, so we need a methodology of hacking on that to try to break passwords. The Playstation 3 - its processing component - is perfect for la...
News: PSP's adhocParty system for Europe
Although there's no word on exactly when, the software will be free to download from the PlayStation Store. adhocParty allows you to play PSP games that normally only have ad hoc Wi-Fi multiplayer support over the internet anyway, by using the PS3 as a bridge.
Friday, Nov 13
News: PSP SOCOM Fireteam 3 supports 16 online
There's a brand new Leader mode that assigns one person who all team members will spawn next to on their mission toward objective points. Plus, there's a new Tug of War game where teams drain points from each other as they collect tickets.
Thursday, Nov 12
News: COD: Classic added to PS3 Store
Three new PSP Minis and a host of PS3 game content are what's on offer on the PlayStation Store today. Two of the Minis, Circles Circles Circles and D-Cube Planet, cost three quid. The third, Bubble Trubble costs a pound more, which must be why there's a whole post about the game on the European...
Review: Melty Blood: Actress Again
After it proved a hit with fighter fans, Type-Moon followed it up with the arcade release of Act Cadenza in 2005. This drew more broadly from Type-Moon's books and was ported to PlayStation 2 the following year. By this stage the Melty Blood series had established itself as a serious fighter...
News: Facebook confirmed for PS3
A source close to Sony has told Eurogamer that yes, Facebook is heading to PS3. The images of the service that appeared on the PlayStation website - caught by Scrawl before removal - were posted by mistake, we're told. The official Sony UK PR line is that there will be more information on this "...
Wednesday, Nov 11
News: Vagrant Story coming to Euro PSN
Square Enix is releasing its PlayStation RPG Vagrant Story on PSN in Europe, so both PS3 and PSP owners can play it. Vagrant Story was released on the Japanese PSN back in August. There's no concrete word on a North American release yet.
News: Sony asks for input on UC2 playlists
We can't guarantee that we'll be releasing the most popular playlist, but we really want to know what you'd like to see, so let us know what you want - vote and be heard!" insists the European PlayStation blog, and it's there you should comment to be counted.
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
