This week’s PlayStation Store update features downloadable game Go! Sports Skydiving. Available now for $5, the title is a skydiving simulator that utilizes the PS3’s SIXAXIS wireless controller to twist, turn and pull off tricks while falling through the air. Joining Go! Sports Skydiving is PSOne classic Crash Bandicoot: WARPED, add-on game content for Rock Band, MotorStorm, and the Lost […]
Eagle-eyed gamers over at GameFAQs have uncovered a hidden message in the recently released PS2 title Twisted Metal Head On: Extra Twisted Edition. The message reads the following: Twisted Metal is coming on PSTHREE. Remember when Eat Sleep Play founder David Jaffe revealed that his newly formed studio made an exclusive deal with Sony to develop three PlayStation 3 titles? […]
During an ISSCC session yesterday, technology giant IBM revealed that it will soon transition the Cell BE processor found in Sony’s PlayStation 3 console to 45nm process. What does this mean for you? The 45nm Cell will use nearly 40 percent less power than the current 65nm version, and its die area will be reduced by 34 percent. Reduced power […]
Famitsu reports that a demo of the PlayStation 3 version of Lost Planet is set for release on the PlayStation Network tomorrow. The trial will be limited to an eight player online 10 minute match. The full game is planned for a worldwide release later this month (Europe, US, and Japan) and will support up to 16 players online. As […]
SEGA releases six new screenshots from Secret Level’s upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 title Golden Axe: Beast Rider. Golden Axe: Beast Rider Screenshots
Konami today announced that Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection is planned for release on the PlayStation 2. This “essential collection” is a commemorative package that includes original PSOne title Metal Gear Solid, along with the director’s cut of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3. What a great way to celebrate the impending launch of Metal Gear […]
Capcom’s Chris Kramer has issued a statement in response to a Future Publishing journalist, who claimed that the load times on the PlayStation 3 version of Devil May Cry 4 were only marginally better than that of the Xbox 360 version – which runs entirely from disc. Capcom reassures that once the game is installed, which does take about 20 […]
Sony has confirmed that it will launch a “PLAYSTATION 3 the Best” budget line in Japan. Similar to the PS2 Greatest Hits line here in the US, PS3 titles under this new budget series will come at the reduced price of 3,619 yen (US $34). The first PS3 titles set launch under the “PLAYSTATION 3 the Best” banner include Folklore, […]
Sony today announced a new PlayStation 3 color for the Japanese market. The Satin Silver PS3 will be released in Japan on March 6, at a recommended retail price of 39,980 yen (US $375). Satin Silver joins Clear Black and Ceramic White as the third available PS3 color in Japan. According to the press release, the package will include an […]
Sony today announced that over one million PlayStation 3 owners worldwide are participating in Stanford University’s Folding@home project, a distributed computing project that uses idle CPU power to research protein folding, in hope to understand human genetics. SCEI teamed up with Stanford University to launch the PS3 Folding@home project on March 22, coinciding with the release of firmware 1.6. Roughly […]
Gossip agent Quartermann reports in the March issue of EGM that Dead Rising 2 is in the works for multiple consoles and in development not by Capcom, but by an unnamed LA-based developer. Other tidbits? A PSP version of Everyday Shooter is rumored to be in development. Not much of a surprise there — considering that flOw is soon to […]
CVG reports that the installation process of Devil May Cry 4 for PlayStation 3 might in fact make you cry. Upon launching the title, gamers must sit through a 20 minute installation process that transfers nearly 5GB of game files onto the hard drive. Yes, the hard drive installation is mandatory, you can’t play directly from disc. What’s worse, is […]
According to Electronic Arts’ financial estimates, Sony will sell around 4.5 to 5.5 million PlayStation 3 consoles in the US and 5 to 6 million units in Europe this year. In total, that comes to approximately 9.5 to 11.5 million units sold for the duration of 2008. On the flip side, EA predicts that the Xbox 360 will perform similar […]
Electronic Arts today announced that it is extending the online multiplayer portion of its Burnout Paradise demo. Initially, EA insisted that the servers would be shut down by February 1, but feeling generous and to give more players a taste of the multiplayer mode, they have decided to keep the servers online until February 15. As you may know, Burnout […]
During Electronic Arts’ Q3 2008 earnings conference call, CEO John Riccitiello confirmed that a Wii version of Rock Band is currently in development and that a European release is scheduled for fiscal 2009, which beings in April. But what’s probably the most interesting pieces right now is the coming launch on the Wii […] and then the fiscal 2009 launch […]
This week’s PlayStation Store update kicks off with three Folklore add-on packs, along with three new Rock Band songs and a demo of Conflict: Denied Ops. On the PC Store is Neopets: Petpet Adventures – The Wand of Wishing, a downloadable game title for PSP. So where’s flOw for PSP? It was set for a January release according to the […]
Mistranslations of a certain Famitsu article recently made their way online, indicating that PlayStation 3 title Final Fantasy XIII would ship to retail stores this year. In an emailed statement today, Square Enix let us know that any “reports of a confirmed release date are erroneous and should be disregarded.”
We first received word of the discontinuation of the 80 GB PlayStation 3 model when an internal Best Buy memo leaked, notifying employees that the SKU would be going closeout retail-wide. Unsurprisingly, Sony has kept mum on the subject — giving the old line “we do not comment on rumors and speculation.” Despite this denial, IGN now reports that multiple […]
A listing on the official PlayStation UK website has revealed that a port of the popular PS3 downloadable game title flOw is coming to PSP. Explore the soothing depths of a living underwater environment, discover strange new organisms and embark on a journey of evolution. Freely glide around before diving down to the challenges beneath or aggressively consume food and […]
Once format neutral, National Geographic has confirmed that from now on, it will only release high-definition titles on the Blu-ray format. The studio joins Warner subsidiaries New Line Home Entertainment and HBO Home Video in the switch to Blu-ray exclusivity. National Geographic’s first Blu-ray exclusive title will be Sharkwater, which is scheduled to hit store shelves in April. Now, only […]