All the hustle and bustle of E3 isn’t stopping Sony from delivering yet another content-packed PlayStation Store update this fine Thursday. Spearheading this week’s selection of downloadable offerings is PS3 puzzle game Elefunk, which challenges players to lead a herd of Elephants through 20 levels of fire pits to murky swaps. Awaiting for you on the demo front is a […]
According to Sony Worldwide Studios pres Shuhei Yoshida, Super-Ego Games’ Office-inspired PSN comedy title Rat Race has been canned. In explaining the reasoning behind the game’s cancellation to gaming blog Joystiq, Yoshida admitted that Sony was “not quite happy with how the game was turning out ” and that there was “some difficulty in development.” Although the game seemed like […]
Update: The video download service is now live! It is accessible to all North American consumers through the PlayStation Store, either via PC or PlayStation 3. As we mentioned in the original article — content purchased is fully portable, meaning you can playback these videos on both your PS3 and PSP.
Sony today announced that a new Ratchet-themed PSP Entertainment Pack will be available later this year. At a retail price point of $199, the pack will include a silver PSP, a copy of Ratchet & Clank Size Matters, UMD movie National Treasure 2, a 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, and a redeemable voucher code for the perspective-bending PSP puzzler echochrome.
As previously rumored, Sony today confirmed that Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest For Booty is heading to the PlayStation Network as a downloadable PS3 title. Said to pack all the intensity of Insomniac’s triple AAA efforts, Quest For Booty will be sold at the exceptionally reasonable price of $15 dollars. During Sony’s E3 conference, a company rep stated that the […]
Developer Realtech VR has released a selection of new screenshots from its homebrew demo gone full-fledged PSN title No Gravity: The Plague of Mind. According to staff member Execom over at the official Realtech VR forums, development on the intergalactic space shooter has wrapped up and is confirmed for a release on the European PlayStation Store, exclusively for PSP. A […]
Although undocumented in the official changelog for PSP firmware 4.05, a page found on Sony’s North American customer care website has unearthed a hidden feature contained in the update: support for PlayStation Store movie and television video downloads. Interesting, interesting. If this discovery is any indication, perhaps we’ll be hearing more about the PSN integrated video download service at Sony’s […]
To kick off next week’s round of E3 announcements, publisher Capcom has sent word that its upcoming hex-based strategy game formerly known as Plunder is now called Age of Booty. Developed by Certain Affinity, Age of Booty puts players in control of a lone pirate faction, tasking players with the goal of sizing towns and villages controlled by the opposition. […]
Eighteen or older? Live in Europe? Have time to spare? If you answered YES to all three questions, then you might be interested that Sony is currently recruiting beta testers for upcoming PlayStation 3 titles over on its official European website. To apply, all you’ll need to submit is the ID of your master PlayStation Network account. Note that placement […]
After a Qore focused update last Thursday, the PlayStation Store has returned in full force this week, giving a PS3 owners a chance to try out Sony’s forthcoming survival horror title Siren: Blood Curse. On the add-content front, Ubisoft’s recently detailed Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Gift Pack is now available free of charge to all owners of the […]
Digital Extremes producer Shawn Segal has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 edition of BioShock will feature seamless integration with the new PSN trophy system. Andrew Rudson, programmer for the title, explained that bringing trophies to the world of Rapture was a “by-and-large a painless process.” He further noted that the team is in the final stages of implementation, translating the […]
Capcom announced today that the remake of its classic World War II themed coin-op shooter 1942: Joint Strike will hit the Xbox Live Arcade on July 23, with a release on PlayStation Network following on July 24. A full-blown remake of the original, Joint Strike features 2-player cooperative play, complete with updated 3D visuals and audio courtesy of developer Backbone […]
Lestrade, community team leader over at the official SCEE message board, has announced that the PlayStation Network will be down on Wednesday for around six hours due to scheduled maintenance, starting at 07:00 BST UK time. As usual, the maintenance will be region-wide, however, due to the timing, will mainly affect European users of the service. Lestrade notes that “during […]
Apart from a selection of Crüefest tracks for Rock Band and a Guitar Hero III freebie that’s none other than the Top Gun Anthem, the main highlight of this week’s PlayStation Store update is a new episode of Qore. Wait, that’s it? Yep. Rather weak update if you ask us, and it doesn’t help that firmware 2.4 has been taken […]
Originally slated for a September release, developer Slant Six has officially confirmed that its upcoming online-enabled PS3 shooter SOCOM: Confrontation is now scheduled to deploy a few weeks later on October 14. The decision to delay was made for quality assurance reasons, as the development team felt that certain aspects of the game required extra polishing. Understandable. We’ll live. SOCOM: […]
In a post on the official PlayStation Blog, Criterion Games designer Simon Phillips confirmed that Burnout Paradise will support PS3’s upcoming achievement-like trophy system in a future update after Cagney hits on July 10. Reassuringly, Phillips clarified that trophy support in Paradise will indeed be retroactive, due to the fact that saves for the title are locked specifically to a […]
Yesterday, a photo hit the tubes showing off downloadable PS2 titles on the PlayStation Store. Forum goer NiTiZ claimed it was taken by a friend at Sony London, but SCEA PR manager Patrick Seybold has since stepped up to rubbish these claims, simply calling the image a “mock-up” and issuing a statement saying that the company has no plans to […]
In celebration of the upcoming Fourth of July weekend, Activision today announced that the guitar-heavy classic “Top Gun Anthem,” will be released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live beginning this Thursday. Featured in the hit film Top Gun, the track will be offered up to all Guitar Hero III owners gratis.
This is clearly an unsubstantiated rumor, so take it with a fine grain of salt. According to a poster on a gaming forum, who claims to have a friend in the know at Sony London, downloadable PS2 titles are coming to the PlayStation 3 this summer. Normally, we’d brush off rumors like this one, but this same poster also provided […]
Publisher Ubisoft has sent word that an all-new multiplayer centric content pack for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will be released later this July. Dubbed “Fan Pack,” the FREE content package will offer players three new multiplayer maps, along with the introduction of attainable ranks beyond Elite, numerous gameplay balance […]