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If you're into watching SpikeTV and what-not, then might know there's some kind of televised God Of War trivia competition on the channel tonight

As horrific as all that sounds, the winner of said trivia competition is going to come home with this uber-limited edition God Of War III Playstation 3. There's only one in the world so you're not getting one. [Picture: Kotaku]

Despite losing out to the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii and XBOX 360, there are very positive signs for the industry in general in February's NPD

Namely that every major piece of hardware sold pretty well, with just 62,000 units between the XBOX 360 and the Playstation 3. Sony shifted 360,100 units for the month of February, a pretty impressive statistic considering the time of the year. The PSP and..

Japanese retailers are claiming that an updated SKU of the Playstation 3 hardware will drop an extra 200g from its total weight

No details have been given on what's changed to get the system lighter, but AndriaSang report the change has something to do with a new PS3 model number CECH-2000A to CECH-2100A. This corroborates stories earlier in the month which saw Sony file two new SKUs to the FCC..

It's another week on top of the Japanese hardware charts for the Playstation Portable this week, despite stiff competition from the various Nintendo DS SKUs (there are about a billion of them)

The Playstation 3 sits just below the Wii in third-place, shifting 27,763 units, with the PSPgo and PS2 at the bottom. Hit the jump for the full round up. PSP – 37,338 Wii – 36,241 PS3 – 27,763 DSi LL –..

If you want hilariously out-of-date news, go pick-up the Metro from your local bus-stop or train-station

The paper, released this morning, runs with the headline "Millions Hit By PS3 Meltdown". Not great PR for Sony, but kinda ironic given that by the time people were reading this "news" all PS3s had been back online for roughly seven hours. We daresay the Metro aren't planning..

As we speculated yesterday, at 00:00AM GMT last night a whole host of borked Playstation 3 systems fixed themselves

There was a simple glitch in the system clock that caused the Playstation 3 to think March 1st was actually February 29th; in turn causing older systems to flip out. Everything should be back to normal now though, regardless of which Playstation 3 platform you own. Sony has issued the..

Sony's released a press release regarding the impending "apocalyPS3" which has seen millions of Playstation 3s borked since Sunday evening

As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3. We believe we have identified that this problem is being caused by a bug in the clock functionality..

Update @ 15:35GMT - it's now commonly believed the issues are related to a system clock error

</em> When we went to bed last night, everything seemed sugar and rainbows. Over night though, all hell has broken loose. The PSN has gone tits up, bombarding users with a host of 8001050F error codes. The frightening error basically locks you out of the PSN and, erm, corrupts trophy data. It also..

Sony's filed two new PS3 SKUs to the FCC, hinting perhaps at a fresher version of the PS3 Slim

The filing - listed under Sony's secret alias The Sand Dollar Enterprise - reveals two new hardware SKUs listed as CECH-2101A and CECH-2101B. As Engadget point out, the the alphabetical difference points towards the different hard-drive sizes. Apparently the SKUs are identical to current hardware,..

This week's Japanese hardware chart looks vaguely similar to the week before it

The Playstation Portable still tops the charts, with the PSPgo in dead last at the other end of the spectrum. Somewhere in the middle is the Playstation 3, with some Nintendo platforms above it and the XBOX 360 far below it. Check the numbers after the jump. PSP - 39,293 Wii - 37,501 Nintendo DSi LL -..

Sony of Japan announced today they are bringing a "Spring Blossom Pink" iteration of the PSP to their region in March

The new system (which is a PSP-3000) will cost just 16,800 ($183). It's kinda pretty isn't it? We'd play one anyway.

If you're a developer planning on sticking more cut-scenes in your game, then rejoice

Sony and Panasonic have announced that they are planning to increase the storage capacity of the blu-ray disc from 25GB to 33.4GB. The report from Nikkei states the technology "assumes inter-symbol interference, which makes it difficult to base optical disc quality evaluation on jitter, as is widely done now..

Playstation 3 sales were up nicely in Japan for the week ending December 13th, with PSP sitting just behind it

The Playstation 3 managed to shift 75,086 units for the week, with the PSP shifting 71,885. Things are looking grim for the PSPgo in the region though, with just 3,077 units sold in the region. What's going on? It's actually a good piece of hardware! It'll be interesting to see the effect..

How do you guarantee the sale of lots of PSPs? You put Kingdom Hearts stickers on it and sell it alongside the upcoming Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

This special PSP-3000 will be available from January 9th for 22,000 Yen.

Seems like Sony are planning some flashy new colours for the PSPgo range

A Destructoid reader was invited to take a survey regarding new colours in the UK. As you can see, there are a lot of yummy colours on the survey. Personally we'd go for the more "out-there" ones, such as Coral and Turqouise. But knowing how boring people are, we assume most responses tick the "Blue" and..

Colorware are crazy

Crazy but so, so cool. They intend to drop five PS3 Slims into 24k gold. Why? Because it looks great. Colorware intend to only produce five. We want one.

If you're Japanese and you don't have a PSP yet (unusual), you might be interested to know that there are ton of awesome new colours heading to the Portable range, the full catalogue of which you can see over at Kotaku

They're out in December and will cost ¥19,800 (US$219.50).

Sony have announced that those upgrading to the PSP Go with existing games will be able to redeem three free games

Entitled "PSP Go Rewards", the process involves registering your new PSP Go to the Playstation Store, then logging into the Playstation Store with an existing PSP and a UMD in the drive. You'll get a PSP Go theme for your troubles and a voucher (via email) for use with the..

As speculated over the past few weeks, Sony UK have just announced a series of 250GB Playstation 3 bundles due for release in the UK

“Following the great success of the new, smaller, 120GB PS3, which sold over 1m units in its first three weeks on sale, the 250GB model has the same hardware specifications as the current model, but with greater storage space, to offer consumers even more choice,”..