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Rumour PlayStation Plus Required For Hulu On PS3
And so it starts
Feel free to bombard our inbox with your complaints of value-added services being, heaven forbid, charged for. According to some digging by Technologizer, PlayStation Plus will be required to run the recently announced Hulu Plus on the PS3. The site notes: The instructions below will help you install Hulu Plus on your PS3. Note:...
News PlayStation Move Stealthily Added To PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.40
Move
What's that lurking beneath the depths of PlayStation 3's latest firmware update? PlayStation Move calibration? Yup, looks like Sony are planning ahead, with the "Calibrate Motion Controller" option that's magically appeared in "Settings" section of the XMB. The controller's due out in September. Until then, you can at least pretend to...
The Game Critics' Best Of E3 2010 nominations have got out, with a variety of this year's stand-out titles listed
While it's a particularly strong showing, our heart goes out to Guerrilla Games who were given nothing but praise for Killzone 3 throughout this year's showing and have seemingly been pipped at the post. LittleBigPlanet 2 is also notably...
News PSP Firmware 6.30 Hints At NeoGeo & PC Engine Releases
One of PSP Firmware 6
30's main features</a> is the ability to group downloaded content. That's great, because PSP titles have different sized icons to PlayStation Minis and, honestly, we just can't stand the mess. These folders, however, have a story of their own to tell. Among the usual "PSP", "Minis" and...
News Hulu Plus Heads To PlayStation 3 "Soon"
It's the announcement you've been waiting for -- Hulu is coming to the PlayStation 3
The announcement comes via confirmation of the Hulu Plus service, a $9.99 monthly subscription to heaps of TV content. You can read more about Hulu Plus through here. The service is already available on the PC and iPhone (among others), but is said to be hitting...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: PlayStation Plus Available Now
Hello readers
Just to let you know, Sony's new PlayStation Plus service is totally available for subscription right now. The service - which sets you back £40 / $50 for a year - gets you access to piles of content every month. Here in Europe a yearly subscription rewards you with a downloadable copy of LittleBigPlanet, while in the US you'll get...
News PlayStation Portable Firmware 6.30 Drops, Finally Allows Game Sorting
Let's be honest here, the big feature of PSP's latest firmware (6
30) is to make the system compatible with PlayStation Plus. But it does include one major feature, something we've been screaming about for months now - game sorting. Finally, those little square PlayStation Mini icons will not be clumped with the rectangular icons of our full PSP...
News PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.40 Launches, Adds Facebook & PlayStation Plus Functionality
Heads-up, PlayStation 3's latest firmware update, 3
40, is now available to download. The update includes the functionality for Sony's new premium content delivery service, PlayStation Plus. But that's not all it does. Indeed, there are a host of new goodies added to the PS3 with today's update. For one, the PS3 photo gallery is now enhanced with...
News Sony Celebrates PSN Milestone With Sugary Treats, Yum
SCEJ has reached a milestone
There are now five-million PSN accounts in the Japanese wilderness. To celebrate, Sony's sent their publishing partners some commemorative sweets. These edible hard-candies are decorated with PlayStation controllers and PSPs. They were snapped by Shinji Hashimoto, the producer of Front Mission Evolved. Can we have some?
News Sackboy Iron Man Is Just A Little Bit Cute, No?
Is it Sackboy? Is it Iron Man? Nope, it's Sackboy dressed as Iron Man and looking all the better for it
This is the first Marvel and LittleBigPlanet cross-over. We're expecting a whole pile of new costumes in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for more. In the mean-time, you can see more of Iron Man Sackboy through here.</em>
News Amazon France Drop Team ICO Collection Bombshell
We all know it's happening
The Team ICO Collection, that is. To be honest, it's probably already finished. "Why's it being held back then?" you scream. Marketing. Launch the Team ICO Collection a few months before The Last Guardian and you raise that studio's profile. Dramatically. Amazon France seem to know something we don't anyway.
News EA: The PlayStation 3 Is "On Fire"
Not literally
Don't call the fire-brigade... Yet. These are just the words of EA executive John Schappert. He's talking about one of the most exciting features of the Sony E3 press conference: Sony's alignment with third-party publisher EA. The PlayStation 3's getting a whole pile of exclusive content courtesy of EA, and people are curious to know...
News More PlayStation 2 Collections On The Horizon, Ico Pweeeease
As anticipated, it sounds as though there are going to be more PlayStation 2 HD collections coming to the PlayStation 3
If the Sly Cooper Collection boxart wasn't a big enough giveaway, Sony's Worldwide Studios top-dog, Shuhei Yoshida, has told IGN "we are looking to continue to do these HD conversions". It sounds like there are a load...
News PSP-4000 Launching This Year According To Japanese Retailer
You know what the world needs? Yet another iteration on the original PSP hardware
Well, at least one Japanese retailer believes so, as they are showing a device called the PSP-4000 that's due out this year. Oh? Literally no other details on this yet. Could it be an update to the current PSP hardware? Or perhaps it's that new PSP everyone except Sony...
News Ruh-Roh: EEDAR Report Suggests PlayStation Move & XBOX Kinect Purchase Intent Is Low
A post-E3 EEDAR report spells bad news for Sony and Microsoft's new motion controllers -- apparently purchasing intent is pretty low all around
Apparently, despite "high awareness", purchase intent for both devices "ranked relatively low" in its research. While Kinect showed a slight advantage over the PlayStation Move, EEDAR put...
News Fat Roles DLC Headed To Fat Princess Next Week
It's time to get that Princess plumper with a dose of new DLC for Sony's class-based PSN multiplayer title, Fat Princess
The aptly named "Fat Roles" DLC will launch next week on the PlayStation Store for $4.99 and includes three new classes and four maps. The new classes include pirates, ninjas and giants. There are other goodies headed to...
Feature Why Trophies Outdo Their Counterparts -- "Twiggy" The Push Square Opinionator
I hate it when people say "me too" in a derogatory fashion
That mentality doesn't make sense to me. The foundations of progress are built upon improvement - taking an idea and making it better. The best most recent example is PlayStation Move. The Wii has proved itself a solid but under-utilised control mechanism, so it pains me to see an improved...
News The Mighty World Of Marvel Finally Hits LittleBigPlanet
Marvel has (finally
) confirmed</a> that a bunch of their famous characters are heading to the delightfully whimsical world of LittleBigPlanet. The DLC costumes will start dropping from July 7th. They'll be releasing on the PSN every other week. There'll be four different costume packs too, each containing five different costumes. We've...
News Japanese Advertisement For White Knight Chronicles 2 Hits The Airwaves
This advert's currently doing the rounds in Japan, hyping up the release of Level-5's RPG monster White Knight Chronicles 2
The game comes packed with the original release, so is a bit of bargain.
News Piles Of PlayStation Move Branded Boxart Revealed
Here's your first glimpse at the European packaging for a bunch of PlayStation Move launch titles
The pack shots come courtesy of French site Gamekyo, who somehow managed to get hold of the job-lot. We're not too hot on the "You'll Need These" logo on the front of the boxes, but we guess it gets the job done. Perhaps the most notable point...
News Lunar Duel Jets Off From The PlayStation Home GAME Space
British retailer GAME's PlayStation Home presence just got a bit more noticeable with the launch of its "Moon Base" space's second mini-game, Lunar Duel
The press release notes: "With the ultimate aim being to battle one-on-one against your opponent until their force field has been reduced to zero, Lunar Duel is a tense game where planning your...
News Sony Aren't Planning 3D In The PlayStation Portable Follow-Up
In an interview with IndustryGamers, Sony's Worldwide Studios VP, Scott Rohde, has stated that 3D is not on the agenda for the inevitable PSP follow-up
Nintendo wowed the games industry with their 3DS during E3, but it sounds like Sony aren't planning to do the same. No, no plans for that, he said when asked about 3D for a future PSP,...
News Sorry, We've Got More Jimmy Fallon (But He's Playing Killzone 3 This Time)
We've dealt with what an idiot Jimmy Fallon is
Sadly, he tends to incorporate games into his show, and just like yesterday with Need For Speed, he's got a bunch of Killzone 3 footage. We've embedded it after the jump. The game looks incredible. This is alpha build, guys. Alpha. [object removed]
News Sony's Scott Rohde: Ghost Of Sparta Is The Best Looking PSP Game Ever Made
In our Peace Walker review, we stated: "Peace Walker gives God Of War: Chains Of Olympus a real run for its money in accordance to the beauty stakes
Ready At Dawn take note, youve got your work cut out with Ghost Of Sparta." But Sony's VP of Worldwide Studios, Scott Rohde, has already issued a response of kind. He told IndustryGamers: God...
Report Hulu Is Headed To The PlayStation 3 After All
Hulu, the American TV catch-up service, was available on the PlayStation 3
You could totally access it through the PS3's browser. It was later pulled, with speculation suggesting Microsoft had the service wrapped up for their XBOX Live subscribers. Alas, according to a report published by Bloomberg, Sony are close to securing a deal that will bring...
News This Heavy Rain Cosplay Is The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Not content with dressing up as detective Norman Jayden, this DeviantArt cosplayer went the whole hog and added in Heavy Rain-esque control commands too
If we were in charge of the country, this guy would get a medal for his efforts.</em>
News A Whole Load Of People Visited E3 From Home... PlayStation Home
As announced during Sony's E3 press conference, those unable to visit E3 for real were able to enjoy a meticulous recreation of the Sony booth via Sony's digital world, PlayStation Home
Turns out, that was quite a successful move. As much as people like to rag on Sony's totally free online service, it's got quite a following. In fact, according to...
News PixelJunk Racers, Erm, Races [Good One! - Ed] Onto The PSN This July 1st
Racers, racing? Did you like that one? It took an entire degree in journalism for us to be able to come up with stuff like that
Bet you wish you went to Uni now don't you? Anyway, yes. PixelJunk Racers - the black-sheep in the PixelJunk franchise. It's not that it wasn't any good (it was), it's just that the game's been overshadowed by the likes of...
News Hey Europe, Fancy A Free Copy Of LittleBigPlanet?
Anyone planning on signing up to the new PlayStation Plus service should prepare for a huge bonus -- the entire retail copy of LittleBigPlanet comes free with any yearly subscriptions placed between 29th June and 3rd August
We should add, this offer is limited to Europe only. Still, it's pretty awesome isn't it? Not only is this news great for...
News Plenty Of Gran Turismo 5 Announcements To Come Nearer To Release
Sony's Chris Hinojosa-Miranda has told VG247 that there are plenty of Gran Turismo 5 features to be announced before release
The associate producer told VG247 that E3 was just the beginning of a siege of information regarding the racer. E3 is a big event for us, and this is where we start releasing information, said Hinojosa-Miranda. Launch...
News DC Comics Join The PlayStation Network Digital Comics Service
Finally
DC Comics (and with them their host of world famous IP) have finally jumped aboard ship PlayStation Digital Comics. Starting today, DC will begin distributing the massive collection of comics via the PlayStation Network, with an initial selection of over 80 comics priced from $0.99 to $2.99. Some of the offerings include Batman, Superman,...
News BBC iPlayer 3 Comes To The PlayStation 3 This Year
The BBC's revealed that the upgraded version of the iPlayer will hit the PlayStation 3 sometime later this year
A Techradar interview with the BBC's Simon Cross has revealed that the player is on the "roadmap for this year". The upgrade brings new social functionality to the iPlayer, such as a "For You" section which generates...
News Blue Toad Murder Files Boxset Hits The European PlayStation Store Tomorrow
Relentless Software has posted on the PlayStation Blog that they're preparing a bundle for the Blue Toad Murder Files from tomorrow on the European PlayStation Store
The bundle will grant you all six episodes of the detective party package for £17.99 / 21.99. Additionally, just because they are nice, Relentless are reducing the price of Episode...
News Yoshida: Almost All Internal Sony Studios Looking Into 3D
We were quite surprised by the sheer amount of content announced for Sony's new 3D enabled PlayStation 3 during E3
Seems like there are currently a lot of developers on-board, and that means more incentive to pick-up the technology. One sub-set of studios you'd expect to adopt the new tech are Sony's in-house development teams. Speaking in an...
News PlayStation Portable's Digital Comics Reader Grabs New Features
Sony's updated the already excellent PlayStation Portable Digital Comics Reader
The update to 2.01 brings the ability to quickly delete titles from your collection, aswell as browse titles by publisher and automatically sort by genre. Nice. An additional feature allows you to move seamlessly between comics in a series if you own more than one...
News Hot Shots Tennis Hits The PlayStation Portable Next Week
SCEA's dated the upcoming tennis-RPG, Hot Shots (Everybody's here in Europe) Tennis for June 29th
We've contacted SCEE for a European release date and we'll let you know as and when we get confirmation. The game will launch in the US on both UMD and digital download from the PlayStation Store. Key features include RPG-style gameplay, game sharing...
News Sucker Punch Gunning For Uncharted 2 Visuals With inFamous Sequel
If there was perhaps any complaint attached to the original inFamous, it was that the game just didn't look very good
Empire City was a mess of jaggy lines, grubby textures and foggy city-scapes. In many ways, the game was supposed to look like that. inFamous' setting was dark and foreboding. But also, inFamous lacked that next-level beauty that so...
News Sly Cooper HD To Include Three Platinum Trophies On One Disc
The God Of War Collection came with two games and, as such, two platinum trophies
The Sly Cooper Collection, due later this year, will launch with three games and, yes, you guessed it, three platinum trophies. The Sly Cooper Collection will include all three Sly Cooper games remastered in high definition, alongside 3D support in Sly Cooper 3 and...
News David Jaffe Talks About Lying To Everyone
Amazingly, we'd actually talked ourselves out of Twisted Metal on the PlayStation 3 being a thing
We knew Jaffe was working on something that involved car combat, but we'd given up on that project being Twisted Metal. We'd certainly given up on it making an appearance at this year's E3. But appear it did, in somewhat glorious fashion, and the...
News Would You Like To Hear A Few Juicy Gran Turismo 5 Rumours?
A rather juicy rumour emerging from the British PlayStation Magazine has lead a few forums to literally ignite into flames this afternoon
Honestly. According to the magazine, and more importantly an interview with Sony Worldwide Studios honcho, Shuhei Yoshida, Gran Turismo 5's going to have go-karting, dynamic weather and a track editor when it...
News Ninja Theory: We'd Love To Have Done Heavenly Sword 2 If Sony Didn't Own The IP
We're getting a bit bored of Ninja Theory evangelising the multiplatform game
Look guys, we get it, your company is out to make money and you got totally burned releasing an exclusive in the early days of the PlayStation 3. That's fine. We don't blame you, studio boss Tameem Antoniades, for answering CVG's question in this instance, presumably...
News PlayStation Move Hits The Japanese Wilderness
Sony's put the PlayStation Move in front of Japanese gamers for the first time this Summer at the World Hobby Fair
Sony were offering live demos of both Eye Pet and Machi Suberi (which we know as Slider). Sony also had the full range of Move hardware on display, including the awesome PlayStation Move zapper and charging station. Other titles such as...
Sony Online Entertainment's Scott Gulbransen has confirmed rumours we reported last night regarding the upcoming release of DC Universe Online
According to Scott, the game will indeed require a $14.99 subscription fee, which will gain you access to the game's massive superhero laden world. Scott's also confirmed that the game will launch on the...
News Echochrome 2's All About Manipulating Shadows
Appropriately lurking in the shadows beyond all the E3 big-hitters was the upcoming sequel to Japan Studio's Echochrome
The sequel, Echochrome 2, is still all about perspective, but unlike its predecessor, this time the key to the game is finding routes within the shadows. You're able to cast shadows by pointing the new PlayStation Move controller...
Rumour DC Universe Online To Cost $14.99 A Month, Due November 2nd
According to a report on Meodia
com</a>, Sony Online Entertainment's upcoming super-hero based MMO, DC Universe Online, is due to release on the PlayStation 3 and PC this November 2nd. The site notes that the game will have a $14.99 subscription fee. A few people were expecting the game to adopt a free-to-play model, similar to SOE's Free...
News Kojima Exclusive News Purely Rumour & Speculation For Now
Either Kojima's trying to pull a David Jaffe, or there really is no "face melting" PlayStation 3 in the works
We're hoping for the former, but we're not holding our breath. According to the productions boss on the Metal Gear franchise, Kenichiro Imaizumi, suggestions of a big PlayStation 3 reveal from Kojima are purely rumour and speculation. The...
News Grab Five Minutes Of Sweet Twisted Metal Footage
Eat Sleep Play's new Twisted Metal game is clearly fairly early in development, but it's still looking damn amazing.
The game gives us the faintest whiff of Warhawk to be honest — mostly in the game's visual style, but it's also apparent from the striking depth of the multiplayer. The cars look like they handle really well, and the chaotic nature...
News Gran Turismo 5's 3D In Discussion Over Three Years Ago
Kaunori Yamauchi, the series creator of Gran Turismo, has revealed that discussion regarding Gran Turismo 5's 3D implementation started internally at Sony three years ago
It was officially confirmed during Sony's E3 press conference that the racing sim would include full 3D functionality out of the box. Speaking over at the PlayStation Blog,...
News Sony Reiterate The 10-Year Life-Cycle Of The PSP
Our very own Twiggy was debating the future of the PlayStation Portable this morning, suggesting that Sony need to get their act together with regards to the PSP
.. And fast. Alas, an interview with SCEA's John Koller seems to suggest disagreement on the manufacturer's part - noting that Sony are still on a 10-year life-cycle with the PSP. Speaking...
News Overheard At E3 2010: "Uncharted 3 Looks Amazing"
According to a report on PS3Hype
nl</a>, recognised Dutch reporter, Jan Meijroos, dropped a Tweet this week regarding something he'd overheard on the E3 show-floor. Apparently some Sony developers were talking about how "amazing" Uncharted 3 looks, presumably at its early stage of development. We expect nothing less from the...
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