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News PSP Go Upgraders Rewarded With Three Free PSP Titles
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...
News TGS 09: Polyphony Confirm YouTube Video Uploading In Gran Turismo 5
A neat feature that is underused on the Playstation 3 is the ability to upload gameplay videos directly to YouTube
It's something that would surely see a lot of use in, for example, Gran Turismo 5. Thankfully, the feature has been confirmed for the game during the Tokyo Game Show. Expect to see the availability of uploaded Gran Turismo videos get...
News The God Of War Collection Gets That Little Bit More Awesome, Includes E3 God Of War III Demo
We're already totally stoked about the God Of War Collection - a blu-ray compilation of the original two God Of War games - but now the icing has just truly been spread; as the disc will include the infamous 20-minute God Of War III E3 demo aswell
Dude. It's not a preorder bonus, it's not a store exclusive; the demo will be in every copy of the God...
News TGS 09: White Knight Chronicles: Awakening Of Light and Darkness Is Revealed
We might not have White Knight Chronicles yet, but that hasn't stopped Level 5 from teasing sequel White Knight Chronicles: Awakening Of Light and Darkness
There's no real details on the game as of yet, although there is a trailer in the wilderness at the moment that we're desperately trying to track down. Until then, know that a sequel to WKC is on...
News SCE UK Announce 250GB Playstation 3 Bundles, ?284.99
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...
News TGS 09: What Does This Terrible PSP Go Wrap-Around Thing-Ma-Bob Do?
Invizimals is an upcoming PSP game that looks really awesome
It requires the PSP camera to work. For some reason the PSP Go has the wrong connection to add a camera. What's the solution? Put this terrible thing around your PSP Go. Goodness me, we've never seen anything more hideous than these shots discovered by Joystiq. Why Sony, why!? There has to...
News Sony Score One Million Playstation 3 Sales In Just Three Weeks
Remember when the PS3 Slim was announced and everyone thought it was a big deal? Yeah, here's why -- just three weeks since launch, the new Playstation 3 has gone on to sell a whopping one million systems worldwide
That's based on internal estimates but we're likely to see corroboration of those estimates later in the year. They're pretty big...
The Playstation Motion Controller is still on track for release in 2010
When Sony announced these things at E3 2009 we kinda expected the tentative date (Spring 2010) to change. But it's remained pretty consistent throughout. And now we have an idea of the kind of software in development for the new controllers. Some of the titles are going to be...
News TGS 09: Resident Evil 5, LittleBigPlanet To Get Updated With Motion Controls
During a press conference at Tokyo Game Show today Sony announced that an updated version of Resident Evil 5 will launch on the Playstation 3 with updated Playstation Motion Controller support
The title Resident Evil 5: Director's Cut will launch this Spring with a bunch of new features alongside the new Motion Control support. Which we actually...
News TGS 09: Behind The Scenes With The Last Guardian, New Trailer
Well it's not much, but you don't need to see much when it comes to The Last Guardian
This game truly looks to be something entirely new and completely special. In this new trailer and behind the scenes video, Fumito Ueda talks about the process of developing the game and some of the design choices behind it. Fascinating stuff.
News TGS 09: Sony Unveil 250GB Final Fantasy XIII Playstation 3 Bundle
The PS3 looks hella good in silvery-cream and pink
This new Playstation 3 design is sure to shift a helluva lot of systems in Japan. It's easy to see why aswell. The thing looks flippin' gorgeous. The bundle will cost 41,600Yen, and will be available to tie-in with the launch of Final Fantasy XIII. Also of note, Final Fantasy VIII has just gone up...
News TGS 09: Gran Turismo 5 Is Dated For Japan, March 2010
We guess a tad disappointingly, Gran Turismo 5 has not met the Christmas 09 release date we have been speculating for ages
In fact, Kazunori Yamauchi announced at TGS today that Gran Turismo 5 will launch in March 2010 over in Japan. There's no other information just yet, but it's a bit disappointing for Sony's Christmas sales, which we expected to...
News Audi Join The Playstation Home Lineup With A Sleek New Space
Playstation Home is becoming quite the place to promote your products
Seems Audi want in on the action. Later this year will see the launch of the Playstation Home Audi space. The space will have a driving minigame. Those who rock at the minigame will unlock a housing apartment within the Audi space. Of course, there'll also be TVs looping Audi...
News Potential TGS Show Stealer: The Last Guardian Spotted On Show Floor
So you're going to need razor sharp eyes to see it
You're going to need to have a whole lot of hope on your side. And you're going to need to keep your fingers crossed for the next 11 or so hours, but we swear we just saw The Last Guardian in this TGS sneak peak video from GameVideos. Dude. It has to be there right? Right? We'll find out...
News Netflix Want To Be On Playstation 3 Aswell
One of the big draws of the XBOX 360 is its Netflix compatibility
Often touted as the blu-ray beater, Netflix's integration is a trump card for Microsoft. Alas, Netflix are limiting themselves as a company if they are only available on one box. They know that. Speaking with Reuters, Netflix talked about their ambition to be in all video game...
News Dum-Dum-Dum Another One Bites The Dust, More Retailers Say "No Wai" To PSP Go
The PSP Go really is facing a resistance right now
The Australian branch of EB Games (that's the whole network of stores within the country) have decided not to stock the PSP Go. Kotaku have investigated the situation and found that with the system due to release next week Australia's stores are listing Sony's new portable as...
News Details On Sony's Kaz Hirai Fronted Tokyo Game Show Keynote
Tokyo Game Show 2009 kicks off soon
And it ain't started until Sony have had their press conference. What is building to be the third big Sony press conference in less than five months kicks off tomorrow morning at 10:30AM local time. Thats 2.30am BST, 3.30am CET, 6.30pm PST and 9.30pm EST. Expect to wake up to all the news tomorrow morning as we...
News PSP Go Titles To Have "Pricing Parity" With Retail Releases
The nature of a real market is that there is competition
Here in the UK GAME stores want to be cheaper than Tesco stores, Tesco stores want to be cheaper than Asda, Asda stores want to be cheaper than Currys — and so it goes on. But what happens when you sell your games digitally, as Sony are with the PSP Go? Should they be cheaper because there's...
News So, There's Probably Definitely An Uncharted 3 On The Way
Naughty Dog have pledged their future to the blossoming Uncharted franchise, claiming in an interview on the Playstation Blog that,"[Uncharted 2] doesn't conclude the story at all
The expectation with Uncharted is that it can be an ongoing franchise as long as people want more of it. All these stories are self-contained. You don't have to play...
Duddde Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time looks rad
We know the excitement for the game is there, bubbling beneath the surface. We're just waiting for people to really eat into it. Because Ratchet & Clank really bloody rocks as a franchise. We just can't wait to see which way the story arc goes in this sequel.
News Sony Launches German & Italian Arms Of The Popular Playstation Blog
Whaddup Germany
Whaddup Italy! How's it hanging our European brethren? Just to let you know that Sony have localised their popular Playstation Blog format to your territories. You can check out the German version here and the Italian one here. Don't worry if you're French or Spanish because alternative versions for your territories are also coming...
News Uncharted 2's European Release Is Brought Forward A Week
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was set to launch on October 23rd here in Europe
No longer must we wait. It will instead see release on October 16th. It's like, just over two weeks away folks! Can you believe how it's crept up. Oh man, we've been having so much fun in the multiplayer beta, we just can't wait to get our hands on the full product now.
News 250GB Playstation 3 Sorta Confirmed For British Release Next Week, ?300
The website backbone behind publications such as gamesTM, NowGamer, reckon they have had an anonymous tip-off regarding the release of the rumoured 250GB Playstation 3 hardware bundles
In a move to once again confuse the average consumer, the "high-end" 250GB Playstation 3 will likely launch bundled with either Need For Speed Shift or FIFA...
News Gran Turismo 5, The Ferrari 458 Italia & Drum 'n' Bass Music = Heaven
We wanted to spend the entirety of this article talking about what a brilliant rendering this Ferrari 458 Italia trailer contains
We wanted to spend the entirety of this article talking about the amazing lighting the Gran Turismo 5 engine can produce. We wanted to talk about a lot of things. As it happens, we're just going to recommend you skip to...
News Kratos Toy Looks Really, Really Angry But Also Sorta Cute & Cuddly
Would you cuddle a man who rips the eyes out of big cyclops monster things? No? Well, we wouldn't either, but when presented like this NECA toy, Kratos looks kinda cute
Aside from all the frowning and blood splattered torso. Do you see where we're coming from though, valued reader? This is a hand crafted Kratos Mighty Mugg figure and it comes with...
News PixelJunk Launch Charm Offensive On TGS 09 With A Lovely New Website Arm
Tokyo Game Show is coming
And Q-Games' PixelJunk arm have stuff to show. PixelJunk Shooter and PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe are all set to make an appearance at this week's games convention in Japan. If you're heading to the event, know that anybody who stops by the booth to play a PixelJunk game will receive a themed fan. Seriously! You can check out...
News Playstation 3 Continues To Sell Big In Japan
The Playstation 3 has been selling big in Japan ever since the PS3 Slim dropped
This week's sales were down on their absolute domination, but they were still, on the whole, pretty bloody high with over 55,000 units sold. A pretty big deal. The Final Fantasy XIII week is going to be the most interesting week for Sony. We're not entirely sure what to...
News PixelJunk Shooter Heading To The Playstation 3 This December In Japan
Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert has updates on the progress of PixelJunk Shooter on the Playstation 3
Apparently the release date for the game is slated for December in Japan. So now you know.
News Duderz, It's A Mercedes SLS AMG In Gran Turismo 5
Mercedes Benz want you all to know -- they are the highlight of Gran Turismo 5's Tokyo Game Show, erm, showing
The vehicle will be on display during TGS alongside the game's release date " latest information on Gran Turismo 5". We know nothing about cars y'all, but we gotta admit, this one looks pretty darn smexy.
News Salut 250GB European Playstation 3 Bundles Which Are So Totally Going To Happen
Joystiq have received some curious photos of a Norwegian GameStop's computer database
They include the listing of five (oui, five!) Playstation 3 250GB bundles. The bundles listed on the computer point towards Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time, Assassin's Creed II, Fifa 10, Need For Speed Shift and, of course, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves...
News That Saying Again: Modnation Racers Will Push The Playstation 3 To Its Max
Modnation Racers may be hovering under many peoples radar but it's still firmly honed in on ours
We can't wait to get building our own tracks with the game's intuitive level editor. In an interview with PS3Center.net, Modnation Racers' producer Dan Sochan said of the Playstation 3, "it's a great system to develop for, [with Modnation Racers]...
News Microsoft "Shape Up Really Well" Against Sony This Winter
In an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg reckons the XBOX 360's software line-up this Winter "shape up really well" next to the Playstation 3
In the interview, Eurogamer drop the names of a fair few Playstation 3 titles set to drop over the next 6-8 months, including Uncharted 2, God of War III, Eye Pet, Heavy Rain, ModNation...
News Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Under The Tech Hammer
Eurogamer's Digital Foundry is back again to pick apart every minute graphical detail of Naughty Dog's upcoming masterpiece Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
In their report they detail the improvements made in the near-Gold product when compared to the earlier multiplayer beta. Frame-rates, motion blur, v-sync and aliasing are all details touched upon by...
News Fat Princess On PSP Adds A Fistful Of Content (And Cake)
Despite Fat Princess: Fistful Of Cake - the PSP repackaging of Sony's PSN darling - looking just like its Playstation 3 counterpart, "it'll feature 50 percent more content" according to those working on the title
So what's new? New modes to begin with — including one such mode where the class switching hat generators are busted from the off;...
News Sony Recreate E3 Demo In Less Nerve-Racking Circumstances
Doctor Richard Marks, Sony's in-house genius behind the Eye Toy and Playstation Motion Controller, has took the time to run through pretty much the entire E3 motion control demo in the comfort of Sony's R&D offices
I.e., with less nervousness. The demo goes through pretty much all that we saw at E3, with a few things that were missed out...
News The BBC Defend Shoddy Playstation 3 Watchdog Report
The BBC's Watchdog report on the Playstation 3's rarely mentioned YLOD hardware "defect" (read: not really a defect at all - Ed) was sloppy at the very best
The report lacked cohesion and facts, serving only as a slanderous piece of uninformed journalism. But the BBC have rushed to the defence of their report.More than 150 Watchdog viewers have...
News Hype Machine: First Online Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Review
"Since we briefly played Uncharted 2 at Gamescom in Cologne recently and were part of the multiplayer Beta, we expected it to be pretty good, butnot this good
" The words of GamesRadar as they become one of the first online publications to review Naughty Dog's upcoming Playstation 3 blockbuster. In that review they describe Uncharted 2 as...
Everyone's not-so favourite online video games retailer, ShopTo, want you to know that they think the PSPGo is a dead format before it launches; "As a format it is almost dead before it has arrived," the ShopTo boss told Eurogamer
Of course the price ($250, £229.99) is a talking point, but it seems most retailers are more concerned with the lack of...
News BBC Watchdog Report Lacks Credibility, Consumers Can Rest Easy
Despite the greatest of attempts by the BBC to damn the Playstation 3's hardware reliability on their flagship consumer electronics show Watchdog, evidence fell short
The BBC were unable to repute Sony's claims that the Playstation 3's failure rate was any higher than one percent, with host Anne Robinson merely able to claim that...
News The Quality Of Uncharted 2's Multiplayer Has Even Surprised Naughty Dog Themselves
The Uncharted franchise is synonymous with its single player campaign
Thus it's been surprising to see many of Uncharted 2: Among Thieve's plaudits come from it's extremely fleshed out multiplayer campaign. That's something that's even surprised Naughty Dog."We took the core move set of Nathan Drake, gave the player the ability to wear the...
News Meet Dizzee Rascal In Playstation Home Next Week
British rap sensation Dizzee Rascal will be on hand to launch the new Singstar Playstation Home space next week
On September 24th at 8PM (UK time) players will be able to chill with Dizzee himself, as well as receiving goodies and checking out an exclusive set of songs off Dizzee's new album. We'll be there to report on, what could be, a pretty...
News Sony Speed Up QA Approval Service Of PSP Minis By Removing Network Support
Let's get this out of the way
Sony have confirmed that PSP Minis will not include network or online features. With that out of the way, let's look at the reasoning behind the decision. Current PSP titles take two weeks to be approved for the Playstation Store. By contrast, Minis will be approved in just three to five days. Releases can be...
News SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 Hits The PSP This November In North America
SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 is on the horizon for Playstation Portable shooting fans
The game comes with a host of pre-order related bonuses (as detailed on the Playstation Blog) should you wish to place your committment to the product in stores or order it within the first 30 days of release on the PSN. We'll have a hands-on with the game next week.
News BBC To Air Damning Playstation 3 Report, Sony Respond With "At Your Peril" Document
The BBC's consumer show Watchdog is to tonight air a damning report on the little known Playstation hardware problem, the "Yellow Light Of Death"
The system error, which has caused some instances of hardware failure in early 60GB Playstation 3s, is the subject of tonight's episode on the BBC. In a seemingly furious response, Sony have documented an...
So apparently those rumours of a The Beatles: Rock Band: Singstar edition weren't all that false
Look at the picture! It's The Beatles: Rock Band - with Singstar mics. A good idea really. The odd coupling is available later this month.
News The Last Guardian Named To Appeal To The West, Studio Japan Boss Urges Japan To Think Western
The VP of Sony's Japan Studio, Yasuhide Kobayashi, has urged Japanese developers to think Western
The man leading the ambitious The Last Guardian project told game makers at the DICE Asia summit to go Western or die.There are so many issues we have to solve, and the biggest challenge is that the market in Japan is shrinking they key is gaining...
News Sony Trademark The Name "TV Superstars"
TV Superstars
It sounds sorta Buzz!-esque right? But given the strength of the Buzz! brand, if this latest trademark filed by Sony had anything at all to do with Buzz!, wouldn't they just call it Buzz! TV Superstars? Hmm. Food for thought. Details from Siliconera suggest TV Superstars is an online title. Could this be Sony's answer to Microsoft's...
News Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Will Feature Twitter Support
Remember when everyone thought Uncharted 2: Among Thieve's online component would be a tacked on after-thought? Yeah? Us too
Apparently Naughty Dog want to put us all to shame. With solid ranking, stat tracking, match making and gameplay already in place, they have just one more trick up their sleeve. Twitter. As demonstrated on Jeff Rubenstein's...
News Playstation Motion Controller May Just Open The Door To Wii Ports
Playstation's Motion Controllers work similarly to Nintendo's Wii
We've always wondered what kind of doors this opens up for developers, given the practical similarity between the devices. Capcom producer Jun Takeuchi reckons it opens up one door in particular. Speaking with 1Up he said, "Speaking to other developers in Japan, I've heard a few...
News 250GB Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Themed Playstation 3 Bundle On The Horizon
Those sneaky spies over at Engadget have discovered a tasty morsel of information
Namely a Playstation 3 (Slim) bundle including Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and a beefed up 250GB hard-drive. Ooooh. Sony America are completely denying the bundle, but that doesn't rule out the new box in Europe, particularly the UK where Uncharted 2, Assassin's Creed...
