So, enjoying your new PS3 firmware 2.5 update? Liking the Flash 9 support? Looking forward to using both in conjunction with LittleBigPlanet to generate some user-created content, oh, about a week from now? Well, there’s something you ought to know: effective two days ago, anything you make or do on PlayStation Network belongs [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 17, 2008
Wow, that was fast. In response to the religious content-based delay of LittleBigPlanet, Sony has issued their recall, but has also issued a statement on the official PlayStation.Blog. Seems like Sony’s working nice and quick to print out those new copies and get them back into stores: “We will begin shipping LittleBigPlanet to retail in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 17, 2008
I’m actually stunned. Of all the things one hopes will never afflict a game — unforeseen bugs, broken online functions, short launch supplies — I don’t think anybody could have seen this coming. LittleBigPlanet, Sony’s user-content playground, the game that’s expected to be one of the hot PS3 exclusives the company needs, the game everybody [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Yesterday, we brought you news that after the series finished dominating slots #1, 2 and 4 on the Japanese PSP all-time sales chart, Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 2G would be coming to the United States. We neglected to mention which game was in slot #5 — Phantasy Star Portable. Released in Japan on July 31st and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Remember, two days ago, when we told you about Sony’s new firmware upgrades for the PS3 and PSP, and we said they were scheduled for release “later this month?” Well, two days counts as “later,” right? Spotted over at Joystiq, Sony has gone ahead and released both firmware upgrades; they’re available for download and installation [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Your days of lonely train commutes are officially over — at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show, Capcom confirmed that Japan’s smash hit Monster Hunter Portable 2G is coming to the U.S. and Europe in Spring 2009. Dubbed Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, the PSP title will feature a staggering 500 hours of gameplay, 400 missions, 1500 weapons, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 13, 2008
The Xbox 360 isn’t the only console that can be changed through the magic of software. Today, via press release and a post on the official PlayStation.Blog, Sony has offered up a preview of the new features to be included in firmware upgrades to both the PS3 and the PSP. Gamers can expect improved trophy [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 10, 2008
In the sky, a sunlit woman. A beating heart of cloud. In the shadows, a drop of pearlescent liquid surrounded by flowing machinery arms. A black smoke monster made from a hundred thousand ephemeral earwigs. A stuffed teddy bear, a giant stone dog, a curious cat, a robot squid and ultimately, a statue of a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
Word out of Japan is the Open Beta for PlayStation Home is likely still on track for a mid-November release. More accurately, SCEJ has today issued a press release that says that the service will arrive “within this calendar year,” and that the company will “start the final stage of a large-scale closed beta test [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 9, 2008
Just over a month ago, we brought you the news that in Japan, the PlayStation Portable was receiving some very desirable new online functionality, in the form of a direct PSP store for digital downloads, and an infrastructure mode to allow formerly adhoc-only PSP titles to be played over the internet. While we still haven’t [...]
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