PS3 News
PS2 in 2008: A year in review
2008 will probably be the last year we’ll see anything remarkable happen on the PS2 ever again. As the year concludes, we’re taking these last few days to look back and reflect upon the titles that have come out for this veteran console — a system which has outlived its contemporaries long after they’ve retired. [...]
PlayStation Network experiencing Trophy issues
Congrats! You unlocked a Trophy! Time to sync it up with … Oh, wait. Looks like there’s a bug in the PlayStation Network right now, preventing users from syncing their Trophy data with the servers. You won’t be able to compare Trophies with friends, with a frustrating error message (80022D27) popping up at every attempt.
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Pre-order Killzone 2, get free ISA/Helghast costumes for Home
There’s no better way to prove you’re a Killzone 2 fanboy than to don a Killzone costume in PlayStation Home. amazon.com is offering a unique promo for those that pre-order the upcoming FPS on their site. According to the online retailer, players will receive “costume pieces for your head, torso, legs, hands and feet; you [...]
Worldwide PS3 releases for the week of December 28th
What exactly were you expecting? It’s new year’s week, which means no games. Are you really done playing through all the great games that came out over the last four months? Always one to buck the trend, Europe has a game coming out that we’ve never heard of, so if you’re really desperate that might [...]
Blu-ray releases for the week of December 28th
Nothing too exciting in terms of Blu-ray releases this week, but Firefly fans will be extremely glad to see Serenity make its debut in the HD format of our choice:
Oh, you mean you didn’t get enough of Matthew McConaughey’s hair plugs and shirtless torso in the tabloids and Fool’s Gold? Then we highly recommend Surfer, [...]
PS3 costs 53% less to make now than at launch
It’s well known that Sony’s latest console is a powerful, expensive piece of tech. When Sony launched the PS3, it lost over $200 on every unit sold — in spite of its $600 price point. However, over time Sony has been able to reduce the costs of manufacturing the system, by removing PS2 compatibility and [...]
Home items selling like hotcakes
We’re not sure why, but it seems that quite a few of you out there are buying Home pay-for content. In an interview with Silicon Alley Insider, Susan Panico (Senior Director of the PlayStation Network) says that content in the social networking service is selling tremendously. In fact, in the first four days of the [...]
American PSN releases for December 23rd
The waiting’s finally over. Today’s biggest release is easily the LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid downloadable content, but there’s plenty of other stuff to take a look at today. Not least of which is Lumines Supernova. There’s also a load of the normal music-based DLC, plus some unexpected content for Disgaea 3. As [...]
European PSN releases for December 24th
Merry Christmas from SCEE. Today’s update brings three full games, three demos, the normal extreme amounts of music-based DLC and, of course, the LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid pack. There are also a bunch of price drops on some excellent PSN games (though, is it just us or has WipEout HD always been that price..?). Savage [...]
Penny Arcade: Episode 2 features game-ending glitch, patch coming next year
If you planned on playing Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 2 this holiday break, you may want to wait. Many users are reporting a gltich which renders their save files completely useless. Selecting a corrupted save file will freeze gamers on a permanent “Loading” screen.
The problem has since been identified, and will be patched soon. However, [...]
