Posted: April 26th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Grand Theft Auto IV, RSX 'Reality Synthesizer', Street Fighter IV | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
| “Sony has begun using a 40nm RSX GPU in place of the previous 65nm chip on its PlayStation 3, reportedly allowing the company to finally turn a buck. When the console first launched in 2006, Sony was losing between $241 and $307 per unit. It wasn’t…” |
| “Stakeholders won’t say, but it looks like it. Rockstar has told Eurogamer it cannot comment on how long the Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content was exclusive to Xbox 360, although in hindsight…” |
| “Says website that does deals on PS3. Most people buy a PS3 second-hand according to a new study by a website that, er, offers deals on PS3s. UK…” |
| “Monster Hunter Tri makes decent start. Wii game Monster Hunter Tri has debuted fifth in the UK all-formats chart. Capcom’s brilliant co-op…” |
| “Play “way before” everybody else. THQ is offering early UFC Undisputed 2010 demo access to anybody who signs up to the UFC Undisputed website. More…” |
| “Video Games | Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes | Captivate 10: Heroic Action Interview XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii Direct link here” |
Posted: April 13th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Dynasty Warriors 6, Fight Night Round 4, Grand Theft Auto IV, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Overlord II, PlayStation Network, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Resident Evil, Tekken 6, The Beatles: Rock Band | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
| “# clips When Insomniac founder and CEO Ted Price gets his hands on the creation tools in PlayStation 3 exclusive ModNation Racers, Ratchet and Clank get lucky. Aw yeah. More »” |
| “# reversal Using 3D Dot Game Heroes’s built-in character editor, Game Informer’s Tim Turi takes the Zelda “homage” full-circle. More »” |
| “# psn We know all three current-generation home video game consoles can connect to the internet, but which one is connected to the internet the most ? A new study claims to have the answer. …” |
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“About two weeks back I happened to receive a free Netflix disc for the Nintendo Wii that came with a perk of a free month of service from Nintendo themselves. I already had a Netflix account so the free month of service actually was pretty cool perk….” |
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“Leave it to the trigger-happy video games media to take generic quotes from an industry master and turn them into a story. Case in point, this happened over the weekend: Miyamoto: “My best is yet to come” Nintendo general manager wants…” |
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“Just a friendly reminder that Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City , the stand-alone pack of Grand Theft Auto IV DLC is now available for PC and PS3 . As DLC goes, it’s not bad. One word of caution for my PC gaming friends: it…” |
| “Rating: 1 Posted By: ezwrighter Views: 401 Replies: 3 All of the following have free shipping: GameFly Store – Xbox 360 Prototype $9.99 Left 4 Dead 2 $19.99 NCAA Football 10 $19.99 Brutal Legend $9.99 Rock Band Country Track Pack $9.99…” |
Posted: March 18th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Grand Theft Auto IV, PixelJunk, PixelJunk Eden, PlayStation Network | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
| “Video Games | The Grinder | GDC 10: Features and Story Walkthrough XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii Direct link here” |
| “Q-Games is teaming up with Japanese artist Baiyon once again for another PSN collaboration. Baiyon, who created the visuals and sound for PixelJunk Eden and Encore , is directing an interactive music visualizer for the PS3, to be distributed…” |
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“As the first PixelJunk game from Q-Games, Racers was largely misunderstood by most. Now, after the success of Monsters , Eden and Shooter , Q-Games is ready to go back to its first concept and give it a second chance. PixelJunk…” |
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“If you’ve waited this long for Episodes from Liberty City , another two weeks shouldn’t hurt, right? Rockstar Games has pushed back the PS3 and PC releases of the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto IV expansions by two weeks due to “a request by Sony…” |
| “Been holding out for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on PC or PlayStation 3? You’re going to have to wait just a bit longer. Developer Rockstar Games sent word today that the newly multiplatform episodes won’t be making their…” |
| “Nobody does episodic games like Telltale. Sure other companies might call the games they put out episodes, but Penny Arcade Adventures still hasn’t gotten to its third chapter, and Half-Life ? We’ve given up on that ghost a long time ago. But…” |
Posted: March 18th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Grand Theft Auto IV, PlayStation Network | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
| “Sony asks for last-minute changes. Rockstar has announced that The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony have been delayed on PC and PS3 due after Sony asked for some changes. …” |
Posted: March 18th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Grand Theft Auto IV, PlayStation Network | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
| “# zipperinteractive The first batch of downloadable goodies for owners of the PlayStation 3 massively multiplayer shooter MAG will arrive next week, according to Zipper Interactive, bringing fresh…” |
| “# playstationnetwork Another week, another 1GB worth of PlayStation 3 hard drive space eaten by The Tester, the PlayStation Network’s first reality show in which 11 hopefuls fight for a spot to play…” |
| “# delayofgame Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City for the PlayStation and PC—and their individual downloadable episodes—won’t be making their previously scheduled release dates ….” |
| “# playstationnetwork While we were at the Game Developers Conference, PlayStation Network reality show The Tester carried on as normal, meaning we didn’t get a chance to liveblog the fourth episode…” |
Posted: March 18th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Final Fantasy, God of War III, Grand Theft Auto IV | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
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“GameStop , the worlds biggest video game retailer, managed to grow in its fourth fiscal quarter thanks to sales of used games and new store openings. Even in the age of digital distribution from rivals such as OnLive , GameStop plans on opening 400…” |
| “A portion of an IndustryGamers interview with Sony Worldwide Studios VP Scott Rohde… IG : From what the third parties have been saying over the past few months, and from what I’ve seen here today, the experiences are very reminiscent…” |
| “Rating: 2 Posted By: surferr Views: 163 Replies: 1 As the title states, get a Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for you PS2/PS3 owners who have Guitar Hero and with Band Hero Games. This is being offered by Yugster .com as a daily offer,…” |
| “When Sony unveiled its PlayStation Move (nee Arc ) controller at the GDC last week , it came along with some impressive promises : it would only cost developers 2MB of system memory (out of 256MB on offer) and it would respond to user inputs…” |
Posted: March 4th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Battlefield: Bad Company, BioShock, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy VIII, God of War III, Grand Theft Auto IV, Just Cause 2, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Store, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 5, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
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“Sony’s PlayStation Portable is still the bestselling (and worst selling) piece of hardware in Japan, moving another 37,000 PSPs of standard variety and nearly another 1300 of the “go” variety. The PSP secured the top spot on the hardware chart once…” |
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“Tough guy simulator Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou is Japan’s bestselling video game, the latest entry in the series that has made its way stateside under the name Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble. It dethrones Capcom’s Biohazard 5 re-release this week. …” |
| “This week’s North American PlayStation Store update is a good week to both familiarize yourself with Avalanche Studios’ Just Cause 2, one of three new demos, and to catch up on previous PlayStation Network releases. While the PlayStation 3…” |
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“We here at Kotaku have been underwhelmed by forthcoming Cavia-made video game Nier Gestalt. We have played it and been bewildered . We have questioned the game’s reason for being . So, uh, last time I saw it, I liked it. Maybe we got this Nier…” |
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“Thank god it’s Thursday, when new episodes of the PlayStation Network’s only reality show, The Tester, brings us new trials, fresh tears and one less contestant vying for a QA position at Sony. Oh! It also brings our weekly liveblog. Don’t worry,…” |
| “To: Anyone! From: Totilo Re: But Do I Hate Japan? We’ve got a guy here with an upset stomach. It’s not pretty. The man is in his 30s, I think. Black hair. About shoulder length. He says he’s been feeling ill since last night. Hasn’t been…” |
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“What is considered out of bounds for the God of War series? It’s not violence, as players will decapitate and eviscerate enemies with gory, glorious detail. It’s not sex, either, as God of War III continues the series’ naughty mini-game tradition….” |
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“Sony’s premier tactical shooter series is back in the hands of Zipper Interactive and ready to redeploy this fall with SOCOM 4. Featuring 32-player multiplayer, what does SOCOM 4 mean for the future of Zipper Interactive’s MAG? A militant…” |
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“In January, Harmonix launched the tools needed for artists to publish their songs on the Rock Band Network . Today, the Rock Band Network Store opens to the public, with more than 100 new songs for fans to purchase and play. The Rock Band Network…” |
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“Electronic Arts today announced a deal with the developers of Shank and Deathspank to bring the downloadable games to multiple platforms. The publishing deals are part of agreements that Klei and Hothead Games recently signed with EA Partners….” |
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“On March 4, 2000, Sony unleashed the successor to their wildly successful PlayStation on an unsuspecting world. Ten years later I’ve still got PlayStation 2 games on preorder. And to think I didn’t even care until 2002. In 1999, I was still new to…” |
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“To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Hump Day Before the talk about hate… Do you know why there was no heavy rain today? No, I’m not talking about the PS3 game…nor about where you are per se. Sorry! When I woke up this morning, I found…” |
Posted: February 14th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XIII, Grand Theft Auto IV | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
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“We’d already heard that the PS3 wouldn’t need anything more than a simple firmware update to make the jump to 3D, and it looks like we now have the first evidence of that very firmware update. It’s obviously not ready for public consumption just yet,…” |
| “That Final Fantasy sponsorship of the NBA All-Star weekend came with some strings attached, it seems; namely, that there’d be ads running depicting the game as available on the Xbox 360, with nary a PS3 logo in sight. Reader Christian points us…” |
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“This week sees the return of Aliens vs. Predator 10 years later, back to the PC and also on Xbox 360 and PS3. Other headliners include another round of SOCOM on the PSP, plus Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce.This week’s count: six for PC and DS, five…” |
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“According to this latest trailer from Rebellion and Sega, you’ll also jam a wrench down an alien’s throat. Here’s two minutes-plus of PS3 multiplayer from a Predator’s often-cloaked point of view, and trust me, it is age-gated for a reason. Aliens…” |
Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Grand Theft Auto IV | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
| “Rockstar has announced that the episodic content that’s been released for GTA IV will finally see a PC and PS3 release.” |
Posted: January 31st, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Dynasty Warriors 6, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XIII, Grand Theft Auto IV, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Resident Evil, Tekken 6, Valkyria Chronicles, Winning Eleven | No Comments »
PlayStation 3 news from around the web:
| “01. / 02. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) – 110.918 / 3.117.087 (-20%) 02. / 00. [PSP] Valkyria Chronicles 2 (Sega) – 94.444 / NEW 03. / 00. [PSP] Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s Portable: The Battle of Aces (Namco Bandai) – 76.088 /…” |
