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Storm Warning


Posted on September 14, 2008

Review Dated: Sunday 14 September 2008
System: PLAYSTATION®3
Title: “MotorStorm® Pacific Rift Private Beta” / “MotorStorm® Pacific Rift Demo”
Published by: [...]

2.40… Firmwhere?


Posted on July 4, 2008

2.40… Firmwhere?
“PS3UPDAT.PUP” (133,507Kb) withdrawn due to installation issues.
Wednesday 2 July 2008… the day when Sony’s console caught up & surpassed the functionality offered by the comparable Microsoft platform… but perhaps not as intended.
As reported on the ’semi-official’ non-US Blog site for the PlayStation 3, ThreeSpeech.com, yesterday at 5:41pm (as the clock is [...]

Tomonobu Itagaki Resigns From Tecmo


Posted on June 3, 2008

Two days before the latest title in the Ninja Gaiden franchise, Ninja Gaiden II for the Microsoft Xbox 360 is released, the head of the Team Ninja development team at the Japanese video game Company Tecmo Limited (formerly Tehkan Limited), Tomonobu Itagaki, has resigned & is suing his former employer.

Virtually Physical


Posted on May 16, 2008

With the advent of downloadable gaming content (via the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, and Nintendo’s WiiWare) at a relatively inexpensive cost, are we now seeing the beginning of the end of physical disc based products?
Unless a video games console was specifically purchased to play just one title unavailable on any other dedicated games machine (for [...]

Wii wish you a merry Christmas


Posted on October 11, 2007

Hi again,
So, how is your Christmas shopping going to date? What? You have not started yet? You leave all your shopping until after you come out of the pub at 4pm on Christmas Eve to swagger down Oxford Street (or your local main retail metropolis of choice) handing over this year’s bonus [...]

Cut-price PS3 in the UK?


Posted on September 26, 2007

If you are preparing to hand over your hard-earned (more than) disposable income in the run-up to Christmas, and you fancy a big black shiny dust magnet of a PS3 for your gaming needs, then please watch the press in the coming days/weeks as rumours are rife (online, and in various gaming magazines), that Sony [...]

The US & the UK… what’s in Store?


Posted on September 21, 2007

Hi,
Last night (well, early this morning), I created a new user (main account) on my UK PS3, and went through the registration process as a US owner, so I now have access to both the UK & US PLAYSTATION Store content.
When I finally got to the US Store, I found a wealth of Playable Demo [...]