This week on the PlayStation Store, there is lots of new content available for download. Both the US and European Stores have price promotions on many titles. Europe has also received five new playable demos and the US has two. The October Episode of Qore is now available to download on the US Store. As for game add-on content, the Watchmen LittleBigPlanet costumes are out and new Fallout 3 content.
The October Episode of Qore features Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, EyePet, Blur and Borderlands. Veronica Belmont visits Insomniac Games to check out the latest R&C title while Audrey Cleo meets her new virtual pal and demonstrates how PS3 technology could change the way we interact with games in the future.
If you live in the UK and are using PlayTV to watch and record you TV shows, you will need to re-scan your channels tomorrow. On the 30th Sept you will need to re-scan your channels to make sure you can still receive all the digital channels through your PlayTV box. Simply go to ‘Settings’ choose ‘Set-up’ then ‘Channel-scan’ and your done. If you own a freeview TV, you will also need to re-tune your TV.
If you don’t already know, Naughty Dog’s new title Uncharted 2: Among Thieves supports the micro-blogging network Twitter. Completing chapters, and playing multiplayer games posts ‘tweets’ to your Twitter account, allow your friends to follow your activity within the game. Some reviewers have had early access to the game and selected the option to update their Twitter accounts as they completed each chapter of the game. This has resulted in some Twitter feeds being updated multiple times an hour.
Watchmen fans get ready! This Thursday MediaMolecule is adding four Watchmen costumes to the PlayStation Store for LittleBigPlanet. The costume pack will let you dress up as one of four Watchmen characters: The Nite Owl II, Ozymandias, Rorschach, and The Silk Spectre II. Unfortunately, there is no Dr. Manhattan, but you can always remove all the clothes of Sackboy and use the blue material…
Earlier this week, we reported that LittleBigPlanet will be getting motion controller support via a patch when the motion controller is available next year. During the TGS presentation, Sony showed off exactly how the motion controller will be used and we have included the video for you below. The four minute demo shows two players playing the game; one using the DualShock 3 controller to mode Sackboy around and the other using the motion controller to move objects around.
This week on the US Video Store, you can get nostalgic for the 1980s (and for summer!) when you rent Adventureland, a sweet coming-of-age story centered around a recent college grad who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park (trailer below). As for this week’s top movie downloads, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is on top followed by Next Day Air and Observe and Report.
PlayStation Home v1.30 was said to be released this month, but it’s been delayed for the time being. The update, which includes Universal Game Launching and functionality to allow you to rent items or purchase ‘consumable’, has been delayed according to Home Manager CydoniaX. The update is currently in the last stages of QA and is expected to be released “in the very near future.”
Its looks like the next PlayStation 3 firmware update will come with a much-requested feature: cross-game voice chat. A VG247 source claims that he got word from another source whom they “can’t name” on the said cross-title voice chat in PS3 play, and the word is good. Although Sony suggested that no major features will be added this year, Firmware 3.10 is expected to be released some time in October.
This week on the PlayStation Store, the Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demo is available to download from both the European and US PlayStation Stores. There are also four other game demos available on the US store. New game add-on content this week includes Fallout 3: Broken Steel Pack, Batman: Arkham Asylum Prey In The Darkness Map Pack, and new tracks for Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
