Next week the PlayStation Network will be going offline for some scheduled maintenance, specifically on July 28th and 29th. The PSN will be inaccessible between 5:00AM BST and 8:30AM BST on Tuesday, 28th July and between 5:00AM BST and 9:00AM BST on Wednesday, 29th July. During the maintenance window you will be unable to sign-in, and if you are already signed-in during this period you might get randomly signed-out.
It’s a big update to the PlayStation Store this week with the release of WipEout Fury expansion pack and the new Killzone 2 Napalm & Cordite map pack. Both packs are available to download from the European and US stores. The US Store has some new PSOne classics available as well as a selection of premium XMB themes. New downloadable games include Shatter, available from both stores, and Crystal Defenders, available only on the Euro store.
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If you haven’t picked up the game yet, a new version of LittleBigPlanet will be coming out soon. Nick Robinson, Senior Product Manager for SCEE, over at the PlayStation.Blog recommends you wait until August 18th for a special announcement.
The WipEout HD expansion pack, Fury, will be available to download after tomorrows PlayStation Store update. To prepare the game for the new features, a patch for the game is now available to download. The patch is 109MB in size and include a redesigned interface, new community functionality and some changes to the single and multiplayer game modes.
Guerilla Games have confirmed today that they will release patch v1.29 on July 23 at 9:00 AM GMT to fix certain issues caused by the previous patch (v1.28). Gamers have reported “crashes, graphical glitches and general progression issues” after installing patch v1.28. The new patch will fix all these issues.
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Once again, rumors of the PS3 Slim are coming in thick and fast. This time, the rumors suggest the PS3 Slim will be released in August, and will come bundled with Madden NFL 2010. The Madden NFL bundle is said to launch on August 14th 2009, which is a few days ahead of Sony’s Press Conference at GamesCom. The rumors are from the latest 1UP podcast (transcript below).
Battlefield 1943 is an online multiplayer World War II first-person shooter video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network via digital download only. Battlefield 1943 has players playing as either the United States Marine Corps (USMC) or the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) with up to 24 players on three classic Battlefield maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima. This PSN title only has 12 unlockable trophies, with only one gold trophy.
We’re not sure whether this is real or not, but in a podcast released late last month IGN accidentally reveal they have a PS3 Slim in the office. If this is real, it isn’t the first time something like this has leaked. Rumors of the PS3 Slim have been circulating around for quite some time now, starting with supposedly leaked photos to a recent video of the PS3 Slim in the Philippines. Around 45 minutes and 30 seconds into the Podcast you will notice the quick chatter about the rumors and the confirmation of having one in the office.
Zico Liu, programmer on WipEout HD, and also from the “Beat Zico” trophy has revealed some details about the upcoming WipEout HD Fury expansion pack. The Fury expansion pack will be available from the PlayStation Store on Thursday 23rd July (same day as the new Killzone 2 expansion pack). The pack will be priced at £7.99 / €9.99 and will provide three new race types: Eliminator, Zone Battle and Detonator; 12 new tracks, 13 new ships, 6 new music tracks, a redesigned menu system, a new campaign to complete as well a host of new trophies to win.
