You may recall an article we wrote earlier this month announcing that ModNations Racers will be available on the PSP, alongside the PS3 versions. If you sign up to the ModNation Racers website before March 2nd 2010 you can score yourself some exclusive XMB themes for your PSP next month.
Today, the Mall in PlayStation Home will be updated with lots of new content. In addition, lots of existing items will go on sale in a the brand new Exclusives store. Uncharted fans can pick up costumes for Nathan Drake, Sully, Chloe Frazier, Elena Fisher, and Tetram in addition to treasure for your personal space.
Heavy Rain is officially out in North America and is rolling out across Europe throughout the week, but not all is well with the highly anticipated title. Up on booting the game for the first time players are prompted to download a 230MB patch which appears to be causing issues for some. The purpose of the patch is currently unknown as no official changelog was released.
Not only does God of War III have no hard drive installation, a tweet from Christer Ericson, the Director of Technology at Sony Santa Monica Studio, also states that the game has “seamless loading” and over 10 hours of “play uninterrupted by load screens.” This is an amazing feat considering that all the data will be loaded from the disc, which will contain over 35GB of game data.
The latest Borderlands DLC, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, hits the PlayStation Store tomorrow and along with it a new patch will also be released on all platforms. The patch fixes a number of issues in the game and also re-balances some of the game elements. The changelog of the update can be found below.
At the Interactive Achievement Awards last week, Naughty Dog snapped up more awards for their amazing title Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The title won ten awards including Overall Game of the Year. The AIAS Awards, like the Academy Award for movies, is chosen and voted by the professional game developer community.
It’s been a while since we last updated our XMB Wallpaper section on the website. Today, we’ve added over 180 new Game Wallpapers to our collection, bringing our collection of gaming wallpapers to just over 650. We’ve added lots of new wallpapers for some of the latest games including Assassin’s Creed II, Final Fantasy XIII and more.
Get ready to cause more havoc in Shanghai with Salem & Rios in Army of Two: The 40th Day. The pack, titled Chapters of Deceit, will feature two new co-op campaign maps in which players stumble upon information that could “lead to ending the invasion by Jonah and his 40th Day Initiative army,” says EA.
The PSPgo hasn’t had much success since it was launched last October and Sony admits the lack of success too. While the PSPgo is smaller and faster than the older PSP models and includes 16GB of internal flash storage, the models hasn’t sold well, mainly due to the high retail price. “I think the higher price point didn’t help matters,” says Rob Dyer, Sony’s Senior Vice President of Publisher Relations.
According to new paperwork filed with the FCC, Sony is looking to launch two new PS3 slim models. The new models, CECH-2101A and CECH-2101B, filed by Sony’s pseudonym company Sand Dollar Enterprise, has similar components to the existing slim model including the same Bluetooth and Wifi components.
