Retailer Amazon has offered a partial refund to a European PS3 owner following his complaint about the removal of the console’s OtherOS feature. Firmware 3.21 removed the ability to install other Operating Systems (such as Yellow Dog Linux) on the PlayStation 3, and such violated the European Law Directive 1999/44/EC. The partial refund was made to the customer without them having to return the console.
The Official PlayStation Magazine recently revealed that Red Dead Redemption may have the “greatest multiplayer lobby in the history of video games.” Apparently the lobby will be the actual wild west setting from the game. The lobby looks like a “wild west MMORPG” where gamers can walk around and talk with NPCs and live gamers. RockStar have now released a trailer of the Multiplayer mode in action – check it out below.
Warner Bros. has officially announced the third iteration to the F.E.A.R franchise also known as F.3.A.R. The horror first-person shooter will be coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC in Autumn 2010. Alma returns in F.E.A.R. 3 but this time her sons Point Man and Paxton Fettel introduce divergent co-op, giving players distinctly different abilities affecting their own play as well as the experience of their co-op partner.
SingStar will soon be getting a big update, enabling online multiplayer for the first time, allowing players to take part in Online Battles against. When competing in an Online Battle, you’ll send an invite to one of your PSN friends, match songs (you both need to own a song to play it) – pick-up the mic and commence singing.
This week on the PlayStation Store, Europe has received a huge update with lots of special offers, game add-on content and the first episode of FirstPlay. The final three episodes of Blue Toad Murder Files is now available for purchase in Europe and you can also download the 2010 FIFA World Cup demo from both the US and European Stores. Finally, the last episode for The Tester is also available for download from the US store.
This week on the PlayStation Store, not a lot of new content is available. Two new games are available to download in Europe and one new minis title is also available. New game add-on content is available to download for The Eye of Judgement Legends and a free LittleBigPlanet theme is available too. The US has a large selection of videos, and only one new downloadable title and minis title too.
The Flower soundtrack, originally scheduled to hit the PlayStation Store this week has been delayed due to “technical difficulties.” The soundtrack was pulled from the European PlayStation Store at the last minute after failing the Quality Assurance tests from Sony, and will now be released at a later date.
Last month there was rumor going around that the PlayStation Store update day for Europe would soon be changing. The rumor has now been confirmed by Mike Kebby on the PlayStation.Blog. The usual Thursday updates will continue until the end of this month, and from May they will be moving to Wednesdays.
This week on the PSP Comic Store the first set of Manga comics hit the store. Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D Vol 1 is now available to download. You can also find Zombies Vs Robots with the first issue of a 4 part series: Aventure and Markosia’s Ritual. Finally we see the return of the extremely popular Atomic Robo from Red 5 and more Amazing Spider-Man from Marvel.
The first quarter had a number of great titles including God of War III, Heavy Rain, Final Fantasy XIII, Bayonetta and more. However, the next three months also have a number of great titles coming out. If you are a little strapped for cash from last month, you will have to start saving up pretty quickly.
