You may remember the God of War III “Maxed Out” trophy glitch we reported on earlier this week. It turns out that this glitch is a precursor to another glitch in the game – the ability to use maxed out weapons in a new game. Normally, you can’t carry over the weapons from your previous save when starting a new game in God of War III, but we have details on how you can below.
While the West has been enjoying Yakuza 3 for a few weeks now, Japan is enjoying the forth title in the series. Sega has announced that during it’s first week of sales more than 500,000 copies of Yakuza 4 (Ryu ga Gotoku 4) were sold. In just seven days the game outsold Yakuza 3, which according to Weekly Famitsu sold a grand total of 499,436 copies up to the end of December 2009.
This week on the PSP Comic Store, you can get a free comic in the form of Kong: King of Skull Island, by Markosia, from the European Store. Markosia also release The Dark – a stunning new sci-fi thriller that will have you begging for more. From IDW you can find the first issue of The Ghoul. Locke & Key continues to get better and better with the start of a new story arc Crown of Shadows. Finally a new series is released on the Store – Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream.
Fat Princess has been updated to version v1.05 and now includes two new free snow-themed maps called Frost Bite and Candy Mountain. The game has so far received four free maps to date, making the game incredible value for money. The patch brings with it a number of fixes to the title too – see below for the changelog.
This week on the PlayStation Store, Europe and the US has received a massive content update including a ton of new add-on content, permanent price deductions and new premium avatars for Heavy Rain. Episode 6 of The Tester is available on the US store and new add-on content includes Rock Band and Guitar Hero tracks, LittleBigPlanet costumes and level kits and more.
This week on the PSP Store you will find new Easter related add-on content for LittleBigPlanet, complete with a free Sackboy costume. A new PSP minis title is also available in both the US and Europe and a number of new downloadable games have hit the stores too.
The PlayStation Move controller was demoed to the press recently, allowing journalists to try out the technology first-hand. Below we have a tech demo video from CrunchGear showing off the technology with some simple games. We also have a video from Engadget’s hand-on impressions of SOCOM 4.
If you are a LOST, the TV series, you may want to pick up a copy of Just Cause 2. The developers have recreated the complete LOST island in the game, including the initial plane crash to the “hatch” and a mysterious monster. Check out the screenshots below, taken from Games Radar.
God of War III hits the headlines again this week with more sales related news. The title has not only outsold the previous two titles in week one sales, but has now broken the 1 million units mark. Sales for the title up to March 20th 2010 indicate that just over 1.1 million units were sold worldwide. In terms of regional breakdown around 700,000 units were sold in the Americas and 400,000 in Europe and Other Regions (excluding Japan).
The custom soundtrack feature on the PS3 hasn’t received much support since it was added in Firmware 2.40, but it has been confirmed that ModNation Racers will support the feature. According to Chuck Lacson, the Associate Product Marketing Manager of SCEA, ModNation Racers will have custom soundtracks support, “If you play music on your XMB, that’s the music that will replace the in game soundtrack.”
