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.
We hope you are eagerly awaiting the release of Heavy Rain this week (in Europe) like we are. The game is starting to hit shelves across Europe from tomorrow and the TV campaign to promote the game is also about to go live. We have a sneak peek of the advert for you to view below, courtesy of SCEE.
This week, VidZone has been updated with lots of new videos including Art vs Science, DJ Zinc ft Ms Dynamite, Shakira and Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. Lemar is the Artist of the Month for the UK and Ireland, Tété in France, George Michael in Australia and New Zealand, and Pitbull in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
God of War III, due out next month, is one of few games this year that will not require installing game data to the hard drive. The announcement was made by Christoper Ericson, Santa Monica Director of Technology, over twitter stating “God of War III does NOT do a HD install. The 5MB listed on box back is for save game only.”
One of the biggest exclusive title this year, Heavy Rain, has been banned in the Middle East. Sony has confirmed that the title has been banned in the United Arab Emirates due as the game presumably containing nudity and mature content. Sony released a statement to Kotaku earlier today, though specifics were not mentioned.
This week on the UK PlayStation Store a number of great new titles are available to buy or rent. Ten new titles are available to rent, including Young Guns and War. If you prefer buying, there are 19 new titles available including 9, Michael Jackson’s This Is It and our favourite Ong Bak.
This week, a number of new downloadable content packs are headed to LittleBigPlanet, for both the PS3 and PSP. The White Knight Chronicles costume kit will be available from the PlayStation Store this week. You can grab all four costumes for $5.99, or choose from your favorites for $1.99 each.
Just like Uncharted 2, Borderlands has also broken another sales milestone. The title has reached 3 million copies sold on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined, CEO and president Randy Pitchford has said. Take-Two’s financial results showed that the role-playing shooter had reached the 2 million mark by the end of October, meaning the extra million units was generated in about three and a half months.
In January, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves broke the 2.5 million sales mark since it was released in November 2009. In just over a month since, the game has sold another million units becoming the fastest selling first-party title in PlayStation history. In addition, Uncharted 2 has also garnered more than 150 other industry awards, and has over 1.5 million online users worldwide.
According to a rumor on the Yellow Dog Linux Forums, Linux Product Manager Owen Stampflee has posted that the OtherOS feature will be removed in the next firmware update. The topic on the forum has since been removed, which leads us to question it’s credibility. The OtherOS feature is expected to be removed in order to block the recently discovered exploit.
