The end of 2009 has given PlayStation 3 sales a huge bump. According to a Sony Press Release, over 3.8 million PlayStation 3 consoles were sold between November 23 to December 28 worldwide. This equates to a 76% increase in hardware sales compared to the same period in the previous year, marking the highest record sales for PS3 hardware for a holiday period. As of January 3rd 2010, a total of over 38 million PlayStation Network accounts have been registered since it’s launch.
The January 2010 issue of Qore is on the way, featuring Dante’s Inferno, Heavy Rain, Bayonetta and BioShock 2. Veronica Belmont circles around EA to experience how the developer plans to bring the epic 14th century poem to life in Dante’s Inferno. The Heavy Rain coverage includes an extensive preview and an interactive cinema demonstration of the consequences of a few of the choices you can make.
The first PlayStation Home update for 2010 is imminent, and brings with it the great new London Pub personal space. Visit Home Estates today to get your own personal London Pub, and become a virtual pub landlord. Priced at €4.99, the London Pub offers a warm fire and comedy beer pumps – and more! – all in a setting on the Thames that overlooks the Houses of Parliament
The official box art for Gran Turismo 5 has finally been revealed. We can confirm the cover for this year’s must-have title will feature what some motoring journalists are acclaiming as the car of 2010 – the Mercedes Benz SLS AMG. The SLS is due to be officially launched at the Geneva Motorshow in March. A spiritual successor to the 1954 300SL Gullwing, the SLS is every bit as astounding a piece of automotive engineering as the original 300SL was in its heyday.
Gaming has been growing with the female market for several years now. In fact, there number of male to female games are slowly reaching equal numbers. According to Nielsen, around 45% of active gamers are female. Even more surprising is that that PSP is more popular with female gamers, with 52% of owners being female.
A group of hackers over at the haxnetwork are claiming that they have successfully discovered a method that will allow you to boot back-up copies of PS3 Blu-Ray games using MotorStorm. Whether or not the exploit actually work remains to be seen. Naturally, Sony won’t be too happy to see their un-hackable console finally being exploited to run illegal copies of games.
VidZone has hit another major milestone since it was launched back in June 2009. Its taken VidZone exactly five months to rack up another million downloads, bringing the total to over 2 million downloads in total. VidZone is “officially the biggest dedicated music video streaming application in the world”, according to Ben Creasy, Head of Production for VidZone.
The first PlayStation Store update of 2010 will feature the Dark Void demo from Capcom. The playable demo will be available on the PlayStation Store from January 7th 2010 will the full game scheduled for release later this month, on January 22nd 2010. The demo will give you a fantastic introduction to the game and is a great cross section of the broad experience you’ll get in the full game.
The heroes of Army of Two: The 40th Day Salem & Rios have come to London from their home in Montreal to help promote the launch of their brand new video game. The pair’s antics, captured in a new trailer released today, show Salem and Rios speaking with BBC 1Xtra’s Rampage Crew – Mike Anthony and Treble T – getting Kara Tointon to do their make-up, signing copies of the game for fans (including The Inbetweeners star and robot dance maestro Blake Harrison), rocking out with music act Pint Shot Riot, and generally creating havoc all over the city. Check out the trailer below.
If you find a PSN user causing trouble, cheating or offending anyone you can report the user to Sony who can then take appropriate action. Cheating is one of the main reasons we recommend reporting, as these players spoil the fun for everyone. This could involve exploiting glitches in the game to get ahead or use of other non-permitted action.
You can use Sony’s Grief Reporting service to report such users.
