Earlier last month, Sony announced that the online servers to several old PS3 title would be shut down in October 2018. Sony has now decided to delay the shutdown to January 2019, meaning gamers will have a few more months to enjoy titles include Warhawk, Twisted Metal, PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, and Sound Shapes.
Sony has updated the PlayStation Store listings for three old PS3 games, indicating that the online functionality will be going offline on this month. The servers for Warhawk will be shutdown first, which will go offline on 15th October 2018, followed by PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Twisted Metal on 25th October 2018.
SCEE have just confirmed that Lightbox Interactive’s Starhawk is a Blu-ray only title. The game is already available in North America and parts of Europe, and will be available in the UK on Friday. In addition, SCEE has confirmed that Starhawk will some with the original PSOne Warhawk title as a PSN download.
Harvard Bonin, Sony Santa Monica Studios’ Senior Producer on Starhawk, has been talking to the US PlayStation Blog and has suggested that Warhawk fans will get the first taste of the Starhawk Beta. Its still unclear when the beta is scheduled for but no doubt that players will be lining up to give the game a go.
Warhawk, the online-only third-person shooter, is now available to download for a discounted price of just $14.99 from the US PlayStation Store. In addition, you can also pick up all three expansion packs for an additional $9.99 (or just the ones you need for $4.99 each). It’s been more than two years since the game was first released and there are still lots of players having fun online.
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.
Warhawk is finally getting it’s own personal space as part of today’s PlayStation Home update. The Warhawk Personal Space delivers a dedicated environment that hosts not only the Sand Table, similar to the Game Space, but also a full-on Warhawk-themed multiplayer mini-game, all while offering the perfect launch point for your next mission.
Warhawk has been around for long, but it continues to live. Recently, the multiplayer-only title reached 1 million players, according to the in-game leaderboard. The title has been around for over two years and was originally released in Summer 2007. The game has been well supported with three content packs released, each adding new maps and features to the game.
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As we reported yesterday, the Warhawk Command Center is now live in PlayStation Home. Dylan Jobe, game director for Warhawk, has created a video to walk you through the game space and it’s various features. To promote the new game space, the price of Warhawk and the booster packs have been reduced on the PlayStation Store for the next two weeks. You can pick up the fill game for $19.99 and the booster packs for $4.99 each or $9.99 for all three.
Today, PlayStation Home will be getting an update adding several new features to the online world. The biggest of these features is the Warhawk Command Center (or Game Space). The Command Center will allow gamers to discuss the game, strategize their next attack (using the interactive sand table), and launch directly into the game. Once the Game Space is live, Sony will be hosting a launch party at the Command Center so drop by if you can.
In other changes, some Street Fighter IV clothing will be integrated into Home too. Items can be unlocked when you perform certain actions in the game. Gamers will be able to get their hands on Chun Li, Ryu, Guile, and Ken costumes.
