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Read More »Sony launches PC-based PSP store
A new version of the PlayStation Store has gone online, allowing PSP owners to access and download content for the handhelds over the internet. The site adopts the same basic design as the PS3 version of Sony’s Store, and allows gamers to purchase games that are already available on UMD, …
Read More »Sony London Studio’s Beats leads new PSP Store
Music game premieres on new PSP download service
Read More »Haze and Splinter Cell Conviction delayed
Despite suggestions last week that Ubisoft’s highly anticipated FPS Haze would indeed make it to retail before Christmas, the latest financial results from the firm confirm that a 2008 release is now on the cards. No firm release date has been given beyond saying that the game will arrive in …
Read More »Microsoft dishing out free XBLA titles
The European arm of Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has begun a promotion designed to reward those who persuade a friend to buy an Xbox 360 – by giving both parties ten Xbox Live Arcade titles each. The titles included in the promotion are Every Extend Extra Extreme, Sonic The …
Read More »Call of Duty 4 guns down Euro chart opposition
After shooting its way to the top of the UK ChartTrack All Formats Top 40, Activision’s Call of Duty 4 is also setting the pace across Europe by topping the German charts and storming its way into the Spanish Top Five, Next-Gen reports. The PC, 360 and PS3 versions of …
Read More »Singapore relents on Mass Effect ban
Yesterday MCV reported that Singapore’s Media Development Authority had decided to ban BioWare’s upcoming Xbox 360 RPG Mass Effect thanks to an in-game scene involving a girl-on-girl coupling between a human and blue-headed alien lass. However, regional paper The Straits Times now reports that the Authority has decided to life …
Read More »JAPAN: PS3 resurgence continues
After yesterday’s claims from Sony CEO Howard Stringer that the recent PS3 price drop has seen sales of the machine rocket in North America, the latest sales data from Media Create show that Sony’s machine outsold even the mighty Wii in Japan for the week ending Novemeber 11th. It’s sales …
Read More »Mass Effect banned in Singapore
Whilst BioWare’s upcoming RPG Mass Effect is lining up to be one of the last great releases of the year when it arrives in Europe next Friday, it has emerged that the game will not be seeing the light of day in Singapore. The country’s Media Development Authority took great …
Read More »SingStar PS3 pricing revealed
After a prolonged delay, the PS3 version of Sony’s popular karaoke series SingStar is finally nearing release, and Sony has at last revealed final details about the pricing and availability of extra tracks through the company’s SingStore service. Additional songs will cost 99p a shot, and SingStore will launch alongside …
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