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On may 6^th Sony will be holding a press-only event in London titled PlayStation Day. The press conference at the event will be hosted by Kaz Hirai and David Reeves and may include some interesting announcements.

To celebrate PlayStation Day, the European PS Store will be updated twice next week. Once on Tuesday and once on Thursday as scheduled. Everyone that has been disappointed in the stores updates or lack there of you should be happy, you get something us Americans don’t have yet. That comes in the form of a Haze demo, and that demo was confirmed to be online multiplayer.

Check out the full list content below. For Thursday’s list read on after the break.

Games & Demos

• Condemned 2 demo
• Haze demo
• Blast Factor Advanced full game
• High Velocity Bowling full game
• Street Skater PS1 game

Add-on content

• Blast Factor Advanced Research
• High Velocity Bowling Character - Mike

Trailers:

• Buzz! Quiz TV
• Secret Agent Clank
• Siren Blood Curse

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Its not really surprising that Motorstorm 2 has been confirmed to have added a subtitle. Motorstorm 2 has officially been re-named Motorstorm: Pacific Rift. The offcial unveiling is to be in the June issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine.

 

United States 

Games & Demos

• R-Types PS1 game ($5.99) - Includes R-Type and R-Type II
• Iron Man demo (free)
• echochrome demo (free) 

Add-on content

• Eye of Judgment Set 2 expansion ($15)
• Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack ($9.99)
• Rock Band songs
• Guitar Hero 3 Def Leppard pack ($6.25)
• Army of Two SSC Challenge pack ($7.50)
• Karaoke Revolution: AIE songs 

Trailers

• Resistance 2 Teaser Trailer (free)
• GT5 Prologue Techno Video (free)
• Army of Two SSC Challenge Teaser Trailer (free)
• FIFA 08 Features Video (free)
• Iron Man Action Trailer (free)
• PROTOTYPE Discover Evolution (free)
• Burnout Paradise Interview with Wyclef Jean P.1
• Burnout Paradise Interview with Wyclef Jean P.2
• Burnout Paradise Behind-the-Scenes of “Fast Car”
• 88 Minutes movie trailer (free)

Themes and Wallpapers

• Eye of Judgement Theme
• Four Gran Turismo 5 Prologue wallpapers

New Rock Band content

• “The Hellion”
• “Electric Eye”
• “Riding on the Wind”
• “Bloodstone”
• “(Take These) Chains”
• “Pain and Pleasure”
• “Screaming for Vengeance”
• “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’”
• “Fever”
• “Devil’s Child”

Each song is $1.99 and the album are $14.99.

United Kingdom 

Games & Demos

• Rocketmen: Axis of Evil demo (free) 
• Bishi Bashi Special PS1 game (£3.49/€4.99 )
• Command & Conquer PS1 game (£3.49/€4.99 )
• FlOw PSP version (£4.99/€7.99 ) 
• God of War: Chains of Olympus demo for PSP

Add-on content

• Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack (£6.99/€9.99)

Trailers

• Resistance 2 announcement trailer (free)
• Warhawk: Operation Broken Mirror trailer (free)
• Two Viking trailers (free)
• Three Timeshift “FPS Differently” trailers (free)

Themes and Wallpapers

• Metal Gear Solid 4 “Sneak Out” PS3 theme (free)
• Dark Sector wallpaper (free)
• Seven Motorstorm wallpapers (free)

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KoRn Has released the video for their new song Haze, which was inspired by the video game. Check out the video below. You can also find the video on the Enhanced version of KoRn latest album "Untitled". As a fan of KoRn myself, I like the song. Leave your comments let me know what you think.  

Well Sony delayed Home again further pushing it back to Fall. Sony stated that it will expand the Closed Beta testing for PLAYSTATION Home this Summer, inviting more PLAYSTATION 3 users to the beta. Following completion of the Expanded Closed Beta test, the PLAYSTATION Home Open Beta service will commence this Fall.

Kaz Hirai, President and Group CEO, of SCEI had this to say:

“We understand that we are asking PS3 and prospective PS3 users to wait a bit longer, but we have come to the conclusion that we need more time to refine the service to ensure a more focused gaming entertainment experience than what it is today. Our overarching objective is to provide users with new gaming experiences that are available only on PLAYSTATION Home. Spending more time on the development and on the Closed Beta testing reaffirms our commitment to bringing a quality service, maintaining the PlayStation tradition.”

The PLAYSTATION Home Open Beta service that will become available in Fall 2008 will be built around providing new and fun community gaming experiences. Sony also noted that Details of the Closed Beta testing features, registration for the test and the opening of the service will be announced as they become available.

I’ll be sure to keep you guys updated

The Directors of the Paris Game Developers Conference, which is taking place on June 23-24, have announced that Mark Healey and Alex Evans, co-founders of Media Molecule, will be giving the opening keynote speech at the event. The presentation which is titles “Media Molecule, Little Team, Big Ideas” Healey and Evans will address the number of ways in which game developers can incorporate creativity into their games. As well as talking about the history of the games and the very much anticipated LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3.

Criterion has been talking about adding a live update board in Burnout Paradise for awhile, and they have one to unviel now. Here is a pre-release shot, which has much of the information you’ll see as part of the Cagney update at the end of June. Criterion stated that “The game will automatically launch this page, when you start the game, but you’ll also be able to access it anytime during the game.”

The News page includes various little widgets like a Calendar, Weather and a Clock. The game calendar lets us call out special events on particular days. Criterion also said they wanted to minimise any delays getting us new game content. They can now do this with server-side changes. They also said “If we want to bring you a special boost free racing day, test a prototype car for a few hours or reward our best forum posters with something special…it’s no problem!” The calendar is where they can do that.

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Criterion Games announced that Burnout Paradise will have custom soundtracks included as part of the Cagney software update in the Playstation 3. If you want to play your own music while in Paradise City, it’s now possible via Easydrive without interrupting the game.

This couldn’t be simpler…you just hit the Easydrive menu, select Soundtrack and hit Custom. The Update is scheduled for release April 24th

http://www.criteriongames.com/article.php?artID=119

 

Check it out. This one looks pretty cool.

For the last couple of months (January and February) the PS3 has won in terms of hardware sales for those months. March on the other hand took a drop but not that dirastic, selling only 5,000 less than its rival Xbox 360. Granted, it was a defeat though. In Sony’s latest press release we are reminded that this year is only going to get better with the releases of heavy hitters like Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet and many more, which is why 2008 has been named “Year of the PS3″.

Catch the Press Release after the break 

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The Rockstar Games Social has been opened for pre-registration. The Site reads that it is a members-only destination for leaderboards, stats, tournaments, virtual events and more for Rockstar titles. Jump on over and check it out the Social Club.

  Well the new store is finally here and here is our first update. You can now get your hands on GT5: Prologue and Operation Broken Mirror, the new expansion pack for Warhawk. But if you didn’t grab Omega Dawn yet go ahead and grab the Booster Combo pack. The Pack contains both Broken Mirror and Omega Dawn for only $11.99. See Below for the full list of updates.

North America

• Gran Turismo 5 Prologue ($39.99)
• Warhawk: Operation Broken Mirror expansion pack ($7.99)
• Warhawk ”Booster Combo pack” ($11.99) — contains Operation Broken Mirror and Operation Omega Dawn
• Rock Band DLC (listed after the break)
• UEFA Euro 2008 demo (free)
• Warhawk Operation Broken Mirror trailer (free)
• Condemned 2: Bloodshot ”Making Of” video (free)
• Haze ”Mantel Corporate Vision” video (free)
• This is Vegas announcement trailer (free)
• Gran Turismo 5 Prologue ”Friendly Fires” video (free)
• Gran Turismo 5 Prologue ”Beyond the Apex” (free)
• Two Warhawk themes (free)
• Lair ”Mokai” theme (free)
• Pineapple Express movie trailer (free)

United Kingdom

• Metal Gear Online public Beta (free)
• Warhawk: Operation Broken Mirror expansion pack (£3.99/€5.99)
• LAIR ”Deadly Dragons” add-on (free)
• Grand Theft Auto 4 ”Everyone’s a rat” trailer (free)

Hello everyone my name is Brandon and from now on i’ll be doing my best to bring you all the latest on the ongoings with the PlayStation 3. So right now I’m still tweaking the layout keep checking back for news on when the official Launch of the site will be.