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The PSP version of LittleBigPlanet will be bundled with the Turquoise Greed edition of handheld when it launches. Sony unveiled a number of new colours for the PSP-3000 at its Gamescom press conference, revealing the companion to its PS3 game creation title, announced earlier this year, will be included with …

BBC’s iPlayer service is officially heading to the UK PlayStation Network. Sony announced the new partnership during its press conference at this year’s Gamescom in Cologne. It will allow PS3 owners to stream selected BBC programming via an official link on the PSN interface. The BBC is one of many …

GAMESCOM'09: Titles underway at EA, Gameshasta and Halfbrick Studios

Sony has announced the PS3 is approaching worldwide sales of 25 million unites. During its Gamescom press conference, the company announced more than 23.7 million PS3 consoles have been sold since its launch, with 10 million sold in Europe alone. More than 60 per cent of PS3 owners are connected …

Sony has announced iTunes-style vouchers for its PSN service at Gamescom. 20 Euro and 50 Euro vouchers were confirmed during the company’s press conference. Earlier in the presentation, SCEE president Andrew House announced that over 560 million games had been downloaded over PSN, generating revenue of over $280 million.

EA has likened rival publisher Activision to a particularly huge and ugly monster” over the Brutal Legend publishing row. Speaking at Electronic Art’s press event at Gamescom, the company’s VP of European publishing – Jens Uwe Intat – spoke of Activision’s long-winded legal wrangle with Tim Schafer and Double Fine …

Endrant Studios sees staff axed just a year after the group formed

Publisher EA has confirmed that its curious mystical fighting title Dante’s Inferno will be released in Europe on PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP on February 12th next year. Its North American release will come a few days earlier on February 9th. EA’s Dante’s Inferno is based on medieval text The …

EA’s digital-only Battlefield 1943 has been downloaded over one million times. The announcement occurred during EA’s Gamescom press conference ahead of the reveal for retail release, Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Last month it was announced that the DICE-developed game had smashed day one and week on sales records on Xbox …

Publisher EA has for the first time demonstrated and named EA Sports Active: More Workouts at its currently ongoing press conference at Cologne’s Gamescom 2009. The title will boast 35 new exercises that look to vastly expand on the already bountiful offering of workout regimes available in the first title. …