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News that the Australian games regulators had banned Bethesda’s next-gen RPG Fallout 3 from release were not received well by gamers Down Under – so the news that the game now seems set for release will no doubt be celebrated. Gamerchip reports that both GAME and Electronics Boutique have both …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet dated
Media Molecule’s massively hyped LittleBigPlanet has been given a firm release date of October 30th – in Japan, at least. The news comes from Sony’s official Japanese PS3 site. Unfortunately, there’s no word yet on either a European or US release date. Some sources are claiming that an October release …
Read More »HAWX barrel rolls back to 2009
French publisher Ubisoft has announced that its upcoming Tom Clancy themed flight-sim HAWX will now not be released this year, and has instead pencilled it in for a Q1 2009 release, CVG reports. Also slipping, albeit ever so slightly, is Geatbox’s WWII FPS Brothers in Arms: Hells’ Highway – which …
Read More »PS3 PlayTV due September 10th
SCEE president David Reeves has confirmed that Sony’s highly anticipated Freeview TV add-on PlayTV will launch in the UK on September 10th, and will roll out to the rest of Europe by the end of December. PlayTV turns a PS3 into a fully-functional PVR – a device that allows users …
Read More »E3 08: Gran Turismo TV for August 1st
SCEE boss David Reeves has confirmed that the upcoming Gran Turismo TV will be released in Europe on the same date it arrives in North America – August 1st. That’s also the date that retailers will begin selling PS3 Platinum titles. Pleasingly, it follows Home beta’s lead in maintaining parity …
Read More »E3 08: No PS3 video store for Europe this year
Sony’s new PS3 and PSP movie and TV download and rental service was possibly the biggest announcement of the platform holder’s E3 conference , but European console owners will seemingly have to wait until next year to get access to the now-live-in-the-US content delivery system. David Reeves confirmed the news …
Read More »E3 08: Uncharted Trophy support one month away
With Sony’s latest PS3 firmware now out in the wild and seemingly hurting no-one (unlike its direct predecessor ), Jak and Daxter developer Naughty Dog has told Joystiq that a patch which enables Trophy support in its successful PS3 title Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune will be out next month. The studio’s …
Read More »E3 08: Halo Wars slips to 2009
Claims that Microsoft was planning to announce a brand new Master Chief-less Halo title at E3 proved way off the mark – and further bad news for Halo fans came in the shape of confirmation that hotly anticipated FPS Halo Wars has slipped until next year. The new release date …
Read More »US: Dualshock 3 hits stores next week
Whilst Japanese gamers have been able to rumble along with their PS3 games since November, the Western market has to date had to make do with the rumble-less Sixaxis – but it’s all change from next week. Sony has announced via its US blog that the Dualshock 3 pad will …
Read More »Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet and Resistance 2 dated
The latest release schedule from Sony Europe has confirmed the release dates of three big hitting titles in the UK – namely Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet and Resistance 2. Videogamer.com reports that September will see the release of Guerrilla FPS Killzone 2 and Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet. Insomniac’s Resistance 2 will follow …
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