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A game that sold itself on the chance to earn a Platinum Trophy in record time has been removed from sale on the PS4 store. The game, which was called ‘????? 1000 Top Rated’, appeared on PSN earlier this week but lasted less than two days before it was pulled. …

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes won’t offer players the chance to gain a Platinum Trophy on PS4 or PS3. That’s because, as explained by creator Hideo Kojima on Twitter, Sony doesn’t allow for Platinum Trophies in budget releases. Ground Zeroes costs 19.99 on current-gen and 29.99 on next-gen. What …

PS3’s virtual world app PlayStation Home is to shortly be updated with Trophy support. The often-forgotten social network will on Wednesday (March 12th) be patched to version v1.86, according to PlayStation Europe community manager Chris Owen, allowing users to earn Trophies for an unspecified array of activities. The Trophies will …

Sony has kicked off a new giveaway that allows US PSN members to use PlayStation Trophies in a special memorabilia auction. The platform holder will be offering different items, one per day until July 30th, and each will go to the user that bids with the most Trophies, according to …

Metal Gear Solid 4 will at last receive a patch that will introduce support for PS3’s Trophy system. Andriasang reports that the news was broken by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima in an interview in this week’s issue of Japanese weekly Famitsu. Trophies will be integrated into disc copies of …

Vita owners have found a workaround that will enable them to earn Trophies from second hand games. Fears first arose when it emerged each pre-owned Vita title locks Trophies to the first owner, perhaps as a deterrent to the used games market. The message reads: "You cannot earn trophies in …

Sony has for the first time blocked non PlayStation Plus users from accessing some features found in the latest PS3 firmware update. The update offers both automated Trophy syncing – currently Trophies have to be synced manually – and the ability to automatically have game saves transferred to the cloud. …

Sony’s PSP Remaster series will offer HD visuals and online multiplayer but PS3’s Trophy system will not be included in the games. That’s according to Siliconera, which claims to have word directly from SCE Japan. It’s not hard to guess the reasoning behind the decision. Way back in 2009 Sony …

3DS platform holder Nintendo has seemingly ruled out the implementation of a Achievement-like system in its future systems. Following the arrival of the Xbox 360 in 2005, such systems have become commonplace. Sony subsequently launched Trophies for PS3 and more recently Apple launched Game Center for iOS. Similar systems are …

Claims of a possible hack that threatens the security of the PlayStation Trophy system have emerged online. CVG reports that the homebrew application allows the user to instantly unlock all Trophies associated with a title, adding the accolades to their PSN ID. The Trophies are even given random timestamps so …