Earlier this week, Sony announced their financial and figures from the first quarter of the fiscal year – with the fiscal year ending on March 31st 2011. The figures indicate the company has made an operating income of $753 million with a net income of $289 million.
Although Dead Space 2 is set for release on January 28th 2011, EA revealed the boxart for the title earlier this week. Although the actual image was revealed on the Official Facebook Fan page a while ago, this is the first image of the full PlayStation 3 cover.
The upcoming MMORPG from Square-Enix has been rated as “Teen” by the ESRB. The online game is said to contain up-skirt shots, suggestive references and swear words. All of which is pretty acceptable from your typical game. If you want to know more, the ESRB description of the game below is quite amusing.
On the European PlayStation Store this week you can find Karate Kid related special offers to celebrate the release of the new movie. You can also find two new downloadable games, including Earthwork Jim HD, and two new PSOne classics. There are also two new Minis and two playable demos. Check out the full list of content below.
SCEE has confirmed that it will be holding its gamescom press conference on Tuesday August 17th at 5pm UK time, right after EA’s conference on the same day. Sony has also revealed a preliminary list of games that will be showcased at the expo (which can be found below).
Naughty Dog has confirmed the release of a new title update for Uncharted 2. Patch version v1.09 is now available to download and includes a number of fixes and enhancement to the game. The cash awards for Elimination and Objective games have been altered too (detailed below).
If you have updated your PlayStation 3 to Firmware 3.41, you may have noticed that the download was much quicker than previous updates. Somewhere in the past, Sony enabled quick “patches” to be downloaded to the console, rather than downloading the full firmware update which is over 130MB.
Ubisoft revealed more details about upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood at Comic-Con. Among them were plans for DLC, multiplayer, and some hints about what will happen to Desmond. Although no specifics were mentioned, Ubisoft did confirm that DLC will be available for the title, perhaps in the form of new playable characters.
This week on the US PlayStation Store you can find three new games, available to download for free if you are a PlayStation Plus subscriber. Four new PSOne Classics are available, as well as four new playable demos, including the Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days multiplayer demo. You can find lots of new game add-on content too, as well as new Avatars, Wallpapers and XMB themes.
The next MAG patch will be available in early August, and for free. In just over a week from now, the patch will be released with a number of new features asked for by gamers. Improvements include new “Happy Hour”, where gamers get double XP for the first hour of their session in a 24 hour period.
