According to European gaming magazine Chief, which is out next week in the Netherlands and Belgium, a number of titles have been confirmed to support PlayStation Move by Sony. Among the list of titles are some previously announced titles including SOCOM 4 and LittleBigPlanet, but new to the list is Heavy Rain. Although the magazine doesn’t go into details, the game is likely to receive a patch to enable Move support.
The first beta details for FirstPlay have emerged. FirstPlay is a interactive magazine similar to Qore but targeted to the European market. The magazine is currently in private beta before being released to the general public. The latest installment of the FirstPlay beta features an HD video review of explosive new shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2, plus exclusive preview footage from Lost Planet 2 and Super Street Fighter IV.
According to a “trusted source”, PSN@Home are reporting that Sony are looking into the prospect of introducing trophies to PSOne Classics. The source indicated that games will get “5 to 10 trophies,” regardless of the length of the game. If the rumor is true, it will mean many existing PSOne games will need to be patched to include trophies.
You may remember the God of War III “Maxed Out” trophy glitch we reported on earlier this week. It turns out that this glitch is a precursor to another glitch in the game – the ability to use maxed out weapons in a new game. Normally, you can’t carry over the weapons from your previous save when starting a new game in God of War III, but we have details on how you can below.
While the West has been enjoying Yakuza 3 for a few weeks now, Japan is enjoying the forth title in the series. Sega has announced that during it’s first week of sales more than 500,000 copies of Yakuza 4 (Ryu ga Gotoku 4) were sold. In just seven days the game outsold Yakuza 3, which according to Weekly Famitsu sold a grand total of 499,436 copies up to the end of December 2009.
Fat Princess has been updated to version v1.05 and now includes two new free snow-themed maps called Frost Bite and Candy Mountain. The game has so far received four free maps to date, making the game incredible value for money. The patch brings with it a number of fixes to the title too – see below for the changelog.
This week on the PlayStation Store, Europe and the US has received a massive content update including a ton of new add-on content, permanent price deductions and new premium avatars for Heavy Rain. Episode 6 of The Tester is available on the US store and new add-on content includes Rock Band and Guitar Hero tracks, LittleBigPlanet costumes and level kits and more.
The PlayStation Move controller was demoed to the press recently, allowing journalists to try out the technology first-hand. Below we have a tech demo video from CrunchGear showing off the technology with some simple games. We also have a video from Engadget’s hand-on impressions of SOCOM 4.
If you are a LOST, the TV series, you may want to pick up a copy of Just Cause 2. The developers have recreated the complete LOST island in the game, including the initial plane crash to the “hatch” and a mysterious monster. Check out the screenshots below, taken from Games Radar.
God of War III hits the headlines again this week with more sales related news. The title has not only outsold the previous two titles in week one sales, but has now broken the 1 million units mark. Sales for the title up to March 20th 2010 indicate that just over 1.1 million units were sold worldwide. In terms of regional breakdown around 700,000 units were sold in the Americas and 400,000 in Europe and Other Regions (excluding Japan).
