Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is now more solid than ever in Japan. Naked Snake’s latest PSP adventure has been given a release date in its country of origin. The latest Famitsu issue has announced the game’s release as set for March 18, 2010. As for the west, Konami has revealed that Peace Walker will be available in the UK on May 28th 2010. Unfortunately, there is no release date for North America yet. The US will be getting the title in May 2010.
An unidentified source has informed gaming news site CVG of Logitech’s plans to create a UMD Drive add-on for the PSPgo. No price or release information was revealed by the source, but apparently the add-on would “plug into the PSPgo, allowing users to play their UMD games on the portable.” Logitech UK said that they’re “not aware of it, so it may be something the US office is working on.” Neither Logitech’s US office nor Sony have so far said anything about this rumor.
This week on the PSP PlayStation Store, the LittleBigPlanet demo is available to download in Europe. New titles are also on offer this week, including Killzone Liberation and Gangs of London. Three new downloadable games are available from the US Store and two new ones from the European Store. A new Episode of PULSE is also available to download from the US Store. Check out the complete list of new content below.
Today marks 15 years since the PlayStation was first launched in Japan. Although the west didn’t get the hardware until almost a year later, today is the system’s actual birthday. The PlayStation (and PSOne) was the first console to reach the 100 million sales mark, achieving a total of 102.49 million units on March 31, 2005. Sony ceased production of the PlayStation on March 23, 2006, over 11 years after it was first produced.
If you are debating on whether to purchase the new PSPgo this Christmas, Sony has a offer to help sway your decision. Buying a PSPgo and downloading a special promotional XMB theme from the PlayStation Store will allow you to download one of the following three games for free: MotorStorm: Arctic Edge, Gran Turismo PSP or Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines.
If you don’t already know, last week Sony released the first comic title for the PSP to mark the launch of the upcoming service. This week, we have two more codes to allow you to download two additional titles for free (see below). The Comic reader application is available to download from the XMB if you have firmware 6.20 installed. See below for codes to download Star Trek: Enterprise Experiment #1 and Astro Boy Movie Adaptation #1.
On the European PSP PlayStation Store this week, many new games are available for download, including Breath of Fire 3 and NBA 2K10. There are also two new PSP Minis titles available for purchase: Blast Off and Dracula. As you may have seen, the US PSP Store was updated earlier this week.
The US PlayStation Store has been updated early this week to celebrate Thanksgiving. This week on the Store, you will find LittleBigPlanet and Tekken 6 for the PSP, as well as five new PSP Minis titles. New downloadable content for Disgaea 2 is available two – seven packs in total. Check out the US list of additions below. The European Store will be updates tomorrow as usual.
Remember the PSPgo exploit we reported on a while back (see here and here)? Unfortunately, the exploit has now been patched in the latest Firmware update from Sony. FreePlay has revealed that the exploit used a gamesave exploit in Archer Maclean’s Mercury. If you still have Firmware 6.10 installed and own a copy of Mercury, you can still make use of the exploit.
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