Sony confirmed the PSN Pass last week, but it unclear how the system will actually work, since not a lot of information has been revealed about the initiative. James Stevenson, Community Manager for Insomniac, divulged some new information about the service, saying it “will allow dual-login and any user on the system to play online.”
A new PS3 model is bring shipped out to retailers this week, but this new model features a slight change for the worse. The new model, referred to as “K” chassis, actually removes a video output feature preventing HD Movie playback using component cables. If you want HD support, you need to use an HDMI cable.
The PlayStation Network has several successful exclusives, including Joe Danger, Critter Crunch, Flower and the PixelJunk series. Sony want to continue this success by investing a further $20 million dollars over the next three years to develop more exclusive titles.
Lets face it… FirstPlay didn’t really work out for Sony and Future Publishing, who also run the Official PlayStation Magazine. After the first month of subscribing, even I canceled and moved on to other resources for my gaming fix. But its not over – Future Publishing has announced a new joint venture for a video show with Sony.
It’s not often that a game gets released earlier than expected, especially if you live in the UK. Sony has confirmed that Uncharted 3 will be released in the UK two days earlier than expected. Europe will see the release of the game on Wednesday the 2nd of November, one day after North America.
Sony will be bringing out a Network Pass program called PSN Pass, similar to some of the new games in the past few months. The pass will be a one-time use code that allows the gamer to access any online content for that particular game. Resistance 3 will be the first game to make use of PSN Pass.
Kevin Levine, Creative Director at Irrational Games, has released the full demonstration video of BioShock Infinite shows off at E3 earlier last month – all 15 minutes of it. Check it out for yourself below.
The Uncharted 3 Beta went public earlier this week, opening up access to all PlayStation Network users. Since it went public, more than 1 million players have accessed the beta, and is rising every day. The first two games have been massive hits on the PlayStation 3, so its no doubt that games are excited about the third title.
It’s hard to believe that PlayStation Plus is already a year old, but I guess time flies when your enjoying so many exclusives, betas, PSN games, minis, PS one Classics, dynamic themes and avatars. Over the past year, Subbscribers have received over £200 worth of content, including games, discounts, themes, avatars and lots more.
Missed the Closed Beta of Uncharted 3? Don’t worry – you can now download the Public Beta from the PlayStation Store. The beta will run until July 13th 2011, during which time the content and game modes will change over the course of the testing period.
