The PlayStation Video Store is about to get some serious competition. Sony has confirmed that Netflix’s online movie streaming service will be coming to the PlayStation 3. Monthly subscription to Netflix on your PS3 will cost you $8.99. At this rate, you can then watch movies and TV episodes all you want. If you’re a Netflix member, though, you’ll be glad to know that you will be able to stream movies for free initially after the launch of the service.
If you are looking to give your trophy collection a boost, here are some games that contain trophies that are easy to obtain as well as titles that have easy Platinum trophies. Now, not all of the below games are worth buying and others are must-have games (see our recommendations below), so we recommend you rent some of these games to save yourself some money. If you think we’ve missed out some games, feel free to include them in the comments section.
Fat Princess has been updated to version 1.03. Patch 1.03 contains the awesome New Pork city level, and due to the amazing support from the community, Titan Studios have decided to release the map for free. The patch also includes various fixes and tweaks to make the game better than ever. In addition to the patch, Titan has also released a Fat Princess demo, so if you haven’t tried the game, now you can.
Lets face it, this week’s PlayStation Update was below average for Europe. While the US got the Uncharted: Eye of Indra Motion Comic and the Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time demo. Even the NBA 2K10 demo has been pulled from the European Store. However, if Mike Kebby, PlayStation Store Team member at SCEE, is to be believed, next week’s update will be huge. The R&C Future demo will be out in Europe next week and the Rock Band: Beatles Abbey Road DLC is scheduled for next week too.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 has only just been released and already there are talks of downloadable content. The PES Production team posted an article on the Konami Blog stating, “We’ll be adding downloadable updates and content shortly – free of charge of course – so watch out for those.” There was no mention of what kinds of downloadable content would be release so we’ll leaving the speculation to you.
The MAG Public Beta has received a client update, bringing the version to v1.30. his new MAG Public Beta release includes over 8,000 updates and fixes, too many to list in detail, but we’ve included some of the significant changes below. If you are not yet a part of the MAG Public Beta there is still time. If you pre-order MAG at GameStop in the US or EB Games in Canada you receive access to the MAG Public Beta. And remember, from November 9th until November 20th the only way to access the MAG Public Beta in North America is to pre-order MAG.
The first episode of Uncharted: Eye of Indra is now available to download from the PlayStation Store, and its free! Eye of Indra is a four part motion comicand the original prequel store to Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. A Motion Comic is essentially an animated comic book – you watch it like a movie. Characters move, there’s some 3D effects, and cool panel transitions. Eye of Indra has actually been over a year in the making and was only recently announced by Naughty Dog.
The PlayStation 3 PlayTV software has been updated to v1.21 today. The biggest change in the 24MB patch is the ability to watch, pause and record high-definition TV, though it’s not clear which countries this feature applies to. Other features include multi-channel audio playback, improved remote play usability, better SD upscaling, and support for Sony’s Aino remote play.
PlayStation Home will be updated to v1.32 tomorrow addressing issues in the current version of PlayStation Home. Originally, the update was supposed to go live today but has been pushed back by a day. The update will add three new game spaces: Uncharted 2, Tekken 6 and Street Fighter 4. The latter two will only be available in the US for the time being. As we mentioned earlier this week, the Uncharted 2 space will feature three mini-games.
If you are unfamiliar with the story of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune but want to play Among Thieves, Naughty Dog has released a motion comic to fill you in on the action. The motion comic will be available in four parts, of which, we have a trailer of the first episode below. The Uncharted Motion Comics’ first episode goes live on PSN later today, and the complete set of four will be available by the end of November. The individual price for each episode has yet to be confirmed but you can purchase all four episode for $2.49.
