As promised by Square Enix, a new character for Final Fantasy XIII has been named. The information, howeverm comes through Japanese gaming mag V-Jump, and not directly from Square Enix. The new character, Yaag Rosch, is somewhat reminiscent of Loz from Advent Children, with the short Sephiroth-like silver hair. If you don’t already know, he won’t be in your party – instead will be busy trying to beat you all.
Around a month ago, the ESRB broke word of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Commander’s Challenge for PS3 and Xbox 360. While it did raise some hopes that the Uprising expansion would be made available to console gamers, an official announcement from Electronic Arts has confirmed that only the Commander’s Challenge mode will be making the jump. Those who bought Red Alert 3’s PC version will recognize Commander’s Challenge as a mode included in the PC exclusive Uprising expansion where players fight through 50 unique and successively tougher scenarios.
PlayStation 3 stocks in the UK have become pretty scarce over the past few weeks. According to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, there is mounting evidence of a price cut. Speaking in a recent VG247 podcast, Pachter said that Japanese retailers are in a situation similar to the one retailers in the UK are experiencing. The PS3 price cut is widely believed to be made public at GamesCom in Cologne on Tomorrow.
Get ready for some high-end mutliplayer toy car racing action! TikGames and Creat Studios have announced that Smash Cars, a PS3 follow-up to the original PS2 game will finally be heading to PlayStation Network on August 20th. Smash Cars is a tricked-out single and multiplayer online RC toy car racing game featuring real-time physics simulation and vehicle customization.
It was previously mentioned that Sony would be holding a 3 hour press conference at GamesCom next week, but a SCEE representation has cleared some thing up for us. Although three hours are booked for the conference, most of the time will be used for people to sit down. The press conference will actually be “just over a hour.” SCEE also sent out a press release saying that the conference on August 18, 2009, Tuesday, will last from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM CEST (5:30 PM to 7:30PM BST) instead of the 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM time slot they mentioned a while back.
Interested in the PSP Go!? Check out this short video walkthrough of the upcoming PSP model courtesy of SCEA Director of Hardware Marketing John Koller. The main change if obviously the size and lack of UMD drive. The USB cable connection has also been replaced with a all-purpose connector which will be used for everything from backing up content to TV output. The PSP Go! also comes with 16GB of built-in flash memory as well as a Memory Stick Micro slot for further expansion.
This week on the PlayStation Video Store, check out 2 Months, $2 Million. It’s a new show from G4 that takes you inside the world of competitive high stakes online poker. The show follows the lives and adventures of four young high IQ friends trying to break the bank of the online poker world. You will also find lots of new movies and TV shows to download as usual. As for this week’s top 10 downloads, Dragonball: Evolution moves to 1st place (from 2nd place last week), followed by Miss March, which has dropped to 2nd place. In 3rd place it Obsessed. Check out all the new content listed below.
This week on the PlayStation Store, there are new downloadable games for both Europe and the US, namely Marvel vs Capcom 2, and the US has also received three new PSOne Classics, including Tomb Raider. As for downloadable content, there are new costumes for LittleBigPlanet as well as the History Level Kit, the first DLC pack for Red Faction: Guerrilla, and new tracks for Rock Band. For those of you who can’t get enough of Fat Princess, you can also download some free XMB wallpaper.
This week, the VidZone has been working hard to provide you with new playlists and exclusive content. You can also now find all the new videos added to your region from the Recommended > New Videos menu. VidZone also introduced their own TV show; the pilot episode is available to stream now. You can find exclusive footage and interviews from two of London’s best festivals including words from Pixie Lott, Florence, Mr Hudson, Soul II Soul, N-Dubz, Kid Cudi and more.
Earlier this week GameWave, a Hong Kong based weekly magazine, revealed the first photos of the PS3 Slim in their latest issue. Although the photos are unconfirmed, they look pretty convincing especially compared to the leaked photos a few months ago. In our opinion, the design of the console looks poor and perhaps a little too small, compared to what the console looks like currently. You be the judge, check out the photos below.
