Gamers who purchase the PlayStation Move Starter Pack in September will receive a demo disc as part of the bundle. Sony has now detailed the playable games the demo disc will contain, which includes six Blu-ray based games and three PSN titles. The demo disc will also feature a brief tutorial video to show how to setup the Move controllers.
Zipper’s Senior Community Manager Jeremy Dunham has confirmed that SOCOM 4 has been delayed until 2010. An post of the official SOCOM Blog details the Move-enabled squad-based shooter has been delayed to allow the developers to “deliver the best and most immersive SOCOM game [they] possibly can.”
Earlier this week, Sony announced their financial and figures from the first quarter of the fiscal year – with the fiscal year ending on March 31st 2011. The figures indicate the company has made an operating income of $753 million with a net income of $289 million.
Although Dead Space 2 is set for release on January 28th 2011, EA revealed the boxart for the title earlier this week. Although the actual image was revealed on the Official Facebook Fan page a while ago, this is the first image of the full PlayStation 3 cover.
The upcoming MMORPG from Square-Enix has been rated as “Teen” by the ESRB. The online game is said to contain up-skirt shots, suggestive references and swear words. All of which is pretty acceptable from your typical game. If you want to know more, the ESRB description of the game below is quite amusing.
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A new firmware update is now available for the PSP. Version v6.31 is a minor update to the system software, but is required to access the PlayStation Store. The firmware update improves system stability for current and upcoming games.
On the European PSP Store this week you can find lots of new games to download, including four new PSP Essential titles, two new downloadable games, two new PSOne games and three new Minis titles. Other than all the new games, you can also find a new playable demo.
On the European PlayStation Store this week you can find Karate Kid related special offers to celebrate the release of the new movie. You can also find two new downloadable games, including Earthwork Jim HD, and two new PSOne classics. There are also two new Minis and two playable demos. Check out the full list of content below.
SCEE has confirmed that it will be holding its gamescom press conference on Tuesday August 17th at 5pm UK time, right after EA’s conference on the same day. Sony has also revealed a preliminary list of games that will be showcased at the expo (which can be found below).
