E3 2010 kicks of this week and Sony has already unveiled some of the biggest upcoming games ahead of the Press Conference, including Dead Nation, MotorStorm Apocalypse, inFAMOUS 2, Killzone 3, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, LittleBigPlanet 2, and more. Sony has also released a new trailer for Gran Turismo 5, which was shown on GameTrailers and Spike TV a few days ago.
Now that 3D gaming is available on the PlayStation 3, the next step for Sony is to enable 3D Blu-ray movie compatibility. As announced by Sony earlier, the PlayStation 3 will require another firmware update to enable 3D Blu-ray playback, which has now been scheduled for September.
At E3 next week, Sony is set to officially announce the premium PlayStation Network service. The service will cost lest than £50 a year, and will be called PSN+. The service is said to feature a streaming music application that’s similar to Spotify which can run in the background while playing games, as well as the option to offer subscribers one free PSN title from a choice of “two to four” every month.
Sony’s first set of 3D games – dubbed the ‘stereoscopic collection’ – is now available to download from the PlayStation Store, including titles like WipEout HD and Super Stardust HD. In a interview with CVG, UK PlayStation boss Ray Maguire confirmed that majority of first-party games will be 3D in the future.
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This week on the US Video Store, you can find new episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and East Bound and Down, along with action-packed episodes of your favorite HBO series including True Blood, Rome, The Wire, and The Sopranos. In celebration of the E3 conference next week, video gamers can set their sights on the Gamer Sale now available under Featured Collections.
Super Stardust HD was originally at full HD resolution was it was released a few years ago, running at full 1080p resolution. With the 3D update, running the game in 3D mode only runs at 720p but at a whopping 120fps (60fps per eye). Luckily, full HD resolution is retained on a normal HDTV.
Official PlayStation Magazine subscribers will soon be offered discounts to purchase episodes of FirstPlay. The announcement of special offers was mode via the official FirstPlay twitter account, but details of special offers were not revealed. This should save consumers a bit of money, but ideally we would love it if FirstPlay was free to subscribers.
Grand Theft IV has been out for a good year and a half now and yet the title continues to sell well. To date, the title has sold more than 17 million units world wide on all platforms combined. Take-Two revealed the sales figure in thei Q2 earnings report earlier this week.
Final Fantasy IX is already available to download in Europe and Japan for a few weeks now, and is finally heading to the US PlayStation Store. Sony has announced that the PSOne classic will be available to purchase from June 15th 2010, for $9.99. Final Fantasy IX is playable on the PSP and PS3, but be sure to have at least 2GB of free space available.
With E3 just around the corner, Sony has announced yet another new title for the PlayStation 3: MotorStorm Apocalypse. In the same way that the first MotorStorm was set in Monument Valley, and MotorStorm Pacific Rift was set on ‘The Island’, inspired by Hawaii and other Pacific islands, we’ve set this MotorStorm in ‘The City’, inspired by the West Coast of America, and, in particular, the Bay Area of California.
