The PlayStation Video Store is finally making its way to Australia, after being exclusively available in the US and a select few countries in Europe. The service launches in Australia tomorrow with hundreds of movies available to purchase and download from as little as AU$4.
If last year was anything to go by (when the PSPgo was announced), Sony could be prepping another big announcement for the PSP. According to MVC, a number of publishers are waiting for an announcement of the next iteration of the PSP before announcing their games line-up for the portable console.
Another recent rumor circulating the Internet suggests that PlayStation Home may be losing it’s current region-locked areas. Currently, users from a particular region (e.g. US) must be invite to visit another region (e.g. Japan) from a friend, it also means you can only socialize and play games players from the same region – the new change would mean everyone is in the same place.
This week on the US PSP Store, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is now available to download and so are two new Minis titles. There is new game add-on content for LittleBigPlanet, The Eye of Judgement and Buzz! Quiz World. Finally, there is a new selection of videos and XMB themes available for download.
This week on the US PlayStation Store,you can find a number of new downloadable games, including Episode 2 of Sam & Max, and you can also find four new playable demos, including Iron Man 2 and ModNation Racers. There is lots of new content for games, including Split/Second and Battlefield: Bad Company 2, among others.
It’s been seven week already – and the 7th issue of FirstPlay hits the PlayStation Store tomorrow. This week’s episode this includes a preview of Rockstar’s cold-eyed six-shoot ‘em up, Red Dead Redemption, with a full review coming in a future episode. Episode 007 also features UFC 2010 and Skate 3.
A recent rumor going around suggests that Firmware 3.40 will be available to download soon. According to TheSixthAxis, the firmware was released to developers late last week, so it will take a few weeks of testing before a public release. Unfortunately, no details on the update are actually available, so we don’t know if anything new has been added.
VG247 has learnt that Sony is to reveal plans for PSN’s premium services at E3. According to a highly-placed source, Sony will announce a large-scale monetizing scheme for PSN at the LA show next month, but it will not impact the service’s current free aspects (like online gaming).
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced a partnership with leading online film library MUBI, to bring to PlayStation 3 a new service that will break open the world of independent, international and classic cinema, and introduce PS3 owners to movies outside the mainstream.
A new version of Assassin’s Creed II has been announced for release in June. The “Complete Edition” is the full copy of the original game along with the two expansion packs released earlier this year: The Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities. The Complete Edition also comes with more exclusive content, previously exclusive to the Black Edition.
