So much for getting Final Fantasy VIII in Europe by end of January. The latest information from Mike Kebby over on the EU PlayStation.Blog is that the release date has been confirmed for February 4th 2010. Gamers in Europe will finally be able to replay the classic title on their PS3s and PSPgo in just a few week’s time.
Borderlands, the half first-person shooter and half loot-based role-playing game, has broken the 2 million sales mark according to Take-Two and the NDP Group. The title, which shipped for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 last October, surpassed a publishing milestone in December, toppling one million units sold cumulatively in North America according to the NPD Group, which tracks videogame software sales.
Last week, we reported that Japan will be getting a DVR Kit similar to PlayTV in Europe, called Torne. More details about the add-on have been revealed since, and we were surprised to see trophy supported amongst the list of features. The “Master of Final Episodes” trophy will be unlocked once the user has watched enough final TV show episodes.
This week in PlayStation Home, Europeans have two new Tekken 6 outfits and a selection of character ornaments to look forward too. The costumes can be picked up at Threads, and the ornaments from Furniture. For those in the US, you can find new NFL jerseys that sport (pun intended) the names of some of the league’s best players, just in time for Super Bowl XLIV. You can also find NBA jerseys emblazoned with the logos of your favorite teams.
Tomorrow, the latest patch for Fat Princess goes live, bring the game to version 1.04. The free patch adds a new city-themed map called Brownie Town. The patch also fixes an issue with the online rankings, so now the All-Time and Monthly scores for Team Deathmatch and Invasion have been swapped to post correctly.
If you are the kind of person that likes to know how things are made or work, check out the video below. The guys over at TechRestore took apart the PSPgo, taking over 1,245 photos to create this cool stop-motion video. The video begins with the PSP magically taking its self apart to a groovin’ beat, animated by TechRestore designer Brian Northway, and is followed by a lightning speed time-lapse reassembly, performed by TechRestore consumer electronics technician, Ivan Villanueva.
Sony’s Motion Controller was supposed to be released this Spring, according to Kaz Hirai, President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., in his keynote speech at the Tokyo Games Show. In a press release this morning, Sony has delayed the launch of the controller to Autumn 2010.
The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta recently took place attracting over 300,000 players from Europe and North America. Now, DICE has announced a public demo will be available in February 2010. Retailer GAME revealed that the demo will be available in Europe for three weeks via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live from February 4th 2010. North America will get the demo the following week, on February 11th 2010.
The Sony Motion Controller, codenamed Gem, will apparently be called “Arc” when it is released later this year. An anonymous source revealed to VG247 that the motion controller will be called Arc, though Sony has once again declined to comment on “rumour or speculation.”
God of War III is one of the most anticipated exclusives this year on the Playstation 3 – come critics have gone as far as calling it the Game of the Year this early into 2010. Sony recently revealed several technical graphical details on GOW, stating it will run at 720p with 1080p up-scaling. Furthermore, Stig Asmussen, the director of the game, revealed in an interview with Arabic gaming site N4GA that his title will have a variable frame rate from 30 to 60 frames per second depending on the amount of action on screen.
