Check your inbox as LittleBigPlanet Water Beta invites are being sent out. If you are lucky enough to be given a beta invite, you will be rewarded with exclusive items such as Beta Test Vest as a thank you for your participation. It will also be possible to earn a Beta Bug Blaster Hazmat costume, a prize we give only to those testers who go above and beyond the call of duty to provide us with bugs and feedback, or generally make themselves very useful.
Downloadable PSN version of the popular party card game. UNO is the classic party card game that’s number one for family fun! Compete against three other players to match colors and symbols, go Wild with special command cards such as Skip and Reverse, and be the first to play all your cards.
Building on the original game’s heritage, Operation Flashpoint 2 aims to deliver the most realistic modeling of conflict scenarios in a new contemporary theater of war. By offering a multitude of military disciplines, gameplay delivers warfare more realistic and intense then ever before, while an extensive multiplayer component creates battles on an incredible scale.
A playable version of Metal Gear Solid: Peach Walker will be appearing at the Tokyo Game Show later this month. For those that are unable to fly out to Japan, Kojima Productions has detailed the playable demos they’re bringing to TGS 09. First off, there are two ways to play the demo. You can line up at the Peace Walker Demo Play Area and get your hands on a demo unit. If you’d rather not wait in line, you can download a copy of the demo from the Demo Download Areas.
The Yellow Light of Death is becoming an increasing problem, according to BBC’s Watchdog. The YLOD was featured on BBC’s Watchdog show last night with a number of users experiencing the issue. The BBC pinned the issue down to a hardware issue present is most consoles, and we know from most cases it is in fact a hardware issue. In response, Sony sent a letter to the BBC detailing the returns policy and commenting on the hardware failure. If you are interested in reading this incredibly long letter, we’ve included it below.
In the third part of the motion controller Blog series, Richard Marks and Anton Mikhailov break down their E3 on-stage demo in more detail. From plasma whips and drawing, to abstract domino snakes and real time strategy-style games, you’ll see some things you’re already familiar with, as well as some never before seen applications that didn’t quite make the show. More details are included in the video below.
This week on the US Video Store you can find X-Men Origins: Wolverine which includes a bonus featurette. Hugh walks through what it was like to take on the role of Wolverine/Logan again in this pulse-pounding action thriller.
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Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarch has spilled the beans on the design influences behind Uncharted hero Nathan Drake, revealing the studio wanted the brash treasure hunter to resemble a regular bloke as opposed to an individual who boasted “precise Ninja powers”. As a result of this, the developer poured over various action movies staring ‘everyday’ heroes when tweaking Drake’s character for the hotly anticipated sequel.
Toshiba has recently revealed that they are creating a hard drive that has a higher maximum areal density, allowing 160GB on a single side of a platter, rather than the usual 125GB, allowing 640GB of space to fit onto 2 data platters, up from the original 500GB. HDDs will be made available some time between October and December this year. The part number to watch out for will be M6465GSX.
The free-to-play Free Realms is a very popular MMO title from Sony Online Entertainment. It now appears the game will make its way to the PlayStation 3 sometime in the middle of 2010, according to SOE president John Smedley. In Smedley’s keynote speech, he also mentioned the possible of of the PlayStation Eye, saying, “For the PlayStation 3 version, it’s very likely that the Eye is going to be something we support.”
