PlayTV is now available to purchase in Europe. The PlayStation 3 accessory allows you to watch Live TV as well as record shows directly to the PS3 hard drive. The device is now available to purchase in Europe (selected countries only, including UK, France, Italy and Germany), and allows you to watch free over-the-air TV, like the Freeview service in the UK. The device is available for £69 and contains twin tuners (allows you to watch one channel while recording another). You also have the ability to record TV while playing games.

Features:

• Watch, pause and record live television on your PS3
• Record one channel while watching another or playing a PS3 game
• See what’s on, now and next, with the easy to use Programme Guide
• Watch TV on your PSP when you?re out and about (via Remote Play)

The PlayStation 3 even turns itself on to record a scheduled program and then shuts down after wards. Users in the UK will be able to access over 40 channels while France will be able to view over 20. Unfortunately, the device does not support HD TV. For more information on the device, visit the PlayTV Official Website.

The LittleBigPlanet trophy list has been revealed. The game, due for release later next month, will contain 48 unlockable trophies. You will be able to unlock 36 bronze trophies, four of which are secret, 8 silver trophies, 3 gold trophies and 1 platinum trophy. Most trophies sound easy to unlock so you should have all the trophies in no time. Check out the trophy list below, as well as a description on how to unlock them (criteria for unlocking the secret trophies are also included).

Trophy List:

• Bronze Trophies:
  • The Gardens – Complete all levels in The Gardens
  • The Savannah – Complete all levels in The Savannah
  • The Wedding – Complete all levels in The Wedding
  • The Canyons – Complete all levels in The Canyons
  • The Metropolis – Complete all levels in The Metropolis
  • The Islands – Complete all levels in The Islands
  • The Temples – Complete all levels in The Temples
  • Expert Creator – Complete all levels in the Tutorials
  • Artist – Place a sticker
  • Homemaker – Place 10 stickers or decorations in your pod
  • Fashion Sense – Choose a costume for your sackperson with at least one item on your head, at least one item on your body, and a material
  • Forager – Collect 25% of the prize bubbles on the story levels
  • Sticky Fingers – Collect 50% of the prize bubbles on the story levels
  • Treasure Hunter – Collect 75% of the prize bubbles on the story levels
  • 2X Multiplier! – Get a 2X Multiplier
  • 8X Multiplier! – Get an 8X Multiplier
  • Incredible Speed! – Travel at incredible speed
  • Incredible Height! – Travel to an incredible height
  • Friendly – Complete a level with more than one player
  • Party Person – Complete a level online with 3 other players who are on your friends list
  • Socialite – Complete a level online with 3 other players who are not on your friends list
  • Top of the class – Win a 4-player game
  • Traveller – Complete a community level
  • FIRST! – Be among the first 10 people to complete a community level
  • Opinionated – Tag a community level
  • Neighbourhood – Watch Heart 5 community levels
  • Networking – Heart 3 authors
  • Talkative – Post a comment on a community level
  • Creator – Build and save a level with the thermometer more than 30% full
  • Team Creator – Build and save a level with more than one player with the thermometer more than 30% full
  • Publisher – Publish a level
  • Look what I made! – A level you published was played by 5 or more people
  • (secret) Trendsetter – Place a sticker or a decoration on another player’s sackperson
  • (secret) Cranium Collector – Kill 100 Creatures across all levels
  • (secret) Secret Stickerist – Unlock the race in First Steps
  • (secret) Sackbird – Spend 8 seconds or more in the air
• Silver Trophies:
• Just Beginning – Complete all the main path story levels
• 20X Multiplier! – Get a 20X Multiplier
• Hi Score – Collect 1,000,000 points over all levels you have played
• Booty Master – Collect all the prize bubbles on the story levels
• Dr Frankenstein – Create a living creature with at least 2 eyes, 2 legs or wheels, and a brain
• Crowd Pleaser – A level you published was played by 50 or more people
• Feel the love – A level you published was hearted by 10 or more people
• Celebrity – You were hearted by 5 or more people as a player
• Gold Trophies:
  • Play – Complete all story levels without dying, with the exception of those levels that only end when you die
  • Create – A level you published was hearted by 50 or more people and you were hearted by 30 or more people
  • Share – Play 150 community levels, tag 50 community levels and heart 10 community levels
• Platinum Trophies:
  • 100% Complete – Earn all LittleBigPlanet trophies to unlock this platinum trophy

Earlier this week we migrated the website to a newer faster server to help deal with the increase in traffic. There were a few hiccups in the move, which seem to have been resolved now. You should notice a faster surfing experience. If you encounter any problems, please report them in the comments section. We will be changing a few things around over the next few weeks so you may notice a few differences.

The wallpaper gallery was taken offline earlier last week, but is now back online. If you have any suggestions on what you would like to see changed, please use the comment section. The PSP M4M magazine will be released once the team has time to put it together. As for XTREME PSP Mag, we will be continuing work on it soon so look out for more news on that.

After yesterday’s early accidental release of Life with PlayStation, Sony has officially announced the release of the new service today. The service is available for free and can be downloaded through the Folding@Home icon on the XMB under the [Network] category. Life with PlayStation delivers a new way for you to utilize your PS3 to instantly access real-time news and information like weather updates from over 60 cities around the world. While the service is in use, you will also be helping Stanford University to work towards curing diseases such as Alzheimer?s and various types of cancers.

Life with PlayStation provides a stunning interactive globe, a 3D world map that you can twirl around to see live cloud movement courtesy of the University of Wisconsin, combined with up-to-date weather information from the Weather Channel, top news headlines provided by Google news, and live web cam images via the Earth Television Network – all localized to the select city.

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SOCOM: Confrontation public beta will be patched to version 1.30 later today at 12:00PM GMT. The patch will attempt to correct bugs and errors encountered in the game, including poor loading times when joining a match, network lag, and other improvements. Other issues such as bad framerate, game crashes and loading screen freezes will be fixed in a future patch. You can find full details of the changelog below.

• Abnormally long network synchronization issues when some users in a game have a poor network connection. This issue causes 4-7 minute (or longer) load times when late joining a game.
• Fixed an issue where respawn game late joiners were sometimes stuck in spectator mode and could not respawn into the game.
• Removed the latency detection network test which was causing some users with poor network connections to receive the network latency icon (red X).
• Fixed an issue where clients with different client versions (patches) could play together in a default medley game.
• Fixed an issue where if the session master leaves the game, late joiners could not “green up” and late join into the game.
• Fixed corrupt characters in the European and Japanese EULAs and Server News.
• Fixed many join game issues and made joining a game quicker. We are still optimizing this.
• Fixed an issue where if you add and then remove someone from your block list they were still unable to send you a message.
• Improved accuracy while moving (based on user feedback). Partial implementation. More improvements to come.
• Reduced the encumbrance penalty (based on user feedback).
• Changed the default round time for Medley games from 8 minutes to 6 minutes (based on user feedback).

Sony has released Life with PlayStation without letting out a single word about it. An update is available for the Folding@Home client, which installed replaces the folding icon with the Life with PlayStation icon (which is much more suited to the XMB). If you are using Life with PlayStation, your online status will also be updated to show the same (Folding@Home will be replaced with Life with PlayStation).

We will be uploading a video of Life with PlayStation soon, so look out for it.

­UPDATE:

The release of Life with PlayStation was accidently released today, and Sony have since pulled the update. Sony as stated that during today’s test phase, the update was accidently released to the general public. The official release isn’t going to be today as we previously reported. Sony will be making an official announcement on the release soon.­

[Originally Posted On: 17/09/08 01:34 PM]

Although PlayStation Home is there for meeting new people and communicating, playing games is also a big part of Home. Sony is focusing more on online gaming within Home by creating "spaces" for gamers. Currently, beta testers do not have access to these spaces, but they can create and launch games within Home (compatible titles only). Depending on the game, Home will present you with options to customize your game. Players within home can join your game, after which you are returned back to Home.

Your friends and other players can join your game within Home, provided that they have the game you have selected. Several titles are already supported within home including Warhawk, SOCOM: Confrontation, MotorStorm and more. Even offline games and demos can be launched from Home. We’ve created two videos showing how games can be launched within home using two titles: SOCOM Controntation and Warhawk. Of the two games, Warhawk has more options to customize the the game. Warhawk also automatically creates the game for the player too.

SOCOM: Confrontation:

Warhawk:

In our guide on how to purchase content from the PlayStation Store in another country, we recomment using the website EntroPay. Many websites are reporting that this method no longer works as Sony have changed the payment mechanism. What does this mean? If you live in Europe or another country and you were hoping of purchasing anything from the US PlayStation Store, you will no longer be able to use a virtual visa card – you will need to own a US credit card.

This will disappoint those of you who want to get into the SOCOM Confrontation Beta through Qore. We do have some good new though. Using our existing EntroPay account, we were successfully able to add funds to our PlayStation Wallet, which leads us to believe that this problem could only be affecting new account. If you have an existing account, give it a go and report any feedback to us.