All of the rumors about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves are true! It was just announced that it will have a competitive and cooperative multiplayer mode. Evan Wells (Co-President of Naughty Dog) said that they have kept this a secret for more than over a year and a half. Evan also said that the Naught Dog crew has been expanding rapidly and they now have a few more dogs.

“If you’ve been looking closely at our interviews, our team here at Naughty Dog has been growing rapidly and we now have quite a few more Dogs on staff than when work finished on UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune. It shouldn’t be a surprise that we had to grow our studio to tackle the task of creating fully-realized multiplayer and co-op modes that would live up to our own high standards and do the UNCHARTED universe justice. I’m incredibly proud at the excellent work our team has done so far and it shows in the solid game play and incredible polish of the little slice we showed press last week. “[1]

The multiplayer beta will begin June 3^rd. The way you will gain access to it is through the infamous vouchers, which go on sale May 26^th.

Evan also hinted on more things coming to the single player campaign, and to stay tuned.

“We’ll be back soon to talk more about our single player campaign – don’t think for a second we’ve forgotten about that! The rest of our team at Naughty Dog has been hard at work pushing our engine to its limits while creating a campaign that is more expansive and more ambitious than UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune. They’ve even learned a few tricks from our multiplayer and co-op development – truly a win-win situation as all aspects of UNCHARTED 2 are benefiting from the work we’re putting into both single player and multiplayer modes.”[2]

Source:

[1][2] April 27, 2009 The Offical PlayStation Blog, Uncharted 2 to Include Multiplayer, Beta Starts June 3rd – http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/04/27/uncharted-2-to-include-multiplayer-beta-starts-june-3rd/

Offical Talk Thread :

http://bit.ly/UnchartedMultiplayerAndBeta

The first trailer of the new Killzone 2 DLC pack.

A few weeks ago Hermen Hulst, Managing Director of Guerrilla Games announced on GameTrailers TV that Killzone 2 would be getting a DLC pack. The pack will be entitled Steel and Titanium and would be releashed April 30. The first map in the pack is [1]Wasteland Bullet, and the action will take place on the bullet train that and transports goods and troops between Pyrrhus and the Wasteland. The game is a frenzied firefight to wrestle control of the train from the enemy and into the hands of your faction. With the train moving at full speed, players will need to remain aware of the immediate environment as well as enemies – hitting an overhead obstacle at this speed will mean instant death. The second map, Vekta Cruiser, will find ISA troops boarding a vast ship with the goal to repel a force of assaulting Helghast troops while also protecting the cruiser itself from heavy Helghan fire. The action takes place entirely indoors in a frantic and claustrophobic battle where attackers lurk around every corner.^[1] These 2 new maps will contain new gameplay elements and strategic twists. Furthermore the price of the DLC pack was revealed on the offical PlayStation Blog that it would cost $5.99.

Wasteland Bullet Gameplay

Vekta Cruiser Gameplay

Source:

[1] April 14, 2009 The Offical PlayStation Blog, Download Killzone 2 Steel and Titanium April 30th – http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/04/14/download-killzone-2-steel-and-titanium-april-30th

Offical Talk Thread :

http://bit.ly/Killzone2sDLCInformation

Tomorrow will redefine the way people think about survival horror as the honorable Resident Evil franchise welcomes its next chapter. Resident Evil 5 comes out on “Friday the 13th”, a release date which wasn’t planned out at all… well, ok, maybe a little.

The game will feature a revolutionary Co-op mode where you will have the joy of rampaging with a friend or being ravaged together by the hordes as well as keeping the “over the shoulder” camera style of its popular predecessor, Resident Evil 4, which was a giant success for Capcom.

Resident Evil 5 will be available on the Xbox 360, the PS3, and the PC.

According to a blogpost on the PSBlog, Capcom is planning to release psone games to the PS store for download. This hopefully means we can get hold of some of those nostalgic games to play on our PSP / PS3’s. Not to mention give us some more variety of gaming options.

In a push to make the PlayStation division of Sony profitable they have reviewed the makings of the PS3 to look for optimizations. The newest PlayStation 3 console costs Sony $448.73 to produce rather than the $690.23 it previously cost them.

This of course raises the question, is Sony going to lower the price of the PS3? This seems like it could go either way. In a market like this, it would make sense to minimize losses. But, for Sony may have to make the cut to compete with the Wii and XBox.

I believe it will be the latter because the Playstation division has lost $3.4 BILLION in the last 2 fiscal years. What makes matters worst is that November sales of the PS3 dipped 19%, while the XBox was up 8.6%, while the Wii *more than doubled* its sales. It can be argued that the other consoles are on different playing `fields`, but at the end of the day if your `field` is losing money… move.

With the gifting part of the holidays coming to and end many new consumers are sitting next to brand new PS3s. In order to ramp up new users Sony decided to post a new how-to video everyday next week. Today they started with the basics: How to create and view a slide show.

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This week's free LittleBigPlanet costume is themed for the holidays. Everyone, meet Santa Sackboy.

 Obsidian Suit

I was on the us.playstation.com site and noticed the Obsidian suit was ready for download already as part of EA's big hoo-ray for gaving it go gold in pre-orders. This suit is excusive to the ps3 and will ony be around for a limited time… (like the first two weeks of the release date) so download it as soon as you can. you might be wondering why should I bother? well Sony gave this description

"This amazing Level 5 suit features the jet black PLAYSTATION®3 colors, upgraded toughness, and extra inventory slots".

Scorpion Suit

The scorpion suit is also ready for download… at a cost. Sony gave this description

"Download the exclusive Scorpion Suit now! Equip Isaac with this stunning Level 5 suit featuring enhanced armor and extra inventory slots."

as you can see not any diffrent from the Obsidian suit, just a diffrent look.

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Dead Space is set for release on Oct 14th.

This is definitely a day for the history books, every ones hard work and perseverance has paid off. A Japanese developer has dropped a bomb of a release he has finished a filer program that will allow you to view jpg, gif and png files, but that isn't the best part there is also a NES emulator in there as well.

Installation:

• Unzip the ps3filer.zip archive 

• Copy NES ROMs to the AVCHD directory

• Copy the AVCHD directory to the root of a USB/Flash drive

• Go to the device in the XMB video menu and launch “AVCHD”

Well, well, well, Sony has release another update for their firmware. Firmware 2.42, and if you have not notice yet but when Sony has released a firmware that has .02 then you should know its just to fix the bugs, in the PS3.

Well, they was wrong. Sony will not be releasing Life with Playstation until August 2008, and the bluetooth mic fix? I thought they already did that. From the official Sony website, this is what the director PSN operations, Eric Lempel said:

So what I see it’s just a firmware that fixes the bugs to keep the PS3 to run better. To download get it here and make a folder called “PS3″ and add a folder called “UPDATE”, then put the file in there or just do a network update.

Download PS3 Firmware 2.42