A slew of new content was added to the Playstation Store for PSP and PS3 owners yesterday.
Here's what Sony has given us: 

Downloadable Games

• echochrome (US$ 9.99)

Add-on Game Content

• Rock Band
  • “Zero” – Smashing Pumpkins (US$ 1.99)
  • “Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear” – The Mother Hips (US$ 1.99)
  • “Red Tandy” – The Mother Hips (US$ 1.99)
• Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore (US$1.49 each)
  • “(You Make Me Feel Life) A Natural Woman” – Aretha Franklin
  • “Against All Odds” – Phil Collins
  • “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
  • “Ain’t Nothing Life the Real Thing” – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
  • “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” – Temptations
  • “Alone” – Heart
  • “Always Something There to Remind Me” – Naked Eyes
  • “American Woman – Lenny Kravitz
  • “Born to be Wild” – Steppenwolf
  • “Careless Whisper” – Wham
  • “Complicated” – Avril Lavigne
  • “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” – Queen
  • “Do I Make You Proud” – Taylor Hicks
  • “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” – Culture Club
  • “Every Rose Has its Thorn” – Poison
  • “Flashdance…What a Feeling” – Irene Cara
  • “Greatest Love of All” – Whitney Houston
  • “Here I Go Again” – Whitesnake
  • “I Got You Babe” – Sonny & Cher
  • “If I Ain’t Got You” – Alicia Keys
  • “I’m Coming Out” – Diana Ross
  • “It’s Your Love” – Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
  • “Just the Way You Are” – Billy Joel
  • “Ladies Night” – Kool & the Gang
  • “Let’s Get it On” – Marvin Gaye
  • “Love Will Keep Us Together” – Captain & Tennille
  • “My Girl” – Temptations
  • “New York
  • "New York” – Frank Sinatra
  • “On the Road Again” – Willy Nelson
  • “Photograph” – Nickelback
  • “Proud Mary” – Creedance Clearwater
  • “Respect” – Aretha Franklin
  • “Stand By Your Man” – Tammy Wynette
  • “Straight Up” – Paula Abdul
  • “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” – Fall Out Boy
  • “Taking Care of Business” – Bachman Turner Overdrive
  • “The First Cut is the Deepest” – Sheryl Crow / Rod Stewart
  • “The Real Thing” – Bo Bice
  • “When the Sun Goes Down” – Kenny Chesney & Uncle Kracker
  • “Who Can it be Now?” – Men At Work
  • “You and Me” – Lifehouse
  • “You’re My Best Friend” – Queen

Game Demos

• Dark Sector (free)

Game Videos (free)

• echochrome Trailer
• Battlefield Bad Redford Blog
• Kung Fu Panda Trailer
• Dead Space Announcement Trailer
• Dead Space Ship Date Trailer
• Turok “Bring It” Trailer
• Turok – “Kane” Gameplay Trailer
• NBA Ballers: Chosen One TV Spot
• Wyclef’s “Fast Car” Music Video

PS3 Wallpaper

• echochrome Wallpapers (x4)
• Kung Fu Panda Wallpapers (x3)

PLAYSTATION STORE for PC (PSP)

Downloadable Games

• echochrome (US$ 9.99) (also downloadable via PS3)

Game Videos (free)

• echochrome Trailer
• Wyclef’s “Fast Car” Music Video

PSP Wallpaper (free)

• echochrome Wallpapers (x4)

Quite a lot, no? Enjoy! .

The newest Grand Theft Auto game took a long time to make, and apparently, it was the most expensive. Rockstar Games let slip that the game supposedly cost $100 million to make. This breaks the previous record of $70 million. This massive figure is a sign of the video game industry’s expansion, and a good reason not to pirate games. Funny thing is, Rockstar has gained all that money back (probably doubled it) in less then these 2 days.

For a long time now, Metal Gear players have been waiting for the Metal Gear Online Premiere Beta kick-off.  Unfortunately their joy has been delayed because of a patch that Konami has been installing. 

The wait is now over. Users in all regions can now triumphantly log on to the MGO servers and play their eyes out.  As promised, it will start with the players creating their own characters and customizing their stats.  Have fun. 

Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that PS3 users will now have to wait just a bit longer to get a taste of PlayStation Home. With an open beta not expected to begin until fall of 2008.

Following completion of the extended closed beta test, the Home open beta service will commence in fall 2008.

Well, its better to have a prefect Home release than one that will be full of glitches and bugs, right?

April 15th on the East Coast and firmware 2.30 is live. The major update for this release is new redesigned PLAYSTATION Store, and trust me, this is as good it gets. As soon as you clicked that X button on your Sixaxis controller, you will hear the first sound update on the PLAYSTATION Store.

So if you haven't yet upgraded to 2.30, you better do it now or else as a PS3 user, you are missing out!

Hideo Kojima's commented on his own creation, Metal Gear Solid 4 and the PS3. It's almost inevitable our take on the situation will be misconstrued as blind fanboy bias, but we'd like to try to take an objective glance at what he said. In a recent interview in Edge magazine, Kojima said that the gameplay of MGS4 is fairly close to his vision, but the graphical side of things got a slight hit from what he envisioned: "things like motion-blending and the size of the map, totally was not accomplished to my original vision – to my satisfaction."

After their initial TGS showing, everyone was excited to see what the PS3 was capable of, but once development really started, Kojima says they could not evolve as much as he wanted. "The original vision was to go ten steps further, the reality was just one step, which isn't to say we didn't progress." The CPU apparently is at fault here, as the Cell is being fully employed, says Kojima.

He doesn't blame the PS3 and rightly so that one thing to lay out your plans and envision what you'd like to do, but when it comes to it, you've got to sacrifice some of your dreams and ideals. Was Kojima dreaming too much with his original ideas? Not really– but what he wanted might have been something we'll need to wait another generation for. We'd like to have a smell-o-vision, but we'll settle for rumble. Is that the PS3's fault? Nah. Kojima should relax — his game looks fantastic and we're sure all his fans will agree he's made much more progress than he's giving himself credit for.

[via NeoGAF]

Sony announced that they have just released their official PS3 firmware version 2.30 on April 15th

Changes for 2.30:

The Blu-ray Disc playback now supports DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio output.
However, The PS3 system does not support playback of DTS-ES and DTS 96/24 for DVD-Video or DTS-ES Matrix for Blu-ray Discs.

• You can now play discs that support Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 (BD-LIVE). You can connect to the Internet while playing discs that support this format so that you can obtain additional features. Features that are available vary depending on the software in use.
• You can now copy playlists that you create in photo (Photo) and music (Music) to a PSP® system.
• The way you register (pair) Bluetooth® devices has changed, and you can now register more devices.
• A [BD Internet Connection] setting has been added under [BD/DVD Settings].
• An [Audio Output Device] setting has been added under [Remote Play Settings].
• You can now display an image while editing a playlist.
• You can now play a music track while editing a playlist.
• You can now play DivX and WMV files that are 2 GB or larger.
• You can now display subtitles when playing DivX files.
• You can now resume playing a DVD from the point where you previously stopped it.
• A [Mosquito Noise Reduction] option has been added under [AV Settings] in the control panel for standard dvds
• You can now play BD-R version 1.2 (LTH* BD-R) discs.
• LTH, or low to high, is a recording method that supports organic dye, write-once BD-R media.
• You can now change some PS3™ system settings during remote play.
• [Save Target] has been added as an option under [File] in the browse mode menu of the Internet browser. This option lets you save a file that is linked from a Web page, such as an image or video file, or other type of file, to your PS3™ system’s hard disk drive or storage media.
• The Internet browser now displays some Web pages faster.
• Using the Internet browser, you can now play a linked video file* as it is being downloaded.
• Some types of video files cannot be viewed in this manner and must be downloaded completely before playback.

Its a little late but I had to post it anyway.

Master Chief from the Xbox game Halo, is available for use on your PS3 version of Unreal Tournament 3. Its very simple, all you have to do is…

1. Unzip the userdata.jar in the download link below to a usb stick or a memory stick.

2. Start your game.

3. From the menu select community.

4. Then my content, from here press [] and follow the directions.

Download

New 2.17 update is out:

I couldnt get a lot of info on this although it looks like a bug fix. So I translated the Japanese site and this is what I got:

* The main function which is renewed  with version 2.17