The Sony PS3 thread (apparently *still* obnoxious!)

[Flabio]

26th was the date I've heard bandied about for it.

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Stuff in the UK I've found usually appears on PSN on a Friday, so perhaps the 27th?

[WiteWulf]

Cool....Transformers movie and Heavenly Sword demo on the same weekend...hope the GF's not expecting anything productive out of me

[DeanoC]

The demo is going through whatever Sony do to make them on PSN... You guess is as good as mine

[flookster]

The Darkness demo has appeared on UK PSN today - usually friday for these things no?

[WiteWulf]

Yup...I just noticed that, too.

Other stuff:
GTA IV Trailer 2
R6 Vegas Trailer
The Darkness Trailer (must be a new one at a guess)
Ratatouille Trailer

Gonna give the Darkness demo a bash now...

[NorthWay]

That new "value pack" PS3 is now showing up here in Norway.
2nd Sixaxis, Motorstorm, and Resistance.
Still getting shafted - 6K NOK.
(Yeah, I want a PS3, but I can do without the extra controller and Motorstorm.)

[chub]

That new "value pack" PS3 is now showing up here in Norway.
2nd Sixaxis, Motorstorm, and Resistance.
Still getting shafted - 6K NOK.
(Yeah, I want a PS3, but I can do without the extra controller and Motorstorm.)

That pack is in Finland too, for the bargain price of €660 (about £444).

[WiteWulf]

Pixel Junk Racers is looking like nice, simple, fun:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22451.html

[Misfit]

Pixel Racers is looking like nice, simple, fun:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22451.html

I didn't expect it to be like the old Scalectrix on a lane idea (Well TCR with the old lane changing gizmo). I was expecting more super sprint.

As such I'm a bit less excited now.

In other news, the Darkness in now out as my 'bargain' one arrived from Littlewoods this morning.

However before I open it I'm waiting to see if they credit the £23.50 back to my account because as I used a debit card they took £44 at time of order.

I know credit card users were getting charged £44 at time of DESPATCH then instantly credited back the £23.50. So I'm just being careful!

[HGFB]

Loco Roco coming to PSN. Sold!

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48016

[WiteWulf]

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=80202

A Heavenly Sword demo will be available to download from the PlayStation Network this Thursday, Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer this morning.

It will give PS3 owners a chance to try out the hugely anticipated action game from Ninja Theory ahead of it's projected September release date.

[HGFB]

Is that going to be US or Europe? Eurogamer don't say and Sony hate Europe so it's not clear.

[WiteWulf]

...also, Firmware 1.90 due tomorrow, according to threespeech:

• Ability to rearrange games on the XMB
• Option menu now includes “eject disk”
• Press triangle to eject games/CDs/movies in the XMB
• XMB backgrounds
• Change the folder classification
• Emoticons
• Change CD output to 44.1/88.2/176.4kHz
• Force 24Hz output for Blu-ray over HDMI
• Change PS3 video settings in-game
• “Bit Mapping” in the “Music Setting”
• Save AVCHD type animations from a Memory Stick
• Change settings like upscaling while playing PS and PS2 games
• Add bookmarks
• Web browser security function in the browser’s tool section
• Avatar moves during audio visual chat

[amanset]

That new "value pack" PS3 is now showing up here in Norway.
2nd Sixaxis, Motorstorm, and Resistance.
Still getting shafted - 6K NOK.
(Yeah, I want a PS3, but I can do without the extra controller and Motorstorm.)

Nasty. 6000 SEK, which makes Norway's a fair bit more expensive. Then again, my price is taken from Webhallen, which is just about the cheapest you'd find it in Sweden. Christ knows what Game will charge for it.

http://www.webhallen.com/prod.php?id=77282