Monthly Archives: August 2009

During today’s Sony GamesCom presser, Kaz Hirai announced the PS3 Slim.

“Today is the day we introduce the PS3 Slim, available in stores from the first week of September,” he said.

It’s 32% smaller, 36% lighter, and sports 34% less power consumption. Inside, there’s a 120gb hard drive.

There’s more on the liveblog.

More specifically, between October 1 and October 10. All you have to do is register your PSP Go and — bam — free download of Gran Turismo PSP.

This isn’t just some measly demo, either. It’s the whole shebang, baby.

The announcement was made during Sony’s GamesCom press event.

More on the liveblog.

David Cage of Quantic Dream is on stage right now demoing Heavy Rain.

He’s just announced the final two characters for the game, and they are:

• Scott Shelby – He’s a private detective, innit.
• Ethan – Lost his oldest son in a crowd and his wife was knocked over by a car.

They’re showing the new trailer as we write this. Follow the livetext now!

During today’s Sony GamesCom presser, the console-maker confirmed that PSN cards are coming to Europe. They’ll be available in €20 and €50 varieties.

The liveblog contains all knowledge. Worship it with your eyes.

SCEE’s just announced that the BBC iPlayer is coming to the PS3 as of Firmware 3.0.

It’s from SCEE’s GC press conference – it’s live now.

The Sony press event is live at GamesCom and president Andrew House just said that PSN has made $280 million since launch.

There have also been 560 million downloads of game-centric content, with a connection rate of 60 percent with 27 million registrants.

“PSN is The Future”, said House. “It’s a service that delivers a unique offering for everyone.”

The event is live right here.

SCEE’s just announce brand new Home spaces for SingStar as well as for car maker, Audi.

It comes out of their press conference, which has just started.

EA’s confirmed, abit in Polish, that the demo for FIFA 10 will release on September 10.

No more info other then that we’re afraid, but we’ve left an email with EA to see if they’ll provide us with sweet, juicy, golden info.

October 2 is when you’re getting your grubby mitts on it for PS3, 360, Wii, PS2, PSP, PC, and DS.

Sony’s GamesCom presser’s approaching like a tidal wave. But while other sites cower in fear of the towering newsmass, we embrace it. So we’ll be liveblogging it, because we love that sort of thing.

The conference begins at 6.30pm CET (5.30pm BST, 12.30pm EST, 9.30am PST).

Jump past the break for all the updates!

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When BioWare hyped up Star Wars: TOR as “the most ambitious voice acting project ever,” the RPG mega-house wasn’t kidding.

Not only will all characters speak fully voiced English — they’ll also gab in German and French, if need be.

More than “40 novels worth of content” will be given the trilingual treatment.

More on the live blog.

EA’s put online within minutes of their press conference in Cologne the newest Mass Effect 2 trailer.

Video comes courtesy of SI. Go watch it through the link.

Game’s out in 2010 for 360 and PC.

Update: PR added, it’s after the jump.

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EA’s just announced that Dante’s Inferno’s coming in February. February 9 for the US, February 12 for Europe. Righteous.

There’s more over on the liveblog

EA’s press event at GamesCom is ongoing, and Tim Schafer is showing off weapons for the game and multiplayer battles.

One weapons is Eddie’s guitar, Clementine, which can pull-off pyrotechnic attacks and combos which change a little bit depending on which way you’re facing. You can customize and upgrade it later in the game, with the help of Ozzy.

Mission by mission, you unlock new allies to help out, each of which comes with its own double-team attack.

According to Tim, there is loads of “metal” detail in the game.

“You used to stare at record covers for hours, looking for details – we want to let players explore that kind of world for themselves,” he said. “We want to create the experience of falling into an album cover.

“Brutal Legend is an action game where you play a heroic badass, fighting dudes who listen to hair metal.”

The multiplayer is being shown for the first time, so is the car which allows you to “drive over dudes” and get a chrome paint job.

Find out loads more through the live blog along with pictures of Brutal Legend from the floor.

Tim Schaffer just announced a Brutal Legend demo for Septmeber 17th on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace.

It’s straight from the EA conference in Cologne.

Update: PR added. It’s below.

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EA’s just announced that it has dated Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for March 5th in Europe and March 2nd in the US.

It’s come out of EA’s GC press conference, which is going on right now.

Update: PR added. It’s after the break.

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EA’s confirmed that it’s sold over 100 million Sims games worldwide.

This is coming from their GamesCom press conference, which is ongoing right now.

The EA Press Event at GamesCom 09 is live and Peter Moore, sporting a pair of shorts, just announced that 35 new workouts are coming to the game via downloadable content this November.

To help him demonstrate what is coming, two-time Olympic gold figure skating medalist Katarina Vitt showed up on stage.

Apparently there will be an endless combinations of circuit routines, all new-stretches and ab exercises to get your fit and have fun while doing it.

The event is ongoing so check out the live blog and pictures from the floor here.

It’s all in the title. No, seriously. All of it. During today’s EA GamesCom presser, Peter Moore announced that EA Sports Active has sold a grand total of 1.8 million units. Hooray!

For more from EA, watch our liveblog of the press conference.

EA’s GC conference is ongoing right now, but FIFA 10 producer David Rutter has announced that Read Madrid’s Bernabau stadium will be released as DLC, and not be in the game as standard.

Game’s out October 2nd.

Watch Keza and Pat do their thing here.

The EA press event at GamesCom is live, and Pat’s in the house taking lovely photos.

So far, the intro has shown all your favorites, including MySims, etc.

They’re a bit grainy but that’s ok. You don’t care as long as you can see what’s happening.

You should check out the live blog as it happens and you can do so here.