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Sony has released its usual update on what delights will grace the US PlayStation Store in this week’s update.

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The big news in this week’s US PS Store update is the first title of Sony’s PSN PLAY scheme – Street Fighter 3: Third Strike Online Edition – but come through for plenty of other goodies including some beta for a little shooter, maybe you’ve heard of it.

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The US PS Blog has confirmed that certain PlayStation Network functions are offline, and an update from SCEA’s Patrick Seybold advises that it could last for a day or two.

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Day one is rounding up at GameCom and if you missed out on any of it, we’ve got you covered.

It’s all here in one lovely post. From Peter Moore sporting shorts and chatting on stage with Katarina Vitt, to Ray Muzyka not giving us a Mass Effect 2 date – that was the EA side.

From the day purchase of a purple Hannah Montana PSP 3000 to Kaz’s mega-fucking-ton but anticlimactic announcements of PS3 Slim and it’s pretty price – Sony’s all right here as well.

Hit the links and see for yourself.

EA PRESS EVENT

• GamesCom: EA press conference liveblog

• EA’s GC Press Event: Pictures from the floor

• Bernabau stadium to release as DLC in FIFA 10

• EA Sports Active moves 1.8 million units

• More workouts coming in November to Sports Active

• Sims series sells over 100 million units

• FIFA 10 demo dated for September

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 dated for March 2010

• Brutal Legend demo for September 17th

• Tim Schafer talks multiplayer in Brutal Legend

• Dante’s Inferno releasing in February

• Mass Effect 2 trailer posted online

• Everyone in Star Wars: TOR will speak three languages

• GamesCom: Dragon Age: Origins video shows Darkspawn

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 video and shots from GamesCom

• GamesCom: Mass Effect 2 screens are a sight to behold

• GamesCom: Loads of Dragon Age: Origins screens

• Brutal Legend GamesCom video from EA Press Event

Sony Press Event

• Sony Press Event liveblog

• SingStar and Audi Home spaces announced

• PSN’s made $280 million

• BBC iPlayer coming to PS3

• PSN cards coming to Europe

• Last two characters for Heavy Rain revealed

• Gran Turismo PSP free with registration of PSP Go in October

• PS3 Slim announced!

• PS3 finally gets official price cut

• The first pics of the Slim

• First official shots from PS3 Slim

• PS3/PSP video-on-demand service coming in November

• Digital Reader announced for PSP

• Minis announced for PSP Go

• PSP 3000 painting the town pink, turquoise, and purple this November

• Tretton on the PS3 Slim

• Watch the new Heavy Rain trailer

• Watch the moment the PS3 Slim is revealed

• Uncharted 2 GamesCom trailer from Sony Press Event

This week, the SingStore sees a big push of songs from Universal bands.

Included are Nirvana, Starsailor, Snow Patrol, Elton John, Girls Aloud, Musical Youth and The Killers.

Get the full list of songs, after the jump.

From the EU PS Blog.

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Sony and Universal have inked a deal that’ll see the latter’s music heading to SingStar.

The following will be added to the SingStore in August as a result:

• If I Could Turn Back Time – Cher
• Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long Long Time) – Elton John
• Love Machine – Girls Aloud
• I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
• The Reason – Hoobastank
• Ruby – Kaiser Chiefs
• Everybody’s Changing – Keane
• Celebration – Kool And The Gang
• Get It Shawty – Lloyd
• Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Ace Of Spades – Motorhead
• Pass The Dutchie – Musical Youth
• Come As You Are – Nirvana
• Crazy – Patsy Cline
• Laura – Scissor Sisters
• Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
• Everybody Wants To Rule The World – Tears For Fears
• Lovefool – The Cardigans
• Somebody Told Me – The Killers
• Don’t Stand So Close To Me – The Police
• I Think We’re Alone Now – Tiffany

PR after the break.

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Sony has issued a list of all the first party titles it will be showing at E3.

It’s pretty massive, and here it is:

PS3

• BUZZ! Quiz World
• God of War III
• Heavy Rain
• MAG
• ModNation Racers
• Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time
• Singstar Queen
• UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves
• White Knight Chronicles

PSP

• BUZZ! Quiz World
• Gran Turismo
• Hot Shots Tennis
• Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier
• LittleBigPlanet
• Motorstorm: Arctic Edge
• PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe
• Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3

PlayStation Network

• deTuned
• Gravity Crash
• Hustle Kings
• Fat Princess
• PAIN Museum
• PixelJunk Shooter
• Trash Panic
• Wipeout HD Fury

Press release is after the break.

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More mediocrity has been added to the US SingStar Store.

A five-song pack from Britney Spears will run you $6.99 and includes:

(You Drive Me) Crazy, Born To Make You Happy, I Love Rock n’ Roll, Oops! I Did It Again, and Stronger.

In total, 18 other songs have been added, but the PS blog felt these were the only ones worth mentioning:

• MGMT – Youth
• Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
• Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder – Ebony & Ivory
• Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris – Dance Wiv Me

Sony says loads more is coming for SingStar in the coming months.

We can’t wait.

Bit late on this. We apologise. Sony’s confirmed SingStar PS3′s going to get wireless microphones by way of the game’s MySpace page.

They’re out next year, apparently.

According to this GI story, former creative services manager Dave Ranyard is to assume control of the SingStar franchise at Sony London.

The role was vacated when long-time caretaker Paulina Bozek left for Atari earlier this year.

SCEE’s announced that two Queen packs are to be available for download on the SingStore tomorrow.

Each one contains five tracks and will cost £4.49.

Full details after the link.

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This Hexus report is rumouring that Sony’s working on a SingStar game based on classic musicals, named, aptly enough, Singstar: Hits from the Musicals.

Apparently, the following tracks are to be included:

• Bad Guys – Bugsy Malone
• Can You Feel the Love Tonight? – The Lion King
• If I Were a Rich Man – Fiddler on the Roof
• Over the Rainbow – Wizard of Oz

This is actually cool. Singing If I Were a Rich Man is approximately 40,000 times more preferable than scratching along with Boyzone. We’re not 12. We’re real men.

More on this soon, hopefully.

Here we go. Nintendo just delivered a “news-light” press conference at E3, clearing the way for what we hope will be a “fireworks-heavy,” force 10 of a showing from Sony. Microsoft blew the internet up last night with a line-up topped off with a gigaton FFXIII announcement, and all eyes are now on PlayStation 3 and its coming year to deliver the goods.

Home, a price cut, new hardware, the Ueda game, Tears of Blood, God of War, Resistance 2, Killzone 2: let’s go Sony. Give us everything you’ve got. Let’s see Kaz cry with excitement. Let’s see Harrison-replacement Shuhei Yoshida rip the roof off. Let’s see fucking something, anyway.

The IGN feed’s holding up very well. All details here.

Full list of new songs after the break. You can’t beat a bit of Judas Priest.

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You can stop updating SingStar now, SCEE. After adding Making Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz, there’s no need to put any more tacks on the SingStore. List of new music to be included tomorrow after the link. Thanks, DarkZero.

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This IGN story‘s dated the Australian version of SingStar Vol. 2 as June 19.

The new disc-based version of the karaoke game will feature a new duet mode and 20 new tracks.

We just asked SCEE if the date applied to Europe as well, and were told that there’s been no announcement as yet.

The European SingStore’s getting an update today, according to ThreeSpeech. It’s a stunner. We’ve never heard of any of the European stuff so we have no idea if it’s any good or not, but the English stuff looks OK. Assuming you have to sing to music instead of just, like, listening to it. Weirdos.

List after the link.

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According to PS3F, SingStar producer Paulina Bozek confirmed at the SCEE PlayStation Day last night that a web version of My SingStar Online will launch this year.

The site will allow internet users to see uploaded videos from the game. Apparently SingStar players will be able to say whether or not they want their videos to be viewed by the general public or held within the current, PS3-only system.

More through the link.

Just to add to this lot of screens and movies, here are the last shots we missed from the asset disc handed out at the SCEE PlayStation Day yesterday.

• MotorStorm Pacific Rift shots
• Siren: Blood Curse shots
• SingStar Vol. 2 shots
• SingStar PS3 shots
• PlayTV shots
• Elefunk shots
• PixelJunk Eden shots

Kaz is a nice chap. He only flew in to the UK this morning for the SCEE PlayStation Day in London, but he was still the consummate, media-trained super-exec we know and love when we tracked him down on the O2 showfloor. Hit the link for the SCE president’s thoughts on Europe, “changes” to E3, Grand Theft Auto and selling PS3 as a games machine.

We also asked him what keeps him awake at night. See if you can guess the answer.

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