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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

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.

Belgian site consoleshop.be appears to have cracked open a hidden vein of European prepaid PSN cards, and will share its bounty with everyone else on October 1.

The PSP Go — in all its download-only glory — also launches on October 1, so pairing it with PSN cards makes sense.

The cards will apparently come in two flavors, €20 and €50.

When contacted by Edge, Sony claimed that consoleshop.de’s images were actually ‘shopped versions of North American PSN cards. However, the console behemoth has yet to confirm or deny the existence of European PSN cards.

Using our speculative crystal balls, however, we’ve seen the future. There’s fire raining down from the heavens, terror-driven riots that signal the coming of a new age, and blood caked all over the boots of a new, hell-borne regime.

There are also PSN cards, for whatever it’s worth.

SCEA’s announced that PSN cards are to become more available in the US over the next few months, with more retailers getting in on the act in October and November.

The cards will be available at Walmart, Best Buy, select Sam’s Club stores in October 2008, and at Barnes & Noble College Bookstores in November.

“The PlayStation Network Cards are an easy way for PSP and PS3 fans to obtain great games, movies, TV shows and other entertainment through PlayStation Network and we are pleased to offer them at major retailers nationwide,” said PSN boss Eric Lempel, director.

“With the holiday season right around the corner, these cards are an ideal gift option for friends and family, whether they are movie aficionados, dedicated gamers or something in between.”

Press release after the link.

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According to this US PS Blog, you can now buy PlayStation 3 pre-pay cards in Blockbuster. There’s a video after the break of a man actually walking into a Blockbuster and actually picking some up.

Actually watch it.

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According to this US PS Blog post, Blockbuster, 7-Eleven and Riteaid will all be stocked with PSN cards as of September.

The news comes after it was rumoured tonight that GameStop won’t be stocking the cards until next year.

More through the link.

Kotaku’s carrying what purports to be an internal email from GameStop that claims the US retailer won’t be selling PSN cards until next year.

Apparently GameStop isn’t yet equipped to activate the cards. Which is a shame. They’re already out and are being stocked by Midwest chain Meijer.

More through the link.