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After the drop. It’s 40 minutes of footage of Sony’s Games Convention press conference yesterday. You can see the announcements as they happened and gawp at the montages shown throughout.

Or conversely, you can simply read all about it here.

Up to you.

By Mike Bowden

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Lost in the midst of a server meltdown, Sony announced that a future firmware update will allow you to play PS2 Singstar tracks on your new, Singstar PS3.

No news as to when we’ll see the update and how it all will work but all will be revealed in due course.

By Mike Bowden

Quantic Dream’s David Cage has just taken us through some amazing looking Heavy Rain gameplay at Leipzig.

First he announces that games are no longer for kids and teenagers,” saying that no guns, cars, interfaces, puzzles or enemies are in the game. It’s all about moral choices, contextual actions and decision making.

You, the player, are both writer and director.

We see a man standing in the rain and some kids playing outside a house. Then, we go inside and see a room with birds hanging from the ceiling and the sound of a woman’s voice speaking into a dictaphone: all very eeire.

We’re then taken inside a house where you’re being chased. All of a sudden the man in the rain attacks you and there’s some QTE’s to avoid being killed.

We are then taken outside again and the demo was over.

Game is to be released “next year.”

Read all the details of Sony’s announcements today here.

By Mike Bowden

Sony has just announced a new 160Gb PlayStation 3 for PAL territories in the peak season.

The new machine will be released on October 31 and include 70 euros’ worth of PSN DLC.

Get all the details from the Sony press conference from our live blog.

David Reeves has just announced the PSP 3000 at the Sony press conference in Leipzig.

It’s new, Slim and Light case but with “enhanced LCD screen”. More colours. “Crisper colours with more intesity when outside in the natural light,” he said.

David Reeves also confirmed a built in microphone.

PSP 3000 will launch on October 15 in PAL territories for 199 euros.

Get all the details from the Sony press conference from our live blog.

Yes, we’re here. In fact, we’re not just in the audience, we’ve got front row seats!

Loads of stuff to look forward to: the new Singstar stuff revealed this morning, some Heavy Rain in-game action and last but not least we’ve just heard that Sony will be talking about some new PSP hardware.

Conference kicks off at 5pm CET (in about 30 minutes), so stick around and get it all live.

After the drop.

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VG247 has learnt this morning that the “next generation” of EyeToy is to be shown in the Sony press conference at Games Convention today.

We weren’t told what the game would be specifically, but we do know Sony considers the reveal to be a significant part of the conference, which takes place at the show at 5.00pm CET.

Sony’s press conference is leaking a little this morning, with a Gamekyo story based on a sneak look at a run-through of the event yesterday revealing that a new version of SingStar it to feature heavily in the presentation.

We’ll be bringing you the conference live.

Update: We’ve just found out that the next-gen of EyeToy’s going to be shown in the conference as well as this stuff.

Too funny. Gamekyo managed to see some of Sony’s press conference rehearsal at Games Convention yesterday, and watched a “new” version of SingStar feature heavily.

The French site also saw what is apparently the first in-game footage of Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain being shown, as well as a new trailer of LittleBigPlanet, with producer Pete Smith coming on-stage to give a final public walkthrough of the game ahead of its release.

Only part of the show was seen, so don’t cry into your cereal just yet. Sony’s conference takes place at Games Convention at 5.00pm CET today.

Thanks, Kotaku.

This is it. P-Day. We’re about to find out what’s in store for PlayStation 3 and PSP for the rest of the year and beyond. Sony is going to need something seriously spectacular to top last night’s FFXIII 360 announcement. The Ueda game? Tears of Blood? A price cut? A slim machine? Whatever happens, you can bet your bottom dollar this isn’t going to be dull. The pressure is so, so on. Don’t blink: you may miss it.

When does it start?

Sony’s E3 press conference starts today at 11.30am PST. That’s 7.30pm BST. Nintendo’s conference leads the morning at 9.00am PST. All E3 conference timings are listed here.

Where can I watch it live?

• IGN Live Wire
• Gamespot
• G4

IGN worked wall for us last night, and we had problems with Gamespot. We didn’t try G4. Make up your own mind.

Will you be updating throughout?

Yep. We’ll be reeling from Nintendo, but we’re made of steel. We’ll have all the news. All of it.