Rock Band 3: First look - Brings in a Keyboard!!

PS3 3D Experience Starts TOMORROW!

The moment is here — starting tomorrow, high-definition stereoscopic 3D gaming will be available in your very own living rooms! As you already know, all PlayStation 3 systems are already equipped with everything they need to play stereoscopic 3D games. Thanks to a free firmware update released this past April, the PS3 system is the only console on the market that can support full stereoscopic 3D gaming — right from your living room, and with no additional charge.

Today, Sony Electronics announced its 3D capable BRAVIA HDTVs are now available for pre-sale and will ship to retailers later this month. There are a broad range of models available in different screen sizes, some packaged with active glasses and others without, giving consumers the option to choose which 3D entertainment solution works for them..

Starting tomorrow, the following games and demos will be available in stereoscopic 3D for anyone who owns a PS3 system and 3D television:

    * WipEout HD (full game): Experience the adrenalin rush of navigating the twists and turns of futuristic racetracks at breathtaking speeds like never before.
    * Super Stardust HD (full game): Experience asteroids fly past you as you navigate the deadly battleground — only a battle on a cosmic level will save the indigenous life below from destruction.
    * PAIN: The stereoscopic 3D content will include the Downtown area and tutorial along with three modes, including two new modes created specifically with stereoscopic 3D in mind, Alien Toss and Ice Breaker.
    * MotorStorm Pacific Rift (demo): MotorStorm Pacific Rift in stereoscopic 3D puts you in the driver’s seat of a buggy for a one track, single player race around the deadly Kanaloa Bay for a dangerously real battle against ruthless opponents.

PSN down for Maintenance - June 9th

From 8:30am Pacific Time until around 8:30pm Pacific Time today, June 9, several key components of Sony's PlayStation Network will be unavailable for users.

The PlayStation Store, for example, will be closed. You also won't be able to manage your account, so if you felt like changing your avatar to that little yellow poo guy, sorry. Most importantly, you may also "encounter some difficulty" trying to sign into the PlayStation Network itself, which would put the kibosh on any multiplayer plans you had for your Wednesday.

There's always a chance the work will be finished before 8:30pm, but then, there's always the chance it won't be, either. You never can tell with these downtimes!

More FIFA 11 Screenshots!

We showed the 1st screen shot yesterday and EA has release a couple of more for us today.
Here ya go!

PlayStation Store Update - June 8th 2010

 Updates
Stand O’ Food Permanent Price Drop (now $2.99, original price $4.99)
Manhunt 2 Permanent Price Drop (now $14.99, original price $29.99)
The Warriors Permanent Price Drop (now $14.99, original price $19.99)
Dissidia Final Fantasy Permanent Price Drop (now $19.99, original price $39.99)
Sam And Max – The Devil’s Playhouse – Full Season Service Entitlement – Sale (now $24.99, original price $34.99)
Greed Corp. – Sale (now $5.99, original price $9.99)

Qore

Qore Episode 25: June 2010 ($2.99)
Episode 25 of Qore: Presented by the PlayStation®Network returns to action with Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, talks sequels with 2D gaming gurus Q Games, rocks out with Green Day Rock Band, and joins Perseus in the Clash of the Titans.
File size: 1.49 GB

Qore Annual Subscription: June 2010 ($24.99)
Qore: Presented by the PlayStation Network is a monthly interactive video production covering the world of PlayStation. Qore provides its audience with exclusive behind-the-scenes access to developers and their games, from both the SCE Worldwide Studios and the third-party community, where the audience member can freely navigate through the content.
File size: 1.49 GB

Downloadable Games

Death Track: Resurrection ($14.99)
Death Track: Resurrection introduces high speed vehicular chaos as players battle using 10 futuristic vehicles, all with upgradable parts and weapons. Death Track takes place in 10 post-apocalyptic city tracks including New York , Paris, Bangkok, London, Moscow, Tokyo and more. Players can enter this world alone or with a friend using split-screen, or join a game with 8 other drivers to really crank up the mayhem.
ESRB Rated T
File size: 2.02 GB

Joe Danger ($14.99)
Download and play the death-defying thrill-ride starring Joe Danger, the Master of Disaster! Race, ride and defy death to thrill the crowd and break world records! Combo, boost and pull ludicrous stunts to fill Stadiums and put Joe back on the podium. Race against your friends or take on your rivals. Play in the sandbox to make and share your own Stunt Spectaculars. Exclusively on the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system.
ESRB Rated E
File size: 261 MB

Sam & Max Episode 1: The Penal Zone ($8.99)
Wield psychic powers against fearsome foes in this epic comedy saga. The game starts with a bang in Episode 1 as intergalactic gorilla invader Skunk’ape sets his sights on Max’s newly discovered mysterious powers. While mastering these abilities – future sight, teleportation, shape shifting, mind reading – and investigating their source, Sam & Max must fend off Skunk’ape and get him banished to The Penal Zone.
ESRB Rated E10+
File size: 524 MB

Voodoo Dice ($9.99)
Roll the dice in a mystical world filled with exploration, puzzle-solving, and adventure. Voodoo Dice is an innovative, challenging puzzler that plays with your mind as you solve puzzles in unique and interesting ways.
Encounter a funny and original universe, with great style and vibe, to defeat your enemies and solve enigmas.
Travel through 60 single-player and 20 multiplayer levels in a quest to conquer the voodoo universe!
ESRB Rated E
File size: 131 MB
PSone Classics

Bloody Roar 2 ($5.99)
Transform and do battle as a human-animal hybrid in this classic 3D fighting game! Put your strength to the test and fight your way to the top! Download this PS one Classic today!
ESRB Rated T
File size: 312 MB
Game Demos (free)

Voodoo Dice Trial
Roll the dice in a mystical world filled with exploration, puzzle-solving, and adventure. Voodoo Dice is an innovative, challenging puzzler that plays with your mind as you solve puzzles in unique and interesting ways. Voodoo Dice will win you over with its addictive gameplay and hundreds of paths to victory in this trial! Go further with 60 exciting single-player and 20 challenging multiplayer levels in the unlocked version.
ESRB Rated E
File size: 131 MB

Add-on Game Content

New DLC for MAG dated for June 22nd

The new MAG DLC, INTERDICTION will be released on June 22nd for a price tag of $9.99.
This DLC bring with it a new gameplay mode called "Interdiction", 3 new maps, more ribbons and trophies.

 

Read more at PS Blog

First Screenshot of FIFA 11!!!

LittleBigPlanet - Heavy Rain Costumes revealed

This Tuesday, PSN will merge 2 great PS3 exclusives. The Heavy Rain costumes for LittleBigPlanet will be available for download Today. Here's a quick look at them

Capcom's E3 Game Line up

Capcom just released their list of playable games at this year's E3.

--Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
--Okamiden
--Bionic Commando Rearmed 2
--Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Heroes
--Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
--Dead Rising 2
--Dead Rising 2: CASE ZERO
--MotoGP 09/10

E3 Kicks off on June 15th

Ozzy Osbourne Finally coming to Rock Band!!

The Godfather of Metal, Ozzy Osbourne is finally making his long awaited Rock Band debut. His new album "Scream" will be released June 22nd and in anticipation of this, 3 of the 6 songs coming to RB are from it.
This will be the only place you'll be able to hear tracks from Ozzy's 10th studio recording until the release date.
Here is the track list:
"Crazy Babies" from No Rest for the Wicked
"Diggin' Me Down" from Scream
"I Don't Wanna Stop" from Black Rain
"Let Me Hear You Scream" From Scream
"No More Tears" from No More Tears
"Soul Sucker" from Scream


The songs will be available in a 6-Pack for $9.99 or individually for $1.99 on June 15th
Hopefully this is just the beginning of Ozzy's Rock Band content, we need full albums from this God of Metal!!!

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock - Check out these AXES!

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock is taking a new direction in it's gameplay with it's new story driven mode. It is also releasing New guitars to go with it. Rather than the usual plastic versions of real world axes, Activision have released images of 2 new guitars that are inspired by the brand new game mode. The guitars look like something straight out of Brutal Legend and look great.
The styles of the guitar are not the only thing that has changed. All the controller's electrical wiring are found within the neck, leaving the body there purely for looks. The body snaps out into 2 pieces and attach to the neck. This makes the bodies interchangeable with each other. So instead of guitar skins being sold to customize your axe, expect to see a lot of different bodies out there in the future. The bodies can also use the neck as a power source to add lights and such to itself.

The game will be sold on it's own or bundled with this new guitar. Again, these guitars look great but for someone that already has a bunch of plastic instruments laying around, this will just add to the pile, but I'm sure the custom bodies will attract buyers anyway.
 
Images from Gizmodo

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Trailer!

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Dead Space 2 - Cover Emerges!

Visceral Games as revealed the cover for their upcoming sequel to the Sci-fi Horror game Dead Space.
This Dead Space 2 cover looks bad ass, I can't wait for the actual game!

Going from FIFA World Cup 2010 back to FIFA 10

So I've been playing FIFA World Cup lately and I've been really loving the smoothness of the gameplay, the quickness of the plays, the responsiveness of the button presses. I really didn't notice all this until I went back to FIFA 10 today.
Playing the World Cup games are alright, but I easily get tired of international football, I needed my Club play back, I needed my Ultimate Team. So today, I loaded up FIFA 10 and oh man, what a difference. The gameplay differences are slight, but they impact the game a lot. I played 5 or 6 games and won only 2 where I would usually win a tournament run on the first try. I quickly got frustrated and turned it off.
Yup FIFA WC 2010 sort of ruined my FIFA 10 Ultimate Team experience ay the moment. I'll keep at it and I'm sure I'll get back on track, but knowing there is better gameplay on another game is killing me!

Heavy Rain Costumes coming to LittleBigPlanet

Yet another addition to the ever popular LittleBigPlanet is coming our way. This time taking shape as Madison, Jayden, Shelby, Ethan and an origami figurine from the best selling PS3 exclusive Heavy Rain. The pac is to be released on August 6th and will sell for $5.99.

inFamous 2 - Cole changes style

 As expected, Sucker Punch has confirmed the future release of it's sequel of inFamous. In July's issue of Game Informer, superhero Cole MacGrath is shown in a black t-shirt and jeans in-lieu of  his usual yellow and black leather jacket from the first game.

Along with his new look comes a new city, new powers and a new enemies. More updates on this game will be know when the July issue is release or at E3 next week

Soon on the Playstation Store: Cubixx

Laughing Jackal announced on the Playstation blog this week that they will be release Cubixx on the North American PS Store.

Cubixx sold very well in Europe and will try it's luck out here in the North American continent..

"Cubixx takes inspiration from a couple of older games of the same type and tasks the player with using their laser to cut away the surfaces of a mysterious cube and free the energy within. Cutting longer lines and crossing multiple cube surfaces will reward you with larger combos, but at far greater risk.
The game features 20 levels of increasingly lunatic difficulty" explains Al Evans

Cubixx is a fun fast paced retro-style game that will have you fighting for High Score just like in arcade games of the 80's. It releases on June 8th for an awesome price of $3.99

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - Site now live

Star Wars The Force Unleashed II's official webpage is now live showing off some awesome Star Wars art.
A bit more info is given on the game that will be release on October 26th.
You once again take control of StarKiller, Darth Vader's fugitive apprentice in a story that occurs 6 months after the end of the first game. In the game "Vader is attempting to clone his former apprentice in an attempt to create the Ultimate Sith warrior. The chase is on – Starkiller is in pursuit of Juno and Darth Vader is hunting for Starkiller," according to LucasArts.
Can't wait to get my hands on this on in the fall.

Soon on the Playstation Store: Vibes

 PlayStation Blog announced the release of it musical rhythm Playstaion Mini.
" Vibes, which will release on the PlayStation Store on June 8th at the price of $5.49. Vibes is an action-packed rhythm game that includes a lucky 13 music tracks, covering everything from Classical to J-Pop, to Psychobilly, to Punk. With three levels of difficulty your finger will be well and truly wrecked. ;)
The game is squarely aimed at fans of the rhythm-based genre and has a steep learning curve, so if you think you have conquered Guitar Hero then give this a try. Starting off on the Easy difficulty allows the player to get used to the control mechanism — the difficulty then builds and builds, and will push players to the limit on the harder difficulty settings." -  explains Al Evans // Senior Producer, Laughing Jackal

Here are some of the screenshots of the game.

by the looks of it, it seems to be a compressed version on Gitaroo man. Any fan of music-rhythm games will be sure to enjoy this one.
Vibes is out on June 8th at $5.49.

Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock - 35 Tracks Revealed!

Activision reveals the first 35 tracks that will be on its next Guitar Hero title, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
Unlick it's predecessors, GH:WoR gives you a story mode which takes from CBGB club to depths of Hell to help the Demi-God of Rock (Gene Simmons of Kiss) destroy The Beast. Sounds like an awesome way to play Brutal Legend to me!

"The world is a boring place. Come with me, and enter a world populated of Demi-Gods and Beasts. Transform from an everyday person and become the savior of rock and roll," said Gene Simmons of KISS. "It was an honour and privilege to narrate Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, even more so, to voice the Demi God. From the God of Thunder to the Demi-God, how cool is that..."

A new guitar controller is also in the works and is inspired by the Story-driven world within it.
The game will included 90 Tracks, all original recording of course.
Here are the first 35 tracks revealed for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

• AFI – "Dancing Through Sunday"
• Anthrax – "Indians"
• Avenged Sevenfold – "Bat Country"
• Black Sabbath – "Children Of The Grave"
• Buzzcocks – "What Do I Get?"
• Children Of Bodom – "If You Want Peace... Prepare For War"
• The Cure – "Fascination Street"
• Def Leppard – "Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live)"
• Dethklok – "Bloodlines"
• Dire Straits – "Money For Nothing"
• DragonForce – "Fury of the Storm"
• Drowning Pool – "Bodies"
• Fall Out Boy – "Dance, Dance"
• Foo Fighters – "No Way Back"
• Foreigner – "Feels Like The First Time"
• The Hives – "Tick Tick Boom"
• Jane's Addiction – "Been Caught Stealing"
• Jethro Tull – "Aqualung"
• KISS – "Love Gun"
• Linkin Park – "Bleed It Out"
• Megadeth – "Sudden Death"
• Metallica & Ozzy Osbourne – "Paranoid (Live)"
• Muse – "Uprising"
• My Chemical Romance – "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"
• Night Ranger – " (You Can Still) Rock In America"
• Nine Inch Nails – "Wish"
• The Offspring – "Self Esteem"
• Queen – "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• Rammstein – "Waidmanns Heil"
• The Rolling Stones – "Stray Cat Blues"
• Silversun Pickups – "There's No Secrets This Year"
• Slayer – "Chemical Warfare"
• Slipknot – "Psychosocial"
• Stone Temple Pilots – "Interstate Love Song"
• ZZ Top – "Sharp Dressed Man (Live)"

This list does look interesting, mainly because there are not too many no names.... so far anyway. 

Check out the teaser below

Red Dead Redemption Co-Op Pack Coming June 22nd

'Outlaws To The End Co-Op Mission Pack' for Red Dead Redemption is to be released on June 22, 2010. It will include 6 new co-op missions and challenges. Additional trophies, and bonus multiplayer XP rewards will also be included.