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I never saw anything about the Punisher game. Look any good? Then some PSP love this week. Anything for you?

Oh, just curious have any of you purchased these “Premium PS3/PSP Themes”? I myself would never buy one of those, because I could just make one myself. If you did buy one, is it just the standard icons with different wallpaper?

United States

GAMES

► The Punisher: No Mercy
○ $9.99

► PSP
○ Capcom Classics Collection Remixed ($19.99)
○ Mind Quiz ($9.99)
○ Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Essentials ($19.99)

QORE

► Episode 14 ($2.99 | $24.99 1 yr)
○ Qore: Presented by the PlayStation Network takes you inside the dangerous world of Assassin’s Creed 2.

ADD-ONS

► 007 Quantum of Solace
○ The Camille Map Pack ($4.99)

► Cross Edge
○ New Costume Set 1 ($3.99)
○ Additional Dungeon 2
○ Safety Pack

► Guitar Hero World Tour
○ Epitaph Punk-O-Rama Pack ($5.49 | $1.99 each)
♪ Rancid – ‘Ruby Solo’
♪ NOFX – ‘Linoleum’
♪ Bad Religion – ’21st Century Digital Boy’

► High Velocity Bowling
○ 4th of July Ball Pack ($0.99)
○ Route 66 Ball Pack ($0.99)

► LittleBigPlanet
○ Sacktue of Liberty Costume

► MotorStorm Pacific Rift
○ Speed Expansion ($9.99)
○ Monarch Signature Livery Pack

► Rockband
○ Foreigner Pack 1 ($5.49 | $1.99 each)
♪ Blue Morning, Blue Day
♪ Feels Like The First Time
♪ Head Knocker

○ Warped Tour 2009 Pack 2 ($5.49 | $1.99 each)
♪ Devil Wears Prada – ‘Hey John, What’s Your Name Again’
♪ Thrice – ‘Image of the Invisible’
♪ Dear and the Headlights – ‘Sweet Talk’
♪ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – ‘Weapon of Choice’

► Rockband Unplugged
○ Various Tracks ($1.99 each)
♪ R.E.M. – ‘Losing My Religion’
♪ Dixie Chicks – ‘Sin Wagon’
♪ Jonathan Coulton & GLaDOS – ‘Still Alive’

► Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
○ The Predator Course Pack ($7.50)

VIDEOS

► Bayonetta
○ E3 Trailer

► MotorStorm Pacific Rift
○ Adrenaline Expansion Pack Trailer
○ Speed Expansion Pack Trailer

THEMES & WALLPAPERS

► Premium PS3 Themes ($1.49 – $1.99)
○ Anime MBM Theme 4
○ Farmer’s Daughter Theme
○ Ink Skulls Theme
○ Sniper Girls Theme

► Premium PSP Themes ($0.99 – $1.49)
○ Anime MBM Theme 7
○ Anime MBM Theme 8
○ Farmer’s Daughter Theme
○ Ink Skulls Theme
○ Sniper Girls Theme
○ 4th of July Pinups Theme 1
○ 4th of July Pinups Theme 2

Europe

DEMOS

► Red Baron Arcade
○ 136 MB

GAMES

► Numblast
○ £3.99 | €4.99

► Red Baron Arcade
○ £6.29 | €7.99

► The Punisher: No Mercy
○ £6.29 | /€7.99

► toptaoi: The Great Tree Story
○ £7.99 | €9.99

► PSOne
○ James Pond 2: Codename Robocod (£3.99 | €4.99)

► PSP
○ Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (£24.99 | €39.99)
○ Numblast (£3.99 | €4.99)
○ Donkey Xote (£7.99 | €9.99)
○ Super Hind (£15.99 | €19.99)
○ Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (available 7/03 – £29.99/€39.99)

ADD-ONS

► Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires
○ Kempo Armor Set (Men)
○ Royal Armor Set (Men)
○ Artemis Armor Set (Women)
○ Queen Armor Set (Women)

► Guitar Hero World Tour
○ Epitaph Punk-O-Rama Pack (£4.39 | £1.59) (€5.99 | €1.99)
♪ Rancid – ‘Ruby Solo’
♪ NOFX – ‘Linoleum’
♪ Bad Religion – ’21st Century Digital Boy’

► LittleBigPlanet
○ Sacktue of Liberty Costume

► MotorStorm Pacific Rift
○ Monarch Signature Livery Pack
○ Speed Pack (£4.79 | €5.99)

► Rockband
○ Foreigner Pack 1 (£2.49 | £0.99) ( €3.99 | €1.49)
♪ Blue Morning, Blue Day
♪ Feels Like The First Time
♪ Head Knocker

○ Warped Tour 2009 Pack 2 (£2.49 | £0.99) ( €3.99 | €1.49)
♪ Devil Wears Prada – ‘Hey John, What’s Your Name Again’
♪ Thrice – ‘Image of the Invisible’
♪ Dear and the Headlights – ‘Sweet Talk’
♪ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – ‘Weapon of Choice’

► Rockband Unplugged
○ Various Tracks (£0.99 | €1.49 each)
♪ R.E.M. – ‘Losing My Religion’
♪ Dixie Chicks – ‘Sin Wagon’
♪ Jonathan Coulton & GLaDOS – ‘Still Alive’

► Tiger Wood PGA Tour 10
○ Spyglass Hill Course (£4.79 | €5.99)
○ The Predator Course (£4.79| €5.99)
○ Course Pass (£1.59 | €1.99)
○ Max Stat Costumes (£2.39 | €2.99)
○ Loads of other shit (Various Prices)

VIDEOS

► Astro Tripper
○ Trailer

► Batman: Arkham Asylum
○ Breakout Trailer
○ Combat Trailer
○ Invisible Predator Trailer

► Battlefield 1943
○ Coral Sea Challenge Trailer

► Bayonetta
○ Second Climax Trailer

► Mini Ninjas
○ Gameplay Video

► MotorStorm Pacific Rift
○ Adrenaline Expansion Pack Trailer

► WipEout HD
○ Fury Expansion Pack Trailer

Japan

GAMES

► PSP
○ Boku no Natsuyasumi 4 (¥3800)
○ Hayarigami Portable: Keishichou Kaijiken File (¥2200)

ADD-ONS

► LittleBigPlanet
○ Sacktue of Liberty Costume

► MotorStorm Pacific Rift
○ Signature Collection Vol. 8
○ Speed Pack (¥800)

► Record of the Agarest War Zero
○ Dungeons
– Additional Dungeon 2
○ Items
– Healing Hand Pack
– Stat Improvement Pack 2
○ Point
– Additional Point Pack 2
○ Forbidden Books
– Additional Forbidden Book 1

► Shin Sengoku Musou 5 Empire
○ BGM Set 3

► Shin Sengoku Musou Multi-Raid (PSP)
○ Additional Content Ver. 19

VIDEOS

► Bayonetta
○ E3 2009 Trailer

► Hayarigami Portable: Keishichou Kaijiken File
○ Promotional Video

Via NeoGAF

Source: ps3blog.net

Capcom will be releasing a few classic PS1 titles to the PSN: Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3 and Dino Crisis, as well as a handful of UMD Legacy titles for PSP, starting today. From the Official PS Blog.

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In an article with Siliconera, the Japanese video game makers answered why they have recently changed their stance from making Xbox exclusive games to Playstation exclusives with the upcoming Quantum being a PS3 exclusive;

Makoto Shibata, Director: Japanese development tends to focus and specialize on particular hardware. When we were thinking about doing this we saw the PS3 as the hardware with the highest specs.

I hope they are not the only developers out there that think this and we can see more games using the full potential of the PS3. the rest of the interview can be read at Siliconera.

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Tomorrow we will get a inFAMOUS Home Space. Which include a couple mini-games. And Far Cry 2 gets game launching within Home. More details here.

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The video explains the differences between the PMC’s. Hopefully they release a beta or demo of this. I would love to try it out. If I got this game I’ll probably go with Raven or SVER. What about you?

I think this game has great potential, hopefully people give it a chance.

New MAG Developer Diary — PMCs

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Evan Wells gave us a lot of info on Uncharted 2 and explained some of the changes to come.

-Beta was a great success

-New features, maps, boosters and new game modes will be added to the final product.

-Some trophies will be multiplayer based but non that will takes days of grinding to achieve

-No official release date so for now its still “Fall” but release date is coming very soon.

-Only supporting online multiplayer. No split screen option.

-Different enemies will react differently to close combat melee. Some counter, others won’t let you near them.

-Not all multiplayer and cooperative modes have been announced yet.

-variations on all competitive modes that focus on specific kinds of weapons.

-Cinema mode that allows you to playback any of your matches from any angle.

-Drakes Journy takes him from Turkey to Borneo, Nepal, Tibet and the Himalayas.

Source: ps3blog.net

Apparently, Hon Hai Precision Industry Company Ltd. has been awarded a contract for a “hardware variation of the PlayStation3” and the report, according to IGN, states that “the new hardware will be a smaller, lighter version” of the system.

Not only that, but the report also says that the systems are supposed to start shipping in July. No official word from Sony on this, and if it is true, then Sony has very little time for an official announcement. Please take this with a grain of salt.

From IGN

Source: ps3blog.net

I would like to know how many different game modes & levels will be available in multi-player. How long is the co-op mode? Can you unlock items from MP and co-op to use in single player or vice versa? Will Uncharted 2 support Home game launching?

What questions would you like answered?

Specifically, we’ll have Creative Director Amy Hennig and Game Director Bruce Straley from Naughty Dog on board, so do whatever you can to be here at 2PM Pacific tomorrow armed with your Uncharted 2 questions.

Uncharted 2 Live Chat with Naughty Dog Tomorrow at 2PM Pacific

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This is actually a match that happens a lot between my friends and it’s about 50/50 most of the time. Lately King has been winning more though. My friend Matt plays Ganryu and I play as King. Ganryu was never much of a threat until Tekken 5 and he looks just as lethal in Tekken 6.

Video for Ganryu | Video for King