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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

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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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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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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

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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

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That’s right, it’s been officially confirmed. Would have had this posted on Saturday, but I did leave it in the Community. No word on casting or anything like that, but here’s info from the Official PlayStation Blog:

I am happy to confirm that it is indeed true, Sony Computer Entertainment has signed a deal with Columbia Pictures for a movie adaptation of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and it will be produced by Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner. We have been working with Avi and the folks and Columbia for quite some time and look forward to sharing additional details on the film in the short future. Obviously we designed the game to be a cinematic experience and we too can’t wait to see it on the big screen.

Details are still a bit short, but, according to the Hollywood Reporter, it will take place during the first Uncharted game:

The story follows a descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake, a treasure hunter named Nate Drake who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is racheted up several notches when creatures — actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis — begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure’s true secrets.

We all know the usual happenings when either a game gets adapted into a movie, or a movie into a game, but hopefully we won’t have to witness the same fate for this great series. If done right, considering the cinematic quality of the game, this could potentially be a very good thing. Hopefully they don’t screw it up!

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I decided to “upgrade” my copy to the Blu-ray version. Man I’m glad I did, the visual quality is outstanding. Plus the extra scenes (26 minutes worth) really help complete the story actually. Some small details you’ll notice is the characters now get bloody and dirty during the battles. More so during the Sephiroth battle.

So is it worth it? I say yes. It’s only $22.99 right now at Amazon so that’s not bad. It was the 2nd best selling Blu-ray during it’s first week of release in America too.

According to the Nielsen VideoScan BD charts, the film trailed the #1 BD release, Paramount’s Defiance film, by only 14% in sales.

Advent Children Complete reportedly sold over 100,000 copies on its first day in Japan in April, although there were three different versions issued in that country on that day. The original North American and European DVD releases of Advent Children sold 1.4 million copies as the #1 anime DVD release of 2006.

The extras aren’t bad either. They have 2 or 3 videos that give you a brief overview of the actually game. Showing some of the CGI movies and gameplay from FFVII and other titles relating to FFVII as well. I myself got board watching them after a while though. Then an back story of Denzel, which is Anime not CGI, which as good.

Final Fantasy VII: ACC Was #2 U.S. BD in First Week

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Here are the Blu-ray titles for this week. Highlights are: 12 Rounds, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Tokyo!, How the Earth Was Made, Do the Right Thing.