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Sony responds to adverse firmware 2.40 effects

July 2, 2008

Joystiq / Randy Nelson

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3 As we've already reported, SCEA has removed firmware 2.40, released early this morning, from its update servers. Users attempting to use the System Update feature from the PS3 XMB from firmware prior to 2.

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PS3 2.40 Update Problems And Solutions [Firmware Update Problems]

July 2, 2008

Kotaku / Mike Fahey

While it seems like every time the PlayStation 3 undergoes a firmware upgrade is plagued by people trying to blame broken systems on the update, last night's 2.40 update seems to have caused genuine issues with many posters over at the official PlayStation forums.

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Sony Pulls PS3 2.40 Firmware After Reported Problems [Playstation 3]

July 2, 2008

Kotaku / Michael McWhertor

The release of PlayStation 3 firmware 2.40 last night seems to have caused a wide number of issues for those who updated to the new release, as we reported earlier. It now appears that Sony has since pulled the newest update, reverting back to firmware 2.

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News: Sony pulls firmware 2.40 update

July 2, 2008

GamesIndustry.biz - News

Following complaints on website forums, SCEA has apparently removed the recent update from its servers

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Kojima's Top Five Games

July 4, 2008

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BLOG – Hideo Kojima rates Super Mario Bros. and his own Metal Gear Solid as two of the the most personally influential games of all time.

Video: Let's have a Mercenaries 2 walk-through

July 4, 2008

Xbox 360 Fanboy / Dustin Burg

Filed under: News, Videos Mercenaries 2 news has been lacking a bit lately, so we were rather excited to see a new trailer pop up on the old Gametrailers.com. Actually, it's a developer walk-through video with the game's lead designer Scott Warner who shows actual level gameplay but played three different ways with all three Mercenaries 2 personalities.

Japanese Sales Data: Media Create software sales for 23/6 – 29/6

July 4, 2008

EL33TONLINE News

Derby Stallion DS from Enterbrain outran the competition this week, debuting at the top of the Japanese software chart with 148 000 copies.There were a total of six new entries this week, five of which entered in the top five spots.

PS3 Dualshock controller launches but is it worth the cash?

July 4, 2008

Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog

Rumble is subtly effective, especially on racing games, and is one of those features that you tend to miss when not there. So today's release has got to be good news for PS3 owners right?

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Rumor: More Rock Band 2 Songs Leaked? [Rock Band 2]

July 3, 2008

Kotaku / Luke Plunkett

A thread over on the ScoreHero forums - since wiped clean by moderators amidst talk of NDA violations - has listed a few more songs that are apparently due to appear in Rock Band's upcoming sequel. The list continues the theme established by the first set of leaked tracks, that theme being one of awesomeness.

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Firmware 2.40 may be bricking PS3s!

July 2, 2008

PSPSPS / Al W

Like the header says: Firmware 2.40 could spell death for your PS3. Panicking might be the safest bet.

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Sony promises "Trophies for every game", but can it really deliver?

July 3, 2008

PSPSPS / Al W

Despite an apparent unwillingness from developers, Sony is making bold promises about the rollout of the brand new PS3 Trophy system. Eric Lempel, Director of PlayStation Network Operations has told GameSpy it's working hard to persuade developers to take up the opportunity.

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News: Microsoft has experimented with 3D games, reveals Satchell

July 3, 2008

GamesIndustry.biz - News

XNA's general manager says the company has tested the technology but thinks it may face mainstream resistance

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Sorry, no Trophies for Call of Duty 4, Ratchet and Clank or Resistance

July 3, 2008

PSPSPS / Al W

Some of you may be getting down with your new Trophy system, enabled in Firmware 2.40. Unfortunately, I missed that small window of opportunity and can only look on with envy. Meanwhile though, it looks like the question of which games will support Trophies will get pretty interesting.

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Disaster! Firmware 2.40 IS bricking PS3s - Sony pulls update

July 3, 2008

PSPSPS / Al W

We certainly weren't the only ones reporting the problems suffered by many PS3 owners attempting to install the long-awaited PS3 Firmware 2.40 yesterday. Sony heard the deafening cries and has taken a drastic measure to solve the problem - Firmware 2.

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Hackers phish the US PlayStation website

July 2, 2008

PSPSPS / Al W

Sneaky hackers have recently compromised Sony's main US PlayStation portal in an attempt to thieve PlayStation owners' credit card details.

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Make your 40GB PS3 almost as good as a 60GB PS3, with the Nyko Media Hub

July 2, 2008

PSPSPS / Al W

Okay, 'almost' might be going a little bit far. The Nyko Media Hub isn't going to give you an extra 20GB of hard disc space. It sure as hell isn't going to give you backwards compatibility back. However, it will give you some of the card readers that are now absent from more recent cut-price PS3 models.

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Best Buy Ad Shows Xbox 360 Price Drop [Microsoft]

July 3, 2008

Kotaku / Michael McWhertor

Another retailer has shown that Microsoft is planning to drop the price of the Xbox 360 20GB model — formerly known as the "Pro" — to $299, as a Best Buy employee has forwarded us (obligatorily blurry) cell phone pics of an upcoming weekly ad.

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Yakuza 3 confirmed, coming exclusively to PS3

July 2, 2008

Joystiq / Randy Nelson

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, ActionAbove: Yakuza 2 Get ready to hit the seedier side of Tokyo and slug it out in HD - Yakuza 3 is coming. The "real" Yakuza 3. As first reported on 2chan, the latest issue of Famitsu quotes Yakuza series director Toshihiro Nagoshi as stating that the game is a direct sequel to Yakuza 2, and is in development exclusively for PS3.

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Alpha Protocol Aims Ambitiously For RPG, FPS Fans [Alpha Protocol]

July 2, 2008

Kotaku / Leigh Alexander

Obsidian Entertainment says it's found the right mix of action and RPG, balancing subtlety with "over-the-top" visual style, and weighing realism carefully against the "abstraction" of fantasy elements.

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In Wake of $65K Video Game Law Settlement, Minnesota Newspaper Takes a Swipe at ESA

July 4, 2008

GamePolitics News / gamepolitics

The Entertainment Software Association took a victory lap this week, announcing the recovery of $65,000 in legal fees from Minnesota after the state abandoned further appeals of its failed 2006 video game law.

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