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.
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.
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.
Following complaints on website forums, SCEA has apparently removed the recent update from its servers
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Like the header says: Firmware 2.40 could spell death for your PS3. Panicking might be the safest bet.
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.
XNA's general manager says the company has tested the technology but thinks it may face mainstream resistance
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.
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.
Sneaky hackers have recently compromised Sony's main US PlayStation portal in an attempt to thieve PlayStation owners' credit card details.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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