Playstation Network and Discussion Part Deux

[Behindshadows]

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Siren: Blood Curse (PSN Title - Summer 2008)



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SOLD!!!!!

[countryboy]

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Siren: Blood Curse (PSN Title - Summer 2008)



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that looks nice.

Adding this one to the CB watch list.

[Scott]

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that looks nice.

Adding this one to the CB watch list.

Definitely, this looks like a good one.

[Altimus]

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PS Store update:

One of the worse updates I've seen, of course unless you're into Rock Band.

Hopefully this lack luster updates means firmware update soon?

Add-on Game Content

Rock Band

- “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “My Best Friend’s Girl” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “Moving in Stereo” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “Just What I Needed” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “I’m in Touch with Your World” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “Good Times Roll” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “Don’t Cha Stop” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “Bye Bye Love” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “All Mixed up” - The Cars ($1.99)
- “The Cars” Album ($14.99)

Rock Band price promotion: “Gimme Three Steps” - Lynyrd Skynyrd and “Dirty Little Secret” - All-American Rejects are reduced to $0.99 until June 5th.
Game Videos (free)

- Top Spin 3 Debut Trailer
- Battlefield: Bad Company Dev Diary - Characters
- Battlefield: Bad Company Sweetwater’s Blog
- Dead Space Animated Comic Issue #1
- Project Origin Teaser Trailer
- Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Projectile Dysfunction
- Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Human Juicer Video

Movie and Blu-ray Disc Trailers (free)

- Enchanted
- No Country for Old Men

PS3 Wallpaper (free)

- Prince of Persia Prodigy Arabesque Wallpaper
- Prince of Persia Prodigy New Prince Wallpaper

[rspencer86]

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The Cars album for Rock Band. Niiiice.

[Eton Rifles]

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Let the good times roll!!

[fishepa]

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Here's a little more info on 2.4

News: The FW 2.4 Guide

So, with the news this morning that PS3 Firmware 2.40 will include in-game XMB we've decided to break it down a little - find out what's confirmed and what isn't, and put together what we think 2.40 will actually involve:

What's confirmed:

Technically, nothing. Until Sony issue a press release or post something on their blog, everything is speculation, rumour and wishful thinking. However, there are a number of people we here at TSA can happily place our trust in, and Jim over at Gaming Age is one of them. In addition, everything in this post is our opinion too.

Will the new features automatically appear inside the games?

Whilst claims of universal Friends lists and in-game invites seem realistic enough, don't expect them to suddenly start working when 2.40 arrives. The development kits for the 2.40 features haven't even gone out to developers yet (or so we hear) so any features locked to 2.40 and above will need to be patched in by the devs once they get their hands on the code.

What does this mean?

It means you won't be able to hit the PS button in Motorstorm and invite your mates, not until such functionality is patched into the game and a new title update is made available to download. We would expect that in-game messaging will work across all games though, as part of the XMB layer - just not invites as such.

And custom soundtracks?

Well, Microsoft has a patent on such functionality, it's going to be interesting to see how Sony get around that, if indeed that's the plan. Expect this to be more of a 'music player' that overlays the game, and cancels out the normal game music if the game itself supports it.

So what can we expect?

Well, we're assuming that Sony will increase the Friends list, at least doubling it. We also assume that some kind of XMB functionality will be added to movie playback, the way you're signed out of PSN when watching a Blu-ray is odd. Expect the XMB to show the time, too, in-game, plus we might finally get RSS feeds.

We'll get Trophies, right?

Almost certainly. Again, only for games that support them.

What about Youtube uploading

Well, it's already there in one game - Mainichi Issho (Everyday Together) - but required a game patch, so we can guess that similar options will appear in future games, again, via patches. The option to upload your favourite crashes from GRID would be a nice touch.

And when will 2.40 hit?

June 12th? Seems fair enough, if not the week before...

[rspencer86]

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Thanks for posting that info, Paul.

I wonder how many games that are already out will create updates that will allow for XBM functionality?

[Pared]

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I believe friends lists and chatting will be allowable immediately without any issues on any game.

Invites and the like... not until games allow them.

[rspencer86]

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I believe friends lists and chatting will be allowable immediately without any issues on any game.

Invites and the like... not until games allow them.

Ah, okay, cool. Thanks for clarifying.

Speaking of chat, how does that work on the PS3? I've never even tried it.

[Pared]

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It has it's own section. There's a "chat" section above your friends list, IIRC. You go there and select a friend to send an invite to...

It's somewhat lame as you can't do anything else while chatting. You're in a virtual room and you chat with each other while looking at a virtual room. XBL does it much better.

I'm hoping in game XMB allows the XMB to stay present at all times and allows you to chat outside of other things.

[rspencer86]

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I don't like the sound of how it works currently. I'm with you, if they can allow chats to continue while being able to do other things (play games, watch movies, surf the PSN Store) that would be much better.

[Eton Rifles]

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one cool thing about the chat is you can have up to 4 people in one chat.

[inkcil]

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I know Burnout Paradise is planning to add the ability to play custom soundtracks through a patch scheduled for late June...and NCAA '09 is supposed to allow custom in-game music (at certain points in the game) as well. MLB '08 allows for custom menu music that also plays "in-game" (at end of game during box score) and several PSN titles have in game custom tracks. So 2.40 won't be giving us anything "new" with this respect right?

[ExtremeGamer]

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Sony introducing an online magazing it sounds like. $2.99 an episode or $24.99 a year. Demos, trailers, etc. Makes me wonder though, will all demos be a part of this now? Guess so much for the demos, betas, themes, etc being free. Since the first ep has themes, etc included. I like the idea of an online magazine though, it's a nice, convenient way to get info instead of getting a monthly magazine.

http://kotaku.com/5012570/sony-intro...gaming-program