That’s what SCEE representive Mike Kebby had as an answer to a question raised by one of many people wondering why it wasn’t on the list.

It seems Europe has taken another back seat with Socom: Confrontations, something which will definitely disappoint the already fragile gamer base in Europe. Despite the 1.60 update which should have been what the game must have been from the start, many we’re ‘coming back’ for the DLC. But with a game like MAG coming a few weeks (or even shorter depending how late Europe gets it) after the new year, will gamers still be interested in picking it up for a price that will be equal to the dollar price (£12,99/€14,99) like we’ve seen in the past with other games/add-ons.

North America will still be able to enjoy the downloadable content from today for $9.99. Then after the 20th of December the price will go up to $14.99.

Source: EU PlayStation Blog

Do I hear Game of the Year contender?

Thank PS3blog.net for the video

Source: PS3Blog.net

With the spotlight focused on the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation Portable also received an update. The latest firmware available is 6.20 and has the following additions.

Through media Go 1.3 you can now transfer video and photo playlists from you PC to PSP. Simply copy the playlists from the PS3 XMB.

The Digital Comics reader is now available to download for PSP  but you” have to wait till December 2009 for the Comic store to open starting in the following countries: UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. More countries will following in 2010 just like with the Video Store. Visit http://www.playstationcomics.com/ for more info .

Keep an eye out on twitter as they will be releasing comic voucher around 19.00 GMT

We had not even send out email out for a while or VG247 already has an answer back.

It seems we don’t have to worry about ‘doing a Xbox Live’. Through SCEE, Kaz Hirai let the following know

SCE will further increase sales by offering users new entertainment through the combination of hardware, software, peripheral and PlayStation Network. Especially in the online area, we are studying the possibility of introducing a subscription model, offering premium content and services, in addition to the current free services

So under premium we can say Qore? MMO based subscriptions? Well as long as standard online play is free we don’t mind.

Source: VG247

VG247 made a post about a slide at the Media/Investor Conference. Slide 39 shows that there will be a “new revenue stream from subscription”. What this subscription might be, they don’t know yet and as do we so far (we’ve contacted out SCEE rep). Though the PlayStation Network is listed as a key advantage on the PlayStation 3.

Could it perhaps be a subscription for the comic store? Or is it the thing we’ve dreaded the most, online subscription like with it’s counterpart Xbox Live.

What do you think it might be?

Source: VG247

Here is the update for this week. UK look good for the Video Store link. Also announced was that are some stuff coming to the store on Tuesday the 24th. This will be Gravity Crash (both the full game and a trial & unlock) an Assasssin’s Creed costume for LittleBigPlanet.

PlayStation Store via PS3

Special Offers

(from 19th November until the 3rd of December)

• Buzz! Brain Bender (PSP) (£9.99/€14.99)
• EA Replay (PSP) (£11.99/€14.99)
• Medal of Honor Heroes (PSP) (£7.99/€9.99)
• Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (PSP) (£11.99/€14.99)
• Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover (PSP) (£11.99/€14.99)

Downloadable Game

• Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao (£9.99/€12.99)
• Gravity Crash (£6.29/€7.99)

PSone Classic

• Metal Gear Solid (£7.99/€9.99)
• Critter Crunch (Trial free, Unlock Key £4.49/€5.49)

Demo

• Smash Cars Demo

Add-On Game Content

Dragon Age:Origins

• Warden’s Keep (£5.49/€6.99)
  The Stone Prisoner (£11.99/€14.99)

LittleBigPlanet

• Assassin’s Creed II Ezio Auditore Costume  (£1.59/€1.99)
  Thanksgiving Costume (only available for one week)

• Pain – Flavor Flav Pack (£1.19/€1.49)

EyePet

• Medieval Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99)
• Lucky Dip Styling Pack 4 (free)

High Velocity Bowling

• Psychedelic 60’s Ball Pack (£0.79/€0.99)
• Techno Modern Ball Pack (£0.79/€0.99)

Beatles: Rock Band

• A Day in the Life (£0.99/€1.49)
• Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite (£0.99/€1.49)
• Fixing a Hole (£0.99/€1.49)
• Lovely Rita (£0.99/€1.49)
• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (£0.99/€1.49)
• She’s Leaving Home (£0.99/€1.49)
• When I’m Sixty-Four (£0.99/€1.49)
• Within You Without You (£0.99/€1.49)
• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Album) (£7.49/€8.99)

Guitar Hero 5

• I Was Made For Loving You by KISS (£1.59/€1.99)
• Lick by KISS (£1.59/€1.99)
• Modern Day Delilah by KISS (£1.59/€1.99)
• KISS Track Pack (£4.39/€5.49)

Videos

• Final Fantasy XIII Announcement Trailer
• DC Universe Brian Stevens Interview
• Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Space Trailer
• Army of Two: 40th Day Sniper Trailer
• Dante’s Inferno Greed Dev Trailer

Premium Themes

(Static themes)

• Wise Father Theme (£1.19/€1.49)
• Yuefeng Theme (£1.19/€1.49)
• King Zumo Theme (£1.19/€1.49)
• Cavalier Warrior Theme (£1.19/€1.49)

PlayStation Store via PSP and Media Go

Special Offers

(from 19th November until the 3rd of December)

• Buzz! Brain Bender (PSP) (£9.99/€14.99)
• EA Replay (PSP) (£11.99/€14.99)
• Medal of Honor Heroes (PSP) (£7.99/€9.99)
• Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (PSP) (£11.99/€14.99)
• Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover (PSP) (£11.99/€14.99)

Downloadable Games

• LittleBigPlanet (£21.99/€36.99)
• Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines (£23.99/€29.99)
• Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier (£21.99/€36.99)
• The Warriors (£9.99/€12.99)
• Star Wars Battlefront II (£15.99/€19.99)
• NBA 2K10 (£15.99/€19.99)
• Mercury Meltdown (£4.79/€5.99)
• Megaman Maverick Hunter X (£13.99/€17.99)
• Capcom Puzzle World (£13.99/€17.99)
• Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (£13.99/€17.99)
• Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (£11.99/€14.99)
• Mana Khemia: Student Alliance (£19.99/€24.99)
• Williams Pinball Classics (£11.99/€14.99)

minis

• Echoes (£2.49/€2.99)
• Pinball Dreams (£3.99/€4.99)

Demo

• MotorStorm: Arctic Edge Demo
• PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe Demo

Add-On Game Content

Rock Band Unplugged

• California Ãœber Alles by Dead Kennedys (£0.99/€1.49)
• You’re No Rock and Roll Fun by Sleater-Kinney (£0.99/€1.49)

Please note that not everything is available in every country.

Source: EU PlayStation Blog

The portable management software has been updated to 1.3 and contains some handy features.

• Download status is now displayed, letting you know how long until you can start playing that new game
• You can also now pause your downloads allowing you to control which items in the list download first
• System update notice: when you plug your PSP into your PC it will automatically suggest you update to the latest PSP system software if you haven’t already.
• Bonus Digital Copy: Media Go 1.3 now detects if there is extra bonus copy for your PSP on a DVD or Blu-ray disc.
• Playlist transfer: Video and Music playlist transfer from your PC to your PSP in Media Go 1.3
• Media Go now supports Windows 7 and you get some nifty little features like transfer progress on the Windows task bar.

• Comics tab: This is to allow you organize all your digital comics when they launch on the Store in December 2009

Though SCE isn’t re-inventing the wheel, they’re doing a good job at catching up and making sure the software makes full use of the hardware they supply.

Source: EU PlayStation Blog

After the weird teaser which cause a little controversy we’re now presented with a video promo called “Bowling for Shanghai”.

Square Enix Europe announced that the game can be expected in 2010 courtesy of IO Interactive. The game will be released under the Eidos brand which is to be renamed to Square Enix Europe.

Source: Joystiq & VG247

Dice producer Gordon van Dyke talked to Jeff Rubenstein via the Eye chat. The most interesting thing was how Gordon explained how one could get into the beta.

Yesterday we confirmed that firmware 3.10 was in the making. Now it seems the firmware might be here sooner then we think (we hope today rather then tomorrow).

In some parts of Europe special on-demand TV sites will be included in the firmware. Here the announcement slipped up on some info.

Television lovers in other parts of Europe can now enjoy faster access to catch-up on TV with the addition of the following on-demand TV sites to the XMB over the next few days

Depending on how you interpret it, this can mean that in following days they will be adding more TV sites to the working firmware. They will make more announcements on which TV sites will be joining or what we’re thinking after the release of firmware 3.10 they will be adding more channels.
The following TV channels will be included: RTVE, Antena 3 and LaSexta in Spain. NOS in the Netherlands. AXN/Animax in Czech, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia.

This move is centering the PlayStation 3 more and more in your livingroom, making it a device which will suit your everyday needs (except some).

Nothing so far on cross-game chat being included in this firmware. But as a EU spokesperson said, they’re working on it, but can’t give a specific date.

Source: EU PlayStation Blog

Here is an interview with Tom French of Pandemic Studios.

Source: EU PlayStation Blog

It’s finally official, Final Fantasy XIII will launch on March 9, 2010. Four years after it was announced the game will finally reach North America and Europe. Months later then it’s Japanese release date.

John Yamamoto, President of Square Enix, Inc had this to say

We know that our fans have been eagerly awaiting the next installation of the franchise Final Fantasy XIII will exceed all expectations. Coming simultaneously to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for the first time, Final Fantasy XIII will be available to all players who are looking for the most immersive gaming experience of 2010

This might sound weird, but I’m advising all gamers to save their holiday money which they intent to use to buy games with christmas and use it for games in the first 5 months of 2010 as this schedule is going to be packed!

Source: Joystiq

It’s been out in Japan for a while, and people were wondering when the rest of the world would enjoy this feature. Well the people on the US PlayStation Blog have dropped some word.

Coming as a free download from the PlayStation Store you will be able to play games featuring Ad Hoc mode, such as Gran Turismo and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, over the Internet through the PS3. Your PSP connects to the PS3 via Wi-Fi, allowing you to chat online with fellow gamers.

It will also supports voice chat through the Wireless Headset of PlayStation Eye.

Source: US PlayStation Blog

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Top HD Movies

1. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2. The Proposal (2009)
3. I Love You, Beth Cooper
4. Orphan (2009)
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7. Mutant Chronicles
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6. The Office | Season 6 – Double Date
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10. House | Season 6 – Known Unknowns

A few more days and some countries will be able to enjoy the Video Store as well.

Source: US PlayStation Blog

80% of the gamers might not like the CEO of Activision but one of the games in his company just broke the first day sales int he UK. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold 1.23 million units according to ELSPA and GfK Chart-Track. It easily broke the record 613,000 units of GTA: IV.

Source:Edge Online