After a year of announcements, delays, closed betas and other tom foolery, could the launch of PlayStation Home be right around the corner? Maybe, if a recent post by Variety’s Ben Fritz is any indication. Coming from a demo of the service with SCEA director Jack Buser, quite a few hints were dropped:
Sony hasn’t announced [...]

Would you kindly download the demo for the PlayStation 3 version of BioShock on October 2? Better yet, would you kindly purchase the PS3 version of BioShock on October 21?
The PS3 version will include loads of new features, included a heftier difficulty mode, trophies, and add-on content. What that actually is though isn’t being specified. [...]

Sony Computer Entertainment of America has expanded the availability of their prepaid PlayStation Network Cards, revealing today that they will go on sale at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and select Sam’s Club outlets next month.
“The PLAYSTATION Network Cards are an easy way for PSP and PS3 fans to obtain great games, movies, TV shows and other [...]

Approaching Rock Band 2 is an interesting proposition from a review standpoint. Do you do it as an individual game or as the music platform that Harmonix has touted it to be? Regarding the former, Rock Band 2 doesn’t really push anything forward as far as innovation goes, but as for the latter it does [...]

Frank Castle’s preparing to enter the War Zone (of consoles) and he’s already chosen his side. This morning on the Official PlayStation Blog, Zen Studios announced that they’re at work on an all-new Punisher title for the PlayStation Network.
Dubbed The Punisher: No Mercy, the game is a PSN exclusive and is being built on Epic’s [...]

Fans looking forward to Capcom’s retro sequel of Mega Man 9 got some more good news today, as they’ve announced that the “retail” package that was recently sent out to the press will indeed be sold to the public at their online store.
Specific details on what the package will come with aren’t clear, but if [...]

Earlier today, developer Psyonix Studios announced that they have licensed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 technology for its upcoming PlayStation Network title, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars.

“We’ve been working with other studios using Unreal technology for years now,” says Psyonix Studios development director Dave Hagewood. “I’m very proud to be licensing the engine for our first [...]

Gamers looking forward to EA’s upcoming survival horror title Dead Space got some good news today, as the company announced that the game will be shipping a week early. Originally slated to arrive on October 21, the game will now ship on October 14.
“The development team at EA Redwood Shores is getting into the Halloween [...]

SNK fans rejoice. While we’re still waiting for Samurai Shodown on the Arcade in any form, King of Fighter’s can certainly hold us over. A leaked Tokyo Game Show exhibition list has revealed the title on SNK’s slate. The game was re-released on the PlayStation 2 over the summer in Japan as King of Fighters [...]

Remember back when Microsoft paid Rockstar $50 million for the exclusive rights to Grand Theft Auto IV’s downloadable content (which we’re still waiting for)? Well, Sony has borrowed that idea for the upcoming EA release Mirrors Edge. Unfortunately, no numbers were divulged, but one can assume it was a whole lot less than $50 million [...]

Sony announced a number of details regarding Insomniac Games’ upcoming first-person shooter Resistance 2 this morning. The game is now officially slated to arrive in North America on November 4, and alongside the regular edition will be a Collector’s Edition that will retail for $79.99.
In addition, a worldwide beta was also revealed today. Starting in [...]

Shuhei Yoshida, the recently appointed head of Sony Computer Entertainment, recently talked to VG247 about Team ICO’s upcoming PlayStation 3 game. He didn’t say much, but did allude that something could be coming as soon as October’s Tokyo Game Show.
“I cannot tell,” said Yoshida. “But I can say that they’ve been working very hard since [...]

Sony’s latest firmware update recently came out for the PlayStation 3, but if a recent CVG article is true, another one might be on the way with more changes to the system.
Rounding up a whole half number to 2.5, the main proponent of the new update will be the ability to capture screenshots of your [...]

Rock Band’s DLC for the week of August 26 has been announced today by Harmonix:
Tracks:
Rush’s Moving Pictures (Full Album)
“Tom Sawyer” (Original Version)
“Red Barchetta”
“YYZ”
“Limelight” (Original Version)
“The Camera Eye” (Part One) (Part Two)
“Witch Hunt”
“Vital Signs”
All of the tracks are masters. Prices haven’t been revealed yet, but check here when it does. The album/tracks will be available on [...]

PlayStation 3 owners finally mark their calendars for their trip to Rapture, as 2K Games announced this afternoon that BioShock will be arriving on the system in North America on October 21.
“We are proud to introduce 2K Games’ showcase title, BioShock, to an entirely new audience,” said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “With the addition [...]

Players of Guitar Hero and Rock Band games on the Xbox 360 were assured last month that the peripherals for each game would work across both titles, and today PlayStation 3 owners got the same. Confirming the details on their official blog, Sony announced that they’ve come to a deal that will allow all peripherals [...]

Rock Band’s DLC for the week of August 19 was announced today by Harmonix:
Devo - “Girl U Want” (new original recording)
Devo - “Through Being Cool” (new original recording)
Duran Duran - “Girls on Film”
Duran Duran - “Rio”
The Janitors - “Get Your Rock On”
All of the tracks are masters. With the exception of “Get Your [...]

Nintendo didn’t have the month they had in June, but still managed to secure the top spot for hardware sales according to the latest NPG Group numbers released tonight. The company sold 555K Wiis for the month, alongside the overall leader DS at 608K units.
Right behind them was the PlayStation brand, with the PlayStation 3 [...]

Game Developer Research released the results of its seventh annual State of the Game Development Industry this afternoon. The 180 page report, compiled by surveying nearly 2,000 industry professionals who either read Gamasutra or subscribe to Game Developer magazine, answers more than 55 questions that cover numerous topics in the development field.
“Our goal at Game [...]

Rock Band’s DLC for the week of August 12 was announced today by Harmonix:
Tracks:
Roadrunner Records Six Pack:
Airbourne – “Runnin’ Wild”
DevilDriver – “Clouds Over California”
Dream Theater – “Constant Motion “
Killswitch Engage – “My Curse”
Machine Head – “Aesthetics Of Hate”
Megadeth – “Sleepwalker”
The tracks (all masters) will sell together as a bundle for 480 Microsoft Points ($5.99), or [...]