We can probably forgive DICE for including the 1945 battle of Iwo Jima in their downloadable multiplayer combat game Battlefield 1943 when it looks this good.
Iwo Jima is just one of three battlefields coming out with the downloadable installment of the Battlefield series next month on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Along with Guadalcanal and Wake Island, players should have plenty of scenic places blow each other to pieces.
Hertfordshire, UK- April 03, 2009 - KOEI today announced the release of the DYNASTY WARRIORS: STRIKEFORCE demo for the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system. This radical departure for the series, which sees teams of up to four players joining forces to battle against some of the most cunning foes ever to feature in a Warriors game, is now available to download and play with your friends from the PlayStation®Network. Read more…
Playstation.com now lets you see yours trophies on their site… later this year sony will enhance letting you to compare sort yours trohpies in different ways.
The update is due to go live tomorrow. The functionality will be very basic at launch, allowing you to simply check your own Trophy stats. After a later update, you’ll be able to compare your Trophies against friends’ and “look at your Trophies in new and interesting ways.” We’re hoping the info will be made available for third-party applications and websites to access at some point in the future, too.
Rock Band Instrument Edition Bundles Now Available at new Price Points
GUILDFORD, UK – February 27, 2009 – Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), along with distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that its critically acclaimed music videogame Rock Band® 2 will begin shipping in Europe for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system beginning the week of 23rd March. Rock Band 2 will also ship for the Wii™ home video game console from Nintendo beginning week of 20th April.
Rock Band 2 software will retail for £49.99 on the PLAYSTATION 3, £29.99 for the PlayStation 2 and £39.99 for the Wii. Rock Band 2 is also currently available on the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system for £49.99.
Rock Band® instrument peripherals are also now available at new price points:
• Stand alone guitars will retail at £39.99
• Stand alone drums will retail for £49.99
• An “Instrument Edition” including drums, guitar and microphone will retail for £89.99
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest gets $10 worth of heroes and maps with Pandemic Studios’ release of the aptly titled Heroes & Maps Pack, now available via Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest might not have gotten the best critical reception, but Pandemic isn’t letting that stop them from delivering more heroes of lore and arenas of war to their Middle-earth epic battle simulator. Available today, the Heroes & Maps Pack adds three additional heroes, two new multiplayer maps, and two hero arenas for use with the previously released Hero Arena content pack.
Destination PlayStation is turning out to be quite the significant event for Sony. Rock Band has already been announced for the PlayStation Portable, and now Assassin’s Creed is being given the portable treatment as well. Ubisoft and Sony have teamed up to bring the building crawler to the palm of your hands sometime later this year. While it’s unknown whether this will be a bridged title much like Resistance: Retribution, it will be fun to play as Altair in an on-the-go environment.
Remarkable Milestone Achieved in Only 2 Years and 3 Months Since Its Launch on November 11, 2006
Tokyo, February 25, 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that the cumulative number of registered accounts on PlayStation®Network worldwide has exceeded 20 million as of February 20, 2009. The registered accounts on PlayStation Network reached 5million in 1 year and 2 months, 10 million in 1 year and 8 months, and exceeded 20 million in only 2 years and 3 months from the service launch on November 11, 2006*1. The number of users connected to PlayStation Network is ever growing, thus successfully building a robust network business platform.
