Killzone Bundle And New Trailer

Tomorrow our third DLC “Napalm & Cordite” will be released, allowing you to nail or toast your enemies with the addition of the Boltgun and Flamethrower. For those of you that might have only just picked up Killzone 2, or have not jumped on the DLC wagon yet, we’ve got an announcement to make.

Also going live tomorrow is a Bundle of map packs Steel & Titanium, Flash & Thunder and Napalm & Cordite combined. And we are calling it the ‘Map Pack Bundle’, original I know, but it does what it says on the lid.

So enjoy all the destruction and beauty of Killzone 2 Multiplayer DLC with these 6 great maps.

Seb, MotherH, Downie


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LBP Hits One Million Created Levels

One. Million. Levels.
Amazing, isn’t it? Just think, this means that a new level has been published roughly every 21 seconds since LittleBigPlanet launched.

In case you were wondering, those million levels have been played a total of 244 million times.
The fact that you keep coming back to play, create and share makes us feel all warm and happy.
To those of you who haven’t yet tried LittleBigPlanet, let me ask you a question. What the heck are you waiting for? With over a million different levels to play … don’t you think you might be missing out? :-)

Oh, and one last thing before I’m off to play some of these great user-generated creations on PlayStation Network: check back on this blog around the 18th of August. The folks at Media Molecule might have something interesting to tell you about then…

PSP GO Almost Had Two Analog Sticks

In the most recent issue of Game Informer Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida confirmed that the company "had a very serious discussion" on the subject of adding a second analog stick to the PSP GO, but ultimately decided against it due to worries over splintering the market.

"The PSP Go is designed to be perfectly compatible with the PSP-3000 and all the games that released before that," Yoshida said. For him, it's not a question of improving future games' controls but keeping parity with previous PSP iterations. "We are talking about the mid-life cycle of this platform," he says. Considering the PSP launched in the US in March of 2005, it appears as though Sony is sticking to its 10-year life cycle plan for the handheld.

I think it's a good idea not to include the second analog stick on the PSP GO, but please Sony include it from the start on the PSP2 so that FPS games work the way they should with two analog sticks.

Littlebigplanet History Pack!

Oufits are:
Genghis Khan the great ruler of the Mongol empire (my fave)
Mozart the composer
Boudica the warrior queen
Countess of Lovelace seen as creating the model for the very first computers using the analytical engine
These outfits come out on the 13th of August (the date on the picture is incorrect)
Looks like this pack comes with stickers as well according to the background!
If you could choose which famous people would be in the next pack who would you choose?
Ghandi? Christopher colombus?
I personally would go for Napoleon or Horatio Nelson

Release Schedules

Bayonetta, Bioshock 2, Mafia 2, Singularity and MAG have all slipped from 2009 release dates into 2010 release time frames it appears there are two reasons behind this. The first is the fact you will always get games that get pushed back due to problems or the over crowded holiday season were most of the years biggest games hit the shelves. The second reason is that sales are down a third in 2009 at this present time so publishers like Take2 have said this is the main problem for their games and are pushing them back in the hope the world recovers from recession in 2010 and also there will be less competition with other games as most of them are releasing in the holiday season.

Despite the delays to some games there are still plenty due this Autumn. Uncharted 2, Assassins Creed 2, Brutal Legend, Ratchet And Clank: A Crack In Time, Borderlands, The Saboteur, Gran Turismo 5, Blur, Dirt 2, Need For Speed: Shift, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, The Beatles: Rock Band, Lego Rock Band, Guitar Hero 5, Dragon Age: Origins, Alpha Protocol, Avatar and of course Modern Warfare 2 plus many many more. Additionally two of last year’s big hitters, Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet, are getting re-releases as Game Of The Year editions.

Hopefully this will mean from 2010 we will see more games releasing not just around the christmas period, games like killzone 2, MGS4 and Resident evil 5 have proven that you dont always need to release your games around the christmas period for them to be succesful. I would like to see more games released around the summer time to seeing how the kids are off from school here in the UK for a six week summer holiday, most of the big movies for kids release around this time to like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince so why not release some of the big games in the summer to?

Top 15 Selling PS3 Games

Here is a list of the top 15 selling PS3 games as of June 22 2009.

1. Grand Theft Auto IV 5.68million
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 4.42million
3. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 4.08million
4. Resistance: Fall of Man 3.61million
5. MotorStorm 3.49million
6. Assassin's Creed 3.40million
7. Call of Duty: World at War 3.38million
8. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue 2.93million
9. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 2.48million
10. Resident Evil 5 2.33million
11. LittleBigPlanet 2.28million
12. FIFA Soccer 09 2.25million
13. PES 2009: Pro Evolution Soccer 1.97million
14. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock 1.92million
15. Killzone 2 1.74million

There are 7 ps3 exclusives in the top 15, which is very good in my opinion.

Increased Interest In Modern Warfare 2

It appears since Activision decided to change the of Modern Warfare 2 to Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 interest as picked up.

Three different consumer interest fields Nielsen tracked -- "Aided Awareness," "Definite Interest in Purchasing," and "Total Positive Interest in Purchasing" -- increased drastically from the week of July 6 (before the title was modified) to the week of July 13 (post-name change).

There is no doubt that if your game includes the Call Of Duty tag before your games title it will sell well, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 should of been the titles name from the start

June PSN Top 10 Chart

The top 10 downloaded chart for the month of june Final fantasy VII is top which was no surprise seeing how a large amount of people seemed to be going crazy over the wait here in the UK.

This proves to Sony that people still want to buy these classic PS1 games, so what if Sony started releasing some of those classic PS2 titles would they sell just as well seeing how there is no backwards compatibility but saying that it may be annouced at GDC 2009 next month that all PS3s will be made backward compatible we will just have to wait, either way Sony should keep the PS1 classics coming and maybe look into some of the smaller PS2 classics that don't take up to much space on the hard drive.