What a crazy day for the PS3. Sony apparently has no idea what is the reason behind just about every single one of their customers not being able to connect to the Playstation Network. The errors occurred early afternoon (PST) and they kept on coming. There may be only one answer during these dark times and although the prospect of spending time without your video games and instead investing it with your loved ones and families... the answer may be to buy an Xbox 360. No, of course that's a cheap shot, but it makes you wonder what is exactly going on?
The rampant speculation about "Sony phasing out the fatties" is already hitting the airwaves. I, personally, feel it's just a typical server downtime and whether planned or not should return to optimal working status within hours, but some people would rather believe it's judgment day. Kotaku and Gizmodo have both picked up on the story so far with nothing much to add other than "nobody seems to know what is going on", although, oddly enough, it seems that most people who claim to have a slim PS3 are experiencing no issues at all... which may prove that Sony hates black fatties.
Posted by: DarkPacMan77 on Sunday, February 28 2010 @ 10:04pm PST
Our good pal and forum friend, AdventWolf, tipped us off about this little bit of tech news. Jumping straight in, for a few years this type of 3D technology has been being developed - originally targeting the PC gaming scene through Nvidia. The technology released was dubbed, "Geforce 3D Vision". Interestingly enough, for those who don't know, the PS3's graphics processor, the "RSX", is created by Nvidia, so this type of 3D technology has only been an earshot away from being used with the PS3. It was just a matter of time. Now, it seems, that technology may become a new feature with the upcoming firmware release, 3.20. Currently at firmware 3.15, if speculation holds true, it shouldn't be long before people are able to download a simple firmware update to possibly take hold of some great extra graphical features.
The downside? Yes, there is a downside. The downside is that you're going to need a 120hz television/ computer monitor in order to experience this extra feature - something only the big spenders currently have access to. The monitor will need to be a native 120hz screen unless you purchase something like a Mitsubishi DLP monitor which come with the necessary hardware to boot. The DLP TV's may only need to be set to 60hz as well even though they support 120hz and overall may support higher resolutions (1680x1050 for a standard 120hz LCD compared to 1920x1080 for a DLP HDTV). I suppose it may also be considered to be a downside that you will need to wear 3D glasses also - something which some people may not appreciate.
For now, most of this is rumor and speculation, but now that this information is coming mostly from developers that have hands-on access to the newest firmware update, this news seems pretty likely to be an upcoming release that may add some extra functionality to your PS3.
We're terribly sorry for the recent downtime the site has incurred, but we've been hard at work to bring the site back up. We've had issues with a few things including hosting issues as well as a bit extra, which I've outlined in our forum, but we're back now and we're working hard towards being better than ever before. Keep your eyes peeled for a forum update within the next few days that will include a section for average members to post news for the website in. That news can be taken and posted up by a staff member, giving full credits to the user, of course, and will be a great way that the community can take part in making the site a better place.
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Thanks for everything folks. Again, sorry for the downtime, but welcome back to the Brew!
Posted by: DarkPacMan77 on Sunday, February 07 2010 @ 2:06am PST
PS3 Getting Some New Colored Controllers in October
Pretty, huh? I think so too. Sony released the silver-colored Dualshock 3 controllers earlier this year in the U.S. and other parts of the world and white was released a while back. I ordered in a white controller off of eBay around Christmas of last year nad it looks great for you guys who haven't seen a different colored controller than black. Sony stated that they will be released around October but no word yet on pricing. My guess is about $50 USD like the other colors.
A few days ago Kojima put up what seemed to be a simple flash teaser, showing only a grassy field under a thick blanket of clouds, with a fence and sparse forest on the right and left. Now that the first countdown has been reached, it looks like a new one is counting down. As well as the clouds are moving much faster and there is lightning and thunder in the background, and a mysterious number or letter 5/S. What caught my attention was that "Raiden" in Japanese means "Thunder and Lightning!" But for right now we will have to wait until we actually find out what it means. But right now it doesn't look like its ending any time soon. Many people have been going through all of the source code of the flash and it looks like the countdown will continue. 5/18 (Today), 5/22 (This timer ends, new one starts), 5/27 (Timer #3), 5/30 (Timer #4), and 6/1 (First Day of E3, also Microsoft Press Conference.) But don't get your hopes up 360 Fan boys, Hideo Kojima himself said there will not be a game / remake of a game for the 360. So right now we are just going to have to wait it out!
Final Fantasy XIII producer thinking about downloadable content?
Square Enix producer Yoshinore Kitase has told VideoGamers.com that Square Enix has "no plan" to release a disc-based demo for Final Fantasy XIII in the States. The demo, bundled with certain copies of the Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, thrust PS3 to the top of the Japanese sales charts, and became the best-selling anime Blu-ray in Japan. While including a demo with the upcoming US release of the movie seems like a no-brainer, Kitase explained that a PS3-exclusive demo would be unfair to the Western audience that's also expecting an Xbox 360 demo. "We are going to carry on with the project alongside the Xbox version, so we really can't just make it available only for the PS3," he explained.
Kitase then noted that the company "would like to check" on the possibility of a downloadable demo. We're certain the logistics behind delivering a 5GB demo to the PSN/XBL masses will be quite difficult to figure out.
Source: PS3 Fanboy
Posted by: PSPortable on Wednesday, May 06 2009 @ 12:52pm PST
VidZone invites music videos to the PS3 this summer
Remember VidZone? You probably don't, seeing as we haven't heard anything about the music video service for the PS3 since it was announced at the Leipzig Game Convention last year. It's not dead, though. The service is ready to go live this summer in the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Australia.
VidZone will be a completely free, though ad-supported, way of watching music videos on demand. It will allow you to create playlists of streaming videos either from your PS3 itself or from your PSP via remote play. The service will feature "thousands of music videos and live concert videos, as well as behind the scenes, interviews and making of footage."
There's no word on how often the service will be updated, but we would hope that more content is added on a fairly regular basis. VidZoneis Europe and Australia exclusive, with seemingly no plans to bring it to the US.
Source: Sony Fanboy
Posted by: PSPortable on Wednesday, May 06 2009 @ 12:46pm PST
This Thursday, May 6, is the release date for the digital release of Patapon 2. It's also the day on which you can show off your lovefor Patapon clothing within Home. They'll be available from the Threads store in the mall, free or not, we don't know yet. Acting as walking billboards is one thing, without having to pay for the pleasure.
Check it out this Thursday on your local PS Home store.
Source: PSP Fanboy
Posted by: PSPortable on Wednesday, May 06 2009 @ 12:42pm PST
Capcom ready to release dozen+ PS1 and PSP titles on PSN
Capcom is going to make its PlayStation Network presence a lot more robust as it begins releasing ports of PS1 titles and providing downloadable versions of previous PSP titles throughout the year. The company spoke with Capcom's Chris Kramer, who let us know that the company would be listening to what the community wants and figuring out internally what titles to release but don't expect any of them to involve licensing shenanigans along the lines of Marvel vs. Capcom.
"We'll definitely be looking at a lot of titles that have things like Street Fighter and Resident Evil in the title," Kramer said. "We're thinking about putting together a long list of the titles we're looking at, and then releasing it on Capcom Unity and having people vote on them. Ultimately we're looking at bringing between 20 and 40 titles to the PSN over the next several months."
Source: PSP Fanboy
Posted by: PSPortable on Monday, May 04 2009 @ 10:54pm PST
The ESRB rating site has gone on rating a few more of the upcoming PS1 releases for the PSN Store. Spyro 2 and Spyro: Year Of The Dragon are both listed as being approved for the PlayStation 3 and PSP.
With titles like WipEout, Street Fighter Alpha 2 and 3, not having been listed for months and, in some cases, over a year, we're not expecting to see these Spyro games soon. If at all. The only thing is that when they rate the games, it sits there and waits. I am not quiet to sure about this one being anytime soon though, but would be a nic addition to the PS games on the PSN.
It is nice to see it being rated though. What do you guys think? Would you like this game to come out any time soon?
Source: PSP Fanboy
Posted by: PSPortable on Monday, May 04 2009 @ 10:44pm PST
This week is pretty good, we have quiet a few updates here with acouple of demos and themes:
PLAYABLE CONTENT - Marvel vs Capcom 2 demo
PSP CONTENT - Patapon 2 demo - Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero "Lil Asagi Comes Home" level pack $3.99
- Patapon 2 Battlefield theme
THEMES & WALLPAPERS - Patapon 2 Battlefield theme - PixelJunk Eden Encore theme B - Disgaea 3 Pleinair theme $0.99 - University of Louisville theme $1.99 - Ole Miss theme $1.99 - PixelJunk Eden Encore wallpaper B
ADD-ON CONTENT -Killzone 2 Steel and Titanium pack $5.99 - LittleBigPlanet Egyptian minipack $2.99 - Burnout Paradise Cops and Robbers pack $9.99 - Disgaea 3 DLC (continued) - Need For Speed Undercover Boss Car Bundle $4.99 - Need For Speed Undercover Challenge Series expansion free - Guitar Hero World Tour DLC (continued) - Rock Band DLC (continued)
Posted by: PSPortable on Saturday, May 02 2009 @ 9:36am PST
SCEA and MLG Gamebattles have just announced the Killzone 2 Online Championships. The championship will be made up of 4 man teams (64 players in total) that will compete to win, win big time. There is over $63,824 in prizes. Registration began on April 28, 2009. The online championships are only open to U.S residents 13 years of age and older.
Prizing Structure
1st Place team: T-Shirt, authentic KZN Helghast Suits, DLC codes
2nd Place team: T-Shirt, StA 52 assault rifle replicas, DLC codes
3rd Place teams (x2): T-Shirt, collectable KZN Busts, DLC codes
5th Place teams (x4): T-Shirt, DLC codes
9th Place teams (x8) T-Shirt
Total Prize Value = $63,824
So the best of luck to all of you, and can’t wait to see if some of our very own PS3Brew members win! That Helghast Suit does look pretty amazing!
All of the rumors about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves are true! It was just announced that it will have a competitive and cooperative multiplayer mode. Evan Wells (Co-President of Naughty Dog) said that they have kept this a secret for more than over a year and a half. Evan also said that the Naught Dog crew has been expanding rapidly and they now have a few more dogs.
"If you’ve been looking closely at our interviews, our team here at Naughty Dog has been growing rapidly and we now have quite a few more Dogs on staff than when work finished on UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune. It shouldn’t be a surprise that we had to grow our studio to tackle the task of creating fully-realized multiplayer and co-op modes that would live up to our own high standards and do the UNCHARTED universe justice. I’m incredibly proud at the excellent work our team has done so far and it shows in the solid game play and incredible polish of the little slice we showed press last week. "[1]
The multiplayer beta will begin June 3rd. The way you will gain access to it is through the infamous vouchers, which go on sale May 26th.
Evan also hinted on more things coming to the single player campaign, and to stay tuned.
“We’ll be back soon to talk more about our single player campaign – don’t think for a second we’ve forgotten about that! The rest of our team at Naughty Dog has been hard at work pushing our engine to its limits while creating a campaign that is more expansive and more ambitious than UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune. They’ve even learned a few tricks from our multiplayer and co-op development – truly a win-win situation as all aspects of UNCHARTED 2 are benefiting from the work we’re putting into both single player and multiplayer modes.”[2]
Source:
[1][2] April 27, 2009 The Offical PlayStation Blog, Uncharted 2 to Include Multiplayer, Beta Starts June 3rd - http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/04/27/uncharted-2-to-include-multiplayer-beta-starts-june-3rd/
Offical Talk Thread :
http://bit.ly/UnchartedMultiplayerAndBeta
Posted by: .Yunoko on Monday, April 27 2009 @ 12:44pm PST
A few weeks ago Hermen Hulst, Managing Director of Guerrilla Games announced on GameTrailers TV that Killzone 2 would be getting a DLC pack. The pack will be entitled Steel and Titanium and would be releashed April 30. The first map in the pack is [1]Wasteland Bullet, and the action will take place on the bullet train that and transports goods and troops between Pyrrhus and the Wasteland. The game is a frenzied firefight to wrestle control of the train from the enemy and into the hands of your faction. With the train moving at full speed, players will need to remain aware of the immediate environment as well as enemies – hitting an overhead obstacle at this speed will mean instant death. The second map, Vekta Cruiser, will find ISA troops boarding a vast ship with the goal to repel a force of assaulting Helghast troops while also protecting the cruiser itself from heavy Helghan fire. The action takes place entirely indoors in a frantic and claustrophobic battle where attackers lurk around every corner.[1] These 2 new maps will contain new gameplay elements and strategic twists. Furthermore the price of the DLC pack was revealed on the offical PlayStation Blog that it would cost $5.99.
Wasteland Bullet Gameplay
Vekta Cruiser Gameplay
Source:
[1] April 14, 2009 The Offical PlayStation Blog, Download Killzone 2 Steel and Titanium April 30th - http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/04/14/download-killzone-2-steel-and-titanium-april-30th
Offical Talk Thread :
http://bit.ly/Killzone2sDLCInformation
Posted by: .Yunoko on Sunday, April 26 2009 @ 7:50pm PST
The ESRB rating site has gone on rating a few more of the upcoming PS1 releases for the PSN Store. Spyro 2 and Spyro: Year Of The Dragon are both listed as being approved for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. 
