Filed under: Firmware Updates

As reported earlier, firmware 2.40 has been taken down. Playstation.Blog has a post acknowledging problems with their latest firmware and assures us that it’s only temporary. A commenter concerned about those who have 2.40 installed already was met with a response of “we’ve received no reports of hardware issues following a successful install,” so those of you who have already installed the firmware have nothing to worry about. Stay with us as more information is available.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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Filed under: e-Distribution Games, Trophies

We finally unlocked all the Trophies for Super Stardust HD. As the first game available with Trophy support, many are jumping online to boost their PlayStation level. With 9 Bronze, 6 Silver and 2 Gold Trophies, we’re sure this is going to keep many occupied for quite some time. Here’s our guide to unlock all the Trophies. Good luck!

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Bronze | Difficulty: Very Easy
All Arcade mode Trophies can be earned in Easy mode. We recommend that you play on that difficulty to make it easier to get the Trophies you want. For this Trophy, simply beat the first level. Having trouble with the boss? Make sure you focus on only one weak point at a time. You should be able to destroy one weak point before he does his spin attack. His spin will vacuum space debris, so you may want to keep your distance in the early parts of this battle. The Trophy will unlock once you start the next level.

Continue reading Trophy Guide: Super Stardust HD

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Filed under: Gaming, GPS

An enterprising nerd by the name of Ryan VanMiddlesworth is clearly a bigger Portal fan than you, since he’s cobbled together a GLaDOS-simulating voice pack for Garmin Nüvis. Just don’t try to prevent “GLaGPS” from constantly trying to divert you to cake-related points of interest, else you may find yourself tossing your Garmin into an incinerator. Video after the break.

Continue reading GLaDOS GPS voice pack just wants to help you find your way. To the morgue.

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Filed under: Gaming

Well, what do you know? That Guitar Hero axe that was spotted a few months back on How I Met Your Mother was actually a sneak peek of the six string that comes bundled with the new Activision title. The unwavering rockers over at FW Labs were able to secure a copy of the game in Chile before most everyone else on the planet, and rather than enjoying their fortune without telling a soul, they decided to snap a host of photos and even upload a few videos of the experience. The new toys in the attic are right there in the read link.

[Thanks, David]

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Filed under: Downloads, Game Patches

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Filed under: Rants

Kylie Prymus is the first columnist for PS Fanboy. A Ph.D candidate in philosophy, Kylie specializes in the sociology of technology. Through this new weekly column, Kylie will explore the impact of PlayStation on thought and culture.

Any gamer who has spent a significant amount of uninterrupted time staring through a 2D screen into a 3D game world understands the strange perceptual shift that takes place when returning to the truly 3-dimensional space of the real world. There is a disorienting effect, a sense of unreality, in coming back to a place where perspective changes are achieved not by the subtle movements of an analog stick, but by actually shifting the head which houses your ocular apparatus. I first experienced this 10 years ago after a marathon session of The Ocarina of Time, giving my not-yet-21 self a taste of the post-college-party vertigo to come. A similar effect can be achieved by long stretches of reading, focusing on a purely 2D plane for hours and then trying to adjust to the vividness of reality.

Games also have a deeper effect on our perception of the world, one which far too much press has declared detrimental to gamers and society at large. Our actions in the game world can and do affect our real-world thoughts. Who can claim not to have had at least a small desire to put the pedal to the floor after playing Gran Turismo, especially when one of the licensed songs comes on the radio? How often do you think about the alternate routes through the grocery store a Portal gun would make possible? Beyond being whimsical fantasies divulged only in conversation with individuals at or above yourself on the gamer-nerd scale, some games can actually change the way you think in a positive direction. The intellect enhancing possibility of games has been exploited most successfully by Nintendo with their DS selling Brain Age series (despite a recent Wired article claiming it has no such benefit). Echochrome may well be Sony’s answer to the Dendrite Stimulation genre. There’s just one problem: what exactly does it make you smarter at?

Continue reading Echochrome - the new Brain Age?

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Filed under: Downloads, PlayStation Store

Next week’s DLC for Rock Band will have a Crüefest flavor to it. In honor of the late July event, three tracks (and only one of them actually from Mötley Crüe themselves) have been bunched up into a nicely packaged pack. A fourth song is also planned; this one is a free download. The song is titled “Promised Land” by Vesuvius and comes from the film The Rocker.

The three Crüefest Pack songs are “Down At The Whisky” by Mötley Crüe, “Time Is Running Out” by Papa Roach, and “Who’s Going Home With You Tonight” by Trapt. The Crüefest pack costs $2.99 altogether and, as usual, you can buy them individually for 99 cents. And, if we haven’t already made it clear, “Promised Land” is free … or will cost you only the electricity and internet service for the seconds it will take you to download the song. All tracks will be available Thursday, July 3.

[Via Joystiq]

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Filed under: News

We know you’re all super excited for Buzz! Quiz TV, right? Right. So no doubt you’ll be even more excited about being able to create and view DLC for the game right now. MyBuzzQuiz.com is now open and lets you do just that. These quizzes can then be rated and played on-site, in preparation for Buzz! Quiz TV’s European release next week (Americans can expect to get the game sometime this September) when you’ll be able to download all this user-created content within the game properly.

We love to see new ways for user-created DLC to be incorporated into games and this is one of coolest implementations so far. There are already plenty of quizzes to check out on the site, so go have a look and maybe even have a go at making your own.

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Filed under: Videos and Screenshots, Demos

Doesn’t Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm look absolutely stunning? Namco Bandai’s PS3 exclusive anime fighter brings cel-shaded graphics to a whole new level. While the game isn’t scheduled for release until the end of this year, subscribers to Qore will be able to get their hands on an exclusive playable demo next month. Even this early on, the game looks beautiful, with full 3D fights — new to the Ultimate Ninja series.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear the game will ship with online multiplayer. But, that’s what the inevitable sequels are for, right?

[Thanks, Noshino!]

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Filed under: PlayStation Network, News

The latest issue of Edge magazine has some details concerning DC Universe Online straight out of executive creative director Jim Lee’s mouth. DC Universe Online, which will be released on the PS3 and PC, is a MMO that will include the cast of heroes and villains of the DC universe — that’s Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Darkseid, to name a few. Lee describes the genre as a “kick-ass hybrid between a traditional MMO and a first-person action console game” where you create a unique superhero or villain and choose his/her/its superpowers. Abilities named so far include attacking with fire or ice, acrobatics, flight, speed-running and teleportation. Unfortunately, you can’t be the Flash or Poison Ivy or any of the famous (or infamous) DC characters for obvious reasons.

We are actually pretty stoked about this; with a well-known and well-established franchise behind this MMO, Sony might just have a fighting chance. We’ll see how it is marketed and whether the gameplay elements live up to expectations when the game comes “next year.”

[Via Kotaku]

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