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It seems that Wednesday is the day when Sony will re-release the firmware update that took down some consoles last week. The announcement was made through the company’s customer service, but an official Sony note is expected to appear sooner or later. The new firmware update, which is called 2.41, will fix a series of problems of the 2.40 version that left some PlayStation 3 owners staring at a black screen and having nothing to do about it after they have updated their console’s firmware. However, Sony has not made any official statements as to what these problems were, or how it was...
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2K Games has announced that it has signed an agreement with
Digital Extremes to assist in the development of BioShock for the PS 3.
This means that currently four studios are working on this
version: 2K Marin, 2K Boston, 2K Australia
and Digital Extremes.
In BioShock, which was released in August last year, players
enter the game as a castaway in Rapture, an underwater utopia torn apart by
civil war.
Caught between powerful forces and hunted down by
genetically modified "splicers" and deadly security systems, players
have to come to grips with a dangerous and...
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It’s been a while since Halo 3 first saw daylight, in
September 2007, and made Bungie Studios the proud owner of 2007’s best selling
game.
Now Bungie prepares a little present for Halo 3 gamers for “Bungie
Day” (July 7) and offers them the “Cold Storage” map and a set of other goodies
free of charge.
The new map will bring back memories for first Halo players,
as it is in fact a remake of the “Chill Out” map. “Cold Storage" can be
downloaded for free, together with game pics and a Bungie Day Xbox 360
dashboard theme, all for free.
And that’s not all, as the Legendary Map...
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The rating given to the game Beer Pong managed to attract numerous
negative comments, as it would allow minors to purchase it without any
problems. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
expressed his firm disapproval to the whole situation, calling it a mistake and
advising the game’s publisher to find a solution as soon as possible.
The video game captures one of the
most popular college games, where the competitors have to throw a ping pong
ball into their opponents’ cups. When the ball indeed ends up in the cup, its
owner has to drink beer. JV’s Vice President Jag...
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Sony announced today that it released the firmware 2.41 upgrade that was supposed to fix the bugs of the firmware 2.40 that was released last week. The announcement came via the official Sony PlayStation blog. Yesterday, the PS3 customer service announced that the upgrade will be released sometime until Wednesday and most people were waiting for a Sony official announcement regarding this thing, so the actual release of the new version is a pleasant surprise. Firmware 2.41 is supposed to upgrade the PlayStation 3 consoles with two new features. While firmware 2.40 was initially set to do the...
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