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Konami “looking into” Metal Gear 4 for Xbox 360

October 16, 2008, 10:00 am by Simon Munk 2 comments

Filed under Gaming Tags: Guns of the Patriots, Hideo Kojima, Konami, Metal Gear Solid 4, MGS4, Microsoft Xbox 360, PS3, X360

It helped sell hundreds of thousands of PS3s. And now, Yoshitaka Arai of Konami has admitted, in an interview with Japanese newswire Morningstar, that the company is “currently looking into” doing a port of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console.

Latest PS3 Firmware adds Flash 9 support and screenshots

October 15, 2008, 10:07 am by Greg Strachan Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Firmware, flash, playstation, PS3, Sony, YouTube

Sony has now released the latest PS3 Firmware update, version 2.50. As usual, there are a number of minor tweaks and upgrades on offer, but the highlight this time is the addition of Flash 9 support for the PS3 web browser and the option to take screenshots in-game.

LittleBigPlanet beta levels to appear in final game

October 13, 2008, 2:26 pm by Simon Munk Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Little Big Planet, LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule, platform, playstation, PS3, Sackboy, Sony, user-generated content

The levels created in the public beta test of Little Big Planet will appear in the final game, Alex Evans, co-founder of Media Molecule Studios has confirmed. Thousands of players have had access to both playing and editing levels from the eagerly anticipated PS3 collaborative platform game releasing this month. And the result has been thousands of user-created levels that will now be available in the retail game too.

Japan goes (a bit) Xbox 360 crazy

October 13, 2008, 12:22 pm by Simon Munk Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: consoles, Japan, Microsoft, News, PS3, Sony, videogames, X360, Xbox 360

Well, according to Microsoft it does. The Tokyo Game Show this weekend has been a hotbed of Microsoft employee quotables, stats releases and game announcements on how well the Xbox 360 is doing over there. Here they all are in one easily digestible package:

PSP Plus lets you play PSP games with your PS3 controller, eventually

October 10, 2008, 9:26 am by Greg Strachan Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: , Dual Shock 3, playstation, PS3, PSP, PSP Plus, Resistance, sixaxis, Sony

Sony is bringing Sixaxis and Dual Shock 3 compatibility to the PSP, albeit in a very long-winded way. The new PSP Plus system announced at TGS 2008 will let you drop the PSP’s dodgy analogue button thing in favour of proper console controls.

LittleBigPlanet maker admits PS3 controls annoy even him

October 7, 2008, 2:00 pm by Simon Munk 9 comments

Filed under Gaming Tags: Little Big Planet, LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule, platform game, playstation, PS3, Sackboy, Sony

Mark Healey, the co-founder of Media Molecule, the company behind highly-anticipated PS3 game LittleBigPlanet, has admitted to Eurogamer that the controls for his own game “annoy” him.

LittleBigPlanet coming to the PSP

October 2, 2008, 10:30 am by Stephen Ebert 1 comment

Filed under Gaming Tags: Gaming, job, LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule, PS3, PSP

It seems Media Molecule has been reading our most wanted PSP games feature. Its co-founder just let slip plans to bring LittleBigPlanet to the PSP. Hooray!

Sony shifts 85,000 PlayTV boxes in the UK

September 29, 2008, 10:30 am by Stephen Ebert Leave your comment

Filed under Gaming, Home Entertainment Tags: Gaming, PlayTV, PS3, sales, Sony, uk

Many of us already have freeview stacked in our tellys but that hasn’t stopped an impressive 85,000 PlayTV units being snapped in its first week by TV hungry UK gamers.