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American PSN update for May 29th

by Jem Alexander { May 29th 2008 at 4:15PM }

Yeah, we hope you weren't getting too excited about today's PSN update. There's very little here, again. Interestingly, Europe has recently been getting far better content than their yank cousins and this week is no exception. Here's the full release list:

Add-on Content

Rock Band DLC (detailed after the jump)

Videos

Top Spin 3 Debut Trailer
Battlefield: Bad Company: Developer Diary - Characters
Battlefield: Bad Company: Sweetwater's Blog
Dead Space Animated Comic Issue #1
Project Origin Teaser
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Projectile Dysfunction
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Human Juicer Video
Enchanted Blu-ray trailer
No Country for Old Men Blu-ray trailer

Wallpaper

Prince of Persia Arabesque
Prince of Persia New Prince

Apart from a couple of those trailers, only the Rock Band DLC is worth grabbing. If you fancy trying out Fatal Inertia there's a demo on the Japanese PSN Store that's entirely in English. That might be worth checking out.

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Sony touts 52 million PSN downloads

by Kyle Orland { Feb 15th 2008 at 6:30PM }

Boy, you guys must really hate going to your local game retailer. Sony today announced that it's PSN Online Store has racked up an impressive 52 million downloads since launching with the PS3 back in November '06 (and expanding to the PSP in November '07).

For context, Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace reached to 50 million download milestone back in August '06, roughly five months faster than Sony's network (when staggered launch dates are taken into account). Sony's current mark of 2.9 million registered PSN users also pales in comparison to the 7 million Xbox Live users as of last September, though Microsoft's head start likely played a part in that lead.

Still, Sony's online service is going in the right direction, growing from 6.6 million downloads in Dec. '07 to 7.9 million in Jan. '08. And with the PS3 starting to outsell the Xbox 360 in the American marketplace, could the much-predicted Sony turnaround finally be coming to pass?

July's European PSN Store offerings - Heavenly Sword demo and more

by Jem Alexander { Jul 13th 2007 at 9:00AM }

We've managed to get our hands on what exactly we can expect from the EU PSN Store this month. After this week's huge update, we had high hopes that this month would continue offering us some excellent content. Those hopes seem to be well founded. Check out the list of releases for the upcoming weeks. While not exhaustive, this list focuses on major, highly-anticipated playable content.

Heavenly Sword demo

Crash Bandicoot 2 PS1 game for PS3/PSP

Spyro 2 PS1 game for PS3/PSP

WipEout 2097 PS1 game for PS3/PSP

MediEvil PS1 game for PS3/PSP

We've also heard mention of the Blast Factor expansion, Snakeball and Feel Ski but aren't certain whether these will be coming our way in July. If not, then we'll probably see them in August. Also on the horizon is news about Warhawk and the Motorstorm Coyote Weekend VIP Pass update. Oh, and in the run up to the Heavenly Sword release in September we'll be seeing five "Animated History" videos which give the game some backstory, along with some more making-of content appearing on the Store too. No doubt each week will be peppered with the normal trailers as well.