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Upcoming Home update adds RedBull, plus more
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Written by Phoenix8387 CydoniaX, the PlayStation Home Community Manager, has today announced that Home will be receiving another update this week.  The highlight of the update is the much anticipated RedBull Island, which means that we can all now enjoy our very own RedBull Air Races with promises of more exciting content to come from [...]

White Knight Chronicles adventuring to NA
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Written by Phoenix8387 Gametrailers recently scored an interview with Akihiro Hino, the CEO or Level 5, in which he talks about White Knight Chronicles.  Near the end of the video he tosses out a few interesting tidbits.  The most interesting and important is that White Knight Chronicles will indeed be coming to North America, however [...]

Trophy Guide – Crash Commando
Monday, January 5th, 2009

CRASH COMMANDO Crash Commando is the first game created by Swedish developer EPOS Game Studios.  You can think of Crash Commandos as a mix of Bionic Commando and Warhawk.  The game looks and plays much like Bionic Commando, but the core of the game is the fast paced action similar to Warhawk.  The game includes [...]

Trophy Guide – LittleBigPlanet: Metal Gear Solid Level Pack
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

In what could only be called as one of the greatest mashups of two completely different genres of games, the Metal Gear Solid Level Pack for LittleBigPlanet has expanded the game we love to something even more.  Adding new trophies, new levels and most importantly a special powerup, the Paintinator.  The Metal Gear Solid Level [...]

Demon Souls may not be so far away for English gamers
Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Written by Phoenix8387 A recent hands on with Demon Souls by Siliconera at the Asian Game Show revealed that a full English version of Demon Souls is at least in the works.  The Asian version of the game looks like it will have full English support.  To make things even more enticing to import is [...]

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – Spike VGA Teaser
Monday, December 15th, 2008

Written by Phoenix8387 There isn’t a whole lot I can say… I’m rather breathless.  Watch the video and behold for yourself. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.761457&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26]

Trophy Guide – Prince of Persia
Monday, December 15th, 2008

The Prince of Persia series had its start way back in 1989 on the Apple II.  This title is a ‘reboot’ of the series and features a new Prince, new design, new mechanics, new characters and more of a focus on one-on-one combat.  It also Supports Trophies… but you already knew that didn’t you? [Hidden] [...]

The PlayStation Network Presents PULSE
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Written by Phoenix8387 Finding it hard to keep up with the world of the PlayStation Network?  To make life a bit easier Sony has launched a new original program to help out.  PULSE, hosted by Christina Lee, is new and original video programming catering to the PlayStation brand.  In each episode you’ll see whats new [...]

Age of Booty… has unexpected Booty [Update]
Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Written by Phoenix8387 Age of Booty was patched updated today to support Trophies.  At this time the patch isn’t live, however if you re-download the game from the PS Store you will grab the new version of the game.  This has happened before with PixelJunk Monsters, so expect the patch to be downloadable soon.  But [...]

Home Mall Receives New Shipment
Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Written by Phoenix8387 Tomorrow morning (or tonight on the West coast) the Home Beta servers will go down for approximately 7 hours.  The servers will be taken offline at 2am EST and will be down till 9am EST, for all you West coasters that’s 11pm to 6am.  During this time the Home Mall will be [...]

Qore 07 Coming… For Free!
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Written byPhoenix8387 As an early Christmas present, Sony is giving the December Issue of Qore away to all PSN members (Assuming you live within SCEA territory).  The issue will be released this coming Thursday for the very manageable price of FREE.  This issue will feature games such as Skate 2, Bionic Commando, Flock and Damnation.

Trophy Guide – PAIN: Movie Studio and ‘The Hoff’
Monday, December 1st, 2008

  Since it’s launch in late 2007, PAIN has received numerous updates and even more DLC.  While much of the DLC is rather insignificant characters occasionally we do get something more.  When Trophies were first released for PAIN the Amusement Park addon came, now two new DLC were released and along with those come additional [...]

echochrome To Receive Trophies
Monday, December 1st, 2008

Written by Phoenix8387 On what is almost a daily activity for me now, I stumbled across a new Trophy listing.  This time for that amazing perspective puzzler we all know as echochrome.  What makes this even better is the fact that it’s on sale right now for $4.99 at the PS Store until December 4th.  [...]

PSLS High Roller Club – October Results
Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Written by Phoenix8387 It’s that time again… time to update your PlayFire cards or post a Trophy update on our Gaming LifeStyle Forums.  If you are not a member you can sign up for our Gaming LifeStyle Forums here.  For those that did not know we recently changed the way we handled rankings, we now [...]

Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom – Trophy List
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Written by Phoenix8387 TikGames (not to be confused with TikiGames) is bringing a title named Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom to the PSN. According to an IGN preview of the game it doesn’t venture far off from traditional Mahjong, however it does provide a fully fledged story and multiple play modes. At the current time no [...]