Sony sells 30 million PlayStation 3 consoles across Europe and the PAL territories

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Sony Computer Entertainment this week announced that the cumulative sales of the PlayStation 3 reached a milestone of 30 million units Europe and the PAL territories as of December 17, 2012 – less than six years after the platform launched in 2006.

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The PS3 system has delivered high quality, award-winning entertainment experiences since its launch. Throughout its lifecycle, the PS3 system has continued to evolve with more streamlined design, larger Hard Disk Drive (HDD) capacity, and new features through software updates. In September 2012, SCE launched the new PS3 system, which has a reduced volume and weight of more than 50 percent compared to the original PS3 model, and of 25 percent and 20 percent respectively compared to the slim PS3 model launched in 2009.  The new PS3 has been well received by consumers around the world.

Along with the introduction of PS3 in November 2006, SCE launched PlayStation Network, which now operates in 59 countries and regionsaround the world.  PlayStation Network supports free community-centric online gameplay, exclusive games from independent developers and major publishers, and a broad range of entertainment applications across movies, music, and sports. PS3 owners can access 170,000 downloadable digital content including 57,000 game content worldwide from PlayStation Network.  In October 2012, SCE redesigned PlayStation Store for PS3, offering a more streamlined and accessible store experience, including a stunning new user interface, simple search, and powerful content discovery. The new store is now available in Europe and North and Latin America with more countries and regions to follow.

PlayStation Plus, the subscription service package on PlayStation Store that offers exclusive benefits such as discounts on games or online storage for game saves, started to offer an “Instant Game Collection” in North America and Europe in July 2012. The Instant Game Collection enables PS Plus members to enjoy popular titles from third party developers and publishers as well as SCE Worldwide Studios at no extra cost.  SCE has also enhanced the content offering for PS Plus members in Japan in November.

Assassin’s Creed III and Assassin’s Creed III Liberation On-Sale with the PlayStation Network Flash Sale

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Assassin’s Creed III and Assassin’s Creed III Liberation is available in Ubisoft’s first-ever PlayStation Network Flash Sale – so grab yourself a bargain while you can.

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The following items are included in the sale:

• Assassin’s Creed III – 35% off

• Assassin’s Creed III Liberation – 35% off

• Assassin’s Creed III Gold (full game and season pass) – 35% off

• Assassin’s Creed III Gold & Assassin’s Creed III Liberation – 50% off

The sale is now available in North America (United States, Canada and Mexico) and is only available this weekend.

Check out our review of Assassin’s Creed III here Check out our review of Assassin’s Creed III Liberation here

DVBLink product suite for Synology NAS now available

We are big fans of both Synology NAS boxes and DVBLink so when we heard about the new DVBLink product suite for Synology NAS we couldn’t help but smile.

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DVBLink product suite for Synology NAS turns your Synology NAS into a personal video recorder. With the support for satellite (DVB-S/S2), Cable (DVB-C and QAM) and terrestrial (DVB-T/T2 and ATSC) reception DVBLink TV Server will record your favorite TV programs in original quality directly to a hard disk of your Synology NAS and distribute live and recorded TV throughout your house.

DVBLink TV Server makes sure that you never miss your favourite programs again – browse the EPG and manage timer recordings while you are on the go using free DVBLink apps for iOS, Android and WinPhone mobile devices.

Functionality at a glance

  • Record your favorite TV programs in original quality directly to a NAS hard disk
  • Access live and recorded TV content in your home network on hardware and software DLNA clients (DLNA-enabled TVs, PlayStation3, WD Live TV etc.)
  • Watch live and recorded TV using DVBLink XBMC addon for XBMC running on Windows, Linux or Mac platforms
  • Watch live and recorded TV programs on your Boxee Box using DVBLink Boxee client
  • Watch live and recorded TV on your iPad or iPhone using a compatible DLNA client
  • Stream live and recorded TV to PCs, running Windows MediaCenter
  • Browse EPG and manage timer recordings while you are on the go using free DVBLink apps for iOS, Android, WinPhone mobile devices and feature-rich web interface
  • Get the most complete program information for your TV channels – program information from the TV stream, xmltv feed or a premium EPG services of Digiguide, EpgData.com or TimeFor.TV

Supported Synology x86 NAS models:

DS1010+, DS1511+, DS2411+, DS411+, DS411+II, DS710+, DS712+, RS2211+, RS2211rp+, RS810+, RS810rp+, DS1512+, DS1812+, DS2413+, DS412+, RS2212+, RS2212rp+, RS812+, RS812rp+
*DSM 4.0 or higher is required

Learn more about the suite and download from here

‘Dead Space 3’ Achievements leaked (Spoilers)

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Please only read this is if you don’t mind Spoilers to Dead Space 3.

Additional Achievements can be earned for weapon and item crafting, while  countless awards will be available during co-op play.

Last week, it was  revealed that Dead  Space 3 will feature Kinect support, giving players the chance to  request help from their co-op partner.

As well as Kinect, Dead Space 3 introduces  campaign co-op, where players are able to drop in and out of online sessions at  will.

Visceral wanted co-operative  multiplayer in the original Dead Space but had to scrap it due to  time and creative reasons.

Dead Space 3 will be available for  PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on February 5th, 2013  in North America and on February 8th, 2013 in Europe.

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The list of Achievements in full:

  • Stranger in a Strange Land – Complete the Prologue – 10 points
  • Space Odyssey – Survive your first spacewalk – 15 points
  • Critical Mass – Recover the shuttle – 15 points
  • Snow Crash – Reach Tau Volantis – 15 points
  • Intestinal Fortitude – Defeat the Hive Mind – 25 points
  • Hydra – Kill the Snowbeast – 15 points
  • Together as One – Reassemble Rosetta – 15 points
  • Infernal Machine – Reach the Alien Machine – 15 points
  • Shoot for the Moon – Defeat the Moon – 50 points
  • Under a Buck – Shoot the deer head trophy in the Admiral’s Quarters – 10  points
  • Space Ace – Shoot at least 70 targets during the ride to Tau Volantis – 20  points
  • Hungry – Reach the pump room of the Waystation without alerting any Feeders  – 20 points
  • Drill Sergeant – Complete the Drill Room without taking any damage – 30  points
  • Weedkiller – Kill 5 Cysts in the Biology Building with a single poison gas  cloud – 30 points
  • Get On My Level – Complete the game on any difficulty setting – 10  points
  • The Explorer – Complete all optional missions – 25 points
  • Aren’t You Thankful? – Complete the game on Hardcore Mode – 50 points
  • Epic Tier 4 Engineer – Complete the game in Classic Mode – 40 points
  • Survivalist – Complete the game in Pure Survival Mode – 40 points
  • Gun Collector – Collect all Weapon Parts – 20 points
  • Aliens – Collect all Alien Artifacts – 15 points
  • The Professor – Collect all Artifacts – 25 points
  • The Librarian – Collect all Logs – 25 points
  • The Armorer – Collect all Circuits – 25 points
  • There’s Always Peng! – Find Peng – 50 points
  • My Buddy – Retrieve Resources from a Scavenger Bot at a Bench – 10  points
  • Metal Detector – Successfully deploy Scavenger Bots to 15 Resource Areas –  30 points
  • Strapped – Craft a Weapon – 10 points
  • Circuit’s Edge – Add a Circuit to a Weapon – 10 points
  • EMT – Craft a Large Med Pack – 25 points
  • Full House – Craft a Weapon with 2 Tools, Tips, and Attachments with all  Circuit slots filled – 25 points
  • RIG Master – Fully upgrade your RIG – 50 points
  • Master Plan – Create a Blueprint that needs at least 2000 resources worth of  parts and Circuits to build – 25 points
  • From the Jaws – Save your Co-Op partner from an execution by killing the  attacker – 10 points
  • Share and Share Alike – Use the RIG to give an item to your Co-Op partner –  10 points
  • Medic! – Revive your Co-Op partner 10 times – 10 points
  • Ghosts of the Past – Face all of Carver’s demons by completing all Co-Op  only optional missions – 25 points
  • Architect – Share a Blueprint with your Co-Op partner – 10 points
  • Axes High – Kill 30 enemies using Fodder axes – 20 points
  • Payback – Kill a Soldier by TK’ing a grenade or rocket back at them -15  points
  • Close Encounter – Kill 10 alien Necromorphs – 10 points
  • Go for the Limbs! – Dismember 500 limbs from living enemies – 10 points
  • 1And Then We Doubled It! – Dismember 1000 limbs from living enemies – 10  points
  • Slow Mo – Kill 50 enemies while they are in stasis – 10 points
  • Blast Corps – Kill 30 enemies with explosion damage – 10 points
  • Shootbang – Kill 30 Soldiers with head shots – 10 points
  • Empty Chamber – Kill 30 enemies using melee strikes or a melee Weapon Part –  10 points
  • Dropping Acid – Dissolve 50 enemies with acid – 10 points
  • Electric Lawnmower – Kill 30 enemies using an electrified Ripper blade – 10  points
  • Overpowered Healing – Use quick heal to heal yourself 20 times – 10  points

 

 

 

 

 

Activision releases Lost Treasures of Infocom on iOS

If like me you played adventure games as a kid you probably played at least one game from Infocom. Now Activision has released a huge bundle of Infocom games on iOS.

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Enter the world of master storytellers. Before there were state-of-the-art consoles, tablets and PCs capable of amazing graphics, gamers had to use their imagination and wit, to solve intricate puzzles and progress through these text-only adventure gaming classics.

The Lost Treasures of Infocom brings these classic works of interactive fiction to life for the first time on iPad, Phone & iPod Touch. This definitive collection of 27 adventure games spanning fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, horror & more, places you in the center of immersive, richly-detailed interactive worlds full of interesting locations, engaging puzzles & surprising twists & turns. You’re more than just a passive reader as you engage directly with the story by typing actions through your keyboard. Use your imagination to come up with creative solutions to puzzles with multiple solutions as you progress through each adventure and bring these stories to life!

FEATURES:

• Download today & get the all-time adventure classic that started it all, Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, for FREE! Plunge beneath the surface of the earth in search of the long lost Treasures of Zork. Starting from a field west of the iconic White House, Zork beckons you into a world fraught with danger & discovery.
• Collect & play the original Infocom text adventure library with 27 games in all, including The Zork™ Series, Planetfall®, The Enchanter Trilogy, Leather Goddesses of Phobos™, & many more!
• Interact with all of the original classic Infocom collectables, from the packaging & game manuals to the in-box “feelies”, all faithfully reproduced for fans of the series
• Access special interactive versions the original InvisiClues hint books, & full game maps for each title, accessible from within the games themselves
• Learn about the rise & fall of Infocom, with an exclusive history article written exclusively for the app
• Showcase your adventure game accomplishments to your friends with full GameCenter leaderboard support
• Also includes the exclusive, never-before-published text adventure “Zork: The Undiscovered Underground”, written by original Infocom designers
• Re-live these brilliant & imaginative adventure titles with over 350 hours of gameplay
Complete your collection and keep these classic games alive for generations to come. Players can purchase five bundle packs with 5 games each for $2.99 per pack; OR own the entire game collection PLUS all game maps AND the exclusive, never-published bonus adventure “Zork: The Undiscovered Underground”, for just $9.99.

Games Available:

• A Mind Forever Voyaging
• Ballyhoo
• Border Zone
• Cutthroats
• Deadline
• Enchanter
• Hollywood Hijinx
• Infidel
• Leather Goddess of Phobos
• The Lurking Horror
• Moonmist
• Planetfall
• Plundered Hearts
• Seastalker
• Sorcerer
• Spellbreaker
• Starcross
• Stationfall
• Suspect
• Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare
• The Witness
• Trinity
• Wishbringer
• Zork 1: The Great Underground Empire (FREE with free initial download)
• Zork 2 : The Wizard of Frobozz
• Zork 3 : The Dungeon Master
• Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (bonus game for purchasing the Complete Collection)

Buy the full game library for only £6.99 from the Apple App Store

The Greatest Video Game Music unreleased Enemy Zero: Last Movement track for free

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The Greatest Video Game Music played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra has been out now for a while and if you are a video game fan it’s a must have, and we have an unreleased track you can download for free.

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Performed by the world famous London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Greatest Video Game Music, features 21 brand new, classical orchestrations of some of video game’s most cherished musical themes. The album has sold almost 100,000 copies to date, making it the best selling video game music album of all time.

The track listing is as follows:

  • Advent Rising – Muse
  • Legend of Zelda – Suite
  • Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 2 –Theme
  • Angry Birds – Main Theme
  • Final Fantasy VIII – Liberi Fatali
  • Super Mario Bros –Themes
  • Uncharted – Drake’s Fortune – Nate’s Theme
  • Grand Theft Auto IV – Soviet Connection
  • World of Warcraft – Seasons of War
  • Metal Gear Solid – Sons of Liberty Theme
  • Tetris – Main Theme
  • Battlefield 2 – Main Theme
  • Elder Scrolls – Oblivion
  • Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare – Main Menu Theme
  • Mass Effect – Suicide Mission
  • Splinter Cell – Conviction
  • Final Fantasy – Main Theme
  • Bioshock – The Ocean on his Shoulders
  • Halo 3 – One Final Effort
  • Fallout 3 – Main Theme
  • Super Mario Galaxy – Gusty Garden Galaxy

Download  "Enemy Zero: Last Movement" performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra by clicking here: http://shorefi.re/V95eYk

This is a really good soundtrack to have playing in the background whether you are playing a game, or just relaxing. I have listened to it quite a few times now.

Have you listened to it yet? What is your favourite track? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Drive Bender v.1.4.6.0 (Tomcat) for Windows Home Server 2011 available now

There is an update to the beta of Drive Bender for Windows Home Server 2011, taking it to version v1.4.6.0, also known as the Tomcat release.

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Release v1.4.6.0

  • Update: Added detail debug logging on license check.
  • Update: Drive removal changed so that a number of checks are made when the client indicates the process has finish.
  • Update: Updated help file.
  • Update: Some interface additions and tweaks.
  • Bug fix: Some users have been experiencing “License does not belong to this machine” errors.

Update: A number of performance improvements with regards to how pool free space is calculated and reported

Downoad the beta from here

What do you think of Drive Bender? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 Brutal War Crimes Bosnia trailer released

A new gameplay trailer for the forthcoming Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 game has been released. This one is called Brutal War Crimes Bosnia.

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Sniper :Ghost Warrior 2 is the only multi-platform FPS modern shooter exclusively designed around the sniper experience and built using the most advanced game engine in CryENGINE3. It takes all the breathless anticipation, precise controls and skilful fun of sniping and mixes it with stealth and silent elimination play.

Here is the new trailer:

We also had the opportunity recently to interview Michael Sroczynski, who is a producer from City Interactive working on Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2. Here is the interview:

What do you think of the game? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Learn more from the Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 website

The Last of Us story trailer and release date confirmed

Next year will see the release of the game The Last of Us, and Naughty Dog have a new story trailer out and have confirmed the release date.

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In case you haven’t heard about the forthcoming Naughty Dog game The Last of Us, here is how Sony described it:

Abandoned cities reclaimed by nature. A population decimated by a modern plague. Survivors are killing each other for food, weapons; whatever they can get their hands on.

Joel, a brutal survivor, and Ellie, a young teenage girl who’s braver and wiser beyond her years, must work together if they hope to survive their journey across the US.

Here is the story trailer:

The Last of Us by Naughty Dog, and published by Sony exclusively for the PlayStation 3 will be out 7th May 2013, I can’t wait.

Let us know what you think of the game by leaving a comment below.

And here was the video I took of The Last of US Q&A session at Gamescom earlier in the year:

 

App Update: Action Movie FX for iOS from Bad Robot updated to version 2.1.3

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Last year Bad Robot Productions released a really fun app for the iPhone called Action Movie FX that enables you to easily add cool special effects to whatever you might film. Now it has an update.

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What’s New in Version 2.1.3

  • Minor fixes.
Download the Action Movie FX app now

App Update: Shazam for iOS updated to version 5.5.1

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The very cool music identification app Shazam has been updated to version 5.5.1.

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Having tried some different music, I cant honestly say it find’s the song in a matter of seconds, in some cases, only two or three words had been sung. I was very impressed!

This is how Shazam is described:

Lightning fast tagging. Now discover, explore and share more music, TV shows and brands you love in as little as one second.

With unlimited tagging use Shazam as much as you want, and experience more of what you like, faster.

You can also:
○ Save & listen again (30 sec preview)
○ Buy tracks easily on iTunes & find more by tagged artists
○ View extra content as you watch TV
○ Watch music videos & concerts from YouTube
○ Share on Facebook, Twitter & email
○ See streaming lyrics in time to the music
○ Discover new music in Shazam Friends & Charts
○ See when an artist is touring
○ Use it when you don’t have a signal

What’s New in Version 5.5.1

○ Fixes a bug which can cause over-use of networking
○ In-App Upgrade buttons working again
○ Minor bug fixes for Notifications

Download now from the Apple App Store

App Update: Google Earth for iOS updated to version 7.0.2

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The Google Earth app for iOS has been updated to version 7.0.2 bringing some bug fixes.

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Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world’s population and a third of the world’s land mass.
With Google Earth, you can:
• Navigate the world with a swipe of your finger
• Swipe with two fingers to adjust your view to see mountainous terrain
• Show the Panoramio layer and browse the millions of geo-located photos from around the world
• View geo-located Wikipedia articles
• Use the Location feature to fly to your current location
• Search for cities, places, and business around the globe with Google Local Search

What’s New in Version 7.0.2

  • Performance improvements and bug fixes
Download Google Earth now from the Apple App Store

Audible app now available for Windows 8

Audible is a great service for listening to books and they have just released their Windows 8 app.

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Features

  • Download books to your device via wifi
  • Chapter navigation, bookmarking, annotations
  • Multi-channel background downloading
  • Shop the Audible store, purchases sync automatically
  • Support for Audible.com, Audible.co.uk, Audible.de accounts

I’ve been using Audible for a number of years and it’s a really great service – why not give it a try?

Download now from the Windows Store

Where’s My Holiday? game brings Swampy and Perry together for the Yuletide Season

Fans of Where’s My Water? and Where’s My Perry? are being given a great treat for the holidays, a new free game featuring holiday-themed levels from our favourite shower obsessed alligator and semi-aquatic super sleuth, Swampy and Agent P!

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Bright lights and snowflakes grace mobile screens this winter as they help Swampy take his next shower and get Perry to his next briefing.

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Cut through dirt and guide water to Swampy’s shower across six challenging levels, but players need to keep an eye out for algae, tricks and traps. In Perry’s levels, use water in all its different forms – ice, steam and liquid – to solve the puzzles and help Agent P get to headquarters. Even super-sleuths need help!

The colourful celebrations with Swampy and Perry are sure to keep players in good cheer through to the next year!

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Where’s My Holiday? is available for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store now and will be available for Android on Google Play at some point later later.

Watch the trailer for Where’s My Holiday? below: