Maguire: People will buy 3D content
"People who bought iPads will buy 3D TVs."
Sony Computer Entertainment's UK boss Ray Maguire has told Eurogamer that he has no worries about people buying into the company's 3D dream because there will always be early adopters.
PS3 3D titles priced, out this week
Patches free to owners, 3D TV buyers.
Sony has announced launch details for PlayStation 3's early stereoscopic 3D line-up.
Japan's PS3 3D game updates next week
SSHD, WipEout and PAIN. PAIN's to cost.
Sony has announced that the first 3D updates to PlayStation 3 titles will be released in Japan next week.
Patches for Super Stardust HD, WipEout HD and PAIN will be released on 10th June according to the Japanese press release.
While the 3D-specific updates to Super Stardust HD and WipEout HD will be free, gamers will need to pay 300 yen to grab the PAIN 3D update.
Sony 3D TV buyers get free games in June
3D PS3 firmware to precede HX803 launch.
Sony has announced that people buying its new Bravia HX803 3D TV in June will receive a PSN voucher entitling them to four 3D versions of PS3 games.
PAIN to get Blu-ray release next week
Priced at just under 20 quid.
PlayStation Network title PAIN is to get a release on Blu-ray disc next week.
PSN update: demos, DLC, more demos
inFamous! Marvel vs. Capcom! Red Gorillas!
There are demos aplenty on the PS3 Store this weekend, including tasters for inFamous, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
There's plenty more content for existing PS3 games as well. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena gets a map pack as does F.E.A.R. 2. There are some monster-themed costumes and level-making tools for LittleBigPlanet, plus some special Live recordings by Alice Cooper for Rock Band. Alice, remember, is a man. It's so confusing.
Also, note the excellent puzzler Fading Shadows for download on PSP. This costs 12 quid but is well worth the money. Pop over to our Fading Shadows review to find out more.
Cards, balls, jewels in PSN refresher
Freebies the pick of the bunch.
Sony has restocked the PSN cupboards ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest weekend.
Plus: online play patch released.
Idol Minds has released a patch enabling PAIN players to battle against each other online.
PAIN most popular PSN title of 2008
But where are you WipEout HD?
Sony's Pulse video show reckons PAIN has been the most downloaded PlayStation Network game this year.
And re-recording Culture Club.
Baywatch and Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff is being recreated as a playable character in PSN game PAIN.
PAIN Trophies/Amusement Park dated
Idol Minds throwing itself at the job.
Downloadable PS3 title PAIN will be retrofitted with Trophies on 4th September, according to the Sony blog.
Sony details PAIN Amusement Park
More online bits and trophy support soon.
Sony has launched lots more information about its Amusement Park add-on for PAIN.
It will be out later this summer and will hop on the trophy support bandwagon, according to Sony spokesperson Travis Williams on the official US blog.
Amusement Park also finally lets you invite friends into your world over the Internet, rather than limiting you to the existing mini-game spin-offs.
Stranglehold pack pops up too.
After 30 years of hurt, which never stopped us dreaming, Sony Europe has released PAIN on PlayStation Network for GBP 4.99.
Early January in Euroland.
Sony has said that PAIN - Idol Minds' quirky game about flinging people into a city and watching them get knocked silly by skyscrapers - will be released on the PlayStation Store this Thursday in the US.
Games, glorious games*.
Following the arrival of a bunch of new stuff on PlayStation Network, Sony has announced plenty more is set to follow before the end of the year.
In Sony's new PS3 game PAIN.
Teenagers thrive on random chaos. You don't need an extensive market research report to tell you that. But Sony went ahead and commissioned one anyway, found out that the kids also like creativity, community, competition and other c-words, and the result is a new physics-based "action comedy" game built by Idol Minds called PAIN. It's due out exclusively on PS3 Store this Christmas.
