Gameloft is porting another iOS game to the PS3 with updated graphics boasted to be a “dramatic artistici makeover” with comparisons to “Torchlight” being made. The PSN version will also have a four player coop mode both online and off.

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Quick to act against the PS Jailbreak, Sony has made steps to make sure that it doesn’t get out of hand. It’s not a new firmware update, though. For now, they’re targetting the modchips that make the hack possible. As of Aug 27, 2010, they’ve managed to secure a temporary injuction from Australia’s Federal Court, blocking the sale and importation of the new PS3 modchips. With this temporary injunction, Sony will have until August 31st to convince the courts that modchips should be made illegal. Until then, distributors are prohibited from selling them. If they’re successful, then a permanent ban on the devices will be enacted. If not, modchips go back in business by September 1st. In 2005, however, an Australian court ruling made the sale of modchips legal in Australia. That’s not exactly iron-clad, seeing as Nintendo managed to outlaw R4s to protect the DS from piracy. I’ll keep you guys posted on what happens next. [via  Kotaku ]

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Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai is ruling out a download-only future for the next-generation PlayStation consoles. Speaking in an interview with MCV, Hirai said Sony’s business will always require a physical discs in one way or another, despite being the first one to release the download-only PSP Go. “We do business in parts of the world where network infrastructure isn’t as robust as one would hope. There’s always going to be requirement for a business of our size and scope to have a physical medium.” This doesn’t mean that Sony will support physical discs all the way, well according to Hirai, it’s not happening anytime soon. “To think everything will be downloaded in two years, three years or even ten years from now is taking it a little bit to the extreme.” Via [ MCV ]

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Darrelle Revis and the New York Jets have agreed to a new deal that will be announced on Wednesday. Considering that Revis is regarded as one of the top five defensive players in the NFL, this is huge news for the Jets and their fans. The source of this news is Tim Cowlishaw’s Twitter . The Jets were a great defensive team last year, with a lot of the credit going to Revis. He’s a cover corner who can lock up the opponent’s best wide receiver with minimal help. That ability allowed the Jets to send a lot of pressure at the quarterback and send double-teams to the other side of the field. While there are no details of Revis’s deal, expect him to become one of the highest paid defensive players in the league. Speaking of the Jets, Nick Mangold and the team are also getting close to a long-term extension. The All-Pro center will reportedly become the highest paid center in the NFL. Darrelle Revis – New York Jets (Image: TSN.ca) Post from: EveryJoe

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Lou Piniella was expected to step down at the end of the baseball season. Instead, the Chicago Cubs manager decided to retire on Sunday. He said that spending time with his mother is his main motivation. Said Piniella: “My mom needs me home and that’s where I’m going.” Managing his final game, the Cubs lost to the Atlanta Braves by a final count of 16-5. “It’s a good day to remember,” remarked Piniella, “and also it’s a good day to forget.” Piniella began his baseball career in 1962. He spent 18 years as a player before managing for another 23 years. During his time in the big leagues, Piniella won three World Series rings. For the final 38 games, Mike Quade will manage the Cubs. Quade was formerly the team’s third base coach. All the other coaches will remain the same for the rest of the season. However, at the end of the season, expect the 51-74 Cubs to make wholesale changes. Lou Piniella says goodbye to baseball (Image: TSN.ca) Post from: EveryJoe

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At the 2008 Olympics, Team USA was a machine. This year’s squad is smaller, less skilled and less experienced … and thus, much less dominant. That lack of domination was apparent on Sunday when the United States barely got past Spain by a final score of 86-85. Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose made big plays down the stretch after Spain had taken an 82-80 lead. Durant led Team USA with 25 points, who played this exhibition game in Spain. Next, the squad heads to Athens to play the Greece national team. Despite the close call, the Americans were happy with their play. Said Durant: “It was one of those games that was a learning experience for us and I think we made key plays down the stretch. We also played as a team and stuck through tough times.” Spain, who is considered one of the top three basketball teams in the world, has a number of NBA-quality players. Juan Carlos Navarro led the way for Spain with 20 points, while Marc Gasol totaled 17 points and six rebounds. Rudy Fernandez, Jose Calderon, Ricky Rubio, Fran Vazquez, Jorge Garbajosa and Sergio Llull are other players on Spain that NBA fans are familiar with. Kevin Durant – Team USA (Image: TSN.ca) Post from: EveryJoe

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  Insomniac Games recently announced in their August newsletter that they will be revealing their latest project between now and PAX West! Here’s a bit of what the newsletter read: With that, we’re happy to reveal that we’ll be announcing our newest game sometime between now and the Penny-Arcade Expo over Labor Day weekend. We’re really excited to finally reveal this project, and we couldn’t resist being the first to share the news with you. Even bigger news is that newsletter subscribers will be the first folks to see the trailer: the instant we announce the game – we’ll be blasting a newsletter with the trailer for you to view at home. The only way to be the very first to see what we’re cooking up next – is to be a subscriber of this newsletter –so tell your friends! If you’ll recall Insomniac signed a deal with Electronics Arts in a move to release future multi-platform games. It’s unclear if this new game will be a multi-platform one but it will be in demo form for the PS3 , according to reports , at PAX 2010 on September 4th at 6:30 p.m. Resistance 3 anyone? Source  / Follow Insomiac on Twitter

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This Week Quite a bit late with this one, for sure. Had some personal stuff going on for a while (health and vehicle related) so I had been pre-occupied with that and haven’t really been able to come on here and post much of anything. All that has finally been taken care of, though, so I’m definitely in better spirits now (that, and the Senate finally passed the much-needed Unemployment Extension). So what’s new for this week? Sakinah let us know that Hello Games broke even on release day with their title Joe Danger , which is a great title, by the way (hopefully this means more awesome games from them in the future). Darrin showed us the numbers for June . The Hulu+ service is available in preview form for PS+ subscribers . James Bond seems to be making a return , and the announcement of the title, Blood Stone , even has a debut trailer . There are a few pieces of other news as well, so be sure to check out the entirety of the recap and see what you may have missed. I’d go a little more in-depth here, but seeing as I have yet another Recap to write after this one, I need to manage my time . Community News From what I can gather, we didn’t really have much news in the Community a couple weeks ago. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t very active, though. We still had a number of posts come in. Tosh did manage to organize the top menu more, though. It makes navigation of some of the site’s pages easier and also better labeled the different link across the top to make a little more sense. There’s a new Group Forums Directory that now allows you to create new group forum topics from that page rather than having to navigate to each individual group separately. Keep in mind, not all groups have forums, so you may not be able to post a topic in a few of them. You can also check out a new Help Video on how to Favorite all the different things (news posts, topics, etc) on the site. If you aren’t a member, the contests should be enough to make you want to register! Not only that, if you’re logged in, you can join in on the Live Chat (which is always busy, save for late nights) and there are always secret contests being held there. Currently, the biggest contest we have going on ends in just a few days. If you haven’t already, you can read about the contest here . Enter as soon as possible for your chance to win a $50 PSN gift card! 20 Articles // 6 QuickNews Contributor of the Week Luke & Ace – 4 Entries QuickNews Contributor of the Week Luke – 3 Entries Most Liked Trev – If God Of War went Indie – 8 Likes Most Comments Ace – PlayStation Move to launch in these three flavors – 13 Comments Gaming News Hello Games’ Joe Danger Breaks Even on Release Day Sakinah – July 13th Landit Bandit: Landing on the PSN Today Luke – July 13th Sega to stop PS3/XBox 360 support for Aliens vs Predator? Tosh – July 14th June 2010 Sales Darrin – July 16th Killzone 3’s “Cinematic Deaths” Marc Macayan – July 13th Hulu+ coming to PSN+ members today! Luke – July 14th PlayStation Move to launch in these three flavors Ace – July 14th Stereoscopic Screen Sharing Darrin – July 15th Little Big Planet Marvel Costume Pack 2 this Tuesday Oly1Kenobi – July 16th Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Demo Coming to PSN Luke – July 16th First Screens of Legends and Killers DLC for Red Dead Redemption Jay – July 16th DeathSpank for the PSN Tommorow!! oly1Kenobi – July 12th Young Thor dropping the Hammer on the PSP/PS3 Luke – July 15th Activision unveils new James Bond game Ace – July 16th Swords & Soldiers coming to PSN Ace – July 16th James Bond 007: Blood Stone debut trailer Ace – July 17th Amazon Opens PlayStation Move Store Sakinah – July 13th GameStop Gridiron Game Changers Sweepstakes Jay – July 14th Are George Hotz’s Hacking Days Over? Sakinah – July 15th If God Of War went Indie Trev – July 16th QuickNews LittleBigPlanet Costume Pack 2 on the Way Luke – July 13th Human Torch Little Big Planet Costume is Revealed!! Oly1Kenobi – July 13th PlayStation Minis Reach 1 Million Downloads Sakinah – July 14th Elektra Little Big Planet Costume Revealed!! Luke – July 14th Ghost Rider Costume Revealed for Little Big Planet Oly1Kenobi – July 15th Thor costume revealed for LBP! Luke – July 16th Play With Us It appears that there are going to be Game Nights every Saturday for Red Dead Redemption (at least for the time being). Given that fact, you can read the recap for the 07/10 Game Night here . There was also a scheduled Game Night for the 17th . Hopefully, I can get back into the swing of things and get back online with you guys… Poll Results Due to Google’s Interactive Pie Chart gadget not working right, I’ll have to do this the old fashioned way, but here are the previous poll’s results: Will you be purchasing the Move? Yes – 26 Votes 33% of all votes Wait for the games – 20 Votes 25% of all votes No – 12 Votes 15% of all votes Maybe – 8 Votes 10% of all votes When it’s cheaper – 8 Votes 10% of all votes As soon as possible – 6 Votes 8% of all votes Total Votes: 80 Thank You Thank you for your patience. I still got one more recap coming today, which will be for last week, so I’ll finally be caught up with those again.

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What happens when you mix Mario Kart and Wipeout with Call of Duty? You get Blur. Mario Kart for grown ups has been a frequent method of description when trying to sum blur up but it is much more than that. It features real cars racing round real locations but with fantastical weapons resulting in a frantic arcade racer with a fan/lights system that keeps you coming back for more as you constantly unlock and progress. Progression through the main career mode is defined by fans and lights that are attained in each event. Lights are determined by how well you finish an event with bonus lights awarded for driving through checkpoint gates or meeting fan target numbers. Fans are attained in a similar way to XP as in say MW2, so completing actions like hitting an opponent with a weapon to overtakes them and drifting reward you with fans. Progress through the game involves completing 9 different stages that consist of 8 events. These are either race, destruction (score points for wrecking other cars) and checkpoint (race against the clock collecting time bonuses). Lights are obtained at the end of each event and each stage finishes with a head to head race. There is plenty to do and its worth playing through again on hard and to set better times for the online leader boards. An excellent feature though, is the ability to share your score with a friend, after completing an event you can then send them a challenge to beat your score and they can reply showing how many tries it took them to beat it for you to beat. Blur is an incredibly social game with the aforementioned friend challenges it also features facebook and twitter integration, this involves posting updates of scores and unlocks that are user controlled. This means no auto posts about trophies or every race you finished unless you want it to. Unfortunately the Game’s website and leaderboards is still not fully functioning yet but hopefully that will be sorted out soon. The weapons are varied and perfectly balanced with shield, mine, boost and repair all doing what you would expect. The other weapons are Barge (sends a shock-wave out of your car), shunt (homing red missile), bolt (fires 3 bolts) and shock which places 3 electrified traps in front of the leader. All of these apart shield, repair shock can even be fired backwards (or forwards if its a mine), with the boost acting as a bullet time direction changer being the most ingenious! Most of the weapons can cancel each other out using the barge to halt an incoming shunt, for example, all helps to keep the balance and being able to hold 3 weapons at a time allows you to manage your power ups and save them for when they are needed. It works a lot better than the 3-tier system used in ModNation racers for example, they are also not randomly placed so as well as learning the track you can learn, which power ups are where adding an extra layer of tactics. The handling of the cars is straight up arcade with stiff turning and fast speeds, with drifting a required to navigate the trickier turns. The cars are broken down into 4 speed types from A to D with you starting at D with Ford Focuses and working up to A involving Audi R8s and Koenigseggs. There is a suitable difference between the cars and the tracks to warrant chopping and changing between each event with Amboy tracks suitable for off-road cars like the Land Rovers and Tokyo’s long straights ideal for power house Skyline’s to rip through. There are some cars missing that you would wish to be present such as Ferrari, Honda and TVR but you soon get over these losses by appreciating the selection that is present, it may not have a Gran Turismo size garage but there is still plenty there to play with. Blur is divided in half in a similar fashion to Call of Duty with the game offering you a choice of single and multiplayer when you start it up. Multiplayer features online, LAN and splitscreen options – that’s 4 player splitscreen with 4 other AI cars all working flawlessly like the good old days. Online features an addictive leveling up system like MW2 with constant unlocks of cars and mods as you play, challenges also help boost your fan counts to get to next rank. There’s even a prestige legendary mode when you’ve reached the top rank allowing to restart again but unlocks a unique car for your use and the unlocks are different from the single player with only the boss cars that you have earned carrying over. There are plenty of modes from the straight up 20 player races to MotorMash (deathmatch), Team Racing and Hardcore Racing without the power ups. The online experience can be chaotic, especially on tracks with plenty of Shock power-ups and be prepared to get rammed into walls but soon enough you’ll learn the ropes and start winning races. From the moment you boot up the game and hear the sublime Ennio Moricone remix accompany a slow motion scene of destruction you know you are in for a treat. This is a slickly designed game, minimalistic menus are backed by ambient music and helvetica font is used liberally and neon graphic effects. All the events take place at night or sunset keeping a consistent visual style with a slightly washed out low contrast aesthetic. The cars are authentic and shiny bouncing off the light reflections and the tracks whilst a little fantastical do feature real world streets, I particularly enjoyed racing around my local area Hackney. The music also fits in with the style of the game with plenty of electronic, drum & bass & remixes from the Ninja Tune label that perfectly accompany the on track action (sadly there’s no Song 2 ). Blur runs at 30fps which is works fine as this means races can involve up to 20 cars resulting in a lot of mayhem with no visible slowdown or screen tear, which is always welcome especially considering Blur is Bizarre Creations first multi-platform game after being X-Box exclusive since the PSOne days. The damage model is a little basic and doesn’t show too much in the way of unique impact damage but it just about does the job, the cars flipping when hit are always spectacular though. Blur is full to the brim with neat ideas, great design but also has the solid gameplay to hold it all together, it’s addictive and fun without feeling too unfair, a trait all too common with combat racers. There’s no doubting you can feel like you’ve lost a race through no fault of your own but you could always have been more prepared by hoarding more defensive weapons. to protect your lead and lets face it, there’s nothing like stealing a win on the last corner. If you’re looking for a fun, social racer to tide you over the summer you could do a lot worse than pick up a copy of blur, just don’t expect to find a beetlebum car in it though. *A copy of Blur was attained for reviewing purposes by the reviewer. Played the Career mode till completion on normal and played online to rank 20.

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