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The Playstation blog was just updated announcing that firmware version 2.70 will be released “soon”.  (Er, Greg tels me its out now.) The firmware boasts such innovative features as text chat with up to 15 of your friends. The ability to sort your friends list in many different ways, and the ever so impressive backing up video feeds!

Honestly Sony, I love the PS3 for its ability to have non-proprietary peripherals, the PSN store, how well it works hand in hand with my PSP, but text chat? Lets pull something out of this century, instead of rehashing the 90’s IRC phase all over again.

You can read the full blog post here.

Tecmo has officially announced Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 for the PS3, coming this fall.  Sigma 2 is a expanded port of Ninja Gaiden 2, previously released on the 360.  This version will add more weapons, bosses, playable characters, and even an online co-op mode.

Read full details here, and start getting your swords ready!

It seems that you have to actually *subscribe* to Quore to get High Velocity Bowling – if you just buy the one issue (like I did), you don’t get it.  Oops.

Want High Velocity Bowling?  Don’t want to spend $10?  This is your month.  The March issue of Quore, which released today on Sony’s PSN, includes a free download of the game.  That means you can get the game for the low, low price of $3 (or free if you happen to be a Quore subscriber).

Of course, if you decide to purchase all of the dlc for the game, your price will go up quite a bit. 

In a continuing effort to rob me of all of my cash, Sony has announced that Sackboy will be added as a downloadable character for Hot Shots Golf: Out Of Bounds today.  No price was announced, but it was confirmed to be a paid download.  Sackboy will also include some costumes in case you don’t want to play golf in the buff.  *insert joke about covering your sack here*

More information can be found, along with screens, over on Sony’s blog.

Sony announced on their blog today that InFamous will be releasing this June.  They also revealed the box art and confirmed that there will be a demo released for the game, though no date was given for that.

Checkout the box art over on Sony’s blog.

This news may be a little old, but at least my timing is good – tomorrow (Thursday, 3/5/09) a new free add-on pack will release for the PC & PS3 versions of Unreal Tournament 3.  The pack will add new maps, multi-player modes, units, vehicles and trophies/Steam achievements.  I’ve been wanting to get back into playing this game lately – looks like I just found a good excuse. 

Read more about the update on Kotaku.

We’ll be able to find out a whole lot easier soon, as Sony is finally adding the ability to view your trophies online.  The update goes live tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/3/09) and looks to offer a very easy view of all relevant trophy information.  They plan to expand this further later on, adding other options such as the ability to compare your trophies to someone else.

For more information & screenshots, check out the Sony blog post.

IGN is reporting that a recent ESRB listing shows Battle Fantasia coming to the PS3 via the PSN.  Battle Fantasia is a fighter by the same team that brought us Guilty Gear.  It is a very anime-esque game that puts a RPG face on a fighting game.  The game was previously only available in the US on the 360.

Apparently Sacred 2 for the PS3 is supposed to have seamless online co-op play.  Meaning when I start a game up, anyone that meets my joining requirements (friends only, etc.) can join in at any time and play alongside me. This is what I’m talking about America!  This is the real deal!

See the full details on Multiplayer in Sacred 2 here.