- Here is a post to catch up on a bunch of PS3 news.
- First, there have been some firmware updates. v240 was taken down, but v241 quickly followed up. v242 is out now too.
- For those interested in Trophies, info has come out about the Little Big Planet additions. Apparently Sony may mandate some unique trophies for their titles, (in other words, challenges that are different to Xbox 360 achievements.)
- Qore have continued to put out new episodes.
- Logitech released a steering wheel.
- There is now a Greatest Hits line of games for PS3. Find out which are worth buying. In other cheap games news, Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty is only $15.
- Sony cut the price of the 80GB PS3 down to $400. EU/Australia will get it in August. The FCC got in on the action and showed off some details of the new model.
- Your PSN account will work cross platform.
- Then there is the PSN video store. It is open now, but not in the PAL regions. However, the EU will get PlayTV in September.
- Certain areas of Home will be region locked. A couple of game specific areas were revealed for Warhawk and Uncharted.
- Some more lifestyle apps, "Life with PlayStation" is coming this month.
- Sony love their XMB interface, of PSP and PS3 fame. So much so that the XMB is coming to Vaio laptops.
- And PS3 homebrew is kicking off and we now have the inevitable Pong for PS3.