Today Sony Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai announced that an 'iTunes' style online entertainment service will be coming in early 2010.

Sony plans to launch the new online service to distribute movies, music, books and other content to the PS3, network-capable Bravia TVs, Blu-ray players, ebooks and others in a bid to add value to its hardware.

To quote: "Sony...

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Today Epic Games has announced the launch of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), a free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides community access to the award-winning toolset.

Anyone can start working with the Unreal Engine 3 toolset by downloading the UDK at UDK.com, where detailed product features, technical documentation, commercial licensing terms, support resources and more...

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Today TikGames Sr. Director Alex Tikhman has announced that The Trail of Dr. Chaos will be available on September 17 on PSN.

To quote: Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos (available September 17 on PSN for $9.99) is a hidden object game, the first of its kind on the PS3.

For those who are not familiar with this type of game, go back to your childhood and remember the “I...

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Recently we added Glyde.com to our Affiliates here at PS3 News, and for those who haven't checked them out yet below is a brief background on what they offer to gamers.

Glyde was simply designed to be the cheapest and easiest way to buy and sell used (and new) video games – as well as DVDs, CDs and books.

The idea was conceived by the owners themselves, who were frustrated by the...

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Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that Del Rey Books will publish two novels based on the God of War video game series.

The first novel, GOD OF WAR, will be written by author Matthew Stover and will release in March 2010.

To quote: In the novel GOD OF WAR, Kratos, the game's protagonist, is a great warrior who...

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We saw Sony unveil an LED wand during their E3 press conference.

The device in conjunction with an EyeToy camera brought motion control to the PlayStation 3. In addition to that Sony developed another motion control system that uses everyday objects.

A recently published patent from Sony details a system where a camera can dynamically map an object — any real...

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Sony's Social Media Manager Jeff Rubenstein has posted an E3 09 Virtual Booth Tour: God of War III video via PlayStation Blog, as follows:

We’re now on our way back from LA, but even with E3 2009 in the books, we’ve got a lot more videos coming for you.

During the conference, we had an elevated area above the show floor where media members and other dignataries (I’m...

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Better late than never, here is PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen with this week's PSN Update:

It’s time for the weekly PlayStation Store Update.

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Resident Evil Director’s Cut ($9.99)
The game that created an entire genre, survial horror, is back but not exactly the same. Revisit the original Resident Evil with altered scenes and more...

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Square Enix members has finally had an update which shows the construction of some huge Final Fantasy XIII advertisements in LA, GTA style.

The posters clearly read "COMING 2010", which was fairly predictable. This also a nod towards an appearance at E3 and according to their post, they have "big things" planned.

To quote: Vanille, Snow, and Lightning from...

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Watchmen: The End is Nigh The Complete Experience is one of the first Blu-ray discs to offer a video game and movie in a single package (the special edition of Stranglehold on PS3 included a copy of Hard Boiled).

Not only will the package include the Director's Cut of the Watchmen film, it will also include The End is Nigh Parts 1 and 2. The two-disc set will feature...

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