14w ago - Sony Director Don Mesa of Product Planning and Platform Software Innovation has shared a video showcasing Ecolibrium today, which allows users to build an Alien Ecosystem on PS Vita.

To quote: We hope you've been enjoying all the new gaming applications we've brought to PS Vita recently, like Wake-up Club and the newly released PlayStation Home Arcade.

Today we're excited to tell you about the next one-of-a-kind application you'll be able to check out next week starting today on PS Vita: Ecolibrium.

Ecolibrium puts you in control to grow and maintain a beautiful and foreign ecosystem. You'll be able to raise unique and alien species, design the world to your liking, and explore ecosystems yourself using PS Vita's unique gyroscopic technology. Ecolibrium will also offer Trophy support for you Trophy hunters out there!

Maintaining balance is the key to Ecolibrium. In order to achieve balance in your ecosystem, you must take into account various basic factors, including feeding the creatures, the impact of the seasons and the right proportion of creatures for each link in the food chain.





Maintaining balance will net you Ecopoints, which you can spend by purchasing new specimens (animals,...

35w ago - Hellfire Games Community Manager Ben Lewis has shared a video today showcasing Home Tycoon, where users can build their dream city in PlayStation Home.

To quote: Home Tycoon is the first 3D city-building game where you can create your dream city from the ground up, explore it at street level as your own avatar, and share your metropolis with friends - and it's coming soon, exclusively to PlayStation Home.

We've been hard at work on Home Tycoon for quite some time here at Hellfire Games, and we can't wait to get the game out to the Home community.

Featuring a robust city-building simulation, tons of story-driven missions and activities, vehicle driving (complete with turbo-charged cars and stunt ramps), and over 50 avatar rewards to unlock, Home Tycoon is unlike anything you've seen in the genre before, and the first game of its kind in PlayStation Home.

From Hometown to Metropolis

As the newly-elected Mayor, you'll gather resources and broker strategic business deals to kick-start your town's economy.

You'll need to work with representatives from the mysterious yet eco-friendly TransUtopia organization and the profit-hungry GloboSyn corporation along the way. Will you lead a truly green city built...

57w ago - Today PlayStation 3 developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Testing Build to version 3.5.122 with the changes outlined below, as follows:

Download: Showtime 3.5.122 g5f5fbaa PKG / Showtime GH 3.5.122 g5f5fbaa PKG / Showtime 3.5.122 g5f5fbaa SELF / GIT

Showtime PS3 Media Player v3.5.122 Changelog:

3.5.121-g9598cbf

ps3: Fix DVD playback

Showtime should now be able to play back both ISO files and VIDEO_TS DVD folders.

Fixes #507
Fixes #921

3.5.110-g843527f

ps3: Fix playback of 3.0 audio

Fixes #914

3.5.108-g6775194

ps3: Fix support for 4.0 audio channel layout

Fixes #886

3.5.105-ga4e10cc

ps3: Round timestamps to ms precision before feeding them to the SPU decoder

For some unholy reason the SPU decoder seems to hang when timestamps are not rounded to ms precision. I've no idea why.

Fixes...

59w ago - Following up on the previous release, today PlayStation 3 developer Andreas Oman has updated Showtime PS3 Media Player Testing Build to version 3.5.72 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Showtime 3.5.72 g4757fa6 PKG / Showtime GH 3.5.72 g4757fa6 PKG / Showtime 3.5.72 g4757fa6 SELF / GIT

Showtime PS3 Media Player v3.5.72 Changelog:

3.5.69-ga3159fe

PS3: Use jemalloc instead of newlib's malloc

Using jemalloc significantly reduces memory fragmentation and thus mitigates the out of memory conditions that happens
now and then when using Showtime (in particular during movie playback)

It's also much more efficient than newlib's malloc thanks to per-thread caching of allocation and per-thread memory arenas

For more information about jemalloc, see http://http://www.canonware.com/jemalloc/

3.5.61-g6dfd6a5

63w ago - Sony Senior Producer Harvard Bonin has showcased a new Starhawk Build to Kill PS3 trailer today, complete with details below as follows:

As most of you know, Starhawk is a frenetic 3rd person shooter with a ton of toys to play with. Its got a strong solo story campaign, deep 32 player head-to-head and even co-op! You can run, fly and drive almost anywhere you want.

Its vehicular combat at its finest. The most popular question we get from players unfamiliar with the game is "What is this thing called Build & Battle?"

Simply put its a dead simple way to build up a base all around you while staying in the middle of a fierce battle. Its not block building and its not slow. We're not making Sim City. To show you, here is a nifty trailer!

In Starhawk we have one simple slogan..."Kill to build, build to kill."

It's not a gimmick. Its a really easy way for players to change the battlefield on the fly, in an instant straightforward manner. Its about dropping gigantic crates from orbit, having them smash down in front of you and having a big laser or bunker build right in front of you. You can even drop them on enemies ("Dorothy'd").





So other than dropping massive structures...