PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen is back with this week's US PSN update, as follows:

Hi Everyone – It’s time for the weekly PlayStation Store Update.

Updates
Mercury Bundle 2 Sale – Includes Archer Maclean’s Mercury and Mercury Meltdown (now $9.99)
This is Shane Bettenhausen from Ignition Entertainment with a quick heads-up about a killer...

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Insomniac Games Community Director Ryan Schneider has revealed that Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time hits PS3 today... and has shared a few videos which include a Community Day recap, as follows:

For those of you who read my last post and were lucky enough to attend our Full Moon Festival this past Friday, I hope it’s now safe to say that the Smurfs are no longer the only...

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In Japan this week during CEATEC (an IT and Electronics exhibition that runs from October 6-10, 2009) Sony's PS3 console made an appearance with an interactive digital advertising demo for onlookers.

During the demonstration, the PlayStation 3 displays various visual effects on the screen, including water and fire, with the hand movements of the people captured on cameras...

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Below is the Guitar Hero 5 Set list by Activision.

The game will retail for $59.99 US (Songs only - no instruments) and will be available for retail on September 1st of this year.

Guitar Hero 5 Song List:

• 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"
• Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm"
• Blink-182 - "The Rock Show"
• Dire Straits -...

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According to CBS11tv.com (linked above), a southern California college student has been arrested on allegations of bypassing the DMCA by installing modchips into consoles.

The federal charges stated that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games, to quote:

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 27-year-old Matthew Crippen was...

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For the first time, the economic downturn appears to have caught up with the maker of the Wii, as sales and profits plunge.

Nintendo continues to operate profitably, something that can't be said for Sony, which faces the same conditions that Nintendo does, but announced another losing quarter today.

To quote: Japanese electronics companies face two significant...

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Sony's PlayStation Home Online Community Specialist Jared Rea has shared a glimpse of EVO 2009, along with a video of Daigo defeating Justin Wong in Street Fighter IV.

To quote: EVO is the world’s largest and longest-running fighting game tournament, and this year it was bigger than ever.

Largely thanks to the incredible success of Street Fighter IV, EVO’s overall...

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In a recent interview with PhysOrg, Dr. David McKinnon, a researcher from Queensland University of Technology and the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), has mentioned a revolutionary new piece of software that could put users' faces in Sony's PlayStation Home.

The background research took eight years to develop, allowing anyone to convert 2D images into 3D models... and eventually...

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Namco Bandai revealed today a new Scenario Campaign mode for Tekken 6 that will allow players to participate in single or two player online co-op campaigns while experiencing intense action and large-scale battles.

Below is the press release with the announcement along with the first screenshots of this new mode.

Press Release: NEW TEKKEN® 6 GAMEPLAY MODE...

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Last year Atari hired former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison to serve as President. Now? Now he's no longer President.

According to a statement made by Atari as part of the company's fiscal year report:

Because of a shift of business operations to the US, Phil Harrison will move from the role of President to that of non-executive Director of the Group. As all...

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