SCEA's Director of Development Seth Luisi has revealed that the MAG (Massive Action Game) PS3 pre-order Public Beta is now open, and has detailed the hours below.

To quote: Today a whole new group of operatives joined the Shadow War. October 12 marks the start of the GameStop and EB Games pre-order MAG Public Beta period.

At 10:00 AM this morning, all those who...

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Today nycmta has published some screenshots of the new PlayStation Home Maintenance space, and included the locker code as follows:

Well, if you ever wanted to know where that Xi manhole in Home leads to, you now have a chance to find out.

Today Sony opened that manhole leading to another space in HOME. Aparently in the North American version of Home the manhole...

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According to the folks over at TheSixthAxis (linked above), rumor has it Sony may make an announcement today on PS3 Firmware Update 2.70.

To quote: It’s GDC 2009 over in California, and our ears are to the ground.

We’ve had to put up with the rumor mill grinding about Firmware 2.70 for a while now, but we’ve heard more recently gossip in and amongst our...

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The first rule of Killzone is: you kill the guys with red eyes. The second rule of Killzone is: you KILL the guys with red eyes! The premise is low maintenance, but Killzone 2 packs a lot of baggage.

From its conspicuous debut to subsequent years of shrouded development to a confident early review strategy, it's been a long journey for the shooter-that-should, which...

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They said Windows 7 was just a cosmetic upgrade, a more polished version of Vista with little to offer beyond the new wallpaper.. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Look beyond the headlines about interface tweaks and you'll find Windows 7 is crammed with lesser known, but still important, new and enhanced features, which taken together deliver improved performance and...

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PlayStation Home will be patched today to version 1.04 in a "first step" effort towards resolving various connection issues users have been experiencing.

While this is a good thing, the PlayStation.Blog also notes one side effect of this new patch: voice chat will be temporarily disabled.

The removal of voice chat (for now) should alleviate the crushing bandwidth load on...

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Per Microsoft's Major Nelson (linked above): Xbox.com and the Xbox forums will be offline for maintenance on Tuesday, November 18th from 12:01am PT until 4:00am PT to prepare for the New Xbox Experience launch on Wednesday the 19th.

This does NOT affect Xbox LIVE, which will remain available during this time.

Additionally, similar as was done for the PlayStation 3...

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PlayStation Portable developer AhMan released PSP iR Shell 4.7 PSP iR Shell 4.8, and today he has updated it once again to revision 4.8.

Those interested can find it below, along with the updated changelog.

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Changelog:
This is mainly a maintenance release with a few bug fixes. It also adds a new feature to support homebrew to...

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Update: The PSN is now back online.

According to Patrick Seybold, the Director of Corporate Communications & Social Media at PS Blog today:

As some of you may have noticed, we’ve temporarily taken down some functions of PlayStation Network - specifically access to the PlayStation Store, account management and registration.

Online gameplay will remain...

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Per Grace Chen (Senior Manager, PLAYSTATION Store) today:

Hi everyone, as Eric mentioned in his post yesterday, we wanted to give you a live demo of the PSP’s direct access to PlayStation Store, which will be coming with the 5.00 firmware update.

Now whenever your PSP is connected to the Internet over WiFi, you’ll be able to download and enjoy the latest games, demos...

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