Treyarch Community Manager Josh Olin announced today that Call of Duty: World at War PS3 Map Packs are 50% off for a limited time, and revealed news of new CoD playlists as well.

To quote: For one week only (offer ending November 1, 2009), Call of Duty: World at War Map Packs 1, 2, and 3 for PS3 will be half-off in the PlayStation Store (only available in North America).
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Although not quite as nice as the optional Tekken 6 PS3 HDD install, today it was confirmed that Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time for PS3 will have a mandatory (but small) 500MB installation.

To quote: "Much like Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, the latest Ratchet & Clank title also features a mandatory installation. Requiring 500MBs of space, A Crack in Time...

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Inversion is a third-person co-op shooter that combines hard-hitting, adrenaline-pumping action with a revolutionary gravity manipulation engine.

Featuring the Grappler weapon, players will be able to manipulate gravity for their own purposes soon on Sony's PS3 and the Microsoft XBox 360 console.

Press Release: 21st October 2009 – NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe...

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While the Australian government dawdles on changes to the country's classification guidelines, games continue to be "refused classification" on the grounds they exceed the maximum rating of MA15+. The latest game on the chopping block? Left 4 Dead 2.

Yup, Valve's Zombie shooter has been refused classification, which means it can't be made commercially available in the...

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

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

Updates
Lemmings Update
Lemmings has been updated with a patch and a refreshed version for the PlayStation Store. Both the patch and store version contains the same new features to Lemmings which...

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Today Kotaku (linked above) followed up on yesterday's rumor from N4G insider Super_Secret on why Cross-Game Chat is currently missing in action on the PlayStation 3 console.

To quote: Rather than jump to conclusions, we decided to contact the two parties involved for comment on the situation.

First to respond was Jeff Brown, EA's vice president of corporate communication....

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Today N4G insider Super_Secret has shared on their boards (linked above) why Cross-Game Chat is currently missing in action on the PlayStation 3 console.

To quote: I promised you all an update on Cross-Game chat, so here it is. And you're not going to like it.

As I told you before, Cross-game voice chat has been in the works for a while now. I mentioned last time that...

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Today Media Molecule has announced that water is coming to LittleBigPlanet on the form of a DLC Add-on Kit.

They have also shared a video dubbed 'Just add water' (available below) and have posted the following prelude on their site.

Ever feel like something was... missing?

That’s right folks. Water is coming to LittleBigPlanet as part of a future...

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Less than a week after the previous Fat Princess patch was issued to fix multiplayer connections comes news of more fixes in the works, as follows from Titan Studios:

I am happy to report that we have found the issue related to trophies, stats and scoreboards. Not only did we find it, but we think we have it fixed.

This is thanks to detailed bug information provided by many...

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A new video trailer is available showcasing Guitar Hero 5's new Rockfest Multiplayer in action.

Alongside it are some details from Producer Brian Bright, who described it as "a suite of new multiplayer game types in Guitar Hero 5 that can be played individually or in teams."

These different games can be strung together in a "playlist" so that each round of multiplayer...

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