Earlier this year we reported that the Entertainment Software Association of Canada was seeking to jail pirates and target mod-chips.

Today, the ESA has praised the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and York Police Service for a recent raid on retailers selling pirated software at Pacific Mall in Markham, Ontario.

To quote: After a two month investigation, authorities seized...

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Recently PS3Blog.net (linked above) has compiled a list of locked game saves on the PS3 console. Although most PS3 game saves are not locked to the console itself, the exceptions to this rule are detailed below.

The list is derived from a few smaller ones including those on Eurogamer and Loot-Ninja, and if anyone here wishes to add to it feel free to do so and you will be +Rep'd!
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Today Mike Kebby of the SCEE PlayStation Store Team has posted up the European PlayStation Store update, as follows:

So, we’ve finally arrived to this week’s update – I hope you’re all ready for the rundown, as there’s a lot of content on offer this week.

Usually I list the PS3 specific content first, but seeing as this week we’re all excited about the PSP...

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Sony's Chris Morell has posted a Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time Axiom City PS3 walkthrough video today on the PlayStation Blog.

To quote: At PAX, we scored some time with James Stevenson, Community Manager at Insomniac Games who was kind enough to walk us through some brand new Axiom City gameplay in Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time.

Specifically, James gives us the lowdown...

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Update: The European MAG BETA is now giving away up to 16,000 Promotional Codes to be distributed via email on a first come, first served basis in weekly batches.

Those interested can now head over to their Competitions page to sign up following the instructions. That’s it – no questions or puzzles, just one big beta free-for-all.

PlayStation Network Executive...

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SCEA Senior Producer Mark Rogers has announced today that the SOCOM: Confrontation PS3 Patch 1.50 update will be arriving next Tuesday.

To quote: We know you guys have been anxiously awaiting further information on SOCOM: Confrontation Patch 1.50, and today we’re happy to announce that the 1.50 Patch will be deployed on Tuesday morning (Pacific time).

Patch 1.50...

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Today PlayStation Home Online Community Specialist Locust_Star has announced the latest PlayStation Home additions- specifically a Batcave Outpost Apartment, MotorStorm Event Space and more, as follows:

We know that you Home-dwellers just love your rewards, so we’ve worked with the fine folk over at Eidos to ensure that their next release integrates tightly with our platform....

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Over the last few weeks we've heard from Belgium, French, Spanish and now Italian retailers reporting that PS3 price drops are in the works to make room for a new PlayStation 3 Slim console's arrival.

Today an employee of a large Italian retailer has confessed the following on NeoGAF under the username zallaaa, to quote:

"I can confirm the discount for Italy. I work for a big...

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First announced with the recent Nintendo DSi System Update, today Facebook connect photo integration with Nintendo DSi launches.

Press Release: FACEBOOK CONNECT PHOTO INTEGRATION WITH NINTENDO DSI LAUNCHES TODAY

Free New Integration Lets Users Upload Photos to Their Facebook Profiles

REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 3, 2009 – Starting today, Nintendo DSi™ owners have even more...

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Today PlayStation Home Community Manager CydoniaX has officially announced the Fat Princess Home Space with an English trailer (below), and has introduced a 10-screen movie theater in PlayStation Home along with MotorStorm Game Launching.

To quote: We’re proud to announce another major core space update. The Movie Theater brings you ten times as much exciting content with a brand-new 10-screen...

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