178w ago - SCEE's Digital Comics Product Manager Mayumi Donovan is here with this week's Sony PSN digital comics update for December 22, 2009 as follows:

Hope you are enjoying our Digital Comics Service, which launched last week.

Despite launching with over 550 titles, we're not resting on our laurels. Oh no. We'll be updating the Comic store each & every week with the latest & greatest content from the wonderful world of comics, and today is no exception. Here are the new releases for 22nd December:

• Ghost Rider (2005) #1 : The Road To Damnation #1- #6 - Marvel (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 15+
• The Fantastic Four (1961) #1 - #15 - Marvel (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 3+
• The Mighty Avengers (2007) #1 - #6 - Marvel (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 9+
• 2000AD Prog #1660 - 2000AD (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 15+
• Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1 - IDW (£0.79/€0.99) Ages 17+
• Nanovor: Game Day #1 - IDW (£0.79/€0.99) Ages 9+
• Transformers: All Hail Megatron #7 - IDW (£1.19/€1.49) Ages 12+
• Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse #1 : Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer #1 - #4 - ID (£0.79/€0.99) Ages 17+

For those of you who haven't started using the service yet, it's easy to get started. Just update your PSP with the latest firmware...

178w ago - Today Xdev Studio Europe Producer John McLaughlin has announced that beginning on December 24, 2009 the price of Crash Commando for PS3 will be dropped to €7.99/£6.29.

To quote: Staff Sergant McLaughlin is pleased to announce a permanent 2 Euro price drop starting on the 24th December, which means the game will now be selling for €7.99/£6.29.

The Crash Commando community are hungry for fresh meat so load up your rocket launcher, check your side arm, and make sure you have enough C4 to blow them all to bits!!

Don't forget to check out the in game store for extra character and map packs.

Stop Your grinnin' and drop your linen! Move out people... move it move it move it!!

178w ago - SCEE's Mike Kebby of the PlayStation Store Team is here with the final European PSN update of 2009, as follows:

It's the last update of the year; I can't believe it! I think we've made inroads into improving the store this year, and of course I have high hopes that we'll carry this momentum on into 2010.

As with last week, we're feeling generous, so I have some codes to give away (these codes will be for one piece of content available via the store) - there is no competition to enter, I'll just be reading all the comments and giving codes out to those I deem the best comments made.

Think of this as the blog version of 'letters of the month' you find in print magazines I'll respond on the blog to tell you you've got a code, and then I'll send it to you via a PSN message.

Onto the content this week then - Hustle Kings is here, and offers all you wannabe hustlers out there to chance to show off your skills with the cue. The classic RPG Vagrant Story also arrives, and is available to play on both PS3 and PSP.

We have our first batch of premium avatars available on the store; and these are all from the world of LittleBigPlanet, so know you can personalise your PSN ID with some of the sackboy costumes we've previously released.

179w ago - Today PlayStationUniversity.com (linked above) reports that a Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Slide Presentation [PDF] has made its way to the Internet from the All-Russian Conference on Game Industry (ACGi) 2009.

It reveals, among other interesting things, that the PS3's OS footprint has again been slashed down to 50MB in the latest PS3 Firmware revision.

As mentioned previously, back in PS3 Firmware 1.80 the PS3's memory footprint was reduced to 74MB.

The document also outlines PlayStation Development Resources, Architecture of the PlayStation 3, Case Studies for both PSP / PS3 and Advanced Programming... definitely a good read at 86 slides long!

179w ago - Following up the European PSN video content update from earlier today, PlayStation Store Senior Manager Grace Chen has posted the North American update, as follows:

Here's the list of new arrivals and top downloads on the Video Store this week.

In addition to some great new releases this week, we've launched a new collection that brings you 12 full days of holiday savings.

Check our out the Holiday Daily Deal under Featured Collections daily through December 28 for some amazing one-day-only discounts. Here's a list of what you can expect:

Visit the Store to take advantage of these great seasonal specials - it's our present to you!

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