2w ago - Zen Studios Community Manager Bobby Loertscher confirmed today that Star Wars Pinball Standalone hits PSN next week with some new features detailed below.

To quote: Wait, what? Didn't Star Wars Pinball already launch on PSN? YES! And you are telling me it is launching again? YES! Okay, that was probably super confusing, so let me try to explain.

Believe me, it's a good thing. The initial Star Wars Pinball pack was released in February for Zen Pinball 2 on PS3 and PS Vita. That pack included Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and it's coming back... this time, with even more features. Cue Star Wars opening crawl text...

From the very beginning of the Star Wars Pinball project, we've been working on a special standalone version of the game that would offer some really fun community features and would be fully branded Star Wars. We managed to finish that project, and it's releasing next week, exclusively on PS3 and PS Vita!

Now you're probably wondering, "Why did I buy this for Zen Pinball 2 when I could have bought a game with different features?" Don't worry, young Padawan, we thought about that too. If you've already bought the tables in Zen Pinball 2, you are entitled to download Star Wars Pinball at no charge!

2w ago - Following up on the previous revision, ReActPSN has now been updated to version 2.26 by Chinese PlayStation 3 developer ccregame which supports PS3 4.41 CFW similar to the recent multiMAN and mmTOOLS updates.

Download: ReActPSN v2.26.pkg

To quote, roughly translated: CFW4.41 out, I also do support the 4.41 version for half an hour, were using a version of the the VSH patch function test, can automatically detect patched Key not changed, do not to study appldr, also did not see LV1 should be no change.

ReActPSN v2.26 Changes:

1: triangular crack mode support to CFW4.41.
2: [the triangle key + L1], [Triangle button + L2] downgrade will automatically generate a small SFO downgrade pkg triangle button can be installed
Installation the PKG location in the XMB-game, REBUG the game-Package Manager-PlayStationNetwork Content.
3: Add [left] mode, forced to delete the current user's trophy...

2w ago - Sony PlayStation Digital Platforms Community Manager Morgan Haro is here with this weeks PlayStation Plus update which includes Sleeping Dogs joining the Instant Game Collection.

To quote: Welcome to the PlayStation Plus preview for May! Read on to see what's coming to the Instant Game Collection this month, as well as this week's discounts.

Please extend a warm welcome to Square-Enix's thrilling crime drama Sleeping Dogs, joining the Instant Game Collection tomorrow!

You'll also find a sweet discount on the award-winning indie, Papo & Yo. There's more where that came from, so read on. As always, let us know what you think in the comments.

May Preview

The following games are slated to be free to PS Plus members through the Instant Game Collection in the month of May.

Sleeping Dogs (PS3)
PSN Price: $49.99, Free for PS Plus members





Welcome to Hong Kong, a vibrant city whose exotic locations hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the Triads. You play Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside.

Heralded on several Game of the Year lists, this version of Sleeping...

2w ago - Sony Senior Social Media Specialist Rey Gutierrez is here with the new PS3 and PSN releases for this week today, as follows:

Terror returns with Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly as PlayStation 2 Classic on PSN.

The journey takes you to a whole new setting: an abandoned village, where you play the role of Mio Amakura, a young girl who is gifted with a strong sixth sense and her twin sister Mayu, who notices a crimson butterfly faintly glowing in the sky.

Enjoy this week's The Drop.

PlayStation 2 Classic

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly - Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly project started relatively soon after the first project concluded.

Since we received lots of feedback that players got too scared to complete the game, we shifted our attention to making the storyline more interesting, to encourage such players to overcome the scariness in wanting to see the end of the story.

Demos

• Fuse

PSone Import

Motto Trump Shiyouyo! - Motto Trump Shiyouyo! is the sequel to the previously released Trump Shiyouyo!, but this time around there are even motto (more) games!

These include the following: Daifugo, Shichinarabe, Seven Bridge, Dobon, Page One,...

3w ago - Insomniac Games Community Lead James Stevenson shared a new Fuse trailer confirming that the demo lights up PSN on Tuesday.

Below are the details, to quote: We've been working on Fuse, our first new console game IP since Resistance: Fall of Man, for several years now. The wait is almost over - Fuse launches May 28th on PlayStation 3. For an early taste of Fuse, grab the demo - it launches on PSN next Tuesday.

The demo will allow you to experience lethal teamwork with up to three friends online (or 2-player split-screen). Overstrike 9 has tracked the stolen Fuse source to a remote Raven base in Pakistan's snowy Karakoram Mountains.

The team must stop rogue group Raven from carrying out its horrific plan to form a new world order. The section of the demo comes from around the halfway point of the game, so we've powered up the four characters a bit to give you a sample of all their capabilities (and you can level them up further!)

Now, some of you may be asking, what is this game? We'd like to say Fuse is what you'd get if you took the dry humor and lethal teamwork from Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and combined it with the alien weaponry from District 9.

It's a uniquely Insomniac universe, one where villains occupy strongholds in exotic locations...