8w ago - Sony's Jawad Ashraf of the PlayStation Store Team is here with this weeks European PSN Game Store updates below, as follows:

First up this week, revisit the mysterious town of Greenvale with Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut and discover more secrets, bask in the beauty with redefined graphics and move with greater freedom with a complete control overhaul.

UPDATE: Deadly Premonition will now launch on 1st May.

"All roads lead to Gran Soren". Oh yes they do. One of my favourite games of 2012, Dragon's Dogma receives the digital treatment. Assume the role of Arisen and take on goblins, harpies, wyverns and other ferocious creatures in this fantasy action RPG.

Experiment with the variety of classes on offer and journey across the grand world of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. Includes the original full game and the Dark Arisen expansion.

Dead Island: Riptide takes players to the island of Palanai on the Banoi archipelago, infested with bloodthirsty zombies and only a few remaining survivors still fighting for their lives.

Introducing terrifying new enemies, deadly weapons, a new...

8w ago - Not long after their previous revision, PlayStation 3 developers Estwald and D_Skywalk (with help from Miralatijera) have updated the PS3 backup game manager known as Iris Manager to version 2.36P with the changes outlined below.

Download: Iris Manager v2.36P for v4.XX PS3 CFW / Iris Manager v2.36P (Animated Icon) / GIT

Iris Manager v2.36P Changelog, roughly translated:

What's new on Iris Manager 2.36P:

1) Added Persian language to the main menus only under test / Added persian language only in main menu in test phase (NOTE: It is possible it is not good persian language translated: it is released only for test purpose and to Provide a line to work for others person with the source code. Thanks to Reza684 to aid for this support)

• Language.ini support now = ON REVERSE token for Persian / Arabic languages ​​written left to right to be displayed rgiht to left. English words (ASCII...

9w ago - Today NIS America's Chris King shared a video confirming that Black Rock Shooter The Game comes to PSP on Tuesday.

Below are the details, to quote: My name is Chris King; I recently joined the awesome team here at NISA.

I'm here today to talk about Black Rock Shooter The Game, which hits PSP via PSN next Tuesday for $19.99. Shall we get started? Splendid!

Let me give you a quick rundown of the history of Black Rock Shooter. It all began as a simple illustration by renowned artist Ryohei "Huke" Fuke.

The mysterious yet appealing design of the character inspired the creation of a Black Rock Shooter song (voiced by the ever popular Hatsune Miku), an original video animation, and even an eight-episode anime series. Starting off as a single character design, it has now evolved into an explosive Japanese RPG - not bad!

Alright, let's talk story. The year is 2032 AD, and Earth has been ruthlessly assaulted by alien forces. Nineteen years of nonstop battle now threatens the very existence of humanity. The last hope for human survival is Black Rock Shooter (BRS), a heroine created solely to save planet Earth - she is the ultimate battle android.

But when she is awakened to end the battle once and for all, there are only twelve human beings left...

9w ago - Following up on their previous revision, PlayStation 3 developers Estwald and D_Skywalk (with help from Miralatijera) have updated the PS3 backup game manager known as Iris Manager to version 2.36 with the changes outlined below.

Download: Iris Manager v2.36 for v4.XX PS3 CFW / Iris Manager v2.36 for v4.XX PS3 CFW (Mirror) / Iris Manager v2.36 (Animated Icon) / GIT

Iris Manager v2.36 Changelog, roughly translated:

What's new on Iris Manager 2.36:

Fixed an issue that occurs when copying files, because the bookstore Tiny3D forms a polygon packet too long hanging GPU console from TTF.

Fixed color interposing (background color) with another texture (TTF character colored) so that breaks the list, forcing shader change (as happened with the old printing routines characters)

PS: Yes, it is a rare problem that copying files crashes the GPU

9w ago - Following up on Sony's PS Vita 2.10 and PS Vita 2.11 Firmware updates, today PlayStation Vita hacker The Z shared a way around some of the new limitations and covered putting content into the GAME folder in a video below.

To quote (via wololo): Several people have pointed to me that I shouldn’t talk about “PS Vita hacks” when what I’m really talking about are hacks inside the PSP emulator running on the Vita.

But I’ll have to say in my defense that with each iteration, the PSP emulator on the Vita is going further away from the actual PSP firmware, with its seemingly endless series of security features (that are probably really here to avoid a stupid crash happening on your Vita, but also have the convenient side effect of delaying hacks inside the psp emulator).

Take the recent firmware 2.10 for example. It blocked the possibility to create files or subfolders within the /PSP/GAME folder from within the PSP emulator itself. The Vita system of course can still do it (and needs to do so when you purchase and install a psp...