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Call of Duty Black Ops: Annihiliation...
The latest downloadable content for Call of Duty: Black Ops has been released on the PS3.
Priced at £11.49 in the UK ($14.99 US), the new pack called Annihilation features 4 new maps and a free for all Zombie Nazi level.
You can download the content now from the Playstation Store in your respective country.
Call of Duty: Black Ops – Ann [...]
250Gb PS3 Slim available to order
A 250Gb version of the PS3 Slim will be released from October 2nd 2009 in the UK for the price of £299.99.
The new PS3 with a massive 250Gb hard drive will retail at £50 more than the standard 120Gb PS3 Slim that has been available for a number of weeks now.
Sony’s recent introduction of the PS3 Slim and now this 250Gb huge hard drive [...]
Sony to launch The Tester reality-TV ...
Sony Entertainment are planning a unique reality TV show that will be aired over the PS3 Network in which one lucky individual will get to work as a games-tester for Sony.
‘The Tester‘ will involve a series of challenges, including gaming as well as finding out your knowledge of video games.
Sony describe it as:
This original prog [...]
G-Force 3D PS3 Trailer
Disney Studios have been busy on the game tie-in with their latest movie G-Force, featuring their hero – a guinea pig.
The game sports some stunning visuals and will no doubt be a hit with younger PS3 gamers who enjoy the movie, and also older gamers keen to test out Disney’s ‘feature’.
The game arrives with a pair of [...]
Battlefield 1943 Trophy List
Battlefield 1943 has taken a helluva lot of PS3 online gamers by storm.
Here’s our full list of the trophies you can be awarded in the world of Battlefield 1943 on the PS3.
Gold
The Pacific Campaign – Win once on every map as any team
Silver
Tour of Duty I – Play 30 matches
Tour of Duty II – Play 100 matches
Master of [...]
Uncharted 2 Trailer
Here at PS3 Pad we were massive fans of the first incarnation of Nathan Drake in Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
Game developers Naughty Dog have been busy working away on the sequel since late 2008, and we will move away from the gorgeous graphics of the Jungle to some downtown grittiness.
The game will feature more of the free movement t [...]
PlayStation Store – Update : 09...
The PS3 store will be updated later today and this is what will be added in this update.
Make sure you download the demo of Battlefield 1943 and have a look at the trailer for this game (click the HD tab when the video starts).
PlayStation 3 Stuff
Battlefield 1943 Pacific (Full game (£9.99) and 30 minute demo)
The game for this FPS is availa [...]
No PS3 Price Cut, says Sony
Sony insist there are no immediate plans for a price cut on the PS3 console to coincide with the expected release of the new Slimline version in the next couple of months.
Sony’s CEO, Howard Stringer, moved quickly to deny rumours that were growing on the internet.
This is in response to games developer, Activision, when their CEO sugge [...]
PS3 Slim due for launch
The much heralded, and much wanted, new slimline PS3 is likely to be on the shelves in the UK and US by the 1st September 2009.
According to rumours, Sony has put in place production deals with Foxconn and Pegatron to manufacture the new units which new machines coming off the production lines by the end of July 2009. They are likely to head [...]
PlayStation home beta update
The shops now have extra clothing items, extra furniture items and you can now even buy yourself a new Summer House as the testing for the full release gathers pace.
We found the purchasing of items (all free at this stage!) to be seamless. You enter the store and choose your items adding them to a virtual basket. When you checkout you are [...]
Little Big Planet – levels dele...
Fury is growing amongst Little Big Planet players who are creating levels only to find them being deleted by the game’s creators, Media Molecule.
The row centres on the inclusion of some copyrighted materials included in the levels, usually in the form of pictures placed on to objects. However many levels have been rejected because the [...]
Haze – Ubisoft cause chaos
Haze, the blast-a-minute first person shooter which will be released on the PlayStation 3 on Friday has not been receiving favourable reviews on the internet.
IGN gave Haze a paltry 4.5/10, slightly harsh in our opinion, but with the demo on the PS store then YOU should be deciding.
According to reports in the press the game developer, [...]
Time Crisis 4
Time Crisis 4 is the latest installment in the popular console series which originated back in the arcades of yesteryear.
The aim of the game is simple. Blow people/objects/insects in to oblivion. The G-Con 3 gun which arrives with the game is our first disappointment. The old PS3 G-Con looked fairly cool – it even looked remarkably [...]
PS3 v 360 its Europe v USA
Despite a 16 month disadvantage, Sony have overhauled Microsoft in Europe but in the US the XBox 360 remains in front of the PS3 but the gap is decreasing.
Due to initial production problems Sony decided to release the PS3 firstly in the US in late 2006, with the European launch four months later in Spring 2007. This decision was proved corr [...]
SingStar 2 PS3 set for release
Sony today announced the expected launch of SingStar Vol 2 on the PlayStation 3 in the summer of 2008.
The new game will include 30 new tracks and a brand new harmony duet mode.
This new feature will expand upon the existing popular duet feature – allowing players to sing different lines at the same time. A number of songs have been in [...]
Singstar sells 1 million tracks via S...
Singstar, the popular PlayStation brand that has spawned numerous games, last week sold it’s 1,000,000 track via the online SingStore on the PS3 network.
SingStar PS3 suffered long delays last year before it’s final release, and the SingStore was initially beset by poor updates.
However Sony eventually put in the effort to restore [...]
Grand Theft Auto IV smashes record bo...
It was always going to happen. The world’s most pre-order video game is smashing records left right and centre with supplies exceptionally limited.
In the UK the game sold a record 609,000 copies on both consoles on the first day of release. This breaks the previous record of just over 500,000 sold by Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in [...]
Call of Duty 4 Maps released
Further to our previous article with information from Infinity Ward, the game developer, the Call of Duty 4 maps have been released one week early on the European store.
The original plan was that it would be released on the US store with the European store a week later.
However sources at Sony tell us that the decision was taken to release t [...]
Call of Duty 4 Maps: PS3 release deta...
The extra maps pack for Call of Duty 4 will receive their first stage release this Thursday 24th April 2008 on the PlayStation Store. Great news for everyone in…. North America.
European users will have to wait until Thursday 1st May to get their greasy mitts on the new maps.
The North American map pack will retail at $9.99. We are st [...]
Lego Indiana Jones PS3 Preview
What’s it all about?
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is due to burst on to the PS3 scene in the coming months just around the time Harrison Ford will be dusting off the pension book to return to one of his best-known roles – Indiana Jones.
Lego and gaming are getting to be quite a match made in heaven. The Star Wars L [...]
Sony talks about PS3 Video Download
Full movie and TV programme downloads could be coming to the Sony PS3 earlier than expected after Peter Dille, a marketing Vice President for Sony in the United States said in an online blog.
“Many of you have been hearing rumblings about a video service that will allow you to download full-length TV shows and movies via PLAYSTATION Net [...]
PS3 Game Offers of the Week
Time to rapidly boost your PS3 collection with our brief selection of some of the best offers around with some of the UK’s major retailers for PlayStation 3 games.
Every week we will take a look at the some of the smartest prices around, and this week we have saved over £50 on our three selections.
Assassin’s Creed (£24.99 – [...]
Watch the BBC on your PS3
The BBC iPlayer feature which enables users in the UK to catch up with the last seven days of broadcasting on the nations channel has arrived on the PS3.
Last week the BBC announced plans to launch the iPlayer on the Nintendo Wii.
Plans for incorporating the system on both the PS3 and the XBox have been held up, according to the BBC this is d [...]