A police officer who was tasked with catching shoplifters at an HMV store, was caught on camera stealing PS3 games by concealing them underneath his stab vest.
Sackboy's cutesy charm didn't work on you PlayStation hard nuts, it seems, as Sony's latest answer to Mario was forced to stand aside for brutal shooter Killzone 2 as the PlayStation Game of the Year.
This is the award every publisher wants to win, the Ultimate Game The Year award. If you pick this one up, you've made a really good game. In the nominations were giants such as Fallout 3, Call of Duty World at War, Left 4 Dead, Grand Theft Auto, IV and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. See - them's some big guns.
PlayStation LifeStyle Writes, "Below is a list of the top downloaded items from the PlayStation Store for the week ending October 29th. This week again sees Call of Duty: World at War and Fallout 3 dominate the charts. The number one spot is occupied by the latest COD: WAW Map Pack for the third straight week. Fallout 3's add on content has been very popular over the past few weeks. Trine makes a strong debut at the number 2 spot and a few Rock Band tracks litter the top 20. Check back each week for the lastest and most popular downloads from the PlayStation Store."
CallofDuty.com: "For one week only (offer ending November 1, 2009), Map Packs 1, 2, and 3 will be Half-Off in both the XBL Marketplace and the PlaystationStore*. So if you are missing one, we hope this makes it a bit easier to complete your collection!"
PlayStation LifeStyle writes, "Below is a list of the top downloaded items from the PlayStation Store for the week ending October 22nd. This week Call of Duty: World at War and Fallout 3 both dominate the chart. The number one spot is occupied by the latest COD: WAW Map Pack for the second straight week. Fallout 3's add on content has been very popular over the past few weeks. Check back each week for the lastest and most popular downloads from the PlayStation Store."
Asked about Treyarch's Call of Duty, Jason West from Infinity Ward answered : "World at War ? This game does not exist ! There's Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2. There's a single story : Soap and Task Force 141".
Android handset the HTC Hero has won phone of the year and gadget of the year at T3 magazine's annual awards ceremony.
Split-Screen: "Lanai Gara or Fidget, the #1 Call of Duty: World at War player in Free-for-All and one of the newest additions to Ubisoft's all-girl pro gaming panel The Frag Dolls, has visited us in our dreams (and headlines) before. Now she returns, this time with an even more hard-won achievement: Being the first girl gamer in the world to score 1000 straight wins in Call of Duty: World at War and being the second overall person in the world achieve the same."
PlayStation LifeStyle writes: "This week there are no surprises as to who has gone home the winner in sales. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3) has bested all others. Dissidia: Final Fantasy (PSP) retains its top placement for an astounding 37th week. Madden (PS2) retains the still in first after three weeks."
Now here is some good news for Call of Duty: World at War fans, the developers Treyarch will be introducing Double XP only during the Labor Day Weekend. So you can earn double XP from Septemeber 3rd to September 8th, 2009.
Kotaku writes...... Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who's to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier.
It has been revealed today that the third Downloadable Content (DLC) release for Activision and Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War, cunningly titled Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3, sold over one million copies in it's first weekend on sale.
JPS Reports: "Call of Duty World at War has dropped in price by 10 bucks. Gamestop is now selling it at $49.99..."
Orgazzle online gaming community has been launched, early August 09. This is a revolutionary social network for gaming. You can create your own NCAA Football online dynasty, or Madden online franchise. You can also join other members custom groups if you would like.
Treyarch isn't screwing around with their latest warning. If you get caught hacking or modding for points, they will do their damnedest to get you banned for life from PSN and XBLIVE.
TripleChat reports that a price cut to Sony's monster of a console is all but inevitable now. With reports coming in that Microsoft will phase out its 60GB Pro model and reduce the price of the Elite unit to $299; Sony is going to have to step up and reduce the price of their console. TripleChat states that potential buyers everywhere should expect both the announcement of the PS3 Slim model as well as a price cut to go with it next week at Games Con.
PSFocus writes: "To celebrate the third Map Pack for Call of Duty: World at War, which is now available, Activision and Treyarch gives the fans of this game a week long double XP. This has CallofDuty.com let us know. From today, the third Map Pack Buy this game for an amount of 9.99 euro and also begins this double XP week from today. "
Mike Kebby from European Playstation.Blog writes:
VG247: Activision's Mike Griffin has said that the Call of Duty franchise has sold close to 14 million units in the series lifetime.