Sony Computer Entertainment has announced its new line up for the budget priced PS3 the Best brand. That line-up includes:

Afrika
Uncharted
LittleBigPlanet
Gundam: Target In Sight
Eternal Sonata
Ridge Racer 7

All these games will be out on September 3 for the equivalent of US$31 - save for Eternal Sonata, which is priced at $39.
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Playstation Home and software maker's collaboration officially starts on Dec. 18, 2008 in Japan.

Bandai Namco will provide a Tekken, Soul Calibur and Ridge Racer Lounge and a bigger Namco Museum Arcade Lounge starting the 18th.

Nippon Ichi Software will start to sell items, cloths and furniture in the Home Marketplace.
Bandai Namco will also provide cloths and items in the market place.
There will also be Christmas related items and cloths from Sony Entertainment.

Right now there are already Siren Lounge and Everybody's Golf Lounge available in the Japanese Home.

Pics are added in the Story Images, or follow the link to Famitsu to see them.
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Exclusive to PS3 Attitude, this month's chart sees Assassin's Creed hold the top spot, and GTA: IV makes it's debut on the pre-rent chart - but not at the Number One position.
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Sony Japan is set to continue a PlayStation tradition with the PlayStation 3: an official budget lineup. A Japanese online retailer has posted listings for the first set of PS3 titles to fall under the new "PlayStation 3 the Best" lineup.

According to the retailer, PS3 owners in Japan will soon be able to pick up PlayStation 3 the Best versions of Resistance, FolksSoul, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Gundam: Target in Sight, and Ridge Racer 7 for 3,800 yen ($35 USD) each. All five will arrive on 3/19.
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There was a time that console owners looked forward to home ports of Ridge Racer arcade games. Now, the reverse is true. Bandai Namco is taking a home-based Ridge Racer game and turning it into an arcade attraction.

Ridge Racer 7 is being reborn as Ridge Racer 7 3D Version. The arcade attraction makes use of a special television that uses filters to make the images come out at players. You have to wear special glasses to see the effect, although different from classic 3D glasses, these look like standard single-colored shades. For bystanders, the game screen looks blurry, like two slightly displaced images overlain.
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Gamerzines, the site behind the free magazines for Xbox 360, PC games, PSP and DS, has launched its free PlayStation 3 magazine to co-incide with the UK launch of the console. As with other Gamerzines, the magazine is written by professional games journalists and offered for free in a digital format. All that is required is Adobe Reader 8 on a PC. The magazine is enhanced with videos and multimedia that play on the pages themselves.

Issue 1 is available for download immediately and covers every single European launch game, as well as lengthy preview feature highlighting their pick of the top 20 games still to come on the PS3 this year.

The magazine is to publish a new issue for free every month from launch, to match the other existing Gamerzines for other platforms.
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Leading video games publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. announced today that racing fans are now able to experience AA A their first taste of its recently launched next-gen racing game, Ridge Racer 7, for free by downloading its first demo via the PLAYSTATION Network.

The action-packed drift racing demo is now available for download, to play on the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and will include a 3-lap arcade mode where players will have eight cars to choose from and a chance to race against 13 other AI cars for the full Ridge Racer experience.

Boasting 5.1 channel surround sound, a hot music track, and running on full-HD,1080p, the new Ridge Racer 7 demo gives players a taste of the fun and addictive racing experience that Ridge Racer games are known for.
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Here is the ol Gamefly Top 10 most requested list.

Lost Planet, Crackdown, and Battlestations: Midway hold the top 3, while Wario Ware Smooth Moves and God of War II for the PS2 plug away at the coveted top spot. Ridge Racer 7 is at the top of the Playstation 3 list.

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Australians still haven't been told exactly when in March the PlayStation 3 is set to launch, but at least local gamers are beginning to get a firm idea of exactly what games can be expected. Sony Computer Entertainment Australia (SCEA) has now confirmed five of its titles will be there from the PS3's first day of sale, bringing the expected number of launch games to 17.

In a statement, SCEA confirmed Formula One Championship Edition, MotorStorm, Genji: Days of the Blade, Resistance: Fall of Man and Ridge Racer 7 would all be PS3 launch titles in Australia. No further details--such as a more specific launch date for the new console--were mentioned.

The Sony games join an expanding list of expected launch titles from other publishers, including Virtua Fighter 5 from Sega and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 from Ubisoft. The current list of Australian PS3 launch titles--gathered from each publisher's latest release schedules--is provided below.

Activision
Call of Duty 3
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Sega
Sonic the Hedgehog
Virtua Fighter 5
Full Auto 2: Battle Lines
World Snooker Championship 2007

Sony Computer Entertainment
Formula One Championship Edition
MotorStorm
Genji: Days of the Blade
Resistance: Fall of Man
Ridge Racer 7

Ubisoft
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
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Sony says that in the PS3-Demo-Kiosk ' PlayStation Store ' that are playable in Japan the following demos are now available.

- Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
- Virtua Tennis 3 [Power Smash 3] (Sega)
- Gran Turismo HD (Sony)
- Genji (Sony)
- Formula One Championship Edition (Sony)
- Motorstorm (Sony)
- Resistance (Sony)
- Kidou Senshi Gundam: Target in Sight (Bandai Namco)
- Ridge Racer 7 (Bandai Namco)
- Enchant Arm (From Software)
- Video With 33 New PS3-Games

There are 1,006 PS3 demo kiosks set up in Japan.
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Namco Bandai has announced that they will be releasing free downloadable content for Ridge Racer 7 to the Japanese PlayStation Store on the day before Christmas...
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Namco Bandai president Takeo Takasu says the company must sell 500,000 units of every PlayStation 3 game in order to turn a profit.

He said the average game now costs $8.6 million to create. "We have to sell at least 500,000 copies per title worldwide to make a profit on PlayStation 3 games,'' said Takasu. The firm offered two games or PS3's launch in Japan and the U.S, Ridge Racer 7 and Gundam, both of which are "selling well " he said.
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Sony's PlayStation 3 is set to arrive this week on November 17th. With just 400,000 units available at launch in the USA, and an unknown number of game consoles arriving the rest of year. The total is expected to be below 1 million units in 2006, as a result many publishers have decided to delay their games so more time can be spent polishing them.

From minor delays like Need for Speed: Carbon being delayed until November 20. To big launch lineup losses like MotorStorm which was delayed to March, 2007. The PS3 launch will now have 13 titles including Resistance: Fall of Man and Ridge Racer 7.
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These two pictures shows the difference between 720p and 1080p.

Note: click on the images for hi-res screens

Update: It looks like these pics shows the difference between the 360 and PS3 version and not 720p vs 1080p on the PS3.
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You can play your minigames you've downloaded while you wait for the installation of games and stuff to the hard-drive...
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Small changes and better looking graphics on the 360 are the highlights.
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There's been at least one Ridge Racer every year recently but RR7's still managed to brush up fresh and new for the PS3 launch, as you can see in our new screens by clicking the Images tab. Multiplayer will be taking the driver's seat more than ever before with extensive online match-up options but the familiar split-screen play will be available for local competition if you're not feeling up to international ... » Read More

Three more launch titles will require a firmware update before you'll be able to play them. Much like what happens with the PSP, you'll see an alert that says you must upgrade to a newer firmware version before playing.

Genji: Days of the Blade, Ridge Racer 7 and Resistance: Fall of Man will all require a system update to version 1.02. The update ships on the disc so that you won't need to be online to download anything, but you should of course be able to update before the games come by hopping online.
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The Nintendo Nsider Forums are lighting up with glee (and spilling onto Digg) at how horribly terrific it would be if Ridge Racer 7 required a 5 GB install on PlayStation 3's hard disk drive. Some generous (in favor of Sony) math calculates that the install would take 9 minutes and 46 seconds. The assumption is most PS3 games will require HDD dumps, forcing users to constantly install, erase, and reinstall -- these data chunks would fill up the drives fast; certainly the 20 GB model.
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Despite being one of the best-looking titles for the PlayStation 3 at launch (unless you're Ridge Racer 7 fetishist Tom, it's between this and MotorStorm really), Insomniac Games' Resistance: Fall of Man will not be integrated with the console's online functionality, specifically the built-in buddy list - instead, it will use its own buddy list, clan management system, and so on.

That's according to Insomniac boss Ted Price, who was speaking to Eurogamer's Rob Fahey earlier this week in an interview for the ThreeSpeech blog. While the decision to make the game run its own buddy list and so on is a blow to Sony's claims of an integrated online service - and in fact, it harks back to the bad old days of the PS2 online system - Price apparently left the door open for the possibility that the two systems could be reconciled in future, saying that "it is definitely possible to update the game via online."

At least the news about the rest of the game's online functions is more positive. According to Price, the game supports four player split screen, and up to 40 players online - with games being hosted on Sony's own servers for low-latency play.
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