Killzone: Liberation

The Killzone servers have undergoing maintenance earlier this week, for which the team simply stated it was a routine exercise. This second cycle is to implement a fix on what can only be assumed was the source of an issue discovered during the last downtime. At present, all thats been confirmed for this latest maintenance cycle is a fix to the Friends Leaderboards.

With PSN finally clambering back to its feet (slightly shakily, but it's getting there), Sony has announced the contents of its 'Welcome Back' package. Understanding how put out gamers have been with 24 days without access to PlayStation Store or online gaming, free games and more are being lavished upon each and every existing PlayStation Network user. Hooray! The content is slightly different to the US package, so let's see what us European gamers can expect when the Store is back online.

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PSLS writes: The much-anticipated follow up to Killzone 2 has been oft rumored as of late, but may not be all the Amsterdam-based developer is working on.

Mike Kebby on European Playstation.Blog writes: For the full list of content you know what to do, scroll down for the rundown. This week (and every week from now on actually) I'll be mentioning a few bits of content I think may be of particular interest to you. It's obvious that there are various pockets of different users visiting the store, and it's our job to try and make sure there's a good mixture of content available, so whilst there won't always be something for everyone every week, I think we're offering a very diverse range of content to suit most people's tastes.

WorthPlaying contacted SCEA to find out if it planned to match the PSPgo Rewards program announced by SCEE this morning and was told that Sony had no plans at this time to match the European offer. There hasn't been any announcement yet that there will be an equivalent rewards program for North America...

The top ten PSP downloads in May, according to the Playstation Pulse.

Two Sony PlayStation Portable games have been added to the PSP Greatest Hits line-up. That means they're now available for $19.99 each. Both Killzone: Liberation and Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters join the budget title status. A great starting price for two good PSP games.

The latest Snipe The Dev event was a big success, with large numbers of players going online to challenge the developers. It seemed like every room we created filled up with Killzone: Liberations fanatics in a matter of seconds! Both sides fought a hard and valiant battle, but when the dust settled one side clearly stood victorious: the fans.

How often do you get the chance to face the dev on an all out war in multi player online? Well those of you who has Killzone: Liberation for psp and has the infrastructure patch to play online, then your in luck, according to the official killzone website: In order to thank all those of you who downloaded the Killzone:Liberation infrastructure patch and who continue the war for Vekta day by day online, it gives us great pleasure to announce another Snipe the Dev event! On Friday 16th November from 21:00 to 22:30 hours Amsterdam local time, brave members of the development team will be available on both US and European game servers - now's your chance to frag a QA manager, perforate a Lead Artist or execute a Game Director! Pit your skills against the powers of the Dev team ¿ will you pwn or be pwned? thats 3:00 P.M Eastern time.