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Sony Europe Platinum Range Expands

6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Europe’s budget line for PlayStation 3 games, the Platinum range, last week expanded by four titles, each going for £20 (AU$38). Strangely, they all seem to be using the old box format and old PS3 logo. More »
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Motorstorm PSP Dated

11:00AM Owen Good | MotorStorm: Arctic Edge will release in UMD format on September 29—delaying the downloadable version of the game until October 1, just in time for the PSPgo’s debut. More »
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Target Confirms New PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits Bundle

6:00AM Mike Fahey | Kotaku has confirmed with several Target locations that a new 80GB PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits bundle will be available on March 29th, with Motorstorm and Resistance thrown in for free. More »
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MotorStorm 2 Patch On The Way

7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Like every online game these days, MotorStorm 2 has a few issues. A few glitches. Well, Sony have let us know that those glitches are to be addressed in a patch due for release soon. More »
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Sony To Bring In-House Racing Studios Together

7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Sony have two in-house racing developers. Evolution Studios, who do MotorStorm, and SCEE Liverpool, who do WipeOut. Seems a bit silly having two teams doing the one genre, doesn’t it? Does to Sony. More »

MotorStorm’s Target Render ‘Pissed Us Off A Lot’ Say Devs

10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Evolution Studios lead designer Nigel Kershaw and creative director Paul Hollywood, responsible for the recent MotorStorm: Pacific Rift for the PlayStation 3, tell 1UP that the “infamous” E3 2005 trailer for the first MotorStorm “kind of pissed us off a lot.” Why? Well, for one thing, it wasn’t created by them and set the team up for “expectations about the rendering prowess that we were going to expose.” More »

MotorStorm 2 Getting Weekly DLC, Eventually

8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Owners of Motorstorm: Pacific Rift will have good reason to fire up their copies of the PlayStation 3 racer well after launch date, as Evolution Studios says it’s planning on releasing “something new to play with every week” much of it expected to be absolutely free. Since the title doesn’t ship to Evolution’s home turf until November, don’t expect anything this Thursday, though. More »

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift AU Release Date, November 13

1:26PM Seamus Byrne | Just announced at a Sony press event is the Australian street date for Motorstorm: Pacific Rift. For those eager to rev up some engines in the jungle. November 13, kids. Hope you’re not also a WoW freak — that’s shaping up to be a big weekend. More »

MotorStorm With Mini-Motorbike Motion Controller

9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | This isn’t a product, but rather a concept product. Spotted a mini-motorcycle that had been modded with an embedded PS3 SIXAXIS controller. The guy on the motorbike said the original plan was to have the game projected lower so players weren’t looking up at the wall, but it wasn’t possible to work that out logistically, apparently. Fittingly, the PS3 was running MotorStorm, and playing it on a mini-bike did give the title an nostalgically arcadey feel. The only downside was that the handle was a tad too low so twisting the throttle wasn’t so easy on the wrist. More »

MotorStorm Sells 3 Million

12:20AM Luke Plunkett | Ah, the little engine that could. It’s a tale of triumph over adversity, of tenaciousness, or unwavering dedication in the face of insurmountable odds. And it most definitely applies to MotorStorm, which has now sold three million copies. Three million! It’s a good, fun game, sure, but three million good? Goes to show what bundling a game with hardware in just about every territory on Earth can do for your sales! Evolution wants MotorStorm to dominate [Eurogamer] More »