PlayStation 3

The newest Tom Clancy game has gone gold.  Tom Clancy’s EndWar is now ready for manufacturing and shipping for its November 4th release date.  This game allows you to experience a World War 3 while having a revolutionary voice command system where you can control the game through your headset.  I do not know about you, but the idea of screaming commands into my headset makes me surprisingly excited to try this game.  In fact, I am going to go play the Xbox 360 demo now!

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A couple of patches came out today that remedied the musical problems that caused Little Big Planet’s delay.  For the few that got their hands on it early, the game now patches to 1.02 and turns the “offensive” track into an instrumental work.  Maybe now Sony and everybody can put this behind them, and we do not have to hear about it anymore.

A while back, Harmonix made a promise to deliver 20 free songs for owners of Rock Band 2.  Well come November 4th that promise will be met.

If you purchased Rock Band 2 you should see a download code on the back of the instruction booklet which will be used to get the 20 extra tracks.  Now most of these 20 songs are from up and coming bands so don’t be too disappointed if you’ve never heard of a few of them.

Here’s the list of the free downloadable content:

• The 88 - “Sons and Daughters”
• Authority Zero - “No Regrets”
• Between the Buried and Me - “Prequel To The Sequel”
• The Cab - “Bounce”
• The Chevelles - “Get It On”
• The Cocktail Slippers - “Give It To Me”
• Dealership - “Database Corrupted”
• Endeverafter - “I Wanna Be Your Man”
• The Ghost Hounds - “Ashes To Fire”
• Hollywood Undead - “Young”
• Kutless - “The Feeling”
• The Len Price 3 - “If I Ain’t Got You”
• Lesley Roy - “I’m Gone, I’m Going”
• Opiate for the Masses - “Burn You Down”
• Semi-Precious Weapons - “Magnetic Baby”
• Shaimus - “Like a Fool”
• Thenewno2″ - Crazy Tuesday”
• Tickle Me Pink - “The Time Is Wrong”
• Underoath - “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures”
• X Japan - “I.V.”

Today had some good content come to the PSN.  After a bit of maintenance (PSN and Live both have that most annoying feature), everything is almost back to normal.  Biggest two items are the release of SOCOM: Confrontation as a downloadable game and the apparent lack of Age of Booty.  The latter was previously confirmed for today, but it appears to be put off until perhaps next month.  More details on that as we receive them.

IGN has a great list of content released that can be found here.

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Sony has quietly mentioned that they are looking to release a digital TV tuner for the PS3 to give it DVR functionality, which is great, but the stock hard drive is way too small for video recording. Luckily swapping hard drives is a pretty straight forward procedure.

If you’re familiar with PC hardware you’ll likely be able to figure it out yourself. If you aren’t comfortable prying open such as expensive piece of equipment, Gamepro has put together a guide to upgrading the PS3 hard drive, with plenty of pictures detailing the process. The instructions for upgrading your PS3 hardrive are straight forward, so give it a shot.