On October 30 North America will be getting their dosage of ‘PixelJunk Monsters’ and ‘PixelJunk Monsters Encore’ Trophies and Updates.

We’re very excited here in the very low lit facilities at Kezins Tower over the release date of PixelJunk Monsters Updates.  After a successful upgrade to the 320gb sata hard drive, and neglecting to export your save data makes this the perfect tim to play PixelJunk Monsters all over again! uhh, What’s that?  Trophies will be somewhat retroactive… umm..
Game Difficulty settings
You can now choose between three different difficulties of gameplay! There is a Casual mode, the Regular/Ranked mode, and Hard-core mode. The great news here is that you can use any combination of difficulties to complete your progress through the islands! Is there one particular map that’s too hard? Try it in Casual mode. If you Rainbow the level, that rainbow counts and will remain on the map no matter what difficulty the other rainbows were achieved at! Only the Regular difficulty will register on the ranking boards, though.

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Sony’s “Life with PlayStation” makes it’s debut September 18th.  Your PS3 upgrade will now be complete.

If you’re looking to keep up with all of the “happenings” in the world, then you’ll be interested in PlayStation 3’s new service called “Life with PlayStation”.  Here’s the simple instructions on how to get it.

1. Go to your Network icon in your Xross Media Bar (XMB)
2. Select the Folding@Home icon and press “x”
3. Download the two updates
4. Your’re Done

The Folding@Home icon will now be replaced with the new intelligent looking “Life with PlayStation” icon… Nice!

Care to read the full Press Release, check it out here:

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The much anticipated release of the coolest firmware to date will be released on Wednesday July 2nd.  To go along with the in-game XMB will also be PS3’s Trophy System.  Here’s what we can expect and what game we can expect to see the Trophy system in use:

Super Stardust HD, a PLAYSTATION Network-exclusive released in June 2007, will be the first game to leverage Trophies and will offer a variety of trophies. Trophy support in Super Stardust HD will be available for first-time users who purchase the game soon after firmware v2.40 is released, while those who previously purchased and downloaded the title will be prompted to install a free patch.

PS3 users can expect to see additional games bringing Trophies support to their feature sets through 2008 and beyond, providing even greater opportunity to showcase their accomplishments and compete with friends. The following first-party games are also slated to offer Trophy support:

• BUZZ! Quiz TV
• LittleBigPlanet
• MotorStorm Pacific Rift
• NBA 09 - PS3
• PAIN
• PixelJunk Eden
• Resistance 2
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
• Warhawk

To further emphasize the community aspects of this system software update, the amount of people you can add to your PSN friends list has been doubled, to 100.

I will be really impressed if Sony goes back to previous first-party games.  Resistance would be a great reason to blow the dust off the cover and slide that bad boy in!  Anyone interested in Pixel Junk Monsters Trophies?

Image Via Kotaku

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Latest info is that Sony will not release this Firmware update until closer to E3. What a better way to greet all the E3 nerds than to say, “You’re here and you can’t see the firmware we just released to everyone else.” Unless they’re flying to LA with their PS3’s… doubt it or they go to the Sony booth, damn you E3 nerds!!!. Anywho, Here’s what you can expect through XMB:

* Friend category
* View, send, receive messages
* Manage downloads
* Set the vibration feature of the controller
* Sign in to PlayStation Network
* Register friends
* Manage Bluetooth devices
* Terminate the game
* Music category
* Use the system BGM
* Work the system BGM operation panel
* Settings category
* Assign controllers
* View profiles
* Game category
* Set audio devices
* Use the voice changer

Via Kotaku Via CVG

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Let the battle begin. PS3 owners will FINALLY get what Xbox360 owners have grown to love for years now. In-game XMB (cross media bar), and trophies (achievements).

A new PLAYSTATION 3 firmware update (v2.36) will be launching soon, improving system stability when playing select PlayStation format software titles. We’re also happy to officially report that the 2.40 system software update for PS3 will include “XMB” access in-game. The update will also include “trophies,” an exciting new feature that we’ll be providing more details on soon, as well as some other new enhancements. We’ve talked about some of this on the blog previously and know that many of you can’t wait to get your hands on these features. You can expect us to share all of the official details shortly.

Via Playstation.Blog

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