Soulcalibur IV, the newest entry in the Soulcalibur series, has been released in North America on July 29th, not only winning big with the fans of the franchise but also hitting a home run with video game critics. So far, the game has a metascore of 91 out of 100, which includes an A+ from 1up.com, showing its popularity among game critics. So if you are looking for the newest fighting game to add to your library, it looks like, Soulcalibur IV would make a great choice!

The Playstation 3 version includes an optional hard drive installation and Darth Vader as a bonus playable character.

According to a post by Eric Lempel, Director of Playstation Network Operations, at blog.us.playstation.com, the newest PS3 firmware update (2.42) is up and available for download.. or at least so it was meant to be. There have been coming in reports about many PS3 owners having trouble downloading the firmware update while others have not experienced any problems at all.
You might remember that when Trophy support was added to the Playstation 3 with the firmware update 2.40, after downloading it, people reported bricked Playstation 3 systems which forced Sony to remove the 2.40 version from download only hours after releasing it. A few days later firmware update 2.41 was released that did not cause any problems. What is up with the firmware!?

Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed Third-Person Action Adventure game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is going to receive a patch that will add trophies. The total amount of trophies that you will be able to get in the game is 48 of which 47 are within the game while the 48th is the Platinum Trophy which you get for unlocking all of the trophies within the game. IGN.com conducted an interview with Arne Meyer, senior manager of marketing communication at Naughty Dog, about the upcoming patch which you can read here.

Free Radical’s Playsation 3 exclusive first person shooter Haze has been delayed by 7 days. The game originally scheduled for release on the 20th November will know hit store shelves on the 27th November.

This is yet another delay for a Playstation 3 title. The former timed exclusive Unreal Tournament III was also delayed recently and is now scheduled to come out Q1 2008. Obviously PS3 owners are angered by these delays but the anger gets directed towards Sony because people forget that the developer is responsible for the release dates not Sony.

Hopefully these are the last delays for this year’s upcoming PS3 games but I wouldn’t bet on it.

THQ has announced that it will be releasing a playable demo of Conan for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next week.

No details on the exact demo have been revealed.

Conan is an action adventure title based around the same warrior good old governor Schwarzenegger used to play in the movie. So far only a few websites have had a chance to review Conan but from these reviews the game averages at about the middle 7’s.

Conan is currently available only in Europe and is scheduled for release October 23 in North America.