New PS3 Collections Coming Soon

Three new Playstation 3 collections have been revealed by Sony. God of War, Infamous, and Ratchet & Clank will be the first of many to be released in the coming future. The GoW collection includes I through III on the disc while Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta will be download vouchers. All 5 games will be remastered in HD format, include exclusive DLC, one month of Playstation Plus all for the total cost of $40.

The Infamous collection will include 1 & 2 along with Festival of Blood and all of the DLC previously released. The price point for the Infamous collection will be $29.99.

The details for the R&C collection, which were released in early July, are that Ratchet & Clank, Going Commando, & Up Your Arsenal along with early access to the Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time demo. The games will be remastered in 1080p HD, 720p for 3D, and restored online game play for Up Your Arsenal. The collection will cost $29.99.

All three collections will be released on August 28th.

PSN to be Down Until Tuesday

According to a source of Playstation Universe's, PSN will be down until Tuesday for NA & EU users, Monday for JP users. The source also added that the PSN servers were hit with a LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) which allowed a DDOS (Dedicated Denial of Service) attack to occur. The hackers were able to gain access to the user account database & admin Dev database. Because of this, Sony decided to take down PSN & Qriocity to transfer back-ups to new servers, reissue Dev accounts, & conduct a thorough investigation.

It will be interesting to see how Sony conducts itself after everything is brought back up. The once-a-day blog updates help add to the validity of this information and show just how serious this is to the network.

Bioware: No SecuROM on Dragon Age 2, Release Control instead

Dtoid is now reporting that Bioware has responded to complaints about SecuROM being "ninja'd" into copies of DA2. Instead they say the software is actually Sony's Release Control software which was placed to prevent early usage of the game. The two software's are very similar to a point that they share files that can easily raise concerns about SecuROM invading the machine. Bioware did go on to say that any RC files left over can be easily removed.

You can read Bioware's full statement here.

One Weekend, Two Major FPS Leaks

FPSfags got an early Valentines Day gift. On Friday Crysis 2 (beta build) + the Crytek3 Engine were leaked online. A seemingly hefty torrent weighing in at 9.21 gigabytes has given fanboys an early look at the much hyped about title. EA & Crytek are on the hunt atm, people are reporting that the torrent has been pulled from Pirate Bay & Demonoid.



Because it's a beta build the graphics are unpolished, reportedly the build is limited to DX9 & medium settings, but it is more than playable. It took players less than a day to get multiplayer working, but sadly only in LAN format.



The other big leak this weekend happened today, Sunday. Sony's flagship FPS Killzone 3 got released by some Eurofag. PS3 News, via MadFanBoy, is
saying there are two versions of the Killzone 3 client out right now. The 3D enabled version weighing in at 41.4GB and the regular version at 22.3GB.



Crysis 2 will be in stores on March 22, 2011 and Killzone 3 February 22, 2011.