Sony has announced that PS3 firmware v2.76 will be released “soon” ,which basicly means in the next day or two, and that it will improve “the playback quality of some PS3 format software”. They are calling it a minor update, notting special here.

A little over a month after rumors started swirling about an Xbox 360 version of Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online MMO, GameDaily has obtained images from an online survey suggesting the unannounced game could carry a monthly subscription fee. Specifically, the survey asked, “Assuming that you liked the content and theme of this Lord of the Rings MMO for the Xbox 360, how likely would you be to purchase the game for $59.99, plus pay a monthly subscription of $12.99?”

Loose Cannon Studios is a new independent development team set up by two Sucker Punch veterans, Dev Madan and Matthew Scott, along with Ricci Rukavina, who previously worked at Universal Interactive Studios and Vivendi. According to the company’s website it was founded in 2005 and its employees have worked on such franchises as Sly Cooper, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Jak And Daxter and Uncharted.

IGN has got there hands on a awesome nine-minute developer walkthrough for BioShock 2.
Jordan Thomas, creative director for the game, talks you through all the nuances and the absolute coolness of it.
You fight Big Sisters and see the ocean like you never seen it before.

DICE has said that it learned its lesson with Battlefield: Bad Company and plans to do a better job on the sequel. Which is great news considering the fact that when Bad Company came out, it only had one multiplayer mode, kinda boring after while. Wouldn’t you say so.

Sucker Punch’s Chris Zimmerman has today revealed that inFamous will take anytime from 15-25 hours to complete.

Confirmed content for this week is pretty non existent. However what has been confirmed for this week is an exciting offering, mainly due to Zen Pinball. Texas Cheat Em will also pleased the poker fans. Of course there is the weekly Rock Band and Guitar Hero DLC to look forward to. A PSP game is expected this week, as Sony makes more PSP games available as a digital download.

Can you believe that Treyarch is already hard at work on Call of Duty 7? According to a Treyarch designer’s online CV, Call Of Duty 7 is already being worked on.

 
Sony Online Entertainment today has revealed new information via press release for their upcoming MMOFPS title The Agency.
The game has yet to be given a release date, but it is short of sometime in 2010 …

According to Polyphony Digital, this “extended demo” of the upcoming racing simulator has now sold more than 3.3 million copies. The demo is available on Blu-ray disc as well as via Playstation Network. However, there is no mention on Polyphony’s page if the sales numbers include downloads from PSN or not. Which potentially means, the numbers could be even higher than 3.3 million.