Sony has announced that adhocParty, a free application that allows you to take your PSP online using your PS3’s Network connection, is coming to Europe. The app has been available in Japan, where it has proven extremely popular with Monster Hunter players, for some time now. The main point of adhocParty is to make games that are normally only playable in multiplayer via adhoc mode (i.e. linking to PSPs within 10 metres of your own) playable online. The games ...

We said we hadn’t heard the last of this… Erik Estavillo, the gamer who tried to sue Sony after he was banned from the PlayStation Network for persistently using racist and homophobic language, has decided to mount an appeal against a federal court’s outright dismissal of his case. In addition, he’s filed a further suit against Sony, this time claiming a whopping $180,000 in damages. It’s unclear what makes Estavillo, who ...

Those of us who are unable to attend Gamescom may want to drown our collective sorrows in a long, hard bout of gaming. This, of course, often involves a trip to the PlayStation Network to see what treats we can download to keep us occupied for a few more hours. Unfortunately, you won't be able to this evening. But wait! There's a good reason for this... For you see, the PSN downtime just happens to be the exact time that Sony ...

If you're like us then you probably have a lot of questions about the PlayStation Network Store. For example: why don't we immediately get all of the games our Americans and Japanese chums get to download? Or: will we ever be able to use prepaid cards to make our online purchases? Well fret no longer, for an informative Q&A has been posted on the European PlayStation Blog, with EU PSN Store manager Angela Madronero dealing with the questions we've ...

Compare Trophies with friends and more with Sony's new Network functionality.

Media Molecule's platformer now officially the biggest game in the world.

Yesterday we looked at the sleeper hits of 2009, the games that have the potential to surprise and be as big as some of the more established franchises. Today we'll be looking at rumoured games, some brilliant PlayStation Network games and what the future holds for PS3 in 2009. So without further ado… PSN 2009 Games coming to a Store near you soon. Flower Sony February Flower is supposed to show us what happens when flowers dream. Starting the game in a grey cityscape, Flower actually tells a story through music and ...

Any PixelJunk Monsters fans out there? Thought so. Well, you'll be pleased to hear that Q-Games' brilliant strategy game is getting a new mission pack, simply called Encore! All we really know about the pack is that it features a number of new levels, a new tower and that Q-Games has monkeyed around with the tower-pricing structure somewhat. Oh, and we got these four screens in this morning – thought you might like to see them. Encore! is going to be available through the PlayStation Store at the end of ...

Addicted, that’s what I am. For the first time in years I’ve found a game that has become the single most important thing in my life. I play it at home and I play it in the office and, thanks to its Remote Play functionality, I can play it on my PSP before I go to sleep. It’s testament to PixelJunk Monsters’ appeal that we on Play, and not just me, have become utterly obsessed with it. You can tell we’re obsessed because we’ve got little pet names for the monsters. ...