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Earlier today, I (ed: Read: someone at Kotaku) stumbled upon a post over at the N4G Forums which basically included the picture above which shows that PS2 Games May be coming to The PSN store in the near future….

From what I can gather using my incredibly large brain, Sony may possibly be unveiling this at E3 which isn’t so far off… Even though the picture could quite easily have been Photoshopped, it is starting to seem like an exciting prospect and is also a way to work around the problem of the non-backward compatible PS3s. I guess We will just have to wait and see…

Ed: It’s also nice to know that Metal Gear Solid 2 (ie. not the one where you lie in grass and get shot like a tit) will be available for the very-much-competitive price of £12.99!)

It has been heavily rumoured that PS3 owners can hope to see in-game XMB and trophies (Xbox 360-style achievements) in the next firmware update…

At the moment, Sony have only announced that it will be out this summer and have not announced an official release date yet, but “unnamed sources” from Holland say it will be here on the 18th of this month (June).

I will now run through some features we should expect to see in this highly anticipated update:

• Full In game-XMB
• Custom In Game Soundtracks
• Trophies
• Improved Audio/Video Communication

Videogaming247 Has also acquired some information on how compatible current/old games will be with the new in-game XMB feature amongst other things…

• Sony’s currently going through PS3’s library to check whether or not in-game XMB’s full compatible. While it’s expected that the the new menu system, in-game messaging, and so forth, will work with virtually all games, for a minority of titles the current black menu screen will be retained. It’s not known yet which games, if any, won’t be able to use in-game XMB.
• The user-music functionality is only included in the new development tools, which have now gone out to coders. This means that existing games won’t support it unless they’re patched. That’s right: you won’t be able to play GTA IV with your own music unless Rockstar updates the game, if what we’ve been told this morning is true.
• Same for Trophies. They tools required to add these are only just in the hands of developers, which means it’s going to be some time before you see the feature appear in a major game.
• Some aspects of the XMB, such as the photo viewer, won’t be available in-game after the 2.40 Firmware update. If you select these features in-game, you’ll be asked if you want to drop out of your game to access them.

It looks as if the first reviews for Haze are filtering through and leaving the proverbial glass half empty.  There are only about 3 or so official reviews at the moment but suffice to say, the highest score it has received so far is a 65. Need I say more? This is without a doubt a surprisingly thunderous disappointment. When I say “surprising” I am referring to the look of shock which must be bleeding out of numerous Sony gamers, many of whom who were anticipating this First Person Shooter at least a little.

It looks as if Sony have been talking out of their backside once again with all the hype and promotional videos which they have published in the continual fashion of rarely fulfilling their wild prophecies (which attracted many to invest in their latest console in the first place). Talk about “fan service”, the only service their offering their fans so far appears to be a sharp kick where the sun doesn’t shine.

Hit the jump for the reviews as of yet…
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Sony’s PlayStation Day was held today at the O2 arena in London providing us with lots of new gameplay footage of their upcoming lineup, and a trio of delays. LittleBigPlanet is moved back to October, Home to the end of the year and Killzone 2 to February ‘09.

Ted Price, president of Insomniac, confirmed on stage that Resistance 2 will feature 8-player co-op and 60-player online. Squads within the 60 players should keep the game a little less hectic but I’m still not convinced this many players can work, especially when a much smaller base has access to a headset compared to the 360.

Now, I was planning to post the new videos of Resistance and Killzone, but it seems Gamevideos.com where a bit hasty posting them, as they have now both been taken down. So for now your just gonna have to put up with the new gameplay footage of Mirror’s Edge from DICE. Its another fps, but there trying to take it in a different direction with lots of free running and an emphasis on melee combat.

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Oh and Motorstorm 2 has a name, Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, exciting…

Daniel plays the role of Sony’s Christmas Ghosts whilst avoiding the savage jaw of Sean Millar

The Playstation 3 has had a pretty rough time. It was released a while after it’s next-gen primary rival, the Xbox 360 and as such, has had a bumpy ride so far. Few of the promised IPs and exclusives have materialised thus far and those which have been released have been disappointments of varying degrees - from the short, but sweet Heavenly Sword to the abomination which goes by the name of Lair.

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