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There's going to be a new PlayStation 3 with a 250GB hard drive available Stateside as of November 3. Going for $349.99. Next to the bigger HDD, this particular model is gonna be the same as the 120GB PlayStation 3, which costs $299.99. "The PS3 platform is poised for a tremendous holiday season," says Scott Steinberg, vice president of product marketing for Sony US...

Those car models are just perfect dammit. click to view full gallery click to view full gallery Man, I can't even see the polys anymore. Video games have taken another step closer to photo realistic visuals.

Take a look at the latest batch of screenshots from the awesome-looking PS3-exclusive racing game, Gran Turismo 5: click to view full gallery click to view full gallery During this year's Tokyo Game Show is was revealed that Gran Turismo 5 is 65% complete. Sony also announced that the racer would be hit Japan on March 31, 2010.

Contrary to earlier reports that PS3 sales are down in Japan, word is that the PlayStation 3 is now selling like crazy. "Sony’s PS3 has recorded its biggest weekly sales total in Japan since launching in November 2006," reports EO. Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has the figures: - the PS3 sold 150,832 units during the week ended September 6 - the new PS3 Slim was largely to thank, racking up 150,252 sales. Well, things are finally starting to pick up for Sony.

Just spotted on GI that sales of the PlayStation 3 have plummeted 65% on last week in Japan just ahead of Sony's launch of the new PS3 slim, officially putting the system last on the Japanese hardware sales chart. Media Create provides the full Japanese hardware chart for the week ending August 24: 1...

Sony Computer Entertainment America wants to reposition the PS3 as the "total entertainment solution," confirms Peter Dille, Sony's senior vice president of marketing. "We have been a game company for years and we would never walk away from that, but research confirmed there is a larger proposition under our nose," Dille told the LA Times...

Sony was asked if the PS3 Slim is still being sold at a loss, SCE boss Kazuo Hirai replied: "If you're just talking about the hardware alone, the quick answer is yes." (thanks CVG) "That makes good headlines, but I don't actually know that that's the true nature of the business that we're all in, whether it's PlayStation, Xbox or the Wii," Hirai told Times Online...

The new PS3 model is one-third smaller and is going to carry a retail price of $299 and €299. There's an internal 120GB HDD too. They said that the new console has the same functionality as those already in stores - backwards compatibility with PS2 games goes without saying I guess...

The full retail edition of Gran Turismo 5, the latest entry in the extremely popular PlayStation racing series, should be in US stores on December 29, 2009, according to Amazon (thanks CVG). GT 5 pre-orders are being accepted for $56.99. We don't have any official confirmation from Sony on this, at least not yet...

Uncharted 2, Naughty Dog's action adventure for the PlayStation 3, is officially coming to North America on October 13. There's going to be a multiplayer demo on offer weeks prior release, as confirmed by Sony. The multiplayer demo is scheduled to arrive on September 30, but gamers who pre-order the sequel from GameStop are going to get early access to the demo (on September 9, to be exact).

Ars Technica reports that a source claims both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are going to be cheaper as of fall this year. No specific dates were revealed yet, but it's been noted that Xbox 360 Pro is going to "disappear in July or August" to make way for the 120GB Elite model, supposedly after a September price reduction...

Influenced by practically every popular adventure movie, the PS3-only Uncharted is now, apparently, heading to the big screen, according to a story over at HollywoodReporter. Columbia snatched this one, with Kyle Ward set to pen the adaptation that would be produced by Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner...

Activision, one of the industry's biggest publishers may have to cease supporting the PlayStation 3 if Sony doesn't reduce the price of its console, as confirmed by Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. "They have to cut the price, because if they don't, the attach rates [the number of games each console owner buys] are likely to slow...

Yesterday's E3 press conference held by Sony confirmed that PSP owners will soon be able to enjoy Capcom's well-known franchise, Resident Evil. The PSP version of Resident Evil should arrive in 2010 and, according to Sony CEO Jack Tretton, will offer a "whole new game designed specifically for the platform...