To celebrate the launch of the highly anticipated Killzone 2 for PS3, Sony have gone and revealed a bundle including the expected smash hit. Though no confirmed release date has been confirmed, it should be announced shortly by Sony. The bundle will cost £299.99

Golden Signals has come up with a fairly nifty device which allows you to stream just about anything through your TV. Costing a small $50USD, it'll bag you the software to install onto your pc, allowing you to stream movies, music, pictures and just about anything else you can think of through your TV, including the sound.

In the Dutch version of Official Playstation Magazine, a back page teaser of a new Playstation exclusive was revealed. Though under tight restrictions, the announcement was made that it will be unveiled next issue; however the mag gave no real details about this Playstation exclusive title.

I'm sure speculation will run riot until then.

Sony are finally going to update their Singstar games with wireless microphone peripherals. The new mics will be hitting store shelves sometime next year, but no official date has been released yet, so your guess is as good as any. The mics will have computability for both the PS2 and PS3, so no matter what version you're playing, you'll still be able to use them.

Sony has called for some testers on the Singstar Myspace page, which should hopefully give us our first look at these new microphones.

The president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, David Reeves, said in an interview with MCV that "shoddy machines won't grow the market."

"... Another thing we have committed to for supporting market growth is putting out quality hardware - you don't grow the market by putting out shoddy machines," he said. "So we try to make sure that PS3s have a failure rate of just two to three percent, which is very low by industry standards.

Not to be left out with the Christmas spreading, Sony is bringing a little festivity to their acclaimed title, LittleBigPlanet with its first 'level pack', which will be of the festive persuasion. This level pack will become available when it hits the PSN store tomorrow which will cost $2.99 in the states, with confirmation of the Europe price yet to be obtained.

The pack will include;

* Two new Costumes - Christmas Tree headpiece and a Wrapped Sackboy.
* One new Create Material = Wrapping Paper (cardboard w/ gift wrap texture).
* Two new Objects = A Festive Sleigh and holiday themed light.
* Six new Decorations = A Festive Bauble, Bell, Wrapping Bow, Candy Cane, Card and Stocking.
* A ton of new Stickers = holiday themed of course, including a Red Nose Reindeer, Elves, Turkey images and many more.

This is a limited availability download, and will be disappearing off the PSN shelves come the 8th of January.

Sony's HOME will become unavailable later today for an expected 6 hours, where the service will undergo some maintenance behind the curtain. The main reason given for this update is to ease the problems people have been having when trying to connect to the service.

"Sony Computer Entertainment will conduct system maintenance for PlayStation Home on Thursday, December 18, 2008. At this time PlayStation Home will be updated from ver. 1.03 to 1.04. The system maintenance is scheduled to start at 12 midnight (PST), and the service is expected to resume in approximately 6 hours but may change depending on the circumstances. PlayStation Home will be unavailable during the maintenance window.

"The reason for this maintenance is to ease the difficulty some people are having accessing PlayStation Home due to the high demand for the service."

Now, thanks to Play-Asia, you can buy your very own Sackboy toy. If you weren't annoyed enough by them already, and I sure know I am (God I hate those adverts), then head over there to buy a 4" or a 10" figure for quite reasonable prices ($9.90 and $15.90 respectively). The perfect give for those still obsessed with this sacky little guy.

Sony has set up MyPSN in Europe, which will allow psn account holders to create an official Portable ID and track which friends are currently online. In the future, your portable IDs will allow you to show off and check out other people's Trophies on a PC, similar to what Xbox Live account holders can do online on xbox.com.

"Sign in and go to the My PSN page in the PlayStation Network section to see which of your friends are online, create an official Portable ID to show your friends your favourite games, and take part in events to suit all tastes by checking out the Events Calendar."

Recently announced to be canned, Destroy All Humans: Path of Furon WILL see a PS3 release yet. The North American game was said to been canned on Sony's platform due to unknown "development issues", but the European release of both Xbox 360 and PS3 SKUs will go ahead next year.

A THQ rep said "Destroy all Humans: Path of the Furon will be released on both the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3 formats on February 13th 2009 across Europe."

Killzone 2's developer Guerilla has confirmed that there will be no hard drive install options for their upcoming smash, when it launches early in 2009. This is for both mandatory and optional installs.

"We are not planning to do any install." Installing games to the hard drive significantly lower the blu-ray loading times, will Killzone 2 players suffer from god awful load times? Or maybe Guerilla has found some way around this?

The PS3 is getting ready for it's latest firmware update, which will be spread over the Playstation network tomorrow. The list of changes are as follows;

Users

* You now have an option to set the PS3 system to turn off automatically after a background download or installation of content has completed. This option is available when you turn off the system under [Users] > [Turn Off System] while content is being downloaded or installed.


Settings

* [BD/DVD Settings] has been renamed to [Video Settings].
* [Under [Video Settings], the [Cinema Conversion] option has been renamed to [BD/DVD Cinema Conversion] and the [Upscale] option has been renamed to [BD/DVD Upscaler].
* [ [Sequential Playback] has been added as an option under [Video Settings].
* [ [DivX VOD Registration Code] has been added under [System Settings]. You must use this registration code to authenticate and register the PS3 system to be able to play video files that are compatible with the DivX VOD (Video On Demand) service on your system. For details, visit the DivX website.
* [ [Power Save Settings] has been added as an option under [Settings]. To save power, the PS3 system and wireless controllers can be set to turn off automatically after a certain period of inactivity.
* [Under [Accessory Settings] > [Audio Device Settings], the method for reconnecting Bluetooth devices has been changed.
* [Under [Accessory Settings] > [Keyboard Type], you can now choose the following keyboard types: [German Keyboard (Switzerland)], [French Keyboard (Canada)] and [French Keyboard (Switzerland)].
* [Under [Printer Settings] > [Printer Selection], you can now select printers that support network connectivity. You can also select HP printers using the [HP] option.


Music

* [You can now select one of nine volume output levels using the [Volume Control] setting on the control panel (or the mini-size control panel).
* [Pause] has been added as an icon on the mini-size control panel.


Video

* [You can now select one of nine volume output levels using the [Volume Control] setting on the control panel.
* [ [Scene Search] has been added as an option on the control panel.
* [You can now use the [Mosquito Noise Reduction] setting for video content that is saved on the hard disk or storage media. Use this setting to reduce mosquito noise that appears on the edges of visual images.
* [During BD (BDAV) and DVD playback, a technique known as "chroma upsampling" is now automatically selected based on the movement of objects within the video content and then applied to enhance images in the content.


Game

* [New for 2.52: The playback quality of some PLAYSTATION3 format software has been improved.
* [New for 2.52: A text entry issue that occurs when using the on-screen keyboard, USB keyboard or Bluetooth keyboard with some PLAYSTATION3 format software has been addressed.
* [ [Sync with Server] has been added as an option under [Trophy Collection].
* [By pressing the PS button while playing PLAYSTATION3 format software, you can now view information from the [Settings and Connection Status List] option under [Network Settings].*
* This feature is not available for use with some PLAYSTATION3 format software.


Network

* [New for 2.53: The Internet browser now supports full-screen mode for Adobe Flash Player content.*
* [Support for Adobe Flash Player 9 has been added to [Internet Browser].*


PlayStationNetwork

* [The way to disable the automatic sign-in option and the way to sign out from PlayStationNetwork have been changed.
* [In PlayStationStore, the design of the [View Downloads] and [View Cart] buttons has been changed, and a [Redeem Codes] button has been added.


Friends

* [You can now view information about the most recent sign-in for Friends who are on your Friends list.*
* If you do not set the correct date and time in the [Date and Time] settings under [Settings] > [Date and Time Settings], this information may not be displayed.

Singstar, the PS3's musical singing game is set to receive some holiday spirit with a song pack containing 5 christmasy themes to sing along to. Get ready to deck the halls this Thursday when this content will become available to download.

The tracks included in this pack are;

* Celine Dion - Christmas Eve
* Toni Braxton - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
* Babyface - Sleigh Ride
* Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime
* Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

Sony has recently announced that there will be no price cuts any time soon, as a reply to the increasing amount of rumours that there will be a price cut for the PS3. Sony went on to say that any news of a price cut is pure rumour or speculation.

With the holiday period pretty much upon us now, people are going to be looking for the best deals, especially with current circumstances with the credit crunch. With the Wii being the cheapest option last year, how will the 360 fare now being the cheapest option?

With Home 1.0 on the horizon, Sony has already sent out 100,000 European invites to players already. A larger batch of invites will also be sent out to gamers this coming Thursday. These invites are being sent out to coincide with the 1.0 launch, and will be sent to a pre-chosen list of gamers.

Don't worry if you're not on the list however, because the Home community manager Ted said the open beta wouldn't be too far behind the Thursday invites. "Home beta 1.0 is aimed at delivering a stable base upon which to build the service over the coming months and years," TedTheDog said, and it introduces a host of new features, such as background downloading, a club support system and various changes to the names of in-Home areas and the Home interface.