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The Japanese version of Tekken 5: Dark Ressurection for PlayStation 3 will soon have online multiplayer, but it's going to cost you a bit extra. The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reports that T5: DR Online will feature free online multiplayer with a ranking system, practice mode and survival mode.

The game will cost 2,800 yen (about US $23), or 1,000 yen (US $8) for current owners of the game to upgrade. Since the game initially came out for 2,000 yen, early adopters are paying 200 yen extra for the time they've had with the offline title since its release in late December. No release date has been decided for the upgrade, and no word at all on a release outside of Japan.

JoystiqPS3 Tekken 5 going online via premium update in Japan originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The PS3's launch day in Europe is set to be filled with wanton punching, devastating explosions and utterly callous driving -- and when new PS3 owners finally get home, they can experience even more of that. Sony has announced a trio of downloads that will greet European PlayStation Network users on March 23, namely Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (costing £6.99), Blast Factor (£3.49) and the Gran Turismo HD trial (£0).

Other games slated for the online network are:
  • 30 March: Super Rub-A-Dub, a touching study of the social intricacies found in a group of inanimate ducks!
  • 6 April: flOw, a relaxing aquatic adventure with many a mingling microorganism!
  • 13 April: Go! Sudoku, a game stunningly devoid of ritualistic suicide!
  • 20 April: Go! Puzzle, a gripping crime thriller following a fugitive jigsaw piece!
If all that isn't worth registering on PSN, perhaps James Bond will talk some sense into you. He has a gun, you know.

JoystiqSony unveils launch lineup for Euro PlayStation Network originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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hi-ya!GamersReports has posted a workaround for PlayStation 3 owners eager to download Tekken 5.

Unless you're living in Hong Kong or Japan you're forced to wait until Sony gets around to releasing Tekken 5 in other territories ... or you could cheat the system. This trick is relatively simple, if not inherently dishonest:
  • Create a new user (not sub-user)
  • When entering the credit card info, pick Hong Kong as country, and then a corresponding city
  • After account is created, select 'Add Funds' (a sub-option within 'Account Management')
  • Add $40 (Hong Kong dollars) to your 'Wallet' twice (total should now be 80 HKD); never add more than $50 in one transaction, as this will prompt a validation of the address registered with the credit card
  • Now go to the PlayStation Store and select Tekken 5
  • Opt to add more funds (bringing Wallet total to 125 HKD)
  • Purchase and download Tekken 5
Sony is no doubt taking measures to lock out this workaround as you read this. Act now if you must. Our advice: sit patient and wait for the official worldwide releases.

JoystiqTrick Sony, download Tekken 5 originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Let's first get this out of the way: the guy who wrote the original article (Dean Takahashi) is a graphics freak. Loves them. "A kind of obsession," he says. The PS3, he says in that regard, doesn't have perfect animation but "it's pretty darn good looking." He also says (not us! He said this! Don't shoot the messenger!) "If you'll recall, Microsoft had high hopes that Sony's first-generation games would look cruddy." I bet they were hoping that, because, you know, it's not the gameplay that matters. Not at all (sarcasm).

Mr. Takahashi continues to say how the PS3 games are looking quite nice, even for first-generation games! He even went so far as to say, "by and large, the games I saw looked BETTER than Xbox 360 games." Oooh, that's a pretty lofty claim. But, he said, not all the games were necessarily worth the price difference in the consoles. Ridge Racer 7, he says, looks far better than Ridge Racer 6 for the 360. Also looking better than the competition is Resistance: Fall of Man. Falling short of expectations was the build of Virtua Fighter 5 -- not quite as pretty as DOA4 for the 360 (and with those ladies, who'd argue?). Lair is also looking good, but Takahashi didn't focus on graphics, possibly because it's way too early to decide. Anyway, overall, we can get pumped up for the PS3 (again...) and know that we'll get a few very enjoyable titles at launch and early next year.

JoystiqPS3's graphics critically analyzed -- verdict is "niiiiiiiice" originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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