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Ideally, it would be good if the prices on Sony’s PlayStation Store were similar everywhere, regardless of which branch of the service you access. Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be the case for blogger Davin Warner.

Warner reportedly compared the pricing of the US PS Store with that of its South African counterpart and received a rather unpleasant surprise: the same titles were being sold for a more expensive price on the South African PS Store.

Warner even cited an example as evidence: the Sony PSP rhythm game Beats sells for R 40 (approximately US 5) on the US store, but sells for approximately R 75 (approximately US 9) on the African branch of the store.

As it is, Warner regrets not having signed up for the US store to begin with, as the PlayStation Store only allows gamers to activate their PSP on one country setting. Perhaps that’s one of the things that Sony should address as it revamps the store this month.

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If you found Time Baby v13d useful, you might want to know that homebrew developer Art has updated the program to version 13e.

The latest release implements a major bug fix and adds some new features that fans of the application will probably appreciate.

According to Art, this release should resolve any of the issues with the Mad MP3 Player. In addition, he has also added a graphic display for the heart rate monitor feature of the program as well as the option for users to save a HeartRate logfile to MS.

Like most homebrew, be sure to go over the documentation for complete instructions on how to install and use Time Baby v13e.

Download: Time Baby v13e
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A good performance has a way of encouraging people to set their sights on even higher goals. Take the case of Ubisoft, for instance. The company has raised its current year targets due to strong performance from its games.

How high are Ubisoft’s targets, exactly? We’re talking an expectation of EUR 920 million in full-year sales here. Not bad, considering that the guidance given last January 23 was at
EUR 875 million.

The company has also raised its fourth quarter sales outlook from EUR 165 million to EUR 210 million. Ubisoft also expects current operating income before stock options to represent around 14 of sales.

With all these high expectations, it’s probably no coincidence that Jade Raymond picked this time to work on a new project.

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So much anticipation has been building for the released of Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Due to this, the game has been catapulted to a stellar position in the Chart Track UK sales.

The game has debuted and definitely sped through the rest of its competition and is now enjoying the top spot, knocking off some major competitors down below. This particular chart includes sales up to March 29, 2008.

It’s definitely one of the fastest selling games for Sony’s PlayStation 3. In fact, it’s the 19th best-selling title for the next-gen console.

Aside from this fantastic feat, a few games have manged to reach the top 40 list. The one below is the shortlist of the chart track:

1. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue  
2. Rainbow Six Vegas 2
3. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii, DS)
4. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
5. Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock
6. Sega Superstars Tennis
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
8. Viking: Battle for Asgard
9. Fifa 08   
10. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training

If you guys want to find out the other 30 games that are part of this particular listing, feel free to visit the source link below. We’ll keep you guys updated on more interesting pieces of news as they come.

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QJ.NET reader Mohammadreza Omranifard sent us an email, informing us about a new homebrew created by the coder alireza_shafei.

Basically, the creation allows PSP owners to use the Persian language on their Sony handheld units. In the past, we’ve already covered several applications that provide language translations for English-reading members of the homebrew community.

We can only imagine that programs like this further broaden the scene and its scope. Anyway, Omranifard also said in the email that the homebrew developer is also coming up with a Persian-English dictionary application that will go well with PEXT or Persian Text Writer.

The scheduled release for that is some time next week. In the mean time, just enjoy the current release. Note that it doesn’t come with a Readme.txt file so be sure that you know well what you are doing to maximize the program’s potentials and to avoid any sort of problems.

Download: PEXT

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The Byron Report has caught the attention of quite a number of individuals with a stake in the video game industry.

While others have agreed with the conclusions made in the report, some have questioned the recommendation that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) be given the responsibility of rating all games classified as 12 by PEGI.

Electronic Arts‘ UK vice president and general manager Keith Ramsdale recently spoke about the Byron Report saying that while they welcome Dr. Byron’s review, the video game industry as a whole has been unanimously clear that the system they want to use is PEGI. Here’s why:

PEGI is an efficient system to help people make appropriate content choices for players of all ages. A Nielsen study showed PEGI has 94 awareness with the UK game-playing public and it follows a tougher regime than the BBFC. In 2007 PEGI gave 47 titles an 18 rating but BBFC downgraded 21 of those to 15 or less.

He further explained that the adaptation of a system specifically for the UK will bring about certain difficulties such as “added complexity for developers, publishers and crucially retailers.” An interesting point considering that PEGI will still be used by other countries. In effect, all games will have to be rated by two separate organizations.

Ramsdale continued by saying that EA believes that PEGI is the most suitable system for rating games at the moment. In addition, they will “engage with the appropriate Government departments to ensure the right decisions are made in the best interest of the British public.”

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