Irrasshaimase, we begin our PS Store Thursday update-a-thon with the land of the of the not so rising Yen. Japan can get its wrassle on with WWE Legends of Wrestlemania, show their patriotic side and slap you silly with that Ryu and gang LBP Sackboy or just shut the door, close the blinds and enjoy inflicting Pain to a hot Nurse or a girl mysteriously called “Muffy”. We know what we would do. Oh and a little game called Resistance 2 gets mapped and skinned (it’s far less gruesome than it sounds).
UPDATE: Three videos sneak up on your Japanese self. Killzone 2, H.A.W.X. and a showcase of PSN titles.

The Homerun returns for another week. So what is new this week we hear you ask? Well inside of Home it’s all been about Xi.

On Monday, a brand new space was opened as part of the Alternate Reality Game. Alpha Zone One delivers gamers the chance to beat the clock by completing mini-arcade games within six minutes.

We’ve all seen the footage and marvelled at the visuals but now it’s your turn to take control of Killzone 2′s “Bullet” trailer and create something uniquely awesome of your own.

The digital switchover is starting to roll out across many regions in the UK, so what better time for the popular Digital TV adapter for the PS3 to receive a brand new feature-filled update.

PlayTV is currently only available in a select number of countries within the PAL market, and not only does it allow you to watch programmes, you can record them too and even stream content to your PSP.

LittleBigPlanet, which has seen the production of over 500,000 user-created levels in just the few short months it has been available, now has an Official YouTube Channel.

When news hit that Katamari Damacy would be getting a PS3 “tribute”, we decided to simply fire off a tweet about the matter.

After all, we love Katamari Damacy but there wasn’t much to report.
However, what is somewhat more newsworthy is Eurogamer’s recent article that states that, not only is Takahashi-san not involved with the HD update, there are people at Namco who are “very very angry” at him.

Prescience aside, we’re just glad to see 2.70 finally raising its murky head from the Sea of Speculation so the wild predictions about its content can stop.

Fans of chat, sorting, huge attachments and media backup should prepare for a giddy frenzy. The rest of you, and we’re thinking this is the majority, look away now. There’s nothing to see here.

The first downloadable pack for Call of Duty: World at War, which launched on the 19th of March from the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, was downloaded 1 million times over the first weekend following the pack releasing across both platforms.

David Reeves, from SCEE, is back, and speaking to NowGamer about their strategy for the PS3 in Europe.

He was asked some big questions regarding the console and what is in store for the future.

Microïds have announced today that a new chapter in the popular point and click saga Syberia is in development for both the PS3 and PC. The new game, imaginatively titled Syberia 3, will be available in June 2010.

The salient part of the press release however is Microïds’ revelation that, in what we believe is a first, collaborative play between the PS3 and the PC is not only possible – it’s downright compulsory.

It has been a long time since our last PS3-related April Fools Roundup – a year to be precise!

Back then we brought your attention to a console version of World of Warcraft, motorbikes in GT5: Prologue and a $150 PS3 that has no Blu-ray drive.

What foolishness did we uncover today?

Thanks to a heads-up from our friends at Talk PlayStation, details are emerging regarding a new PS3 bound RPG from tri-Ace.

Clicking on this patent link will ultimately redirect you to tri-Ace’s homepage and the announcement that a new RPG is coming, and a countdown.

What do the makers of Star Ocean and other much loved RPGs have planned? Luckily, someone around here speaks Japanese.

In the interests of science (or more accurately, vocal destruction) we took up both our microphones and the challenge, and proceeded to sing to every song on the disc.

Here we write about our highs, lows and this author’s bout of ‘razor throat’ somewhere around the middle ‘C’.