With only a fractional increment in the version number, don’t expect the fresh 2.76 PS3 Firmware update to do a hell of lot in terms of new features or radical improvements.

In other words, for those of you holding out for cross game chat and other similar wonderments; we’re afraid you’re going to have to wait (for E3 no doubt).

While you were running around the first game like Kelly’s Heroes blowing up destructible environments as if there was no tomorrow, the guys at DICE were actually taking it easy on you; coddling console gamers as, unlike our distant PC cousins, we’re just not “hardcore” enough to handle the full FPS experience.

Don’t expect such easy treatment in the sequel.

Starting today, and repeating every Tuesday, PS3 Attitude is becoming PSFree Attitude.

Yes, we’ll be giving away all sorts of freebies to our loyal Twitter followers every week with prizes ranging from PSN codes for new games and DLC to physical swag that we have here at Attitude Towers.

We told you it was a good time to be following us on Twitter, didn’t we?

GT5′s Yamauichi-san talks all things Turismo to German car manufacturer, Audi. What can we expect from the full version of the game? Well, if you like rain, driving at night and crash damage, this might be the GT for you.

Announcing today plans to expand their Hero empire beyond the mere guitar genre, Activision have revealed three (maybe four) new titles to ensnare anybody left on the planet who enjoys pretending to play music but …

Remember when we told you that we would have the trailer for Red Dead Redemption tomorrow? Well by tomorrow, we actually meant a few hours because the debut trailer is here and it is quite the Western.

Watch as John Marston catches outlaws, jumps across trains, rides horses, and does a bunch of slow motion takes in what can only be described as Grand Theft Auto meets the Wild Wild West.

We thought it would be a good idea to write a guide on how to unlock the fragments in Home’s popular puzzle game, Xi.

This guide details how to unlock the first twelve fragments.

Before we start, be aware that this guide is full of spoilers so if you want to complete Xi on your own merit, you should stop reading now…

Subscribers of the PlayStation Official Magazine in the UK received their latest edition in the post this morning, with the headline story being their review of forthcoming superhero-em-up, inFamous.

The review, which pitches inFamous as ‘shockingly good’, runs across six pages of the June 2009 edition of the magazine, and features a number of useful hints and tips that will help players when the game hits our streets before the end of May.

On April 29th 2008, Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto IV; the latest in their record-breaking crime filled franchise. Not only did GTA IV set the bar in terms of story and sandbox gameplay, it was also GTA’s first foray on the current generation of HD consoles.

Now we’re giving you a chance to voice your opinion on the next GTA title…

When a cannot-be-named-at-this-time developer contacted us wondering if we’d be interested in breaking the news of their new title, we thought about it for all of two nanoseconds and then promptly cleared our schedule.

We’ve been hinting at it over on Twitter for nearly a week but, thankfully, we can now finally reveal what all the secrecy has been about.

If you’re up to date on your comic lore, you’ll know that the Doomsday character was created back in the ’90s with one blatant task in mind, to kill Superman – a feat he accomplished after a prodigious battle across Metropolis.

Fans of the mute Superman-slayer may be wondering how he will appear in the upcoming DC Universe Online MMO. We’re happy to say that, unlike other media (we’re looking at you Smallville), Doomsday’s origin, powers and motives are pretty much identical to how he first appeared back in 1992.

Think your clan is the best at Killzone 2? Now you have the chance to prove it in the first ever, Killzone 2 Online Championships presented by SCEA and MLG Gamebattles.

This is your chance to win some amazing prizes including busts, assault rifle replicas, and the ever awesome life-size Helghast suits and yes, they are wearable. Unfortunately this competition is only open to US residents, age 13 or older. Sorry Europeans, hopefully SCEE will follow suit shortly and announce their own championships.

In just a few short weeks, we are going to have one of the biggest E3′s in quite some time. Sony are limbering up for a showdown of epic proportions, and doubtless the competition are taking a similar stance.

What do we reckon is lurking up the longest sleeves of the highest SCE bigwig?

We hinted about it. In fact, we knew about it, but we didn’t spill the beans until the guys over at Naughty Dog were prepared to do so first. That’s just how we roll here at PS3 Attitude.

Now that Evan Wells, Co-President at Naughty Dog, is blabbering uncontrollably about it, well – so will we.

PS3 Attitude has today handed over its entire operating profit to games industry charity GamesAid.

On the back of this news, PS3 Attitude has decided that now is the best time to further expand the team and help generate greater profits for GamesAid in the future…

We’re back with the second part in our two part Games Database “catching up” series. You’ve probably heard of most of the following games scheduled to hit the PS3 over the next year or so.

Then again, there are probably a few titles that will be a complete surprise (they were to us at least).

Throughout April, we’ve been running our big Spring Competition for everyone who followed us on Twitter and ‘tweeted’ a particular phrase.

Now, the time has come to announce the winner of this impressive bounty…

You asked us for more competitions, and boy are we gonna give them to you!

Here’s a reminder of the first competition in the 2009 giveaway schedule. There is still time to enter before the winner is chosen this Sunday.

With the Japanese gaming public holed up in their tiny apartments, religiously playing the Final Fantasy XIII demo over and over again, it’s no surprise that we’re experiencing a FF media blowout at the moment.