Could this be the mysterious announcement that Sony had prepared, or is it something else still to come? Well, the fact is that the cut in price for the PlayStation 2 is now official as announced on the PlayStation Blog.

The console will be sold on the North American markets for $99.99 from tomorrow, April, 1st, and in Europe for €99, except on the UK.

If this is the big announcement or not, we’ll have to wait and see. We do hope for something more substantial, however, and as usual, we’ll stay tuned.

Bioware has released another batch of new images for Star Wars: The Old Republic, the new MMORPG based on the Star Wars world that was announced a few months ago. It’s being produced by Mass Effect and LucasArts.

We remind you that for now, the game’s scheduled to be launched only for PC, although a launch date hasn’t been announced. We’ll have to stay tuned on more information, and in the meantime, enjoy the images!

A post on the official Killzone 2 forum has revealed that the first-person shooter from Guerilla will have its patch 1.21 available by the end of the week.

Among the many new features there’s the possibility to create unranked matches. Here’s the full list of changes:

• Increase of the standard points settings for Bodycount. Should ensure longer mode on heavily populated games
• The return of Online Bots. Adding bots to an online game renders it ‘unranked’.
• The option to create unranked games. Players will be made aware that a game is unranked upon joining.
• Fix to Game Search functionality so correct maps are displayed.
• Standardization of the Y-Axis controls on the HGH Scout when zoomed with the Sniper Rifle.
• Fix to Sensitivity setting where the weapon animation did not follow the reticule correctly.
• Fix for auto-aim exploit when rapidly tapping zoom/fire.
• Fix to infrequent collision issues with C4 Proximity mines.
• Fix to list of games displayed on search.
• Stability fix relating to disconnect.
• Fix to ‘Clan’ button functionality in custom game creation settings.

The developers are also working on points for the future patches, such as:

• Controls. Seeing about giving more options.
• Expanding on Join Game searches and options.
• Improving game and network stability.
• Collision exploits on maps.
• Improvements to help play with friends.
• More game creation options.
• More game options for clans.
• Fixes to Clans unexpectadly losing tournament rounds.

According to Videogaming247, many American sites have received some news regarding a mysterious announcement from Sony, connected to the PlayStation world that should be revealed on March 31st.

Obviously, nothing else but these rumors are known at this point. We’ll have to wait and see what Sony has reserved to their fans. And of course, we’ll stay tuned!

THQ has published a new video about their upcoming title, Red Faction: Guerrilla. In this new video, we can see the environment destruction system, as it shows the great quality of the Geo-Mod 2.0 engine adopted by the Volition team.

We remind you all that Red Faction: Guerrilla will be launched for PC, XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 on June 29th.

Enjoy the video!

In an interview to Shacknews, Emil Pagliarulo, Bethesda’s lead design and responsible for Fallout 3, has declared during the Game Developers Conference currently being held in San Francisco that the company’s still working on a number of downloadable contents.

“I can say we’re working on lots of DLC,” he said. “Lots of stuff brewing up here. Really fun stuff. Future Fallout, lots of stuff brewing up here. God only knows where that may go. What famous landmarks can we destroy next?”

The next downloadable content, in exclusive to the PC and XBox 360 will see its light in the following weeks with Broken Steel, after the launch of Operation Anchorage and The Pitt. It’ll not mean, however, that it’ll be the end of the additional contents for the “Game of the Year” according to the Developer’s Choice Award.

We’ll be tuned for more information about these next downloadable contents and we’ll post more news as soon as more information is made available!

Lionhead has heated the GDC with the first informations about the launch period and contents for the second expansion of Fable 2. The new additional content, scheduled to be launched in the next few weeks, is called “See the Future”, and according to Lionhead’s boss, Peter Molyneux, it’ll be mainly connected to the main narration story, more than Knothole Island. More importantly, it’ll work as a bridge between the second chapter and a new adventure related to the game.

The semi-official announcement of an eventual Fable 3 or a spin-off is directly connected to Lionhead’s intentions of revealing material related to that title during the next videogaming conferences, starting from the E3.

During the GDC 09 currently being held in San Francisco, God of War III’s programmers, Jim Tilander and Vassily Filippov have released some new technical details and a new game video for the third chapter on the God of War series.

The developers have reassured the journalists that the game will not go under 30fps, and as a final gift to the public, a new demonstrative game video was shown, in order to show the quality of the work being done by the developer team.

Before we leave you to the video, we remind you that God of War III should be launched on the 2009/2010 timeframe in exclusive to the PlayStation 3.

The “Modern Warfare” title seems destined to become a game of its own, detaching itself from the Call of Duty series, according to the words from an Activision spokesperson during the GDC 09.

The title Modern Warfare was first born to indicate the first chapter of the Call of Duty series that were placed in the current days and not on the World War II. The results? Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was one of the games that sold more copies in the last ten years.

Now after Call of Duty: World at War, the fifth chapter that went back in time to the 40s, fans are already waiting the arrival of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, scheduled for next November 10th. But Activision seems inclined to abandon the Call of Duty name, leaving only the Modern Warfare subtitle, and rumors say that the changes would start from the next Modern Warfare chapter.

It makes us wonder, at this point, whether Call of Duty will continue to be developed, perhaps restricted to the old wars? We’ll have to see.

After having shown the first video about the new game engine CryEngine 3, the boys from Crytek took advantage of the space given to them at the Game Developers Conference to show more about the evolution of their graphic engine, so famous between gamers due to the great Crysis and Crysis Warhead titles.

The extended video shows the differences in graphics between the XBox 360 and the PlayStation 3. It’s hard to tell which one is the “best”, so we’ll leave it up to you guys to decide which one is your favorite. One thing is sure, the engine is very promising, no matter the platform.

We’ll leave you to the video. Enjoy!