Sony Releases PS3 Firmware Update 3.42, Disables PSJailbreak And Other Hacks

According to UbiLeaks: “RUSE will release on September, 7th in US ; 9th in Europe territories and 10th in UK.”
R.U.S.E will release on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

The newest Dragon Age DLC, dubbed Golems of Amgarrak has you going underground to save a missing dwarven expedition, which was searching for “ancient secrets for creating monstrous constructs”.
The DLC will sell for $5.
“You have come to Orzammar at the request of Jerrik Dace. Jerrik’s brother led an expedition into the Deep Roads to find [...]

Can’t get enough of Medal of Honor? Can’t get enough of Linkin Park’s latest single “The Catalyst”? Then you may want to view the trailer below, after the break.
Grammy award-winning Linkin Park and their new and upcoming single “The Catalyst” will headline Medal of Honor’s in-game soundtrack. “The Catalyst,” which will invade media on August [...]

You did watch the Street Fighter X Tekken debut trailer?
Apparently, Japanese gaming mag Famitsu reports that the game won’t be out for another two years. That puts Street Fighter X Tekken sometime in 2012.
Andriasang has some hot new screenshots and details on the game. Check it out.

EA has finalized the box art for Dead Space 2 which you can view below [...]

Previously, we reported that Sony posted a Q1 2010 profit of $342 million.
Here are the updated data.
Global PS3 hardware sales stood at 2.4 million for the quarter, a rise of 118 percent compared to the 1.1 million sales the machine managed in the same period last year.
Worldwide PS3 hardware sales now stand at 38.1 million, [...]

Nintendo’s shown big drops in both profit and sales for the period ending June 30, with the company making a loss for the period.
Sales were down 25.6 percent for the quarter, dropped to ¥188.6 billion from ¥253.5 billion in the same period last year.
Operating income dropped 42.2 percent, down to ¥23.3 billion from ¥40.4 billion [...]

Ouch, it must hurt being Capcom.
The Japanese company reported that net sales decreased to 19,037 million yen (down 2.4% from the previous year). As for profits, operating income decreased to 1,005 million yen (down 72.6 % from the previous year), and ordinary income decreased to 216 million yen (down 94.8 % from the previous year). [...]

Analyst firm Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment, which specializes in the digital download market, has issued a financial report on Xbox Live Arcade, showing the Microsoft division earning $46M so far in 2010.
This leads FADE to suggest XBLA is on track for a record year, despite the slow start in January and February, when sales [...]

Bungie has released a fresh Halo: Reach trailer showing the epic moments from the singe player campaings.
Watch it below [...]

According to Japanese publication Nikkei (via ABS-CBN), Sony’s set to announce a first quarter net profit of 30 billion yen ($342 million) thanks in large part to “aggressive cost-cutting.”

Valve’s anti cheat software mistakenly banned legit Modern Warfare 2 players from playing online.
Well, Valve was so sorry in fact that they gave two copies of Left 4 Dead 2 to those affected, one to keep and another to give as a gift via Steam.
“Hello, recently, your Steam account was erroneously banned from Call of [...]

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has released today and is set to um set the world on fire with its awesome RTS’ing.
And if you haven’t got the collector’s edition, you’ll be missing out on: Jim Raynor’s dog tag, USB memory stick, soundtrack, comic and art book, soundtrack and guest passes for SCII and World of [...]

Check out a new behind the scenes video of Dragon Age II.
The video, courtesy of GameInformer, details how video, audio, and animation are coming along, and takes a closer look at the evolving combat gameplay.