Why not get some animal-print armor with your pre-order of Steel Battalion


Depending on the retailer at which you pre-order Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, your "Vertical Tanks" will bear one of a selection of inappropriately flashy paint jobs, with in-game bonuses to boot.

Capcom announced a trio of pre-order offers today for North America, each of which affords you custom armor for your VTs. Amazon gets you the "Savannah" armor, which increases bullet velocity and makes you look like you're driving a mechanical zebra, and the "Storm" armor, which looks cheetah-esque and increases shooting range.

Best Buy confers the "Impact" and "Tiger" armors, and GameStop outfits your VTs with the "Rock" and "Jaguar" coverings, all of which have their own bonuses. Get specifics, and an eyeful of tiger-striped mech, after the... (Continue Reading...)

PS3 firmware update speeds up web browsing

If you signed into PSN on your PS3 to, say, try to buy a Vita game, you'll have run into this already: surprise! There's a new mandatory system update. According to Sony, version 4.10 accounts for the change in the name of your account, from "PSN account" to "SEN account."

The update also makes improvements to the PS3 browser, including "improved display speed." We'd compare it for you, but the one time I personally tried to use the PS3 browser in the past, it froze my system and I had to pull out the power cord to reset. So if the new browser doesn't do that, it's a dramatic... (Continue Reading...)


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