If you’ve switched on your PS3 in the past 24 hours you will have most probably been greeted with a new firmware update. What makes this update so special is the inclusion of the ability to be able to voice/text chat with your friends during games. Check out the short tutorial video above to find out how to make the most the content within this update.

The first update of April brings you some nice new content and is 14 years to the day that Conn-Lawrence Taylor defeated Bam Bam Bigelow in Wrestlemania XI (XI mention is just a coincidence folks…). Here’s your weekly PSN update for April 2nd, open wide…

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You like TV, right? Of course you do, everyone loves TV. Watch this video from Sony to get the lowdown on the latest PlayTV software update. It’s like TV about TV…

Programmer Vassily Filippov answers questions from the fans and discusses some interesting technical stuff!

Part 3 quizzes Todd Papy on pacing and the role of a design director. Part 4 coming later today…

Free Realms is an upcoming free-to-play MMO developed by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), who have a ton of experience in the genre. The game looks like it’s going to have a lot of depth/immersion and should appeal to a broad audience. Here are some brand new screenshots for this excitingly ambitious PS3 release.

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We have another inFamous video here, this time to show you how a mission can play out. Here we see Cole use his sinister red positronic power to thwart an attack. Important things to note are the general darkness in tone (bad karma?!) and the awesome way in which he skates across telephone lines.

Sony Computer Entertainment has launched the official UK LittleBigPlanet YouTube page, which aims to celebrate the enormous (over 500,000!) amount of user created levels that have been published since LBP’s launch.

As well as featuring exclusive content and all the latest news, the LittleBigPlanet YouTube page will host a favourites section, featured users, cultural collaborations, challenges, event promotions, footage and even tutorials from the folks at Media Molecule.

Click through for the full release…

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Get one foot on the monitor and practice your overbite, because Guitar Hero Metallica will be playable at Europe’s Sonisphere festivals this year. Sonisphere will be taking place in Holland, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Finland, before finishing off with a two day festival in the UK. The UK action will take place at Knebworth on August 1st and 2nd.

So, if you fancy going to watch the live music of the mighty Metallica alongside Alice in Chains, The Sword, Anthrax, and… uh… Linkin Park, then you can also look forward to showing off at your GH:Metallica skills to your jealous friends!

Things are going well for LittleBigPlanet; the landmark title now has over half a million levels, almost two million users and almost 125 million plays since launch…

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