Mega Man Star Force 3 ships today.

You may recall our short outage last week; we were messing around with the servers here at PlayStation Central Command. By doing [whatever it is the engineers have done], we’ve enabled some new functionality. Reading the comments, a few of you have figured it out – the PlayStation.Blog is now mobile compatible.

Fans of 1980’s nostalgia may be let down a bit by the upcoming G.I. JOE The Rise of Cobra movie and how they have abandoned most of the look that we knew growing up. The video game adaption however has thrown us a retro bone today by announcing some classic unlockables that will be made available in the game. Included are concept art, character renders, and file cards of 75 different characters, weapons, and vehicles for both the G.I. JOE and COBRA forces.

The Midnight Gaming Championship (MGC), presented by McDonald’s, will be kicking off its fourth annual, national gaming tournament on Saturday, June 27 at the Hot Import Nights event in Charlotte, NC.

There are many questions surrounding Rock Band Unplugged, the portable version of the Rock Band franchise. People are wondering how well the Rock Band experience will work without the instruments. There has also been speculation about what songs would be included in the game and whether or not the catalog will grow with DLC.

PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced the launch of Peggle for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game is available now for US $4.99 from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch, or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. One of the most critically acclaimed casual video games of recent years, Peggle has been downloaded nearly 50 million times and appeals to gamers of all shapes and sizes.

Tiger Woods is healthy and back on the golfing scene, no surprise that golf television ratings are back up. EA has been taking advantage of the sudden interest by moving up the release of the upcoming multiplatform Tiger Woods PGA

EA Mobile recently announced five noteworthy titles for iPhone and iPod Touch and may have trumped that by releasing two more of their top franchises to the Apple App Store. Tiger Woods PGA TOUR and Need for Speed Undercover are now officially available for download. Oddly the press release makes no mention of the cost [...]

Apple is approaching the one billionth download from the Apple App Store and Pangea Software is helping to celebrate. Starting today and ending on Friday May 1, Pangea has lowered the price for all of their games to $.99. Two of Apple’s Top 20 All-Time Paid Apps, Cro-Mag Rally and the award winning Enigmo, are included in this promotion.

If Fritz Chess can put a world of hurt onto Gary Kasparov, what’s it going to do to you? Keep you occupied for a long, long time. Take it with you on your iPhone, and you will never be bored.