Sony has announced that the upcoming PS3 3D update has been delayed a bit and will instead be released this September. Furthermore, Sony revealed that it will also support YouTube’s 3D implementation, which should be available within the next 12 months. Yep, 3D is coming hard. At least according to Sony.

After making Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike Source available on Mac, Valve has another multiplayer shooter ready for Mac fans, the WW2 classic Day of Defeat Source. To celebrate the occasion, Valve has reduced the price of the game to $10 for a limited time.

According to industry analysts, former Infinity Ward creators of Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 and their new studio Respawn Entertainment. But since they’re quite consumed with the Activision lawsuit, and since this is an “analyst opinion”, take it with a grain of salt.

In the latest quarterly earnings, Ubisoft has revealed Splinter Cell Conviction has sold 1.9 million copies so far. Furthermore, the company’s earnings were up 90 percent, to $202 million. However, a bit of bad news as well: Driver: San Francisco has been delayed until Q1 next year.

In a lot of action games, especially first person shooters, many players tend to grab the sniper rifle as their first choice of weapon, which sets up Sniper: Ghost Warrior nicely: why not base the entire game around sniping? Good idea, but as is the case with Ghost Warrior, poor execution and tons of bugs prevent it from realizing its potential.

First thing you notice in Ghost Warrior is that is looks great. For a game like this — meaning not an AAA title — the visuals, which use the same engine as Call of Juarez, render a believable and lush jungle environment almost on par with Crysis. The action in the game, or rather, the sniping and shooting mechanics are a bit more complex than the average shooter, as your bullets are affected by wind and gravity, just as you might expect it. But this doesn’t mean the game is hard to learn, in fact, it’s quite easy to grasp the basic controls.

What’s not easy, it getting through the missions. The game features a number of prominent bugs usually seen only on budget titles, like bad AI, bad stealth mechanics and limited environment. Yes, while the game looks great and appears to offer a huge jungle for you to pick a spot, the game itself is a lot more limited. Invisible walls are everywhere, and you usually can’t pick your own spot, but have to go to the predetermined spot the game tells you to (via the GPS). This makes the game a lot more linear and closed that the visuals would suggest, and for a game based on sniping, it’s level design hurts it badly.

On top of that, there are visual glitches like screen tearing, frame rate issues (even on high end PCs), bad and cliched voice over and even typos in the description text. Typos! Overall, Sniper: Ghost Warrior has a solid premise, but it’s too limited, too buggy and feels rushed in almost all aspects.

The Good:
Sniping mechanics — to some extent
Great visuals — but limited

The bad:
Too linear.
Lots of bugs.
Awful level design
Bad stealth mechanics

Overall score: 2/10

According to SlyVisions, Google has secretly invested $100 million into social game company Zynga. Zynga are the makers of the popular FarmVille and MafiaWars, among other Facebook games. Zynga has been valued at almost $4 billion, making it the most valued independent game company in the world.

According to a new report from Chart-Track, ELSPA and ISFE, each tracking sales in the UK, the videogame hardware sales in the UK have dropped by almost a third — 32 percent — in the first half of this year, while software sales are down 10 percent.

However, data does not include PC and console digital distribution sales.

Despite not offering much more than the previous game (read our review of Crackdown 2), Crackdown 2 soared to the top of the sales charts in the UK, beating out the likes of Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Cysis 2 is set for release later this year, and a new limited collector’s edition has been revealed. Called the “Nano Edition”, it features some interesting items. Like a “spine” of the nano-suit. And some action figurines. And some fancy packaging. How much do you think this costs? $100? A whopping $150? Try $200.

Usually the list of achievements are leaked by third party sites, but now it seems that Bungie themselves have partially leaked a list of Halo Reach achievements. In all, there will be 49 achievements in five groups; Campaign (23), Firefight (7), Multiplayer (4), Training (6) and Player Experience (9). Bungie has revealed the first few, which you can find below:

• A Monument to All Your Sins – Complete each Campaign Mission on Legendary – alone.
• Banshees, Fast and Low – Hijack a Banshee during the Reach Campaign.
• Yes, Sensei – Earn a First Strike Medal in a Matchmaking game.
• A New Challenger – Complete all of the Daily Challenges in a given day.
• Make It Rain – Purchase an item from the Armory that requires the rank of Lt. Colonel.
• If They Came to Hear Me Beg – Perform an Assassination against an Elite to survive a fall that would’ve been fatal.