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If you enjoy playing games or watching movies on your PS3 or other Sony device, you may be interested to hear that Sony has added a fourth option for adding funds to your PlayStation Store digital wallet. Previously the only options were credit card, prepaid gift card, or PayPal. Now you can charge digital content to your mobile phone bill.

That means using your mobile phone and SMS text messages you can purchase additional items such as games, DLC, movies, and TV shows. You can even charge monthly Music Unlimited subscriptions to your phone bill. Sony says that adding funds to your digital wallet from your phone bill will require the user to reply to an SMS text message and text messaging rates will apply.

All charges will be placed on your mobile phone bill in the next payment cycle. Apparently, some prepaid mobile phone services will also support this payment type. This sounds weird until you think about the fact that some people may not want to trust Sony with their credit card information and a lot of people don’t have PayPal accounts.

Sony rolled out an update to its PlayStation Store, or rather, its Sony Entertainment Network that allows patrons to purchase their digital goods through PayPal in addition to the standard method of using a credit card or prepaid card. We assume Sony didn’t think three payment options were good enough when it comes to all of the digital goods they have for sale every day, which is probably why the company has rolled out an additional payment method which would use your mobile phone account in order to make a payment. (more…)

PS3, PS Vita Can Now Purchase Digital Goods Using Mobile Billing original content from Ubergizmo.

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All right, so we do know that the Sony PS4 is on its way to being a gaming console blockbuster, with reports trickling in that the number of pre-orders for the Sony PS4 is a whole lot greater than the PS2 and PS3, but does this mean that the Sony PS3 has no more life left in its legs? Apparently not, as there is always the lucrative “developing markets” segment for any company worth their salt to look into, and here we are with word that a 250GB PS3 will be available as a GameStop exclusive. Now, what makes this particular 250GB PS3 so special compared to the rest?

It happens to be a Japan-only model in the past, arriving in “azurite blue”, where it will be accompanied by a 250GB hard drive, a matching DualShock 3 controller as well as an accompanying $249.99 price tag, which does make you wonder whether anyone would want to pick up the $200 12GB PS3 bundle from now on. Pre-orders for this game console that is a favorite of the Smurfs will open from tomorrow onwards, and these are set to arrive at the GameStop brick and mortar stores from October 8th onwards. Just which particular color of the PS3 is your favorite?

250GB Blue Sony PS3 Is A GameStop Exclusive This October 8th original content from Ubergizmo.

Miss our liveblog of Sony’s Gamescom press conference yesterday, or the wealth of news we’ve covered on all things PlayStation? Well, we forgive you. After all, there’s a whole lot to digest. Now, chances are they’ll be more Sony tidbits appearing as the German gaming event runs its course, but for now we’ve collected, compiled and condensed everything we’ve learned in one handy place: right after the break.

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