With the downpour of complaints regarding freezes and whatnots upon updating to PS3 Firmware 3.00, SCEA has now sent out an official statement, through Senior Director of Corporate Communications & Social Media, Patrick Seybold. Their response to the matter can be found after the jump.

As expected, the Big 3 responds to the fresh NPD results for April, where Nintendo's DS handheld took in a whopping one million hardware sales, exceeding all other platforms' sales combined. See what they have to say on the numbers at the full article.

The Xbox 360 version of Resident Evil 5 was still at the top of the heap last month in software sales. The game sold 938,000 units, almost 20% higher than the expected sales numbers. With the hardware and software sales now announced, Sony and Nintendo have also sent out their own statements about the March 2009 sales report. Both companies echoed the optimism Microsoft exhibited in their own statement.

Surely you've heard of OnLive. The harbinger of console-death. The future of video gaming. The messiah and all that blah. Well Sony doesn't think it's all that. Nuh-uh. Snap snap.

Read Sony's reaction to OnLive after the link.

We've got a PlayStation Store update, but that won't mean anything if we can't access the darn store right? Director of corporate communications & social media, Patrick Seybold, just posted an update regarding the status of PlayStation's online service.

Back to business, Sony's maintenance of the PlayStation Network has been completed. Now you can go online again and access all your PlayStation goodies, hassle-free. More in the full article.

Shortly after the release of Sony PS3's firmware update 2.40, reports of consoles conking out have circulated the internet and Sony finally had to temporarily pull out the update. What exactly happened? Sony just released an official statement concerning this issue, and while it doesn't give out the exact details, it's still good to know that Sony's working hard to iron the kinks out. More details in the full article.

Some of you may have already heard of the rumor about Sony releasing PlayStation 2 games as downloadable titles on the highly popular PlayStation Store. However, Sony representatives were quick to squash this particular rumor as Patrick Seybold recently released a statement explaining their stand on the matter. Find out more in our full article.

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) updated the PlayStation Blog a couple of days ago and informed everyone about the different video game demos that will be coming their way. Quite surprisingly, the demo for the PlayStation 3 version of Electronic Arts' SKATE was nowhere to be found.

Take note that the demo for the Xbox 360 build of the game didn't make its expected release date as well. According to SCEA Senior Manager for Public Relations Patrick Seybold, it wasn't their fault because EA submitted the demo late. Seybold explained:

I have to confirm this, but contrary to popular reports, I believe that the SKATE demo was just officially submitted to us for test last week. Its obvious that many of you want it, and we’ll do our best to get it up there as soon as we can. Hold tight.

The senior manager wasn't able to give a concrete release date for the demo but it should be up on the PlayStation Store even before we all know it. After all, the retail copies of SKATE PS3 should be available in a few days.

As some of the PlayStation 3 owners have noticed (and stated via comments), the move to firmware 1.92 is causing  connections problems. Based on what we've been picking up, issues include being unable to connect to the PS3's PlayStation Network, or the Warhawk servers. Incognito Games is reportedly also fixing the server bug on their side.

The good news is that it appears that Sony via PR  has also picked up wind of these issues, and is already moving to make a fix. That's the info Sony's Senior PR manager Patrick Seybold is announcing for the moment, although he states that more information should be available in the near future. Drop back again if we receive any more word on this matter.