Sony have confirmed to Videogamer that trophy support will be mandatory from January 2009- meaning that every game will have to support trophies, Sony’s answer to the Xbox’s achievement system. While many games have already been patched, plenty remain without trophies in this year’s lineup; it seems this won’t ever be the case again on the PS3. Following up a rumour that the system would require trophies, a Sony spokesperson told Videogamer that “Yes, from Jan 09 all games must have trophies.”

It seems a little too draconian, if you ask me. A game developer shouldn’t be forced into doing anything; I expect what we’ll see now is a slew of games with poorly thought-out trophies, and of course the inevitable trophy whores, buying crap games just to get easy trophies. We saw it with the 360, we’ll see it with the PS3. Nevertheless, it’s nice to see that trophies will be included with the good games as well as the bad ones- it’s not all bad news. What do you think? Let us know in the comments.

Looks like things are finally starting to turn around for SOCOM fans. The recently released 1.20 patch fixes a majority of bugs and other problems, but what about Trophies?

Well, like a Navy Seal unit closing in on an enemy base, the trophies are on their way. The 1.30 patch is said to be arriving soon, complete with Trophy support as well as a full list of new features and bug fixes. Check the complete list of updates after the jump. Read more…

A trusted source has let Ripten in on some information regarding the status of several high profile Sony titles on the horizon, so I thought it would be a good idea for me to take a break from my LittleBigPlanet fun-fest and fill you all in. Read more…

That’s right, Warhawk is getting trophies. Oh, you knew that? Well it’s getting much more than that. The next downloadable pack will bring jetpacks. Read more…