Here is some more info on Qore
IGN gives a pretty good preview of what to expect from each episode:
"June 3, 2008 - Sony has quite the interesting online strategy. While it works to bring the PlayStation Network experience and some of its basics up to the level that you'll find with Xbox Live, it's also trying to provide new things unseen on a console online system. Home is the obvious first one; the second, and first to market, is Qore.
Qore is essentially an online "magazine" of sorts, a collection of multimedia snippets all packaged into a monthly issue. Bundling things like videos, interviews, gameplay snippets, behind-the-scenes clips, themes, wallpapers, demos and even exclusive betas into a single serving, Qore aims to be your home away from IGN.
Qore will be a monthly release, hitting the first Thursday of every month along with the rest of the PlayStation Store updates. It'll be available as a part of the PlayStation Store and will be downloadable just like any other piece of content. Then, after installing, it'll be available on the Cross Media Bar, much like a game would.
After opening an issue, you'll be presented with a sponsored introduction of some sort. These are meant to be something that users would actually want to see, and not just an ad they'd have to watch through. So for instance, the first issue will open with a six-minute extended trailer for the new Hulk movie. If you're not into whatever the content is, you can go ahead and skip it.
Once on the main menu, you'll then see a series of games listed, which each containing a subset of content. With the first issue, you'll find stuff relating to SOCOM: Confrontation, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Soulcalibur IV and Afro Samurai (as one block), Secret Agent Clank and a few others. Clicking on any of these will then open up their listing of content. For the Force Unleashed, you'll find a video interview with Haden Blackman that contains a good deal of new footage, some concept art, a comedy bit from some YouTube "celebrity" (that we've never heard of) related to the game, and more. You'll even be able to read the graphic novel before it hits stores, which is pretty cool.
The amount of content related to each game looks pretty good from the short demo that we were given, and Sony promises that roughly 90% of each episode should be unique and exclusive. Speaking of exclusives, Qore will also sometimes bring content to the table that you won't be able to get elsewhere, at least easily. For example, the first episode will give you access to the SOCOM: Confrontation beta when it goes live. That's sure to sell a few episodes.
And there's that word: sell. No, Qore is not free as it'll run you $2.99 per episode, or $24.99 for a 13 episode subscription. The subscription will also net you a free copy of Calling All Cars though, which does sweeten the deal a bit."
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/878/878525p1.html
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