PS3 region lock question

[Krakenheim]

Are PS3 games 100% region free, or programmers might decide to put in region locks ?

I live in Italy and I often buy online, so I'd ike to buy a Japanese PS3 and American games, would that be a problem to play online ?

[JinxyBoi]

Knowing sony and how they love DRM, I wouldn't doubt they'd do anything in their power to make sure they have money coming in the way they want it to. Can't say anything concrete though, but I don't see why they'd change how they've done it in the past.

[Josh]

I am pretty sure that you would be able to play the games, but depending on the region of the console, certain materials could be blocked such as the blood in Resistance doesn't show up on a Japanese console.

[Krakenheim]

I've found some info on some Italian forums :

- game developers are free to put in region locks, even if Sony would like to see world-wide multi-language game releases (actually, since a Blue Ray could store 50GB, that *might* be possible). There are not region-locked games for now.

- online-playing region locks are already in use on some games. Ex. a Japanese game owner can play only with other Japanese game owners; and so on for US and PAL games.

Since I'm not used to thrust my country's gaming forums... I'm here