PlayStation.Blog.Europe Weekly Content Recap
- This Week On The SingStore – Thursday 9th July 2009 – Lots of great tracks this week from Radiohead, Blur, Ashford & Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Erasure and Lily Allen, plus a Coldplay SongPack. Nina will be joining us again on Monday with the download chart for June.
- 3-and-a-half Minutes With Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi – Jeff speaks to the head of Polyphony, Kazunori Yamauchi, about how he and the team managed to squeeze the full GT experience onto PSP and, amongst other things, the famous Top Gear GT-R vs Bullet Train race.
- MAG Developer Diary – Episode #4: Command & Control System – Here’s Zipper to explain the gameplay system they’re implementing in MAG to prevent it descending into a crazy free-for-all. Sadly this is the final part in our video developer diaries, but we’ll be sure to bring you more information on MAG as we countdown to release.
- WipEout Fury Developer Diary – Environment Design – Another great dev diary from SCEE Liverpool Studios, this time it’s all about how the team piece together the stunning futuristic environments of WipEout HD. This post also includes answers to your questions from last week’s update.
- PlayStation Store Update – 9th July 2009 – The arrival of Battlefield 1943 on the Store this week might be grabbing all of the headlines, but there’s loads more great content to keep us all busy: demos for Ghostbusters and Fuel, the “Adrenaline” expansion pack for MotorStorm: Pacific Rift and plenty more.
- An Introduction To Trine: Coming Soon To PSN – Publishers Nobilis Games give us a preview of the much-anticipated Trine, a new puzzle game coming to the PlayStation Store this summer.
- The Summer Of PSP Arrives In The UK – Lots Of Fun In The Sun, Competitions And More — The PSP tour bus will be wending it’s merry way to UK theme parks and festivals throughout July and August, and you could win a holiday in Florida on the Summer of PSP website. (Be sure to check out MobileTone’s excellent song in the comments!)
- Killzone 2 DLC #3 – “Napalm & Cordite” (and flames and bolts) – A look at all the new features and fixes coming up in version 1.28 of Killzone 2, as Guerrilla Games make their preparations for the Napalm and Cordite DLC pack.
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 1:09 pm by Draco157
I’m very dissappointed in this blog, there’s not nearly enough posts, not half as many as the American blog which is much more informative:(
Posted on 12 July, 2009 at 2:13 pm by Charlotte Large
Hey Draco,
The US blog has a head start of a couple of years on us – we’re still relatively new (just about 6 weeks old, I think) so it’ll take a little while for us to catch-up.
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 1:10 pm by Smegzilla
Great week we’ve had. Particularly yesterday. I’ve never seen a developer so successfully put so many people off buying their game.
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 1:44 pm by adz2k7
The Introduction to Trine link takes you to the US blog btw
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Posted on 12 July, 2009 at 2:18 pm by Charlotte Large
Oops – well spotted, adz2k7. All fixed now, thanks.
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 1:59 pm by ollybobs27
Your the best charlotte! Another great week!!
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 3:36 pm by MazzingerZ
Any plans to post some dev interview or info for the PSN exclusive TAPATOI?? There’s no info at all about this game to be found anywhere and for being a PS3 exclusive and released first in SCEE territory it feels strange that you don’t post anything about it…
Besides it’s supposed to be important as it’s the first game from a partnership project between SONY and wastern European devs
I just hope we don’t get to hear about this game until it’s released in the US and the SCEA Blog being the source of that info
Posted on 12 July, 2009 at 2:13 pm by Charlotte Large
Good to know that you’re interested in this title. I’ll see what we can do to get some coverage on the blog.
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 3:38 pm by MazzingerZ
With info I mean gameplay videos, reviews and DLC plans
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 3:59 pm by TheHunterAmin
Hello,
I see and #3 says it also, u linked “An Introduction To Trine: Coming Soon To PSN” to the US Blog. That story is also on this Blog
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/07/09/an-introduction-to-tri ne-coming-soon-to-psn/
Just wanna help
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 5:40 pm by rakwarrior
This week was okaaay..although I’m surprised we got no coverage of Battlefield 1943..It’s the star of this week in my opinion.
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 8:28 pm by TheSabreman
@7 The reason that the US blog is linked and not the EU is probably due to incompetent pricing and EU being charged more for Trine $19.99 = £16.99 apparently so we get overcharged for the same game.
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 11:08 pm by The_Punisher111
ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT
*www.gamespot.com/news/blogs/rumor-control/909119209/26938646/ps3-s lim-price-cut-due-this-fall-xbox-360-elite-replacing-pro-in-september. html*
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Posted on 11 July, 2009 at 11:57 pm by Smegzilla
@9
I agree, probably linked there because then people don’t see all the shenanigans that’s been going on with the price of the game over here.
Still can’t believe it, I was really looking forward to it and now I’m not going to buy it.
Good marketing campaign.
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Posted on 12 July, 2009 at 12:45 am by LoveDoctor
US Blog guys told me to ask here:
1) Video-store in EU when?.. If no date, please say what’s the holdup!
2) when will the EU blog be optimized for mobile devices? (please BORROW the code from US blog!!!)
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Posted on 12 July, 2009 at 1:04 pm by somethingatt
@12:
“1) Video-store in EU when?.. If no date, please say what’s the holdup!”
EU = Many countries with many different laws regarding online distribution and thus a work-around is very difficult.
It’s the same reason Hulu is still stuck as US only.
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Posted on 12 July, 2009 at 2:27 pm by MazzingerZ
THANK YOU FOR THE ANSWER about Tapatoi!
I love platformers so I purchased it…awesome game for that price!
Can’t believe that 3 years ago I was buying Joust and other Atari ports for the same price over XBL…thank god the PSN games came to set a new standard for downloadable games!
I highly recommend giving this game coverage so people knows more about it and purchase it, we don’t want small developers to be dissapointed and never return again to PSN
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Posted on 13 July, 2009 at 10:45 pm by WhiteWolfDK
@ MazzingerZ – Agree with you there, a decent game at that price and some lovely graphics too, have a problem with the sound though, when they talk – the volume is very low, even it’s cranked all the way up in the game, and the tv is at normal level.
Other than that – one great game.
//WhiteWolf
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Posted on 14 July, 2009 at 11:03 pm by LoveDoctor
@13
That’s what I figured… but why aren’t they saying so? If Sony EU would just post their progress and holdups due to legal issues we’d at least know their not forgetting about EU and understand our needs.
When it comes to support for mobile devices though.. there simply is no excuse
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Posted on 14 July, 2009 at 11:06 pm by LoveDoctor
@13
something just dawned on my… How come GAMES can be digitally distributed in the whole EU.. but movies can’t? It’s all intellectual copyrighted material at the end of the day?
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