Hi everyone. My name is Pete and I’m the designer on the Digital Comics team. I thought I’d give you the low down on what we are doing.

We’ve partnered with some of the biggest names in comics, and some very creative independents, to bring you comics straight to your PSP. You’re maybe thinking “How’s that going to work on the PSP’s beautiful, yet compact, screen?” Well we think we’ve solved that with AutoFlow! With AutoFlow all you have to do is hit one button and the camera will float over the page to the next panel, panning and zooming automatically. We also let you move around manually if you want to get up close and personal with your comic. To really appreciate how this works you need to see it in action – more on this below.

So which publishers should you expect to see on the service? Here’s an A-Z rundown of the ones we can talk about so far and some of their highlights:

• 2000AD – Featuring Judge Dredd, Durham Red…
• Disney – Follow the adventures of Mickey Mouse, Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck….
• IDW – Astro Boy, Transformers, Star Trek, Wormwood…
• Insomnia – Burke & Hare, Cages, Cancer Town… Insomnia and Geek Syndicate are also running a competition
• iVerse – Who bring us content from Ape Entertainment, Archie Comics, Dabel Brothers, Image & Red 5.
• Marvel – Astonishing X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, The Amazing Spider-Man
• Titan – Wallace & Gromit

We’ll announce some more great publishers soon.

You can be prepared for the Comic Store launch in mid December by updating your PSP with the latest firmware and downloading the free Digital Comics reader via the link on the XMB or via the website if you don’t have WiFi.

Once you’ve done that redeem these codes for some free sample comics from IDW via your PSP, instructions are here

Star Trek: Enterprise Experiment #1 (ages 9+)
Astro Boy Movie Adaptation #1 (ages 3+)

• UK: MH75 – L3BF – HA95 & FG9D – NFBB – GQ33
• Ireland: CET2 – GQBA – LGDB & 2EAJ – PTBH – TLE5
• Australia: BC8L – E9B8 – G975 & H3BL – JPB8 – 6T8Q
• New Zealand: EK6C – KHBQ – RAKT & JQR4 – 97B7 – BHFG
• South Africa: F9GA – MFB9 – 9L57 & JLQ5 – C4BT – GFCF

All codes are valid until 16th December and the usual T&Cs apply

It’s been reported that some people are having trouble with codes, if you get an 8010A12E error then we apologise and point you to this fix

I hope that whets your comic appetite! We should have more than 500 comics on the store when we launch in mid December in UK, Ireland, US, South Africa, New Zealand & Australia. After that we will be updating the store on a weekly basis. If you want to keep up to date visit our website at www.playstationcomics.com where, come mid December, you will be able to browse the entire catalogue and become a part of the PlayStation Digital Comics community. We will even have a blog that’s dedicated to all things comics, plus you can also follow us on Twitter @psncomics

Last, but not least, how much will these comics cost. Well it depends on the publisher as they get to choose how much each comic costs. But we think you’ll be pleased. We’ll also have a few more free ones for you to try.

Let me know in the comments who else you’d like to see on the service and how you’ve found the reader so far.

Cheers
Pete

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Hello, hello.

I’ve left writing this update to the very, very, very last minute this week, so for fear of getting my hands slapped by Jem, I’m going to keep this brief.

We have content on the store this week, you may love it, you may not – I will always love you all though, no matter how much you abuse me, that’s commitment right there

I’ll try and monitor comments as best I can this week, but forgive me if there is a delay in my responses.

Have a good week all!

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Hi everyone, my name is Ralph Egas and I am the producer and lead programmer at Abstraction Games. We are the developer of Chillingo’s Dracula – Undead Awakening for PSP minis, which releases in Europe, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, November 26, 2009!

Having been through the development process for PSP minis, we are convinced that Dracula – Undead Awakening feels and plays perfectly on the PSP, and of course we hope that you’ll agree! We have put our heart and soul into developing this game, with a result of an amazingly playable, enjoyable experience.

Because of the PSP’s great hardware capacity, abilities and dedicated gaming power, we are able to provide you with a one-time loading mechanism that speeds up starting the game and subsequent play sessions by a tremendous amount; it’s almost embarrassing! The always-available built-in Save feature lets you pause and stop playing whenever you need to, and you can start up and continue again at any time you wish.

Furthermore, the game runs at a stunning 60 frames-per-second at all times. This frame count makes the game look amazing. It allows for a groundbreaking level of smoothness and fluidity when you’re plowing through an insane amount of werewolves in Rush Mode, for example! As Johnny Coghlan from Chillingo recently said, we’ve really focused on allowing players to choose their favored control scheme. You can shoot in eight directions and move in any direction, or conversely you can switch the controls over so the movement is in eight directions while you can shoot at any angle! We think this works amazingly well on PSPgo.

Download the game as soon as you can – we’re sure you’ll enjoy it!

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Hi guys,

In August we launched the rather popular inFamous comic book competition, letting you complete a short story starring the game’s electric protagonist, Cole MacGrath, using your own comic book style artwork and words.

inFamous developer, Sucker Punch, chose the winners from all your heroic efforts, and now you can see those winning entries right here. Although we can’t publish all the comics we received for the competition, there was a fantastic level of entries and you all should be proud for the great effort put in.

Don’t forget that inFamous will also be joining the prestigious Platinum range on PlayStation 3 from November 13, 2009 – meaning you’ll be able to enjoy being naughty or nice without fear of repercussions from Santa during the holiday season…

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