Yes, it may be the start of a new decade, (where are those flying cars and robot butlers, by the way) but I’m here to celebrate the past… or more specifically, the past of videogames. Why am I revelling in the world of yesterday? Well, it’s because I’m here to announce a brand new PlayStation 3 exclusive: 3D Dot Game Heroes – a nostalgic wonder-fuelled time-travelling trip back to the glory days of 8-bit gaming. And it’s coming to Europe this May. Rejoice!

3D Dot Games Heroes takes its inspiration from classic role-playing games released on ancient consoles that are now appearing on the Antiques Roadshow. In fact, people who played videogames throughout the 1980s will fall to their knees and weep when they see Dot’s many homages to the games that defined their childhood (I’ve seen it happen). It’s a virtual trip down memory lane complete with swords, wizards and monsters.

However, this is modern retro, so it has splendid PlayStation 3-powered graphics that give traditional sprites a new 3D lease of life, simple pick-up-and-play controls, which hark back to a time when you didn’t need a load of buttons just to open your inventory, and a fun tongue-in-cheek storyline with plenty of links to the past… ahem.

But, one of the greatest features of 3D Dot Game Heroes (and there are plenty to choose from) is the sweet character creation system so you can make your own blocky hero. Whether you fancy becoming an adventuring cat, a hard-as-nails robot, or a ‘tribute’ to a well known videogame character, you just have to build them using the straight forward and intuitive system. Or you can pick from one of the ready-made characters, who each have their own unique traits.

Well, that’s it for now, so here’s that important release info again: 3D Dot Game Heroes will be released by SouthPeak Games on PlayStation 3 in Europe this May. To keep up to date with more details, head to www.southpeakgames.eu or www.3ddotgameheroes.com/ and hopefully I’ll be back with some more Dot Heroes info soon…

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Coming to PlayStation Home this week is a range of Savage Moon themed furniture for your personal space. Featuring in the range is a table formed from the legs of an Insectocyte, which will be perfectly matched by the rug stitched from Insectocyte sinew. Light them both with the lamp, then sit back and relax in your choice of Bean Bag or Gun Turret Lazy Boy. Or maybe both! Each item is priced at €0.99.

The London Pub returns tomorrow. Visit Home Estates to get your own personal London Pub, and become a virtual pub landlord. Priced at €4.99, the London Pub offers a warm fire and comedy beer pumps – and more! – all in a setting on the Thames that overlooks the Houses of Parliament.

Gather your friends and challenge them to a few darts matches with the included multiplayer Darts game. You’ll need the practice, as you could win one of 30 genuine Eclipse Pro Dartboards courtesy of VeeMee and Unicorn! Do you have what it takes to make it to the top of the leaderboard?

Please note: if you purchased The London Pub while it was available for a short time last week, you will automatically gain access to your new personal space upon logging into Home after maintenance is complete.

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Another New Year’s resolution is to try and improve my titles… Another resolution failed already… Damn!

Never mind… I have news! News of an exclusive nature!

You know a band called Phoenix? Well you should. They are French, they are cool, and they make some awesome music. We have an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW VIDEO available on VidZone!! It has loads of behind the scenes footage of them recording their latest album “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix” with their producer Philippe Zdar (My favourite producer of all time btw…)

We also have all the videos from the album, for your viewing pleasure.

So… go buy the album, watch the videos, and marvel that you are the first people to see how they made the album.

Thank you so much for your time.

Ben

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Give a gamer a snow day and you would normally assume they’d be spending it furiously ranking up on the MAG Public Beta… but nay! Our forumers have been hard at work in an effort to populate the land with PlayStation snow things!

It all started with a challenge. Forum regular “TheMethod” rose to it fantastically and, having had to close up his workshop due to snow, he set out to create this masterpiece:

And so a trend was born! We issued the challenge to the rest of the Official PlayStation Community who rose to their feet, donned woolly hats, thick gloves, big boots and headed to the great outdoors with every intention of creating masterpieces of their own! We’ve picked out the best and dropped them into this blog post for your perusal. Enjoy!
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Hello everybody and happy New Year!

Starting this month we will be updating you on what’s new at the video store in the UK every Monday.

Please see below current new additions list and as always looking forward to your feedback, please keep it coming as we are reading and addressing all of your comments!

New To Rent

• Inglourious Basterds
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
• Terminator Salvation
• Liar Liar
• Repo Man
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• Zodiac

New To Buy

• Steel Trap
• The Way of War
• Imagine That
• Liar Liar
• Repo Man
• The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
• The Hurt Locker

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