PlayStation.Blog.Europe Weekly Content Recap
Heavy Rain is now out and, at least here in London, the weather has been joining in on the fun with frequent downpours. Still — all the more reason to stay indoors and start creating your personal Heavy Rain story. Speaking with journalists who have finished the game, I haven’t found anyone whose stories ended the same yet, so I’ll be intrigued to hear how you all get on. (Though please try not to spoil the story for anyone who has yet to play it.)
We’re also ramping up to release God of War III in the next few weeks, so there’s plenty more excitement to come. Here’s a list of the week’s Blog content for easy access.
- Heavy Rain Week Begins… — Heavy Rain is now out! Do you have your copy?
- This week on the SingStore (25 February 2010) — The newest songs added to the SingStar SingStore.
- UK Video Store Update — This week’s new Video Download Service releases.
- VidZone Update: This Week – Iron Men, Mardi Gras And Hotties On The Homepage — The latest update to VidZone.
- Heavy Rain TV Ad Unveiled — Take a look at the Heavy Rain TV advert.
- Kahoots Theme Giveaway — Your chance to get hold of a limited edition Kahoots PSP theme.
- Coming To PSN This Week: Echoshift — Echoshift, the mind bending PSP title from the creators of echochrome, released this week.
- PlayStation Home: White Knight Chronicles Photo Challenge! — This week’s update to Home.
- Halfbrick Introduces Age Of Zombies — What could be better than killing zombies throughout history?
- ‘Heads-Up’ PlayStation Store Update (25th February 2010) — Another bunch of content being released on the PlayStation Store.
- Comics Store Update — A whole load of new comics are available to grab from the Digital Comics service.
- God Of War III – DEMO Now Downloadable From PlayStation Store! — God of War III is mere weeks away and you can try the demo right now.
- Heavy Rain Special Edition – Additional Downloadable Content — An important note to those who picked up the Special Edition of Heavy Rain.
- Stereophonics Competition — Stereophonics and SingStar team up for this competition.
- Patch Alert: MAG v1.03 — MAG has been patched. Full details are here.
- Castle Crashers for PSN: Progress Report — The Behemoth stopped by to give us an update on Castle Crashers.
- Blast Off Soundtrack Giveaway — Like the Blast Off soundtrack? We’re giving it away free!
- minis Month: Get Riding With Red Bull X-Fighters In 2010 — Red Bull X-Fighters is available now for a low price on the PSN Store.
- GT Academy 2010 LIVE at Silverstone — The GT Academy live event has kicked off and will be running this weekend in Silverstone.
- Echoes Soundtrack Giveaway — One free soundtrack isn’t enough for you? Fine, here’s another!
- FIWC Champion 2009 at FIFA World Player Gala — The Fifa Interactive World Cup champion reports from the World Player Gala.
10 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 12:08 pm by captainchunk
Apologies I know this is in the wrong place but is there any chance of Sony producing more copies of the GOW3 Ultimate Edition for the people who missed out? There seems to be a high demand for this edition.
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Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 4:13 pm by somethingatt
You asked last week what I thought of Heavy Rain after I played it and well(no spoilers):
This game was the most gripping and exciting thing I have ever experienced.
I sat through it non-stop, 9 hours of gameplay and literally EVERY scene had me on the edge of my seat or at the very least kept me entertained
Books or movies can’t even get close to this in my opinion, if gaming expanded more towards this angle, everyone will be craving the next videogame blockbuster and not movies.
The fact that you know anything can truly happen as the game doesn’t protect the main characters makes every dangerous situation tense and exciting.
MANY small touches all over the game shows so much care went into it and it’s through that caring they give us something very special.
The story was so much more complex, so much more unpredictable and so much more intelligent than I expected as well.
I can’t sum up or express my gratitude towards this experience and how excellent it was, it was simply something out of this world.
10/10.
And:
Please bring back the PS3 splash screen when opening games, thank you
Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 8:48 pm by Jem Alexander
Awesome –I’m happy you enjoyed it so much! I’ll pass this on to the guys at Quantic Dream.
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Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 4:29 pm by almighty-slayer
I got it and finished it in a marathon 10 hour siting on thursday
And i must say it is one of (if not the) most grippin, suspenseful, emotional games i have ever played. Without spoiling anything…The trials…Especially one in particular…Had me screaming in pain!
Awesome game. Halfway through my second playthrough
Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 8:45 pm by Jem Alexander
I found it very hard to put down, too. Found myself talking to myself and making very odd noises at the TV quite often whilst playing.
Glad you’re having fun with it.
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Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 4:44 pm by Bonyman
Howya Jem, have a great weekend. I’m workin at the mo
but heading home soon to continue Heavy Rain …. so far, so gobsmackingly great!
Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 8:40 pm by Jem Alexander
Glad you’re enjoying it! The anticipation will make getting home that much better.
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Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 7:03 pm by ghamdikh1
@Jem Alexander
Can you kindly try to bring the flowing developers (or publishers) to talk about there games in the blog.
1-Gaijin Entertainment Corporation- Death Track: Resurrection
2-Team17 Software Ltd- Worms 2: Armageddon
3-Wanako Games- 3D Ultra™ Minigolf
4-Q Games- Pixel Junk Racers 2nd Lap
5-Sony Online Entertainment- Groovin’ Blocks
6-SEGA- After Burner Climax™
7-Creat Studios, Inc- Hamster Ball
8-Game Republic, Inc- Catan
9-inXile Entertainment- Super Stacker
Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 8:39 pm by Jem Alexander
Thanks for that. Always interesting to hear what people would like to see more of on the Blog. I’ll look into these.
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Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 7:06 pm by ghamdikh1
@Jem Alexander
any news on Final Fantasy XIII Playstation Home Space and Costumes is COMING TO EU.
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Posted on 27 February, 2010 at 11:01 pm by Dutch_Rootsman
I have a PSPgo but I can’t buy any of the games I bought a PSP for! Where is Dissidia: Final Fantasy? Where is Final Fantasy I, II and Tactics? Where is Crisis Core: FFVII? Where is Half Minute Hero?
I did not buy a PSP to play PSone games! I bought a PSP to play PSone AND PSP games! When are we going to see more PSP games on the store? When am I not going to regret buying this console?
This is not good enough! SERIOUSLY! Is there anyone I can contact directly and lobby for the cause? God knows leaving comments on the blog has achieved stuff all.
I WANT MORE PSP GAMES ON THE STORE! I WANT TO SPEND MONEY BUT YOU WON’T LET ME SCEE!!!!
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Posted on 28 February, 2010 at 12:28 am by Lucreto
@Jem
I know it is not your area but is there any sign of Grandia coming to the EU store any time soon?
Any info would be great.
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Posted on 28 February, 2010 at 10:28 am by Rammsoldat
So id been looking forward to heavy rain seeing as i was a fan of farenheight before it and I gotta say my high expectations were surpassed, well done quatinc dream on another great title and well done sony for having the balls to release such a polerising title, its things like this that make me prefer the PS3 over the other consoles as there are more uncommon games on the machine like folklore, demons souls and valkyria chronicles.
Heavy rain seems to be selling pretty well, the gaming forum i frequent has a few people who are quite positive about the game and one of the staff remarked about how they had to stop taking orders breifley as the game was selling better than they could handle.
I hope there will be some support in purchasable DLC in the future like extra alternative scenarios or even different (if shorter) stories to go through.
Oh and btw whoever had the idea to include and origami lesson and supply the paper for while the game installs deserves a bonus.
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Posted on 1 March, 2010 at 1:36 pm by ThorinarPL
Only one thing comes to my mind to describe Heavy Rain – masterpiece! I found myself screaming to my TV ‘I’m not going to die here! Not like this!’ on certain chapter of HR. And my parents were like [Deleted] when they heard me :p
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