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To celebrate the one year anniversary of the calming, beautiful and enthralling game that we know and love as Flower, for one week only you can now get this at the reduced price of £2.39/€2.99, so if you haven’t got hold of this game already, now is the perfect time.

Also available for one week only, is the Map Pack Bundle for Call of Duty: World at War at the reduced price of £15.99/€19/99. We also have last week’s special offers, and minis month offers, still available for one more week.

Focusing on the new stuff now, our old friend Frogger is back, with a brand new adventure (try reading that without thinking of Vanilla Ice), and you can also get your hands on the demo for the hugely anticipated Heavy Rain.

We have two new minis available too…minis month madness continues it seems! This is Football Management and The Terminator bring bite sized gaming to your PSP and PS3 this week.

Also for your PSP, Blood Bowl is now available, and we have three demos for you to try, ranging from SOCOM Fireteam Bravo 3, Echoshift to Undead Knights

There’s also a bunch of add-ons, videos and a few other bits and bobs for you to download, so I’m going to take a deep breath, and let you peruse the full list below.

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Valentine’s Day is fast approaching! To help you celebrate in style, this week in PlayStationHome we have some great Valentine’s content! If you and your special someone enjoy spending time in PS Home, and in particular the SingStar space, we’ve got the event for you.

This week, SingStar will be updated with a Valentine’s themed dance area along with a mini-game aptly named Stupid Cupid. Pick a partner, get in the dance mood, and hit the dance floor: there’s a great new animated shirt for both male and female to be unlocked for those with the right moves! Once you’ve got your shirts, get your heart pumping on the animated dance floor.

The Valentine’s Day celebration doesn’t end there, though! We’ve got a fantastic emoticon bundle for male and female, so you can show your inner feelings, along with some amazing new tops. For the guys there is the “I’m Single” scrolling LED hoody and animated heart t-shirt. For the ladies there’s a scrolling LED “Love Stinks” shirt and animated heart shirt.

Come and visit the Audi Home Terminal in the Audi Space, where the Audi A1 will be revealed. You’ll be granted access to the currently locked showroom, with a model of the car on display and a web terminal with detailed information about “The next big Audi.”

Assassin’s Creed sneaks its way into PS Home this week with a massive offering in Threads. We’ve got several bundles available that are sure to be a hit! First up is the fantastic Ezio costume from Assassin’s Creed 2, available for both male and female. If the original is more your style, we’ve also got male and female versions of the Altair costume. Being an Assassin not your style? Then hunt them down wearing the guard costume; once again, for both male and female. Finally, for the women only, there’s the courtesan bundle.

Furniture more to your liking? Ligne Roset updates this week with a large range of new furniture: tables, chairs, sofas and footstools, there’s 18 new items in total.

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It seems so long ago that I first wrote on here to let you know that Yakuza 3 was coming westward — specifically, to Europe. There was much celebration that, after much struggle, the title would be coming and most of you really liked the fact we’d be preserving the amazing Japanese vocal track with the addition of English subtitles.

Just to doubly confirm, there will be no English voice acting. I know some sources were quoting otherwise.

Anyway I’m back to divulge more about the PS3 exclusive – including the fact that when it hits shelves on 12th March 2010 it’ll be in a special Premium Edition!

“What’s in it AAUK?” I’m glad you asked that young Timmy (though I’m afraid you can’t buy it until you are 18, naturally enough) the pack will include the following pieces of rather nifty downloadable content:

• Battle for Survival: Take on all the bosses of Yakuza 3 as Kazuma, stand or fall – determine your own fate!
• All-Star Tournament: A 7 character tournament to determine the strongest warrior.
• All-Star Tag Tournament: Two heads are better than one! Prove it in this 8 team tournament.
• Haruka’s Request: This unique series of challenge missions will send you on a task of exploration throughout the entire Yakuza world, playing mini-games and entertaining Haruka.

It also includes a 31 track soundtrack (YES!) and a Yakuza Who’s Who; a fully animated guide as to how all the characters are connected and who turned from rivals to allies.

Want more? Pff, fine you drive a hard bargain. How about a pre-order incentive as well? Hopefully details will be revealed soon of the deals in your relevant territories for this, the “Challenge Pack”.

Now I know what you’re thinking; Y’know I’ve always wanted to dress-up Kazuma as a masked wrestler. Well the Challenge Pack features that, perhaps the funniest, of four alternative costumes for Kazuma as well as four for Haruka and Rikiya. Perhaps more intriguing though it will allow you to enjoy 2-player mini games, featuring Pool, Bowling, Darts and Golf.

That’s all from me for now, though I may with any luck be back soon on the PSB.EU blog with details on how you can get more directly involved in the world of Yakuza 3 with both SEGA and our friends at Sony.

From Okinawa to Tokyo, only the strongest survive the world of Yakuza – will you be among them?

- ArchangelUK -

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I’m Katy and I have been working on the PS3 campaign, “The Game”. For those of you who have been involved, you may know that round one is coming to an end. Team A are currently in the lead but Team B is making a brave come back and if our Facebook community have got anything to do with it, Team B are going to steal back the lead in the final days, while Team A will be left wondering where it all went wrong! (That’s their plan anyway!)

If you don’t know about The Game, go to www.PS3-TheGame.com to find out all about it. If you have a Facebook account, sign in using the Facebook Connect option – it’s the quickest way in. (I’m “kishkash” by the way – follow me, challenge me, try to beat me!)

Round one finishes on February 15th. The winning team will be able to gloat horribly and will also get an exclusive Home T-shirt and billboard to reward their efforts (see pic below). There’ll also be an exclusive PC screensaver for the winning team and a scoreboard wallpaper (PC) for everyone who took part, whichever the team.

To get involved before the end of the round, head to www.PS3-TheGame.com and to discuss strategy, team kit and winning (or losing), head to Facebook and become a fan:

Click here for Team A

Click here for Team B

All the best,

Katy

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