Hi Guys,

Gavin Russell here – European Producer of Pinball Heroes. Just a quick heads up on our latest release.

Pinball Heroes is now available on the PSN Store. You will be able to grab the complete set of tables from some of Sony’s most influential franchises, including:

• Everybody’s Golf
• High Velocity Bowling
• PAIN
• Uncharted

Each of the games will play perfectly on a PSPgo or a PSP x000. Should you wish to simply try each of the items separately, you can also buy the individual tables!

Enjoy and keep a look out for more table updates in the near future.

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Happy Thursday everybody! This week sees the first comics from our newest publisher Markosia and a ton of audio commentary goodness from IDW

This weeks highlights

First up Markosia are offering a free comic in the form of Kong: King of Skull Island. What happened after the Kong’s fall from the Empire State Building? Where did the body go? What happened to Carl Denham? What is Kong’s relevance to the mysterious Skull Island? Where did the wall come from and what is it there for? All these questions and more are answered in this prequel/sequel based on the book by Joe DeVito

Markosia also release The Dark. Set in the city of Dante, and the world of Memetech. As a wave of drugs that create living stories sweeps his city, one man fights back as “The Dark”. A vigilante who wields fiction as a weapon, he is the last hope for a city where nothing is what it seems. A stunning new sci-fi thriller that will have you begging for more!

From IDW we have the first issue of The Ghoul written and created by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), with art by the legendary Bernie Wrightson (Swamp Thing). This comic features audio commentary by Steve Niles.

Locke & Key continues to get better and better with the start of a new story arc Crown of Shadows. This comic has the best audio commentary I’ve heard so far, featuring the author Joe Hill, the artist Gabriel Rodriguez and the editor Chris Ryall. Truly insightful, don’t miss it!

Finally we start a new series – Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream and guess what? This comic also features audio commentary from the writer, inker and colourist. A must for all Transformers fans.

A massive thank you to IDW  for continuing to explore and support the audio commentary feature. If you’ve not experienced it yet, just buy one of these issues and look for the extras tab on the summary screen. Navigate to it and hit X to launch the comic with the commentary enabled.

Here’s the complete list:

• 2000AD Prog #1672 2000AD 15+
• The Amazing Spider-Man (2003) #546-550 Marvel 9+
• Army of Two #3 IDW 17+
• Cancertown: An Inconvenient Tooth #3 Insomnia 18+
• The Dark #1-#4 Markosia 12+
• Dark Mists #1-#4 Markosia 17+
• Donald Duck and the Treasure Island Disney 3+
• DoubleDuck #4 Disney 3+
• The Ghoul #1 (with audio commentary) IDW 12+
• Gyro Gearloose and the Irresistible Multi-Magnet Disney 3+
• Kong: King of Skull Island (FREE!) Markosia 12+
• Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows #1 (with audio commentary) IDW 17+
• Miss Quackfaster and the Ill-Fated Infatuation Disney 3+
• We Kill Monsters #3 Red 5 Comics 12+
• Star Trek: Nero #4 IDW 9+
• Superduck #9: Great Hopes Disney 3+
• Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream #1 (with audio commentary) IDW 9+
• The X-Men (1963) #11-#15 Marvel 3+

To see the prices in your currency please visit www.playstationcomics.com

See you next week…

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Another week, another store update, and another chance to spend some quality time with me, you lucky, lucky people

This week’s update really is an eclectic mix, and quite heavy on the offers too. Continued from last week we the latest batch of special offers which are here for one more week (look out for the new batch next Thursday). We have permanent price reductions on the first two episodes of Blue Toad Murder Files, as well as the mini title Vempire. Finally, our friends at SEGA have rolled out some reductions across a range of their catalogue, and these will be available until the 29th of April.

Onto the new content, on PSP we see the release of Pinball Heroes, which you can buy as a full collection of four tables (themed as: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Everybody’s Golf, High Velocity Bowling and PAIN), or you can buy the tables individually, so for those of you who have been waiting to test your pinball wizardry here’s your chance.

Manic Monkey Mayhem joins the minis ranks, and is bound to please with it’s unique mix of angry monkeys and banana flinging antics.

For those of you who are looking to tinker with your XMB theme, or PSN ID, then we have new dynamic themes and avatars available also. Heavy Rain and Mega Man 10 bring new themes, and the latest batch of avatars features cast and origami figures from the world of Heavy Rain.

There’s still more to see though, and for the full rundown the complete list is below.

As usual, comments, you, me, etc etc.

Have a good week all!
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Exciting happenings in PlayStation Home this week! The highlight has to be the Stereophonics gig, however we’ll also be bringing a couple of updates to the Audi Home Terminal and the brand new Assassin’s Creed Abstergo Labs space. Read on for all the details, and some extra surprises…

iELL asked me to quickly remind you all that Stereophonics will be playing a gig in the SingStar Rooms VIP in PS Home from this Thursday 25th March.

Come along for exclusive live footage and interview with the band, as well as great Stereophonics Home items available to kit out your apartment and avatars.

What’s more, keep your eyes peeled for band members Kelly and Richard in Home! They’ll be popping into the SingStar Rooms VIP on Thursday evening for a ‘Meet and Greet’ with the Home and SingStar community. Check back on Thursday for more info!

For all fans of Assassin’s Creed, this week sees the arrival in Home of the Abstergo Animus Labs. Can you discover all the hidden messages and escape the labs through the concealed entrance to the Assassin’s Hideout? Having been affected by the Bleeding Effect, you’ll have access to Eagle Vision to help you crack the codes and unlock the security systems.

These spaces are chock full of information about Assassin’s Creed, including concept artwork, databases on the locations and characters to be found in Assassin’s Creed II, Developer Diaries and more! Perhaps most exciting, however, is the Vendetta multiplayer mini game. Based on the tower defence genre, you’ll need to use a Hero in tandem with defensive structures and other buildings in a battle against other Home residents to defend your castle.

You’ll want to visit the cinema this week, where you’ll find a wealth of video content to support the upcoming release of the movie KICK-ASS. Follow the poster trail to get hold of two free costumes of the film’s lead characters: Kick Ass and Hit Girl. Don’t wait too long to get yours, as they’ll only be available for a limited time!

This week sees the launch of a huge update for the Audi Home Terminal including a fantastic new game – A1 Windows – and a first for Home, the introduction of the Audi presentations, with your very own virtual host, Ralf.

To celebrate the launch of the new Audi A1, Audi will release a new mini game in the Audi Home Terminal: the A1 Windows Game. Situated around the space are several new ‘viewer’ objects. Simply activate one of these objects to launch the aero-cam and travel through the city to play the game. Each window you visit contains a new level. Complete them all to win a new reward for your personal spaces!

The Audi presentations will talk in more detail about some of the innovative and progressive things that Audi do as a company. This first presentation starts with a rundown on the technology behind the all new electric Frankfurt-Showcar Audi e-tron. The presentations begin at 11:00, and run again at 14:00, 16:00, 18:00 and 20:00 GMT (12:00, 15:00, 17:00, 19:00 & 21:00 CET).

As promised when we launched the Audi Home Terminal, there’s more in the pipeline for the year ahead. Finally, if you want to know how the Audi space was conceived and put together, visit the gallery section of the Audi Home Terminal to watch the ‘making of’ video.

Still reading? Good, because we’re not done yet! There’s quite a range of new clothing, costumes and other items available this week as well…

Firstly, four of the highly anticipated Tekken 6 costumes arrive tomorrow. For male avatars there’s Kazuya and Lars. Both are available as full costume bundles or individual items. For our female community we’ve got Asuka and Alisa; again available as bundles or individual pieces. Kazuya is free, while the others are priced at 2.99 €/£2.39 for the full costume bundles.

If Katamari Damacy is more to your tastes, there’s a treat in store this week. Available as a bundle or individual parts is the unique Katamari Damacy Prince costume. Additionally there’s a range of t-shirts for both men and women – including a shirt and bag combo – as well as rainbow headphones.

Finally, tomorrow we say farewell to the White Knight Chronicles event. Tonight is your last chance to visit the space before it’s gone for good!

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Hi everyone,

I just wanted to quickly remind you all that Stereophonics will be playing a gig in the SingStar Rooms VIP in PlayStation Home from this Thursday 25th March.

Come along for exclusive live footage and interview with the band, as well as great Stereophonics Home items available to kit out your apartment and avatars.

What’s more – keep your eyes peeled for band members Kelly and Richard in Home! They’ll be popping into the SingStar Rooms VIP on Thursday evening for a ‘Meet and Greet’ with the Home and SingStar community. Check back on Thursday for more info!

Jem is going to be quizzing the band on Thursday as well for the blog, so if you have any questions you’d like to ask Stereophonics, let us know below and we’ll pick the best ones.

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