Unless you have been living under a stone for the past week, you should have realised we have released a brand new VidZone patch!

As a quick recap, this includes improved search function, in-store game purchasing, a snazzy new main menu carousel and 100s of brand new TV channels including Artist TV, Genre TV, Label TV and Year TV! Is your favourite artist there? Are you missing a specific Genre? Or do you have any great playlists you remember us featuring that we can create a channel for?

You may have also noticed a new channel magically appearing earlier this week – Sub Focus TV! We’ve had one of the first plays of brand new Sub Focus video ‘Splash’ featuring Coco who is tipped for big things this year and is Sting’s talented daughter – if you’ve not checked it out yet, then we suggest you do!

Enough of that… on to this week’s update…

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VidZone Recommends

Check out our list of favourite TV Channels this week, hand-picked by the wonderful VidZone pixies inside your PlayStation 3…

Music From Films TV

Featuring hotter than the sun (be careful not to look directly at them) tracks from Iron Man 2 by AC/DC – ‘Highway to Hell’ and ‘Shoot To Thrill’

Video Games Music TV

Once you’ve had enough playing your favourite video games, why not chill out and listen to the music from them instead? Including Sahara Hotnights – Hot Night Crash from Burnout 3 and Pearl Jam – Even Flow from Guitar Hero III.

Underground Acts TV

Our favourite bands that have inexplicably never become bigger than sliced bread – including Fenech-Soler, Shy Child and Tila Tequila.

Korn & Friends TV

A band that are ALMOST bigger than sliced bread – Korn! Featuring videos from Korn, Mudvayne and Adema.

Featured Category

A chance to feature our favourite TV channel category of the week! This week we want to spread the joy of music from various different countries – we have some amazing videos from the likes of German rockers Silbermond, the beautifully French Christophe Willem and Shannon Noll from Australia!

World Music

Featuring Brit Pop TV, French Pop TV, German Rock TV and Aussie Classics TV

Featured Channels

Hot New Videos

This week we are featuring videos so hot you shouldn’t touch them without a pair of oven gloves, including new videos from Sia ‘Clap Your Hands’ and Ciara ft. Ludacris ‘Ride’.

Artist Of The Week

Faithless

They’ve been out of the limelight for a while, but their new single ‘Not Going Home’ reminds us exactly why we loved them in the first place!

Pocket TV (GB only)

Another fine week of Pocket TV madness, featuring Rox live performance, Diana Vickers and Bashy getting grilled by Mr Matt Edmondson!

OTHER STUFF

Check out our ever-changing video of the day when you start up VidZone – a combination of our favourite hot new videos, exclusive interviews and classic tracks!

We have LOTS of other exciting announcements coming over the next few days, so keep your eyes on our blog, twitter and facebook for further details! And remember, if you have any problems or requests you can contact us as always in the following ways;

Twitter – http://twitter.com/vidzone

Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/vidzoneofficial

Website – http://www.vidzone.tv

Video Requests – playstation@vidzone.tv

Customer Support – ps-problems@vidzone.tv

You may also try contacting us psychically through the power of your mind…however I can’t guarantee you will get a response as our psychic team are usually pretty busy trying to predict future smashes in the world of Music.

By the way… as many of you VidZonians may have guessed this isn’t Ben, he is still sunning himself up on holiday, so it’s Lex to the rescue! He’ll be back for our next blog update, and don’t worry he says he misses you all a lot – in fact I think it’s the only reason he’s coming back to work!

Enjoy!

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Hi everyone. Pete may be sunbathing somewhere exotic but there’s no holding up our weekly serving of great comics -– here’s what’s in store for you this week!

It’s the return of Zombies vs Robots Aventure! The war escalates at an alarming rate, the humans are not as strong as they’d like to think, and to make things worse a new breed of zombies appears… Eek. The comic comes with great audio commentary from writer Chris Ryall.

For the Star Trek fans out there we are debuting a new series this week, Star Trek: McCoy. Follow Leonard McCoy, Doctor of Space Medicine, and his dangerous assignments in strange distant worlds…

Popular series Vampire Hunter D, Atomic Robo Vol. 2 and The Lexian Chronicles continue this week. Unholy curses, perilous situations for our robotic friends, ancient writings wielding long-lost secrets… Busy week.

Also, for those in need of more Locke & Key… No new issue this week because IDW is preparing a special treat for Crown of Shadows #6. Sit tight!

Here is the full list of releases:

• 2000AD Prog #1677 2000AD 18+
• Archie Marries Veronica #3: “It’s Twins” Archie Comics 3+
• Atomic Robo Vol 2: Dogs of War #4 Red 5 Comics 9+
• Bill Willingham’s Pantheon #4 IDW 12+
• Dead, She Said #2 IDW 17+
• Donald Duck and the Alternative Lives Disney 3+
• Donald Duckling and the Future Plans Disney 3+
• Sonic The Hedgehog #1 Archie Comics 3+
• Star Trek: McCoy #1 IDW 9+
• The Lexian Chronicles #3 Markosia 12+
• The True Story of 1900 Disney 3+
• Transformers #5 IDW 9+
• Transformers: Lost in Space #2* Titan Comics 3+
• Transformers: Nefarious #2 IDW 9+
• Vampire Hunter D Volume 1: Chapter #4 IDW 17+
• Wizards of Mickey #6: Witches at War Disney 3+
• X-Mickey #12: Never Ending Disney 3+
• Zombies vs Robots: Aventure #2 IDW 17+

* UK & Ireland only

Prices in your currency can be found on www.playstationcomics.com.

See you all next week!

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Hi all, hope you’re well. Me? Fine; thanks for asking

This week we’ve got a brand new batch of Special Offers available, and we’re featuring our LittleBigPlanet Street Fighter costumes to tie in nicely with the launch of a certain game this Friday (as well as releasing some additional content for said game on the store this week too).

The full rundown of content is below.

One last point, a reminder if you will, from next week (5th of May) the store will change the weekly update day to Wednesday.

Catch you in the comments section.
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Want to know more about UFC Undisputed 2010? We’ll be interviewing the Producer of the game, Neven Dravinski, at an event in London (which you may or may not have won tickets to on this very Blog). So if you’ve any questions about the game, let us know in the comments below.

Some of the UK fighters will also be roaming around the event, such as Ross Pearson, Andre Winner, Terry Etim, Paul Kelly, Paul Taylor and Nick Osipczak. So if you’ve any particular burning questions for them, too, let us know and we’ll try to drag them aside for a chat. At the risk of being pummeled into pulp. Honestly — the things we do for you guys.

Thanks in advance for all your questions. I know you’ll do your normal stellar job of getting us some hard hitting (no pun intended) in-depth queries.

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Eagerly awaiting the release of ModNation Racers? I know I am! This week we’re launching the perfect distraction to help pass the time while you wait: the ModNation Racers ModSpot Challenge, launching this week in the PlayStation Events Space. Fancy yourself as an elite Modspotter? Race against the clock to track down select mods in this stunning ModNation space within the time limit to win a PS Home Mod for your own personal space! There’s also a very special, limited edition, Animated ModNation Racetrack Hat available from the Pit Stop Shop. Take your imagination for a spin, as mini racers speed around (and through?) your head! This hat is only available during the event so make sure you’re quick off the starting blocks…

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