PlayStation.Blog.Europe Weekly Content Recap

• Win A PlayStation 3 Signed By British UFC Fighters!
• Chris And Terry Go To South Africa
• Wowsers! It’s LittleBigPlanet 2
• FirstPlay Episode 6
• Lost Planet 2 Release!
• A PlayStation Move Photo Shoot
• Split/Second Interview
• Coconut Dodge’s Journey From Flash To PSP
• ‘Heads-Up’ PlayStation Store Update (12th May 2010)
• Digital Comics Store Update 12th May 2010
• PlayStation Home: LittleBigPlanet Invades! Plus More LucasArts Star Wars, LocoRoco, Bioshock and Dead Space!
• Obscure: The Aftermath
• VIDZONE UPDATE: Ben’s Back Baby!!
• GT5 Nurburgring 2010
• The Helghast Are Coming…To Everybody’s Tennis PSP!
• Private: The Mods escape to Sydney Australia
• LBP ‘Turbo! Pack’ Development Diary 9 and 10: ‘Tanks A Lot’
• United Front Games Answers Your ModNation Racers Questions!
• 3D Dot Game Heroes Competition
• Toy Story 3 PS3: Hands-on With Zurg, PlayStation Move Update
• ModNation Racers Interview
• PS3 Exclusive For Lost Planet 2
• PSP Essentials

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Hi All PSP Fans -

I want to let you know about a very exciting new range for all PSP users. We are re-releasing a range of must-have games for less called PSP Essentials. The first games in this new range release on 2nd of June across PAL territories*. These are all priced at €9.99 each and there will be more games to follow.

Available from your favourite games, electronics stores and supermarkets, PSP Essentials can also be downloaded direct to your PSP from PlayStation Store starting on 2nd of June.

For now, here is the list of launch titles to look out for:

• Daxter (platform)
• Everybody’s Golf (sport)
• LocoRoco (platform)
• Medievil Resurrection (action/adventure)
• Pursuit Force (action)
• Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (platform)
• Secret Agent Clank (platform)
• WipEout Pulse (racing)
• Patapon 2 (puzzle)
• Buzz! Master Quiz (quiz)
• EA SPORTS FIFA 09 (sport)
• Fight Night Round 3 (sport)
• Sims 2 (simulation)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (adventure/platform)
• Burnout Legends (racing)
• Ben 10 Alien Force (action)
• NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2 (action)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (action)
• F1 2009 (racing)
• Spongebob Yellow Avenger (platform)

*PSP Essentials will be available in Australia and New Zealand later this year.

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Hi Everyone,

It’s Rich from Capcom here with some exciting news about another PS3 exclusive for Lost Planet 2. Hot on the heels of the Monster Hunter skin announcement earlier in the week we now have more very special guests making their presence felt on the PS3 version of Lost Planet 2…

E.D.N.III is a harsh place, a planet where you must fight against vicious akrid and the hostile elements. It takes a particularly double hard bastard to take on these odds and they don’t come much tougher than the Helghast Assault and Helghast Scout troops.

The most feared units from Killzone now get to take on Lost Planet 2’s pirate factions and the deadly giant Akrid. These skins will be available to download for free on PSN from the end of June.

I also wanted to say thanks to all of you who posted comments on my last post. In answer to the question from LAClennell, yes, Frank West is also available in the PS3 version of the game!

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In-between creating mods of football legends for a competition at playstation2010fifaworldcup.com and writing about the game for eu.playstation.com, I’ve played a lot of ModNation Racers over the last couple of months.

Much of our coverage has focused on how easy it is to create your own mods, karts and tracks. Believe me, it’s no exaggeration to say that you can be racing on your own unique course using your own character and vehicle in less than ten minutes.

So when William Ho, Game Designer from United Front Games, came into the SCEE office for an interview, I wanted to talk about the more advanced creation tools, as well as Career Mode and online racing via PlayStation Network, in greater depth. Click below to watch the full interview.

Letting your imagination spill onto the screen is a doddle in ModNation Racers and, beneath the surface, there’s an astounding array of creative options for you to get your teeth into.

I honestly can’t wait to see what you do with them.

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If you stopped by the PlayStation.Blog recently, you got an exclusive preview of Toy Story 3: The Video Game, releasing on June 15th for PS3 and PSP. More specifically, you got to see Zurg, the playable villain found only in the PS3 version.

Jem Alexander and I recently stopped by the charming Pixar offices and got a few minutes to play around with the PS3 version of Toy Story 3: The Video Game. More importantly, we got a chance to play as Zurg in the game’s open-world, highly customizable Toy Box mode.

But let’s back up a bit. Distinct from the Story Mode, Toy Story 3‘s Toy Box mode is a standalone sandbox that enables you to build a town and populate it with whatever landmarks, characters, and missions you’d like. When playing as Buzz, Woody, or Jessie, there’s plenty to do: mine for gold, take on side quests, race in various vehicles, beat down baddies, and compete in challenges. The reward is more gold and, by extension, more unlockable toys and buildings for your custom town. Get a peek at Toy Box mode in the video below.

Enter Zurg. Formally introduced in Toy Story 2 as a villain and arch-nemesis to Buzz Lightyear, Zurg is a Vader-esque bad toy who possesses enormous offensive power compared to the milder, meeker Woody and team. Once you buy a special toy in the Toy Box mode, you can use it to transform your character into Zurg and begin a reign of destruction. Zurg is tough, and packs a rapid-fire blaster with plenty of ammo, a far cry from Woody’s single-shot ball throw projectile attack. You can also cruise around in the Zurg-mobile, outfitted with its own cannons, to terrorize the town, compete in races, or just bust sick jumps and flip tricks. On-foot, Zurg’s power comes at a tradeoff: he can’t pop double-jumps or grab onto ledges like Woody and the gang, meaning he’ll miss out on some secrets tucked in the game’s many nooks and crannies.

But he is really, really powerful. Given his destructive tendencies, many of the Zerg-only missions involve acts of cruelty: blasting townspeople, smashing objects and structures, and generally wreaking havoc. Zurg will also tie into the game’s PlayStation Move support, which will be available as a downloadable mini-games later in this fall after the game’s release in June. In one mini-game, Zurg will be able to shoot at targets from a first-person perspective using PlayStation Move to aim and fire. Details are still early, but the team at Avalanche Software sounded excited to be working on an early PlayStation Move-compatible game.

Thus wraps our hands-on experiences with Toy Story 3: The Video Game and Zurg, but stay tuned on the PlayStation.Blog — we’ll have some in-depth interviews from the team at Pixar (including the film’s director!) and Avalanche Software, discussing what it was like to collaborate on the game’s two-year-plus development cycle. It’ll be a good read! In the meantime, watch the video below for a sneak peek at Zurg’s gameplay, in case you missed it the first time.

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