Hi Guys, back again just to let you know that we have managed to secure another early demo for PS Plus members.

From the 25th August, Plus members will have early access to the latest demo of R.U.S.E.
This is exclusive to Plus members until the 1st Sept, when the demo will be available on the Store.
As with the last demo, you will be able to download this from the Plus section of the Store or you will get it via Automatic Downloads if you have this feature switched on.

Will let you know as soon as we have more little treats for you during the coming months.

See you soon

James

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Walking around shows like gamescom, talking to journalists and developers, you pick up on certain ‘buzz phrases’ each time, and this year, one of those was “MotorStorm Apocalypse in 3D”.

Those that had played it were encouraging others to do so with anecdotes of physically ducking out of the way as a racing truck tumbles towards them. The other big news for the boys from Evolution Studios last week was that they were showing the first new track since the game’s announcement.

I managed to prise Game Director Matt Southern from his dark room for some well earned Vitamin D; check out the interview below.

It seems there are more MotorStorm Apocalypse announcements coming in the next few months, and I’ll be on hand to bring them to you.

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So I’m the lucky person that won the Gamescom competition. I wrote a review of God Of War 3 which somehow won a trip for me and a friend to Gamescom 2010 in Cologne, a Sony Vaio laptop and a Sony Bloggie camera.

I took my friend Dave and this is my/our report on what happened on our trip.

Day 1

My word it’s early, 3:45am to be precise & I’ve been woken by a combination of an alarm on 2 phones and a wake up call on the hotel room phone. It’s all good though as I’m up this early to catch a plane to Germany so that I can attend Gamescom.
After a bumpy landing (which Dave describes as a controlled crash) we arrive, already Dave is talking non-stop about getting “free stuff”, as much as he can carry, he wants a free PSP Go. I tell him he’s not going to get one. Our first experience in Germany is listening to “Come on Eileen” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners in the taxi taking us to the hotel, it’s a bit random.

We meet James (our Sony contact for our stay) in the hotel and we arrange to meet up at the entrance to the press conference later, we also meet the competition winners from Spain & Germany.
The Sony press conference, wow. Being at such an event was fantastic and a real honour, a genuine feeling of a once in a lifetime thing. From the business side of things everything is looking good for Sony and the Playstation brand. Now on to the important stuff, the games.

LittleBigPlanet 2, MotorStorm Apocalypse & InFamous 2 were shown in video previews during the presentation. There was a first look at a Killzone 3 multiplayer, and all I can say is jet packs in multiplayer. I’ll say it again. Jet packs in multiplayer. We were taken through a level of Medal of Honor with a guy from Likin Park, (can’t remember his name) who, comically died right at the end of the mission.
We also had a visit from the guys at Insomniac Games to make an announcement, they announced… a new Ratchet & Clank game, everyone was expecting Resistance 3 but they showed a new Ratchet & Clank game that included 4 player co-op, display over and they head off stage. Maybe Resistance will be announced later in the year.
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gamescom 2010 is over but our coverage on the PlayStation Blog is still in full swing. I managed to capture several interviews that there simply wasn’t time to publish last week so we’ll be spreading them throughout this week, starting with Media Molecule’s Alex Evans, talking about the highly anticipated LittleBigPlanet 2.

Just when I thought MM had spilled all the beans on the sequel to one of the most lovable games on PlayStation 3, Alex hit me with a bunch of details I had no idea about, including an outline of the story and an incredible new music generator. I really enjoy seeing how people went about creating tunes on the original LBP and the idea of this being expanded, with the possibility of it becoming a huge collaborative music project, just blows my mind.

More videos to come later in the week, with MotorStorm Apocalypse coming same time tomorrow.

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The Medal of Honor beta is now closed and we want to thank you, PlayStation fans, for supporting us! The turnout was tremendous and we could not have asked for a better experience.

It is always great to do a true beta like this, because at the end of the day, this game is for you, the gamers. We received some amazing feedback and opted to extend the beta to make sure that we were able to hear as much of it as we could. Twitter, Facebook, and our forums have been blowing up with comments and we have been taking many notes.

We have learned a lot, and we wanted to take this opportunity to run down some of the major changes/fixes we have made to the game as a direct result of your feedback.

Improved Hit Detection

This was a very big issue and came up many times in the forums. We are glad to say that hit detection has been vastly improved. We really tightened up the mechanics and essentially, wherever the bullet hits on the body — that is where the hit registers. It is even possible to shoot and have the bullet go between someone’s legs – it is that precise!

Weapon Pickups

Out of ammo? No longer do you need to find an ammo crate. Find the nearest dead enemy/friendly and pick up their weapon. And remember, the knife knows no ammunition, so if you really want to be Tier 1 — pull out that bad boy and start slashing your way to victory.

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