I’m afraid I don’t have any voucher codes to give away this week because I will be flying to Cologne on first thing Monday morning to cover gamescom and help set up the live stream of the SCEE press conference.

That being said, I wouldn’t want to rob you of our weekly discussion so the topic is this:

How do you feel about industry events such as E3 and gamescom and how do you think we should be covering them on PlayStation.Blog?

Speak your brains and I look forward to bringing the scent of Cologne to your browsers next week.

Tschüs!

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Re-mastering both of the God of War PSP games in full HD for the PS3 God of War: Collection Volume II definitely had its share of challenges for us. The first goal we had was simply the daunting task of up-rezing the engine and content authored on a PSP running at 480 x 272 resolution and 30 frames per second to 1920 x 1080p at a steady 60 fps on the PS3. This required a custom PS3 version of our engine, coded in-house exclusively for Collection II, as well as a painstaking process by art team. We ended up going through every single character in the game and doubling or tripling polygon count by hand, as well as up-rezing and re-painting every texture across both games at 4x resolution on both characters and environments.
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After extremely high demand I’m pleased to confirm that we will be providing a live video stream of the SCEE press conference at gamescom. I invite you to join us at the Gurzenich Köln on:

Tuesday 16 August 2011 at 19:00 CET / 18:00 BST / 03:00 Sydney (Wed)

What’s more, we’re giving you four ways to watch the event:

PlayStation.Blog Watch it here on the web and dissect the announcements in the comments.

PlayStation App. The video feed is mobile compatible so you can watch it on your IOS or Android phone via the official PlayStation App.

PlayStation Home Dress smart and watch the conference on the big screens in the PlayStation Home gamescom Space.

Facebook Watch it live with a bunch of people you used to go to school with on facebook.

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The racing party at the end of the world recently introduced a hot new track and fresh Weekly Challenges for you to play. Now, I’m excited to be able to bring you news of another larger-than-life update, which will empower you to create, share and get much more out of your action racing experience than ever before.

Before I go on to share with you an overview of the features, changes and improvements at the heart of the latest update, I should tell you that it will be made available after the current PlayStation Network maintenance is complete, on Friday morning.

Simply fire up MotorStorm Apocalypse from your XMB while connected to PSN and you’ll be prompted to update.
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Knowing how large and vocal our F1 community is on PS3, along with how meticulous F1 fans are in general, we recently put out a shout out on Twitter via @formula1game and @playstationeu to ask for the most detailed F1 2011 related questions you could throw at us. The response we had to the call for questions was enormous, and our thanks go out to everyone who took the time to submit a question, the majority of which we’ve had answered below by Steve Hood, Chief Game Designer of F1 2011.

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