Having just returned from a week away from the web, I’m a little out of the loop when it comes to gaming news. What’s been happening? This weekend I’m finally going to get around to playing Deus Ex, providing I manage to pull myself away from Civilization Revolution. Does anyone have any spoiler-free advice they want to share or do you think I should just wade in and figure it out for myself?
Here’s your recap:
- PlayStation Store Special Offers 7th September 2011 – It’s time for the second part of the PSP Power Sale,and that means… new games!!
- The SingStore Update (7 September 2011): More Take That, Kylie And The Saturdays! – The SingStar stand at Gamescom was mega busy, here are some highlights!
- Dragon’s Dogma: Dragons And Unlimited Freedom… – Check out the forming of game groups to enable the player to engage in combat with up to three followers or “Pawns”.
- The World’s Most Challenging Game Is Coming To PlayStation Store – The Impossible Game is a pure indie game, developed by a small team, quickly found its audience.
- Dead Nation is Expanding – More exciting news for Dead Nation players around the globe! Housemarque’s been hard at work creating a new downloadable expansion called “Road of Devastation”.
- Resistance 3 Survivor Videos – In case you haven’t seen these already, check out the Resistance 3 survivor videos!
- Resistance 3 – Launches Across PAL From Today! – Insomniac Games announces the release of Resistance 3 across Europe!
- ‘Heads-Up’ Game Store And PlayStation Plus Update: 7th September 2011 – Kicking off with the third title in the PLAY promotion – Bloodrayne: Betrayal launched!
- The Biggest PSP Game Comes To PSN – The UK-chart-topping Persona 3 Portable was released on PSN on the 7th of September 2011 for just £27.99 (€34.99)
- PlayStation Home: The Chimera Invade PS Home To Celebrate The Launch Of Resistance 3 – Step into the stark world of Resistance 3, as the Chimeran sweeps PS Home.
- LittleBigPlanet: Weekly Sack-Post! – Back to bring you regular updates from the world of LittleBigPlanet, including news, community updates, major announcements, or just fun insider tid-bits.
- Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Beta Open To All PSN Users Tomorrow – Announing the opening of the Assassin’s Creed Revelations Multiplayer Beta to ALL PSN USERS!!
- PlayStation Network Scheduled Maintenance – PlayStation Network was offline for scheduled maintenance from 17:00 until 19:00 on Thursday 8 September. 2011, BST.
- Hands-On With Rage – When Rage is released this October, it will be the end of a long journey for the game… and the gaming session begins right at the start of the game.
- From Dust Hits PSN September 14th -The wait to experience the award winning strategy game, From Dust, is almost over! It’s coming to the PSN on September 14th.
- VidZone Update: Get A VIP Pass To The Ultimate Festival Only On VidZone! – VidZone is extending the festival season just a little bit by holding their very own month long, rain proof festival!
- Uncharted Stories In The Sand – Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception takes place in the Arabian desert, it provided the perfect backdrop for sand art.
- Resistance 3: Get in the Game Winners Revealed – Get a glimpse at the head-scanning process, and see how they look as their characters in the final game.
- ICO & Shadow Of The Colossus Collection Hit Soon, See Final Box Art – ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection is launching on September 27th!
- GT5 Mercedes-Benz Driving Event – Over 7500 Gran Turismo gamers lined up on a virtual starting grid in a unique 3-way simultaneous race!
- The Weekend Debate – What Grinds your Gears? – Is there anything about modern games that really annoys you?
- Weekend Essentials 91 – There’s plenty to keep your PS3 ticking over this weekend, including Resistance 3 and Dead Island.
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Get your hands on one of the games of 2011 in our exclusive competition.
- Resistance 3 in PlayStation Home – Jump down the manhole in PlayStation Home and begin the fightback against the Chimera.
- God of War Collection Volume II – Channel your inner Kratos with our demo guide.
- Resistance 3 – Catch Insomniac Games’ Ryan Schneider and Jon Paquette talking about the big guns in our Game Talk feature.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 12:03 pm by DAVIE222
Hey James, can you tell us more about the new ps home?
thank you.
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:42 am by James Gallagher
I’ll ask them Home team again. Last I spoke to them I told them it was important we get some information on the blog as soon as we can so I’ll send over a reminder.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 12:18 pm by millgate1
^^^ Yes, can you please tell us about the new PS Home in the EU?
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 12:44 pm by CassyChan
Cloak and silent running augmentations at the same time make stealth easy, hack stuff like doors even when you have the code so you can get plenty of easy XP, rocket launcher takes up far more space than it’s worth, there’s no point in putting praxis points into the armour augmentations, shooting out of cover is too clunky and dangerous to be a viable option most of the time and you get far more XP for knocking out bad guys and getting through areas undetected.
Also, right at the beginning after the prologue your boss will ask you to come to the helipad to start the first proper mission, if you hang around too long before going to the helipad (about 15 mins or something like that iirc) then you miss out on a side-quest involving saving the hostages. Other than that enjoy an incredibly fun and cool game.
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:45 am by James Gallagher
Thanks for the tips. I’ve got mostly stealth ones but I haven’t tried the cloak yet so I’ll give that a go. I did get one armour upgrade and I was glad I did when I met the first boss. I did get to the hostages but lost most of them, sadly. Quite enjoying the game overall but I do find it quite difficult. If you’re spotted, a loading screen isn’t far away.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 1:54 pm by liquidharker
lol cassychan i think you wanted to post in the rage thread
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 2:02 pm by morg106
@liquidharker No, not really. James asked for Deus Ex advice.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 2:22 pm by taurus82
Please James, could you find out if the PS3 supports VVVV toolkit?
If so, the guys at abstractbirds(dot)com would like to hear from Sony.
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 10:05 am by James Gallagher
Wow, very technical question. I’ll have to have have a think about who would be the best person to ask.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 3:06 pm by Titchy_Penguin
Any news on the PS3 7.1 surroun sound headset official headset for the UK.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 4:15 pm by polynski
yeah why do the usa get adverts on their store i want adverts trying to sell me stuff and why they make the headset usb? why not use bluetooth (which is built into the ps3)
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 4:52 pm by polynski
bring pokemon silver/gold/crystal/blue/yellow/green/red
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 4:52 pm by polynski
to ps3
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 4:58 pm by polynski
bring em to ps3 *
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 5:25 pm by Lymmusic
as cass said the best advice is to hack things even if you have the codes to the doors or whatever you hack, you get xp and if you go for the data stores you get useful viruses and money
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:46 am by James Gallagher
Yes, it took me a while to get my head around the hacking as the tutorial didn’t explain much, but I’m getting to be a pro at it now.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 6:15 pm by maddogarchie64
just a couple of things I wanted to ask, on playstation home in PS plus private areas you can view what content is coming out next month, but it hasn’t been updated for nearly a year, will it be updated? Also I’d love to see some Ratchet and Clank on PSN, especially R&C 3
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 10:06 am by James Gallagher
I’ll find out who is in charge of updating that and give them a nudge.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 6:44 pm by ShadowDoGGG
Keep dreaming @polynski
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 8:04 pm by OpTicPredator97
as anybody noticed that playstation network tonight is playing up and if u try to go on the my account bit at top of page it says playstation network server is down for maintanance
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 9:21 pm by Tecnoboy1
Haha! James, trust me, you’re not alone with that damned Civ addiction! I’ve never played a game more addictive than Civ Rev.
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:49 am by James Gallagher
I go through a little craze every few months or so. At the moment I’m trying to get a financial victory and build the world bank with the Aztecs, but it’s really hard on Deity difficulty because you get attacked so often. I got really close and had some experienced archers defending my cities and then a dozen tanks emerged out of Paris and blew me away!
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 9:33 pm by mh24185669
wow iv had some problems since 3.70, my system became corrupted and i lost years of game data. now starting from scratch under new account judgehusler. my msgs have failed to send to some friends so if ya see this msg please add my new account. not happy about this but there we go rubbish happens
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:53 am by James Gallagher
Oh no, that really sucks. I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do as I don’t have access to PSN account details. However, you should try the tech support forums or call centre. This blog post has all the details you need: http://bit.ly/rudFIV
Hope you get it sorted.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 10:07 pm by ash-1_1
Hi james, i just read an article u wrote on E.coli in notingham university. Great stuff. Anyway enough flattery. Just asking (arguments inbound) if anyone know’s anything about ps2 games coming 2 the store. Not hating just wondering. Keep up the good work
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:54 am by James Gallagher
I risked contracting E.coli with all the dodgy food I ate at uni but I didn’t write anything – must be my namesake.
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 11:56 pm by chrisandsheva
i was looking at dues ex myself but due to unfinished games decided to wait, whats that augmented edition all about, as for £20 extra it dosn’t look like you get many in game extras,is it 10thou creds?..still hope you enjoy your playthrough and the good advice given is actually ‘spoiler free’ got to applauad you if you play sid miers cos that totally baffled me, allthough i’d of liked to play it,i just picked warriors of troy up though wich isn’t to far off the illiad up to now,
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Posted on 10 September, 2011 at 11:59 pm by Carl-G
For once
i would like to thank SONY for finally promoting a game properly! 
i.e ‘Resistance 3′
All week i have seen adverts on the TV for it + in the Newspapers + on some gaming sites etc etc. WELL DONE;)
I wish you did it a few years back like this because it used to be just Xbox 360 & Wii Adverts 24/7 really :-/ KEEP IT UP!;)
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Posted on 11 September, 2011 at 1:29 am by devotedPT
So…. being eligible, any ideas I can’t seem to enter the Deus Ex contest?
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Posted on 11 September, 2011 at 11:59 am by ShoaibO
Thankyou Sony for resistance 3 it’s beautiful.
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Posted on 11 September, 2011 at 12:40 pm by UIUoOoUIU
God of War: Origins Collection Is this gonna be released on the PSN store?
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Posted on 11 September, 2011 at 1:08 pm by DAVIE222
UIUoOoUIU
it is but its called collections volume 2
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Posted on 11 September, 2011 at 1:14 pm by UIUoOoUIU
One request please Flow for PS+ next month
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Posted on 11 September, 2011 at 2:35 pm by ME-YOU-play
hi ps3 all thnx for games but we need language arabic systme ps3 why
esey system on problems sony please we need arabic language for ps3
thx >…….>
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Posted on 11 September, 2011 at 8:58 pm by Cjs001
When are you going to add Tombi to the store? I’ve been waiting months for it. You said it was going to be added in February!
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:28 am by James Gallagher
I just asked Ross and he said it is still in the pipeline, but we’re not sure when it will be ready I’m afraid.
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Posted on 11 September, 2011 at 10:49 pm by Falcon1991
I thoroughly enjoyed the Resistance 3 and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations BETAs.
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 1:24 am by DAYDANNY666
DEAD ISLAND is the best game ever made it just gets bigger and better as you play new things pop up all the time and the map is massive then i find that there is a another map thats even bigger arrr its so good
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:55 am by James Gallagher
I’ll have a look, thanks for the tip.
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 1:35 am by Grungeman
You guys are lucky, we are STILL waiting for Splinter Cell Trilogy. You all have had it for a month now on PSN right?
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:00 am by mh24185669
james
hey amigo, cheers for the link! im afraid that i had to format the hdd before the system let me in. it pretty fun playing the old games again, and online is great without all the perks i had unlocked. im run’n'gunning like a man possessed!
one thing tho my new account wont let my post show up on this blog!! iv had a look for solution so any ideas how to fix?
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:03 am by CassyChan
Yeah James that first boss is a bit of a surprise if you’re playing stealthily and don’t have much firepower, I had nothing in my inventory to fight him with and ended up having to stun gun him and chuck barrels a lot, lol. Still, that made me prepare in case of more bosses, frag mines and the revolver never left my inventory from that point on
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:25 am by James Gallagher
It was a big surprise. I don’t want to be leaving people spoilers so I’ll just say the safe full of shotguns in the top right corner was a Godsend!
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:19 am by DAVIE222
mh24185669
yeah ive had that problem to! when ever i go on one of my back up accounts it wont let me comment on the blog.
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:21 am by DAVIE222
James when are you gonna announce the winners of the weekend dabate? i been waiting all morning
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:25 am by James Gallagher
Going to get to that now. There were a lot of comments this week so it took our judge a little longer to go through them.
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:37 am by Harry_CYP
hello James how are you this is the first time I write on the blog!
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 12:00 pm by James Gallagher
Very well, thanks. Welcome! How are you?
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 11:39 am by DAVIE222
thanks james….can i ask you something?
do you have a ps3 at work? because your online while at work…just wanna know
Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 12:01 pm by James Gallagher
Yes, it’s online all day because I sometimes need to check things like prices in the Store. I don’t play it much though, just a game of FIFA at lunchtime if I have time.
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 12:06 pm by DAVIE222
ok james, can you be the judge on the weekend dabate on friday? to be honest you would make the best judge as you think of the questions.
im so upset i didnt win, now i must pay £23 for god of war 1 and 2!
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 12:35 pm by GhostRiderzElite
hi james any idea when psn gonna get the EA SPORTS SEASON TICKET?.was told today by ea.com help chat that its available in uk & europe on both PS3 & xbit 360.looked on store ps3 no luck.
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 4:55 pm by S-Cript
James hopefully you can help us out with this
in august 2009 a videostore was promissed for the EU
starting with the big 5 and the rest of the EU in 2010
in the last week of 2010 here on this blog was mentioned
also a roadmap was mentioned
that 2010 was not longer possible for the remaining countries
(also the majority of the EU)
now 2011 running onto the last 3 months and no update still
can you inform us(or anybody withing the HQ) when the majority
of the EU is going to get the videostore
your help is being appreciated
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 6:08 pm by Titchy_Penguin
James, is there anyway i could publish my themes i made with maker on the store(not charging though just publish)?
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 7:35 pm by DAVIE222
Titchy_Penguin
try http://www.allps3themes.com
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:06 pm by CoolRichy007UK
when we gettin rock of ages cuz i seen a clip of it and it reminds me of monty python lol it looks good and i hope from dust is out this week.
@Grungeman yes we had the splintercell trilogy on psn and i bought all 3
james or who ever will we see a hitman trilogy HD on psn soon
hitman 2 3 4
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:07 pm by CoolRichy007UK
its god of war HD DAVIE222 grrrr
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:09 pm by CoolRichy007UK
yea James Gallagher i think you should put ps2 games on ps store as well as selling them as HD collections.
i hope the following games will come to psn or retail soon
Rayman HD
jak daxter HD
ratchet clank HD
crash bandicoot HD
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:25 pm by DAVIE222
CoolRichy007UK
Yes but in a bundle its called god of war collections (the ps2 versions) and the psp versions are called origin collections but here in EU its called collections volume 2.
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:29 pm by polynski
yes i won a weekend debate prize
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:29 pm by DAVIE222
CoolRichy007UK
to put ps2 games on ps store that would have to be an all region step, i dont think james can help with this one! oh by the way your mising the true legend: Spyro.
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:32 pm by polynski
spyro is a legend
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:36 pm by polynski
and ive played the demo it is god of war:origins collection
or seperately they are god of war:ghost of sparta hd and god of war:chains of olympus hd
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Posted on 12 September, 2011 at 9:57 pm by DAVIE222
polynski
Yes but in the playstation store the demo is called collections volume 2.
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