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Come and watch as CCP Games unveils its upcoming sci-fi shooter DUST 514, exclusive to PlayStation 3. The DUST 514 keynote of the annual EVE Fanfest will be streamed live into the “Backstage Pass” PlayStation Home event space, commencing at 5pm GMT (9am PDT) on Thursday, March 22nd. Following the keynote, there will be a LIVE Q&A session with PlayStation Home users, fielding questions from the PlayStation Home forums and via Twitter using #DUST514. All PlayStation Home users who enter the Backstage Pass event space will be rewarded with an exclusive DUST 514 Home T-shirt! All users will be able to access the backstage pass via the DUST 514 relocator in Home Square, the PlayStation 3 XMB “What’s New” tile or through the New and Recommended section on the PS Home Navigator. (more…)

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I Am Alive, the long-anticipated believable post-apocalyptic action-adventure game from Ubisoft, will be available to download on Sony Entertainment Network on April 4th, 2012.

And as icing on the cake, early PlayStation Plus buyers – within the first two weeks – will benefit from an exclusive 20% discount on the game.

I Am Alive follows an everyman’s journey to find his wife and daughter, who were lost during the “Event.” A year later, he finds Haventon, his hometown, in shambles. Buildings are destroyed, toxic ash fills the streets and society has been torn apart, causing inhabitants to take all necessary actions to survive.

For more information on I Am Alive, please visit: iamalivegame.com.

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Those of you following the blog for a while will remember that we unveiled Resistance: Burning Skies back at gamescom 2011. Since then, I’m sure a lot of you have been wondering about our new protagonist Tom Riley, who he is and where his story fits into the grand scheme of the Resistance universe. Well, today we’re presenting you with a brand new story trailer which will give a little peek into Riley’s world and why he’s taking up arms (and axe) against the Chimera invasion!

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PlayStation has been teaming up with FIFA and EA Sports for several years to bring the world’s greatest virtual football competition, the FIFA Interactive World Cup, to our consoles. This year, the competition has reached an important milestone and our friends of FIFA have sent over this news story.

FIFA and Presenting Partners EA Sports and PlayStation are delighted to announce that this year’s edition of the FIFA Interactive World Cup (FIWC) has reached a significant milestone, with one million players now registered for the tournament.

The world’s largest virtual football tournament has been part of FIFA’s event portfolio since 2004, initially beginning as live consumer events. The introduction of PS3 and its online playing mode for FIWC 09, through PlayStation Network had a huge impact on the reach of the event, resulting in exponential growth in participant figures, highlighted by the growth from 28,000 players in 2008 to one million in 2012.

Having been awarded a place in the prestigious Guinness World Records as the largest online gaming tournament in the world for FIWC 10 (775,000 players) and FIWC 11 (869,543 players), the event has broken all of its own records once more, reaching the one million mark with more than two months remaining before the qualifying for the Grand Final of the event closes.

Contestants can still participate in this year’s FIWC through an online tournament played on the PlayStation Network, by registering ‘in-game’ in FIFA ’12 on their PS3. For more information on the FIWC, go to: www.fifa.com/fiwc.

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When a man’s battles have been won and his enemies destroyed what then? Where does he find purpose and meaning? To find answers to these questions, Ezio Auditore will travel east in search of the lost library of the Assassins.

In Assassin’s Creed Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of the legendary mentor Altair, on a journey of discovery and revelations. It is a perilous path – one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the region.

Assassin’s Creed Revelations is coming this Friday, March 23rd on PSN with a 35% launch discount off the RRP of €69.99/€49.99 for the weekend (that works out at €44.99/£36.99 with the discount). Even better, if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber, it comes with a cool 50% discount!

Don’t miss the last episode of Ezio Auditore’s trilogy on PSN!

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