Posted on 31 March by James Gallagher – Blog Manager, SCEE

PlayStation.Blog Recap

Countries: AE, AU, GB, IE, NZ

At this time of year I like to enjoy the outdoors and, with relatively few new game releases, catch up on titles I have missed or haven’t gotten around to. This weekend I’m thinking of taking a look at From Dust or Vanquish. Any other ideas?

I’m on a business trip next week but will still be around to keep the blog up to date and answer as many queries as I can on our @PlayStation EU Twitter feed. Also, take a look at the Dying2win competition that’s happening on facebook, where you can win PS Vita consoles and games just for doing a bit of watching and clicking. Worth a punt.

Here’s your recap:

AU FIFA IWC Heat Winners Announced – Australian Live Event of the FIFA Interactive World Cup for 2012 kicked off, with pre-qualifying heats staged at EB Games stores across Australia.
ModNation Racers Road Trip: Out And About! – Give it a play or two and you’ll be sold. The game speaks for itself!
PlayStation Store Spring Sale – Spring Savings Sale started on 28th March and lasts until the 11th April.
BioShock Infinite: Meet The Siren – It’s now time to reveal the fourth and final installment of our Heavy Hitter series
Dedicated Server Rentals Coming To PlayStation 3 – Want to enable friendly fire? Done. Want to only allow spawning on your squad leader? Make it happen.
Five Things We Learned At EVE Online Fan Fest – At the DUST 514 keynote last week we saw perhaps the most tangible interaction so far…
PlayStation Home: Boats And Beats – Wardrobe that will keep you “cool,” highly sought-after Beats by Dr. Dre Studio Headphones, and the perfect accessory for the Ninja that has everything.
Sack It To Me: The Sackies, BAFTAs, Journey Costume And More – The votes are now in, we’ve counted them up and we’re now ready to announce the winners!
BurgerTime World Tour And Arc The Lad II Debut Today – We hope there are many fans of both! Read on and you’ll see what each game has to offer.
PlayMemories Studio Launches Today On PS Store And At No Cost To PS Plus Members – Throwing even more value at you in the shape of PlayMemories Studio!
‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 28th March 2012 – Here’s some new additions to hold the interest of a few of you.
Doc Clock Coming To PlayStation Store – This is your opportunity to join Doc Clock and his super sarcastic robot companion, SACK, on their first time-travelling adventure.
‘Heads-Up’ PlayStation Plus Update – 4th April 2012 – An update hopefully you felt was worth waiting for and that kept with the quality you expect this year!
Journey Breaks PSN Sales Records – The personal connection between the work and the players, is the most real and priceless reward.
Wheels Of Destruction Weapon Guide – Players who know class-based shooters like Unreal Tournament and Team Fortress 2 will instantly feel at home.
Access Episode 27 – With chilling survival horror Silent Hill: Downpour as Game of the Week!
Get Wrecked This Weekend! – Nearly three years after deciding to develop Wrecked it’s finally on release and available to play.
Assassin’s Creed III Q&A: Revolution (And Evolution) – Focus is shifted to the desperate, bloody days of the American Revolution in a story that spans 30 years.
The Weekend Debate – Future Multiplayer – What is the future of multiplayer?

Weekend Essentials 119 – Experience a Silent Hill scare, battle Naruto ninjas and then relax with a round of golf on PlayStation this weekend.
10 great things about WRECKED – Revenge Revisited – Take WRECKED – Revenge Revisited on PlayStation 3 for an unforgettable spin with developer Supersonic Software’s top 10 highlights.
10 of the Best: PS3 games chosen by the PlayStation Community – The votes are in – find out which PS3 games the PlayStation Community has enjoyed the most over the past five years.
Game On – Enjoy some of the recent PlayStation surprises this week with LittleBigPlanet Karting and the new Resistance: Burning Skies trailer.
Shuhei Yoshida answers your PS Vita questions – Your queries on what the future holds for PlayStation Vita are answered by the president of SCE Worldwide Studios.

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21 Comments Add Yours

Posted on 31 March, 2012 at 2:01 pm by DAVIE222

Heyo James how are you?

i would like you to check out this website because you can watch youtube on your PS3 in HD AND you can download any video to your XMB.

http://www.ps3youtube.com

Posted on 31 March, 2012 at 2:04 pm by DAVIE222

James i recommend you play battlefield 3 as i have not seen you play it atall yet.

Also any chance i can have a 1 vs 1 match with you on Uncharted 3 Multiplayer?

oh and play Skyrim more

Posted on 31 March, 2012 at 2:20 pm by Izorpo

I thought the first one was so bad I ignored the second one but picked up the third as it only set me back £15 – if you haven’t played Saints Row the Third – its “freakin’ awesome” – have to say as a gamehead I play a lot of games and its the first game I’ve played in a long time where I was sad when it was over – it was top fun and truly enjoyable never once did I feel any of the challenges were a grind or boring

From Dust is quite involved and some of the challenges can be maddening – its no Black & White its ok but it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be as I love my god games and I waited a long time for that game – probably should have waited a bit more and picked it up when it was on sale instead of buying on release

Posted on 31 March, 2012 at 2:21 pm by Project2insanity

Almost guaranteed you missed Bionic Commando. Criminally underrated.
Think it’s about time you play Final Fantasy VII as well!

Posted on 31 March, 2012 at 5:19 pm by bennyrafal

Dear James or/and Ross i found something disturbing –
http://kasasensei.canalblog.com/archives/2012/03/29/23882533.html

step 15, its untrue right?

Posted on 31 March, 2012 at 11:05 pm by Carl-G

‘LittleBigPlanetKarting’ MadeMyWeek (IAmStickingAllMyWordsTogether) LoL:D

Posted on 31 March, 2012 at 11:33 pm by orton131

SONY! Why didn’t you say all PS3 models could play PS1 games!? Pretty annoyed I have been waiting for you guys to put spyro on the store & all this time I have had a perfectly fine disk version packed away!! Very annoyed.

Posted on 31 March, 2012 at 11:57 pm by Lucreto

orton131

They have been saying it for years. It was mentioned well before they released the PS3.

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 8:33 am by DAYDANNY666

@bennyrafal step 15 is right my DDAYDANNY account got removed becauce I did not go online very much and when i did I had to take my ps3 into my mums room and plug cable from the modem into the ps3 so i could play cod 4 but there where very little games back then so i stop going online and left my acoount for well over 2 years without even going online and went to sign in and my account was gone it had been deleted.
(so yes step 15 is true)

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 8:52 am by DAYDANNY666

Step 9. No more 1 sub, 1 account for Xbox Live and Playstation Plus.
McAfee allow 3 and there cheaper and you get way more usefull features
(Going now as I turn into Sir Spam Alot)

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 11:23 am by Huono_peleis

“In PSN/SEN and EA’s Origin contract, if do not use your games for a 18 to 24 month period, the publisher will delete it from your account without asking or warning you.”

IS THIS TRUE?

So we are not buying games from PSN, we are actually renting them? If this true I want a partial refund on every single item I have purchased from the store.

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 11:33 am by dgnfly

wauw what a rip-off sony is if this is true we all can better go xbox. consideing it’s free online now.

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 1:05 pm by orton131

@Lucreto I always knew the older 60gb & 80gb could play PS1 games, but I never knew the slims could. I was in shock to be honest when I put spyro in & it worked.

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 1:16 pm by bennyrafal

stop spammin ppl i found this:
PSN Terms of Service (March 2012)

Section 4 (Wallet)
“Wallet funds must be used within 24 months of purchase.”

Section 10 (Subscription Services)
PSN Plus-
“Automatically Downloaded Material which has not been accessed within one month of download may be automatically deleted from your system.”
Online Storage-
“If you do not renew your PlayStation Plus subscription immediately at the end of each Subscription Period, but later renew your subscription within six months, you will be able to access game saves that you uploaded to the remote server during your earlier Subscription Period.”

Section 13 (Termination/Cancellation)

“Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to cancel your account if it has not been used for 18 months.

You may close your account by contacting us (see About Us section for details). Unless otherwise expressly provided by applicable law, you will not be entitled to a refund of unused wallet funds upon cancellation.”

and for me its fair enough.

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 2:55 pm by Skookie30

That’s is fair you notice the “applicable law” it is a tricky 1 as each country in SCEE region uses different laws anyways i always tell my friends think 1st.

i don’t understand ppl that says WAAAAAAHHH i’m going to xbox-360 so i told my friends if you move over to 360 & delete your account you can say goodbye to your hard earn trophies your hard earn cash because once it delete you lost everything.

some friends never come back due to the hacks last year, so think long & hard you may as well waste money down the toilet.

ps. i want to say congrats to holland of getting music unlimited.

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 3:00 pm by dgnfly

@bennyrafal

don’t worry it is kinda true sony can just take games from your download list just look at what they done with motorstorm artic edge and everybody tennis.
i bought motorstorm and i don’t see it o the store anymore or on my download list basicly they stealing when it suits em.
and when i ask no info.
and if the ps4 rumors are true next gen going xbox.

Posted on 1 April, 2012 at 6:13 pm by CassyChan

Definitely check out Vanquish, Shinji Mikami reinvented the TPS genre with Resident Evil 4 and he did it again with Vanquish. As far as gameplay goes it’s sublime, the use of speed with the boost slide mechanic and slow-mo is brilliant and the weapon and enemy design work perfectly together, it’s a very fair, well designed game and personally I see the gameplay as perfect, it surpasses everything else in the genre imo. The story, visuals and music are great too, the game deserved a bigger reception tbh.