The door closes on another week, one that is dominated by one piece of news. Yes, Kratos is returning to PS3 in a brand new game from Santa Monica Studios, and judging from the comments, many of you are getting excited. This is just the start and we’re looking forward to sharing more with you as the development process rages on. We think you’re going to be very happy with what the dev team is working on.
Here’s your recap.
- PlayStation Network Scheduled Maintenance – PSN was offline for scheduled maintenance from 14:00 on Monday 16 April 2012 until 02:00 on Tuesday 17 April 2012, BST.
- On Starters Orders For GT Academy 2012 – In just a few short weeks (May 1, to be precise), we will see the return of GT Academy!
- ModNation Racers Road Trip: Do You Mod? – Fingers crossed the term above has no impending underground or urban double-meaning.
- A Magical Tale Begins With This New Sorcery Trailer – Join legendary wizard Dash in a magical tale from deep within the Faerie Kingdom!
- LittleBigPlanet 2: Update 1.12! – Out this week, and it introduced a few nifty features to the game.
- The SingStore On April 18: Lana, Rihanna, Leona And More… – This week we have some brilliant tracks by equally brilliant women!
- PSP Price Drops In PlayStation Store – We have some more price dropped PSP games for your enjoyment.
- Bringing Collaborative Play To Sonic 4 Episode II – Sonic can now team up at any point in the game with Tails, by utilising one of three combo moves!
- Paint Park, Treasure Park And Wake-up Club Coming To PS Vita For Free – PlayStation Vita owners can look forward to a trio of free applications!
- PlayStation Home: Go Safari – Novus Prime gets its newest shipment of game-enhancing outfits and virtual items this week!
- FIFA Interactive World Cup Final Set For Dubai – The world’s largest online gaming tournament, has beaten its own Guinness World Record.
- ‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 18th April – Loads of new content, special offers and updates!
- Learn The Secrets Of PSN’s Dyad – Each of the game’s 27 different levels touch upon a variety of mechanics and goals.
- MUBI Update: 19 April 2012 – As we teased in our last update, we have an exciting, exclusive premiere run to announce…
- God of War: Ascension Announced – God of War: Ascension will be coming exclusively to PS 3!
- VIDZONE UPDATE: It’s Spring Cleaning Time, NEW PATCH ALERT! – The patch is available now so see here exactly what to look out for!
- Access Round Up – Episode 30! Win A PS Vita! – Mixed this up a bit this week to cover more of the stuff that PlayStation Access gets up to.
- Get Your Design in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time – How would you like to see your design become part of a real video game?
- PixelJunk 4am: A New Music Visualizer For Your PS3 – PixelJunk 4am and the free PixelJunk 4am – Viewer will be released and available for download on the PlayStation Store from May 15th.
- The Weekend Debate – Music To Your Thumbs – What does music add to the game experience and what does the future hold for game composition?
- Weekend Essentials 122 – Become a chess master on PS Vita, try your hand at rewriting sporting history and take to the skies on PS3 this weekend.
- Design the target of Sly Cooper’s greatest heist yet – Create a treasure and it could be brought to life in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, winning you a PS Vita system.
- Hands on with DmC – Style, swords and a devil may care attitude – it can only be DmC. Take a look at the demon hunting action adventure which is blasting its way onto PS3.
- Here’s a Dishonored PS3 trailer analysis packed full of interesting info.
- We’ve been thinking about E3 2012 PS3 games and here’s our wish list.
- So what is in the Skyrim PS3 DLC? We’ve been examining the evidence to date.
- We built a PS4 based on the rumored specs. What’s it capable of?
- PS3 gets Nasne, a 500GB TV tuner and recorder.
27 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 12:06 pm by Pesico
Want to hear more about Warrior’s Lair.
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 12:14 pm by DAYDANNY666
Price cuts in video games often result in better sales!!!
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 12:28 pm by Juhal_1234
i like davie222 videos don’t understand why james dont watch em…
because james would never want to disappoint the fans right?
more ratchet and clank hd trilogy news like a trailer atleast
also spyro ps1
and I’ve heard this alot… a timesplitters trilogy
also what happened to the batman arkham asylum dlc?
any chance you can tell the developers to put it back in?
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 12:46 pm by Carnivius_Prime
Knock down the price of inFamous 2 please. Far too much at £49.99 given that it’s been out nearly a year or so. I rented the game back then and loved it and have been waiting patiently for the downloadable version to become more affordable so I can have it sat on my hard drive next to the first game and Festival of Blood.
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 1:11 pm by DAYDANNY666
@ Juhal_1234 are you not davie222 just made a new account?
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 1:29 pm by bennyrafal
@James
Any chances to PSOne Classics ? UFO Enemy Unknown and UFO Terror from the Deep?
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 2:28 pm by Carl-G
Good week;) Best News was – ‘Xbox 360 sales down 48% in Q3′
(Sorry i couldn’t help saying that) 
Hopefully SONY can at last go in for the Kill(like Kratos would LOL)& drop the price of the PS3 to $199 in the US & maybe £149 in the UK to(hopefully the few articles i saw on the internet today about the PS3 going to $199 in the US, the PS3 will stay at $199 in the US & not just be a short shop price war etc etc) 
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 2:42 pm by manutreble
I just found out that smartphones iPhones etc can be hotspots for the psvita wifi models that £79 extra can go bye byes still getting 1
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 3:02 pm by DAVIE222
Juhal_1234 thank you
please subscribe. also your right about james, i want him to watch them!
DAYDANNY666 i dont understand what you mean?
Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 11:10 am by James Gallagher
Davie222, I appreciate that you want people to view your YouTube channel but repeatedly posting links in blog comments is spam and it will be moderated. Please refrain from doing that again.
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 4:51 pm by manutreble
@9 stop beening a fanboy who cares about sales ps3 and Xbox are both great consoles
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 5:22 pm by brucewillis215
You got to be kidding, no Ghost recon future soldier Beta for Ps plus members in Europe?
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 5:23 pm by brucewillis215
If the Beta dosen’t come to Eu Ps plus then i probably won’t buy the game
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 5:39 pm by StuDevo
Hey james.
Any chance of getting some info about uk pre-order bonuses for gravity rush?
In the US theres some exclusive dlc and just wondering if there will be in the Uk so I can pre-order it
Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 9:46 am by James Gallagher
Yes, I’m working on getting that news together and we’ll hopefully share it this week.
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 6:37 pm by Juhal_1234
DAYDANNY666 nope im a retro every day gamer
i have my own youtube account and also love to see other gamers play, whether its this generation gaming or any last generation games
manutreble
sales are important, it shows if a company is doing good to lower prices and there is no reason whatsoever for you to say that to a customer of sony to stop supporting them, if i told you to ‘Stop’ eating you wouldn’t do it, as its needed to survive
for carl-g gaming and sony is his interpretation of food.
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 8:40 pm by chrisandsheva
(1st) @ James/store team.. have just been on that other console. While there i noticed the big difference in ‘retail/downloadable’ games prices, compared to ours, i really cannot understand how a dev or publisher can tell ps to charge X amount, then tell ms a different ‘mostly’ cheaper one, Can you shed some light on this for me please ?.. a few examples.. Red Faction, psn, £57.99 xbla. £17.99… Protoype, psn, £31.99, xbla, £17.99.. theres Lots of other examples. And one, maybe two where xbla is charging a little more, ie, Motorstorm Apocolypse, psn £14.99, xbla £19.99… But all in all i feel that the psn prices, compared to ‘other’ outlets are Way to much.. So why and How can devs/publsh’s do this ?.. Again please lets know.. (will post more in a min.).
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 8:59 pm by chrisandsheva
@ James (continued),
As i was saying i was using the ‘other’ console earlier.. some fool decided to send me my invite to Future Soldier for ‘that one’, Its been a while since i was last on it and James i Have to say, there xmb, or home screen, makes ours look Bad, the different services they can access is just mind blowing… I want us to do ‘better’, i mean we do have the more powerful cores/ram,? (not a tech head, so sorry if am wrong), Why/How can they get all those services and apps straight from their home screen, I really think the guys who do firware stuff should start looking at catching up to ms now.. Not that i’m going to swop main consoles if not etc, But it could be much better…As for beta, just kept saying servers unavailable, try later,… prob knew i use the $box for a door wedge..
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Posted on 21 April, 2012 at 10:56 pm by manutreble
James did u know that this time last year that psn went down
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Posted on 22 April, 2012 at 1:38 am by ShootingStar_XCI
Hello James, thanks for the recap.
I recall you were asking the community for suggestions for possible updates to the Blog some time ago.
Now you understand, I do not have any complaints, but I did just think of a few things:
If the number of comments & replies left on each article were to be shown on these Blog recaps, I may want to read or re-read them. For example: if there were an unusaully large amount of comments on a certain post then I’d be interested to see what was happening there.
Also, if the author’s name were to be shown, the same would apply – I appreciate when developers themselves take the time to write their own posts & reply to the community. And I’m more inclined to read these kinds of posts, even if it’s about a game I’m not particularly interested in. For example: I’m not at all interested in SEGA’s efforts in “Bringing Collaborative Play To Sonic 4 Episode II”, but when I saw Mr. Kebby was writing about the subject, I instantly read it.
Thanks again.
I hope you’re all having a great weekend!
Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 9:58 am by James Gallagher
OK, thanks for the feedback. Let me see what I can do with the layout to make it a bit more informative.
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Posted on 22 April, 2012 at 1:33 pm by sasukeluffy
Motorstorm Apocalypse is PS3 exclusive, it isnt at Xbla…
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Posted on 22 April, 2012 at 9:29 pm by chrisandsheva
Motorstorm exclusive..etc,
Yeah, dumb mistake by me.. But i now hate you (lol), had to go back on xbla to see what it was i ‘thought’ i’d seen,.. just some Motorstorm lookalike… Monster df, or something similar… mind you while there i realised that Prototype is now £14 instead of the £17, 99. that i put.. As i said they Do charge more for a few games, Duke Nukem being the £5.00 more ‘example’ i Should of used.. plus the CoDs and FiFAs are about same price, but stil, mistake aside, i hope James can tell us a reason for this, as all i ever read is ‘the publishers set the price’.. True as that is, Do ps/xbla Have to agree, or is it merely advice of the publishers ?.. Thnx for spotting my mistake.
Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 11:14 am by James Gallagher
I’m really not the best person to ask about pricing policies as it’s not my department or area of expertise. However, I do understand that digital game pricing is something that game companies are still figuring out and I do pass on reader feedback – on all topics – to the rest of the company. But as for ‘why such and such game costs X’ or other policies, it wouldn’t be my place to comment.
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Posted on 22 April, 2012 at 10:39 pm by prycestation3
hey James any news on when the Playstation app comes to the PS Vita?
Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 9:57 am by James Gallagher
We’re still working away on it but I don’t have a date to share with you, I’m afraid.
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Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 10:19 am by flasheart456
is there any plans for a events calendar on the Android phone app? it would make it really easy to check what events are going on.
Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 10:35 am by James Gallagher
That’s a good idea and one we have discussed here in the past. Do you know about this events calendar on playstation.com?
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Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 10:22 am by DAVIE222
i hate having to sign onto the blog EVERY time i use PS3 BROWSER…james please put auto sign in to PS3 BROWSER, thanks
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Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 10:47 am by flasheart456
yeah I noticed it the other day I got my eye on some events uncharted is one.I decided the other day to get involved in the ps3 community
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Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 2:46 pm by chrisandsheva
@ James, thnx for reply, i thought you Was the person to ask about pricing etc, but never mind.. I agree it sounds silly asking why this/that costs less/more on X console, But as i asked the thing i would like more clarity on is the phrase (mantra!) ‘the pub/devs set the prices’, I have read this so many times, even from yourself on occasion, So basically what does that mean, Are these prices set in stone, or like they (devs/publ) do even in retail shops, merely there ‘recommended’ rrp ?.. as IF the later, well i don’t need to spell it out.
Also i Was hoping for some reply about our lack of apps/services from xmb, as ‘theres’ is very good, in comparison.. and i know you can give some answers concerning that, but again thnx for reply.
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Posted on 23 April, 2012 at 2:55 pm by chrisandsheva
@ DAVIE222
Agree with you about the having to sign in every time (ps3 browser), it’s a right pain, But if i remember we used to stay signed in for up to a week, via a cookie.. So if thats been stopped it has to be for some security issue, i guess.. Not sure if it’s same on pc as i always clear/block most cookies anyway, But would be interested to know if it’s the same.. also when i last used the phone app.. (ages ago) that kept my email addy, making it easier, So maybe the ps browser could do similar.
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Posted on 24 April, 2012 at 5:57 pm by ANDREAS0902
Can not wait for another adventure with kratos!! Hope the ce edition is awesome!
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