Well, here we are at the end of another week – and what a whirlwind it’s been. News has been coming in thick and fast, and from assassins to aliens, Starhawk to Sackboy we’ve had a stack of stories to share with you over the past seven days. Missed anything? Just fancy another look at what went down? It’s all here for you in this week’s recap.
- Sack It To Me: Sackboy Starts In Pole Position! – Check out this video to see just what IGN.com have to say about Sackboy’s leap into the racing arena!
- Arc Fans Get Ready To Battle – Arc Arena: Monster Tournament Out Tomorrow – There is something special about this genre that can’t be replicated.
- Datura Available To Download From Tomorrow – In the world of Datura you will find yourself placed in a variety of scenarios which will require you to make a quick judgement call.
- PlayStation Home: Mansion Living – Step onto the first floor of the PlayStation Home Mansion and experience the frills of a life lived in luxury.
- Starhawk…Welcome To The New Frontier – Starhawk is available in PAL regions from this week!
- Reality Fighters DLC Incoming – Hope you had enough practice to challenge Mr. Miyagi to become a worthy master…
- ‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 9 May 2012 – This week starts off with Sega’s Binary Domain, which is now available to download!
- The LittleBigPlanet Beta Is Coming Soon To PS Vita – Register Now! – The LittleBigPlanet Community is about to get a very special treat!
- Aliens: Colonial Marines – Your Multiplayer Questions Answered – We took to Twitter and posed @PlayStation followers a simple question — what do you want to know about the multiplayer mode in Aliens: Colonial Marines?
- MUBI Update: 10 May 2012 – Two movie passions have infected us over at MUBI: Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper, and the 2012 Festival de Cannes.
- PlayStation.Blog EU Disruption On 14 May – The European PlayStation.Blog will be down for maintenance from approximately 5pm on Monday, 14 May.
- Resistance: Burning Skies Trophy List And PS Vita Features Trailer Revealed! – A lot of “firsts” to the PS Vita – first-ever dual-analog FPS control on a portable device and the first competitive multiplayer shooter experience on the PS Vita.
- World Premiere: Assassin’s Creed III Gameplay Footage – What you’ve been waiting for this since the initial announcement back in March, so go ahead and watch it right now!
- Access Episode 33 – Episode’s Game Of The Week, Sorcery, includes mixing potions (don’t do fairytale herbs, kids), moving big rocks out of the way and sort of having a cat as a girlfriend.
- Moving On From PlayStation.Blog -James posted this short note to let you know that this will be my last post as PlayStation.Blog Manager…
- Get Ready For Mass Effect 3 Operation Silencer MP Event This Weekend – It’s time to make our enemies scream.
- The Making Of Sorcery: Sound – we turn our attention to the music and sound design for Sorcery.
- Weekend Essentials 125 – Build and battle your way to victory as Starhawk lands on PS3 and discover the intriguing Datura this weekend.
- Top Tips: Starhawk – Survive the new frontier in Starhawk on PlayStation 3 with these handy hints from developer LightBox Interactive.
- Game Talk: Mortal Kombat – Ed Boon, creative director at developer NetherRealm, talks about finishing moves and his favourite brawlers exclusively with eu.playstation.com.
- Game On – Find out how you can meet Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima in London tomorrow.
- Treyarch have promised it’ll be bigger but here are the Black Ops 2 zombie modes we want to see.
- Get the latest on this year’s game with these FIFA 13 screens and info.
- Feeling evil? Here are the 10 best PlayStation games that make being bad good.
- Find out what it’s like to win GT Academy with this film following the first ever winnner, Lucas Ordonez.
- What matters more review scores or sales? We ask ten developers.
Here’s a new review for the Blog, it can happily replace Battleships:
http://www.officialplaystationmagazine.co.uk/review/starhawk-psn-review/
16 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 12:21 pm by taurus82
SCEA have so far released Linger In Shadows, Datura (by Plastic) and .detuned (by .theprodukkt/Farbrausch).
When are SCEE going to release something from other demogroups?
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 12:33 pm by Amy_Belgium
the recap ain’t the same without james gallagher
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 12:40 pm by manutreble
@2 I agree all ready missing James the blog is not the same no more
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 12:46 pm by Huono_peleis
Where is Velocity?
Still no answer after almost two weeks. In which countries is it available? When it will be available to all Plus subscribers?
a) never
b) later this month
c) after my subscription has expired (end of May and won’t be renewing.
Last three months’ Plus offerings have been a very mixed bag and the only title I had real interest on seems to be available only for some. For 15€ I can buy (not rent) 1 to 3 games that I really want instead of s**tload of showelware.
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 1:05 pm by Alucard6769
I picked it up on Wednesday for free as part of plus subscription .
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 1:14 pm by ScooterMix
hi Sony from japan needs to pay visit because i dont think sony from euope doing there job probley . 1. No enough ps1 games since there a lot what usa got. 2 Poor service on PSN But PSN Plus great and better service but telling the true euope sold more consles in euope than usa and usa get better service doe not make any sence. Im not blameing you psn but this got to look into and im right its got a problem or sony got problem with systum. I was thinking of getting ps4 but ill wait for it because service in uk rubish. We Need better serivce know
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 2:12 pm by Project2insanity
@ScooterMix; You’ll need to wait for PS4 anyway, it isn’t even announced yet… But seriously, try broaden your mind, please; “service in uk rubish”, do you realise the service is for the EU rather than the UK alone but we get the best of it?
There are few times I agree with Huono_peleis but I cannot fault his complaint whatsoever; let’s get Velocity to the store for them as part of what we were told and as part of their Plus entitlement!
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 2:43 pm by RichZtar
Project2insanity; Are you actually praising Sony for giving us who live in the UK the best worst service out of the EU?
The quality of service between the EU and US is already staggering enough so coupled with the fact that Sony isn’t treating all the countries in the EU with the same promotions at the same time is another disappointing aspect.
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 4:24 pm by DAVIE222
i miss James
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 4:52 pm by strangeplaice
I think everyone misses James. I’d like to see who’s posting rather than just “Contributing Editors”
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 5:18 pm by bennyrafal
Damn, Lovewhale – do you hear us!? COME BACK!
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Posted on 12 May, 2012 at 5:44 pm by Project2insanity
@RichZtar; I really think you missed my point. If you read it carefully, you’ll see the concern is EU customers like Huono_peleis have not got Velocity.
Now the big difference with what ScooterMix was saying is he’s judging the service based on what we weren’t promised (if you want to argue we were promised PSone classics- we have many, specific titles weren’t promised at specific times). You may defend his position but saying SCEE aren’t doing their job properly in respect to this is nonsense- as good as it would be, their job is not to match SCEA.
My main point is EU customers were promised Velocity and have not received it which does mean that SCEE are genuinely in the wrong this time. I suggest those in the UK back-up our EU counterparts before we do catch up with SCEA and leave the EU behind altogether.
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Posted on 13 May, 2012 at 5:07 am by Raymon684
Where is James gone?
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Posted on 13 May, 2012 at 1:43 pm by DAVIE222
@ Raymon684 he left
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Posted on 13 May, 2012 at 2:57 pm by Juhal_1234
James why you go???????
whoevers next for blog manage
you’d better have the jokes and coolness that james had
and if not we shall post negative comments about james leaving and that he should be rehired with extra cash.
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Posted on 13 May, 2012 at 3:07 pm by Juhal_1234
the service on uk is better then europe, ps video store + vidzone
but remember europe has licensing problems + some country’s have licensing problems
there should be certain groups in charge of there country’s content which deals with licensing problems. europe is a big content with many country’s and laws, germany has alot of banned contents etc. the ps4 store should be region free with language settings so you can get the same content within the store with multi language selection, is it possible? i don’t know. but europe deserves better in terms of content and features
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