Posted on 25 August by Fred Dutton – SCEE Blog Manager

PlayStation.Blog Recap

Countries: AE, AU, GB, IE, NZ

Hey there all. Hopefully everyone’s enjoying their weekend? Should you be after a little light reading, you’ve come to the right place. A veritable who’s who of big name developers have popped up on the Blog this week to talk about video games both new and old.

Media Molecule’s Alex Evans gave us the lowdown on Tearaway, Mr Mega Man Keiji Inafune talked Soul Sacrifice, Quantic Dream’s David Cage offered a few more titbits on Beyond: Two Souls, Naughty Dog founder Andy Gavin reminisced on the making of Jak & Daxter and Insomniac’s John Fiorito treated us to some early, unseen Ratchet & Clank concept art. Oh, and let’s not forget The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman – we had a lovely interview with him, discussing his involvement with Telltale’s excellent episodic video game tie-in.

Please enjoy, and do jump into our Weekend Debate – we’ve got various Darksiders II goodies up for grabs this week.

Dust 514 Neocom Vita App Promises “MMO On The Go” – Dust 514 Neocom is a companion PS Vita app that lets you interact with various systems from the PlayStation 3 game directly from your handheld.
Sack It To Me: More Disney Princess Costumes Out Now – This week’s roundup of LittleBigPlanet news features Disney Princesses Pack 2, a preview of the Autumn Creator Kit and another round of Mm Picks.
TOKYO JUNGLE Swings Onto PlayStation Network Next Month – TOKYO JUNGLE is an action adventure set in a post-apocalyptic Japan where humans no longer exists and animals must fight for their lives.
Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron On Blu-ray And PSN This Week – Watch the launch trailer for what the devs believe is “the most complete Transformers game ever”.
Dust 514 Beta Open To PS Plus Members From Tomorrow – A chance to experience the ground-breaking MMO shooter from CCP and connect with PC gamers together in the EVE Online universe.
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Game Of The Year Edition Release Date – The Game of the Year Edition combines Nathan Drake’s third critically acclaimed adventure with additional pieces of multiplayer DLC.
Diggs Nightcrawler Brings Stylish Detective Noir To Wonderbook – Adam Volker from Moonbot talks about the upcoming Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler, a brand new IP promising quirky detective noir.
Summer Sale Update – Fourth And Final Week! – Alice: Madness Returns, Dragon Age: Origins, GoldenEye 007: Reloaded and lots more in this week’s update!
Interview: Dishonored’s Harvey Smith Reboots The Stealth Genre – We talk to the co-creator of Dishonored, the new first person stealth adventure from Bethesda.
Interview: Media Molecule Talks Tearaway! – Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans and “design lead/chief doodler” Rex Crowle discuss their upcoming PS Vita adventure Tearaway, announced last week at Gamescom.
KickBeat Hands-On: It’s All In The Mind – KickBeat for PS Vita reimagines the rhythm game as a chop-socky fighting scene with an agile protagonist battling hordes of incoming goons in a circular arena.
Gamescom 2012 – ALL THE THINGS! Access TV – Access TV presents a compilation of over 30 minutes of Gamescom footage, showcasing everything from the Sony press conference to Christopher Walken.
Interview: Meet The Man Pulling Puppeteer’s Strings – Our video interview with developer Gavin Moore offers some insight into what you can expect from this upcoming, innovative PS3 title.
Retro/Grade’s Backwards Battle Begins Today – In addition to its completely unique gameplay, Retro/Grade features a campaign mode, a challenge mode, lots of cool rewards, and more.
‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 22nd August 2012 – Retro/Grade, Legasista, The Expendables 2: The Videogame, demos for Sleeping Dogs and NFL 13, and lots more hit the PS Store this week.
SunFlowers Beaming To PS Vita This Autumn – SunFlowers has a pretty simple objective: you control the Sun, and you have to grow flowers using chain-reactions – but this is no basic exercise in casual gardening.
PlayStation Home: Hip Hop Heroes – This week in PS Home, we have hip hop heroes and honeys, a Bling Style Pack for Blueprint:Home, new Novus Prime Ship Companions, a Cathedral Clubhouse and plenty more.
The Walking Dead: 9 Minutes With Robert Kirkman – A brief chat with one of the creators of The Walking Dead comic series yields some fascinating insights into the creative processes.
The Ratchet & Clank You’ve Never Seen: 10 Years Of Concept Art – Explore the history of the Ratchet & Clank universe with a collection of images that go all the way back to 2002.
VidZone Update: Lopez Leads Summer Superstar Stampede – This week’s VidZone update offers up servings of J-Lo, Substantial Error, The Killers, Owl City and more.
Interview: David Cage Talks Beyond: Two Souls At Gamescom – The director of Beyond: Two Souls and its acclaimed predecessor Heavy Rain gives us a progress update.
Naughty Bear: Panic In Paradise Turns On The Charm – Take a peek inside a few of the new features and mechanics in Panic in Paradise, due on PlayStation Network this October.
The Studio Unveils New Killzone XMB Theme – Hand-drawn in striking blood-red, black and white, Kristian’s design for this dynamic theme is influenced by all aspects of pop culture.
Behind The Classics: Jak & Daxter – In the first installment of our new “Behind The Classics” series, Naughty Dog co-founder Andy Gavin discusses the making of seminal 2001 PS2 platformer Jak & Daxter.
Weekend Debate: Alternative Game Soundtracks – “You can commission one act to re-record its own soundtrack to a particular game. Who do you choose?” The best response gets a Darksiders II Collector’s Edition!
The Monsters of God of War: Ascension – The Satyr Captain – The third article in the “Monsters of God of War: Ascension” series touches on the functions and aesthetics of the vicious Satyr Captain.
Hard Choices: Inafune Talks Soul Sacrifice – Industry legend Keiji Inafune discusses the upcoming “dark fantasy” PS Vita title Soul Sacrifice.

Weekend Essentials 140 – Stop the End of Days, grab a must-have bargain and blast onwards, backwards, with PlayStation this weekend.
Game On – A week is a long time in video games so make sure you get up to speed with this essential update from the world of PlayStation.
Discover Instant Play on PS3 – Stop hanging around for your favourite movies as Instant Play comes to the Video Store of PlayStation Store.
Action games explode onto PS3 at gamescom – Leap into a blast of blockbuster PlayStation 3 games at gamescom 2012. Hollywood doesn’t have anything on these action giants…

Want to know how the year’s been going? Here are the best PS3 games of 2012 so far: the reader vote.
Fallout 4: 7 things a Boston setting could bring – what could Massachusetts mean for a post-apocalyptic sequel?
As Sony Liverpool shuts its doors we look back at the history of the Wipeout dev.
These new GTA 5 screens are full of parachuting and dirt bikes. See them all here.
A mo-cap actor working with Kojima says the Metal Gear Solid 5 release date could be “next year, summer at the earliest”.

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Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:11 pm by mozza54

Wheres the transformers game? Ive been waiting since yesterday to get it on psn (UK)????

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:19 pm by Leylifer

Thank you for informing us about Counter Strike: Global Offensive issue.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:23 pm by QuietlyWrong

Hey mozza54, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is on the store now. It’s £44.99.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:32 pm by DAVIE222

Fred this blog needs an auto sign in feature on PS3 Browser, i hate signing in every time just to type one comment!

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:34 pm by poker77791

When CS:GO wiil be released????7

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:37 pm by torchedEARTH

It would have been nice to have at least repeated the Sony apology about CS GO in this recap and given some indication of what channels of communication are being used to find out more for us.

Borderlands 2 is out next month and if there is no CS GO soon, then maybe it will miss it’s chance altogether for a lot of people.

There is a lot of excitement about CS GO at the moment, look at the sites with their videos and reviews – we want to be part of that excitement, not the tail end afterthought.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:06 pm by Fred Dutton

Hey everybody. Re. Counter-Strike, this will be your channel for finding out more information. I haven’t mentioned it here as I’m afraid I don’t have new details since I posted about it earlier this week. Like I said then, the minute I have new information I will pass it on. You are not being ignored – we’re fully aware of the frustration out there.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:51 pm by supersmith2500

@DAVIE222:
I too also have this same problem too on Chrome, I have to log in everytime I open up Chrome.

Btw it’s been a bad week with no CS:GO though.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:52 pm by Immortal-Wolf--

Posted on 24 August, 2012 at 10:36 am by Jawad Ashraf

I don’t think he’s 15 in the new one. He’s only 19 in DMC3, too.

@ Jawad Ashraf DMC Reboot Dante is age 15 and a juvenile delinquent on the streets and gets taken by police alot. How do i know so much of the story like Dante trys to save a gal but his brother Vergil trys to help but fails to save her and Dantes brother Vergil gets Exile to the demon world at the end of DMC Reboot. How did i know that Jawad Ashraf as i Have completed DMC Reboot game?

DMC Reboot 2013 story i know it all lol and i didn’t like it.

Dante trys to save Kat a memeber of the order as Kat’s boss is Vergil but Dante’s brother Vergil lets her die to save there human world by demon’s. Exile is what Vergil gets trapped into the demon world forever as it seems in DMC Reboot ending Dante says to Vergil if you ever return il kill you Vergil says il never return wile the portal to the demon world close’s hence swearing alot in those words. The rest you guys know.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:52 pm by Immortal-Wolf--

DMC reboot has tag storys from DMC main boss god. DMC 3 Vergil story and DMC 4 story saving a women. All into one reboot DMC.

Its very sad to see Ninja Theory turn DMC game into a juvenile delinquent game Smoking/Drugs/Alcohol as Dante is age 15 doing adult stuff in a underground world killing demons. All Ninja Theory did was copy the Original storys from DMC games and added a darker juvenile delinquent themes to it.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:56 pm by supersmith2500

And apart from this CS:GO riot that occured on Wednesday it’s a shame to see Studio Liverpool go but still, we still some a couple of more UK studios left such as Evolution and London Studio, since Evo made some dirt racing games like WRC franchise and MotorStorm, they could be the only ones that owns WipEout or London Studio. Hope it doesn’t fall into the wrong studio like Nilistic.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 12:56 pm by supersmith2500

As in buying the rights of WipEout.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 1:20 pm by Golwar

@login demand

I guess that is their attempt to prevent us from posting too much.
No idea when they abandoned cookies and why.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 1:25 pm by orzelek69_PL

when mgs vita be released separately on ps store for eu?

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 1:27 pm by orzelek69_PL

when MGS for vita will be released separately? cheers

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 1:38 pm by DAVIE222

Y2J Chris Jericho told me to tell Immortal-Wolf– WOULD YOU SHUT THE HELL UP!

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 1:59 pm by pb-live

Can someone just ban his IP address or something?

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 2:19 pm by supersmith2500

”Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Won’t be in the playstation EU until next month as SCEE have Failure to communicate to its PSN Store.”

Seriously Wolf you don’t know crap do you?

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 3:20 pm by residentSteve

What’s cs go never heard of it?

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 4:11 pm by Panos_GRE

Hi Fred and staff,
Can we please get the psp game “capcom classics collection reloaded” for the vita?
It is available in the US store only.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 4:44 pm by Panos_GRE

EDIT
Nevermind, I found the game through the search function. It’s funny how some games are not listed under their section.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 5:06 pm by cypriot_superman

anyone have any update on when the lego batman 2 dlc’s will be up on the store?

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 7:48 pm by hayzink

any idea when we will find out how the ps plus vita stuff is going to work?

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 7:56 pm by dgnfly

sony is handeling this CS:GO like they handled that 70 Million accounts hacked. by being quietly and ignoring it’s gamers.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:08 pm by Fred Dutton

I can assure you are not being ignored. The minute I have new information, I will pass it on.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 8:12 pm by supersmith2500

@dgnfly:
Like I said before in the other blog entry the offices don’t open on weekends. That’s why Sony is quiet.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 8:59 pm by Player42791

@immortal-wolf–

Prove it :p

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:00 pm by Catkiller1

So SEGA Classic ToeJam & Earl will release soon along with some other Classics that haven’t been named yet.

Psychonauts is release on the US store next week as an unfortunate PS2 Classic. I was hoping for a HD remake but i’ll take it anyway, as the game is fantastic & quirky!

I’m hoping we hear soon for an update on when Retro City Rampage is released. The last I heard it was early September so fingers crossed.

Are we going to see a release for Final Fantasy X HD at all this year?? I’m hoping they’ve delayed it to release a trilogy including: X, X-2 & XII……..What I can dream!

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:10 pm by Fred Dutton

Not sure about FFX HD – that’s in the hands of publisher Square Enix. Perhaps we’ll learn more at Tokyo Game Show next month?

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:13 pm by supersmith2500

@Fred Dutton
Ahhh Fred, I’m surprised you’ve showed up with regards info on CS:GO, besides if CS:GO or no good games released on Wednesday then things could get ugly.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:18 pm by Fred Dutton

You’re not wrong! Rest assured I’m trying to be as communicative as possible on this.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:27 pm by dgnfly

@fred
why no blogs for upcoming ps3 exclusive anime games i notice that they get ignored in generally like for 31st release
agarest record of war 2
tales of graces f
one piece
i know these games aren’t liked by most games only a selected few but be nice 2 see that they are appriciated by sony for being all exclusive’s

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:33 pm by Fred Dutton

As it happens, I’m working on a One Piece post. Stay tuned…

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:30 pm by supersmith2500

@Fred
ok,

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:31 pm by supersmith2500

@Fred:
Btw quick question, when will DLC for Pinball Arcade be released?

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 9:33 pm by Fred Dutton

Couldn’t say off the top of my head! I’ll check in with the store team after the weekend.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 10:13 pm by Immortal-Wolf--

Fred Dutton removes this post today

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Won’t be in the playstation EU until next month as SCEE have Failure to communicate to its PSN Store.

IGN.com just epic fail as they say Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been Official Worldwide Release now on this IGN.com video here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojo73AfAEcM

As iv spoken to IGN.com about SCEE and PSN EU CS GO not being in there store. IGN contacts SCEA about SCEE about SC GO not being in PSN EU and so the CEO of SONY playstation has made a report to FIX CS GO and get it up and running ASAP for PSN EU as theres been mass EU outrage No CS GO in PSN EU store. THANKS IGN.com

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 10:39 pm by Skydancerx

@Fred Dutton:

Why don´t you say CS:GO has a Bug and our QA Team Working on this?! Like an other Game Months before (Release in US but much later in EU) I belive you have Information but your are not allowed to share. Which is frustrating for the Community. But Sony dont cares about [CENSORED]storms….. and Customers. Did they anything learned after the Hack? I don´t think so. We cant comment on that, we cant comment on this blaba.

I can unterstand the point from Sony a litte bit. But WE are the Customers, WE buy that Stuff, at least with our payment we give someone a Job.

Sony has a new CEO but i don´t see any better here?! Still no Vita Love, Youtube APP still not in EU, Still no PSone Compatibility on Vita, this was announcent on Console Release and reannouncet on Gamescom. Still Problems with PEGI 16 Demos in Germany. Stores looks like a mess. Massive lack of Communication.

Only Good Things are:
little better Pricing on some Games.
The New Plus.

So put the Store Teams up, hire someone! I think the biggest Problem is that SCEE is understaffed for all that EU Stores.

Posted on 25 August, 2012 at 11:16 pm by ScorpionZed

@Skydancerx:

Any company can be hacked, and victim customers got free games after that, so i think they actually cared about us back then, but now they even can’t give us a simple explanation why only WE are left out of a WORLDWIDE announced game. Even the european PC and XBOX360 stores have CS:GO…

Btw i asked that before but i try it again and i really hope for some reliable answer: will CS:GO ever be released on EU store or not? Becouse even this is not clarified to us. I don’t want to wait for a game which never be released…

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 1:55 am by Digital-Splinter

Dear Sony pull your finger out and give us the CUSTOMERS! CS:GO!!!

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 2:15 am by CreditDue

I’m shocked at how Naughty Bear has a sequel…

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 8:47 am by iTzZ_ViRuSZeRo

I hate PSN everybody PS3 USA Xbox 360 and PC [ Steam ] can play Counter Strike Global Offensive and what is with us we must wait because the PSN Europe personnel are to stupied to bring CS:GO online everybody how play ego shooter will play Counter Strike man this is to go postel

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 9:40 am by Huono_peleis

SONY OFFICIAL CUSTOMER COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL(TM)

“There’s no info at the moment but we will share it with you the minute we get some”.

- Something went wrong and we have no clue what it is. There some e-mail but it is japanese.

“It’s comming very soon”

- It’s late we know, but we can see it in the pipeline. It could be weeks or it could months but it’s coming.

“Thant You for Your patience” *bow*

- We are sorry. We will do it again.

This could be acceptable in Asia but it’s not working very well in the west. Another thing I just don’t understand is Sony’s tendency to announce things when they are planned, not when they are ready (like PSN videostore, several Vita apps). This kind of policy isn’t helping anyone – it just makes Sony look unreliable, nerdy and annoying.

Sony’s going to be in a world of hurt when next gen arrives.

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 11:32 am by FullAutoNoob

will we be able to get our hands on the counter strike global offensive dynamic theme that came with the pre-order in USA? As it look fantastic!

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 12:31 pm by Golwar

Fred, when you re-do your survey, please don’t forget to give SCEE’s release process & policy and the store itself a lot of space and details to reflect upon.

We wouldn’t want to miss the chance to highlight one of the greatest annoyances that the PS3 has to offer, right?

Though I’m pretty sure that a vast majority already mentioned exactly that when you asked for feedback on the biggest issue. CS:GO was just another drop (too much) of a constant unwelcome experience, made by SCEE.

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 12:32 pm by Specmajster

since next tuseday we’ll have a ps plus update (2 new games ) I expect counter strike to be on it for free.

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 1:04 pm by Golwar

Well, what you expect isn’t necessarily what you receive. I doubt that anything special will happen at all.
If we’d get everything for free that is delayed by just 1 week, we’d have more games than we could manage to play.

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Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 1:12 pm by Digital-Splinter

that’s the real problem here if the CS:GO console release had been delayed then everyone would understand. The reason everyone is annoyed is because it is available on Xbox Live & american psn. so it feels like everyone else is enjoying it while we sit and wait with no information if it is even coming at all next week. If it dose not make next weeks ps store update then Sony better expect a lot of annoyed customers. sometimes I wonder who runs PlayStation because it often feels like we are behind Xbox at times. We the customers/fans have stayed with Sony through tough times and they cant even communicate properly with their customers/fans.

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 4:01 pm by crsxn

psn is down in norway??

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 4:05 pm by crsxn

psn down in norway???

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 4:15 pm by supersmith2500

@crsxn:
Could be your connection issue. Everything is in working order.

@Digital-Splinter:
Yeah, I’ve been a hardcore PS fan since 1998, I owned some peice of merchandise, talked my friends about PlayStation and many more but this is what bothers me. SCEE’s poor lack of customer service and we us always have to suffer through everything like constant delays on decent games, inconvenient maintenance downtimes, poor support of Vita, poor range of PS2 titles etc. I mean look at SCEA compared to us, ours is a complete joke. And yes if CS:GO doesn’t make it on Wednesday, it will seriously annoy and anger ALOT of European gamers. Let’s also say Konami and Capcom nevered cared for Europe anymore now (well ONLY a little bit.)

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 5:01 pm by supersmith2500

in speaking of poor range of PS2 titles etc. I mean’t the ones on PS2 Classics on EU Store.

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 6:12 pm by RepiCZ

Ok Fred. I have 1 question. Why ps store isnt same worldwide? We want CS:GO now!

Posted on 26 August, 2012 at 7:36 pm by SuGaR_rAy_RiDeR

@catkiller
Would love to see the Final Fantasy PS2 trilogy come out all in one hit, but i think they will treat these kinda like they have with Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica and with a high price, not that i’m complaining especially when they first listed Resident Evil 4 with the wrong price and I managed to pick it up for £6.00!!!!

@skydancerx
I agree with VITA not having much love at the moment, but we do have Assasins Creed and Little Big Planet soon, but it’s difficult not to be concerned with the VITA, especially with Android mobile games like Dead Space and other emulators, all you need is a gametel controller and a top phone. I think the only saving grace for the VITA at the moment is Trophy Support, whilst we await some new decent games, well that’s the case for me at the moment.

@Fred Dutton
you need to drop Vita Store game prices to compete with other websites like Zavvi, amazon.co.uk etc. I mean FIFA 12 is £14.95 on Zavvi!!!!! I know you (SONY) don’t set the price, but you could still lower it like the other online retailers because they get set the same price as you, so you can’t use the old excuse like ‘we don’t set the price etc…..phew rant over, I’m off to play my gametel!!