Phew, with Christmas bearing down fast, it’s been all hands on deck here at SCEE this week. I hope you’re all getting in the holiday spirit too. If not, check out our on-going 12 Deals of Christmas sale – that should do the trick. The next deal goes live very early Sunday morning offering a massive saving on one of this year’s best games.
Oh, and congratulations to the sleuths who cracked our thinly-veiled teaser images – impressive stuff. Hopefully you’ll still be surprised by a few of the offers remaining…
Elsewhere on the Blog this week, we had a first-look at the incoming Kat and Emmett DLC for PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale, posted a status update on the very exciting PS Vita action RPG Soul Sacrifice and got the full lowdown on the digital release of Mass Effect from the good folks at BioWare. See below for the full reading list.
And we’ve another busy week coming up. Set your alarm clocks for Monday – we’ve got a really exciting post going up early doors.
One final thing – I’ve got a brief note from the Sound Shapes team to pass on, regarding issues with the new patch:
“We have just released an update to address the compatibility issues between Sound Shapes players in different territories. Currently EU users are experiencing issues when playing levels created by non-EU users, and this update will address this issue. The in-game store will be enabled by this update, but new content will not be available to purchase until Wednesday 12th December. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused by these issues, and we appreciate your patience.”
- The 12 Deals of Christmas! – “Deal 2″ of “The 12 Deals of Christmas!” annouced.
- Community update: FIFA 13, Gran Turismo and Xi – All the news from the Enlgish lanuguage forums.
- Video Store update: 3rd December 2012 – Laure Casteran had more new releases to tell us about, including The Bourne Legacy and The Dark Knight Rises.
- PS Vita’s Soul Sacrifice: Leviathan and Ghost Mode Revealed – Comcept founder and gaming legend Keiji Inafune with an update on his new ation RPG.
- Sack it to Me: It’s time to Deck the Halls! – The team at Little Big Planet help kick festivities into gear by releasing the Santa Costume and Festive Minipack this week.
- Music Unlimited wants to hear your “Best of 2012″ – Music Unlimited let us know about some top releases before the year is up and request your picks of the year.
- PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale: Hands-on with Kat and Emmett – SuperBot offers some insight into how the first DLC characters will play.
- PlayStation Mobile: EcoFish makes a splash tomorrow – All the beans are spilled on the latest PlayStation Mobile release – EcoFish.
- Far Cry 3 continues the insanity in January with High Tides DLC – The co-op DLC pack for Far Cry 3, High Tides, is coming exclusively to PS3.
- PlayStation Home: It’s bingo time! – Updates from Blueprint:Home, JAM Games, Iron Fusion Envoy, Lockwood HQ and more.
- UNCHARTED: Fight For Fortune launches tomorrow on PS Vita – A turn-based action-adventure card game featuring all the heroes and villains that you’ve met throughout the UNCHARTED games.
- The 12 Deals of Christmas! – Deal 3 annouced.
- Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch demo available today – Try out Level-5′s epic adventure now!
- “Heads-up” PlayStation Store update 5th December 2012 – Leading the way this week is Guardians of Middle-Earth – an authentic multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game set in the Lord of the Rings universe.
- LittleBigPlanet Karting demo hits the road today – Containing a Tutorial track, two Story tracks, a mini-game and a solid selection of costumes, karts, stickers and more to customise your experience with.
- Sportsfriends: Johann Sebastian Joust – screen-free fun for PS Move – J.S. Joust is a motion control game for two to seven players. The game isn’t even played with a screen! It’s played using sound, rumble, and the LED light on the Move controllers.
- Back to the beginning: Bringing Mass Effect to PS3 – Find out how BioWare’s classic space RPG made it to PS3.
- PlayStation Mobile: Lemmings is back! – A retro classic returns!
- PlayStation Store PAL charts: November 2012 – Find out who the movers and shakers were last week.
- The 12 Deals of Christmas! – Deal 4 annouced.
- New versions of Alundra, Tomba! and Tomba! 2 now available – MonkeyPaw refreshes a few of its much-loved retro releases.
- Hands-on with BioShock Infinite for PS3 – We have an early look at the very impressive new entry in the BioShock series, due out early next year.
- Spyro the Dragon returns to PSN next week! – Our little purple friend Spyro is upon us!
- Weekend Debate: The ultimate gaming night – You’re throwing a gaming night with friends – or ‘party’ if you prefer. What three games do you line up, and why?
- Weekend Essentials – Batman: Arkham City on PlayStation Plus, Mass Effect and Uncharted: Fight for Fortune… let PlayStation brighten up your weekend.
- Bundles of fun – Start your PS3, PS Vita or PSP adventure with a great value hardware and software pack from PlayStation.
- Win BIG: PS Vita plus 6 games to be won – Sign up to Inside PS Vita for your chance to win a PS Vita system and six top titles.
- Game On – Start your week with news no Batman fan can miss, and see if your passion for Call of Duty: Black Ops II matches one record breaker’s…
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Posted on 8 December, 2012 at 9:45 pm by Pyromobster
Anyone here play U3 online?
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Posted on 8 December, 2012 at 9:52 pm by Lucreto
“And we’ve another busy week coming up. Set your alarm clocks for Monday – we’ve got a really exciting post going up early doors”
My guess it is The Last of Us. I read somewhere they will talk about the game Monday.
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Posted on 8 December, 2012 at 10:27 pm by ryannumber3gamer
Fred also will the PS All-Stars Pre-Order costumes ever come to the PS Store for people who have not pre-ordered?
Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 9:20 am by Fred Dutton
We haven’t announced anything at present, but I’m sure you’ll be able to get them at some point, yes.
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Posted on 8 December, 2012 at 10:40 pm by dark_angel69
@Lucreto
Bit late for that but yeah you could be right. American blog and kotaku already has The Last of US
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Posted on 8 December, 2012 at 10:53 pm by sem1471
sixthaxis says san andreas is due on psn next week.
is that the big news fred?
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Posted on 8 December, 2012 at 11:52 pm by Kkowboy
@gabbre89: I was wondering about Castlevania: Symphony of the night as well (via Eurogamer)! So a while ago, I looked at the official News bulletins from the Konami Europe website and found this little snippet:
“11.10.2012
Symphony of the Night delayed on return to PlayStation(R)Network
Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has revealed a delay to its resurrected PSone classic, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, for PlayStation(R)Network.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the game will now appear towards the end of the year. Symphony of the Night was the first Castlevania to offer an open-world level design and RPG elements, and KONAMI will issue details as to when European Castlevania fans can lay hands upon Alucard again very soon…”
So, it’s delayed but should appear towards the end of the year.
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 12:29 am by Kkowboy
@Lengendaryboss: Hi! You wrote: “@1 are we still complaining about that singstar icon, yes it is annoying and intrusive, but it does not affect anything. But i would like the option to remove/Move it Fred.”
Actually, the SingStar icon does affect something: my personal games XMB. With all due respect to SingStar, this product does not mesh with my taste in video games at all. I have abolutely zero motivation to purchase this product in any way, shape or form and as such, the icon has no logical reason whatsoever to be so prominently present in my games XMB.
I am glad that you also feel the icon is annoying and intrusive as well, and that you also want a move/delete option. There have been several weeks of radio silence on the matter, so I am eager to hear – SCEE willing, of course – a status update. Can’t hurt to ask, right?
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 12:37 am by paterson_87
Hi it’s Lloyd Clarke.Are we going to get corc legend of gobbos on PSN and it was 1 my best games on ps1 and are we going to get a new corc game on playstation move with trophies
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 9:00 am by hounddog56
where is cs go?
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 10:36 am by gabbre89
@Kkowboy
thanks for the info!
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 1:02 pm by declan__watson
Hey Fred how are you doing hope your having a nice weekend
Anyway my question is that there are rumours saying that Next generation console will be the last saying cloud gaming will take over, I know for a fact that SCE will not stop the playstation brand. As a big playstation gamer, I feel the best is yet to come other companies like Microsoft and nintendo will lightly give up because sony are miles ahead in the game than they are. With the purchase of Gaikai and playstation mobile being announced, sony could take gaming to me levels in about 10 years time, sony vaio pc and laptops could become playstation certified, pc gamers could be tempted to move to playstation platform. Anyway Fred give me your thoughts the best is yet to come.
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 1:11 pm by hayzink
@declan__watson
dont get too caught up with internet rumors becauise most of them are just that rumors.
most of these industry analysts toss out predictions like mad and eventually some are bound to stick, consumers dictate products by there buying habits and consumers have shown that they still would rather have physical media over digital and cloud gaming(onlive for example is a great idea but it does not make money).
sony dipped there toe’s in the water with digital only console with the pspgo and no one will deny that that failed for multiple reasons, pricing of titles, availability of titles and lack of physical media.
this is why the vita is not 100% digital as consumers did not want it.
sony will also stay in the console market as long as they make money from it, when there is no money to be made then they will stop.
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 1:22 pm by declan__watson
Hi hayzink
Thanks for the info, and yeah your right i think sony will succeed in gaming, they make terrific console and handhelds ps mobile is going great and all.
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 6:54 pm by zxRATTLExz
A little off topic but since somebody mentioned the PS Allstars game i thought i would share an opinion on it. Personally, i have not played it or bought it and don’t intend to to be honest. Why ? Well from the titbits of info i’ve read about dlc characters and more potentially being released later it makes me think that Sony have missed the point on what is actually fun about these kind of homage games.
My son was a massive fan of Smash Brothers and played it a shedload. His motivation for playing it was all the unlockable characters and extras. Now i don’t know whether PS Allstars has the same features but the fact that the are bringing dlc’s characters makes me think that unlockables will be very few in number which takes away the motivation to play. Agree or not ?
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Posted on 9 December, 2012 at 9:21 pm by llv-The_LORD-vll
يراقل
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 1:25 am by Avengerrr
Hi Fred,
Major question: Do you know anything about (or could you look up please) the standard checks for the 1.02 patch Assassin’s creed 3: Liberation for the EU. Ubisoft have stated that they have released the patch to Sony, the US currently have it so it seems we in the EU are still waiting for it. The US version was released last week, so could we be looking at this week?
As you may be aware the patch is pretty crucial, so a heads up would be appreciated
Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 9:24 am by Fred Dutton
All I can say is that I will check with the relevant teams and see if I can get you a firm answer. I’m sure it will go live soon.
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 9:53 am by hayzink
@fred
thanks for the update fred.
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 10:14 am by CoolRichy008UK-2
@hayzink i think i ow you an apolagy dont i? well, im so sorry for what i said to you i had a weekend to think about it and i though it was nothing that bad but now know i was bang out of order i know you wont forgive me and im not expecting you to. but i just wanna let you know that i am trully sorry
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 1:17 pm by Catkiller1
@ CoolRichy008UK-2
I was going to stay out of it but you’ve forced my hand!
“i think i ow you an apolagy dont i?”…….You think?? No you DO!!
“had a weekend to think about it and i though it was nothing that bad” REALLY??? What kind of person are you??
“i just wanna let you know that i am trully sorry”…Just words to you & they mean nothing.
Moderators…Team….Fred….please remove this person permanently!
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 1:24 pm by GANTZn00b
when will we get an update for the SINGSTAR icon , why not let people who dont want it to delete it ? this would make eveyrone happy , those who want keep it , those who dont delete it
PLEASE LET US DELETE THAT SINGSTAR ICON
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 2:25 pm by hayzink
@Catkiller1
at work and just seen this.
you have said all that needs to be said +1
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 2:25 pm by socialjeebus
#55
GTA San Andreas has be confirmed for the drop on US PSN this week, so it’s highly possible!
Another tip is that the new Yakuza 5 demo is out on the Japanese store – it seems a big step up from the previous games graphically and the combat is slicker. Can’t wait for it to be localised!
Anyway, like a few posters have already commented, please give us an option to rid ourselves of the singstar monstrosity from our XMBs. Don’t own a usb microphone and don’t intend to ever buy one. steal one or get one left in a will – so please give me the option to remove the download shortcut and beastly wallpaper from MY xmb. Thanks. Surely after enduring those ridiculous grins for the last month or two is punishment enough for me subscribing to PSN+ and paying out hundreds of pounds on PS3 games. Really, surely by now Sony would have realised that anyone who would have taken advantage of singstar on the xmb will have already done so.
Also, Retro City Rampage wouldn’t go a miss either, as for CS: Go well personally I’m not too fussed but well it is a bit of a joke.
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 2:47 pm by GANTZn00b
every extra week with the singstar icon on my consoles is one week full of disappointment for me, why are you doing this to us ?
at this point if sony would offer me to delete the singstar icon from my console under the condition that i would have to spend 50 EUR on the singstar store , i would do that just to get rid of it
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 3:11 pm by Catkiller1
@ Hayzink
Indeed!
Hopefully we can finally sort something out soon with regards to Harmony Of Despair & the annoying “Boned” trophy!
Black Ops 2 has surprised me in many ways. I’m actually enjoying this release, glitches aside! When there is no apparent lag & you have a night with at least five of your friends, it’s a right laugh! I tried the Aftermath Expansion for Battlefield 3 for roughly 2 hours but haven’t got back into it since I bought Black Ops 2. It’s on offer for £32.99 @ GAME today too!
Take Care
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Posted on 10 December, 2012 at 4:11 pm by declan__watson
Hello Fred
Thank you very much for the reply. Hopefully we could get plus integration in the near future, I will keep my eyes peeled on the blog for plus news.
Thanks again Fred LongLivePlay Sony make.believe The World Is In Play
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Posted on 11 December, 2012 at 4:29 pm by hounddog56
i ask again where is cs go?
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