Hey everyone, Fred here once again with your look back at the week’s big news on PlayStation Blog.
While there might not be many too sleeps to go now until Christmas, that’s not the only thing to be getting excited about.
If you haven’t seen it already, then run – don’t walk – to watch the brand new The Last of Us trailer. It’s a beautifully atmospheric snapshot of a world gone wrong and should ramp your anticipation up a couple more notches before the game release next year. When exactly? You can find that out here, too.
Elsewhere, the 12 Deals of Christmas continues apace – we’ve already had big savings on everything from Sleeping Dogs to Tokyo Jungle. What will be next? All will be revealed early Monday morning.
There’s plenty more for you elsewhere too, from an exclusive chat with legendary Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert to previews of some exciting new PlayStation Vita titles.
Finally, don’t forget to vote in our 2012 Game of the Year poll. It’s your chance to tell us which PlayStation titles made your year, and which ones you’re most excited for as we head into 2013.
Enjoy, and see you on Monday for the last week of term!
- The 12 Deals of Christmas! – 12 days, 12 deals. Our duodecad of daily deals is well underway – check in here for the latest offers.
- The Last of Us: New trailer, release date and pre-order content revealed! – The Last of Us is coming, and now we know when. Watch the stunning new trailer and read up on some great pre-order bonuses.
- Community update: Far Cry 3, Home Q&A, Game of the Month – Far Cry 3 Fun Events and a week of Q&As with Home developers can be found in this week’s Community Update.
- Video Store update 12th December 2012 – Tie your red bandanas, lace those combat boots and get ready for a very manly Video Store update with The Expendables 2, The Bourne Legacy and… err… Keith Lemon: The Film?.
- Final call for Sportsfriends! Support local multiplayer! – Your indie developers need you! Check out a wrap-up of the Sportsfriends Kickstarter campaign here.
- Sack it to Me: Find out how LittleBigPlanet works as a tool for learning – US design studio takes a look at the LittleBigPlanet legacy and how it has inspired a whole generation of community developers.
- Introducing Big Sky Infinity – to infinity, and then some! – Boss Baddie’s James Whitehead tells us about the studio’s randomly-generated twin-stick shooter Big Sky Infinity.
- PlayStation Mobile: FuturLab serves up Surge – Jack Lang from FuturLab talks about bringing Surge to PlayStation Mobile after just a few months of development.
- PlayStation Home update – Xi: Continuum is here – Strange things have been happening in PlayStation Home – Xi: Continuum has arrived. Can you unravel the riddle?
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas PS2 Classic coming to PS Store tomorrow – CJ and the Grove Street Families return as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas hits the PS Store!
- Home Tycoon: Rising Revenues aims to scale new heights on PS Home – Home Tycoon gets its biggest update yet in the form of Rising Revenues. Find out about the new features here.
- Festive sale starts today on PlayStation Store! – Some of the year’s biggest titles mingle with classics of yesteryear in the PlayStation Store Festive Sale.
- New Sound Pack DLC for Sound Shapes out today – Mark Rabo from the Sounds Shapes team tells us all about this week’s DLC pack.
- Demolition Inc. sets up shop on PSN today – PSN gets a smashing new title… help Mike, the alien one-man demolition company, take the world apart in Demolition Inc.
- ‘Heads-Up’ Store update 12th December 2012 – Spyro! San Andeas! Symphony of the Night! All that and more in this week’s PlayStation Store update.
- LittleBigPlanet 2 Cross Controller Pack launches next week – Ever wanted to use your Vita to control your PS3? The LittleBigPlanet 2 Cross Controller Pack gives you the power in an all-new Space Pirate adventure.
- Interview: Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert descends into The Cave – Look behind you! A three-headed monkey! Gaming legend Ron Gilbert gives us the scoop on The Cave – an adventure 20 years in the making.
- God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta coming soon to PS Plus – If you’re a PS Plus subscriber, you’ll get access to the God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta. See the sights here!
- VidZone update: ‘Twas the blog before Christmas… – The Killers, Nicki Minaj, Nas and 50 Cent are all hitting the VidZone Christmas party. Are you?
- LittleBigPlanet Karting – Expert customisation tips and tricks – Get some style tips from the experts: we take you through the many customisation options for LittleBigPlanet Karting.
- Check out the new story trailer for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time – World-first: check out the never-seen-before Sly story trailer here.
- escapeVektor makes a break for PS Vita next week – Covering the angles: Nic Watt from developer Nnooo takes us through the intricacies of escapeVektor.
- Fuel Overdose roars into action on PSN next week – Fuel Overdose burns onto PSN next week. Executive Producer Skander Djerbi gives us a ballstic look at the game’s weaponry.
- The Last of Us character reveal: introducing Tess – It’s been a big week for The Last of Us, and we’re wrapping up with an exclusive look at Joel’s partner.
- Weekend Debate: Giving the gift of gaming – With Christmas fast approaching, we have a festively-themed Weekend Debate. Will you win a copy of Uncharted: Fight for Fortune and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune?!
- Vote for your favourite PlayStation games of 2012! – 2012′s been a golden year for gaming. Now we want you to tell us what your favourite PlayStation games from the past 12 months have been.
- Weekend Essentials – Batman returns to PlayStation along with Grand Theft Auto and Spyro, as we take you through our picks for a slam-bang weekend of entertainment.
- Top Tips: LEGO The Lord of the Rings – Want to defeat Sauron once and for all in LEGO The Lord of the Rings on PS3? These hints from Traveller’s Tales may help…
- 10 of the Best: PS Vita games – Grab the perfect festive gift or add even more quality to your games collection with this selection of top titles for PlayStation Vita.
- PlayStation Store arrives on computer – Visit store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com on your PC or Mac for an unrivalled selection of games. movies, TV series and more for your PS3, PS Vita or PSP.
- Trophy Cabinet: Red Dead Redemption – Ride off into a platinum-tinged sunset with this saddlebag full of advice from the official PlayStation Community.
- Here are 15 reasons why The Phantom Pain is Metal Gear Solid 5.
- More money than sense? You need these *how much!* Christmas gifts for the PlayStation gamer who has everything.
- It’s time to judge your gaming year with the PS3 trophies you should have got in 2012.
- Check out these The Last Of Us screens showing of the latest trailer in gorgeous HD detail.
- We asked and you voted: these are your PlayStation stars of 2012.
34 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 12:11 pm by ryannumber3gamer
Hi Fred i got a few questions.
1.Is Umjammer Lammy and the Spyro games playable on Vita?
2.Any news on a Sly Cooper Thieves In Time demo?
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:07 am by Fred Dutton
1. Spyro is, but I’d need to check re. Unjammer
2. No news today I’m afraid
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 12:25 pm by S-o-h-a-i-l
Hey Fred, no news on what to expect on the Blog next week ? January’s Plus content perhaps ?
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:08 am by Fred Dutton
Sorry! Yes, we’ll have news on the January Plus stuff for sure. It’s Christmas – so things are a bit quiet – but we’ll have some fun posts for you.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 12:33 pm by dgnfly
nearly the end off the year still no CS:GO or RCR and many more. seems next year will continue the 5 year running fail that is SCEE.
and with ps4 coming it will bring the nextgen fail off SCEE.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 12:38 pm by hayzink
hey fred.
finally a weekend im not working woo hoo.
going to get some serious game time in today, currently playing the excellent big sky infinity, which im so glad was free on plus because i would have gave it a miss if not and i would have missed a gem of a game.
after that i fancy another blast of the god of war beta which was good fun and i enjoyed quite a bit last night.
then tonight i either start resident evil 6 or continue sega and sonic all star racing transformed on vita.
to top it all off i bout the alien anthology on bluray for a tenner and im watching aliens tonight……. game over man! game over!!!
anyway is there anything to report with regards to if the xmas period will effect store updates ect?
im guessing you guys will get some time off and i was wondering if the plus refresh will happen on the 2nd of jan as it should or if its going to be the following week?
thanks for listening
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:10 am by Fred Dutton
We’ll have news on the January Plus update in a day or two. As for Store updates – there will be a regular update on Wednesday as usual, followed by a mini update on Friday. There won’t be an update on the 26th though. Full details on Wednesday!
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 12:49 pm by markymillertime5
Still “discussing” spamstar are they fred?
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 1:36 pm by another_gamer195
Hey Fred.
Am looking forwards to the December/Feb games sales figures next month, am curious to see how many copies of that Spyro 1to3 sold, after reading the requests for them for past 4or 5 years or so. I don’t care for any ps1 games myself but each to there own as we say, That is i don’t care for them now, 15 years ago i obviously did. it’s was a little bit confusing for me reading requests for ps1 classics, especially before the vita come out. Still i hope it ended up being worth it. Reading a psm article other day and it kind of suggested there was hopes of reinventing certain ps2 games for vita, that and it making use of the 4g speeds being used by EE atm seems to be a strategy to further support that platform. Hopefully it and other plans will have some success. Also i wanted to buy most of the Sleeping Dogs dlc in Festive Sales, but only two/three items were at their advertised sales price, i heard there was stuff releasing 19th instead, but am guessing this shouldn’t apply to SD stuff. as i don’t think they’d be split up, so can you look into this, thanks.
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:11 am by Fred Dutton
Yep – that will be all discounted from the 19th. Really sorry for keeping you waiting on that!
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 1:40 pm by declan__watson
Hello Fred
Another fabulous week for the great people of sony corporation and SCE, great new exclusive content and great blog posts this week. I hope you are having a fabulous weekend Fred I certainly am.
It’s my birthday today so happy with the things I got. I got 3 games for my ps3 gran turismo, dead island and 007 legends I’m really happy. I also wanna say a big thanks to SCE for sending me a free birthday cake item for ps home to help celebrate my birthday.
I hear its Mr Hirai President and CEO of Sony corporations birthday next Sunday too I just wanna wish him a great birthday too.
LongLivePlay Sony make.believe
Anyway Fred hope you enjoy the rest of our weekend ill enjoy the rest of my birthday.
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:12 am by Fred Dutton
Happy birhtday! Hope it was a fun day and you’re enjoying those games!
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 1:41 pm by Leylifer
Hello Mr. Dutton,
Can we expect discounts on Vita (not full price) games like Everybody’s Golf, Escape Plan, LBP, Sound Shapes, Super Stardust etc. before Xmas? Cause I’m looking to buy lots of games in one purchase.:)
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:15 am by Fred Dutton
There will be some new sales kickign off this week – but I don’t believe any of those titles are included.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 1:43 pm by declan__watson
Hello Fred
LongLivePlay Sony make.believe
Forgot to mention I also got 2 playstation network £25 cards I now have £50.08 in my wallet. A lot of money.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 2:03 pm by another_gamer195
Fred.
i know your not commenting about the singstar issues, but was thinking how bad a mistake it is against how well, or better it could of been, with christmas and new years parties approaching i just imagined how well that icon and a appropriate wallpaper would of gone down, if it was rolled out for these kind of events, sort of like keeping it embedded on the firmware and when certain party or celebration times rolled around, then out pops the icon/wallpaper, but as i said maybe a bit more thought to accompanying wallpaper. like obviously the two wannabe singers would be in christmas attire surrounded by tinsel and such, can think of different ones for other times of year, but hope you get the meaning, Also, to keep the real icon bashers happier still, simply allow the incorrect system date/time prevent it alltogether. bet that sounds a bit mad but it would probably of been a better sales idea than the present forced option. i really do hope all those people will get a reply about their concerns. hope you enjoy your weekend and will be watching for you in GoW beta.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 6:41 pm by XzSlLENTSNIPERzX
Dear Fred,
The new store design has had an atrocious affect upon me. Rather than checking it weekly, downloading Access from it and simply browsing to look for anything I may enjoy, I do not do any of this any more. Due to it’s painfully slow response time, clunky interface and poor organisation I have started using the PS Blog for updates and using Youtube for Access; in addition, the browsing I used to do has stopped completely. I highly suggest you forward this onto the development team in charge of the Playsation Store and suggest emergency changes be made. The old store had an abundance of positives, the new store has non.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 6:46 pm by XzSlLENTSNIPERzX
In addition, get some Vita discounts out! It is downright offensive when A console I bought in August has received no support from it’s creators (in terms of special discounts) in the run up to Christmas. Furthermore, please keep up the classic game discounts – I love them! Thanks to you, I picketed Monster Hunter: FU for a mere £4! Thankyou! In addition to this, I also got Tomb Raider, however, I picked it up the day before the discount so lost money in that area. Anyway, have a great night because I’m going to watch the Christmas film Elf for the first time this year. Finally, have a merry Christmas.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 6:47 pm by XzSlLENTSNIPERzX
Sorry for mistakes, blame my IPod Touch.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 8:25 pm by declan__watson
Hey there again fellow bloggers
LongLivePlay Sony make.believe
Hello Fred been 7 hours after my last post what are you doing this Saturday evening I’m just playing 007 Legends. I have a question regarding 007 the game rights now I know that Metro Goldwyn Meyer are the makers of James Bond and that Sony owns part of this amazon film industry now what I know is that sony shoul buy the gaming rights off activision because sony has more beter reasons to back it up as to why they should own the rights I Jane bond video games 1. They own 20% of the studio that makes the films. 2. Sony are more advance in gaming well everybody knows that. 3. The James Bond bedroom games are better being made by sony and not activision.
Thanks Fred hope you reply back.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 8:27 pm by declan__watson
Sorry about a few spelling mistakes doing this on my iPod touch and it puts random words in when I put correct words in. Sorry again LongLivePlay Sony make.believe
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 9:03 pm by another_gamer195
@ Fred.
been re-reading a few of last months, and weeks blogs, yeah am that bored atm, But i noticed something whilst reading, you do answer a awful lot of comments and reports of broken something or others with, ‘i will look into it and get back to you’, now i’m not saying you don’t (look into faults or even get them resolved.) but i would like it if when you tell someone this in future, if, after you have either sorted it, or not been able to, you could maybe add a footnote afterwards, say a week, 5 day periods, to let all other readers know if the fault was/wasn’t fixed.. am sure it wouldn’t be that much trouble, say bookmark your reply and update it with any and all extra relevant info regards it, just looking at one example, novembers top sellers, from last week, and there are a lot of queries you said you would either flag or look into that I would like to know the outcome of. Hope this is something that’ll be possible for you to implement.
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:19 am by Fred Dutton
Sorry if you ever notice this. I pass on lots and lots of feedback to various departments and it’s sometime difficult to remember where the initial query came from! If I say that I’ve chased something, I always have. I do my best to post a response where possible, but often my brain malfunctions. I’ll do my best to be more vocal in 2013!
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 11:07 pm by Project2insanity
Since the weekend debate is nearly through for the year, I thought I’d suggest a couple of things for the resurrection. Firstly, limit entries to a single post. I personally don’t care about winning much of the time, genuinely enjoy entering, but this stipulation may help ease the concern that a few have raised that being more articulate pulls points.
Also keeps everyone on even ground, reduces multiple examples to a question that asks for one and it’s much easier to read, especially with as many comments as it normally draws.
Secondly- suggestions: If you could turn a song into a game, what song and what would the game turn out as? Eg, Hit Me Baby, One More Time could be a game about a baby on the rampage, an open-world game (possibly set in a nursery). You can hit other babies but if you can’t escape from your elders, you face a time-out.
On same lines, same question if you could commission a movie to game licence which hasn’t been done before.
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:19 am by Fred Dutton
I am planning on a few tweaks to the WD formula in 2013. Watch this space!
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 11:30 pm by Ferkel11
Any news about Counter strike:Global offensive?
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:20 am by Fred Dutton
No, not today I’m afraid.
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Posted on 15 December, 2012 at 11:30 pm by Ferkel11
Any news about CS:GO?
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Posted on 16 December, 2012 at 8:22 am by novcze
Where exactly can I find WRC3 East Africa Rallye DLC on Czech PS Store, I see said DLC on UK PS Store, but on CZ Store is only Mini Cooper DLC.
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:20 am by Fred Dutton
I’ll check in with the Store team on this.
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Posted on 16 December, 2012 at 8:23 am by hounddog56
hi fred now tell us about cs go,its been way 2 long,happy xmas
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Posted on 16 December, 2012 at 12:25 pm by supersmith2500
What’s also awesome? The Oddworld HD games which is Munch’s Oddysee and Stranger’s Wrath are both coming out on Wednesday for both PS3 and VITA (even though Stranger’s Wrath is already out on PS3, this is a VITA release) and oh yes it will help the Vita ALOT since both are great games and will keep me occupied. I mean it’s worth it since I never played Munch’s Oddysee and really want to since those games originally released on Xbox
I love you Just Add Water, I just do.
Also, Merry Christmas Fred.
Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:20 am by Fred Dutton
Yep, great games! Merry Christmas to you too!
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Posted on 16 December, 2012 at 12:41 pm by Ferkel11
Fred,its not funny anymore.Just say that you have no news about CS:GO if you have no news about it.But answer please!
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Posted on 16 December, 2012 at 1:52 pm by LTFrank9
still have spamstar on my ps3, still having trophy trouble since its been moved, still have a laggy/unfriendly store, still have no CSGO in Store. i want 2 buy walking dead ep5 an possibly BOPS2 season pass, but untill the majority of these problems are fixed. u wont receive a penny from me.
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Posted on 16 December, 2012 at 3:28 pm by jin_kazama56
is there any chance of champions of norrath/return to arms coming to ps store as ps2 classics?. miss these games so much
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Posted on 17 December, 2012 at 9:28 am by GANTZn00b
please when will the annoying singstar wallpaper and icon removed from XMB ? i had to look at it like 5 times yesterday when ejecting a blu ray disk , i would seriously even pay you money to get rid of all that singstar from my consoles , i just want it like it was before without it
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Posted on 18 December, 2012 at 4:02 pm by supersmith2500
Hey Fred, I’m kinda a little concerned, will there be a usual Store update tommorow or has it got shafted to Friday?
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Posted on 18 December, 2012 at 4:10 pm by monoliet
supersmith2500
tomoro + friday ( = next week 0 update )
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Posted on 18 December, 2012 at 4:11 pm by supersmith2500
@Monoliet:
Hmm, I’ll wait for the staff to reply and find out. =P
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Posted on 18 December, 2012 at 4:13 pm by monoliet
supersmith2500
o but them already told ( fred i tink ) in blog post =
Labyrinth Legends launches this week on PSN
if them silent i play fred
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Posted on 18 December, 2012 at 4:24 pm by supersmith2500
Monoliet:
I don’t beilive you, you’ll just end up giving me false answers.
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Posted on 18 December, 2012 at 4:27 pm by supersmith2500
@monoliet:
Ahhh so that’s two store updates we’re having since there is no update on 26th and it’s Boxing Day next week. So this is why next week’s Store update is shafted to Friday this week I got you now Mon.
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Posted on 18 December, 2012 at 4:32 pm by monoliet
i forgive u answord 31
tomoro = normal store update
but jes next week 0 update
so next week update = on friday 21
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Posted on 18 December, 2012 at 4:36 pm by monoliet
but not smart , beter on 20 = if u having problems like always .
u are abel to solve friday instead of next monday .
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