PlayStation Blog recap

Hey there everybody. I trust you’re all enjoying your weekend? Time for our usual wrap-up of the last seven days on planet PlayStation. Highlights this week? A whopping PS1 sale on the Store, chunky The Order: 1886 and Transistor interviews, first word on PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD, new footage of the supremely stylish CounterSpy, and a candid chat with PS4 system architect Mark Cerny.

While I’m on the subject of Cerny, some of you might have caught our livestream of his Gamelab presentation on Thursday. If you missed it, you can now watch the whole thing on YouTube – it’s embedded below. I urge you to spare the time – Mark offered up some fascinating stories and insights from his 30-year career in the videogame business.

See you back here on Monday, yes?

• Video Store update: Cloud Atlas, Hansel & Gretel, more
• Dare To Fly takes to the skies on PS3 this week
• PSN maintenance scheduled for Tuesday 25th June
• Gran Turismo 6 Anniversary Edition, pre-order extras detailed
• Transistor interview: Why indies matter on PS4
• LittleBigPlanet update: Tune in for Tunesday!
• PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD coming to PS Vita
• The Order: 1886 – A closer look at Ready At Dawn’s stunning PS4 exclusive
• Gran Turismo 6 demo launches next week
• PlayStation Home update: Enjoy Serenity Plaza, a new public space
• Win a Die Hard stunt holiday to New York
• PSone sale starts today – what are your favourite #PlayStationMemories?
• PlayStation Store update: Hotline Miami, Borderlands 2 DLC out today
• Meet Mark Cerny – PS4 system architect, Knack creator and the busiest man in gaming
• Slick new CounterSpy trailer emerges from the shadows
• Mark Cerny discusses the “Road to the PS4″ live at Gamelab 2013
• Win a trip to Gamescom 2013!
• Tales of Xillia interview: Hideo Baba on the return of an RPG giant
• Hotline Miami – The Access verdict
• Behind the scenes with Blacklight: Retribution on PS4 – exclusive video
• Puppeteer demo is coming soon to PS3!
• Total Recoil sets its sights on PS Vita
• Weekend Debate: Beating the backlog

• Weekend Essentials – Put your PlayStation 4 questions to Shuhei Yoshida and then win a trip to see the real thing at gamescom 2013.
• E3: Shuhei Yoshida on PS4 – Part 2 – The president of SCE Worldwide Studios on connectivity and the games to look out for this year.
• Grand Theft Auto V: What we know – Grand Theft Auto V is coming to PS3 in September 2013 – if you can’t wait that long, here’s everything we know so far.
• Win a trip to gamescom 2013 – You and a friend could soon be on your way to Cologne to soak up Europe’s biggest video game’s event.
• Win BIG: Fancy a Die Hard stunt holiday to New York? – You could win a trip to the Big Apple for an explosive movie style stunt day by entering our competition.