Speeding you into the weekend this Friday is Access TV episode 20, now available on YouTube and featuring shiny Vita racer Wipeout 2048 as Game of the Week. There’s a ton of new gameplay footage showcasing Studio Liverpool’s gravity-bothering blockbuster, including a look at the innovative ‘touch & tilt’ control functions.

Also worth checking out is footage from the recent Glasgow Vita Rooms, where Sony’s new handheld was on public display. There’s plenty of reaction from the Access Community (that’s you), plus guest appearances from Glasgow Rangers hotshots Maurice Edu and Alejandro Bedoya. Not only that, rap ace Lethal Bizzle drops in for a performance – don’t miss it.

Elsewhere the team brave an interview with UFC hard-man Brad ‘One Punch’ Pickett, as he reveals what he really thinks of his nose, plus tells us which PlayStation character he’d most like to have a brawl with in real life.

There’s also your usual serving of PS3 news to get stuck into, plus a roundup of the week’s essential content on the PlayStation Store, which this week includes crazy shooter Gotham City Impostors, plus buckets of cartoon violence with Shank 2.

Access TV is available every Friday on YouTube – head to youtube.com/playstationaccess to subscribe and never miss an episode.

To sign up for future Access events or to hang out and chat with other members of the Access community, then visit us on Facebook at facebook.com/PlaystationAccess, or follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/PSAccess.

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Marvel vs Capcom fans, we’ve some new assets for you. Are you a hero or a herald? Check out the hero and herald screens to make your mind up…

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I’m here today to show you our awesome new teleportation shoot ‘em-up that is packed with innovative features – and it’s a game that YOU named!

Big Tease

Many moons ago we ran a mystery puzzle teaser here on the blog, the reveal of which invited you to suggest names for the game.* We can now reveal that there are FOUR winners who now have their names immortalised in the game, and each will win a promo code to download the game for free, or to share with a friend!

We had hundreds of entries, for which we were very grateful, and settled on ‘VELOCITY’, as it described the concept and gameplay very well – and is a cool word!

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Today, VidZone’s update blog is brought to you by the letter M. (Sesame Street reference, check!) I think this could be a regular feature, as long as I can get The Count to count music videos…1 music video, 2 music videos, 3 music videos, aaah ahhh aaaaaahhhh.

Anyway, to business. We do indeed have new video from all the artists in the title, including a “Minaj á trois” of videos featuring Nicki Minaj including one where she is complaining that her garden equipment isn’t very bright…well, I think that’s what “Stupid Hoe” must be about. If you like your piano’s hooks huge and your videos at their most random, then check out Miike Snow’s “Paddling Out” and of course Madonna is back in all her SuperBowl exclusive glory with “Give Me All Your Luvin’” featuring Ms Minaj and M.I.A. whose new video you should also be looking out for in our next update because it’s also amazing!

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At CES, we scored a backstage demo of Table Football, one of three augmented reality games that show off PS Vita’s Wide Area Augmented Reality capability.

Today, Sony Santa Monica Sr. Manager Dave Thach returns with two new augmented reality games, Fireworks and Cliff Diving. Both are part of the Augmented Reality Suite coming exclusively to PS Vita on Feb 22nd on PSN for free. Also, packaged with your PS Vita will be six AR cards which will also work with Reality Fighters, and other great AR experiences.

Fireworks transforms the world around you into a firework display where you’ll literally touch the apex of the firework for multipliers, combos and points. Cliff Diving introduces you to diver Dave, where you’ll have him cliff diving off your coffee table into a virtual body of water.

Before you check out this video, make sure you watch our very first tour with Table Football which completes AR Suite on PS Vita.

Instead of telling you more, I’ll let Dave Thach show you!

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