Hey folks, I’m here today to announce a new PSN title coming this year! I’m very excited to introduce When Vikings Attack for PS3 and PS Vita.

In this all-action fighting adventure, a battalion of Viking invaders, 1200 years late to the party, are causing havoc in your town. Imagine getting together a posse of local citizens: a construction worker, a butcher, a policeman, a pastor, and a schoolboy, then ripping up a phone booth or picking up a car, and hurling it at the advancing Viking hordes. That’s the sort of crazy action you can expect in this totally new and original PSN title for PS3 and PS Vita.

Grab whatever you can and get ready to do battle!

Featuring both adventure and Versus gameplay modes that can be played with one to four players, the game has been winning fans within the walls of PlayStation with its manic, quick-fire gameplay ever since it came into being.

Did I mention that it’s also a full cross play/save/buy title? So all gameplay modes can be played between PS Vita and PS3 in pretty much any combination you can imagine: two PS3s and two Vitas or one PS3 and three Vitas or one PS3 with three players and one Vita… I could go on but let’s just say you can have four players in any combination of systems you want. Also, with cross-platform save you can carry on your Adventure mode progress no matter where you are, just upload the save file from your PS3 and download it to your PS Vita or vice versa. Then to top it all off and make this the perfect Crossplay game, we are also offering both versions for one price, no matter which version you buy you will get the other for free… a pretty good deal, if you ask me!

Be sure to keep an eye out for more info at E3 and I’ll be back in the coming weeks along with some of the guys from Clever Beans (the development team behind the game) to introduce you to even more features and let you in on some behind-the-scenes details of how the title came into being and what you can expect when it launches later this year.

Post any questions you have in the comments and I’ll endeavour to answer whatever I can.

Thanks and good day!

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The Moscow Metro. A monumental feat of Soviet engineering, with a dark secondary purpose – to serve as a refuge in the event of an atomic attack. As the Cold War thawed and the threat of nuclear annihilation seemed to fade, this purpose was forgotten – except by a few, waiting for the signal, ready to open the vaults… the last refuge for the remnants of mankind.

Bonus factoids:

• ‘Enter The Metro‘ was filmed on location in Kyiv, Ukraine in February 2012. During filming, temperatures dropped to -20° Centigrade…
• There were 8 cast actors involved, over 120 extras and a production crew of 50.

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Welcome to the fourth blog on Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.

I’m Simon Harris, the Executive Producer for BBC Worldwide on the game which means the project is my overall responsibility. It’s my duty to ensure all aspects come together to make a great game and that the game is true to Doctor Who. This means working with the developer, Supermassive Games on the design, art and programming and working with the Doctor Who team in London and Cardiff to ensure that everything looks and feels as it should.

Last night was the culmination of the last year’s work. The game went live for PS3 on the Playstation Store across Europe, Australia & the US yesterday and last night we held a press event with our partners Sony to celebrate the launch.

SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) kindly shared their central London office with us for a press launch event in their bar. We were thrilled to have so many journalists attending including The Times and the Guardian together with a multitude of independent gaming and Doctor Who fan sites. I got to stand up and provide a little flavour on the journey we have taken with Supermassive Games, Sony and the wider Doctor Who team to create the game. We shared a couple of video compilations of game footage and then I took questions from the floor. Finally, they got to go and play the game on PS3 and PS Vita whilst of course having the odd drink and a bite to eat.

Feedback from the journalists was really, really positive and now I get to wait with the team for the first reviews to hit.

It’s been an incredible journey building this first Doctor Who title for BBC Worldwide and it’s been great fun sharing our progress with your via this blog. I hope you all enjoy the game and please send your feedback to our twitter account @DoctorWhoTEC and hashtag #doctorwhotec.

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Cannes 2012 is on in the south of France! Most can’t make it to this glamorous festival, so on MUBI we’re showing films by filmmakers who have movies in this year’s Cannes selection. This is our second part of a roundup of MUBI films featuring this year’s Cannes directors.

Raúl Ruiz has La noche de enfrente in Directors’ Fortnight. We’re showing Ruiz’s Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) in Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland; Genealogies of a Crime (1997) in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands; That Day (2003) in Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland; Klimt (2006) in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom; and Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) in United Kingdom and Ireland.

Walter Salles has On the Road in Competition. We’re showing Salles’ Central Station (1998) in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands; and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) in Belgium, Luxembourg.

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Hi, this is Jakub from Grip Games and I’m back with the second part of our Foosball 2012 Developer Diary series. This week, I’ll introduce you to the cross-platform functionalities between PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.

With Foosball 2012, we didn’t want to have just another game that has a version for PS3 and another version for PS Vita, we wanted an experience where platforms don’t matter and where you don’t need to worry about which device you are currently using. So, you’ll get exactly the same game, including your current progress, unlocks, and DLC every time you start the game, regardless of how where you’re playing.

First of all, when you buy the game, you’ll get it for both PS3 and PS Vita for a price of a single PSN game. The same applies for additional content that you will be able to buy. Purchase it once and you can use it on both platforms.

Secondly, when you play the game, your saves are automatically uploaded to a cloud storage within the PlayStation Network and synchronized between PS3 and PS Vita. This means that whenever you start the game, the progress you made on another platform, including the online multiplayer statistics and trophies, is right there and automatically synchronized.

Finally, players on PS3 and on PS Vita can play online matches against each other. Even if you own only one of the devices, you will still be able to play against the people who play on the other device. So, there will always be someone to play with.

Foosball 2012 will be released soon on PlayStation Store. For more details about the game visit the official web page www.foosball2012.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

In our final Developer Diary video next week, I will talk about the various single-player and multiplayer game modes that the game will offer.

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