Here’s your recap:

• Inside PS Vita: Social Connectivity – The latest video in the Inside PS Vita series features the developers of Reality Fighters and WipEout 2048 discussing the changing ways we play together.
• Video Store Of PlayStation Store News! – The 0.99 Movie Showdown comes to the Video Store. Vote for either Captain America: The First Avenger or Conan the Barbarian to go on sale for £0.99/€0.99!
• The 8 February SingStore Update With The Human League And More… – Pick up the 80′s Part 4 Song Pack and a bunch of other gems this week in SingStore.
• ModNation Racers: Road Trip – Here, Let Us Help You With That – New Track Studio features will let you twist and shape your ModNation surroundings like never before, for some truly mind-bending races.
• Malicious Comes To PSN This Week – This all-new action game for PS3 contains stages that throw players into boss battles, and allows them to freely choose which stage they would like to begin with.
• PlayStation Home: Love is in the Air – Home is a digital romance goldmine this week, with a Lockwood ShowOff: First Date photo competition, new Valentine’s-themed clothing and furniture, and more.
• PS3 System Software Update (V.4.10) – This new firmware update features an improved Internet Browser and renames PSN Account to Sony Entertainment Network Account (but doesn’t change how you log in!).
• ‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 8th February 2012 – Shank 2, Malicious, The Simpsons Arcade Game, and lots of DLC hit the Store this week, plus the PSP Power Sale continues.
• DLC Roll Out: New Uncharted 3 Co-op Adventure DLC And Skins Pack – The Fort Co-Op Adventure DLC is here, plus 3 Skins Packs and the Flashback Map Pack 2.
• Dive Into PS Vita’s Augmented Reality Suite – Sony Santa Monica Sr. Manager Dave Thach shows off two new augmented reality games, Fireworks and Cliff Diving, coming exclusively to PS Vita on 22 Feb on PSN for free.
• Motion Controls In Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition – Virtua Tennis 4 uses the unique new features of the PlayStation Vita to full effect, so you can do things like tilt the screen to change your view of the game.
• MUBI Update: 9 February 2012 – A wide mix of genres in MUBI this week – classic cinema, contemporary genre films, super smart and sexy mainstream international titles, and more.
• Inside PS Vita: Cross Play With PS3 – Get a first look at the awesome level of interaction between the PS Vita and PS3, making it possible for players to compete against each other on different devices and more.
• Vodafone UK PS Vita 3G Pricing & WipEout 2048 Offer! – Announcing the plans for UK PS Vita 3G users, plus an offer that includes a free copy of WipEout 2048.
• VIDZONE UPDATE: M Is For Madonna, Minaj, M.I.A, Miike Snow And More! – This week in VidZone, a wide variety of great music videos come together in alphabetical unity, led by Artist of the Week Nicki Minaj.
• FuturLab’s Space Shooter Revealed, Music By Killzone Composer – The new teleportation shoot ‘em-up Velocity, coming in March, will combine nostalgia and innovation for a game that’s both familiar and exciting.
• Smash ‘N’ Survive Coming To PSN On 22 February – Version2Games’ first PS3 offering brings a new level of planning to vehicle combat, featuring environmental weapons, a variety of game modes, and other tweaks to the genre.
• Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 PS Vita Gameplay – Watch new video from the game, and make your choices: Hero or herald? Marvel or Capcom?
• Access Episode 20 – This episode features PS Vita racer WipEout 2048 as Game of the Week, plus footage from the recent Glasgow Vita Rooms and more.
• PlayStation Vita Discovery Apps: Frobisher Says And t@g – Frobisher Says is a surreal party game with a wide variety of activities; t@g brings fun, competition, and design to real-life spaces. Both are free from the PlayStation Store.
• “The Weekend Debate: At Home VS Not At Home” – What’s the difference between a perfect home console game and a perfect portable one? Dive into the discussion.

• Weekend Essentials 112 – Unlock the secrets of Amalur, take a trip to Gotham City and discover a town plagued by nightmares in Catherine this weekend on PlayStation.
• Top Tips: Gotham City Impostors – Become the perfect phoney in Batman’s home town with these handy hints from Monolith, developer of Gotham City Impostors.
• Top Darts preview – Take your personal dartboard with you wherever you go.
• Little Deviants preview – Let the mayhem begin on PS Vita.
• Uncharted: Golden Abyss preview – Uncover the dark secret behind the massacre of a Spanish expedition to Central America 400 years ago.

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Earlier today we posted the latest episode of Inside PS Vita that shows some of the ways that PS Vita and PS3 interact. Such breakthroughs as playing the exact same game on a home console and portable, and enabling players to compete in the same arena whether they’re in their bedrooms or in the park, are closing the gaps between what we traditionally expect in a home game experience and a portable one. Maybe you disagree with me entirely – that’s where the Weekend Debate comes in.

Whenever I’m in an interview about PlayStation Vita I find myself asking the subject the same question: what’s the difference between a perfect home console game and a perfect portable one? None has given a gold-plated answer yet so I thought I’d open it up to the community. This week’s debate is:

Is there any difference between a game best suited to a home console and one best fitting a portable, or is the whole gaming world too diverse to try and make a distinction?

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That’s another week done and dusted. What was your favourite blog post? I enjoyed the MotorStorm RC online play video and it’s always great to hear more about Aliens: Colonial Marines. Next week’s schedule is still coming together as I write this but I can say that we’ll have a fair bit of PS Vita news and a new PSN game that even I didn’t see coming…

Here’s your recap.

• Hungry Giraffe Eats Its Way Onto PSN – Live the dream: Help a stretchy-necked giraffe eat burgers floating in the sky.
• LittleBigPlanet Now Has Over 6 MILLION USER-GENERATED GAMES & LEVELS!!! – Check out a fan-created LBP video series that caught our attention, watch the trailer for the new Muppets DLC, and more.
• ‘Heads-Up’ PlayStation Plus Update – 1st February 2012 – The Simpsons Arcade arrives next week for FREE, Far Cry 2 is coming soon after that, and a lot more in this update.
• PlayStation Home: Lose Weight With Novus Prime – This week in PS Home, spacewalk in Novus Prime, try out new period costumes, and more.
• Twisted Metal Multiplayer Beta Coming To PSN Today – This awesome beta includes 8 vehicles, 2 multiplayer modes, and a challenge mode.
• PlayStation Network Scheduled Maintenance – PSN was offline for scheduled maintenance from 2pm Thursday to 7am Friday (GMT).
• ‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update February 1st 2012 – Betas for Gotham City Imposters and Twisted Metal, plus a Syndicate demo and more.
• Lumines Electronic Symphony: Q Entertainment’s Love Letter To Electronic Music – See the full listing of 33 playable tracks, and read reactions from some of the featured artists.
• Making Of: The Last Of Us Announcement Trailer – See motion capture footage from the making of The Last of Us announcement trailer.
• Welcome To The PS3 Demo Of Syndicate! – This co-op demo with an awesome weapons arsenal showcases how Syndicate is more than your average FPS.
• Touch Controls In Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition – Virtua Tennis 4 takes full advantage of the Vita’s front and rear touch capabilities for some truly innovative gameplay.
• MotorStorm RC: Video Run-Through Of Competitive Online Play – Get a glimpse of MotorStorm RC’s competitive online play, perfect for igniting intense rivalries among gamers.
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem Release Date Confirmed – This “best of” compilation of content from both Worms 3D and Worms 4: Mayhem arrives 15 February.
• Access TV Episode 19 – In this week’s episode, new Uncharted: Golden Abyss footage, Vita tech specs, a real-life WipEout track, and more.
• Randy Pitchford Talks Aliens: Colonial Marines Release Date, Prometheus Possibilities – The CEO of Gearbox Software dishes on the new FPS’ play style and the upcoming film Prometheus.
• The Weekend Debate: Caption This – A twist on this week’s Weekend Debate!

• Weekend Essentials 111 – The FINAL FANTASY and SOUL CALIBUR series return to PS3 this weekend, whilst a brand new edition of our Level Up quiz celebrates the upcoming launch of PS Vita.
• First look: Darksiders II – Find out what it’s like to play as the unlikeliest hero on PlayStation 3.
• Augmented reality on PS Vita – Bring the world into play with PlayStation Vita and dramatically change the world around you using augmented reality…
• The features of PlayStation Vita – Take a look at the revolutionary features of PlayStation Vita that will change the way you play on the go.

• PS Vita pre-order guide: the cheapest prices, best bundles
• Resident Evil 6 characters: who can, and who can’t come back?
• The Last Of Us’ Joel is “a violent thug, a brutal killer and a torturer”
• SoulCalibur 5′s top cheaty tips – tactics to always win.
• Things I wish I’d known before I started playing Final Fantasy XIII-2

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For a bit of a change, this week’s debate is a caption-off. Rather than discuss a topic, I’d like you come up with a funny caption for the image below. Seeing as the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is out this week, here’s a picture of Snake chilling with a monkey. Get captioning!

I don’t have any spare voucher codes to give away this week so this is just for kicks and the chance for you razor wit to be admired by the PS community. Enjoy!

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Here’s another week of PlayStation.Blog content gift wrapped in blue and delivered to your browsers; what has been your favourite announcement? I personally enjoyed the Beginner’s Guide to BlazBlue, a series I have never dipped my fist into. With that, the news that Mr. Miyagi appears in Reality fighters and the reveal of more exclusive PlayStation characters for Street Fighter X Tekken, it seems that the beat ‘em up genre is alive and well. That’s great news for the industry.

While I can’t share everything I have planned for next week, you can look forward to February’s PlayStation Plus content list on Monday. We’ll also have updates on LBP, Virtua Tennis on PS Vita and the superb MotorStorm RC. I hope you’ll be with us for all that.

Here’s your recap:

• Action And Comedy On VideoStore Of PlayStation Store – We all love the thrill of watching a great action film… right!?
• Win The Ultimate PS Vita Gaming Bundle – Sign up to Inside PS Vita now and receive all the latest updates and developments, and maybe even win something!
• Online Features In ModNation Racers: Road Trip – An impressive list of online functionality to take advantage of the WiFi/3G and GPS functionality.
• Creating Monsters For Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock – Here’s some insight into the monsters that will be appearing in the game.
• SingStore 2012: The Next Update Is Here… – SingStore update No. 2 for this year! Time flies when you’re having fun.
• Mecho Wars Soars Onto PSN Tomorrow – minis title Mecho Wars, is coming to the PlayStation Store for €4.99 on January 25th!
• Everything You Wanted To Know About BlazBlue – But Were Afraid To Ask – Take a look at a series that’s built a reputation for itself among fighting aficionados over the last couple of years.
• Ubisoft PS Vita Week – Asphalt: Injection Fuels The Fire – Boasts ten game modes spanning the tried-and-true Race mode to more signature game modes!
• PlayStation Home: Yeti Sighting In Winter Event Space – Reports of a mysterious cave opening up down by the water in the Winter Event space
• The Jak And Daxter Trilogy Hits On Feb 22nd With Over 100 Trophies To Collect – Score the first three installments of the Jak and Daxter trilogy in one complete PS3 Blu-ray package for just €39.99 (RRP).
• Introducing Your Reality Fighters Sensei: Mr. Miyagi – Augmented Reailty beat ‘em up coming exclusively to PlayStation Vita!
• ‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 25th January 2012 – Check out the new PSN content and snap up a new batch of avatars ranging from Assassin’s Creed to King of Fighters!
• Ubisoft PS Vita Week: Building On A Classic With Lumines Electronic Symphony – Lumines still holds its place as one of the top five games currently available for PlayStation Portable.
• VidZone Update – VidZone’s Annual Alternate Video Awards 2012 – Encounter the winners and losers, the gracious and jealous, tears of joy and disappointment, the good the bad and the downright mental antics.
• Ubisoft PS Vita Week: Rayman Origins – On February 22, Rayman and his friends return to PS Vita!
• Armored Core V Preps PS3 Community For Deep Multiplayer Action – Hitting consoles across Europe on 23rd March, so check out this trailer with some ins and outs!
• Mega Man And Pac-Man Confirmed As PlayStation Exclusives For Street Fighter X Tekken – Two of videogaming’s most iconic characters are entering the ring and going toe to toe.
• Access TV Episode 18 – Episode 18 of Access is on YouTube now and it’s decidedly PlayStation Vita-shaped!
• The Weekend Debate: Crossing The Streams – What would be your dream gaming crossovers or cameos and why?

• Weekend Essentials 110 – Download The Duke, see Naughty Dog’s latest vision and win great prizes with PlayStation this weekend.
• “Top Tips: Gran Turismo 5″ – 2011 GT Academy winner Jann Mardenborough gives us a driving masterclass in our exclusive video.
• Win the ultimate PS Vita gaming bundle – Be first in line to experience the handheld revolution thanks to Inside PS Vita.
• PS Vita connects with Vodafone – Sony Computer Entertainment Europe partners with Vodafone to provide 3G services for PlayStation Vita.
• Bundles of fun – Start your PS3 and PSP adventure with a great value hardware and software pack from PlayStation.

• What Uncharted 4-s million polygon characters will look like.
• Brendan McNamara interview: creating LA Noire and destroying Team Bondi.
• Resident Evil 6 trailer breakdown, 60 screens and horribly excited, zombified thoughts.
• Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock now PS3 exclusive.
• Official PlayStation Magazine UK: new issue on sale: The Last Of Us/Mass Effect 3.

Bonus OPSM link!

• What happens when you play Reality Fighters with a six foot AR card?

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