Football, football, football! It’s everywhere right now and you can test your knowledge of the beautiful game as the World Cup enters the knockout stages with the all new BUZZ! World Football Quiz question expansion pack available for BUZZ! Quiz World PS3 and BUZZ! Quiz TV from PlayStation Store.

Delivering over 500 brand new questions designed for everyone from the casual supporter to the most expert fan and covering everything from the sport’s most legendary players to the games that made history. Get yourself match fit alongside the world’s biggest football event by challenging your friends to a trivia showdown.

To get you warmed up, try these on for size:

• Who finished his career with an infamous headbutt in the 2006 FIFA World Cup final?
• Which Englishman was famously shown a red card for kicking out at Diego Simeone at France ’98?
• What type of animal is Zakumi, the official 2010 FIFA World Cup mascot?
• Which continent has provided the most teams for the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
• Which manufacturer won the contract to make the official 2010 FIFA World Cup ball?

Got the answers? Find out if you’re right and pick up the World Football Quiz Pack for Buzz PS3 available now on the PSN Store at £3.19/ €3.99.

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Since the arrival of Facebook for PS3 at the end of last year, down here at Relentless’ towers in Brighton we’ve been busily putting together a world-first. I’m pleased to tell you that on the 22nd March we’ll be patching our most-recent game, Buzz!: Quiz World, with PS3′s first true in-game Facebook publishing features.

How does it work? Super-simple. Once you’ve set-up your Facebook account on the PS3 and installed the patch, at the end of each game you’ll be offered the chance to publish to Facebook some info about what you’ve just played.

This info can be about a multiplayer game you’ve just enjoyed…

…or a singleplayer challenge you’ve just set a great score in…

…and you can post up to five times a day.

On the Facebook side of things, you’ll see a bunch of colourful Buzz! stories, telling your friends what you’ve been up to in the game.

We’ve built this patch for as many languages as possible, with support for (take a deep breath) English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Czech, and Croatian.

It’s great to be offering the first ever PS3 feature of this kind to Buzz! fans. We’ve been working closely with the team at Facebook to make this happen (thanks are due to Sony’s online tech guys in the States too). Quiz World is a fantastic social game and it feels like a great fit to connect it with the world’s biggest social network. Look out for the patch today – we hope you have fun with it.

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Hi everyone, I’m really happy to be able to tell you about an exciting new Buzz! quiz game we’re launching on Facebook today called ‘Buzz!: The Friend Quiz’.

Do you think you really know your Facebook friends? Buzz!: The Friend Quiz will help you find out by creating completely personalised quizzes from your shared photos, status updates, fan pages and more.

You can challenge your friends to single or multiple games to see who the best is. There are leaderboards for you to check your current ranking and a range of trophies to collect for great play, as well as message boards for each game you set up, so you can write as much smack-talk as you like!

Each quiz is 8 rounds long (up to 3 questions in each) and covers a different area of Facebook, so there are questions about which of your friends appears in a displayed photo, who wrote a particular comment on their profile, who posted the following link and more. Some of the answers about your friends can be very funny (and enlightening!)

I hope you’re all really going to enjoy it. The app is only in English right now, but we’re busy preparing the French, Italian, German and Spanish versions which will be ready before the end of this month; we’re hoping to add even more languages very soon too. Keep an eye here for more info soon.

Buzz!: The Friend Quiz has just gone live now on Facebook, so head over, try it out and let me know what you think!

(Please note: Buzz! The Friend Quiz is not compatible with the PS3, but works perfectly in any of your favourite PC browsers.)

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What an amazing time the past 24 hours have been! The town of Bunol has been buzzing with tomatoes and of course, Buzz! : )

After an incredible performance on Tuesday night, we’ve finally found our Buzz! World Champion, Armin Diethelm from Switzerland! Armin has won the contest and is now the proud owner of a brand-new MINI Clubman. Many congratulations Armin on a fantastic bit of quizzing, and to MINI for the fantastic prize.

On Wednesday morning, it was time to take all our National Champions to La Tomatina. Our champ, Armin, and Buzz started the 10-tonne tomato frenzy by launching the firework signal. Just one hour later, Bunol (and us!) were covered in tomatoes and the clean-up began.

Check out the photos below to see our new champion and pics of the festival.
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Hi there guys – time for a brief PlayStation Home update.

The Fat Princess will be packing up her throne and leaving the PlayStation Events Space as of tomorrow so the Quest for Cake will be replaced by a brand new, SCEE exclusive event – the Buzz! Tomato Challenge.

Alongside exclusive footage of the Buzz! World Championships grand final at La Tomatina festival in Spain, (click here if you don’t know what this is!) you will be able to take part in a virtual version of the real world event via the Buzz! Tomato Challenge pod in the re-dressed Events Landing.

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