Hi, I’m Susana Martin, PR manager for SCE Spain, here to tell you all about our recent Buzz! addicts meeting in Spain!

The event was held in an old food market in Madrid city centre last Saturday 18 of July. The finalists were the best Spanish players from the first round of the World Championships competition held in May, and played through Buzz!TM ¿Qué sabes de tu país? online on PlayStation Network.

The finalists, aged from 18 to 48, met last Saturday face to face for the first time with the aim to become the Spanish national Buzz! champion. After a really close competition, Juan María –36 years old and native of Madrid- prevailed over the rest of competitors in the very last minute of the last round minute.

He will be the one to represent Spain at the Buzz! : World Championships Grand Final that will take place on the 25th and 26th of August at a very special location. We wish Juan María the best of luck for the big day!

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Hi guys,

Just to let you know that the Buzz! HQ and Studio spaces are now back!

Take on all comers and prove you’re the biggest brain in PS Home…

And remember, if you want to see your PSN ID up in lights, you too can submit questions for the quiz via MyBuzz!

Jump on in and happy buzzing!

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Hey there, I’m the website producer for MyBuzzQuiz.com. Our usual Buzz! expert, Rob Rutter, is on holiday this week so he’s asked me to step into his shoes and let you know that this week we’re celebrating the first anniversary of the official Buzz! community website; MyBuzzQuiz.com.

Even now, one year on, we’re still seeing more than 4,000 brand new quizzes being created on the site every week by MyBuzz Fans. This all adds up to a massive collection of over 1.75 million quizzes ready for you to play right now – that’s equivalent to 350 Buzz! discs, or 115,000(ish) episodes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

MyBuzzQuiz is open to everyone – you don’t need to own a PlayStation to take part, simply head to the site and start creating your own quizzes – or just play the quizzes already there. However, if you do own a PS3 you’ll be able to upload your MyBuzz! web quizzes to your console to play in-game. All pretty cool!

So huge thanks to everyone who’s created their own quizzes and helped keep the MyBuzz! community site such good fun for us here and all the Buzz! fans over the last year.

Here’s a look at the most popular quizzes on the website for each of our language communities – be sure to head over, check them out, have a play and add your feedback:

• English – merlinpants: “Trick question quiz” (15,200+ plays and counting…)
• Spanish – alex8496: “UEFA EURO 2008” (9,400+)
• German – ChrisTheKing911: “WM-2006-Quiz” (8,000+)
• French – erwan44: “terminez la chanson ….” (7,800+)
• Dutch – PrimeNL: “Maak deze Nederlandse Hit af…” (3,200+)
• Norwegian – powergitt: “Lurespørsmål” (2,300+)
• Italian – VFR800m: “completa la canzone 2” (2,200+)
• Swedish – Fictionman: “GODIS” (1,950+)
• Portuguese – MadeiraMan: “Só Música Pop!” (1,600+)
• Polish – nightrunnerPL : “MetallicA cz.2″ (1,470+)
• Finnish – Routamaa: Mitenkäs se biisi menikään 2 (1,450+)
• Danish – Morteno: “Klovn ‘Serie’” (1,100+)

So here’s to another quiz-filled year. Now for some celebratory cake *nom-nom-nom*

Cheers, Ian

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Hi everyone, I’m Rene Merkli, Product Manager in France for Buzz!.

Following Round 1 of the Buzz! World Championships, our 32 Finalists were invited to the French final in Paris, which was the first of the National Finals events. The French final took place in a nice old cinema called “Ciné 13 Theatre” near to Montmartre in Paris.

The 32 Online Winners had to go through several Buzz! rounds until they reached the final round: four of them played for the title of “Buzz!: Le plus malin des francais”

After some rounds of Buzz! like fastest finger, pass the bomb and more, the winner was decided. It was: MichaelRomsfield (PSN ID) aka Romain Mabil from Paris.

The French PlayStation Office wishes Romain all the best for the Buzz! World Championship Final!

P.S.: Calling all French guys and girls out there: If you want to support Romain Mabil for the Buzz! World Championship Final, then join his Fan page on Facebook right now!

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UPDATE
Unfortunately, we’ve noticed a number of issues with the new Buzz! HQ space since going live this morning that have meant some players have got stuck or frozen in the game. To fix this as quickly as we can, we’ve had to take Buzz! HQ down for the time being, but the dev team knows what the problem is and we’re looking forward to getting this space back up as soon as possible. We’ll keep you updated via the blog, Twitter and the Forums, so please bear with us and keep checking back. It’ll be awesome when it’s up and running!

Hi everyone, I’m really pleased to let you know that the new Buzz! HQ space in PS Home is now live!

This space lets you play multiplayer MyBuzz! quizzes by running around to stand on the correct answers. You can choose to play in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, and there are lots of exclusive Buzz! PS Home items to be won too.

You can head straight there by selecting Buzz! HQ from the World Map and try it out.

Let me know what you think of it (and if you’ve won a game yet!) in the Comments below.

Happy buzzing!

Rob.

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