Introducing a New Series to PlayStation.Blog: Inside the Developers Studio

+ Posted by Patrick Seybold // Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media

We wanted to introduce you to a new series of posts we’re going to have here starting Monday that we are affectionately calling “Inside the Developers Studio.” If you’ve ever seen Inside the Actors Studio, you are familiar with how host, James Lipton, asks the same questions to every guest on the show. Inspired [...]

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PlayStation AM JAM Finalists Selected

+ Posted by Jill Grabenkort // Associate Promotions Manager, PlayStation

Hi everyone, I’m Jill Grabenkort, associate promotions manager for PlayStation. From time to time, I’ll chime in here with updates on some of our promotional work. Back in mid-March, we kicked-off the 4th annual PlayStation AM JAM tour in conjunction with Camp Woodward. This series of events is a nation-wide talent search for amateur action [...]

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A Q&A with F1 Driver Jenson Button

+ Posted by Ron Eagle // Sr. Manager, PR

As a follow up to Friday’s post and as part of the US Grand Prix weekend in Indianapolis, I got a chance to sit down with 8 year veteran driver Jenson Button to ask him some questions about the sport, racing for Honda and of course, gaming. I also got an inside look at the [...]

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Right Around the Corner…

+ Posted by Patrick Seybold // Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media

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I thought you might be interested in seeing this short time-lapse video from the recent May Gamers Day held at our Motion Capture Studio in San Diego. I thought this might give you a taste of what we have in store for everyone now that E3 [...]

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First “Resistance” Tourney Registration Opens Today

+ Posted by Greg Phillips // Producer, SCEA

My name is Greg Phillips and I’m a line producer here at SCEA. For the past seven years, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with Insomniac Games on everything from Spyro the Dragon 2 and 3, also as a tester to every Ratchet & Clank game and most recently Resistance: Fall of Man.
I [...]

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Blockbuster Picks Blu-ray

+ Posted by Dave Karraker // Sr. Director, Corporate Communications

Just a quick pointer to some good news coming out today regarding Blu-ray. As some of you may have read, Blockbuster announced that Blu-ray disc will be the exclusive HD movie format for 1,450 of their 1,700 stores in North America. This is a big win for the Blu-ray format, as Blockbuster noted they based [...]

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The Pinnacle of Motor Sports Visits the US

+ Posted by Ron Eagle // Sr. Manager, PR

With apologies to all the NASCAR fans out there, the most popular motor racing series in the world stopped in Indianapolis today, and we were there. As a personal fan of Formula One racing, this has to be one of the highlights of my year.
We were lucky enough to have a presence [...]

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MotorStorm: We’re Bummed About a Bug

+ Posted by Felice Standifer // Sr. US Producer for MotorStorm

Hi everyone. I’m Felice Standifer, Sr. US Producer for MotorStorm. I understand everyone is rarin’ to go with the MotorStorm updates and believe me, we are too. But right before we were planning to go live with the 1.2 updates with Time Attack mode, a new issue was found on the patch that could result [...]

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PS3 Firmware Upgrade 1.81 Coming Tomorrow

+ Posted by Eric Lempel // Director, PlayStation Network Operations

Just a quick update: we’ll be making available firmware upgrade 1.81 tomorrow which will fix a few small issues some of you have noticed. Most notably is the RGB Full setting which a few of you wrote in about. In 1.80 we added an option to the XMB under settings allowing you to choose between [...]

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Is the PS3 Really Harder to Develop for?

+ Posted by Dave Karraker // Sr. Director, Corporate Communications

Our friends over at GamePro.com have written an interesting article on a topic I get asked about all the time — Is the PS3 harder to develop for than other systems? I gave them some feedback on this and the reporter, Blake Snow, does a nice job of presenting a well-rounded story. For this piece, [...]

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