Ratchet & Clank Preview

+ Posted by Jennifer Clark // Sr. Manager, PR

Last week at Insomniac Games we played host to 45 gaming journalists and gave them a chance to get their hands on Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and preview some new levels, weapons, enemies, and environments. We also demonstrated how the folks at Insomniac are really tapping into the PS3’s capabilities with this [...]

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Heavenly Sword Prequel: Part 2 - Guardians of the Sword

+ Posted by Mark Valledor // Marketing Manager, SCEA

Week two of our Heavenly Sword video series for your enjoyment. We’re glad you guys enjoyed last week’s video and the feedback has spurred ideas to take these elsewhere (Blu-ray stocking stuffer, anyone?). We’re also glad that both the “making of” and animation series are starting to answer a lot of your storyline and production [...]

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The LAIR Score: Part Two

+ Posted by John Debney // LAIR Composer

Following up on my entry earlier this week, without walking you through the whole score, I wanted to call out a few tracks that stand out as prime examples of the principal themes contained in the score for LAIR. When you hear the elegant strains of the “Civilization” theme (Asylia theme), you’ll notice hints at [...]

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Warhawk FAQ

+ Posted by Dylan Jobe // Game Director, Warhawk

In an effort to try and answer as many questions as I can about Warhawk, I’ve compiled this Q&A. Fair warning, it’s very long, but I know a lot of you guys have questions, so I hope this helps!
Is the headset a limited time kinda thing?
No, not to my knowledge. It’s something that we feel [...]

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PS3 Stress Test

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

A lot of noise has been made recently about the reliability issues of one of our competitor’s systems. So, not surprisingly, some of our more ambitious PlayStation faithfuls decided to run their own stress test on the PlayStation 3. They put it in a freezer at zero degrees for up to 108 hours and they [...]

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The LAIR Score: Part One

+ Posted by John Debney // LAIR Composer

My name is John Debney and I’m a music composer working in Hollywood, scoring films such as “Passion of the Christ” and “Sin City.” I also composed the soundtrack for LAIR, and wanted to share a bit about that experience with you guys, as well as offer you a sample of the game’s music.
Composing [...]

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One Last Thing on E3 2007…

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

It’s really hard to believe it has been a month since E3. The team here at SCEA is pretty much fully recovered at this point and is shifting gears to Leipzig and the Tokyo Game Show. Before we leave E3 2007 in the dust, however, we thought we would share one last thing.

FLV PLAYER

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Heavenly Sword Prequel

+ Posted by Mark Valledor // Marketing Manager, SCEA

Heavenly Sword marketing guy here. Usually I just watch this blog from the sidelines and let our production teams talk (because lets face it, you guys don’t want to hear our marketing mumbo-jumbo) … but our blog team asked me to elaborate on the recent Heavenly Sword videos we just released, so here it is. [...]

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Behind The Curtain: The Warhawk Servers

+ Posted by Dylan Jobe // Game Director, Warhawk

As I mentioned in my last post, I wanted to give you guys a bit of a “peek-behind-the-curtain,” to show you our sweet Warhawk server setup.
Those of you familiar with Warhawk already know that the game features a very unique server method that we call “Integrated Game Server” or IGS for short — the industry [...]

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Journalists Get Their SingStar On @ Lollapalooza

+ Posted by Jennifer Clark // Sr. Manager, PR

This weekend, PlayStation took center stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago. In addition to participating in various show events, we invited media to the Windy City to experience our holiday social game lineup. On Friday night, we took over the House of Blues and announced the November 13th launch date of SingStar PS3 and the first [...]

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