Feb 
- Warning: Helghast Invasion of Home imminent — Helghast soldiers roaming around Home and dispensing Killzone 2 demo codes. Anyone get a voucher?
- LocoRoco 2 Review Roundup — The reviews are in. LocoRoco 2 delivers another cute uppercut.
- This Week in Killzone 2 (and more demo codes) — Hundreds of demo code went out via Twitter. If you were lucky enough to snag one, drop your thoughts on KZ2 via comments!
- Go inside the Street Fighter IV Launch! — Jeff vs. Destructoid, celebs and custom Street Fighter cell phone engravings.
- MLB 09 The Show – NEW Roster Vault Feature — Producer Jason Villa drops by to show us how to customize and share roster vaults with other community members.
- Sony PlayStation at NBA All-Star Weekend — Man, I would kill for that King James PS3…literally.
- Killzone.com Live Chat Tomorrow at Noon PST — Thanks to Seb and all of you for some great questions! We really enjoyed the Blog’s first live chat!
- MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Game Update 1 Now Live — Sneaky, sneaky. The Evo crew updates Pacific Rift with a bunch of updates and fixes, including a graphics boost for Photo Mode.
- Metal Gear Online – SCENE Expansion Details! — Konami reveals new maps and characters. Be sure to check out the screens…
- Killzone.com Live Q&A with Guerrilla Games — That hour really flew by. This could be the start of something…
- Noby Noby Boy Coming Tomorrow on PSN — I spent an hour playing yesterday, and am not quite sure what I accomplished. But I did stuff Boy’s gullet with plenty of tasty squirrels.
- Sack it to Me (the V-day Aftermath Edition) — The real LBP wedding invitation. Plus, WipEout HD costumes and stickers.
- Zuma Available Today on PSN — And with Zuma, the Blog reached its 1,000th post! Here’s to the next thousand and beyond!
- Helghast in HD – Killzone 2 Ads Hit TV — A killer ad worthy of a killer game.
- PlayStation Store Update — A great one this week: Noby Noby Boy, Zuma, loads of Burnout upgrades, the Afro Samurai demo and much more.
- MLB 09 The Show – Lighting Explained — Graphics expert Patrick shows us how the team is making lighting in MLB 09 The Show incredibly realistic.
- PlayStation Network Video Content Update — Tons of movies and shows. I’m going to watch Body of Lies this weekend…anyone see it (no spoliers!)?
- PlayStation Expands to Latin America — Viva PlayStation!
- Catch inFamous on Spike TV Tonight — And if you miss it, head over to Gametrailers.com this weekend or find it on the PSN Video Store.
- RESISTANCE: RETRIBUTION…GOLD! — And here’s a interview with the man behind the comic.
- Humbled, Honored and Hooray’ing all day!!! LittleBigPlanet AIAS awards recap! — LBP takes home eight awards at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences annual awards show!
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Update On Latency (Lag) Issues – The SOCOM: Confrontation Online Team lets us know about the latest developments on the server side of things.
Courtesy of Cindy “Abigale” Bowens
(Average: 4.13 out of 5)
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+ lcmnick on February 21st, 2009 at 12:09 pm said:
It’s definitely time to ditch the red/blue/turquoise/yellow playstation logo….it looks old.
Black and white all the way.
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+ jakinov on February 21st, 2009 at 12:18 pm said:
Chris, JEFF
Don’t you guys think they need to make the message box have a symbol beside it saying the number of messages instead of each user having a number. IT’s hard to tell if you got new messages. It should be like an email inbox. You guys should also send messages to to all PSN users:
– Newsletters
– new releases
– to notify Maintenace updates
– to notify of store updates what downloadble content is out
– to tell users about other things
– notify of game updates and what they offer
– allow developers to send messages to users who suscribe to their product.
Friend request should be in the message box and on top of the list instead of on the bottom of the list. Because nobody wants to scroll down daily to see if they got new invites.
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+ EvoAnubis on February 21st, 2009 at 12:18 pm said:
This week was a great one for news . . . it was like everything was happening at once.
@Jeff: BEYOND!!!
@ Chris: So, when do you get to go on a gaming podcast or two?
+ Chris Morell on February 21st, 2009 at 1:33 pm said:
When Jeff lets me out of my cage. Til then, go hunt down some old GamePro video news episodes…but don\’t say I didn\’t warn you about the ridiculousness.
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+ EvoAnubis on February 21st, 2009 at 12:19 pm said:
“- Newsletters
- new releases
- to notify Maintenace updates
- to notify of store updates what downloadble content is out
- to tell users about other things
- notify of game updates and what they offer
- allow developers to send messages to users who suscribe to their product.”
The info bar at the top of the screen already does most of this.
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+ jakinov on February 21st, 2009 at 12:34 pm said:
indeed but I think it’d be better to get messages because not everyone will always read that info bar thing. For your email are you going to most likely read the interesting looking emails you get from Microsoft rather then the small text advertising somewhere on the page. My main point was to have a main inbox that tells you how many messages you got. It’d be cool to get a messages from developers that say things like this patch just came out or messages from Sony there will be an awesome update coming this week or come on home right now while you are playing a game. Also you wouldn’t know if the info bar gets updated :).
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+ VenomXv on February 21st, 2009 at 12:42 pm said:
Are the 2.7 firmware rumors true?
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+ VenomXv on February 21st, 2009 at 12:44 pm said:
Here’s the link
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172880
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+ EvoAnubis on February 21st, 2009 at 12:44 pm said:
I agree with the main inbox thing.
But the last thing I want is spam PSN messages.
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+ VenomXv on February 21st, 2009 at 12:46 pm said:
6 days until KZ2! Sweet!
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+ lebron_accel on February 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pm said:
wheres the killzone recap?
+ Chris Morell on February 21st, 2009 at 1:35 pm said:
No update this week. Victor said the team is too busy with launch, obviously, but he\’ll be back soon.
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+ jakinov on February 21st, 2009 at 12:55 pm said:
@evo Annubis
they should have a subscription thing where if you don’t want it you tell them not to send you stuff. I think this would help advertise games and stuff.
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+ EvoAnubis on February 21st, 2009 at 1:02 pm said:
Don’t they send that stuff to your e-mail anyway? Why get it in both places?
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+ lakaiHIGH on February 21st, 2009 at 1:03 pm said:
i watched the new footage from inFamous on spike last night and the female boss fight looks pretty intense! the more i see on inFamous the more im intrigued. can’t wait. and oh 6 days until deployment. YAY.
peace,
Lh
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+ jakinov on February 21st, 2009 at 1:06 pm said:
mostly store updates,you can also send stuff like play with the developers and give information about tournaments.
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+ hife on February 21st, 2009 at 1:13 pm said:
@1 I was thinking the exact same thing just the other day.
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+ Ymastr587 on February 21st, 2009 at 1:29 pm said:
Overall a very good newsweek. Any truth to these 2.7 update rumors I’ve been hearing?
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+ EvoAnubis on February 21st, 2009 at 1:35 pm said:
“When Jeff lets me out of my cage. Til then, go hunt down some old GamePro video news episodes…but don’t say I didn’t warn you about the ridiculousness.”
*laughs* And what makes you think I’ve never seen those? Those things were ridiculously funny.
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+ Chaos_Bladez on February 21st, 2009 at 2:00 pm said:
I can’t wait until Killzone 2! :D
Hopefully the 2.7 firmware rumors are true! I want all of those things! :D
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+ MGO56 on February 21st, 2009 at 2:30 pm said:
Where’s Hydro Thunder?
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+ CrusherX on February 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pm said:
I’m missing the KZ update :(. Pre-ordered yesterday, thank you Sony and GG for making a game that has so much promise and realism.
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+ Griffins22 on February 21st, 2009 at 2:33 pm said:
Hey Playstation Blog staff. I have something to ask of you. Bring Jak and Daxter back on the PS3!!! At the risk of sounding immature, I’m sick of waiting. We’ve been waiting forever. Once you guys release Uncharted 2 I highly recommend Naughty Dog moves back to J&D.
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+ Junon8998 on February 21st, 2009 at 2:54 pm said:
Could we get atleast a deny on the 2.70 rumours? Everyone would benefit with those features if they were true
Cheers and a have a great weekend everyone!
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+ lakaiHIGH on February 21st, 2009 at 3:45 pm said:
what is all this 2.7 rumor business? ive heard nothing of the sort and we all know Sony doesn’t comment on rumor and speculation so can we give it a rest guys? when they are ready to announce something Mr Koller will show up on here to formally announce it with a nice little in-depth video of all the shiny new features. until then…
cheers,
Lh
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+ SmogItUp on February 21st, 2009 at 3:47 pm said:
Please allocate more resources to Slant Six. Sony needs to step up and deliver what one of their studios promised.
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+ SOOPERGOOMAN187 on February 21st, 2009 at 3:50 pm said:
Jeff or Chris,
Where can I send my resume to be a Tester for possible new products for PSP and PS3? You know the Japan Listing that’s been going round the interwebs today. I would really like to apply. It’s been a Dream of mine to work with Sony.
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+ Bear_Grylls on February 21st, 2009 at 4:57 pm said:
Did the party system get added to SOCOM yet? I want to buy it
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+ Ftwrthtx on February 21st, 2009 at 5:15 pm said:
Thanks for the info
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+ NEJI64 on February 21st, 2009 at 5:21 pm said:
lets go killzone!!!
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+ gordonguy on February 21st, 2009 at 5:39 pm said:
Right now turn to ESPN2 and watch the race. KILLZONE 2 is sponsoring the #20 Gamestop car and he is in the top 10. The car looks absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will post a picture of it when i find a picture. There are also videos of it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jnu1auHlzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UwevlcOuLc
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+ mysongska on February 21st, 2009 at 6:33 pm said:
I knew your name sounded familiar… I love GAMEPRO!
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+ gold5225 on February 21st, 2009 at 7:00 pm said:
Killzone 2 commercial tonight during UFC right cause i haven’t seen it yet.
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+ Vergil3690 on February 21st, 2009 at 7:08 pm said:
Can’t wait for Killzone 2….only thing, is, I’m lending my PS3 to my bro-in-law, and won’t be playing on it till March :(
This is where being a Multi-platform gamer comes in handy!
…just until March that is :D
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+ gold5225 on February 21st, 2009 at 7:13 pm said:
yup just saw it on Spike at 10 :12
Awesome Comercial
Great Job Guys! :)
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+ perrandy on February 21st, 2009 at 7:33 pm said:
sony has a great lineup coming up for 2009!…killzone2,mag,uncharted 2 etc etc… thats great but ..wait! something is missing up in that great lineup that is coming upon us…JRPGS! WHATS THE DEAL WITH THAT SONY? i mean i know we got disgaea 3 and valkirie chronicles plus eternal sonata but what about the present and the future why not announce any jrpgs…heck, you guys didnt announced wrpgs just as sacred 2 and the like…it almost sound like you guys hate the genre or something..and the question is are u guys going to announce something concerning rpgs that we fans of the genre might look up to? i know the genre is not as big as the shooters but common throw us a bone here!
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+ Vengeful-Chaos on February 21st, 2009 at 8:09 pm said:
Is there any chance of getting better gamer cards that updates automatically with our trophy stats and some more icons please? I would love to have a gamer card that looked as good if not better as the xbox users have.
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+ Vengeful-Chaos on February 21st, 2009 at 8:10 pm said:
Substitute icons for avatars**
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+ Sum1_BetterZenU on February 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pm said:
Sony, if 2.7 rumors are true please remember we don’t just want improved chat features, we want party chat and cross game chat. Our friends and only our friends.
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+ MrBeatdown on February 21st, 2009 at 11:29 pm said:
“Helghast soldiers roaming around Home and dispensing Killzone 2 demo codes. Anyone get a voucher?”
Not me. And it still makes me cry every time I think about it. Excuse me, I think I have something in my eye…
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+ Wollan on February 22nd, 2009 at 1:10 am said:
Dear Sony.
Please bring Demon’s Souls to the west.
It just released in Japan/Asia with no hint of a local release here.
More and more importers are realizing it’s the hidden gem of this generation. It’s a spiritual successor to Kings Field from the people who made Kings Field.
Cover:
http://www.shopncsx.com/images/products/display/demon_soul.jpg
Published by Sony and developed by From Software. The game is already 100% translated into English (voices, text, menus/items, trophies). The job is practically already done for you.
In the very very least, release it on the PS Store. Cheers.
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+ Neil_young2k5 on February 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 am said:
This week I was sad and shocked by Brasil again be ignored by Sony.
I live in Brasil and always bought sony products (sound, TV, walkman, dvd, vhs, recharge and videogame etc) and it is very difficult and the need to import and pay two or three times the original price when I bought the Playstation and its games and accessories.
PS1 – 1996
PS2 – 2001
PSP – 2005
PS3 – 2008
I am increasingly disappointed with the sony for not officially get the playstation to Brasil, the largest market in Latin America in sales of PlayStation.
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+ MariusElijah on February 22nd, 2009 at 8:44 am said:
5 days till KILLZONE sigh, any word on 2.7
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+ PullusPardusUS on February 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 am said:
What podcast you guys are doing? , you should link it from here.
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+ gold5225 on February 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 am said:
@39 i agree
they should
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+ thepatriots on February 22nd, 2009 at 11:40 am said:
You know what is missing from this news…
info on GT5.
Note: this is a shameless ploy to get some form of a reply that may divulge some info on GT5…
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+ DaxMontana on February 22nd, 2009 at 6:41 pm said:
If the 2.7 rumours are true, I just can’t wait to see how Sony will cripple the features to the point where they’re useless.
My prediction with the XMB chat (if it’s even true): We’ll be able to use chat when we jump out to the XMB from a game, but it’ll cut off when we’re back in the game. So essentially useless.
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+ Sum1_BetterZenU on February 22nd, 2009 at 8:45 pm said:
@DazMontana…..think your right, but hope your wrong!
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+ Sekoku on February 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 am said:
That’s great and all… but when will Socom go from “barely playable” to playable?
Someone needs to can Slant Six and have Zipper come back and fix their crap. Confrontation wouldn’t be bad, but it’s six months after release and the beta was terrible. The game is still nearly terrible. Shame, as it could be so much more.
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+ DaxMontana on February 23rd, 2009 at 7:24 am said:
The title of this recurring blog entry should be truncated to ‘The PSB Recap’. Drop the SOCOM silliness.
There’s never any movement in the SOCOM world. Just the occasional e-mail from Slant Six promising to fix the same problems that have plagued the game since well before release.
It’s embarrassing to read. And I would think it’s getting embarrassing to post (no?)
Just do everyone a favour, and drop it.