May 23, 2009May 24, 2009

The PSB & SOCOM Recap

This Week on PlayStation.Blog — OK, more Cavs fans on the Blog than I thought. I am Lakers ’til I D.I.E., but I would love to see Mamba vs. BronBron in the finals. Here’s hoping…
Sack it to Me – “The Patch” Edition — This week we debuted a series of Patch posts for LittleBigPlanet, which introduce some awesome LBP Originals.
inFAMOUS Hitting the Big Screen this Friday – UPDATED! — Go see Terminator this weekend and peep the new inFAMOUS big-screen trailer. It’s a win-win!
Fat Princess Dev Diary: Ah, For the Love of Cake — The crew behind Fat Princess talk about the inspiration driving the upcoming PSN game.
LittleBigPlanet “The Patch” – Family Guy’s Joe Vaux — The first of this week’s Patch posts is a custom level designed by Joe Vaux of Family Guy fame.
Zombie Apocalypse Coming to PSN — It’s zombies, it’s gory, and it’s retro-inspired. What’s not to love?
MotorStorm Arctic Edge – Your Questions Answered — MotorStorm is coming to the PSP for the first time (joy!), and Jeff gets your questions answered from the game director himself.
Noby Noby Boy Version 1.1 — Awww, Mr. Takahashi. Good to have you back on the Blog, amazing and confusing us all at once. I’d love to see what’s in store next…
This Week in PlayStation Home: Resistance Space Unleashed, Game Launching Confirmed — Something many of you surely have been waiting for, Resistance game launching confirmed, plus much more in the new Home space.
inFAMOUS Live Chat with Sucker Punch — Only a few days left now until it’s in your hands. But first, gather every last bit of info from Sucker Punch in this week’s live chat.
Killzone 2 “Flash and Thunder” Pack Arriving on June 11 — June 11 is the day for the next Killzone 2 pack. Read all about it…
LittleBigPlanet “The Patch” – Freestyle Skier Sarah Burke — The second in our Patch posts for the week comes from skier Sarah Burke.
Bionic Commando Viral Videos — We’re getting new spreadsheet software, up high!
LittleBigPlanet “The Patch” – New Artists and Levels — And even more Patch creations including these LBP originals.
Monster Hunter Demo Live Today on PSN! — The demo is live, which includes four-player co-op!
PlayStation Store Update — The inFAMOUS demo headlines this week’s Store update, but there’s a lot of other great new stuff this week.
Join us for the official PlayStation.Blog E3 Meet-up! Again! — It’s meet-up time! See you in La-La Land (my hometown)!
PlayStation Network Video Content Update — Lots of Terminator goodness this week, plus a huge new selection of HD content.
Ratchet & Clank Future Weapons Contest: Our Fave Fives #3 — Five more gems from the R&C Weapons Contest. Boomerang Gun FTW!
Heavy Rain – Your Questions Answered — This game amazes me each and every time I see it. I chatted with Quantic Dream CEO David Cage and got your questions answered!
Xi – dare you step inside? — Xi builds in popularity in PlayStation Home, and is starting to merge with the real world…
LittleBigPlanet- “The Patch” Levels Now Live! — A recap of the new Patch content, plus other content coming soon and how to find it in-game.

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SPOPS
May 23, 2009 at 12:05 pm PDT

Got to love how there was pretty much nothing on SOCOM. Hell we can not even get a firm release date on the 1.5 patch. We were told mid to end of May. And the end of May is almost here and still no info.
lcmnick
May 23, 2009 at 12:09 pm PDT

Bring this to Canada!…oops, wrong post, sorry…
traininvain90
May 23, 2009 at 12:20 pm PDT

thanks Chris! =D
- Chris Morell
  May 23, 2009 at 1:05 pm PDT
  
  Not a problem.
XgargunoX
May 23, 2009 at 12:42 pm PDT

when does fat princess come out??
- Chris Morell
  May 23, 2009 at 1:09 pm PDT
  
  Summer timeframe, but expect a firm date soon.
Chrysus
May 23, 2009 at 12:45 pm PDT

The Heavy Rain interview was great, can’t wait to see more of it @ E3. Npw looking as forward to that as Team Ico’s next project & possibly MGS5.
- Chris Morell
  May 23, 2009 at 1:08 pm PDT
  
  Lots of good stuff coming from E3…stay tuned. T-minus one week.
Kren420
May 23, 2009 at 12:52 pm PDT

very interesting week, I can barely wait until the release of inFamous! got my cash all ready to go. By the way the reader comments section of the blog on the side of my page hasn’t updated in a couple weeks. Just letting you know
headwing45
May 23, 2009 at 1:01 pm PDT

I heard Final Fantasy VII was releasing in the Playstation Store on May. Guess I’ll have to hope for June (damn N4G).
Chrysus
May 23, 2009 at 1:19 pm PDT

Chris mate, not making the wait any easier. Gonna be a great show, any news on the Blog streaming the live conference? I watched it on GameSpot last year and it was shambles.
Chrysus
May 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm PDT

^^The service that is.
CHRP718
May 23, 2009 at 1:32 pm PDT

Hey Chris, are you going to do interviews with Hideo Kojima and Fumito Ueda?
jayyy91
May 23, 2009 at 1:38 pm PDT

I hope E3 gets streamed to the Podium space in Home :)
IIIKAGEIII
May 23, 2009 at 1:38 pm PDT

press 1 if you have a ps3

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SyphonFilter-
May 23, 2009 at 1:39 pm PDT

Hopefully socom 4 is announced and it’s like socom 2. Same for syphon filter,hopefully it’s like the ps1 versions.
XgargunoX
May 23, 2009 at 1:47 pm PDT

thanx for answering me ive put that question on 5 or 6 blogs this week and no one answered me yet till now
Ocelot166
May 23, 2009 at 1:48 pm PDT

It would be great to have better Linux support such as 2d acceleration.
almighty-slayer
May 23, 2009 at 1:49 pm PDT

“Awww, Mr. Takahashi. Good to have you back on the Blog, amazing and confusing us all at once. I’d love to see what’s in store next… ”

Haha Chris, made me lol.
meazly
May 23, 2009 at 2:53 pm PDT

I hope there Sony still has some secrets in store for us at E3.
Wilsonvolley
May 23, 2009 at 2:59 pm PDT

Let’s not forget that the fallout 3 dlc was announced to be coming to the ps3

http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/05/19/more-dlc-on-the-way-coming-to-ps3-too/
katsuo7171
May 23, 2009 at 3:00 pm PDT

E3 is so close. I guess inFAMOUS and this week’s bonus round hyping Sony’s E3 will keep me occupied.
waffman11
May 23, 2009 at 3:05 pm PDT

Can’t wait for E3, my birthday’s in the middle of it! Anyway, if you want to watch E3, G4’s got live coverage of it in case you didn’t know.

Oh, and want to know somethig stupid that just happened to me? I tried to buy Jeanne d’Arc off of the PSN but I was declined because my funds were insufficient by a margin of TWENTY- THREE CENTS. In the words of Bill Engvall, “Here’s your sign.”
sk8ordi44
May 23, 2009 at 3:06 pm PDT

Can’t Wait!
Vengeful-Chaos
May 23, 2009 at 3:23 pm PDT

I think my reader comments are broken they are still showing comments from the MVC2 post. Which is odd since i’m using firefox and they worked properly on the less popular / supported browser opera.
IIIKAGEIII
May 23, 2009 at 3:43 pm PDT

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coltsfan1425
May 23, 2009 at 4:16 pm PDT

I can’t wait fo E3! Is there going to be a fat princess public beta/demo soon, or during/after E3?
NewYork214
May 23, 2009 at 4:17 pm PDT

PS Blog Podcast Please.
acmilanboy
May 23, 2009 at 5:10 pm PDT

Hey Chris I heard that there will be some MGS 4 related announcements soon, do you know anything about it? Trophy patch?
perrandy
May 23, 2009 at 5:24 pm PDT

i hope they’ll announce at least a couple megatons lol XD
Thrasher20
May 23, 2009 at 6:04 pm PDT

Sweet week!

Can’t wait for the MGS4 announcement!
XgargunoX
May 23, 2009 at 6:11 pm PDT

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Ftwrthtx
May 23, 2009 at 6:26 pm PDT

Is the Fat princess Beta over? I can still play the game, and still find others to play with, but am I beta testing or just pigging out on cake? :-)
MidnightBlues
May 23, 2009 at 7:46 pm PDT

Bored…

back to warhawk
XgargunoX
May 23, 2009 at 7:58 pm PDT

ive beat the infamous demo 3 times each day since ive had it……..i cant wait for it
mckg123456789
May 23, 2009 at 8:22 pm PDT

SWEET recap theres just one thing missing CROSS EDGE, I MEAN ITS COMING OUT ON TUESDAY AND ITS A PS3 EXCLUSIVE GIVE THE GAME A SPOT LIGHT. Any news on the game would be great or even a “answer yor questions” Blog, respond if you guys are planing on doing a blog on the game,PLEASE, i have been requesting this for a while!
mckg123456789
May 23, 2009 at 8:23 pm PDT

CROSS EDGE.????????????????
Cagalli
May 23, 2009 at 8:25 pm PDT

Really looking forward to your E3 showing, especially from third parties!
mastrofallz
May 23, 2009 at 10:27 pm PDT

Sony has E3 in the bag.

Thought I am wondering what Nintendo and Microsoft have up their sleeves.. They have been quiet these last 6 months…
mastrofallz
May 23, 2009 at 10:28 pm PDT

@17

Sony said they had “two HUGE surprises at E3”
perrandy
May 23, 2009 at 10:34 pm PDT

@33 yeah cross edge its an rpg by nippon ichi…i doubt sony will promote the game here since the game has alots of fan-service.since the game just panders to a niche audience its doubtfull that you will see it here..but to those interested just google the name of game up and see whats all about
SOOPERGOOMAN187
May 24, 2009 at 1:27 am PDT

CALLING ALL SOCOM DEV’S, WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
DeviantBoi
May 24, 2009 at 5:23 am PDT

When will you allow people to purchase PSN titles from Amazon just like Microsoft and Nintendo?
raptor210232
May 24, 2009 at 8:35 am PDT

I can’t wait for E3 this year because sony will reveal soo much. Also in the nest update for the PS3 can we have a mute selection so when we play online we mute everybody when we play and if we want to take it off we just select the mute online to off. I think it should be under the network and your account managment and all accounts sub and master can do that unless the sub account already has it off by master account; but if its turned on by master account then you can set it off while you are online so you wont here babies, young kids, and stupid adults.
SOOPERGOOMAN187
May 24, 2009 at 8:59 am PDT

raptor that is the most confusing request of a feature I have ever seen, when rereading it did you even understand what it was you were talking about??????? L
MidnightBlues
May 24, 2009 at 9:41 am PDT

@42…I believe he was trying to request a feature that can mute/unmute all voice chat from the xmb…a feature that most games have built in lol. It doesnt really need to be done and would probably be more trouble than its worth. If you know where to look about 95% of online games already have the mute/unmute feature I would suggest trying that.
Velzorn
May 24, 2009 at 11:12 am PDT

Is the new Resistance 2 content mentioned earlier in the week the Home stuff or is there new DLC coming soon for Resistance 2?

Also I had a idea for new Killzone 2 DLC but there seems to be some problems with the official Killzone site. I think a new set of skins of each class for both the ISA and Helghast would bring a new variety and look the the battles online.
phinnv8
May 24, 2009 at 12:00 pm PDT

Neat but:

-Cross game voice chat.
-PlayStation 2 BC.
-Trophies for epics like for Metal Gear Solid 4, and Valkyria Chronicles.
-PSN titles like Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Cross.

You know Sony? The things that EVERYONE wants?
mckg123456789
May 24, 2009 at 1:14 pm PDT

@ 38. yes i know all about hte game lol but i believe, RPG or not it should get a mention in the blog like valkyria chronicles, white knight chronicles, etc, i mean it is still a ps3 exclusive.
phinnv8
May 25, 2009 at 11:40 pm PDT

Sony stop embarrassing yourselves and pissing off the gamers who bought that crap game called Socom. It’s not Socom, stop recapping it, just let it die. It’s a disaster, 8 months later nothing is working correctly, stats are broken, nothing from the box is in the game, the graphics SUCK, there are only 7 buggy maps. JUST LET IT DIE.
phinnv8
May 25, 2009 at 11:41 pm PDT

So…. What sup with Cross Edge? Is this a game your just gonna ignore? The PS3 already has almost no RPGs at least cover the ones that come out.