Aug 08 2009

The PlayStation Recap

+ Posted by Chris Morell // Senior Social Media Specialist

This Week on the SingStore — Into Spanish and Portuguese artists? This week’s SingStore update has you covered. Plus, Queen shipped this week!
Highlights from the Uncharted Comic-Con Panel — We cherry picked all the good stuff from the Uncharted Comic-Con panel. A must-see! Kitty got wet! Had to say it…
Touchdown, MADDEN! Photo Contest — Play Madden NFL 10 Inside Cowboys Stadium! — And the event is just about to start! Come back on Monday and we’ll share the winning pics.
Gran Turismo PSP Pre-Order Bonus Items Revealed — Pre-order GT PSP and you’ll get a voucher for a top car in an exclusive color, on day one!
Military Madness: Nectaris Coming to PSN — Check out some first details on Military Madness, plus we’ve got an Eye chat coming next week. Drop some more questions in the post!
No Win Like a Sports Win — Yes, Peter Moore, President of EA SPORTS on the Blog this week. And he’s got a lot to say about this year’s games, and he introduces a couple TV spots.
flOw Like You’ve Never Heard It Before — See and hear flOw performed by a live orchestra.
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars Gets Another Free Update — A name so long, it pretty much defies search engine logic. But, it does come in the form of free updates!
PlayStation Eye Chat: Critter Crunch for PSN — Personally, I can’t wait for this game. In the meantime, Nathan and Kris from Capy chat with us via the Eye, and unload lots of gameplay footage.
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona PSP Launching Simultaneously on PSN Sept 22 — Get it at retail or on PSN on day one…which is Sept 22.
Qore Episode 15 – Featuring MAG, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Tekken 6 and Katamari Forever — Veronica heads up to Seattle for MAG, then hops a plane to Japan to see Sigma 2, Tekken 6 and Katamari Forever.
ZEN Pinball Street Fighter Table — The first collaborative table in ZEN Pinball…and it’s a good one.
Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 Available Today, Game with Developers this Saturday! — Play with Treyarch today from 1-5PM. Hit the jump for the list of names to friend request.
Criss Angel: Mindfreak Hits PlayStation Home — And for his next illusion, Criss Angel appears in Home…how’d he do that?
PlayStation Store Update — Crystal Defenders, TV Show King, Qore Ep. 15, Savage Moon updates and more!
PlayStation Network Video Content Update — Many, many new movies and TV shows hit PSN this week.
Savage Moon Update and Expansion Now Available on PSN — An update and an add-on! It’s a full moon on PSN…yes, I said it.
Interview with Heavy Rain Executive Producer — The PSB.Europe has a great interview that details the story and characters in Heavy Rain.
PlayStation Network and Gamebattles Auto Reporting — Now your game data updates automatically to the Gamebattles servers.
Sack it to Me – The “Community Picks” Edition — Mass amounts of community “best of” levels, with videos to peep.
Fat Princess: Multiplayer Connections Improved — Titan responds with a patch that improves multiplayer connections!

Courtesy of Ken Chan

God of War III at Lollapalooza! – Come out and join us this weekend at Lollapalooza and experience God of War III playable in person. Here’s your chance to take control of Kratos as he rains carnage and destruction upon the Gods who have betrayed him and the entire Ancient Greek world!

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17 Comments

+ ILOVEPLASTATION3 on August 8th, 2009 at 12:02 pm said:

Nice week! :)

+ Nick-30 on August 8th, 2009 at 12:06 pm said:

Sorry to bug you so much Chris but is there any word on if there will be an update that makes it so you can delete trophy games in ‘my trophies’ that you have 0 % in.

Also games that you have some trophies in that way if your a completionist and you can’t get all the trophies.
Thanks a lot.

+ SOOPERGOOMAN187 on August 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pm said:

Who cares. Where’s the Socom News?

+ BlooodyCow on August 8th, 2009 at 1:03 pm said:

the fat princess patch did not fix anything. I still have connection error.
Oh can we have some new avatar please.

+ BalramRules on August 8th, 2009 at 1:30 pm said:

No news on DC Universe Online yet, *sigh*.
Here’s some interesting games on to put some more news on, if you helps you PlayStation Bloggers = )
1. MAG
2. DC Universe Online
3. The Agency
4. Agent <- Rockstar's Latest PS3 Exclusive!!
5. LittleBigPlanet (Game of the Year Edition + Add-On Content)
6. PlayStation Home (ANYTHING ON IT)
7. I don't think this is what EVERYONE wants, but what a LOT of people want and me of course, lool = )
8. Oh yeah almost forgot:
9. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
10. Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time
11. Thank God for those two = )

+ Zezzler on August 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pm said:

Nice week, but happened to the post called ‘This Week in PlayStation’ that used to come each monday? did you stop or am i just blind? or better yet, will they be back? THanks

+ ADR143 on August 8th, 2009 at 2:11 pm said:

ok week.

the fat princess patch made me happy

+ The_Punisher111 on August 8th, 2009 at 3:30 pm said:

@2 Nick-30

No you cant. Even if you did the game would make the trophy list reappear.
I.E If you deleted WipEout trophy list BUT if you replayed WipEout – the trophy would reappear. (I know having a long trophy list annoying but theres nothing you can do.

+ MrBeatdown on August 8th, 2009 at 3:39 pm said:

I like #2′s idea. I have Endwar sitting at 2% on my list and I really don’t like that game. I’d like to delete it, even if it means giving up the trophies I unlocked.

I’d also like to add, it would be nice if Sony could tweak the trophy leveling system. Once you hit level 12 it becomes and absolute crawl. Leveling is great in games, but it isn’t all that helpful when comparing yourself to other players. For example, a system where an entire game’s worth of trophies ranks you up one level would be better both to avoid the extremely slow leveling at higher levels and to make it easier to compare with friends.

Hopefully one of you guys can pass this on to the guys in charge of the trophy system.

+ MrBeatdown on August 8th, 2009 at 3:42 pm said:

True, but if you wanted the game off your trophy list, you probably wouldn’t be playing it again anyway so it’s really not an issue.

+ Nick-30 on August 8th, 2009 at 5:50 pm said:

@9 Exactly what I was thinking.

+ T1nosupr1mo on August 8th, 2009 at 6:01 pm said:

socom ? /facepalm

+ mad0joker1995 on August 8th, 2009 at 7:04 pm said:

iam starting a killzone 2 clan put your psn id below ill add you and i am haveing a tryout tommorow 2 pm eastern time my if my clan is not filled up i will have some more tryouts ( they arent really tryouts but just to show me your decent ) my psn mad0joker1995 , i will prob add most od the people who tryout

+ Vengeful-Chaos on August 9th, 2009 at 12:03 am said:

What confuses me is, why is there no damn avatar update? It’s either the people who do PSN updates are lazy, or there something bigger going on that will either do away with avatars and use crappy home avatars or something else.

+ Crimson_Ryan on August 9th, 2009 at 1:00 am said:

@13

Well, you know how it turned out that Valve didn’t know how to make games for the PS3? Well, I think that Sony forgot how to make avatars. Would explain why its been two years without a new avatar.

+ MrBeatdown on August 9th, 2009 at 11:42 am said:

@13

I’m betting we’ll be able to upload our own icons eventually. That is the only reason I can come up with for why they wouldn’t just spend a few hours on Photoshop making some avatars to shut us up.