Dec Just because all the biggest games of 2009 are already available (PixelJunk Shooter and The Saboteur notwithstanding), doesn’t mean there’s nothing left to talk about this year. Tonight we’re heading out to New York, where we’ll be showcasing some of the biggest PS3 and PSP titles you’ll be playing in early 2010. We’ll be reporting back once we get back, as will many of the sites you see linked below.
This reading list is particularly epic as it includes stories from both this week and the previous, holiday-shortened one. If you feel we *still* missed a story, go ahead and add it to the list via the comments.
The PS Blog weekly reading list (Week of November 30, 2009)
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker character art’s got style – Joystiq
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Dated For North America – Kotaku
- The Top 50 Videogames of the Decade (#10-1) – Destructoid
- RCF:ACIT Title Update 1.20 now available – Patch Notes inside! – Insomniac Games
- The PS3 Perspective: Achievements Suck and Trophies Rock – IGN
- Happy 15th Birthday, PlayStation – Bitmob
- Kojima Celebrates 15 Years Of PlayStation By Creating Unique PSPs – Siliconera
- PlayStation, 15 years later – USATODAY.com
- Sony’s PlayStation marks 15th anniversary — Engadget
- Review: Blast Off (PSP Mini) – Destructoid
- Meet Media Molecule’s Little Big VGA Award, The Vector Monkey – Kotaku
- The 2009 PlayStation Award Winners Are… – PS3 – Kotaku
- Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble Review for PSP – GameSpot
- Meet Media Molecule’s Little Big VGA Award, The Vector Monkey – Kotaku
- A Realization about Trophies and Achievements – Bitmob
- Ten Minute Taste: PixelJunk Shooter – Destructoid
- SingStar reaches 20 million sales – gamesindustry.biz
- The PlayStation Turns 15 Today, We Reminisce – Techland
- Jesse McCartney confirms Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep localization – Joystiq
- Demon’s Souls: Telling Story Through Gameplay – Bitmob
- Assassin’s Creed II DLC Raises Questions, Possibly Fills Gaps – Kotaku
- “There Is A Fine Line Between Jerk And Lovable Rogue” – Uncharted 2 – Kotaku
- Dante’s Inferno demo to hit PlayStation Network first – Destructoid
- PS3 Kicks Off the Holiday Season with a Bang – PlayStation LifeStyle
- LittleBigPlanet wins big at the little BAFTAs – Joystiq
- Black Friday Gives PlayStation 3 Record Results – IGN
- Heavy Dreams: Pushing Interactive Narrative – Gamasutra
- Game Review: Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time (PS3) – San Jose Mercury News
- Blast Off Review – IGN
- Media Molecule hails BAFTA success – gamesindustry.biz
- Time Extend: Gran Turismo – Edge Online
- PS3 Off To A Fast Holiday Start – psxextreme.com
- [GIVEAWAY] MAG Beta: 5 Days And Counting. Get In While You Can – AnalogHype
- Buzz! Quiz World – AttentionMax
- Navy hopes the PlayStation will help officers sail through exams – Times Online
- Update 1.21 ‘Leerdammer’ out Monday – Online Create and more! – LittleBigPlanet
- BioWare Planning To Continue Developing For PS3 – 1UP
- 15 Super Cool PlayStation 3 Case Mods – GamingBolt.com
- The PlayStation 3 Buyer’s Guide – Kotaku
- Tekken 6 Review – IGN
- Top 5 things you might have missed while playing RCF: ACIT – Insomniac Games Blog
- Sony’s “It only does everthing” Campaign: A Stroke of Genius – Bitmob
- PSPgo Cradle Review: Dock and Go – Kotaku
- New MP map, Leaderboards on the way – Naughty Dog
- The PSP Buyer’s Guide – Kotaku
- Everything but the Game: The Art Behind the Stitches of LittleBigPlanet – Boing Boing
- SOCOM: Confrontation — Cold Front Preview – IGN
- Bad Company 2 beta dishes out meaningful experiences – Destructoid
- LittleBigPlanet Review for PSP – GameSpot
- Embedded in the Bad Company Beta – Wired.com
- Offload Studios brings my ModNation Racer to life – Destructoid
- PS3 Trophy Hunting: Buzz! Quiz TV – IGN
- Obama And LittleBigPlanet Team Up, For Kids – Kotaku
(Average: 4.48 out of 5)
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+ afrsoul on December 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm said:
happy b-day once again
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+ Destiny89 on December 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm said:
@ Jeff
I’v been noticing a very high increase on the PSN recently which is really good, there were over 500,000 people yesterday on mw2 alone but i think for the high increase its effecting the trophy sync as its getting really slow right now. do you know if Sony will be adding more servers to the network soon? i read an article somewhere around the net that Sony will be adding more servers between now till March of next year is that right?
Thanks and have a nice day! cant wait for all the epic games coming next year!
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+ Destiny89 on December 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm said:
Largest PSN game EVER!!
http://playstation.joystiq.com/2009/12/04/record-of-agarest-war-is-largest-psn-game-ever/
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+ BalramRules on December 6th, 2009 at 12:15 pm said:
Ah! YES! It’s about time inFamous get its sales public again! = P
GO ON INFAMOUS! GET SOLD OUT YOU LITTLE!
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+ piro_z on December 6th, 2009 at 12:37 pm said:
I really really REALLY hope bioware starts to develop more games for ps3 and hopefully we will get Mass Effect 2 =3
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+ Khalil97 on December 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pm said:
Cool!
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+ NEJI64 on December 6th, 2009 at 12:48 pm said:
@Jeff do you know if there will be any PS3 Slim Bundles between now and Christmas.
+ Jeff Rubenstein on December 6th, 2009 at 4:37 pm said:
All major holiday bundles have been revealed. That doesn\’t preclude retailers from putting things together (I saw a decent bundle today at Costco).
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+ BigBoss712 on December 6th, 2009 at 1:10 pm said:
Next week should be nice with the release of pj shooter and dantes inferno demo. Lets hope BioWare decides to bring the mass effect series to the playstion.
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+ firehahahahahaha on December 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm said:
HHey jeff, so i finally got sly cooper, and im lovin it
+ Jeff Rubenstein on December 6th, 2009 at 4:38 pm said:
Better late than never!
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+ jBat17 on December 6th, 2009 at 1:15 pm said:
thanks, jeff. good find on the demon’s souls article. yeah, there isn’t a lot of story in that game. but if you want a good story, then read a book.
been playing a lot of uncharted 2 MP lately. crushing mode/less health is the update that happened to this game. the Fort map is also very good, though, plus it’s free.
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+ perrandy on December 6th, 2009 at 1:19 pm said:
hey jeff my launch 60gb ps3 died this last thursday.just a couple of days after i reserved my copy of wkc. the good news is that family step up and got my early x-mas gift with a slim. just hope that the slim will last longer than my dead 60 gb
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+ phinnv8 on December 6th, 2009 at 1:26 pm said:
The LittleBigPlanet update is great, the game shoulda shipped with online creation. I hope its not too late in the game for the good creators out there to take advantage of it.
What ever happened to the water update?
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+ thepatriots on December 6th, 2009 at 1:39 pm said:
What, no GT fans rejoicing in prayer as they actually get a chance to play GT5? I really do not think most people understand how huge this is for fans of GT. I just want to personally thank whose ever idea it was to release a demo? Not only that but months before the actual release. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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+ zombie_56 on December 6th, 2009 at 1:41 pm said:
epic week
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+ unrealgamer38 on December 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pm said:
hey jeff, my man,my buddy,my main man.
do you think we can get the guys from namco to do a update on naruto ultimate ninja storm
+ Jeff Rubenstein on December 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm said:
Well, it came out about a year ago… so I doubt it\’s high up on their list. You\’re free to contact them, of course.
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+ Zezzler on December 6th, 2009 at 1:52 pm said:
i cant wait for PJ shooter! definatly ps3 goty (just kidding)
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+ Bioman20 on December 6th, 2009 at 2:13 pm said:
Sly Cooper is awesome!
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+ TRIX_BOL on December 6th, 2009 at 2:17 pm said:
Bring more God of War III news and footage!
+ Jeff Rubenstein on December 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm said:
You got it.
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+ platinumrug on December 6th, 2009 at 2:36 pm said:
I would really like for the older games to have trophy support because I have more older games than newer, games like The Darkness, Star Wars: TFU, The Orange Box and so on and so forth. I wouldn’t consider myself a trophy whore but I do do MORE thing in games than I normally would so I can get trophies. This article is awesome.
+ Jeff Rubenstein on December 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm said:
Star Wars TFU was patched for trophies. Go ahead and play it again!
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+ platinumrug on December 6th, 2009 at 2:38 pm said:
All of the games on the PS3 need to take a lesson from the god of war makers and put their games on blu ray disks and add trophy support for them and remaster them in HD. Now I really want to play Jak & Daxter (all of them), R&C (all of the old ones, I’ve played QFB and A Crack in Time on the PS3), Sly Cooper… I mean come on, that was such an amazing move by the makers of GOW to include their games on a blu ray disk, added trophy support and remastered. And for a reasonable price too??? Come on peeps, hop to it.
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+ BlindMango on December 6th, 2009 at 3:30 pm said:
http://dlb-network.com/2009/12/15-years-of-playstation/
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+ Krazy_Tazmanius on December 6th, 2009 at 3:35 pm said:
Any word on new PS3 avatars Jeff? It’s getting kinda old seeing the same 10 avatars for a ton of PSN IDS. You should get 3rd parties like Konami or Capcom in on making avatars as well. Seeing a solid snake or a mega man avatar would be great don’t you think?
+ Jeff Rubenstein on December 6th, 2009 at 4:41 pm said:
I don\’t have any news, but I\’ll bring it up again.
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+ DEADxBABIESxINC on December 6th, 2009 at 3:56 pm said:
Hey you guys all at Sony, I just wanted to congratulate you guys on whoever thought of bundling up Sony tvs with PS3s because we’ve sold out at our store. We have no more PS3s in stock! Great strategy! :)
PS. I work at Best Buy
+ Jeff Rubenstein on December 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm said:
Awesome to hear!
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+ Nick-30 on December 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pm said:
when are the canadian fortune hunter edition winners for uncharted 2 going to be announced, eh!
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+ starBlinky01 on December 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pm said:
Since when is pixel junk shooter already available?
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+ starBlinky01 on December 6th, 2009 at 4:43 pm said:
eh nevermind
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+ remanutd5 on December 6th, 2009 at 5:04 pm said:
whats up Jeff ? i wanted to ask you , is there any particular reason why there has been only one God of War 3 video gameplay since the game was unveiled last year? i wish Sony Santa Monica show us more , i cant wait to play the game, demo is superb , is it true that GT5 demo is coming in 2 weeks ? man what a lucky guy Ordonez is , he made us ( GT fans ) proud , good job representing the gamer community
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+ TheBlackSpeed on December 6th, 2009 at 5:06 pm said:
Happy 15th birthday Playstation. ;)
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+ katsuo7171 on December 6th, 2009 at 5:25 pm said:
Oh Please tell me we’re finally going to hear what the Agent and The Last Guardian are about. All I know is that Agent has a gun in it, and The last guardian has a boy who I think saved this being and controlled plays with it?
For a game that’s “Supposed” to come next year we most certainly are lacking details.
Anyway Jeff what 2 top announced PS3 exclusive 2010 games are you looking foward to? Mine are God of War 3 an Heavy Rain.
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+ unrealgamer38 on December 6th, 2009 at 5:37 pm said:
ok i’ll contact them thanks for the reply.
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+ angelspawn77 on December 6th, 2009 at 5:41 pm said:
@ jeff, i have a suggestion that i think would be cool. It would be great if you guys could put up a countdown for GOW3 release like there was for Uncharted 2, i came on the blog just about everyday and the time just seemed to go by so fast. One day there was 50 days left, then before i knew it there was 20, then 10, then HERE!
GOW3 is a really awesome game that many are looking forward to and it would be great to have a countdown to make the wait seem shorter. Just a suggestion for you guys.
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+ Paznos on December 6th, 2009 at 5:57 pm said:
Tales of Vesperia PS3, surely Namco will release it RIGHT??? Here’s hoping….
Look forward to see what will be coming out the New York event.
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+ JohnAlden on December 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm said:
Jeff, If Tecmo is there bring back some news on Quantum Theroy, some gameplay would be nice.
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+ Xiia on December 6th, 2009 at 7:22 pm said:
are we gonna hear more about Record of Agarest War?
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+ Sponge-worthy on December 6th, 2009 at 9:36 pm said:
So Destructoid listed Ico well and gave Shadow of the Colossus #1 game of the decade. A remastered Team Ico Collection seems quite in order.
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+ Andrefpvs on December 7th, 2009 at 12:25 am said:
^ That would be so bought, #33. :)
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+ Letters2Kay on December 7th, 2009 at 12:47 am said:
Jeff-
I recently had my 60 GB system repaired for the 2nd time and got back a different console. I lost a lot of data, time, and money- most of which could’ve been spared if my actual unit had been repaired and returned to me, but never mind that. Since getting the console back, I’ve had problems syncing my trophies. Before the last update, I had to try multiple times to finally sync up, but after this last firmware upgrade, I cannot sync at all. I get an error message every time. Please have someone look into this. I know I’m not the first person this has happened to and I’m not sure why this problem is occurring (I had 0 problems syncing on my original system) but a fix would be greatly appreciated!
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+ Jeeves_Tremor on December 7th, 2009 at 1:23 am said:
Jeff, do you know if the marketing guys and gals are going to repost the Canadian rules and regs for the GT5 Time Trial?
They were linked to in the initial post, but the links were a 404, then the links were edited out.
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+ GT911here on December 7th, 2009 at 2:15 am said:
Whoa…happy 15th birthday to PlayStation and keep up the great effort and work!!!
I can’t wait for ModNation Racers Beta…it seems like the beta’s going green light on 13~15th Dec…hope it will be great like LittleBigPlanet.
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+ remanutd5 on December 7th, 2009 at 4:58 am said:
when and where in new york you guys gonna be at ? Jeff please answer
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+ Delriach on December 7th, 2009 at 8:05 am said:
I hear there’s a really awesome Tekken 6 review at PS3 Attitude…
>__________>
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+ imabigplayer on December 7th, 2009 at 8:13 am said:
Happy 15th B-Day PS.
:)
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+ Thrasher20 on December 7th, 2009 at 12:33 pm said:
Sweet! My birthday is the same as PS :)
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+ Alex-Zafiris on December 7th, 2009 at 2:52 pm said:
Playstation’s new slogan “It only does everything.” is false advertising. But this can be solved by bringing back Ps2 compatibilty to the Playstation 3.
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+ phinnv8 on December 7th, 2009 at 3:15 pm said:
Man what is up with trophies lately?
Half the time I try and sync them now I get some stupid error message.
And if I try and look at them on this site I get “your sessions has expired”
GET THIS CRAP WORKING SONY