Dec 
- PlayStation’s VGAs Weekend — 100 of YOU came out, and won lots of great PlayStation prizes. But best of all, the Naughty Dogs hung out all night and signed autographs! Thanks for making it a success!
- Get Ready to Race! The Gran Turismo 5 Time Trial Challenge Starts This Week! — A brand new GT5 demo, the Time Trial Challenge hit PSN on Thursday!
- Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign – Invading Your PSP this Month! — Savage Moon on the PSP is not a port of the PS3 version. Check it out for a PSP-tailored tower-defense game.
- LittleBigPlanet – Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean DLC Announced! — The long-awaited Pirates DLC hits the store next Tuesday. Check out all the Sacktastic costumes in the post.
- Flower Wins VGAs Best Independent Game – A Huge Thank You from thatgamecompany! — Congrats to thatgamecompany and Flower for taking the Best Indie Game award at the VGAs! Here’s what it was like to be at the show…
- Are You the Ultimate God of War Fan? — Are you? Well, prove it! Make a video showing why you’re the ultimate God of War fan and be forever immortalized in God of War III.
- PSN Digital Comics Launch Today! — The Comics store is officially live on the PlayStation Network. Hit the post to see what you can get!
- This Week in PlayStation Home: Star Trek, Monty Python, LBP, SingStar Xmas VIP Room & UNCHARTED 2 Contest — The weekly Home update brings Star Trak, some Monty Python jokes (anyone?), LBP, SingStar and another chance to grab a Fortune Hunter Edition.
- SOCOM Confrontation Cold Front DLC Available Tomorrow — Cold Front is officially live on the PlayStation Store. And it’s on sale for $9.99 for a limited time!
- Introducing Sodium One: The Next Evolution of PlayStation Home — The next huge achievement in PlayStation Home, a 50-level vehicle combat game! The video is a must-see.
- 2009 American League MVP Joe Mauer Named Cover Athlete for MLB 10 The Show — Mr. Mauer looks all action-packed on the MLB 10 The Show cover, and you know The Show team will be taking the game to the next level in 2010!
- BUZZ! Quiz World Launches Today on PSP! — Portable quizzing couldn’t get any better. Hit up to Store to grab BUZZ! Quiz World for the PSP.
- PlayStation Store Update — An amazing update this week, bringing sales, games, demos, Metal Gear awesomeness and much more.
- PlayStation Network Video Content Update — The 12 days of Christmas bring you 12 awesome holiday deals on the Video Store!
- UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves Title Update #3 — A post dedicated to telling you exactly what’s in store for the latest UNCHARTED 2 update from your resident Naughty Dog, Arne Meyer.
- Pre-order Heavy Rain and Get The Heavy Rain Chronicles — A little bonus for those of you who pre-order Heavy Rain. Find out just what The Heavy Rain Chronicles are.
- ModNation Racers Beta Now Open! Voucher Giveaway Starts Today — I know I’ve been playing. I did my best to recreate Lil Lightning from The Simpsons “Saturdays of Thunder.” What did you make?
- UNCHARTED 2 Takes Game of the Year at VGAs — Behind the Scenes with Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells — Naughty Dog Co-president Evan Wells tells you all about what it was like to win Game of the Year at the Spike VGAs!
Courtesy of Ken Chan
- Are you the Ultimate God of War fan? – Want to be forever immortalized within God of War III Ultimate Edition? How about getting a copy of God of War III Ultimate Edition signed exclusively by the development team? If so, here’s your chance to prove your worth by creating your own video telling us why you think you’re the Ultimate God of War fan.
Courtesy of Jeremy Dunham
- MAG Developer Interview: Software Leads – How did Zipper know that it could pull 256 players into a single game and when?
- MAG on Facebook – Raven – The official page for Raven Industries. Connect with fellow operatives, share resources, voice your opinions and find out the latest news.
- MAG on Facebook – S.V.E.R. – Join up with S.V.E.R. and its relentless pursuit of victory with constant updates from CEO Priya Khan and Field Commander, Sergei Maslov!
- MAG on Facebook – Valor – Follow the private military corporation that has committed itself to improving today’s economic and political conditions. Updated often!
- The Official Zipper Interactive Fan Page – Do you like Zipper’s games and want to tell the world? Then have we found the place for you!
- Follow Zipper Interactive on Twitter – Jump on the bandwagon and follow the MAG developer’s tweets.
(Average: 4.21 out of 5)
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+ KSPRAYDAD on December 19th, 2009 at 1:05 pm said:
Happy to see SONY hiring IPSOS to ask what premium content users are willing to pay for and seeing X game chat in there.
That means SONY KNOWS that they have the tech and it works.
It also means SONY is holding it back until they can monetize it somehow.
Wait…I guess I’m NOT happy to hear about this AT ALL.
*http://kotaku.com/5429592/survey-sony-considering-premium-playstation-network-subscriptions
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+ Andrefpvs on December 19th, 2009 at 1:12 pm said:
@2
Well, you can expect mass Internet breakdown if you have to pay for cross-game voice chat somehow.
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+ R1LEY62 on December 19th, 2009 at 1:23 pm said:
i think lbp update is going to be on tuesday.
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+ Nick-30 on December 19th, 2009 at 1:37 pm said:
Eh
When are the canadian fortue hunter edition winners going to be announced (please answer)
Thanks.
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+ Locke_VI on December 19th, 2009 at 1:39 pm said:
It’s been a pretty good week.
I’m really enjoying the Digital Comics Reader and the ModNation Racers Beta, but most of all, I’m extremely happy to have FFVIII! I hope we get Xenogears soon!
Congrats to thatgamecompany and Naughty Dog for their VGA wins!
+ Chris Morell on December 19th, 2009 at 4:18 pm said:
My MNR kart\’s sporting a hamster wheel as an engine. Classic
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+ BlooodyCow on December 19th, 2009 at 1:50 pm said:
Chris and Jeff, an you guys help me? Ok, I purchase the LBP: Game of the year edition back on Black Friday, but I didn’t not get a Mod Nation Racer beta code. Was I suppose to get the code from the retailer (bestbuy), or does it come inside the game casing? I really want to play the beta. I did not receive my Qore beta code and I had the LBP Game of The Year edition (Did not open it up until yesterday because I also have the regular LBP game) as a back up in case i didn’t get my code.
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+ thepatriots on December 19th, 2009 at 2:18 pm said:
Couple of questions.
When is MAG coming out again?
How do we access the MNR Beta forums?
There has been some confusion regarding the GT5 demo. Does it expire, or can we play it infinitely? I only ask because it is tons of fun!
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As a side note I (and a lot of other people) REALLY do not want a premium service to be the only way for me/us to get x game voice chat. The revolt will be quite nasty. Its not just a feature the hardcore gamer uses its used by the casual just as much (to simply converse and socialize with friends). Anything else is perfectly fine. I hope Sony knows they are treading on thin ice with this and handle the situation with great tact.
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+ AngelMayLaugh on December 19th, 2009 at 2:35 pm said:
Don’t Care for Cross game Chat so meh.
How come nothing has been reported on Final Fantasy XIII’s fantastic outing in Japan?
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+ Zezzler on December 19th, 2009 at 2:56 pm said:
the blog needs to see squeenix with just some news about EVERYTHING. that would be nice.
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+ FilliamHMuffman on December 19th, 2009 at 4:11 pm said:
Tying cross-game voice chat to a premium service is a bad idea. For those of you who pay for a premium account, you’ll only be getting a broken version of cross-game chat, because you won’t be able to use it to communicate with most of the people on your friends list, since the majority of PS3 owners are not going to pay for one of these premium accounts. It’s a lose-lose situation for subscribers and non-sucscribers both.
I wouldn’t object to Sony building a premium service around some of the other features in the survey, but keep cross-game chat a basic feature for everybody.
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+ phinnv8 on December 19th, 2009 at 5:46 pm said:
Sony will you ever fix your website so I can access my profile, trophies, portable ID again? It’s been broken for like 2 weeks enough is enough. Everything I click them I get “Session Expired”.
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+ Snamaro on December 19th, 2009 at 8:46 pm said:
What happen with the winners of the God of War Collection Spartan Army Sweepstakes they suposed to be on Decemeber 17???
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+ angelspawn77 on December 20th, 2009 at 12:20 am said:
I just want to see that new GOW3 footage! sucks we have to wait till january :( at least it not that long of a wait(if its released early january that is, which i dont see why not since the footage is out already and its as easy as posting the video). Please release the video early january, from what ive heard from people who have seen it, including the vid with jeff, its awesome. I really want to see it!
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+ remanutd5 on December 20th, 2009 at 5:46 am said:
Jeff , Chris why we have to wait till january to see the new GOW 3 footage ? its 1 of the most anticipated titles for next year and in my case the most anticipated 1 and we havent seen that much of it , of course i have played the Demo ( which i think its amazing ) but still i want to see more
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+ mafecto on December 20th, 2009 at 7:36 am said:
I was completely underwhelmed by the GT5 demo. Hope it’s much better when it releases.
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+ KSPRAYDAD on December 20th, 2009 at 8:03 am said:
@16…
I bought Prologue and sucked at it….forgot how much I sucked at it and downloaded the Time Trial…I still suck and now it has saved me $60.
I guess I’m more of an arcade racer.
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+ mkdj011 on December 20th, 2009 at 9:04 am said:
Thanks for all the demos. Sony has really stepped it up in competing with Xbox live in that respect.
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+ mafecto on December 20th, 2009 at 11:00 am said:
@KSPRAY
It seemed like even prologue was better than the time trial that just released. At 200 megs, I’m hoping it was gimped just for the time trial contest and is not indicative of the final product. Regardless, I’m not a fan of racing sims either, and remember having to race the same race 30 times in GT3 and 4 just to earn enough money to upgrade my car for the next race. Too much of a commitment for me.
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+ JP_Corp on December 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am said:
Just thought I’d say thanks for firmware 3.15. Even though a sony rep said “copy protected game save data is still not transferable”, it actually works. Transition to slim is so much easier.