Feb 27 2010

The PlayStation Recap

+ Posted by Chris Morell // Senior Social Media Specialist

So if you follow the SonyPlayStation Twitter feed, you might have noticed this and this yesterday. For those who missed it, the first person to catch the correct BioShock 2 character reference (just for clarification, only I know the correct answer and it’s fairly straightforward) in this post – and submit it via comment IN THIS POST – will get this insanely cool Splicer mask and Box, courtesy of 2K (US only). Have at it! We’ll DM the winner via PSN, and will update here when we have one.

UPDATE: And we have a winner! Thanks to everyone who followed along.

MAG Developer Tips: Sniper — Yes, the one you’re been dying to see. Or perhaps the video you didn’t want to see. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, snipers are a key part of MAG.
LittleBigPlanet: This Week in DLC — Loads of White Knight goodies hit LBP this week, plus Savannah PSP action and more.
The State of PlayStation Home — Your head of Home drops the lowdown on Home, the huge steps it has made and where it’s headed in the future.
Coming to PSN this Week: Darksiders Demo — Many of you have been asking for a Darksiders Demo. Well, you got it!
MAG Developer Tips: Leadership Roles — Are you a born leader? Can you take that leadership in to the Shadow War? I thought so.
Coming to PSN this Week: echoshift — I’ve been waiting for this game. Verdict? It’ll get that brain of yours working.
Realism of MLB 10: The Show — Let’s face it – MLB 10 shines in so many areas, but here you’ll see just how realistic this year’s Show is.
Heavy Rain Out Today! — Just sinking my teeth in to it. Joy!
Sweeping the Interactive Achievement Awards — UNCHARTED 2 sweeps up at the Interactive Achieve Awards. Don’t even try to act surprised!
Coming to PSN this Week: Grandia PSOne Classic — And now we know there are lots of Grandia fans out there!
MAG Developer Tips: Squad Leader — Next up in the tips department, Zipper Audio Manager, Mary Olson talks Squad Leader strategies.
Coming to PSN Tomorrow: Age of Zombies PSP mini — Here’s the deal. Professor Brains wants to unleash a zombie apocalypse via a time portal. So you’ll have to smack down zombie trash and bust heads like Chuck Norris. Any relation to Jacob Norris?
Coming to PSN Tomorrow: Greed Corp — This game appears to be all the rage. I *just* downloaded. Drop me some thoughts!
Mall Madness Hits PlayStation Home with Hundreds of Items on Sale + New UNCHARTED, SOCOM, and Warhawk Costumes! — A humongous sale and a chunk of new costumes. And lots more of course!
ModNation Racers PSP – Join the Nation & Score a Limited PSP Theme! — Theme it up with ModNation Racers on the PSP.
MLB 10: The Show Joe Mauer Trailer, Themes & Best Buy Demo — Another heap of MLB 10: The Show news, and leading off is a new Joe Mauer trailer.
MAG Developer Tips: Platoon Leader — Software Manager Mike Nicolino and Designer Marc Janas drop in to give you Platoon Leaders some great tips.
The Drake’s Fortune Multiplayer Pack Releases Today for UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves — Get old-school with this Drake’s Fortune MP pack on the PlayStation Store.
PlayStation Comics Store Update — Check out We Will Bury You, which includes audio commentary from the creators Brea and Zane Grant. Plus, lots more in the land of digital comics…
Castle Crashers for PSN: Progress Report — Many of you have asked about Castle Crashers, in this very post, mind you! Well, we tracked down The Behemoth and they responded.
The Tester Episode 2 Featuring David Jaffe Available Today — Mr. Jaffe gets intimate with the crew of potential game testers in episode 2, free on PSN!
Warhawk on PSN for $14.99 (Bwhaaa?!?) — LightBox Pres Dylan Jobe gives the down and dirty on the HUGE Warhawk sale on the PlayStation Store.
THE EYE OF JUDGMENT LEGENDS Free Demo Available Today on PSN — Yes, it’s in demo form…and free, of course!
PlayStation Store Update — Lots and lots of great content this week including echoshift, the God of War III demo, Greed Corp, UNCHARTED 2 DLC and so much more.
God of War III Goes Gold, E3 Demo Now on PSN and New Gameplay Revealed Tonight on Spike’s GTTV! — Who caught the new gameplay on GTTV?
PlayStation Network Video Content Update — Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, The Informant!, Everybody’s Fine, and The Box top the list of new movies this week, plus tons more movies and TV shows, to boot!
MAG Developer Tips: OIC — The very last in our three-week tips series from Zipper is on the OIC, Officer in Charge.
MLB 10: The Show – Road to the Show Enhancements — Check out the giant list of upgrades and enhancements Road to the Show gets in MLB 10: The Show.
LittleBigPlanet: Sack it to Me – The “ZOMG, Two Million Levels!” Edition — Two million levels, plus featured levels and more from LBP.

Courtesy of Jeremy Dunham

Patch Alert: MAG v1.03 – Does it change your strategies? You bet it does!
MAG Represents on PSN – Extra, extra! Come get your official MAG themes and avatars now!
MAG Developer Tips: OIC – Designer Ben Jones finishes out our Zip-Tips with the biggest job of them all.
MAG Developer Tips: Platoon Leader – Zippers Marc and Mike unleash mad 32-boss knowledge.
MAG Developer Tips: Squad Leader - Our resident Audio Manager, Mary Olson teaches you the basics.
MAG Developer Tips: Leadership Roles – Audio Lead, Keith Sjoquist introduces you to the world of command.
MAG Developer Tips: Sniper – UI Manager Steve Harris and Design Lead CJ Heine hook you up.

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22 Comments 8 Replies

+ ducktape12 on February 27th, 2010 at 12:03 pm said:

Sander Cohen

+ Chris Morell on February 27th, 2010 at 12:13 pm said:

Nice try. It wouldn\’t be *that* easy, though!

+ refinedandroid on February 27th, 2010 at 12:04 pm said:

Jacob Norris, Bioshock 2 ref.

+ Chris Morell on February 27th, 2010 at 12:05 pm said:

And we have a winner! As long as you have a valid US mailing address, you got it. Check your PSN messages.

+ Jbot116 on February 27th, 2010 at 12:06 pm said:

no, it’s gotta be sander cohen, he’s on the box

+ Vengeful-Chaos on February 27th, 2010 at 12:06 pm said:

Augustus Sinclair

+ Jbot116 on February 27th, 2010 at 12:06 pm said:

oh…nvm

+ SPIKEBOT on February 27th, 2010 at 12:07 pm said:

Jacob

+ Chris Morell on February 27th, 2010 at 12:11 pm said:

Too slow! Nice try through.

+ vember03 on February 27th, 2010 at 12:08 pm said:

Jacob Norris!

+ Chris Morell on February 27th, 2010 at 12:12 pm said:

You get the bronze.

+ ducktape12 on February 27th, 2010 at 12:10 pm said:

its sander http://images.google.com/images?q=sander%20cohen%20mask&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi see thats his mask :(

+ dabomb4eve on February 27th, 2010 at 12:11 pm said:

I played through it twice, and don’t remember a Jacob Norris.

+ Chris Morell on February 27th, 2010 at 12:12 pm said:

Multiplayer.

+ refinedandroid on February 27th, 2010 at 12:11 pm said:

Oh, man, that was a good one. I had to speed read through the entire post twice to catch it! Psyched!!

+ Chris Morell on February 27th, 2010 at 12:13 pm said:

Halloween costume? Just sayin. Anyway, enjoy it!

+ ducktape12 on February 27th, 2010 at 12:15 pm said:

o well theres always next time… dont wana piss off the host lol

+ Chris Morell on February 27th, 2010 at 12:17 pm said:

Yes there is :-) Nice try on Sander, but the actual answer (name) was in the post text. I wouldn\’t have given away the answer in the picture yesterday!

+ dabomb4eve on February 27th, 2010 at 12:15 pm said:

Ahhh… The multiplayer person names were confusing so I didn’t bother with them.
Although, that name did stand out as I read the post, and I paused there for a few seconds. Should have Googled it.
Good job, refinedandroid!

+ SPIKEBOT on February 27th, 2010 at 12:16 pm said:

Ahhh, so close -_-
Haha, I tried… thanks Chris

+ Chris Morell on February 27th, 2010 at 12:17 pm said:

Ever so close :-)

+ GGCAN on February 27th, 2010 at 12:19 pm said:

Just wanted to put my two cents worth in.

Played Heavy Rain all this week and I gotta say it’s one of the best games I have yet to play.

I had one occassion that one scene froze on me and I had to reboot, but only that one time.

The demo was good, but the game is amazing.

+ Thrill_Kill on February 27th, 2010 at 1:21 pm said:

Hey Chris Morell, I just started up flOw and Lemmings today for the first time in over a year, and noticed they now have TROPHIES!!

When did this take place? I have not seen this news on the PS Blog anywhere, and they are not listed as titles with trophies on the PS Store when looking in the games with trophies section.

So my questions are when is it going to be in that section so people know that they have trophies now. Why was it not discussed on the PS Blog (or when/where?), and will you guys ever find time to patch Super Rub a Dub and Everyday Shooter with some Trophies?

Those are the oldest ones on my PSN game list that I own that never saw trophies… even though you guys did add rumble and new ducks to Rub a dub… I would love some trophy goodness.

And seriously, you guys could even add some DTS sound to Everyday Shooter and get rid of the horrible mono sound that it has, with the staticky sounding explosions…that old game needs a facelift, badly.

Other than that keep up the great updates guys!

+ dublrs on February 27th, 2010 at 1:31 pm said:

Melissa Miller and Hogarth de la Plante

+ GiraffeeDreams on February 27th, 2010 at 1:44 pm said:

Brought myself Play TV a few days ago, the wifes idea, ever since she saw british tv for the first time she was hooked, she’ll be creating a psn account tonight so now i’ll have the best of both worlds, EU and US Stores, although any chance of bringing the PS1 resident evils into the EU store? i’d get them from the us but my Go! is only linked to my account :(

Besides that keep up the good work, oh one more thing, any chance on lowering the price of Sim City 2000 for the EU? it’s £6.29 in the uk store and something like $3.99 in the US store?

Now then, back to heavy rain….

+ Thrill_Kill on February 27th, 2010 at 1:52 pm said:

Hey Chris Morell, please also answer this question.

Now that Lemmings has trophies, I told a friend about it that lives in the UK and he decided to buy Lemmings so we can do a Trophy Challenge (to see who can get the most, the quickest, and compare).

Sadly, this is the only game that has this problem also…. the game will not show us side by side or Lemmings Trophys. Mine is way up on the top and his is on the bottom with a “-” symbol. And it is reversed on his side. He sees that I own the game on the trophy list, way at the bottom, and it appears as “-”. They are acting like they are completely different sets of trophies for different games, but they are the same game, and use the same trophies.

So why is it my US Lemmings from PSN wont show side by side with my friends that live in the UK? Every other game we have show up correctly even though they bought theirs in UK, and I bought mine is the US.

Any help with this would be appreciated. I patiently await your replys. And thank you!

+ NEJI64 on February 27th, 2010 at 2:02 pm said:

@17 i find it wired that Sony America haven’t brought Play TV to America yet. i want to buy it but i have no interest of importing it.

Chris any chance of getting the Just Cause 2 team on the Blog.

+ ghamdikh1 on February 27th, 2010 at 2:51 pm said:

@Chris Morell

Can you kindly try to bring the flowing developers (or publishers) to talk about there games in the blog.

1-Gaijin Entertainment Corporation- Death Track: Resurrection

2-Team17 Software Ltd- Worms 2: Armageddon

3-Wanako Games- 3D Ultra™ Minigolf

4-Q Games- Pixel Junk Racers 2nd Lap

5-Sony Online Entertainment- Groovin’ Blocks

6-SEGA- After Burner Climax™

7-Creat Studios, Inc- Hamster Ball

8-Game Republic, Inc- Catan

9-inXile Entertainment- Super Stacker

+ Nick-30 on February 27th, 2010 at 4:57 pm said:

Jacob Norris

+ zombie_56 on February 27th, 2010 at 6:39 pm said:

16 days till god of war 3!!!!!

+ chevy-2001 on February 27th, 2010 at 6:52 pm said:

I like the she vampires plus themes more graphic .

+ RLx3 on February 27th, 2010 at 8:03 pm said:

Nice contest thingy, I like how you did it… straight forward and all.

@21 10 DAYS UNTIL FINAL FANTASY XIII!
God of War looks good too.

+ mikedo2007 on February 27th, 2010 at 8:16 pm said:

For the Greed corp blog.

“We think you’ll agree, the art style, which draws heavily from both steampunk influences and our love for Miyazaki”

What the guys that did the game didn’t watch Steamboy. That’s a fine and an excellent Steampunk anime. and Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira directed it. To the guy that did the game, watch the movie. You’ll not be spoiled by that film.

+ Darth-Krayt on February 27th, 2010 at 8:47 pm said:

Hey Chris,

I noticed your name in the Heavy Rain credits. Cool Beans! I want my name in a video game I like’s credits.

P.S. you’re hot!!! 8D

+ Nick-30 on February 28th, 2010 at 4:56 am said:

@25 I hope you’re a girl??????

+ phinnv8 on February 28th, 2010 at 10:37 am said:

Wow that changelog is huge for MAG. Can’t help by think if this is how the game was released it woulda gotten better reviews across the board.

+ sscoolChea on February 28th, 2010 at 1:07 pm said:

This past 3 weeks have been AWESOME….

Heavy Rain Drop and I beat it 3 times already
The UC2 DLC was crazy Awesome …Eddy raja puto.
march 2nd MLB the SHOW
march 16 GOD OF WAR 3 ultimate edition

Whats even better there all paid off…..woot woot

PLAYSTATION PLAY BEYOND EVERYBODY