Sid Shuman (he/him)
Senior Director, Sony Interactive Entertainment Content Communications
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Back from PAX! Thursday night’s PAX meetup was a riot, and possibly our largest turnout to date. It’s always exciting to speak with PlayStation fans face-to-face, and I had a lot of fun talking games with familiar names from the PlayStation.Blog and official PlayStation Twitter account. Thanks for coming out!
Though my trip to Seattle was a short one, I was able to prowl the PAX floors for a few hours to soak in the avalanche of upcoming games. I’ll be sharing some of my gameplay encounters next week, so stay tuned.
PlayStation Store Update — Castle Crashers, Sam & Max Episode 5, Theme Hospital, plus demos for Vanquish and R.U.S.E. make this a double-stuffed update.
Play inFAMOUS 2 at PAX! — inFAMOUS 2’s PAX premiere shows off the new “Amp” melee weapon and the Ionic Vortex (electric tornado) power. Play it for yourself!
Extra MAG Character Slots Now Available — Players who want to expand their personal collection of MAG soldiers can increase their army with two additional slots below their original default character.
Zipline Podcast – Episode 18 — This week, Brian Soderberg, Zipper’s President and Co-Founder, talks about the studio’s past, present and even hints at its future…
Courtesy of Arne Meyer
What we’re up to at PAX Prime — I strongly suggest you come by the “What Do Fans Want?” panel. We want to know directly from you – our fans – how we can improve our website offerings and how we can do better in working with our respective communities.
REMINDER: The Lab – 3 vs. 3 Deathmatch and Double Cash — This episode of “The Lab” features 3 vs 3 Deathmatch games. Team sizes are limited to only three players, allowing each team ample room to execute new strategies that were not possible with larger team sizes.
Hi Sid, I have posted this a couple of times before but have you heard of a possible fix for fw update 3.41 the issue is getting a bit anoying just bought a PS3 slim updated to 3.41 and boom exact same problem I’m getting with my fat 80gb ps3 — games freez, can watch BDs because the console will freeze 10, 15 mins into the movie… can you please have alook in to this pls???
Hmm, thanks for the tip, I’ll pass this along. In the meantime, did you submit your problem? You can do that here: http://us.playstation.com/support/ask/
little disappointed by no double cash weekend on uncharted 2. As much as I love Mod nation Racers, I’m just in no mood to play that game online right now.
Hi sid I was Juss wondering if u can Tell us what’s the real release date for ps move because I heat sept 7 sept 17 and sept 19? Can u please tell us what’s the real release date
Hey guys, it’s Steven, the guy who was wearing the Uncharted 2 shirt from the PS Blog and IGN meetup on Thursday night. If I represented the Northwest PS3 gamers, I want to say thanks for all of you guys to come up and talk with us. I think most if not all people had a good time there.
The next time you guys do another meetup, I’ll be there.
Lots o’ fun this recap! I love the Ghost of Sparta boxart, but I’m SOOOOOOOO sad I missed PAX! Some much good stuffs were there!!
I’m playing: Naughty Bear, Red Dead Redemption, God of War III, Assassin’s Creed 2, LEGO Harry Potter.
I’m watching: Assorted trailers, (hopefully soon) Marmaduke, (sometime this month) Price of Persia: The Sands of Time (out Sept. 14th).
I’m reading: Savvy, (lost my page) Alien.
Im playing: Uncharted 2 online, double XP and Lab FTW!!!! Come tuesday I will be playing KH BBS! :D
Im watching: Nothing really
Im reading: Nothing atm, but I do like to read a few comics from time to time. Oh and I guess im catching up on some gaming news I may have missed.
I really dislike the MAG character slots. You actually have to pay 99¢ and its a MONTHLY fee. Thats over $12.00 a year. No, its not much, but I shouldn’t have to pay to have 3 different saves of a game I already spent $60 on. Heck, i’ll just make 3 different accounts and get 3 different saves.
any updates on more currently expensive psp games being dropped in price on PSN?
Such as soulcalibur: Broken Destiny ($40) It’s been out a year now.
Mortal Kombat: Unchained ($20) maybe make it $10 or just $15.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max ($20) maybe make it a PSP essential like its sister series: Darkstalkers Chronicles.
Yeah, chalk that up to rumor and speculation for now. I spoke with a Square Enix representative a few weeks ago, and he said the company hasn’t announced anything at this time one way or the other.”
I still doubt it’ll be on the store too, that’ll be too good to be true lol….but Kingdom Hearts is the reason why I bought a PSPgo in the first place. If it’s not on the store then I can’t explain how disappointed I’ll be.
Once it was announced that devs had a choice whether to have their games released digitally, I had a feeling it would happen.
ok for the 100th time why are my ideas submitted never any longer appearing on blog share? its like my 10 ideas from months ago of which 9 are all originals
We’ve waited over 13 years for Duke Nukem Forever, and they finally announce it at PAX with a release year, along with hands-on gameplay, and it’s not even remotely mentioned?
I’m disappointed in you, Sony reps.
I mean, really, we get it, Killzone etc. are coming out. We’ve heard many times before: here and in Home (and everywhere else in the world). Tell us about things we don’t hear about, like American McGee’s Alice 2 and DNF. Years spent waiting for these games, and they are both being realized.
There’s 1 microsoft kinect facebook profile and a 1 playstation move profile. The ps move profile has 423 people liked and kinect has 2,473. That’s not right because the ps move is wayy better. If you like or are getting the move, like it please.
@24… I still have my hopes up for BBS to come to the PSN. haha I can picture it in my head right now when Pulse comes out and will feature BBS. If BBS won’t come out to PSN.. I’ll just borrow my girlfriend’s PSP.. but I really want to play it in my psp go :( the reason for my purchase of my go is for digital, also my first psp. I saw Birth By Sleep on PSP go in E3 sony when they were showing the games. So i bought a PSP go.. now I’m regretting it a little… I should have bought a PSP 3000.
Playing: Valkyria Chronicles II and Metroid: Other M (ahhh don’t shoot me!)
Watching: Lost compete collection (well I already saw it and watched some bonus features!)
Reading: Scott Pilgrim which I haven’t started but I bought the entire series.
Curious about the PlayStation Move coming out later this month but sadly, no launch titles interest me :( I am looking forward to Sorcery and other games that will be patched such as Heavy Rain and Resident Evil 5. I can’t seem to find a clear answer on this but will Dead Space 2 have Move support? I know Extraction in the CE will but I can’t find a clear answer for the “main” game having the feature.
Thanks for the recap! I’m super excited about the Move!
Sweet! What game are you most excited for?