Sid Shuman (he/him)
Senior Director, Sony Interactive Entertainment Content Communications
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Can’t talk — playing way too many video games. So many games, in fact, that I dropped the ball on the most slam-dunk Halloween costume idea I’ve ever had: Swamp Thing using a ghillie suit. I was this close to ordering the costume, but the last thing I remember is inserting the Fallout: New Vegas disc and picking up the controller and oh god where am I what time is it…
Needless to say, I’ll be dressing up as a “social media blogger guy” yet again this year. Anyone dressing up as a PlayStation character?
Celebrating Ten Years of PlayStation 2 — Any serious fan should watch this video documentary — it’s packed with fascinating details and footage from PlayStation’s first days.
MLB 10: The Show Predicts: Giants in 7 — The developers simulated a match-up between the Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants and predict a seven-game classic.
PlayStation Store Update — 20% off all Red Dead Redemption DLC (including Undead Nightmare!) til 11/2, plus Majin And The Forsaken Kingdom Demo, Blacklight Tango Down, and Superstars V8 Racing.
PlayStation Network Video Content Update — Don’t forget: The original Nightmare on Elm Street rental is playing free from on Saturday 5pm to 3am Pacific. Freddy’s coming for you…
MAG Escalation DLC Coming November 2 — Thanks to your devotion, we gathered a surplus of fantastic data that allowed us to make MAG a better game… and we’re not done yet!
Courtesy of Arne Meyer
Another batch of UNCHARTED 2 PSN Avatars hits the PSN Store! — Our latest set of PSN Avatars features a selection of some popular multiplayer characters, all shown in the familiar retro photo frame theme from the character selection screen in UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer.
The Labs <3's Halloween — The Halloween weekend episode of “The Lab” features 2 vs 2 Elimination. The suspense created by having only one life per round in Elimination fits a Halloween nicely, don’t you think?
I’m playing through CoD4 again, that game was sooooo much fun. I’m also reading the book Metro 2033, great story though I kind of perfer the game’s version of it.
Now I gotta go buy a PSN card so I can get that sweet MAG DLC and the Shatter soundtrack.
Also, Sid do you or anyone else know if the Killzone 3 Helghast Edition will be coming to Canada? Both Amazon.ca and Gamestop.ca have no mention of it.
Alternate question: What’s going on with the PSP Go Price drop. That leaked memo said it went into effect Oct 15th and most retailers dropped the PSP Go price to $199 on or before that date but you guys haven’t announced a thing yet.
Did you change your mind(too late)? Forget to post the press release? Decide to change the price drop date(again too late)? or what?
The $199 price isn’t actually a new development — it’s been that price at several retailers for a good chunk of 2010, so it wasn’t seen as “news” as such when the price expanded to include more retailers.
Sorry but I think that rewards program is a complete waste. It’s like icoke up here. Buy $1000 worth of Coke products in a year and you have enough icoke points for a cellphone ringtone, wallpaper and a couple entries into a contest they legally have to let you enter without purchase.
Unless you’re going to strive to be something better then Club Nintendo, don’t even bother. Go away and don’t come back untill you have something better then themes and contests to offer.
Sorry but I think that rewards program is a complete waste. It’s like icoke up here. Buy $1000 worth of Coke products in a year and you have enough icoke points for a cellphone ringtone, wallpaper and a couple entries into a contest they legally have to let you enter without purchase.
I’m currently playing New Vegas, hoping to get platinum in the next two weeks. I’m also playing the Killzone 3 Beta. Sid, I don’t know about you but I could use some squadmates so feel free to add my PSN ID and we could Beta away.
This applies to everyone else in the beta who doesn’t yell into the mic like a 12yr old with tourettes and doesn’t mind working as a team.
For Halloween parties, I haven’t been masquerading as a Sony made character, however I have dressed up as some who appeared on PS3 recently: Chuck Greene from Dead Rising 2.
As for games I’m excited for Ghost of Sparta on Tuesday, as well as 007: Blood Stone. Thanks to this week’s post on the Ghost of Sparta skins, I’m eager to revisit God of War 3 as Deimos as well.
In your opinion, how’s the Undead Nightmare Pack for Red Dead Redemption? I’d get it, but I’m holding out for the disc with every add-on coming out late November, seeing as I have none of them.
NOA Club Nintendo sucks comparred to EU and Japan Club Nintendo and they were still a million times better then what you’re offering out of the gate. With better prizes, retroactive points for Nintendo Published games already registered, games already downloaded etc.
I don’t think “It will get better over time” will fix Sony’s vision for the program being stupid and pointless.
@KingDubin
you can log on with your ps3, however, you have to trick the system. go to the log in page, once the page loads up, select tools, javascript off, then refresh the page. you shloud be able to type in your log in information. Once you type your information, DONT SELECT SIGN IN YET, instead go back to tools, javascript on. Now select sign in… it should work now. I’m not going to take credit for this, someone else posted this a few weeks ago on one of the store update blogs.
I’m playing: Alundra, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo. Yes, I restarted Castlevania after losing my file to the glitch but now that the patch is out, I’m back on what I started: Getting that platinum trophy. NFS with Autolog is addicting as heck! I think my friends hate me for getting #1 on their leaderboards though :(
I’m watching: Blood+, more than halfway through with the series. Netflix is finally getting more titles in Canada too!
Sid Shuman | October 30th, 2010 at 2:00 pm The program was just unveiled and the team has said it will evolve. Much like the PS3 and PSP, I’m sure it will get better and better over time.7
that’s what they said about ps+, and it hasn’t gotten any better then when it launched, now it updates on fewer dates and with less content. the uk plus has improved, the us version hasn’t, and that isn’t just my opinion. $50 worth of fallout 3 dlc for free on the uk, when are we getting those type of deals? that alone is worth subscribing.
PS+ is also in early days, but in the last two months it’s gradually begun to offer more interesting benefits, such as the Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood beta for all members. If it’s not your cup of tea, wait it out and see what other benefits materialize in coming weeks and months before you make up your mind!
The latest DelayStation 3 game Gran Turismo 5 release date needed. PS3 firmware updated needed. PlayStation Blog Share is currently completely pointless.
Good selection of games, I’m playing right now Castlevania LoS, 3D Dot Game Heroes and waiting to get Vanquish next week and ofcourse am still waiting for Gran Turismo 5. Btw where is the GT5 release date?
yea it worked im signed in on my ps3 any way Im playing. killzone 3 beta lbp2 beta and astro tripper im watching a nightmare on elm st. come midnight im reading other folks comments
I’m still having problems with the Rewards program <_<
I got the email but it keeps saying "Access Denied" when I click the link. Called the Sony line, all said email them. But I got my response just to get an automated message of the stuff that's in the Knowledge Center.
I’m Playing: Enslaved (PS3), Costume Quest (PSN), Dragon Quest 9 (DS), and Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
I’m Watching: Lots of Netflix streaming. Mostly tv shows like X-Files, Dead Zone, Farscape, etc. Also just watched the first two episodes of Carnivale, the short lived HBO series, via Netflix. Very good!
I’m Reading: The Somnambulist still. Also Batman: The Long Halloween, Superman For All Seasons, and the occasional Neil Gaiman short story! :)
Enslaved is such a cool game! Still unhappy that LBP2 is not comming out next month, but I’m glad that there are other cool games coming out. Also still hoping against hope to get into the LBP2 beta. lol.
I am loving New Vegas, but lawdy they need to get a few patches out. The companion AI is pretty much boneheaded, hahaha.
I actually was unable to hack computers until I remapped the action buttons and held down a different Action button the whole time I made the attempt, using X to plink in my words. That’s holding Circle down with my middle finger while I tapped the X to make my selections for the whole hack job!
Cool! Move update for MAG! TOTALLY glad they’re fixing the parachuting issue. Too bad they won’t make the sniper scope work more like the reflex sight…
I’m playing: God of War Collection (God of War), Assassin’s Creed 2 (just got platinum!), LittleBigPlanet (please heart my level and me. so I can get platinum!)
I’m watching: Survivor: Nicaragua
I’m reading: PlayStation Magazine, Frankenstien by Mary Shelly.
I am playing: Uncharted 2 GOTY and Sports Champions (Thank u sony for move!!)
I am watching: thge other people get there butts kiked by me in Uncharted2.
I am reading: the last gameinformer magazne i got
today i saw ” Cabela’s Dangerous Hunt’s ” for ps3 on the store shelf . it said it was MOVE compatible . Although I’am not interested in the game i am interested in the rifle controller that comes with as it would look like it would work alot better for games such as mag , rather than that small hand gun type of attachment for the move . Do they even sell stand alone models of this attachment/controllers ? if not …. is it compatible with other shooters besides Cabelas ?
I’m playing : Castlevania Lords of Shadows (man this game is flipping long but awsome!) Red Dead Redemption Online ( trying to hit up the double xp before its gone) and gonna try to get around to playing undead nightmare and the killzone 3 beta.
I’m watching: South Park ( The koon and Friends, Lmao) Eastbound and Down, Dexter, Smallville ( its corny and campy, I know, but Ive been watching it for like 9 seasons, might as well finish it) and finally tomorrow im gonna tune into amc and check out the Walking Dead premiere, Yah!
Im Reading: Deadpool, Fables and army of darkness. :)
This is an off the wall question. Will SONY ever drop the price of SIREN: BLOOD CURSE on PSN. It been $40.00 since the release of the PS3. I want to purchase this game but DAMN …… I can’t believe its still $40.00.
i so wish GT5 were coming out next week… i was looking forward to that game so much….
but as of now, im currently playing God of War3 and FF13..
watching 50 Dead Men Walking on Netflix…
and reading whatever current magazines i get in the mail…
hurry up GT5..
my one gaming wish is a new Destruction Derby game….
Fallout New Vegas is too buggy on PS3, having constant freezes and other problems with this game. Obsidian really failed in my eyes because these bugs were there since Fallout 3, never got patched and now they never got fixed.
I feel ripped off now by buying this poorly developed game.
Sony’s email customer service just gave you a cut and paste response that didn’t resolve your question? No, they never do that!
Seriously Sony, your quality of service goals are a joke because you don’t spend enough money on customer service to have any chance of actually meeting them. You only pay for enough people to rush through emails with cut and paste nonsense and barely squeak in under the speed of reply goal.
Hint we dont care what PSN propagandists are playing. We who keep you in business are more concerned about what we’re not playing. Games like GT5 LBP2 and so on. You know those games your getting pre order payments for but not delivering.
Playstation ftw.
Let me be the first to ask the $1,000,000,000,000,000 Question;
When in the hell is GT5 coming out?
also, BTW, I can’t log on into the PS Blog from the PS3 Internet Browser. Can you please fix that in your next update?
Thanks!
I’m playing through CoD4 again, that game was sooooo much fun. I’m also reading the book Metro 2033, great story though I kind of perfer the game’s version of it.
Now I gotta go buy a PSN card so I can get that sweet MAG DLC and the Shatter soundtrack.
Also, Sid do you or anyone else know if the Killzone 3 Helghast Edition will be coming to Canada? Both Amazon.ca and Gamestop.ca have no mention of it.
Alternate question: What’s going on with the PSP Go Price drop. That leaked memo said it went into effect Oct 15th and most retailers dropped the PSP Go price to $199 on or before that date but you guys haven’t announced a thing yet.
Did you change your mind(too late)? Forget to post the press release? Decide to change the price drop date(again too late)? or what?
The $199 price isn’t actually a new development — it’s been that price at several retailers for a good chunk of 2010, so it wasn’t seen as “news” as such when the price expanded to include more retailers.