Posts From August, 2011
Fun fact of the day: Trailers used to be shown at the end of a movie. Hence the name trailer. Because it trailed the mov- you know what, you probably got it. Eventually, the marketing people woke up and realized that no one sticks around after a film, so they moved it to the beginning. However, the name “trailer” stuck. Probably because the name “beginnier” is lamer than my 17th birthday (it involved a gluten-free cake and a Pauly Shore marathon – you do the math). Nowadays, marketing people have gotten even savvier. You can watch a trailer – on the internet! Now you don’t have to drain your 401k watching Jason Statham punch various objects and/or people just to get a glimpse at the trailer for whatever beacon of enjoyable entertainment that’s on the horizon.
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PlayStation Store Update
+ Posted by Grace Chen
Exciting news for Qore this month. With today’s Store update, this month’s episode of Qore will be available for free! While PlayStation Plus subscribers were able to get it first and free, all PSN members can now delve into unparalleled behind-the-scenes access to Resistance 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Dead Island; all part of this month’s Qore, hosted by Veronica Belmont. If you’ve never had the chance to watch Qore, download it for free today and see what you’ve been missing.
This week brings some great content including Medal of Honor: Frontline! Battle your way across Europe during WWII as Lt. Jimmy Patterson in this HD re-mastered version of the critically acclaimed original. In PSOne Classic news, the beautiful RPG adventure Breath of Fire IV hits today. PlayStation Plus is also helping celebrate the Breath of Fire IV PSOne Classic release with an exclusive avatar bundle; available this week for Plus members.
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As many of you may already know, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has partnered with SCEA to offer some incredible content from their upcoming first-party lineup of games on some of our studio’s recent Blu-ray releases. No doubt you remember the God of War III demo on District 9, and the Resistance 3 demo on Battle Los Angeles… Well, coming to retail stores today in the U.S. and Latin America (excluding Brazil) is our Priest Unrated Blu-ray (and Blu-ray 3D) with an uncut trailer for Twisted Metal on the 2D version and a 3D trailer from UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception on the 3D edition.
Hello there PlayStation.Blog readers! Hopefully, all of you inFAMOUS fans have had a chance to play plenty of the UGC missions since our June launch. Here’s a fun fact: Players have spent a total of 451,251 hours – or 51 years – playing those UGC missions. While those missions have kept you entertained, it’s now time for a major DLC announcement.
inFAMOUS 2 Festival of Blood will be a brand new standalone single player DLC for download via PSN.
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Hello PlayStation Nation,
I have some exciting news to share with you today. As many of you know, it has been nearly five years since the PS3 first came to the U.S. market with its built in Blu-ray player, integrated hard-drive, built-in wireless, and unmatched hi-def gaming. Today, more than 50 million PS3’s have been sold worldwide, more than 2,495 Blu-ray titles are available and the PS3’s expansive portfolio of games and video content on PlayStation Network exceeds 60,000 titles.
While others in the space are losing steam, PlayStation 3 is gaining momentum and giving gamers everywhere more of what they want: an unparalleled line-up of exclusive games and access to the best in sports, movies and TV, all at a great value.
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For those of you who are unable to attend gamescom, we are excited to bring you the latest PS Vita news updates directly from the SCE Europe press conference in Cologne, Germany. In addition to the social features previously announced, PS Vita users will also be able to download dedicated applications for Facebook, foursquare, Skype, and Twitter free of charge directly from the PlayStation Store.
Resistance fans will be happy to hear that the signature PlayStation franchise will join the PS Vita software lineup with Resistance: Burning Skies, a new Resistance experience developed specifically for PS Vita that takes full advantage of the system’s dual analog sticks and features an all-new hero and story written by William C. Dietz, author of Resistance: The Gathering Storm and Resistance: A Hole in the Sky.
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Guten tag from Cologne, Germany, home of gamescom! The motto for 2011′s gamescom is “Celebrate the Games,” and we’re about to do that beginning with the Sony Computer Entertainment Europe press conference. The presser kicks off at 7pm local time, which is 1pm Eastern and 10am Pacific.
A note while you’re watching* today: much like E3 is targeted to the US audience and Tokyo Game Show is targeted at Japan, the gamescom press conference is primarily aimed at European gamers, so please keep that in mind as you watch. Not everything mentioned or shown today will necessarily apply to those of us in North America. We’ll post on all appropriate things for the North American market, however, just as we always do.
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Challenge of the Week #24 matches up two players that have been playing well the past week. The Twins ace faces the Rays young 3rd baseman, on the cusp of hitting 100 career Home Runs.
Climb the leaderboard and get as many hits as you can to win your choice of signed ball from an MLB star- Hamels, Reyes, Pujols, Upton, McCann, Matsui.
Week #24 begins on Monday August 15th at 5:30am PDT and ends Monday August 22nd at 4:30am PDT.
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