If you missed the Beyond: Two Souls livestream at Tribeca, we’ve put together a handy collection of the highlights for you. Metal Gear fans will want to take a look at this post right here, Killzone: Mercenary is coming to your PS Vita a week early, Sid wrote an unsettling hands-on with The Last of Us, Fred put together an in-depth Q&A with the creators of Watch_Dogs, our newest Conversations with Creators video featured Diablo III for PS3 and PS4, new Sound Shapes DLC is out now, and more.

What are you playing this weekend?

• What The PlayStation 4 Means For Infamous Second Son
• Psycho Bandit Krieg Joins Borderlands 2′s Playable Cast Today – Giant Bomb
• Metareview: Metro – Last Light | Joystiq
• TREACHERY IN BEATDOWN CITY IS ONE PART DOUBLE DRAGON & ONE PART FALLOUT 3
• Netflix PS3 app updated with improved subtitles, faster scanning | Joystiq
• CounterSpy merges mythologies of the Cold War with espionage platforming
• Preview: The Last of Us
• Music Monday: Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon – Nukezilla
• Assassin’s Creed film currently set for summer 2015 launch
• Pirate Jill and Chris, Ninja Keith costumes unlockable in Resident Evil Revelations
• Doki-Doki Universe is more than just flying around on poo
• The Last of Us hands-on: Humanity is a plague on the Earth | Polygon

We got confirmation of a limited art book for Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX pre-orders, Sid hacked the mainframe to bring you some salacious new Watch_Dogs details, our new documentary for The Last of Us takes an intimate (maybe that’s the wrong word…) look at the game’s Infected, you got some unique Offerings in Soul Sacrifice (without having to sacrifice a single cent!), the beautifully animated Muramasa: Rebirth is coming to PS Vita, and we announced three (count ‘em) new games coming to PlayStation platforms: Hohokum, CounterSpy and Doki-Doki Universe.

What are you playing this weekend?

• PlayStation Mobile Update – May 8th 2013
• Fan-made live-action Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon ‘movie trailer’ looks just like the real thing
• New Screenshots From Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us
• Watch Dogs getting hacking feedback from security firm Kaspersky Lab
• SyFy renews Defiance for a second season
• Review: Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (PSN)
• New Divekick character inspired by rejected Capcom design
• Ed Boon posts fan poll for future Injustice: Gods Among Us DLC characters
• Borderlands 2 Psycho Pack: Holy %$@#!!
• Sony to begin manufacturing PlayStation 3 units in Brazil
• Songbird Plushie – Irrational games

If you’re itching to try out Insomniac’s latest, Fuse, it’s getting a demo on PS3 this Tuesday, and don’t miss the new details on Wonderbook’s upcoming noir mystery Diggs Nightcrawler. Oh, and how about those new GTA V trailers? September 17th can’t come soon enough.

On the “behind the scenes” front, don’t miss the Watch_Dogs PS4 dev diary, and the insights into the development of the terrifying Fatal Frame and its sequel.

What are you playing this weekend?

• Inside Sony’s indie initiative: How the hardware giant is courting small-team talent
• Naughty Dog game designer to appear at Sydney’s Vivid Festival
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Blade Wolf DLC launches the week of May 14 |
• Review: Dragon Fantasy Book I | PSNStores
• Michafrar
• Zombie Tycoon II: Brainhov’s Revenge Review | Bit Creature
• Thomas Was Alone review: woke up new | Polygon
• Sleeping Dogs and BlazBlue head to PS Plus this month
• Bill Willingham praises Telltale’s handling of Fables
• Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina DLC Price, Release Date Announced

Ratchet & Clank are making a movie, the super low-fi — but impressively narrated — Thomas Was Alone landed on PS3 and PS Vita, Beyond: Two Souls made an appearance at Tribeca Film Festival (check out the new trailer here), we gathered a list of all the currently announced fighters in Divekick — including more statistics about them than you probably want to know, we saw a new Splinter Cell Blacklist trailer, there’s a crazy Tomb Raider sale happening on PSN right now, we announced the unfathomably adorable Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery, and more.

What are you playing this weekend?

• Draw Slasher review | PSNStores
• Skyrim: Legendary Edition (the whole caboodle) out this June | Joystiq
• Review: Thomas Was Alone | PSNStores
• New Divekick character deconstructs the ‘glass cannon’ – Destructoid
• Katamari Damacy trundles to PlayStation Network next week – Destructoid
• Legend of Dragoon Review – PlayStation Classics Corner
• Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall DLC Trophy Guide – Platinum This
• Gamasutra – Features – Inside the PlayStation 4 With Mark Cerny
• Persona 4 Arena: Official Design Works artbook English localization coming
• Sparkly silver DualShock 3 comes to North America this June | Joystiq

What are you playing this weekend?

• Guacamelee Review
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon live-action short pits cyborgs against a nuclear bomb
• REVIEW: MACHINARIUM (VITA)
• Impressions: Soul Sacrifice demo
• Deadpool comes alive June 25
• Super Brain Eat 3 Level Pack Patch Coming Soon
• Tileogo Announced For PlayStation Mobile
• The Evil Within From Bethesda and Shinji Mikami Scares up a 2014 Release Date on PS3 and Next-Gen Consoles
• Guacamelee! Trophy Guide

…guys?

Late to the party, I know, but I’m proud of that Trophy.

Speaking of Trophies, have you seen the newly updated Trophy page on PlayStation.com? Pretty slick, if I have anything to say about it. I’ve made certain my Facebook friends know I finished Eden.

I also landed the extra-shiny Platinum in new release Guacamelee! You should play this game. Like, right now.

This week, you got a look at the inner workings of Naughty Dog in their new behind-the-scenes vid for The Last of Us, we showed you some of the ludicrous new minigames coming to Frobisher Says! on Tuesday, Keiji Inafune shared some tidbits about his impending PS Vita epic Soul Sacrifice, PS.Blog Editor’s Choice pick Dishonored got some new single-player content in The Knife of Dunwall, and plenty more.

What are you playing this weekend?

• REVIEW: GUACAMELEE!
• PLAYSTATION MOBILE VERSION OF SNAKE IS GETTING AN UPDATE
• GUACAMELEE! REVIEW
• PULSE Elite Edition Wireless Stereo Headset Review – Using Exclusive BioShock Infinite Audio Mode
• Review: Dead or Alive 5 +
• How cheesy ’80s movies shaped Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
• GUACAMELEE REVIEW: BACK FROM HELL
• How 1912 high school uniforms shaped the look of Bioshock Infinite’s Elizabeth
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II Double-XP Weekend

This week on PlayStation.Blog, you got a look at The Last of Us: American Dreams Issue #1 (check @PlayStation on Twitter this weekend for a chance to win a digital copy), side-scrolling beat-em-up Sacred Citadel is coming to PSN April 16th, we couldn’t stop talking about Divekick, video streaming service EPIX came to PSN, and more.

What are you playing this weekend?

• Telltale on why players chose the tough girl instead of the nerdy guy in The Walking Dead
• The Story of Rock Band
• Epic VP compares PS4 to ‘a really perfect gaming PC’
• PS4′s Out This Year, But Puppeteer Proves PS3 Isn’t Over Yet
• Deliberately diegetic: Dead Space’s lead interface designer chronicles the UI’s evolution at GDC
• How a tiny indie studio got noticed by PlayStation
• Take a look at some of BioShock Infinite’s concept art

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We’re back, well-rested after last week’s GDC, and ready to return to our regularly scheduled Blogcasting. This week, we considered spoiling BioShock Infinite (but we’ll save that for the end of next week’s show), gushed about the simple-yet-sensational Divekick, delve into the pleasures of Puppeteer, and recap our favorite games from GDC (Guacamelee!). All this plus next week’s new releases, a selection of 100% organic listener tips and voicemails, and much more.

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Talk of Divekick at GDC last week was impossible to ignore, but how does it actually play? The game’s minimalist design invites skepticism, but rest assured: this is a deeper, more addictive experience that you might imagine. Divekick shrugs off the fighting game genre’s longstanding barriers, creating a sleek, streamlined competitive experience — it’s the primordial essence of what makes fighting games fun.

This is a game about outsmarting and outmaneuvering your opponent. Gone are complex input commands, phalangeal acrobatics, and superhuman timing windows. There are only two buttons: Dive and Kick. You won’t be using the D-pad or analog stick. You can’t block. You can’t even move… at least, not traditionally. To advance towards your opponent you tap Dive (a vertical leap), then Kick to propel your fighter feet-first. A tap of the Kick button while on the ground results an evasive hop backward. Connecting with a single divekick is a one-hit knockout, and the first player to score five knockouts wins. That’s it.

The competitive magic is in the details. For example, when you tap the Kick button is a critical consideration. Close to the ground, where you can recover quickly? Or higher in the air, where you’ll soar further but leave yourself open to counterattack? It’s always worth aiming for your enemy’s noggin to score a dreaded Head Shot, which leaves them dazed and sluggish for the first moments of the next round.

There’s an entire cast of over-the-top characters to choose from, including posterboys Dive and Kick (the palette-swapped Ken and Ryu figures of the game), Dr. Victoria Shoals (reminiscent of Doctor Doom in the Marvel vs Capcom games), Redacted (a cigar-smoking bear that seems vaguely inspired by a certain comic book hero), and many more. Each fighter has a different jump height, kick angle, and divekick speed — it’s not immediately clear whether any of these provide a competitive advantage, but it definitely gives each character a distinctive feel.

But after seeing it and getting past the initial novelty of a two-button, seemingly parodic fighting game, combatants at PlayStation’s GDC Indie Arcade press event got serious. First-to-five went far too fast, and the defeated were quick to queue back up for another shot. At the event, Iron Galaxy set the game up with custom, Divekick-branded fightsticks controllers, though it’s not clear whether those controllers will become available for purchase in the future.

I opted to dole out my divekicks on a standard DualShock 3, hovering my index fingers over the O and X buttons for maximum precision (though L1 and R1 are also supported). I can’t say for sure whether this tactic granted me decreased reaction times, but people seemed to take me more seriously because I was holding the controller funny.

A PS Vita version of the game is on the way as well. One of its unique features is a two-player, one-Vita competitive mode, which Iron Galaxy CEO Dave Lang calls the “most romantic mode in all of fighting games.” One player fights using the Left and Down on the D-pad; the other player uses X and O on the same system — that’s one way to avoid network lag!

Lang assures us that we’ll see plenty more in the final game, including additional characters, a single-player story mode, and full online support. Divekick will land on PSN this summer, for both PS3 and PS Vita. We’ll have more details leading up to launch, so stay tuned. Got any questions about the game? Leave ‘em in the comments, and I’ll do my best to get them answered.

Side-scrolling indie adventure Terraria is coming to PS Vita, we got a release date for the long-awaited exploration-based platformer Guacamelee, the infamously unforgiving Spelunky is coming to PSN, and more. Oh, and if you’re planning to watch the season finale of The Walking Dead, keep your eyes peeled for The Last of Us’ TV spot during the show.

What are you playing this weekend?

At GDC, Hideo Kojima Finally Unwraps Metal Gear Solid V
Borderlands 2 Level Increase and Other Changes
HAVE A LOOK AT SOME WORK-IN-PROGRESS SCREENS FROM EUFLORIA ADVENTURES
PlayStation and indie games: a love story
GDC: Injustice has a Challenge Tower and quicker patching
PlayStation 4 uses both real names and PSN handles, DualShock 4 charges in standby
This Is Running on a PlayStation 4 in Real Time, According to Epic
Journey sweeps Game Developers Choice Awards, wins 6 of 11
Kojima explains how he totally faked everyone out
Ninja Theory talks reboot and shows off unseen Dante art
TREACHERY IN BEATDOWN CITY TEASER TRAILER
Experience Injustice firsthand with demo starting April 2
Take A Look At How Hotline Miami Plays On The PlayStation Vita