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SingStar On Tour, Your Chance to Shine

Jill Grabenkort — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:38:57 +0000

Lookout everyone, SingStar On Tour, which hit the road in July and will travel across the country through March 2008, may be coming to a town near you! The tour features a SingStar van and a performance stage, and for those who aren’t quite ready to show off their skills on-stage, don’t worry, we have some SingStar kiosks too.

While the tour’s focused on weekend stops at major malls across the country, we like to pop into local “watering holes” here and there during the week. This past Wednesday night we made a stop at the Dizzy Lizard Saloon in Hempstead, NY. The Hofstra University students were out in full force to sing their hearts out on SingStar Amped and SingStar 80’s (both releasing on September 18th). If anyone there doesn’t remember what a great time they had…not to worry. We took pictures!

PlayStation @ X-Games 13

Jill Grabenkort — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:52:22 +0000

I’m back to give you the scoop on PlayStation’s presence at X Games 13, which was this past weekend in Los Angeles. As part of our sponsorship, we were on-site with the PlayStation Experience truck, where players were able to get up close and personal with our upcoming line-up for the PlayStation 3 including Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction, and Heavenly Sword. Motorstorm and Tony Hawk: Project 8 were also on hand, and are still hugely popular! It was a really great event, and more than 5,500 people came on board the truck to play! Check out some of the pics below and via our Flickr page.

Congrats go out to Shaun White for taking home the gold in Skateboard Vert! After owning gold in snowboarding at the Winter X Games, Shaun is now the only two-season, board sport X Games champion of all time!

If you were watching TV or reading any newspaper this weekend, you no doubt heard about Jake Brown. During the Skateboard Big Air Finals, Jake Brown went up off the quarter pipe at the end of the mega ramp, lost control of his skateboard and fell 50 feet. He fell incredibly hard, but thankfully was able to get up and walk away!

Congrats to all of the participants and this year’s winners! We’ll see you next time we have the PlayStation Experience truck at one of these events and be sure to report back.

PlayStation AM JAM Finalists Selected

Jill Grabenkort — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:36:18 +0000

Hi everyone, I’m Jill Grabenkort, associate promotions manager for PlayStation. From time to time, I’ll chime in here with updates on some of our promotional work. Back in mid-March, we kicked-off the 4th annual PlayStation AM JAM tour in conjunction with Camp Woodward. This series of events is a nation-wide talent search for amateur action sports athletes. After hosting these events in 11 cities across the nation with more than 850 of the best action junkies showing off their stuff, we narrowed down the competition this month and I think we’ve found the best-of the best.

Over the past week, the PlayStation AM JAM finals were held at Camp Woodward, and it was definitely a cool site to see. If you’re not familar with it, Camp Woodward is the *premiere* actions sports training facility in the country. Check out the above pic of the PlayStation AM JAM winners. Chris O’Reilly (Skate Vert), Cody Porsche (Inline), Louie Lopez (Skate Park), and Kyle Kelsey (BMX) each took home a check for $5,000 and a scholarship to Woodward Camp for the 2008 season. In the next few days, I’ll try and drop in some video here from the finals.

Our congrats to the PlayStation AM JAM winners! For those of you looking for info on upcoming events, stay tuned….