We’re just a week out from the launch of BUZZ! Quiz World PS3 on November 10, so we wanted to take a moment to give you a little information about the latest BUZZ! installment on PS3 and get you excited for its release.

If you’re familiar with the BUZZ! franchise, you’ve already been introduced to the trivia host-with-the-most, Buzz.

Well, now he returns to an all-new hi-def game-show studio surrounded by contestants old and new! And this time, you can personalize your character by selecting from hundreds of preset names and hear Buzz call you out by your own moniker.

The level of customization goes even further with the new option to build your own game by selecting your favorite round types and quizzes. And with more than 5,000 new questions and the addition of several new round types—including “Over the Edge,” which involves a pit of goo awaiting those who answer questions incorrectly—your BUZZ! games have just gotten that much more fun!

BUZZ! Quiz World also reintroduces MyBUZZ user-generated quizzes meaning your question bank is still virtually limitless. And the online multiplayer “Sofa vs. Sofa” mode has been expanded to eight players.

But, the fun doesn’t need to end there. BUZZ! Quiz World will be supported after launch with downloadable quiz packs from PlayStation Network. Quiz packs previously purchased for BUZZ! Quiz TV will also work with BUZZ! Quiz World. We’ll also be launching a BUZZ! Quiz World title for PSP very soon, but we’ll have more information on that at a later date.

We can’t wait for you to get your hands on BUZZ! Quiz World and let us know what you think. We think you’ll have a blast, but don’t take our word for it! Check out some previews that have been coming in from a few of our media friends.

GameSpot
GiantBomb
IGN
Kotaku
1UP

Check out these sample questions to see if your space trivia skills are up to snuff:

WHICH PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS THE SMALLEST?

• PLUTO
• MERCURY
• VENUS
• MARS

A MASSIVE, GRAVITATIONALLY BOUND SYSTEM THAT CONSISTS OF STARS, STELLAR REMNANTS, GAS AND DUST IS BETTER KNOWN AS WHAT?

• A GALAXY
• A SOLAR SYSTEM
• A NEBULA
• A STAR SYSTEM

THE THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE IS KNOWN AS THE…WHAT?

• BIG BOOM
• BIG BLAST
• BIG BEN
• BIG BANG

OUR SUN IS ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST STARS IN THE GALAXY BUT BY WHAT PROCESS DOES IT GENERATE ITS ENERGY?

• NUCLEAR FISSION
• KINETIC DISCHARGE
• NUCLEAR FUSION
• KINETIC FRICTION

WHICH OF THESE GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES DOES MARS SHARE WITH EARTH?

• SALTWATER OCEANS
• SMOG
• POLAR ICE CAPS
• CIVILIZATION

Great news for all of you who have been diligently downloading new quiz packs and can’t wait to get your hands on BUZZ!: Quiz World for PS3 this November. All PS3 quiz packs will be interoperable between BUZZ!: Quiz TV and BUZZ!: Quiz World for PS3! Not only does that mean that any future quiz packs will work with both PS3 games, it means that all of the quiz packs that you have already downloaded for BUZZ!: Quiz TV will automatically show up in your quiz bank when you pop in BUZZ!: Quiz World for PS3.

The BUZZ! DLC news doesn’t stop there. Just for those of you who like to test your trivia talent on the go, we’re gearing up to make downloadable quiz packs available for BUZZ!: Quiz World for PSP as well. Just access the PlayStation Network via your PSP and you’ll have access to downloadable quizzes from any wireless hotspot. That, combined with the fact that you’ll have access to MyBUZZQuiz.com content on PSP for the first time ever, means that you will never run out of questions for BUZZ!: Quiz World for PSP!

That’s all for now! Keep visiting the PlayStation Blog to stay up-to-date on the latest BUZZ! news.

You will have the chance to enter to win a trip for you and a friend to New Orleans to attend Voodoo Experience over Halloween weekend (October 30 through November 1). Voodoo Experience is a multi-day music festival in New Orleans, Louisiana and will feature a blockbuster lineup for 2009. Headlining this year’s festival are Kiss, Eminem, Jane’s Addiction, Widespread Panic, and The Flaming Lips.

At Voodoo Experience, two sweepstakes winners will face off with BUZZ! Quiz World PS3 on the BUZZ! stage, and the winner of the face off will have a chance to compete against a TBA Voodoo Experience musician!

The promotion starts September 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM and ends October 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM PST. Please see the sweepstakes page for entry and more information.

And for those of you not familiar with BUZZ! Quiz World, check out the game Web sites for PS3 and PSP.

As you may or may not know, we announced the upcoming SingStar rooms for PlayStation Home at gamescom in Cologne, Germany a few weeks ago. For those of you SingStar fiends who have since been blowing up my PM box on the official PlayStation Home forums asking “where are those rooms at, Locust?” I’m positively thrilled to confirm that this new game space will be launching two weeks from today on Thursday, September 24th. You can peep some exclusive sneak peek pics from this new space below.

The first thing you’ll notice when you visit this space on opening day is that dance floor reacts to the shapes you throw and that the music will change according to what style on dance the majority of avatars are partaking in. Note: This is where you thank me for not dropping the polka dance on you last update.

There’s also an interactive jukebox in the space where you and your friends can vote for your favorite tracks and the SingStar Music Quiz (which will be accessible in a future update) is there to test the knowledge of the hardest of hardcore music geeks in Home. To top it all off, there will be tons of rewards to be earned and future events galore, so you’ll want to add this space to your Favorites list right from the get-go. You’ll want to check the doors at the back of the SingStar rooms regularly. You never know what might be popping off inside.

On an unrelated, yet equally awesome note, you’ll notice today that Buzz! fully supports game launching in Home. So gather in the Buzz! space to meet other trivia buffs and launch into this hit party game. And while you’re at it, take a moment to go explore the Mall. If you look hard, you’ll find some new free items hidden therein. These free items will only be available for a limited time, so you’ll need to log-in today. Consider it a gift from us to you, the PlayStation Home community.

We think you’ll be stoked to see that the long-awaited BUZZ! HQ is launching. Here, you can meet up with friends new and old and take part in a massive 64-player game of BUZZ! trivia. This content is fed into the space via MyBuzzQuiz.com – a site where you can create your own trivia questions for your fellow BUZZ! fanatics to tackle. So be sure to create an account and start uploading your trickiest trivia. Then get your butt into Home, hook up with your brainiest peeps, enter the BUZZ! HQ, and start racking up the prizes. Rest assured that we’ll be taking advantage of this sweet new space by regularly scheduling some truly awesome events. Keep your eyes on the Home Clubs and Events sub-forum over at PlayStation.com for more info.

EA SPORTS continues to demonstrate their leadership in the world of sports competition by updating their fan-favorite EA SPORTS Complex. This week they are dropping some new goods on us and opening up a space for their hit Fight Night franchise. This swanky boxing-themed night club space launches with an interactive DJ game, rewards, and plenty of places to chill with your nearest and dearest Home-boys and Home-girls. Note that this is just phase one of the Fight Night space (there are tons of mini-game updates and the new virtual items scheduled for near future deployment) so you’ll need to make sure that you check in on this here blog for the latest updates.

Those of you who pick up the Namco Museum Essentials from the PlayStation Store will find that these games are unlocking a bunch of rewards in Home. We’re talking Dragon Spirit and Xevious: Resurrection arcade cabinets, for Crom’s sake! And, yes, the Namco Bandai Arcade will be coming to SCEA Home at a later date, so have no fear. We’ll keep you updated on this here Blog thingy when the space is ready to launch.

See you in Home!

Here’s the cool part of making the best baseball game out there: You’re invited to the MLB All-Star Game, and all the related festivities. Just in my day or so here in Missouri, it’s very clear that St. Louis is a Baseball Town; everyone’s decked out in Cardinal Red, and fans are flooding the All-Star events such as FanFest, where you can find PlayStation on full display. We’ve got dozens of hi-def Bravia stations for players to go one-on-one with each other in MLB 09: The Show (oftentimes for prizes), but even better, we’re putting this Baseball Town’s extensive knowledge of the sport to good use.

Around the FanFest area at America’s Center, you’ll find kiosks set up with Buzz! Quiz TV (near the Chevy, Sharp, and Reebok “bases”). We’ve set up a special set of baseball quizzes, and the top scores are competing for a PS3 with a copy of MLB 09: The Show. If you’re in the area (through Tuesday), I highly recommend that you drop by and take a crack at it (after studying your baseball trivia first, natch).

So what does this have to do with you if you’re *not* in St. Louis this week? Well, through the power of Buzz! Quiz TV, you can play the same Play Around the Bases quiz, either through Buzz! Quiz TV on your PS3, or right on the web.

Here’s a link to the “Around the Bases” MyBuzzQuiz.

Think you got them all right? Hit us up with the correct answers to the *last* 3 questions with an @reply on Twitter. Randomly, one participant will win whatever schwag I pick up at the All-Star Game :-)

Continuing with the All-Star Festivities, today we’re going to hold a cool exhibition, where US troops stationed overseas will compete with soldiers back here in St. Louis in some MLB 09: The Show. Who knows, maybe some All-Stars will show up in person?

More on that tomorrow…

We’re going to launch a brand new space in PlayStation Home called BUZZ! HQ, where players can chat and meet up with other trivia fans in a new lobby area or take part in a massive 64-player BUZZ! trivia showdown!

The game works by making you run around the studio on a massive BUZZ! Buzzer to answer questions, all of which are taken from the best content that you’ve created on the MyBuzzQuiz.com website.

Four colored answer buttons are laid out on the floor and you need to make sure you’re standing on the right answer when the time runs out. The winner’s decided over four rounds, and there are a number of exclusive Home prizes up for grabs for the greatest players. We are very excited to be bringing a fantastic new BUZZ! multiplayer game to Home and we know this is going to be a great social experience.

So keep an eye out for the new BUZZ! space, which will go live very soon. In the meantime, check out this virtual tour of the space and let us know what you think.

Keep on buzzing!

Today you can challenge your music knowledge with the new Rock Legends Quiz Pack for BUZZ! Quiz TV. If you can name every member of KISS, know all of the words to “Don’t Stop Believin’” or you just love music, this is the quiz pack for you! The Rock Legends Quiz Pack amps up your quiz bank with over 500 new questions covering the most legendary rock bands, albums and songs of all time.

Below you’ll find a taste of what the Rock Legends Quiz Pack has to offer:

BRET MICHAELS FRONTS WHICH GLAM METAL GODS?
*KISS
*POISON
*SKID ROW
*MÖTLEY CRÜE

IN 1968, WHO TOOK US ON A ‘MAGIC CARPET RIDE’?
*THE TROGGS
*DEEP PURPLE
*STEPPENWOLF
*JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

WHO RELEASED THE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ‘MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS’?
*STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
*MUSE
*THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
*SILVERCHAIR

SUPERGROUP BAD ENGLISH WAS MADE UP OF MEMBERS OF WHICH BANDS?
* REO SPEEDWAGON
* JOURNEY
* STYX
* THE BABYS

WHICH QUEEN TRACK SPARKS A MEMORABLE SING-A-LONG IN THE MOVIE ‘WAYNE’S WORLD’?
*KILLER QUEEN
*DON’T STOP ME NOW
*WE WILL ROCK YOU
*BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Stay tuned to the PlayStation.Blog for more exciting BUZZ! news coming soon. In the meantime, Rock On!

The BUZZ! content keeps on coming. Today’s release of the U.S. Sports Quiz Pack is the tenth downloadable quiz pack released for BUZZ! Quiz TV, with the total number of questions for the title doubling from the original amount, bringing the grand total to over 10,000 questions!

Featuring over 500 new questions, the U.S. Sports Quiz Pack covers all of your favorite teams, athletes, and memorable moments in sports history. And now for your trivia pleasure, test your knowledge on a few of these brain busters from the Quiz Pack:

WHICH TEAM DID THIS PLAYER START HIS NFL CAREER WITH?

*LIONS
*PATRIOTS
*VIKINGS
*BENGALS

WHO IS THIS U.S. TENNIS PLAYER?

*JAMES BLAKE
*SERENA WILLIAMS
*JOHN MCENROE
*JIMMY CONNORS

WHERE WAS THE SECOND WINTER OLYMPICS THIS ATHLETE COMPETED IN?

*BEIJING
*ATLANTA
*CALGARY
*SALT LAKE CITY

WHICH OF THESE SKIING TECHNIQUES IS USED FOR CLIMBING STEEP HILLS?
*SKIJORING
*ANGULATION
*SIDE SLIPPING
*HERRINGBONE

And here’s a question our Blog guy Jeff should be able to answer:

WHEN DID FLORIDA BECOME THE FIRST NCAA SCHOOL TO WIN FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL TITLES IN ONE YEAR?
*1995
*2007
*1976
*1954

First up, we have the National Geographic: Prehistoric Quiz Pack for BUZZ! Quiz TV. Whether you’re a paleontologist, a Jurassic Park junkie or you just love dinosaurs, this is the quiz pack for you. Featuring over 500 new questions, the National Geographic: Prehistoric Quiz Pack will test your knowledge of everything from the formation of the Earth to the fossils of its early inhabitants. Do you have the prehistoric prowess to answer questions like these?

IT IS BELIEVED THAT TYRANNOSAURUS REX COULD EAT UP TO HOW MANY POUNDS OF MEAT IN ONE BITE?
*2 LBS
*500 LBS
*1 TON
*5 LBS

DURING WHAT PERIOD DID THE FIRST DINOSAURS APPEAR?
*JURASSIC
*PALEOGENE
*CRETACEOUS
*TRIASSIC

THE EARTH WAS FORMED AROUND HOW MANY YEARS AGO?
* 4.6 BILLION
* 500,000
* 1.2 BILLION
* 15 BILLION

RELATIVE TO ITS SIZE, WHICH DINOSAUR HAD THE SMALLEST BRAIN?
*STEGOSAURUS
*ALLOSAURUS
*TYRANNOSAURUS REX
*DIPLODOCUS

Also hitting PSN tomorrow is BUZZ! Jr.: Jungle Party. A bundle of five fun and fast-paced mini-games, BUZZ! Jr.: Jungle Party is perfect for young gamers (or gamers who are young at heart).

Use your BUZZ! Buzzer peripherals to compete against your friends and family in these hilarious jungle-themed mini-games. This PSN download lets you get your jungle party started for a steal at only $4.99!

That’s all for now, but keep checking in on the PlayStation Blog for breaking BUZZ! news.