FLOCK! Arrives on PSN on April 9!

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OK, OK. I know I’ve been M.I.A. lately. You also may have noticed that I haven’t been on my PS3 in a while playing SF4. Well, life’s been hectic but exciting, and any free time has been spent catching up on sleep (I promise to catch up on all my PS3 messages, sorry)!

The real reason I’m here, and it’s not to keep you updated on my life, is to let you know that next Thursday, FLOCK! finally arrives on PSN. Soon you’ll be able to manipulate cute, cuddly animals with the help of your trusty UFO. You don’t even have to be in a farm to flock sheep, Capcom is giving you the ability to do this in the privacy of your own home. You can even call a friend over and flock.

If you’ve never herd of FLOCK! before, here’s a video with the beautiful Veronica Belmont and one the folks at Capcom going over some of the cool features in the game (I’m loving the outfit Veronica!).

Did I mention trophy and in-game XMB music support? Another cool feature is the level editor where you can create your own plushy environments and share them online. There’s also a rating system where you can praise the brilliant work of others, or pan some of the more awkward levels that are made available (Giving fans creative freedom is not always a good thing).

So, if you’ve been keeping up with my blogs, I’ve been hinting for months about a cool surprise for PSN gamers this year. Well, stay tuned. I’m ready to talk about it at the end of the month.

Oh and finally, comment number 200 gets a free, redeemable token of FLOCK! and a copy of Street Fighter 4 (No spamming allowed. If you post two times in a row and hit number 200, the prize goes to the next person. Send me a PM to my PSN ID and give me your address to get your prize.).

Yours truly,
John Diamonon
PSN ID: HIERO9D3

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  • dam i went to sleep…..I was counting sheeps in my dream.

  • Can i have a free code for a capcom game.i waited and became 999 and want a freebi. sorry to be such a pest. I dont care if its flock or bionic commando rearmed can i have a code for being 2nd (or 3rd?) Please Please.

  • This game looks awesome.

  • Well now I have to buy this, :)

  • it’s almost exactly like scotland, except the scot’s dont abduct their sheep, they sleep with them.

  • a surprise for PSN? PS1 games? hmmm

  • I wonder if Europe will manage to balls this up like happens every week now

  • SONY PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY VOICE CHAT HAS NOT BEEN ADDED ALREADY??

  • JOHN!!!!!!
    You lied! You said that there was only going to be one contest this time… so i went to sleep and missed it :(
    please give a heads up next time please.

  • Damn I missed both contests!
    This is why Capcom ROCKS!
    These kinds of contests are AWESOME!

  • Once again you dodged the question John.

    You of all people would know I’ve read ALL your posts. I scour your posts for information everytime you post here. You have not answered this question.

    Answer the question. Or are you continuing the tradition of trailing gamers along just make a buck and then backing out of your promise…again?

    Hard to believe anyone actually respects you. You should be a politician…lying, deceit, trickery…you’d be a shoe in!

  • Not again John lol

    Oh and glad to see yah back on the blog!

  • i love you john and i love capcom i will try the demo for sure thanks for the update

  • The coop co-op looks like a lot of fun, can’t wait!

  • I just want to know one thing. Is there voice support for the COOP mode?

  • When I saw this many comments I thought it was a glitch now I see why, funny stuff lol

  • Looks like I am late to the party. Oh well, this game looks like a riot!

  • Anything for 1144?

  • Wow. 1k posts.

    It’s like you’re blog post’s are a popular brand.

  • Oh My God what the hell happend here! lol

  • it was fast! real fast!

  • am I #200? (just messing with you guys, just love to laugh at those stupid people @ page 5)

  • Even though I wasn’t able to participate I love the contest. I can’t say enough how nice it is to see it announced more then a day in advance when this is coming. And also the price. Now i have to get that PSN card, too many things to buy. Flock made it mandatory to get now.

  • And I’ll be happy to buy the physical, disc based version.

  • sp John do it again huu.. hope one day I win something.

  • why havnt i heard of this John person before? he seems a huge asset to the blog I WANT MORE JOHN… ps i hope john reads this hello?

  • Anymore giveaways still going on?

  • omg I can bring my friends to flock around with me in the living room.

  • Grah! I wanted a free Flock sooo bad!

  • Fantastic – looks really fun.. And being able to play co-op is a nice touch, certainly a buy for me and my friends =)
    John & capcom, I love your support to the fans, that is, if any, more amazing than the games ;)

  • This game will have ONLINE coop? or just locally?

  • I diddn’t read all the posts, just the replies, so not sure if this has been asked.

    Will this game have a platinum trophy?

    Just curious since most psn games don’t have a Platinum.

  • Personally i thought the qore flock demo kinda sucked, hopefully the full game will be better …

  • OK I LIKE THIS NEW GAME BUT WHEN CAN I USE IN GAME CROOS CHAT FROM THE XMB???
    SHINE SONY SHINE!!!

  • John, my friend, you’re going to be asked about SSFIIHDR and BC:R trophies everytime you appear until they happen. The gamers on this blog have realized the only way to get what they want(or what was promised to them in this case), is to complain/bring it up until you’re blue in the face(looks at in-game xmb).

    On a sidenote, I’m jealous of all the innuendo you get by with on the word “Flock”. I made some innocent, like-minded jokes here when Magic Ball was released, and I got my ass deleted off with even the slightest innuendo.

    • I know. SF trophies were not promised, ever. BCR trophies were announced to be available after launch. Priorities changed with the team to focus on the full game. It\’s unfortunate and I can understand why people are disapointed. I just have to answer this every time I\’m here, I understand.

  • Thanks for always being one of the most entertaining posters John.. You may have mentioned it but it’s hard to find in 1000+ posts, is it possible to buy the Flock toys?

    Flock was a game I didn’t mind playing in front of my daughter, and if I could buy the toys we could switch up between a game level on TV & a pretend level on the floor. (Toddlers are great, they are pretty much past the keep you up all night point by then…)

    • Yes, check Capcom-Unity.com next week for updates on the Flock Set. Limited quantities are available.

  • Give me a FLOCKING prize!

    I stopped reading comments on page 7. Damn there’s a lot of them. Hope there’s a bunch of these too.

  • @ 1139:
    LOL. Ridiculous? To you maybe. But not to thousands of other gamers.

    About the upscaling: You can already this. Just deselect all of the other resolution-outputs in your screen settings-menu and only leave the ‘1080p’-option selected.

    Good luck.

  • @1141,

    That doesn’t work for titles that are ONLY 720p. The two main reasons the upscaling needs to be included in a firmware update are:

    1 – There are still a VERY large amount of people who’s televisions only have 480p/1080i & if the game doesn’t natively support 1080i/p, the PS3 will downscale it to 480p.

    2 – When a game doesn’t have 1080i/p support & your television is native 1080p… that leaves the scaling job to the television, which in turn adds a great deal of gaming input lag. With the PS3 doing the scaling for 720p only titles, this wouldn’t happen.

  • John, the last time you answered the question I asked (which was MONTHS ago), you said it would hit sometime in February, when BC was supposed to be coming out. That was AFTER you had already said it was going to hit “soon after launch”, which was clearly a lie. Now its April…meaning your February timeline was also a lie…so now I’m asking again: when is the BCR trophy patch going to hit?

    You are practically the laughing stock of the entire Playstation Blot at this point. Why not try and save some face?

    • Madman..how may times does your ID have to be taken away from you to understand that you really are ….. such a superb guy!

      I think you\’re at Madman v6.

      Anyway, I\’ve answered the same question posed to me, just not to you.

  • LMFAO

    How about a contest like this:
    Instead of a game, who ever posts to 20,000 gets to date lovely Veronica Belmont :) ;)

  • @ AdamMadman – Goodness chill out. Obviously he could tell you a date if he had a solid one to give. This is why we can’t get nice things like an eta at times, people ruin it.

  • @AdamMadman

    …laughing stock? Seriously? He’s like one of the most popular guys on this blog for a lot of reasons (one of which MAY be giving away lots of free stuff….).

    Sure, it sucks we don’t have trophies yet, but come the flock on. He doesn’t control the universe with the whims of his mind, whatever he told you I’m sure he truly believed at the time. I’d much rather have someone like him then someone who refuses to even TALK about anything until it’s already released.

    Besides, Trophies may be nice, but at the end of the day, they’re not going to make the game worthless if they aren’t there. BC:Rearmed was an amazing game, and completely satisfying without any trophies.

  • just one code given out? why so stingy?

  • He gave 2 flock codes, 1 flock playset, I believe SFIV, and a Mega Man 9 press kit. Not so stingy.

  • Hey… can i have something for coming 999th? Please? Fine…..EAT PIE THEN!
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  • @1144

    Excellent post.

  • ok…so what about those of us who work a 9am-5pm job Monday – Friday? I’ve been tracking Flock for a month and come to the blog to find out a super cool giveaway has come and gone at the expense of making a paycheck for my kids.

    I think you should give us poor souls a shot at nabbing one of your cool codes. I mean, how often is it we parents get toys anymore :)

  • So…..will there be a disc based version or not?

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