For a bit of a change, this week’s debate is a caption-off. Rather than discuss a topic, I’d like you come up with a funny caption for the image below
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The Weekend Debate: Crossing The Streams
Earlier today we learned that the PS3 and PlayStation Vita versions of Street Fighter X Tekken will include five exclusive characters: Mega Man, Pac-Man, Cole McGrath and Japanese PlayStation mascots Toro and Kuro....
The Weekend Debate: Is Bad Luck Ever a Good Thing?
I’m neither superstitious nor a keen diarist, so it took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on when my local coffee shop was offering free lattes to anyone called...
The Weekend Debate – Have It Your Way
When you fire up a PlayStation game do you ever wonder what it would be like if you were running around as Elvis or that guy that screams Sparta? For most, the answer...
Premier Manager 2012 – Coming To PSN On 9 November
It’s great to be back on the EU PlayStation Blog to tell you about the PlayStation Network launch of Premier Manager 2012 on November 9th for the special launch price of
The Weekend Debate: Fear Factory
Whether it’s Resident Evil throwing Cerberuses at you through windows or Arkham Asylum getting under the skin of reality, video games have sought to shock us with petrifying pixels for many years.
The Weekend Debate: The Price is Right?
It can be a dark old world. The nights are drawing like a funereal veil and rarely a news bulletin passes without talk of bailouts, soaring unemployment and double-dip recessions.
The Weekend Debate: Where’s My Hoverboard?
Following this morning’s reports from Cern that subatomic particles called neutrinos have broken the speed of light, this weekend’s debate focuses on the fascinating world of science or, more specifically, science fiction. Science...
Sack It To Me: …Still Moving To The New Move Pack!
LittleBigPlanet 2 Move Pack: Rise of the Cakeling FAQ Since the launch of the LBP2 Move Pack, our community has gone crazy playing, creating and sharing with a whole new Move perspective.
The Weekend Debate: The Intercontinental Champion Is?
I’m afraid this week’s debate is another friendly as I will be on holiday next week. In fact, I’m on holiday as you read this. There are no voucher codes on offer but,...
The Weekend Debate: Is Expert the New Easy?
This weekend’s debate comes off the back of a panel I watch at gamescom and is all about the difficulty levels of modern games.
The Weekend Debate: How Was It For You?
As this post goes live I’ll be flying back to London from Cologne after a busy week at gamescom . Next week our Weekend Debates will be back to normal with prizes and...
BioShock Infinite Q&A: Ken Levine’s PlayStation Moves
It’s always a pleasure to speak with Ken Levine , creative director for the award-winnging BioShock and the upcoming dystopian epic BioShock Infinite . Ken’s been good enough to drop by the PlayStation.Blog...
The Weekend Debate: Happy Campers
The first time I encountered the concept of camping (at least the videogame kind) was in a LAN cafe in Southern China. It was 2002. I was playing Counter Strike with an Aussie...
The Weekend Debate: The Minute-To-Midnight Feeling
I lose count of the times I’ve watched midnight news reports from the comfort of my duvet, slurping cocoa from my Kidderminster Harriers 1994 F.A.
The Weekend Debate — Intelligence Design
Last week we had some good Weekend Debating around which game developers you would like to work with and what kind of game you would like to make. You put a lot of...
The Weekend Debate: Development Dreams
If you’ve been reading PlayStation.Blog EU for a while then you might remember a series of posts called The Friday Debate .
Zynga’s Brian Reynolds trying deeper, more clever social game design
Filed under: FrontierVille , Other Games Hey, you asked for it. Zynga's chief game designer Brian Reynolds never rests, and even now he's working to bring deeper game mechanics to social games without...
DISSIDIA 012 [Duodecim] FINAL FANTASY Game Director Interview
![DISSIDIA 012 [Duodecim] FINAL FANTASY Game Director Interview](http://www.mygames-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ef7e9e46ec83df636d-477x354.jpg)
Not quite two years ago, Square Enix pleased its European fans with DISSIDIA , a completely new approach to the FINAL FANTASY series. Originally meant as part of the campaign of the FINAL...
FarmVille English Countryside works on Apple iPhone, iPad too
Filed under: Farmville It's not April Fools Day just yet, so we're 100 percent sincere with this one, folks. FarmVille English Countryside works with FarmVille for iOS devices just like it does the...
Lunchtime Poll: After FarmVille English Countryside, will you go back?
Filed under: Farmville As a bearded Jack Shepard screamed to Kate in the airport parking lot in the Season 3 finale of Lost, "We have to go back!" Or do we?
World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard: FarmVille is ‘not evil’ [Interview]
![World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard: FarmVille is ‘not evil’ [Interview]](http://www.mygames-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/96cf6855zzard-execs-490x289.jpg)
Blizzard, the company responsible for what some might call the most popular social games of all time (long before FarmVille was a twinkle in Mark Pincus' eye), is celebrating 20 years in existence....
Blogs I Like And Friday Debates
OK, cards on the table: today is something of a slow news day and a couple of posts have slipped, meaning I don’t have much to bring you here on PlayStation.Blog . It...
Five reasons why social games are as hardcore as they come
Filed under: Other Games For probably longer than I've been writing about them, social games have been looked at by traditional gamers as "casual" or barely even games. And in some cases they...
FarmVille: The Cupid Corn Farm Cash crop and the issue of value
Filed under: Farmville Yesterday, Zynga dropped a bomb on the FarmVille community with the Cupid Corn . The issue? It marks the first time in the game's short history that a crop has...
Lunchtime Poll: Is being a CityVille freeloader the way to go?
Filed under: CityVille How much Energy have you stocked up in CityVille ? The CityVille forums are buzzing at the moment with an interesting debate over a controversial play style. Forum goer "unscathed"...
Music Unlimited Spreads Its Wings At MIDEM In Cannes
Hi, I’m Mark and I work over @SonyEurope on the Consumer Electronics side of Sony’s business (BRAVIA TVs, Cyber-shot cameras, VAIO PCs etc). I’m blogging for @PlayStationEU because, as some of you might...
Facebook wants social game developers to ditch Flash, go HTML5
Filed under: Other Games Here's your proverbial nail in coffin for the Flash versus HTML5 debate. All Things Digital reports that Facebook plans to spread the good news of HTML5 to all of...
Zynga limits FarmVille item collection, farmers raise pitchforks in protest
Filed under: Farmville To be honest, we're kind of miffed too. It was discovered by several FarmVille players today that Zynga might have instated a limit on the amount of items we can...
Raise the Village on iPhone: An inspiring game of making a difference
Filed under: Other Games Social games have proven well over the past year their charitable worth. FarmVille alone has raised millions to erect a school in Haiti in wake of the recent, tragic...
The Friday Debate – What’s Under Your Tree?
This will be the last Friday Debate for a little while as SCEE HQ shuts down for Christmas and I take a holiday to recharge my blog batteries for the new year.