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....
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UNCHARTED: Golden Abyss – The Characters Unmasked
Learning how to bring characters to life with all the nuances of personality, habits, quirks and mannerisms was really Sony Bend’s first and most important job when we started to work on UNCHARTED:...
The Weekend Debate: Going for Gold
If you’re a fan of sports then the irony is that the summer of 2012 will most likely be among your most inactive, with the European Football Championships soon followed by the 2012...
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: Is Reality Overrated?
Earlier this week a colleague introduced me to his friend’s Earthling in Skrim blog . I’ve read quite a few Skyrim diaries but this one takes the approach of playing the game like...
The Weekend Debate: Design Trendsetters
This week I’ve been lucky enough to secure 20 voucher codes for the Starhawk Beta that is currently underway. I know that many of you are keen to get involved with this so...
MUBI Update: 17 November 2011
Saturn Returns (Lior Shamriz, Israel) Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post-Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like...
The Weekend Debate: 3D Gaming Thoughts
While 3D gaming on PS3 is a pretty new thing, the basic theory that underpins it was pioneered by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838. Little did he know that, more than 150 years...
The Weekend Debate: Playing With Priorities
We are currently elbow-deep in what I like to call the squarey-eyed season, where each week brings yet another sack of major games and there are more Trophies to collect than hours in...
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.
SingStore Update (19 October) Including Kelly, Tinchy And Dusty
Hi all, Good weekend? It was ‘scorchio’ in London on Saturday so hope you all had a nice last Indian Summers Day wherever you were.
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.
MUBI Update: 13 October 2011
Beyond Enchantment (Larry Jordon, 2010) We’ve just added some really exciting new films to the MUBI platform. We’re partnering with San Francisco’s Canyon Cinema , one of the most important distributors of experimental...
DUST 514 Interview: Changing Console Shooters Forever
We haven’t heard a great deal about DUST 514 since it was shown at E3 2011 , other than that it’s a first-person shooter connected to the vast sci-fi universe of PC MMO...
The Weekend Debate: Pocket Revolution?
One of the biggest surprises of my trip to the Jordanian desert this week came when I was eating lunch on the back of my jeep, surrounded by arrid rocks and without another...
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...
PlayStation Home Reboot Coming Soon…
Hi there, I’m Darren and I’ve got some exciting new PlayStation Home news to talk to you about. If you haven’t been in Home for a while then it’s time to hit the...
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken Brings Jet-Pack Poultry To PSN
Being the creator of the Rocketbirds and being the only European team member of Ratloop (I’m the Belgian) it gives me great pleasure to post something here about our upcoming cinematic platform game,...
The Studio Update
Here is an update of the latest Themes from The Studio that are releasing today on the PlayStation Store . The Studio brings to PlayStation a collection of Static and Dynamic Themes for...
The Weekend Debate: Vintage or Vinegar?
With God of War Collection Volume II launching this week, ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Classics HD just around the corner, and series such as Metal Gear Solid , Resident Evil and...
The Weekend Debate – What Grinds Your Gears?
If there’s one concept that has blossomed since the spread of the Internet it’s the rant. For every thought or idea published on the web there’s a hundred livid responses; it seems that...
Fracture, A Short Film Debuting In PS Home
Greetings one and all. My name is Ashley Wing, an independent filmmaker from the UK based in Devon
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: 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 .
MUBI Update: 7 July 2011
This week’s update from MUBI includes a new micro-retrospective of a great filmmaker, as well as a local film festival collaboration coming from London. London Indian Film Festival MUBI is teaming up with...
MUBI Update: 16 June 2011
Here’s what’s going on at MUBI , your online cinema for independent, international and classic films on your PlayStation 3 . A reminder: only two weeks left in our free retrospective of films...