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The Drop: Week of May 21st 2012 New Releases
Sun, 20 May 2012 23:00:18 +0000
With fantastic elemental spells, powerful potions and countless items to discover and collect, Sorcery immerses players in a sprawling fantasy epic. You'll clash with fierce enemies, solve ingenious puzzles, and heal a broken world shrouded in darkness all with the power of the PlayStation Move.
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier promises to go beyond the core Ghost Recon franchise and deliver a fresh gameplay experience featuring prototype high-tech weaponry and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes. Enjoy this week The Drop
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PlayStation Around The Web: What We Read
Sun, 20 May 2012 18:15:44 +0000
Not sure how the year has moved so fast, but we're now just 2 weeks away from E3 2012. Last week, many publishers (including us) showed off a sneak preview of some titles that will be featured prominently at the LA Convention Center. That's why you may have seen impressions of games like The Last of Us (links below) and announcements such as Table Top Tanks. More will be coming over the next couple of weeks as well.
A number of people have asked me via Twitter if we'll be planning a fan meet-up in LA around E3. I'm working out the details, but we're aiming to be able to get a select number of people into our press event on June 4th. Please stay tuned for details, likely by end of this coming week.
The PS.Blog weekly reading list (Week of May 14, 2012)
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The PlayStation Recap – Calm Before the Storm Edition
Sat, 19 May 2012 22:03:00 +0000
Not a lot of time for game playing this week, as pre-E3 planning and a busy Blog publishing schedule) have kept me surprisingly tied up. What did I miss?
In other news this week, PlayStation's cross-country tour has officially hit the road through November, Netherrealms dished out Mortal Kombat tips for you, Sorcery revealed members of its monstrous menagerie, the GT Academy competition moved to Round 3 and 4, PixelJunk 4am launched on PSN with a free viewer app, Lightbox Interactive showed a new Starhawk development diary chronicling the final hours of development, indie legends Superbrothers and Jim Guthrie announced their participation in the PS Vita musical platformer Sound Shapes, and the team behind upcoming Foosball 2012 revealed the nuances of their PlayStation Move support (Protip: It's extensive).
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Long Live Play PSN Community Spotlight
Sat, 19 May 2012 16:01:36 +0000
Hey everyone! It’s the latest edition of PSN Community Spotlight, where it’s your chance to get your PlayStation story featured on the PlayStation.Blog. By reviewing the dedicated space on the PlayStation Community Forums, we find compelling PlayStation stories and commentary, then deliver a $50 PlayStation Store voucher code to the winner every week.
Remember to read the posting best practices for more info.
This week’s spotlight is from PSN member renewman1. Stealing is lame, but read on to find out how this military man found a great way to rebuild his collection.
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Borderlands 2: Your Questions Answered
Fri, 18 May 2012 20:44:46 +0000
Hello again! You were so nice to me the last time around, I thought I’d come back for another visit. We at Gearbox were delighted to see the enthusiastic response to our recent Borderlands 2 posts. But that wasn’t enough. You see, Borderlands 2 is all about MORE. More weapons, more enemies, more story, more environments, and most of all MORE LOOT. A commenter on one of the previous posts said, “You’ll get my pre-order as soon as the collector’s / limited editions are revealed in full.” Well, “Baron_Von_Bonbon,” that day has arrived as we’ve recently announced our Borderlands 2 Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Collector's Edition and Borderlands 2 Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition.
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PlayStation Experience on Tour Now
Fri, 18 May 2012 19:32:58 +0000
I’m excited to announce that the PlayStation Experience is back on tour for 2012 and we have some awesome games and experiences planned for you, our community. For those of you new to the PlayStation Experience, every year we tour the country’s biggest concerts and festivals to show off all of our latest games and gadgets. This is your chance to meet other local PlayStation enthusiasts, compete in your favorite PlayStation titles, and most importantly, get your hands on unreleased games! I guess there are also the live performances to check out too, but who goes to music festivals for that? Especially when you can play:
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Mastering Mortal Kombat for PS Vita
Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:08 +0000
Mortal Kombat for PS Vita has come out of the gate strong after shipping on May 1st. In just two weeks, players have clashed in hundreds of thousands of online matches across the world. With the PS Vita system players can access a complete Mortal Kombat experience on the go, whether you’re on the bus, in the library, or hanging out with friends.
There are quite a few unique features with this Vita version of Mortal Kombat. While preserving the core gameplay elements, we’ve implemented a ton of new functionalities, such as touchscreen Fatalities and X-Rays, as well as an all-new Challenge Tower II that takes advantage of the diversity of features that the PS Vita system provides.
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Superbrothers + Jim Guthrie X Sound Shapes
Fri, 18 May 2012 15:55:07 +0000
A message from a representative at Superbrothers, written in the midst of a spring thunderstorm in the hill country at the Quebec/Vermont border.
It is with immense pleasure that we are announcing our involvement with a video game project known as Sound Shapes. We are extra excited to be contributing alongside sworcery maestro Jim Guthrie. This represents the latest in a series of Superbrothers X Jim Guthrie a/v collaborations dating back to 2005's musical film Children of the Clone and 2008's Dot Matrix Revolution, but this will be our first a/v collaboration since 2011's cult classic videogame Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP.
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Foosball 2012 Dev Diary: PlayStation Move Motion Controls
Fri, 18 May 2012 14:00:10 +0000
In March, we announced our upcoming PS3 and PS Vita game Foosball 2012. And now we’ve returned to PlayStation.Blog to showcase a series of short developer diaries where we introduce you to some of the game’s coolest features, like PlayStation Move support, full cross-platform compatibility between PS3 and PS Vita and also the online multiplayer mode.
Our first video demonstrates Foosball 2012 and PlayStation Move motion controllers in action, showing that you can play this game exactly the way you are used from a real table football (“foosball”) game. Thanks to the precision and zero lag of PlayStation Move, even the slightest movements of your hands can be properly translated into the game, allowing you to precisely control the shot power, positions of your foosmen, and so on.
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New on Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited
Fri, 18 May 2012 12:01:29 +0000
New to the Video Unlimited Video Store this week is the mind-bending Chronicle. Also, The Devil Inside is available in Movies, and The Grey arrives in Rent Now. The Avengers and other comic book superhero animated features are available for just five buck in this week’s Own $5 Films.
Also, don’t miss the Collections & Sales section where you’ll discover 10-Minute Previews -- yep, 10 minute previews of movies for free! Get the full details on this week’s highlights here.
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