Commander Fury

<em>Subscribe via <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/official-playstation-blogcast/id483223024?mt=2" target="_blank">iTunes</a> or <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheOfficialPlaystationBlogcast" target="_blank">RSS</a>, or <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/playstation/107_Episode_107__Dark_Souls_2025.mp3" target="_blank">download here</a></em> This week's show has it all: Our first thoughts on <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/01/30/dark-souls-ii-hands-on-die-harder/">Dark Souls II</a>, an insightful interview with the team behind February's PS3 insectoid shooter <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/10/28/earth-defense-force-2025-hits-ps3-in-february-2014-pre-order-details-revealed/">Earth Defense Force 2025</a>, and a banner week of new PlayStation game releases including <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/06/10/outlast-will-scare-the-s-out-of-you-on-ps4/">Outlast</a> on PS4 and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/11/05/cleaning-up-with-dustforce-on-ps3/">Dustforce</a> for PS3 and PS Vita. More...

Spider-Man is pretty incredible among super heroes. Rather than hide away from the world when confronted with the death of a loved one, he uses that very personal loss as motivation to invest even greater in society. Spider-Man can tango with street thugs, mutant hybrids, and mechanical monstrosities, but he's not above your everyday cat-in-tree rescue. He doesn't have a secret lair or concealed base of operations; he's just a guy in bright blue and red tights doing mid-air somersaults down Fifth Avenue. He wants to be seen. He enjoys this. More...

Fear not! Based on my initial hands-on experiences, Dark Souls II is proving to be even more fiendishly challenging than its famously difficult predecessor. I learned this when the very first enemy in the game, a monstrous ogre-like creature sporting a pendulous gut, lifted me into the air and gnawed on my head like a Tootsie pop. I died kicking and screaming. More...

What do fallen gods and iconic ninjas have in common? Bandai Namco, of course! Earlier this week, the publisher held a showcase in San Francisco to exhibit its 2014 lineup. A diverse sampling of games made an appearance -- some for the first time since their announcement. More...

Typically when you think of February, your mind goes to chocolates, flowers, and other lovey-dovey things. So we thought we’d celebrate this sappy month by scaring the bejesus out of you with Outlast on <a href="https://us.playstation.com/ps4/?CMP=soc_us__gm_PS4_PSBlog_1_29_14" target="_blank">PS4</a>. More...

It’s the last blog of January and VidZone is the gift that keeps on giving with yet MORE fantastic music videos! Pharrell Williams is riding high as one of the most watched videos on the service right now, and we have two of 2013’s biggest break-out stars with the stellar videos that helped them earn that status. Read on for more info and to find out what else is new this week! More...

Hello all! Dave from FuturLab here. I'm excited to announce that Surge Deluxe will be released on February 4th, 2014, exclusively for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/" target="_blank">PS Vita</a>! Check out the electrically charged game play trailer here. More...

Hi everybody, my name is Shannon Studstill, Director of Santa Monica Studio! It’s hard to believe we started this studio 14 years ago with Sony veteran Allan Becker, who now heads up Sony Japan. The original core team formed together in a bunch of small cubed offices at PlayStation’s old headquarters, in what was the former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/989_Studios" target="_blank">989 Studios</a>. It was here that our small team established the foundation and vision for a new studio. More...

It’s time for more discounts on some top <a href="https://us.playstation.com/ps4/?CMP=soc_us__gm_PS4_PSBlog_1_29_14" target="_blank">PS4</a>, <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/" target="_blank">PS3</a> and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/" target="_blank">PS Vita</a> games. Get up to 50% off a great lineup of titles starting right now. If you think you might pick one (or two, or three, or four) of the games on sale, act fast, because this Flash Sale ends at 6:00PM Pacific on Friday, January 31st. More...

Check out what’s new on Sony Entertainment Network’s ultimate entertainment services! Read more below. More...

Hey PlayStation community, January was a great month for PlayStation Mobile. We not only had a decent showing at CES, but we also launched some really cool games over the last few weeks. On January 22nd, we kicked off a promotion with Sony Mobile to celebrate the launch of the <a href="http://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/Xperia-z1s/" target="_blank">Xperia Z1S</a> smartphone and finished up our Festive Giveaway promotion. Going forward, we will be changing our weekly posts to a monthly format in order to highlight the best content, features and promotions for your consumption. Enjoy! More...

Today we released an all-new cinematic trailer, <a href=" " target="_blank">The Arrival</a>, to celebrate the announcement of <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/the-elder-scrolls-online/" target="_blank">The Elder Scrolls Online</a> Imperial Edition and The Explorer’s Pack pre-order bonus. More...

Hey everyone! Rob here from <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/curve-studios/" target="_new">Curve Studios</a>. We’re probably one of the most active indie studios on PlayStation right now -- we released five indie titles for PS3 and four titles for Vita in 2013, and we’ve got at least four more coming this year that we’ll be announcing very soon. More...

Now available on PlayStation Store: Tomb Raider Definitive Edition on PS4, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z on PS3 and PS Vita, tons of big discounts (especially for PS Plus members), The Firemen 2 PSone import, and more. More...

GT fans! For those of you recovering from the release of Toyota FT-1 Concept and most recently the GT documentary, <a href=" " target="_blank">KAZ: Pushing the Virtual Divide</a>, today's 1.04 Update will surely keep you busy for the rest of the week. More...

The War of the Light has begun! The first of a three-part series of DLC Packs, War of the Light Part I will incorporate several of the fantastic additions to the Green Lantern canon of the past few years. We’ll be adding even more Green Lantern depth to <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/dc-universe-online/" target="_blank">DC Universe Online</a> over the course of the trilogy. Part I will feature new four-player and eight-player Operations, new Legends characters, and a new Red Lantern-inspired power – Rage. More...

<a href="http://us.playstation.com/ps4/games/tomb-raider-definitive-edition-ps4.html?CMP=soc_us__gm_TombRaider_Launch_Post_1_28_14" target="_new">Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition</a> is often declared a passion project at <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/crystal-dynamics/" target="_new">Crystal Dynamics</a>, and in my opinion it shows. Lara's next-gen debut united three studios -- leads from Crystal, longtime partner Nixxes, and Sleeping Dogs' United Front Games -- to usher Tomb Raider into a new generation of gaming. More...

We’ve gotten a ton of great questions from the PlayStation community, who are eager to learn more about the <a href="https://us.playstation.com/ps4/?CMP=soc_us__gm_PS4_PSBlog_1_27_14" target="_blank">PS4</a> release of <a href="http://us.playstation.com/ps4/games/the-elder-scrolls-online-ps4.html?CMP=soc_us__gm_ElderScrollsOnline_QA_1_27_14" target="_blank">The Elder Scrolls Online</a>. While we’re still several months from the game’s June release, we want to make sure we’re keeping you up-to-date as things progress in development. More...

Based on one of PlayStation’s most beloved franchises, Sly Cooper is a kinetic and comedic heist film that tells the story of Sly Cooper, an orphaned raccoon thief, and the adventures of his childhood friends and partners in crime, Bentley Turtle and Murray Hippo. In the film, Sly learns that he comes from a long line of talented, international thieves, and is catapulted into a global adventure. Sly races to reassemble pieces of an ancient book holding the Cooper clan’s family secrets before it can fall into the hands of Clockwerk -- an evil metallic owl bent on ending the Cooper family line. More...

The competition is heating up on PlayStation! We're combining the world's most popular sport with our passion for pinball. Soon you'll be able to choose your favorite football club on our next table: Super League Football Pinball. Coming to <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/zen-pinball-2/" target="_new">Zen Pinball 2</a>. More...

We have a couple of celebrations occurring across the globe this week, so there’s a trio of fun costumes being re-released on the PlayStation Store this week to help you celebrate these special occasions! More...

The third week of the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/monkeypaw-games/" target="_blank">MonkeyPaw Games Retro Rush</a> is all about a pair that works well together. Like salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, or cocoa and marshmallows, Pete and Danny are inseparable as a firefighting team that work together like clockwork. More...

If you’ve ever wondered how your intelligence stacks up against your friends and other people around the world, <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/smart-as/" target="_blank">Smart As</a> will give you a pretty good idea. Just prepare yourself... the results might not be pretty at first. That’s what Smart As is all about though – not just finding out where you stand, but training every day to get a little better. More...

From the start, Seattle felt like the perfect locale for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/infamous-second-son/" target="_blank">Second Son</a>. <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/sucker-punch/" target="_blank">Sucker Punch Productions</a> is located just outside of Seattle, and we saw this as an opportunity to recreate the feeling of our home town. We wanted to capture a level of detail we had never attempted before using the amazing speed, graphics processing power, and high resolution output of <a href="https://us.playstation.com/ps4/?CMP=soc_us__gm_PS4_PSBlog_1_23_14" target="_blank">PS4</a>. Not to mention, being from here, we just couldn't build a fake city with a fake Space Needle... I mean "Galactic Tower" just doesn't sound right to us. More...

Since Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, the second MMO in the Final Fantasy series, was released on PC and PS3 , more than 1.5 million accounts have been registered, and filled more than 60 worlds with a living, breathing community. And since then, PS4 has been released, and millions of you have welcomed the new console into your homes. More...