Commander Fury

One of the really cool features in <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/urban-trial-freestyle/">Urban Trial Freestyle</a> for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/">PS3</a> is the ability to customize your motorbike -- but it’s more than just picking out shiny new parts. Bike customization is a key factor that directly affects your performance in both the Stunt and Time Attack Modes. Bike Customization allows you to adjust your bike to best meet the conditions on each of the available tracks. Urban Trial Freestyle provides you with three main bike components to customize your vehicle -- engine, chassis and wheels -- customizing these parts influences three main parameters: speed, acceleration and handling. More...

In you missed the Star Wars Pinball announcement from last week, you can read all about the game in the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/05/star-wars-pinball-launches-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-this-month/">announcement blog post</a>. Today we're taking a detailed look at the Star Wars Episode V :The Empire Strikes Back table. The Star Wars Episode V :The Empire Strikes Back pinball table is inspired by the events of the beloved film. The exciting action takes center stage on the main deck of the Executors Star Destroyer, and features iconic scenes that play in the dot matrix display when missions are activated during gameplay. Join Luke Skywalker as he embraces the power of the Force and leads the charge to repel the advances of Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. More...

This week, Valentine’s Day culminates in a bunch of fun. Head to the Activity Board first to start the Valentine’s Day quest, then check out the cool themed content from several of our amazing developers. Check it all out this week in PlayStation Home. As promised Codeglue continues the successful collaboration with u love green, and brings you a new limited edition Valentine collection this week. This unique collection comes in pink and black and includes a dress, pumps with legwarmers and gloves with lovely animated hearts! You can grab any of these as individual items or go for one of the discounted bundles! Digital Leisure has also updated Craps so now you can bet more and win more. They have doubled the limit, so now you can bet 400 chips at once! The stakes are now higher for those who want to feel the rush of rolling the dice. More...

Years ago, making music required you to have a band, actual instruments, and use of your parent’s garage or basement. Now, all you need is a PlayStation Certified device and Beats Trellis. With this app, you can create your own beats on the go, fitted with drum kits, funky sounds, breaking beats, and other instruments. Beats Trellis is perfect for the person that wants to try making their own beats for fun, or add beats that they have created to a video montage for show online. Find out for yourself starting today – and at no cost! <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> owners will be able to download Beats Trellis for free on the PS Mobile section of PlayStation Store; Owners of PlayStation-certified devices (<a href="http://us.playstation.com/playstationmobile/">full list here</a>) can obtain it through PlayStation Mobile Store – <a href="http://playstation.com/psm/store/en.html">click here</a> for full instructions. Check back next Wednesday to see which free game you'll get next! More...

You may remember that last week we published a <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/05/alien-breed-launches-ps3-and-ps-vita-assault-next-week/">blog piece</a> on the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/">PlayStation 3</a> and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> release of Alien Breed, in which our Creative Director, Kevin Carthew, made a sneaky reference to potential future retro-revivals of other classic Team17 titles. Today, we're unveiling our plans to release Superfrog HD later this year, 20 years after the regal amphibian’s first appearance. Superfrog HD will feature all new graphics, and is set to make an appearance on both PS3 and PS Vita. Debbie Bestwick, Team17’s Managing Director, says, “We're extremely excited about bringing Superfrog HD to PS3 and PS Vita; it's the most requested game that our fans are always requesting to see make a return." More...

Twisted Metal celebrates its birthday with a special bundle this week, including a bunch of Twisted Metal games from the original to the latest release. If you don’t feel like celebrating with Sweet Tooth, there’s also Persona 4 Arena, Alien Breed, Everybody Dance: Digital and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels Plus on PS3 this week. The PlayStation Vita also gets Alien Breed, along with Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken and Ecolibrium. There’s also Kat and Emmett, for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, so download them for free while you can! PSASBR is also offering up a bunch of minions, so take a look. You can also nab The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s Dragonborn DLC for half off this week. As always, please leave your thoughts in the comments below. You can also chat about this update in the <a href="http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network/bd-p/22599">PlayStation Community Forums</a>. More...

The wait is over! We’re very proud to announce that <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/rocketbirds-hardboiled-chicken/">Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken</a> is wiggling its way onto your PS Vita starting with today’s PlayStation Store update. To start things off - an apology to those of you who own the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/" target="_blank">PS3</a> version of the game, whom we promised a reduced price last week if you also purchase the PS Vita version. We ‘clucked up,’ and the planned 20% discount will take a bit longer before this is set up in the US <a href="http://us.playstation.com/psn/playstation-store/" target="_blank">PlayStation Store</a>. We will let you know when the discount goes live. That said, building upon our 3x IGF Finalist browser game Rocketbirds: Revolution! and Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken for PS3, this new PS Vita version utilizes many of the PS Vita's awesome features. More...

We hope you’ve been enjoying all the new gaming applications we’ve brought to <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> recently, like <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/01/10/start-your-morning-with-wake-up-club-for-ps-vita-next-week/">Wake-up Club</a> and the newly released <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/05/playstation-home-arcade-app-available-today-for-ps-vita/">PlayStation Home Arcade</a>. Today we’re excited to tell you about the next one-of-a-kind application you’ll be able to check out next week on PS Vita: Ecolibrium. Ecolibrium puts you in control to grow and maintain a beautiful and foreign ecosystem. You’ll be able to raise unique and alien species, design the world to your liking, and explore ecosystems yourself using PS Vita’s unique gyroscopic technology. Ecolibrium will also offer Trophy support for you Trophy hunters out there! More...

We're happy to follow up <a href="https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/playstation-all-stars-battle-royale/cid=UP9000-NPUA80316_00-PSABATROYL000001">PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale</a>'s win for "Best Fighting Game" at the DICE Awards (the awards where all of the voting is done by other games industry pros), with a gift to all the players that have supported the project from the start. I hear from a lot of you guys, and I know you've been waiting patiently... but that wait ends today! We've got two new PlayStation All-Stars joining the Battle Royale: Kat from Gravity Rush, and Emmett Graves from Starhawk. Any fighting fan will tell you how much it means to have new characters joining a game, but it’s even better because -- <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/11/15/first-playstation-all-stars-dlc-kat-and-emmett-join-the-battle-royale-for-free/">as promised</a> -- these DLC characters are totally free for two weeks! More...

Revolution offers a heck of a lot of content for both multiplayer and Zombies fans. First up are the four multiplayer maps: <ul> <li><strong>Hydro</strong>: Located in Pakistan, this hydro-electric plant comes complete with a lethal spillway that floods with very little warning.</li> <li><strong>Grind</strong>: Set in a skate park in Venice Beach (the birthplace of skateboarding!), quarter-pipes and curved surfaces drive players away from easy cover and into intense firefights. </li> <li><strong>Downhill</strong>: A ski resort in the French Alps, this snowy map is complete with a moving gondola system that can both offer cover and crush you to death.</li> <li><strong>Mirage</strong>: Located in China’s Gobi Desert, this luxury resort has been ravaged by a sandstorm.</li> </ul> More...

The wait is over! For the next three weeks, we’ll be releasing a new Skyrim add-on each week on <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PSN</a>. This week, with Dragonborn, you’ll journey beyond Skyrim to Solstheim, an island off the coast of Morrowind. Use all your abilities and skills honed in Skyrim to save the island from a mysterious power that threatens to destroy Solstheim’s inhabitants. Beyond Dragonborn’s main quest, the content is packed with hours of new areas to explore complete with new characters, new towns, new dungeons and plenty of new side quests to complete. And for elite players that have attained Level 81 status, you’ll have a chance to square off with the game’s fiercest adversary, The Ebony Warrior. More...

Hey all! I wanted to drop by PlayStation.Blog to help celebrate the <strong>one-year anniversary</strong> of <a href="https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/twisted-metal/cid=UP9000-NPUA80079_00-TWISTEDMETAL0100">Twisted Metal</a> for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/">PS3</a>! “What?!?†I hear you say, “The game’s already been out for a year?!?†Indeed it has! Crazy how time flies, huh? Seems like only yesterday some of y’all were telling me I was an idiot for focusing the new game on three characters versus a larger cast like we did in the earlier TM games. Ah, good times, good times. More...

Greetings, PlayStation faithful! Scott here again from <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/creat-studios/">Creat Studios</a>, with an update on our newest release. Germinator will be available in North America on March 5th. Our team loves to make casual and puzzle games for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PlayStation Network</a>. We’re the folks that brought you Magic Orbz, Cuboid, Mahjong Tales and Ricochet HD. Our next game, Germinator, continues that tradition. Now, Germinator is no ordinary bubble game. There’s none of the match-three that’s been done everywhere else. Instead, same-colored bubbles combine and grow, grow, grow until they pop into a gooey mess! More...

Hello, fellow Spartans! My name is Ariel Lawrence, and I'm a Producer on <a href="http://us.playstation.com/games/god-of-war-ascension-ps3.html">God of War: Ascension</a>. No one can argue that Kratos is angry. With everything that's happened to him over the years, he has every right to be. He's killed -- either accidentally or intentionally -- everyone he's ever cared about. He's been lied to, chained up, run through, tortured, and cast into the depths of Hades <em>several</em> times. If I was him, I'd be angry too. Our aim in this installment of Kratos' story is to try and show a bit more of his humanity. To do this, we incorporated voice over motion capture, or "vo-mocap", into our cinematic pipeline. The really exciting part of "vo-mocap" is that it gives our voice actors an opportunity to work together in a scene. More...

Monkeys are fun. They jump around, swing on vines, love high places, and occasionally fling poo at people that they don’t like. Today we are pleased to announced that you can have just as much fun as monkeys do (minus the poo) with the release of <a href="http://www.yippee-entertainment.com/">Yippie! Entertainment</a>’s Chimpact on <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/playstation-mobile/">PlayStation Mobile</a>. In Chimpact, you play as a little monkey who has to bounce around and collect items through a variety of levels to make it home safely. The game is absolutely gorgeous and the gameplay is simple, yet challenging. Chimpact is a new age platformer that has gameplay reminiscent of similar games from the 16-bit era. Kevin Green, the Lead Artist for Chimpact, had this to say about the game in an <a href="http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Chimpact/news.asp?c=44137">interview with Pocket Gamer</a>: More...

Love is in the air on LittleBigPlanet and Sackfolk’s hearts are all of a flutter as they craft and decorate the most wonderful creations for their loved ones. To help give everyone a kick-start with these creations, we’re re-releasing the popular Valentine’s Day Level Kit this week! So head on over to the Store later this week and pick up this great kit! For full information on the Valentine’s Day Level Kit, check out its dedicated page on our <a href="http://littlebigplanet.com/downloadable_content_items/946/">LittleBigPlanet Game Add-Ons Catalogue</a>. We have quite a variety of LittleBigPlanet 2: Mm Picks for you this week, you can either get into a sticky situation in The Mud Job series of levels or you can tee off for a nice round of golf in LittleJarGolf: Craftworld Open. More...

Welcome to this week’s <a href="http://us.playstation.com/psn/playstation-plus/">PlayStation Plus</a> update, where we highlight the latest free games, discounts, and features that PS Plus members can expect in the coming week. Many have already jumped online to play Guardians of Middle Earth, which arrived free for PS Plus members last week, and this week we’re bringing you one of the bright indie stars in gaming with Closure; a PSN-exclusive that turned heads when it debuted last year. Read on and also check out some of the great discounts on amazing titles like Critter Crunch. Don’t have PlayStation Plus? Go to the PlayStation Store on your PS3 or PS Vita or <a href="https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/become-a-member/cid=STORE-MSF77008-PSPLUSMEMBER">click here</a> to get access via the Sony Entertainment Network online store. More...

Hello Persona fans and fighting game fans! We're excited to announce that <a href="http://us.playstation.com/games-and-media/games/persona-4-arena-ps3.html?CMP=soc_us__gm_persona4arena_on_psn_02_11_13">Persona 4 Arena</a>, which earned the honor of "Best Fighting Game" at the <a href="http://www.spike.com/events/video-game-awards-2012-nominees/voting/best-fighting-game">Spike Video Game Awards</a>, is going to be available for digital purchase and download on the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PlayStation Network</a> tomorrow. Some of you may not be familiar with Persona 4 Arena, or the Persona series. You may, however, be aware that <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/atlus/">ATLUS</a> launched <a href="https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/persona4-golden/cid=UP0005-PCSE00120_00-PERSONA4GOLDEN01">Persona 4 Golden</a> for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> last November to critical acclaim, and this title helped generate a great deal of interest for the Persona series. More...

Hey everybody! It’s been a while since <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/when-vikings-attack/" target="_blank">When Vikings Attack</a> was released and we’ve been a bit quiet since then but rest assured it was because the team have been hard at work on lots of exciting stuff! So exciting in fact that this may break the exclamation point button on my keyboard!! As you may have seen last week, we released a new DLC pack loaded with new content, entitled When Vikings Relax! When they were making the main game the team had loads of great ideas for vs. mode maps that just didn’t fit with the theme… huge spinning razor blades, collapsing floors… mini golf. So we’ve stuffed this DLC pack with all that and more! More...

<p style="text-align: justify;">Aliens: Colonial Marines is a First-Person Shooter set in the Alien movie franchise universe in which the player takes on the role of a member of a squad of colonial marines sent to the planet LV-426. The game is designed as a true sequel to the 1986 movie, Aliens, done in video game format, and features iconic locations, weapons and alien varieties from Aliens and other movies in the series. Additional features include: four-player co-op functionality, a new alien type, and customizable weapons.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Created by Gearbox Software, the critically acclaimed and fan-favorite developers of Borderlands and Brothers In Arms, this first-person shooter is steeped in the eerie, claustrophobic and terrifying atmosphere that made the Aliens films successful worldwide. You and your friends will become the most badass military outfit in the galaxy - the US Colonial Marines. It's down to you to not just survive, but wipe out the Xeno infestation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy this week’ The Drop.</p> More...

This week on PlayStation.Blog, a ton of Final Fantasy titles <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/04/50-off-select-final-fantasy-games-for-the-series-25-year-anniversary/">are 50% off</a>, we went hands-on with <a href="blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/07/hands-on-with-god-of-war-ascension/">God of War: Ascension</a> and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/06/hands-on-with-the-last-of-us/">The Last of Us</a>, we showed off new licensed tables for <a href="blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/05/star-wars-pinball-launches-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-this-month/">Zen Pinball 2</a> and <a href="blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/05/pinball-arcade-twilight-zone-table-out-today/">The Pinball Arcade</a>, the new history-altering Assassin's Creed III DLC <a href="blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/06/assassins-creed-iii-the-tyranny-of-king-washington-hits-ps3-february-19th/">got a release date</a>, you got a first look at Rocketbirds' upcoming <a href="blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/06/rocketbirds-for-ps-vita-launches-on-february-12th/">PS Vita version</a>, top-down survival horror shooter <a href="blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/05/alien-breed-launches-ps3-and-ps-vita-assault-next-week/">Alien Breed</a> got our retro-senses tingling, we detailed some of this year's changes to Franchise Mode in <a href="blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/07/mlb-13-the-shows-franchise-mode-gets-personal/">MLB '13 The Show</a>, and more. The 16th annual DICE awards took place in Las Vegas Thursday night, and <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2013/02/08/journey-walking-dead-dice-awards/1900919/">Journey cleaned house</a>! The beloved <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PSN</a> title took home eight awards, including the coveted Game of the Year award. Congratulations <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/thatgamecompany/">thatgamecompany</a>! More...

Back by popular demand: The PlayStation Campus Tour is hitting the road again for the Spring semester and we’re going bigger and better than ever. Starting next Monday, we will be crashing college campuses across the country for 11 weeks, bringing you new and unreleased games, daily tournaments, tons of giveaways, exclusive discounts on PlayStation products and a whole lot more! If that doesn’t have you salivating yet, take a look at some of the titles we will be featuring throughout the tour. On top of that, you can get hands-on with some awesome PSN titles like <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/05/30/guacamelee-ps3-ps-vita-pub-fund-chickens/">Guacamelee, <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/10/08/introducing-ibb-and-obb-turning-psn-upside-down-next-spring/">Ibb and Obb</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit.Trip_Presents_Runner_2:_Future_Legend_of_Rhythm_Alien">Runner 2</a>! And that’s just a taste of what’s to come. We will be adding more of this year’s biggest and most anticipated <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/">PS3</a> and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> games to the lineup over the course of the tour. More...

Welcome to this week’s PlayStation Community Update, where we shine the light on some of the most interesting content that is inherently owned and provided by you, the gamers. Last week, you may have checked out the <a href="http://www.urgentfury.com/content.php/39-Urgent-Fury-and-FraggedNation-Present-Battle-Bowl-I-for-Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-2">Battle Bowl</a>, a massive Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 tournament between 2 competitive communities: <a href="http://www.fraggednation.com/">FraggedNation</a> and <a href="http://www.urgentfury.com/content.php/39-Urgent-Fury-and-FraggedNation-Present-Battle-Bowl-I-for-Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops-2">Urgent Fury</a>. This tournament is going on all month so you can still sign up today! This week, we’re shining the spotlight on the legendary Gran Turismo series and some marquee community events that any racer might want to get involved in. More...

By now, I’m sure you’ve caught the <a href="http://us.playstation.com/games/god-of-war-ascension-ps3.html?CMP=soc_us__gm_ascension_liveaction_bts_02_08_13">God of War: Ascension</a> “From Ashes†<a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/02/01/from-ashes-god-of-war-ascension-live-action-trailer-explores-kratos-origins/">live action trailer</a> we debuted last Friday, and if you haven’t, you need to go <a href=" ">watch it right now</a>! You may have even caught the 60-second version air during the online live stream of the Super Bowl this past Sunday. This trailer has been a labor of love for all of us here, and based on the comments and feedback on YouTube and elsewhere, all of the effort was well worth it. I’m very excited to share with you a couple of behind-the-scenes videos that show a glimpse of what went into bringing the world of Kratos to life. More...

Back in December, we released a sneak-peek of the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/12/27/the-music-of-soul-sacrifice-recorded-at-skywalker-sound/">Skywalker Sound soundtrack recording video</a> for <a href="http://us.playstation.com/psvita/games-and-media/psv-soul-sacrifice.html?CMP=soc_us__gm_soulsacrifice_music_02_08_13">Soul Sacrifice</a>. As mentioned, the game’s soundtrack is composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and Wataru Hokoyama, two of the most recognized composers in the industry. Today. I'm excited to share a video introducing one of the scores Mitsuda-san composed. Mitsuda-san was kind enough to provide us the following accompanying message. "This was the very first battle music I composed, and I focused on making sure it fit the fighting theme of Soul Sacrifice. More...