Commander Fury

<a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/the-tester/">The Tester 3</a> was a whirlwind of a season. Today, we’ve got an interview with the winner. SPOILER ALERT if you haven’t watched the season finale yet, don’t read below…. After the most competitive season to date, a champion was finally crowned: Will Santiago, aka AkilleezMight! Will prevailed through all the challenges this season, and became a leader of the gamers living in the PlayStation Loft along the way. From being covered in hissing cockroaches to leading his team through a brutal obstacle course, everything Will did, he did with a smile on his face. More...

<a href="http://us.playstation.com/games-and-media/games/legend-of-dragoon-ps.html">The Legend of Dragoon</a> was one of the last projects I worked on as a producer in Japan Studio and by far the biggest team I managed hands-on. We started the project in 1996 with only a handful of people, hired one by one as we were building up teams for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/ape-escape/">Ape Escape</a>, The Legend of Dragoon, and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/ico/">Ico</a> simultaneously. During the peak of the game’s development, we had well over 100 people working internally in the studio on The Legend of Dragoon -- for a PSone game! We had roughly 10 artists dedicated just to drawing concept art for this gigantic RPG. As the game contained lots of pre-rendered maps and full-motion videos, we were forced to spread the content over four CDs, which was the maximum number of discs that the fattest PSone game case could hold. More...

Developing <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/01/19/mortal-kombat-for-ps-vita-ed-boon-talks-touchscreen-fatalities-new-challenge-tower/">Mortal Kombat for PS Vita</a> was an incredibly rewarding experience for the team here at <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/netherrealm-studios/">NetherRealm Studios</a>. The ability to utilize the numerous new features available on <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> was a very gratifying mission, and we are delivering the best possible on-the-go fighting experience for fans. Our design team jumped at the opportunity to devise 150 new Challenge Tower missions that incorporate the DLC characters (like Freddy Krueger!), while also integrating the front touchscreen and accelerometer in ways that made sense and enhanced the complete Mortal Kombat experience. The artists enjoyed creating some excellent new costumes (still to be revealed!), as well as re-creating an iconic MKII arena that integrates the rear camera that will give players the ability to literally Fight Anywhere. More...

<a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> is the perfect platform for people on the go with short blocks of time to play games. The first free-to-play game on the platform is <a href="http://us.playstation.com/psvita/games-and-media/psv-treasures-of-montezuma-blitz.html">Treasures of Montezuma Blitz</a>, the newest game based on the popular Treasures of Montezuma franchise. ToM has actually been around for years with its familiar match 3 gameplay, but each generation of the game has added new challenge and power-ups. This was one of the main things we wanted to ensure we hit with the PS Vita version. It had to be fresh and new, and most of all be fun. A lot of people look at freemium or free-to-play games and think you have to spend money to be competitive and beat your friends. That’s actually not the case with this game. We built the game so it is actually really fun whether you’re earning your power-ups by playing a lot and being rewarded in-game for your persistence, or if you are short on time and want the benefits of being a seasoned and dedicated player, you can spent a little to get a short-term power-up. It’s really the best of both worlds since it respects players that have a lot of time, as well as those that don’t. More...

Today, <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/escape-plan/">Escape Plan</a> owners will be happy to see new content popping up on their Vita for download. The first pack, Bakuki’s Lair, is a FREE level pack that adds 19 prequel-puzzle rooms to the adventures of Lil and Laarg. To download the levels, just update the game from Escape Plan’s LiveArea directly on your <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a>. Fans of Escape Plan have helped push the game into the #1 spot on <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PSN</a> worldwide, and so we’re happy to report that we are improving the experience with a handful of adjustments that were requested directly from gamers. Players can now squeeze Lil while swiping, front and back taps are more precise, earning stars is just based on time and there are some more hints in sticky situations. More...

Greetings <a href="https://blog.us.playstation.com/">PlayStation.Blog</a> and <a href="https://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/starhawk/">Starhawk</a> fans! You may have noticed how our past trailers have focused on the things that make Starhawk so much fun to play. <a href=" "><strong>Build to Kill</strong></a> was all about the fun of building a base and defending it against attack. <a href=" "><strong>Ride, Drive & Fly</strong></a> gave people a taste of what you can drive and pilot in-game. Our latest trailer is all about the fun of teamwork, it's called <strong>"Build Your Team" </strong>and it's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PlayStation/app_353708818001944">exclusively on Facebook</a>. Just click <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PlayStation/app_353708818001944">here</a> to give it a view. You may recognize some familiar faces. Very familiar. For those of you who have tried Starhawk already, you know that skills can get you far, but teamwork can get you further. The game becomes something completely different when you play with your friends and start working together. That's what our latest trailer is about. It also stars an "interesting" cast of characters. More...

The higly anticpated 2D fighter <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/06/skullgirls-hits-psn-april-10th-full-demo-details/">Skullgirls</a> is now available to download on the PlayStation Store! A fast-paced, 2D fighting game developed with the tournament fighting game community in mind, Skullgirls draws on the best features the genre has to offer and is designed to be a tournament-grade fighter while remaining approachable and engaging for the casual player. Want more info on Skullgirls? Read up about Skullgirls on the PlayStation.Blog <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/skullgirls/">right here</a>. Don’t forget there is a demo available as well. Other big beats dropping this week are World Gone Sour and sweet new GTA content. If you need a sugar fix, you’ll want to check out World Gone Sour. Assume the role of a lost piece of candy destined to find its way to the ultimate goal: your stomach! On the other hand, if you missed out on the critically acclaimed Add-ons to Grand Theft Auto IV, you can now download them as the PS3 Full Game section sees the release of Grand Theft Auto IV Episodes From Liberty City. PlayStation Plus subscribers can pick up this content for the great price of $11.99 for this week only. More...

This month’s episode features one of the most anticipated <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/playstation-move/">PlayStation Move</a> titles, previews of two popular sequels, and a retrospective look at <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/qore/">the series</a>. Jesse Blaze Snider wields a wand (aided by the Move controller) in <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/sorcery/">Sorcery</a>. As a young wizard’s apprentice, players easily learn how the wand enables magical game play in a mystical world. Summon fire, ice and magical bolt spells to take down huge ice trolls and evil monsters in this comprehensive preview! Looks like the next step in modern warfare game play is coming from Ubisoft’s latest installment of the popular futuristic shooter <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-future-soldier/">Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier</a>. The Qore preview ‘de-cloaks’ the very cool stealth technology and almost infinite combinations of weapons that players can assemble. More...

With the <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> launches of <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/pinball-arcade/">The Pinball Arcade</a> on <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PSN</a> this week, I thought that I’d share a few more details about our game and offer some general gameplay tips. The launch tables include one from each of the four major manufactures that we’ve licensed. Tales of the Arabian Nights (Williams), Ripley's Believe It or Not (Stern), Theatre of Magic (Bally), and Black Hole (Gottlieb). Tales and Black Hole were part of the Pinball Hall of Fame games. We’ve spent a lot of time improving the physics and the graphics of our pinball engine over the past few years, so we feel that they’re definitely worthy of updating. When we first made the Gottlieb collection we gathered references from the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. We took a lot of pictures, recorded the audio with microphones, and took notes on the rules along with gameplay video reference. We actually re-programmed all of the rules from scratch. More...

In this edition, host Christina Lee highlights the new maps being released in the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/uncharted-3-drakes-deception/">UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception</a> Map Pack. Check out highlights of the four new multiplayer maps featuring new terrain, improved gameplay and even more amazing environments. For vehicle combat fans, the new <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PSN</a> exclusive <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/wheels-of-destruction/">Wheels of Destruction</a> is a fast-paced and strategic multiplayer combat racing game that allows players to switch classes within a match. Also featured is a look at the immersive interactive experience of <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/datura/">Datura</a> (from the Linger in Shadows team) which incorporates the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/playstation-move/">PlayStation Move</a> motion controller to investigate a mysterious forest, solve puzzles and, well, much like ‘Linger’, requires that you just check it out for yourself. The Top 10 features the most popular downloads of March and new video releases highlight Tom Cruise running very fast again in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Mark Wahlberg being good bad guy in Contraband More...

Last week I was in Rome with some friends from <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/capcom/">Capcom</a> to attend their Captivate event, an annual showcase of what’s in the pipeline for such game series as <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/street-fighter-x-tekken/">Street Fighter</a>, <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/resident-evil-6/">Resident Evil</a>, <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/devil-may-cry/">Devil May Cry</a> and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/lost-planet-3/">Lost Planet</a>. While I could spend a couple of hundred words on fountains and pizza, there is a lot of game news to cover; here’s a handy digest of all the best bits. The game features three playable characters – Leon S. Kennedy, Chris Redfield and Jake Muller – with three unique, intertwining stories that the player can choose to play through in any order. While the action takes place in various locations around the world, we do know that a large portion is set in China. If you’re wondering who Jake Muller is, he is a new character, a mercenary in Eastern Europe, and the son of maniacal sunglasses advocate, Albert Wesker. We saw a playthrough of some of Leon’s story, set in Tall Oaks University after a bio-terrorist attack that turns the American President into a zombie, forcing Leon to kill him and subsequently face the blame for his murder (that might sound like a spoiler for the whole plot but this all happened in the first four minutes). More...

Dear <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/">PlayStation.Blog</a> fans, friends, countrymen: lend me your taste buds. If you could ask the candy that you eat what its lifelong goals are, what would it say? Would it tell you that it wants to be an astronaut? Drive in the Indy 500? Run a marathon? Probably not. If you asked a Sour Patch Kid that question, the answer would be this: To make it to the human belly, their sweet rapture. And that, my friends, is the premise of our new video game World Gone Sour starring the sweet-then-sour candy, Sour Patch Kids. We took that premise, added Creed Bratton from NBC's “The Office†as our “sometimes sweet and sometimes sour†narrator, got Wu-Tang’s own Method Man to create a <a href=" ">custom song</a> included in the game, and set out to make a ridiculously fun game for you to enjoy. World Gone Sour is a puzzle platformer made by the incredibly talented team at Playbrains (makers of the PSN-exclusive game <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/sideway-new-york/">Sideway</a> where you play as an inch-high candy in a twisted miniature world where you play through sticky movie theatre floors, across sizzling hamburger grills, through a psychotic doll house, and over razor sharp buzz saws. You use the sour patch kid followers that you pick up along the way to absorb to get stronger, or throw them around like ammunition to help you take down ridiculous foes. You'll face dust bunnies, rogue nacho cheese beasts, gum crawlers, and matchbook spiders as you wall jump, grapple, and swing your way through the multiple environments and settings. More...

Sly ’s back, and the anthropomorphic raccoon has never looked better. <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/playstation-the-official-magazine/">PTOM</a>’s May issue cover features one of PS2’s most beloved platformer protagonists as he prepares to star in his first all-new PS3 entry. Though original developer <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/sucker-punch/">Sucker Punch</a> has stepped aside, our visit with <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/sly-cooper-thieves-in-time/">Thieves in Time</a>’s developer <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/sanzaru-games/">Sanzaru Games</a> indicates that the fourth game in the series is in good and capable hands. Elsewhere in the issue, the battle rages on in our Medal of Honor: Warfighter feature as we get our first look at EA’s second offensive front against rival Activision’s <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3/">Call of Duty</a> franchise. Warfighter’s focus on Tier One operatives and cinematic action sequences indicate it’s got its sights squarely set on the rumored but as-yet-unconfirmed Black Ops 2. We can’t wait to see the pyrotechnics when these two powerhouses meet on the field of battle. More...

<h4>A Big Hello to LittleBigPlanet!</h4> There was such a lot going on last week, that I didn’t really get a chance to properly introduce myself to everyone! My name is Steven, and you’ll be hearing a lot more from me in my new role as LittleBigPlanet Community Coordinator, although some of you may already recognise me from the LittleBigPlanet community by my PSN ID <a href=â€http://lbp.me/u/steveniâ€>StevenI</a>. With the release of two brand-new LittleBigPlanet titles this year and plenty more exciting things to come for <a href="https://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/littlebigplanet-2/">LittleBigPlanet 2</a>… You can be sure to hear all the latest news and events for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/littlebigplanet/">LittleBigPlanet</a> every Monday. More...

This Wednesday, April 11th will see yet another spectacular <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/playstation-home">PlayStation Home</a> update with the arrival of the x7 nightclub. Also, Novus Prime launches their 5.5 update for x7 members (complete with tons of new items that enhance gameplay) and Granzella brings updates to the Grand Edo of Nippon. Here’s your must-do list for this week in PlayStation Home: <strong>x7</strong> – Wednesday marks the grand opening of x7 – the nightclub for the PlayStation Home elite! This VIP nightclub is for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/playstation-plus/">PlayStation Plus</a> subscribers and collectors of the PlayStation Home Exclusives line and is packed with premium content not available anywhere else. All x7 members get early access to select content before it gets released to the public, special discounts, and even free items! More...

There’s a new PlayStation 2 Classic coming to <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PlayStation Network</a>. I want to talk to you about it. Instead of just getting to the darn point, though...LET'S DRAG THIS OUT. Join me, won’t you, as we take a trip back in time? Step into this police box with me, please. Get the door behind you? Thanks. Ok, the year is 2008. You just saw Al Pacino’s <em>88 Minutes</em> in theaters. It was terrible. You’re on your way home, your head hung low in abject disappointment, when you pass by your local INSERT NAME OF YOUR FAVORITE VIDEO GAME RETAILER HERE. What’s that? New releases? You wander in to take a closer look, thinking that a new game might help cleanse your mental palate... More...

You may have seen the announcement for <a href=" ">Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles</a> a few weeks ago, but it just so happens we have something extra special in store for <a href="http://us.playstation.com/">PlayStation</a> fans - Zen Pinball 2 is on the way, packed full of new features and all sorts of awesome bonuses, and it will release in conjunction with the new Marvel pack! We have been listening to all of your feedback and have included many, many of your ideas into what is our most advanced and sophisticated pinball platform yet! There has been strong focus on keeping the community together, bringing all of your pinball tables under one roof, and then connecting the games across <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/">PS3</a> and <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">Vita</a>. If you are a pinball fan, this will be the ultimate pinball experience on PlayStation! More...

This weekend at the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/borderlands-2/'>http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/borderlands-2/">Borderlands 2</a> booth, we granted <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/pax12/">PAX</a> East visitors chance to play with two brand-new characters for Borderlands 2 -- Salvador the Gunzerker and Maya the Siren -- in a new environment called the Caustic Caverns. The Gunzerker and Siren classes have made great strides compared to their counterparts from the original game. Players who choose to play as Salvador will be able to use his Gunzerking ability to run into a crowd with two guns blazing. If you played the first game, you may recognize this as an evolution of Brick's Berserking skill. Meanwhile, Maya’s new Siren skill Phaselock isolates an enemy inside a phase bubble for a short time. Once you've Phaselocked a target, your primary choice is whether to focus your fire on the helpless foe before it breaks free or mop up any other threats nearby. Decisions, decisions! <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/borderlands">Borderlands</a> has a strong history of co-op gameplay and that's still a core promise of this game. At PAX, we watched as Siren players Phaselocked an enemy, leaving an opening for the Gunzerker buddy to run up, dual-wielding, and take out the target just in the nick of time. I'm also happy to talk about our new setting for this demo, the Caustic Caverns. From the beginning of the project, we've wanted to explore a wider variety of unique environments and locales on the planet of Pandora. As different and cool as the Caustic Caverns are, they’re just a small taste of the diverse environments to be explored in Borderlands 2. More...

Wha-what’s this all about, you say? We’re talking some pretty sweet <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/modnation-racers-road-trip/">ModNation Racers: Road Trip</a> exclusive unlockables, thank you for asking! This past week I noticed that “Road Trip’s†Global Travel Points feature had really started to gain some notable momentum. “How does this affect me?,†again a great question. Well, if we all work together like the great nation we are, we will begin to see some of the 15 uber-cool Road Trip exclusive unlockables come to life. Here is how it works… Essentially the Mod Explorer feature in <a href="http://us.playstation.com/psvita/games-and-media/psv-modnation-racers.html">ModNation Racers: Road Trip</a> allows you as an individual, and the community as a whole to be ultimately rewarded for each and every mileage check-in. The more Mod Explorer check-in’s you post, the more miles you accumulate, the more pieces you attain. Similarly, this goes for the community. When all of our miles are “pitched†together into the big Mod Explorer pot even more items become unlocked to use. Yahoo! More...

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Damned bring their unique tales of crime with the arrival of the full <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/">PS3</a> version of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/psn/">PSN</a>. Set in the Canopy Kingdom, Skullgirls tells the tale of eight female warriors as they fight to reclaim a wish-granting artifact known as the "Skull Heart" from the monstrous Skullgirl.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Leave your quarters at home or take them on the go when playing your favorite pinball machine for the zillionth time, or discover an acclaimed pinball classic for the first time, with The Pinball Arcade. Its also equipped with the added bonus of “Cross Purchase,†you can buy the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> version and get the PS3 version for free, and vice versa.</p> Enjoy this week’s <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/the-drop/">The Drop</a>. More...

We haven't seen you out on the road in a little bit - not since the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/vita-hill-social-club/">PlayStation Vita Social Clubs</a> - and we're starting to get a bit restless in the office. And hey, maybe we miss you a little bit (don't go telling anyone I said that). So know that we've got a few meetups in the works. When I was visiting Seattle on vacation last week, I dropped into a <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/08/26/set-your-alarm-pax-playstationblog-meet-up-details/">favorite venue of mine</a>, and so I think we'll have to do a PAX Prime meetup this year. But that's still several months away. The next PlayStation community event will be announced later this week - so keep an eye out on the blog for an announcement. <strong>The PS.Blog weekly reading list (Week of April 2, 2012)</strong> <ul> <li><a href="http://ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1222397p1.html">Warriors Orochi 3 Review - PlayStation 3 Review at IGN</a></li> <li><a href="http://ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1222411p1.html">Skyrim Update 1.5 Arrives on Consoles - PlayStation 3 News at IGN</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.delicious.com/redirect?url=http%3A//www.joystiq.com/2012/04/06/conan-imagines-a-call-of-duty-teenage-girl-edition/">Conan imagines a Call of Duty: Teenage Girl Edition - Joystiq</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/closure/reviews/closure-review-6370032/">Closure Reviews - GameSpot.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.delicious.com/redirect?url=http%3A//www.gamespot.com/devil-may-cry-hd-collection/reviews/devil-may-cry-hd-collection-review-6370301/">Devil May Cry HD Collection Reviews - GameSpot.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.gamespot.com/i-am-alive/reviews/i-am-alive-review-6370331/">I Am Alive Reviews - GameSpot.com</a></li> More...

The announcement of the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/03/ps3-the-first-console-to-offer-amazon-instant-video/">Amazon Instant Video app for PS3</a> handily dominated discussion this week, with Jeff and Rey's video tour taking top honors. <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps-vita/">PS Vita</a> was also a hot topic, with word of <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/02/psn-vita-game-escape-plan-adds-free-prequel-dlc-to-patch-1-01/">free DLC</a> for Escape Plan, <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/02/motorstorm-rc-carnival-expansion-hits-tomorrow/">Carnival expansion</a> for MotorStorm RC, and a <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/05/disgaea-3-absence-of-detention-hits-ps-vita-april-17th/">fresh look</a> at Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention from NIS America. Lightbox Interactive released a <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/05/ride-die-and-fly-in-starhawk-vehicle-trailer/">vehicle-centric trailer</a> for Starhawk, Naughty Dog showed off their next <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/05/uncharted-3-gets-new-drakes-deception-multiplayer-map-pack-tuesday/">multiplayer expansion</a> for UNCHARTED 3, and Sony San Diego Studios celebrated first pitch with an <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/04/mlb-12-the-show-honors-mlbs-first-pitch-with-opening-day-trailer/">Opening Day trailer</a> for MLB 12 The Show. The Tester 3 also triumphantly revealed its <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/03/the-tester-3-season-finale-begins-now/">season finale</a>, and the hardware team acknowledged user feedback of the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/04/05/regarding-your-feedback-on-the-wireless-stereo-headset/">Wireless Stereo Headset</a>. What are you playing this weekend? More...

PSN Member the_mdt kicks off this new PSN Community-driven series. Welcome everyone to the debut of Long Live Play PSN Community Spotlight! Since <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/03/03/long-live-play-psn-community-spotlight/">the announcement</a> that the gates were open on the <a href="http://community.us.playstation.com/community/playstation_network/psn_community_meets_the_ps_blog?view=discussions">PlayStation Community Forums</a> to send in your PlayStation story; we’ve seen a flood of great stories related to PlayStation gaming and we’re happy to now debut with a post from PSN Member the_mdt, who is now the recipient of a $50 PlayStation Store voucher code. From here on, every Saturday we’ll have a new PSN member to spotlight. the_mdt recalls a story that many of us are familiar with, yet is all his own. PlayStation today is a household name, but to those who have been able to be gaming with PlayStation since the first console, it’s more than a name. For long time fans, PlayStation weaves itself into the events in our real life and can frame how we look back on those times. Check out his story. More...

Hi! I’m Rob Hill, Sr. Producer on <a href="http://www.defiance.com/en/">Defiance</a>, and today I’m here to unveil the first ever clip of gameplay for this very exciting shooter MMO for <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/category/ps3/">PS3</a>. For those that don’t know, Defiance is the first persistent online world that plays like a pixel perfect shooter. Unlike other shooter games where you can play co-op with 4 or 8 players at most, Defiance supports thousands of players playing together in a game that never ends. And if that doesn’t raise your eyebrows just a bit, the world of Defiance exists not only in the game, but in a TV series of the same name that will air on the Syfy channel. The game and show will change and evolve together, to create an entertainment experience unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. We’re glad to be able to take advantage of the power and features of the PS3 to help bring such a world to life. More...

Hey everyone, On April 10, 2012 eight qualifying players from tournaments held across the globe will be facing each other to battle it out for the <a href="http://blog.us.playstation.com/tag/soulcalibur-V/">SOULCALIBUR V</a> World Championship title in Las Vegas, Nevada. With over $10,000 in prizing, arcade sticks, games and more going to the combatants, this will be an event to go down in the history books. And we’re even giving fans a chance to win cool items by tuning into the action! The SOULCALIBUR V World Championships will be broadcasted live by community stream evangelist Team Spooky, featuring hype and play by play commentary by Fighting Game Community leader Mark “MarkMan†Julio and myself, Rich “FilthieRich†Bantegui, to keep fans updated and entertained. Special guest and game director, Daishi Odashima will also be in attendance to chat about the game with fans at the event. More...