We linked to it earlier this week (and below), but I wanted to call out special attention to Platform Nation‘s charity gaming marathon – Playapalooza ‘08. The event supports Child’s Play Charity, which collects and distributes video games (and the A/V equipment needed to play them) to hospitals nationwide. We here at SCEA are supporting the cause with game donations, and you should at least take a look at the cause and see if you’d like to contribute as well.
OK, back to the matter at hand – here are the stories we read this week. Did we miss anything?
The PS Blog weekly reading list (Week of 8/4)
- Playstation Invades All Points West Fest – Kotaku
- Looks like Blitz: The League II will also support Trophies – PS3 Fanboy
- N+ release on 8/26, budget priced at $20 – PSP Fanboy
- Let there be life: Games go organic – Citizen Gamer- msnbc.com
- PLATFORM NATION ANNOUNCES CHARITY GAMING MARATHON – Platform Nation
- In America, ‘The Last Guy’ Starts In San Francisco – MTV Multiplayer
- BioShock Preview – IGN
- SOCOM: Confrontation Will Make You Love PSN – Kotaku
- R&C: Quest for Booty Is For Everybody – Kotaku
- Madden 09 QA team prefers playing on PS3 – PS3 Fanboy
- One More Platinum Trophy Opp: Warhawk – Game | Life
- Naughty Dog using only ’30 or 40 percent’ of the PS3’s power – Destructoid
- Destructoid review: Pixeljunk Eden – Destructoid
- Game Diary – August 5, 2008: Too Scared To Keep Playing – MTV Multiplayer
- The Allure of Trophies, or Why I’m Playing Uncharted Again – Infinite Bits
- LittleBigPlanet Updated Hands-On – GameSpot
- Spoiler alert: Finishing PixelJunk Eden yields cool and fancy surprise – Destructoid
- “Loads of plans” for LittleBigPlanet DLC – Eurogamer
- Mirror’s Edge to get DLC, PS3 lead platform – Destructoid
- Impressions: PixelJunk Eden is a platforming paradise – ars technica
- Final Fantasy Agito XIII heading to PSP – PSP Fanboy
- LittleBigPlanet tops Game Critics Awards’ E3 noms – GameSpot
- PixelJunk Eden’s YouTube uploading feature works as advertised – Destructoid
- Parasite Eve spin-off comes to PSP, also Final Fantasy Agito XIII – Destructoid
Oh, and when I read this, I couldn’t help but LOL:
Local Idiot To Post Comment On Internet – The Onion
Been a busy week!
Love the sunday what we read around the web post there’s always links to articles I missed during the week.
Full List of Rock Band 2 Trophies
http://kotaku.com/5035131/full-list-of-rock-band-2-trophies
:D
lol, that was a funny post. Thanks for the entertainment Jeff. :)
Will “The Last Guy” be a game made for each country? Such as Canada getting its own area?
How is it my posts on the Forums about Final Fantasy 13 being exclisve on the PSP (IE not comeing to the DS in any forme at all) Or my post about No Gravity, and the like get no replys for sweetness but if every body else posts it with no link for confermation they get endless praise?
Thats totaly backwards! I would never trust anybody with info and no source to back it up.
Any NEW update on Life with Playstation? I know it is coming out this month, but is it coming on Tuesday?
Thanks! :)
Thanks Jeff for linking our charity marathon!
For any of you guys interest, here is the live stream link, http://www.platformnation.com/2008/08/07/playapalooza-08-live-stream/
Great week, hope we’ll get more details on LBP and Home :)
Can you guys make a time machine to skip to October? So many good games coming out that month!
Disgaea 3’s First 10 Minutes Video Footage:
http://www.gamersplatform.com/2008/08/08/exclusive-disgaea-3-first-10-minutes-video-footage/
There’s this first 10 minutes video footage of Disgaea 3 for the PS3:
http://www.gamersplatform.com/2008/08/08/exclusive-disgaea-3-first-10-minutes-video-footage/
good week
Why not add in an extra trophy for a retail game if you participated in beta for the game?
Lots of stuff happened this week
great week
Great week and that Onion Article made my day. WHe n are we gonna get to see the idiot make his post? Do you know where he plans to do it? (i doubt) anyhoo I had one thing on my mind all last weekJeff. I was thinking that is some future update would it be possible for them to make it so that when your ps3 is in standby mode that the usb ports would remain on so that I can charge my Dual Shock 3 without having to have the ps3 on. My Console is not to close so that I could charge while playing so I do it while I sleep or am at work. This would be a great added bonus to the already many wonderful features on the PS3. Oh when’s Life coming out? That is all.
I’m looking forward to LittleBigPlanet, Quest for Booty and Bioshock . . . .
Hey Jeff… Why did you not put all those news under the PlayStation Conversation space on the right this week?
The last one that was posted for the whole week was:
Naughty Dog using only ’30 or 40 percent’ of the PS3’s power – Destructoid
Posted 08.05.08 03:28 PM
The 11 after that were missing.
I knew something was strange…
I look foward everyday to read the news on the PlayStation Blog (^_^)
Nice Info.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII confirmed Playstation 3 exclusive world wide by the way.
@ Jeff
How was it moderating the blog on july 14th after Microsoft’s Press conference? There were like 3000 comments lol.
thanks for the recap, that last one was great, i always loved the onion since going to college in Boulder, CO, it was given away free there!
thanks for the links. check this story out:
http://kotaku.com/5035234/cop+confiscated-ps3-replaced-with-360
It’s pretty lame that xbox users get N+ on XBLA but we’re stuck with a psp port. Definitely not picking this up. I had read articles in like February saying Elefunk and N+ were on their way to PSN and I was excited for both. I bought Elefunk, and have been waiting months for N+. I’m definitely not paying 20 bucks for a flash game I can play online for free, especially when I can’t play it on my PS3.
Any word on whether SOCOM features Mouse/Keyboard support? (I don’t mean for chatting)
@ Jeff
For the home beta application are you checking our activity on the psn before or after we download the application?
so Trophies for Warhawk have been confirmed for the 27th but yet no word if the list of trophies circulating the we is true
web* not we
(god i wish there was an edit button)
Will Socom come packed with the the bluetooth we were shown last month or is there a new one. Also will there be proper voice communication inside of the online game. Why i ask is because MGSO still has problems utilizing the online voice chat feature clearly and there is a lack of control over muting, COD4 and Warhawk has similar problems. It seems that the PS3 cannot implement voice chat properly like the xbox360 which doesn’t even need that feature to be built into each game since it is separate feature for the system. I hope Socom will be the defining game for proper voice chat and other games coming after it follows.
Cant wait for more news next week!
C’mon Sony! Don’t tell me you don’t read your LBP Blog :O?
I haven’t seen any replies from any of you lot yet, and I’m pretty active there :P?
Hey, you guys need a resistance 2 limited addition bundle with some kind of novely item, Only then will my life be complete. Also little big planet plush….. well you know.
Here are a few posts worth checking out over at VGBlogger.
Odin Sphere, Disgaea Achieve Greatest Hits Status: http://www.vgblogger.com/?p=3596
BioShock PS3: “This is Rapture” Trailer: http://www.vgblogger.com/?p=3594
Review: Siren: Blood Curse: http://www.vgblogger.com/?p=3555
How about having some posts from the new littlebigplanet site? I know that there are only three so far, but that’s bound to change as we get closer to launch.
“Naughty Dog using only ‘30 or 40 percent’ of the PS3’s power – Destructoid”…
Yeah…knew that for a long time now…every time I comes across these post it always looks like old news…
This thread doesn’t really serve any good purpose.
How about you guys do something more creative…
Any news when rise of the argonauts may come out?…
wrong site/forum/thread/blog I guess.
DRAT THE INTERNET
That bioshock preview was pretty interesting but I think for the first time I play it it’s not going to be on survival mode where “Every Bullet Counts” lol
would have been nice to see N+ on psn for 9.99
I really don’t understand Sony’s thinking. Both Patapon and N+ get a PSP release but I would have thought these games would be perfect for a PSN release. Surely someone at Sony considered this. It is this sort of content that PS3 owners have been crying out for. Is there any particular reason they are not released on the PS3?
Oh and can somebody from Sony kindly let customers know why PSN cards are not freely available? You know, for those people without credit cards or living in a region with no PSN store or those who have imported games and want to purchase DLC.
i just wish they would update the ps3 browser.as of now, i can’t even view the kotaku comments anymore :(
its just a shame that a 600 $$ machine has such a poor in-built web browser!
if not updated soon its gonna take to the point that we are going to have the browser just as a decoration tool in the ps3! LOL
as for the folks asking about life with playstation.don’t bother because they aren’t going to answer us until its ready to come out
Check this out it’s really weird.
kotaku.com/5035215/psn-easter-egg-adds-old-snake-to-friends
Can you tell us whats going on here?
Check this out it’s really weird.
http://www.kotaku.com/5035215/psn-easter-egg-adds-old-snake-to-friends
Can you tell us whats going on here?
(Sorry for that double post- link works here)
Im sooo stoked for LBP. Found out That GameStop is going to have the Kratos Sackboy download. which is AWESOME!(the fact that i know where to preorder not that its GameStop lol)
@39
dont know maybe its just something Konami did with the MGS series. or so people wouldnt spam Kojimas PS3 with friend invites.
Who Knows
Hey guys!
John Diamonon of Capcom kinda just confirmed Dead Rising for the PS3!
See comment 121
https://blog.playstation.com/2008/08/08/bionic-commando-rearmed-behind-the-scenes-3/comment-page-3/#comments
Interview with DoubleSix games: http://playstationlifestyle.net/2008/08/08/interview-with-doublesix-games/
Good Info!
Thanks and keep it coming!
:P
Here’s a link for an interview of John Carmack where he compares the consoles. I think he gives a reasonable comparison, but I bet the authors on the blog don’t want to hear it and certainly don’t want to respond to it.
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/20047
So many pixeljunk eden articles. I wrote one too: http://blackflowermusic.com/blog/?p=83
@46 FeaturePreacher
What exactly do they dont want to respond?
@48
Perhaps comments Carmack made about the comparison between RSX and 360’s gpu and Sony’s lower concern for developers’ concerns about hardware.
@48
I basically just want some signs that there’s going to be a great shift in thought at Sony, a shift away from believing they can do whatever they want to believing that they must make hardware that makes the developers job easier and make hardware that shrinks development time. Also I hope there will be a shift towards hardware design that places versatility of use as the top priority. I hope the first signs of this will be seen in the psp2.