PlayStation Around the Web: What We Read

It’s back to work tomorrow for us at PlayStation, and, I’d imagine, for most of you as well. I hope you enjoyed the time off as much as we did, and caught up on your pile of games before the next flood starts on Tuesday (I’m hearing great things about Darksiders from SCEE’s Jem Alexander). Personally, I spent the past several days playing PixelJunk Shooter, and trying to beat PS2’s Final Fantasy XII before the series debuts on PS3 in March.

With the holiday season drawing to a close (hoping for the Eagles to give me one final present vs the Cowboys today), many gaming sites chose to look back on the best games of 2009. More often than not – that meant top marks for UNCHARTED 2.

What’s coming up this week? A little gathering called the Consumer Electronics Show. If you are/will be in Vegas this week, we hope to see you there.

The PS Blog weekly reading list (Holidays 2009)

• Giant Bomb’s Game of the Year, 2009
• Overall VGChartz Game of the Year Awards 2009 – VGChartz.com
• Joystiq’s Top 10 of 2009: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• The Ten Most Influential Women In Games Of The Past Decade – Kotaku
• Archaic PlayStation Concept Art – Siliconera
• Playstation 3 Cake is Tempting! – Ps3 Maven
• Playing PixelJunk Shooter Like A Pro 101 – Joystiq
• A Frag Without the Fest: If Chess Was a Shooter – Kotaku
• The most wanted PlayStation 3 games of 2010 – Destructoid
• Blast Off soundtrack released for free – Halfbrick
• Reaction Time: Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells Reflects on Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – G4tv.com
• Best Blu-ray titles to wow your home audience – msnbc.com
• Playstation 3 VGChartz Game of the Year Awards 2009 – VGChartz.com
• Top ten games that didn’t make Game of the Year 2009 – Destructoid
• Buyer’s Guide: PlayStation Network – Joystiq
• MLB 10 The Show Preview (PlayStation 3, PS2, PSP) – Gaming Age
• Customizable ModNation Racers Spawns Capcom Lookalikes – Capcom Unity
• Assassin’s Creed II Spoiler Talk With Patrice Desilets – Kotaku
• Badman 1 Unlocked In Badman 2 With A Secret Code – Siliconera
• PS3 Best Shooter 2009 – Killzone 2 – IGN
• Two Great Playstation 3 Family Games – Digital Dads
• Demon’s Souls’ Pure White Christmas Starts Today – Kotaku
• The winner of Destructoid Game of the Year 2009 – Destructoid
• MAG: Early Intel – IGN
• Best of 2009: Top 5 PlayStation 3 Games – GameLife | Wired.com
• Gamer Memories: PS2 Launch – IGN
• BMW M3 Used As Full-Scale Playstation Controller – Jalopnik
• The best video games of 2009; Pick your favorite, too – VentureBeat