PlayStation.Blog Recap

Good day all. It’s time for your weekly review of all things PlayStation Blog and, as ever, there’s plenty to chew on.

The big news of the week was word that PS Plus members now have access to a whopping 1GB of cloud storage for their games. Elsewhere, we had a sneak peek at Fuse – the latest game from Ratchet & Clank creators Insomniac, Sega dropped in to talk up maniac platformer Hell Yeah! Wrath of Dead Rabbit, EA delivered a demo for FIFA 13 and we offered a full rundown of the new Trophy support for Killzone HD. Check out all the news below.

Also, we’ve got some great Borderlands 2-related prizes on offer in the Weekend Debate, and we’re also looking for questions to put to developers at Tokyo Game Show next week – please do head on over and contribute.

Have a great weekend!

• PlayStation Community Update: SSX Uber Tuesday And Eurogamer Expo – The second installment of ‘PlayStation Community Update’, highlighting the best content from the Official PlayStation Forums.
• SingStore Update: Will Young, The Shamen And More – All the latest SingStore updates from Nina at SingStar HQ
• Sack It To Me: The Awesomesauce LittleBigHub – This week’s LittleBigPlanet update features new Mm Picks and an Awesomesauce Award.
• Retro Games Sale – More Titles Added – Resident Evil, Rayman and more are up for grabs.
• Ecolibrium Arrives On Vita Tomorrow – The newest Discovery App for PlayStation Vita is an imaginative real-time ecosystem simulator. And it’s free!
• F1 2012 Demo Takes To The Track Tomorrow – The demo contains a taste of two awesome new F1 2012 features: the Young Driver Test and Season Challenge mode’s first race at Monza.
• Let’s Fish! Hooked On Aims To Reel In Vita Gamers – Let’s Fish! Hooked On, the first full-scale fishing game on PS Vita, is coming this Autumn.
• PlayStation Home: Great Deals With PS Plus – A PS Plus discount, a Home-Grown Laboratory, a Space Apartment and more are new in Home this week.
• PlayStation Plus Update: Online Storage Upgraded To 1GB – The latest firmware update (version 4.25) is live, and it increases PS Plus users’ Cloud Storage limit from 150MB to a whopping 1GB.
• WRC 3 FIA World Rally Championship Demo Revs Its Engines – The new demo lets you drive as Sébastien Loeb in the RallyRACC-Rally de España, and features the Crash & Run Contest mode.
• FIFA 13 Demo Takes To The Pitch – You’ll be able to play as Manchester City, Arsenal, Juventus, AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund, and experience EA Sports’ Football Club Match Day.
• ‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 12th September 2012 – Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Max Payne 3, and tons more in the PS Store this week.
• Insomniac’s Fuse Lights Up PlayStation 3 Next Year – Formerly known as Overstrike, Fuse is a third person, four-player cooperative game that centres around a volatile energy source that has fallen into the wrong hands.
• Ghost Recon Future Soldier: Raven Strike DLC Out Today – This second DLC package features three new missions playable cooperatively, a new Guerrilla Mode map, and new Trophies & Challenges.
• Build Your Dream City In Home Tycoon – Home Tycoon is a 3D city-building game where you can create your dream city from the ground up – and it’s coming soon, exclusively to PlayStation Home.
• Scrawl This On A Wall – Jet Set Radio Is Finally Here (Again)! – Jet Set Radio is returning in glorious HD across PlayStation Network and PS Vita as part of Sega’s Heritage Collection!
• Vote For Your PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Cover Stars! – Together with GAME, we’re giving you the chance to select which characters should appear on special, high-gloss sleeves covering copies of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale in the UK.
• Killzone HD – The Full Trophy List Revealed – Find out what badges are up for grabs in the forthcoming FPS overhaul.
• Hell Yeah! Wrath Of The Dead Rabbit Terrorises PS Plus Next Month – Hell Yeah! is a tale of revenge – a story of the little-man standing up for himself. That this little-man is in fact a devil rabbit, and the prince of Hell, just gives it a little more edge.
• DUST 514 – New Player Corporation Features Showcased – We know you’ve been patiently waiting to find out more about Corporation management in DUST 514, and now, we are ready to give you all the info!
• On The Hunt In Assassin’s Creed III – In Assassin’s Creed III, adventure awaits beyond the protective city walls of Boston, and the frontier offers an incredible bounty of wildlife for a skilled and dedicated hunter.
• Access Episode 49: LBP Vita! Assassin’s Creed III! Ray Winstone! – LBP PS Vita is Game of the Week, and the new Access episode also features Assassin’s Creed III, Killzone 3, and more.
• Tokyo Game Show 2012: Your Questions Please! – Next Thursday, TGS gets underway at the cavernous Makuhari Messe in Tokyo, Japan, and the PlayStation Blog is taking questions for Japanese developers.
• Borderlands 2 Gets Simultaneous PSN Digital Release – Borderlands 2 is just one short week from release, so it’ll soon be time for you and up to three friends to return to Pandora and wreak some havoc on Handsome Jack and his nefarious cohorts.
• Weekend Debate: Quantity vs. Quality – What’s more important in a game – quantity or quality? The five most thoughtful or amusing posts win a Borderlands 2 swag bag!

• Weekend Essentials 143 – Kick off your FIFA 13 training, join PlayStation Plus for even less and download incredible games from PlayStation Store this weekend.
• Game On – Give your week the perfect PlayStation start with Killzone Trilogy, FIFA 13, Metal Gear Solid and more.
• Sleeping Dogs – What it’s like to play – Go deeper into this fantastic open world adventure on PlayStation 3.
• PlayStation 3 system software update – Find out what features are included in PS3 system software update 4.25.
• Grab 25% off a year’s PlayStation Plus subscription – The clock is ticking… find out how you can get a massive 25 per cent off a year’s PlayStation Plus subscription before the offer runs out!

• If you haven’t seen Insomniac’s latest shooter yet here’s some new Fuse screens and info.
• Pick up a bargain as we help you find the best PlayStation games for under £20.
• Here’s a teaser for our upcoming interview with Insomniac’sTed Price where explains how the developer very nearly didn’t make it.
• See what Kojima’s cooking with the latest Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes screens.
• Here are 10 games that changed PlayStation history. We wouldn’t have the console we have now with out them.