29w ago - Today Jawad Ashraf of Sony's European PlayStation Store Team is here with this weeks PSN updates below, as follows:

First up, Assassin's Creed III eagle dives onto PlayStation Store this week. A new game engine, a new assassin and a new time period; experience the biggest Assassin's Creed yet. Take control of Connor and his expanded arsenal in 18th-Century North America in an epic war for independence.

Capcom's beautiful Okami HD finally releases today, too. Originally released on PlayStation 2, Okami's pretty visuals have been made prettier, now with additional Move support for a new way to experience this gem of a game.

To be Most Wanted, you'll need to outrun the cops, outdrive your friends, and outsmart your rivals. With a relentless police force gunning to take you down, you'll need to make split second decisions. Use the open world to your advantage to find hiding spots, hit jumps and earn new vehicles to keep you one step ahead.

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation heads to PS Vita today too. The year is 1765. As the events leading up to the American Revolution heat up in the North, Spanish forces plan to take control of Louisiana in the South...

There's also a demo for visual novel Virtue's Last Reward, Silent Hill Book of Memories and...

29w ago - Sony PlayStation Store Director Grace Chen is here with this weeks US PSN updates below, as follows:

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LittleBigPlanet Karting ($59.99)

Sackboy returns in a completely new Karting adventure to save the Craftworld universe! Get behind the wheel to race through fun-filled tracks, battle in hectic arenas, and collect items in open-world environments. Compete in exciting mini-games and modes unlike anything you've seen, and enjoy endless levels created by the LittleBigPlanet community. If you can dream it, you can drive it!
ESRB: E - Everyone

PS3 Full Games

Assassin's Creed III ($59.99)

The American Colonies, 1775. As a Native American Assassin fights to protect his land and his people he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution. In Assassin's Creed® III eliminate your enemies with guns, bows, tomahawks, and more! In development for over 3 years, the game features the new Ubisoft-AnvilNext engine.
ESRB: M - Mature // File Size: 11 GB

Assassin's Creed III Gold Edition ($89.99)

The American Colonies, 1775. As a Native American Assassin fights to protect his land and his people he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution. In Assassin's Creed III eliminate your enemies...

29w ago - Sony Senior Social Media Specialist Rey Gutierrez is here with the new PS3 and PSN releases for the upcoming week today, as follows:

On PS3 this week, it's a time of civil unrest and political upheaval in the Americas. As a Native American assassin fights to protect his land and his people, he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution.

Assassin's Creed III takes you back to the American Revolutionary War, but not the one you've read about in history books. On PS Move, Sports Champions 2 revives favorite features, including the surprisingly deep and challenging single-player Cup Play and the customizable Free Play mode, plus fun arcade Challenge rounds for each event.

On PS Vita and PSN, you're a cunning new assassin - Aveline, an assassin of mixed French and African heritage. You must use your skill, instinct and weaponry - including a machete, poison-dart blowpipe, and duelling pistols, to hunt down and eliminate your enemies in Assassin's Creed III: Liberation.

Also on PS Vita, Need for Speed: Most Wanted is the 19th release in the long-running Need for Speed franchise, and the first for the PlayStation Vita. It hearkens back to the earliest games in the series as players compete in races with police unified against them. Enjoy this week's The Drop.

30w ago - Insomniac Games Senior Community Manager James Stevenson has confirmed today that Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault will officially be out this November 27th for $19.99.

To quote: The 10th Anniversary of Ratchet & Clank is coming up next month, and it's been a lot of fun this year reliving the memories from our original PS2 games in the recently released Ratchet & Clank Collection.

We also had a blast playing the beta of Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault with all of you earlier this fall. Since then, we've gotten a flood of e-mails, tweets and Facebook posts asking when you can get back to exploring the battlefield and defending your base in FFA.

We're happy to announce Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault will be available on November 27th on the PlayStation Store and at retail.

That's right, you asked and we listened: Full Frontal Assault will be available as a retail copy for those of you who love physical copies of your games! Both the download and retail versions support cross-buy as well, so your purchase gets you both the game on PS3 and a digital copy for PlayStation Vita.

The other big question we've gotten a lot is "How much will the game cost?" As you know, Full Frontal Assault is a "fun-size" project that's similar in scope to Ratchet &...

30w ago - Sony Associate Product Manager Ken Chan has shared a preview video below today announcing that GT Academy 2012 is set to debut on Spike TV this November 1st.

To quote: Nissan GT Academy is back for a second season, seeking to determine which of America's best Gran Turismo players has what it takes to become a professional racing driver.

The first of the six-part episode will air on Spike TV beginning Thursday, November 1st at 11:30pm Pacific Time.

The remaining episodes will air at the same time each Thursday night and will be available on the Nissan YouTube channel the following Monday. GT Academy will also be screened on MTV2, one week after the original airdate on SPIKE TV. For a preview, visit GTAcademy.com.

In July, after three months of online competition, the top 32 out of 400,000 registered Gran Turismo online gamers met at Comic-Con in San Diego to determine the 16 finalists for GT Academy 2012.





After two days of virtual racing competition on identical gaming...