A couple days ago we reported on a few holiday adverts that are part of a “bigger campaign”.
Today Sony's Senior Vice President of Marketing & PlayStation Network Peter Dille detailed their PlayStation: Entertainment Unleashed ad campaign officially via PS Blog as follows:
This is one of the fun parts of my job, when we get to unveil our TV commercials and give you, our loyal fans, a preview of our spots before they hit the airwaves. This year’s campaign is dubbed “Entertainment Unleashed” and for good reason.
The campaign actually began quietly a few weeks back with three fifteen second “tease” executions. Hopefully, you’ve seen these by now. These initial ads depicted various people catching glimpses and reflections of beautiful PS3 game footage magically appearing ... More »
Per Grace Chen (Senior Manager, PlayStation Store) via PS Blog today:
Hey, everyone. It’s time again for the PlayStation Store weekly update.
Downloadable Games
Age of Booty ($9.99)
Fight for pirate supremacy in this game of strategy and cannon-blasting action that’s fun for all ages. Sail the high seas alone or with friends as you build your pirate empire by plundering villages, sinking ships, and sending your enemies to the briny deep! Upgrade your ships with new, more powerful weapons, and explore 25 different maps or create your own to share! With so many features, Age of Booty is a treasure chest of fun! Download the game today!
File size: 44 MB
Add-on Game Content
LittleBigPlanet - MotorStorm Stormers Costume ($1.99)
A premium costume for SackBoy!
File size: 1.04
LittleBigPlanet - Sack-Eating Plant Costume (SCEE contest winner) (free)
A community co... More »
Hey everybody. Today's European PSN Store Update brings a lot of stuff for purchase. New DLC for PAIN, LittleBigPlanet, Rock Band and more!
Check this list below:
Add-on Content
* PAIN David Hasselhoff add-on pack (£1.19/€1.49)
* PAIN Movie Studio add-on pack (£3.99/€4.99)
* 5x Soul Calibur IV equipment customization packs (£0.79 - £1.59/€0.99 - €1.99)
* Star Wars The Force Unleashed character pack 1 (£6.29/€7.99)
* Everybody's Golf 5 character pack (£3.19/€3.99)
* Civilization Revolution "The Terrestrial" map pack (£0.79/€0.99)
* Civilization Revolution "Elemental" map pack (free)
Videos
* 6x Shoot videos
* Bioshock 2 teaser trailer
* Shaun White's Snowboarding trailer
* 2x Soul Calibur IV trailers
* Tomb Raider Underworld trailer
* Tom Clancy's EndWar video
* MotorStorm Pacific Rift "Air Zone" trailer
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A few weeks ago, I made my way to Ubisoft's Montreal studio to interview a pair of team members working on the latest Prince of Persia, and it turned out to be one of those interviews where we kept talking longer than we probably should have.
Below is an excerpt from that interview as follows:
1UP: Were you guys disappointed when those first couple of screenshots leaked out and everyone assumed it was going to be a two-player game?
BM: [Laughs] Disappointed? No, it was to be expected, really. I think if you see two characters on the screen, some people are going to assume one of their friends can control one of those two characters. So it didn't really disappoint me to see people saying, "Oh, oh, I think this is going to be a co-op game."
But we really haven't had much negative backlash about the fact that it's single-player. I've been reading the forums, I get e-mails, I get Facebook messages and that sort of stuff, and no one ever... More »
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David Hasselhoff aka "The Hoff" has posted the following on the PS Blog today:
It’s The Hoff again... coming to you from Korea, where I am filming a new movie. Now that the elections are over, let’s concentrate on the real nitty gritty... PAIN: Movie Studio!
With only 1 day left before the Hoff invades your PS3, I had to make a call into the Ryan Seacrest show on KIIS FM to tell all the listeners in Hoff-land to come check me out this Thursday! We talk about my new role in PAIN: Movie Studio, my upcoming movie, K.I.T.T. and more!
If that’s still not PAINful enough for you, check out PAIN’s producers, Travis and Jason, talking about The Hoff and how they got me into PAIN: Movie Studio on the new PlayStation Nation Podcast!
Do you really want to hurt me? Holla at the Hoff in PAIN: Movie Studio beginning this Thursday... More »
The infamous Xbox 360 "red ring of death" (indicating a failed unit) has caused Microsoft - and its customers - untold pain in the three years since the console's launch in 2005, and cost it $1.15bn (£738m) last year.
Microsoft has never said publicly why the console was plagued with faults: it seems that poor production quality was at the heart of the failures - an all-round problem with no single cause except impatience on the company's part as it tried to become the leader in videogame consoles.
It was an ambitious attack. Microsoft's engineers started working on the Xbox 360 at least a year after Sony's engineers began work on the PlayStation 3, yet wound up shipping a year earlier. With the first Xbox, the company lost $3.7bn (£2.3bn) over four years, mostly because costs of the box - particularly its hard drive - were too high.
Bill Gates didn't really care about the losses; that was simply the ante for getting into an exciting ne... More »
Rumor has it that Windows 7 will drop in the middle of next year, but last month Microsoft released a "preview" tester build of Windows 7. After living in the Windows 7 Preview for a week now, several features and niceties jumped out at me which promise to make Windows a better place to work come 2009.
Here are just a few of the things to look forward to in Windows 7.
10. Ding-dong, the Sidebar is dead.
One of the first things I hunted down and killed in Windows Vista was the Sidebar, which loaded by default and docked Vista's Gadgets to the right side of your desktop. In Windows 7, the sidebar is no more, and gadgets, should you want them, can roam free across the desktop. This time around, the gadgets feel less distracting to me—the CPU meter and calendar gadgets are my favourites, though this screenshot shows many more.
9. Calculator, WordPad, and Paint got overhauled.
It sucks that Windows 7 is stripping the built-... More »
Hey guys. Welcome to this week's Playstation Store update. The long-awaited Mirror's Edge demo is out, go get it and enjoy.
Also, more DLC available for purchase,including a Rock Band pack and four individual songs. Be sure to check them out.
Here's the full list:
Full Games
* Cool Boarders 2 full PS1 game (£3.99/€4.99)
Demos
* Mirror's Edge demo
* Tom Clancy's EndWar demo
* Warhawk demo
Add-on Content
* 17x Soul Calibur IV music packs (£0.79/€0.99 each)
* Soul Calibur IV music pack complete set (£11.99/€14.99)
* 2x Soul Calibur IV weapons packs (£2.39/€2.99 each)
* Civilization Revolution "Wonders & Artifacts: The Mythic" pack (£0.79/€0.99)
* Civilization Revolution "Wonders & Artifacts: The Eternal" pack (£2.39/€2.99)
* Civilization Revolution "Wonders & Artifacts: The Iconic" pack (£2.39/€2.99)
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