Last week at the 2009 Game Developers Conference, what has been widely reported as “the future of gaming” was revealed after seven years of stealth development at Rearden, the media and technology incubator behind MOVA, Ice Blink Studios and Moxi.

OnLive is a revolutionary, on demand video game platform delivering the latest and most advanced games instantly, on any TV via a sleek, inexpensive MicroConsole, or on almost any PC or Mac.

“OnLive is the most powerful game system in the world. No high-end hardware, no upgrades, no endless downloads, no discs, no recalls, no obsolescence,” said Steve Perlman, Founder and CEO of OnLive. “With OnLive, your video game experience is always state-of-the-art.”

Designed for gamers of all skills and ages, the OnLive Game Service is easy to use. The elegantly designed OnLive MicroConsole (about as small as a deck of cards) easily connects any TV and home broadband connection to the OnLive Game Service and is operated by an OnLive wireless controller. Gamers can enjoy the same experience on almost any Internet-connected PC or Mac via a small browser plug-in from OnLive.com – even entry-level computers will play the highest performance games.

“OnLive combines the successful components of video games, online distribution and social networking into one affordable, flexible platform that offers a new way for game fans to access and enjoy content,” said Mike McGarvey, COO of OnLive. “By substantially lowering the barriers between content and consumers, OnLive has created an environment that is highly beneficial for every facet of the video game ecosystem. With OnLive, gamers can play what they want, when they want, how they want. That level of freedom has never been possible until now.”

The OnLive Game Service supports a live community of unprecedented scale. A revolutionary user interface allows video game fans to watch thousands of live games in action, join in at any point, share their exploits with friends through social networking tools, or make Brag Clips™ that showcase their skills. With OnLive, gamers have immediate access to demos and can instantly try, buy and play top-tier games, whether playing solo or with friends.

“With OnLive we’ve cleared the last remaining hurdle for the video games industry: effective online distribution,” said Steve Perlman, Founder and CEO of OnLive. “By putting the value back into the games themselves and removing the reliance on expensive, short-lived hardware, we are dramatically shifting the economics of the industry. Delivering games instantly to the digital living room is the promise game fans have been waiting for and OnLive makes that promise a reality that’s affordable, flexible and focused on their individual needs.”

OnLive offers significant benefits to publishers and developers. It costs far less to develop a game for OnLive, and the economics are far more efficient than retail or download distribution models. It typically only takes a few weeks to extend an existing version of a game to work on the OnLive service, so there is little cost incurred by developers and publishers to support the OnLive platform.

Through a partnership with Epic Games, an industry leading developer of triple-A games and cross-platform game engine technology, the award-winning Unreal® Engine 3 is compatible with the OnLive platform. Games leveraging the cutting-edge technology and versatility of the Unreal Engine will easily run on the OnLive service.

OnLive is supported by many of the top names in the video games industry including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Take-Two Interactive Software, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, THQ Inc., Epic Games, Eidos, Atari Interactive and Codemasters.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe unveils its stunning range of 2008-2009 software titles for PS3™

Leipzig Games Convention, 20th August 2008: Having harnessed the power of the Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) format, PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) is able to deliver the best in next generation gaming alongside astounding movie experiences. With unrivalled picture and sound quality, BD’s hugely advanced graphics, sound and storage capacity makes it an unparalleled medium for delivering the highest-quality games. This year, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is showcasing a whole range of forthcoming flagship titles that utilise BD to the full. Here are the first party titles on show at Games Convention, 2008.

inFamous
In the aftermath of an urban disaster, an everyday guy finds himself with extraordinary powers. What he does with them is up to the player. This is inFamous, the forthcoming PS3 title from Sucker Punch Productions. The open-ended, free-roaming game puts you in the shoes of Cole, a disaffected misfit and urban explorer, who finds – after a huge explosion destroys his hometown of Empire City – that he can muster and control surges of electricity. As Cole, you must first learn to use your new powers – and then decide how you will apply them in an apocalyptic landscape where thugs and criminals terrorise a cowed populace. inFamous is set for launch in Spring 2009

Killzone®2
The war continues on PS3 as Killzone 2 rumbles into view. This hotly-anticipated release sees the ISA take the war against the Helghast to their home planet of Helghan. Players will fight as Sev, a battle-hardened veteran of the ISA special 　forces unit known as Alpha Squad. Your mission: to secure Pyrrhus, Helghan’s capital city. All doesn’t go to plan, the ISA had not envisaged such a frenzied response from the remaining Helghast forces neither had they planned for the hostile environment in which the population have endured and harnessed to their military advantage. Releasing in February 2009, Killzone 2 will deliver a spectacular theatre of war to action gamers.

LittleBigPlanet™
LittleBigPlanet™ is a game that so defies convention that we’ve given it its own genre: creative gaming. Home to the small but mighty Sackboy, LittleBigPlanet is an irresistible world created by Media Molecule where creativity is part of the gameplay and playing is part of the creative experience. Teeming with places to explore, creative tools to collect and puzzles that baffle, it challenges gamers to make their way through it however they like, modifying and creating elements of their surroundings as they go. Sackboy can design, shape and build both objects and entire levels using his intuitive toolbox of skills and materials – and, when gamers have created a level, they can invite anyone to come and share it via PLAYSTATION®Network. LittleBigPlanet is set to launch on 29th October, 2008.

Heavy Rain™
A game like no other, Heavy Rain™ heralds a new generation of action adventure gaming. A PlayStation® exclusive, Heavy Rain is a genuinely mature game for a new world of adult gamers, with a dark and involving storyline tackling powerful themes. Players’ decisions are charged with importance, and actions can have drastic and unforeseen consequences for the characters, gameplay and storyline. The responsibility this brings creates a deep connection between the player and the characters, resulting in a truly engrossing but accessible game, without obscure stats or complex control systems. Gamers of all levels of experience will want to immerse themselves fully in Heavy Rain on its late 2009 release.

Resistance 2™
The highly-anticipated sequel to Resistance: Fall of Man™, Resistance 2™ crosses the Atlantic for the second installment in the tale of the terrifying invasion of Chimera as Sgt. Nathan Hale continues the fight in a bleak 1950s America. Prepare for bigger battles, spectacular landscapes and an even more gripping narrative told from Hale’s perspective – alongside an unprecedented online eight-player co-operative mode in which players meet to tackle specially-designed campaigns together, and online multiplayer for up to 60 gamers. Are you ready to save the world before you go to bed and for the next chapter in the alternative history of the 20th Century? Resistance 2 is set to launch in late 2008.

SOCOM: Confrontation
SOCOM: Confrontation pits the best military minds worldwide against each other in the most realistic modern warfare simulation ever. Players select to fight with one of five world-beating Special Forces units, equip themselves from a selection of lethal weapons and form a unit with friends or other gamers. From there, it’s straight into the heat of battle where teamwork is key as you plan your attack, lay down covering fire and eliminate your targets. Playable exclusively online on PLAYSTATION Network and available in the autumn of 2008, SOCOM: Confrontation is an ultra-realistic battle of skill, wits, gunplay and teamwork involving up to 32 players at once – ideal for the military fanatic.

Buzz!™: Quiz TV
Turn your PS3 into the ultimate quiz machine and put yourself, your friends and your family in the hot-seat as Buzz! makes his PS3 debut in Buzz!™: Quiz TV. Available to buy now, Buzz!: Quiz TV begins with an impressive 5000-plus questions straight from the BD that’ll get you started across five category channels (Music, Movies and TV, Sports, Knowledge and Lifestyle). The game also comes with four all-new wireless buzzers that free Buzz! from cables, streamline the quiz experience and keep your living room clutter-free. Thanks to Sofa vs. Sofa multiplayer mode, players can now also team up with friends and family to take on like-minded players anywhere on the planet. What’s more, if even 5000 questions are not enough, you can download extra quiz packs on your topic of choice from PLAYSTATION®Store – or freely share your own bespoke quizzes with the world via the in-game MyBuzz!™ community.

Siren Blood Curse™
After its July launch on PLAYSTATION Network, Siren Blood Curse™ makes its debut on BD this Autumn, bringing blood-curdling terror to gamers everywhere. Following an American television crew investigating the stories about Hanuda, a village with a troubled past, with whispered tales of strange rituals of human sacrifice. A ghostly siren that spells danger for the living – and a murderous new life for the dead. You’ll be hunted by the vicious Shibito (living dead) and must escape the blood curse or face becoming a Shibito yourself. Throughout the game you’ll play each of the visitors to the village, using the unique Sight-Jack System to switch seamlessly between the visions of hunted and hunter. Meanwhile blood, guts and gore are super-enhanced by amazing graphic effects, an advanced physics engine and shockingly realistic facial animations – all of which combine to make this a game for those who loved to get scared!

Ratchet and Clank™: Quest for Booty (BD)
Ratchet and Clank are back on PS3 in this bite-sized treasure of a game. Expect all the side-splitting comedy and dazzling 3D animation as Ratchet sails solo into a world of galleons, parrots and cutlasses in his quest to uncover missing mate Clank and confront Captain Angstrom Darkwater. The game’s new Light/Dark gameplay allows players to illuminate dark areas in order to find booty (treasure); and challenges include mixing your own bottles of rum, manipulating shadows and playing sea shanties. This is the eighth title from the critically-acclaimed Ratchet and Clank franchise and a fun-filled mini-adventure that the entire family will fall in love with. Jump aboard this September, me hearties, its time to begin your Quest for Booty!

MotorStorm®Pacific Rift
The brutal, unpredictable off-road racing of the huge PS3 hit MotorStorm returns this Autumn. This time, instead of tearing through the Arizona desert, you’re ripping up the undergrowth of a deadly Pacific island – with twice as much danger, adventure and larger-than-life action. Choose your ride from a selection of buggies, bikes and all-powerful monster trucks and get ready to speed through beautiful scenery and deadly unexplored territory. Here you’ll discover an all new struggle with huge waterfalls, towering peaks, deep jungle and vegetation, almost stopping you in your tracks. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift offers adrenaline-pumped madness in a wild, raucous, high-speed island adventure.

When you’ve finished playing these BD titles, kick back and watch your recorded TV

PlayTV™
PlayTV is a digital TV tuner for your PS3 that lets you watch, pause and record live TV from non-subscription channels – even while you’re watching something else or playing a game. Whether you’ve planned a night out or want to watch something on a different channel, you’ll never miss an episode of your favourite TV program ever again. Need to answer the phone? No worries, with PlayTV you can pause live TV. You can also stream your TV content to your PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) at any wi-fi hotspot in the world. It gets even better: you can set up recordings via your PSP when you’re out, meaning that you’ll never miss a programme again. PlayTV will be available in the PAL territories from 19th September onwards.

There’s only one option for true PS3 gameplay and only one entertainment system harnesses the true power of BD. PS3 is the ultimate multimedia entertainment system, and is home to the most powerful games on the planet for everyone to enjoy – check them out at Leipzig.

Buzz! dons a lab coat and injects his unique style into the brain game genre. 16 mini-games to improve memory, observation, calculation and analysis.
Single player and multiplayer modes for the ultimate brain bending experience

Leipzig Games Convention, August 20th, 2008: After giving your quiz reflexes and general knowledge a good workout on Buzz!™: Master Quiz on PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable), Buzz! returns to the handheld entertainment system with Buzz!™: Brain Bender from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. On shelves in time for the Christmas season, Buzz!: Brain Bender sees Buzz! step out of the studio and into the laboratory for a mental workout with all the trademark laughs you’d expect from the Buzz! franchise.

Buzz! Brain Bender will feature on the PlayStation® stand with a playable teaser demo available to give your brain and your sense of humour a workout. The full game will offer sixteen mini-games that test your skills of analysis, observation, memory and calculation including:

• Analysis Games: Path Finder: A maze game where players have to quickly decide what path leads to the centre. Power Struggle: A decision game based on who can win “tugs of wars” battles between different vehicles

• Observation Games: Match Up: Can you tell how many pairs of contestants there are in a puzzle? Pattern Match: A puzzle style game where players need to identify the correct shapes to fit into a missing grid.

• Memory Games: Take Away: A card game where players need to identify the missing cards from a series. Sound Bites: A game based on sounds made by animals or objects. Players have to correctly recall the order they were played out.

• Calculation Games: Blot Swot: Can you still solve maths puzzles when they’re full of missing numbers? Sliced Up: A game where the player must decide what portion of the food on display hasn’t been eaten.

Buzz!: Brain Bender is designed for both solo and multiplayer fun, with all of the above and more to test yourself, your friends and family. The extensive single player mode has three different ways to enjoy the mini games. Training Mode lets you warm up your brain with a variety of mini games, Challenge Mode gives you all sorts of different objectives to achieve in each category of game and Test Mode allows you to track your progress over a period. Hilarious prizes are awarded based on your brain power output in Kilojoules (kj), for example 700kj is a vacuum cleaner and 1500kj is a juke box.

In a colourful shake-up to the dry science that marks other ‘mental ability’ titles on the market, Buzz!: Brain Bender brings colour, comedy, accessibility, social multiplayer fun and the all-important trademark Buzz! humour to the genre. Up to six people can take each other on in the ‘Brain Battle’ Multiplayer Mode by passing around a single PSP – giving you a sociable gaming experience where the winner can claim victory over his or her opponents

Key features include:-
• Sixteen brain-bending mini games across 4 categories: Analysis, Observation, Memory and Calculation.
• Extensive single-player mode that offers three ways to enjoy the mini games: Training Mode, Test Mode & Challenge Mode
• Multiplayer ‘Brain Battle’ Mode where players take on 6 friends on one PSP passing it around
• Four player profiles can be saved – compare your progress with friends and family

A completely new and different Buzz! experience, Buzz!: Brain Bender reaches parts of the brain that previous Buzz! titles never have before. Let Buzz! test your brain and tickle your funny-bone when Buzz!: Brain Bender is released this Christmas.

What makes a pet real? Introducing EyePet, the virtual pet that follows your every movement and command…

Leipzig Games Convention, 20th August 2008: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) introduced the availability of EyePet for PAL region. It won’t make a mess on the floor or claw at the curtains – EyePet is the ultimate pet for modern living. Forget the hamsters and guinea pigs and get the perfect first pet for kids and adults alike. Developed by SCEE, EyePet is the responsive virtual pet who reacts to your every move and brings entertainment and fun for the whole family; plus it’s pretty cute as well.

EyePet comes with an impressive array of abilities all made possible by PLAYSTATION®Eye, the next-generation camera for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™). A loveable, simian-like pet, EyePet lives in an on-screen picture of your sitting room as captured second by second on PLAYSTATION Eye. Working in ‘Augmented Reality’, EyePet is fully aware of people in the room and will interact with you and your environment. Place an object in front of the camera that EyePet hasn’t seen before and it’ll know exactly what to do with it, give it something new and it’ll examine it thoroughly. Tickle it by waving your fingers in front of the camera: it laughs, poke it: it jumps, roll it a ball: EyePet chases around the screen after it.

An incredibly lifelike little critter, EyePet gives you all the lovable benefits and interaction of a real-life pet without tearing up your sofa or making a mess on the rug. Kids and adults alike will love to customise, dress it and watch its facial expressions that range from the sweet to the cheeky to the hilarious. It’s all made possible by the power of PS3 which has enabled EyePet’s developers to achieve incredible graphics and animation in its facial reactions, lifelike fur and incredibly intelligent interaction with you, your environment and anything you choose to place in front of it.

EyePet will be available in late 2009, so prepare to bring a furry ball of mischief into your home and a new friend into your life.

PLAYSTATION 3 exclusive from Quantic Dream unveiled – a dark, emotional thriller where decisions can have dramatic consequences

Leipzig Games Convention, 20th August 2008: One of the highlights in David Reeves, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE), introductory speech, Heavy Rain was unveiled at Games Convention 2008, taking brave new steps in the games industry in both content – an adult thriller with a complex plot – and gameplay – where you play and shape the storyline rather than be a mere spectator. Step into a world of mystery and suspense, betrayal and redemption, in Heavy Rain™, a PLAYSTATION®3 exclusive from Quantic Dream scheduled for release by SCEE in late 2009.

Heavy Rain is a dark, immersive and emotionally-engaging experience; one that expands upon the innovative ideas of 2005’s acclaimed Fahrenheit to create a noir-thriller where decisions are charged with importance and actions can have drastic and unforseen consequences. Breaking with traditional game conventions where necessary, the gameplay will be based around story, emotional involvement and the player’s decisions and interactions, rather than high-scores, combat and competition. Intuitive gameplay and controls are also fundamental to the experience – ensuring that the game is mature but accessible, and avoiding alienating players with obscure stats and complex interfaces.

In Heavy Rain you don’t watch the story – you play it. The dynamic narrative unfolds through the players actions – not cut scenes – and every action has a consequence. The choices you make and the way you interact with other characters have repercussions throughout the storyline. With unprecedented responsibility over the fates of the game’s characters, players will find Heavy Rain an emotional experience unlike any other. It dares to tackle subject matter and themes rarely touched upon in video games, making it a genuinely mature game for a new world of adult gamers.

Heavy Rain has been unveiled at Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig with a teaser trailer consisting of actual gameplay footage, demonstrating Quantic Dream’s use of stunning animation and motion-capture technology to create an atmospheric and thrilling experience.

Founded in 1997 by David Cage, French developer Quantic Dream has achieved international renown for its innovation within the games industry, particularly in the areas of interactive narration and emotional content. The studio’s record speaks for itself: in particular Quantic Dream was responsible for 2005’s award winning Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in the US and Canada), a paranormal, interactive blend of film and gaming that was widely praised for re-imagining the adventure game genre.

Heavy Rain is the place where action gaming meets film-noir head-on, in an adventure unlike any other. A game where your mind, emotions and human nature will be put to the test like never before, Heavy Rain takes interactive entertainment down a dark, compelling path rarely ventured in the gaming world.

Leipzig Games Convention, August 20th 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS) today announced the appointment of the award-winning mobile media company Player X to publish mobile games based on its key PlayStation® franchises Buzz!™ and Destruction Derby™.

This is the first time SCE WWS has licensed its titles to be published by a third party on mobile. Under the terms of the three-year deal, Player X, with its distribution network of more than 150 global operators and potential audience of more than 2.5 billion people, will have exclusive rights to publish the two titles launching shortly in the European market.

The mobile phone version of the popular Buzz! franchise will be the first title realised in autumn 2008 with, Destruction Derby following in early 2009. Both games will be supported by a fully integrated cross-platform marketing campaign with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) for the PAL territories.
The Buzz! games have already brought the PlayStation® experience to millions of quiz fans and social gamers around the world. They introduced the public to a new way of gaming; simple multiplayer buzzer action and quiz games for every interest. Buzz! titles for PlayStation®2 have now shipped more than five million units across the PAL region, along with a further 1.25 million units in the Buzz Junior™ range. Meanwhile the first Buzz! games for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) and PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) are set to arrive in July.
For those who prefer shattering windscreens to following racing lines, Destruction Derby has always offered the best in reckless fun. The range of stock-car racing games first appeared at the launch of the first PlayStation® and have since enjoyed success on subsequent platforms. Now the exquisite pleasure of reducing rival cars to scrap metal comes to your mobile phone.

“The creative proposals that came through from Player X were very encouraging and in line with what we are hoping to do with these two licences,” said Michael Denny, Senior Vice President, SCE WWS Europe. “We are looking forward to seeing our games reach new audiences as well as those who are already acquainted with our titles.”
“We are delighted to be working with SCE WWS on this,” said Tony Pearce, CEO, Player X. “They are hugely enthusiastic about the mobile sector and Buzz! fits in perfectly with our gameshows roster. What’s more, everybody knows Destruction Derby is a great racing game. We have huge hopes for both titles.”
The announcement follows Player X’s recent moves in ramping up its presence in the mobile games market. Earlier this year the company was appointed by O2 UK as its official aggregator for all of that operator’s mobile games content.

Leipzig Games Convention, 20th August 2008: The music of Disney classic animated movies is about to be brought to life on PlayStation®2 when Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) releases SingStar® Singalong With Disney exclusively for PAL territories this Autumn.

The wonderful magic of Disney comes from its timeless music as much as its spellbinding animation, from The Little Mermaid to Peter Pan, to Aladdin and Toy Story. With Disney fans of all ages in mind, SingStar Singalong With Disney proves that no one is ever too old for fairytales, and mum will be keen to join in with the kids to show off her singing skills. Tracks from Disney classics old and new ensure that every member of the family will find a favourite on the track list. The game features classic SingStar options allowing players to sing in solo, duet, or battle.

Each track is accompanied by clips from the original Disney movies, which means that your favourite characters appear on screen as you sing along. There is no longer any need to wait; every Disney fan’s dream comes true in Autumn 2008 when SingStar Singalong With Disney is released on PlayStation 2.

SingStar Singalong With Disney will include the following tracks, with more to be confirmed very soon.

Aladdin A Whole New World
The Jungle Book The Bare Necessities
Toy Story You Got A Friend In Me
The Little Mermaid Under The Sea
Pinocchio When You Wish Upon A Star

Songs will be made available in local languages across PAL territories.

SingStar has been one of SCEE’s biggest games titles since the first SingStar title was released in 2004, selling more than 6 million discs across PAL territories. SingStar has attracted new audiences to PlayStation gaming, with men, women and children picking up the iconic microphones and singing along with their favourite pop hits.

PLAYSTATION®Network showcases major releases including Flower™, Fat Princess™, The Last Guy™, Rag Doll Kung Fu™ and Ratchet & Clank™: Quest For Booty – while Super Stardust™ HD goes portable…

Leipzig Games Convention, 20th August 2008: PLAYSTATION®Network is the premier source of downloadable games content, with a huge offering of fun, innovative new games as well as classic PlayStation® titles. Already boasting huge successes with the likes of PixelJunk™ Monsters, Super Stardust HD™ and echochrome™, PLAYSTATION Network is ushering in a new generation of top titles from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) with the following on show at Games Convention 2008.

Flower™
A true escape from the modern world, Flower challenges traditional gaming conventions with a lush, vivid environment in which players control the wind, using petals to reshape and revive their game surroundings. Using simple SIXAXIS™ wireless controllers, play involves flight and exploration, as you guide a petal across the landscape. Collecting additional petals and feel the gameplay change from serene to chaotic as you collect more and more. With more than 200,000 individually animated blades of grass, Flower is a game only possible thanks to the power of PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™).

Fat Princess™
In modern life, obesity is a social concern but, in medieval times, it was a key battle tactic! The Fat Princess of the title is your own over-fed royal that you must rescue from your enemy’s dungeon – if you can carry the porky madam to safety, that is. Choose the role of a warrior, archer, mage, worker or priest; your most important weapon here is teamwork as you work alongside up to 15 other players online to defeat the enemy team across ten individual maps and over numerous gameplay modes. Bringing countless players together on PLAYSTATION Network, Fat Princess™ is a blast of hilarious, furious multiplayer fun.

Crash Commnado™
Old school gameplay meets next generation technology in Crash Commando™, mixing classic side-scrolling action with intense multiplayer fun in the ultimate slapstick shooter. Up to 12 players slug it out online or offline in frenzied death-matches, taking control of jetpacks, jeeps and tanks on two gameplay layers which can be moved between seamlessly via portals. Sign up with either the Jarheads or the Grunts in all-out warfare for world supremacy on a battlefield strewn with exaggerated gore and special effects. Track your victories with online leaderboards, rankings and trophy support.

Rachet & Clank™: Quest For Booty
Ratchet and Clank make their return in a bite-sized mini-adventure filled with their trademark crazy weaponry, side-splitting comedy and dazzling 3D animation in this treasure-hunting adventure. Help Ratchet sail solo into a world of galleons, parrots and cutlasses in his quest to uncover booty and his missing mate Clank. Journey through the dark caves of Hoolefar Island, navigate the treacherous Viper Caverns and take on foul-tempered buccaneer and new nemesis Captain Darkwater. Beware: danger lurks around every corner.

The Last Guy™
Set in the aftermath of a strange event that has caused many people to turn into fierce monsters, this fast-paced and fun game challenges players to save humanity by leading everybody else through the streets of world cities to safety. With a focus on gameplay rather than gore, The Last Guy is a game that’ll keep you coming back for more monster mayhem every time. Gather the survivors into lines and lead them through the streets of 14 world cities – all recreated with stunning aerial photography. Each city has an escape zone which you must lead your lines of people into while avoiding the enemy at all costs…

Savage Moon™
Classic tower strategy gameplay heads into outer space in Savage Moon™, as players attempt to protect an isolated planetary outpost from rampaging hordes of gigantic, ravenous space bugs. Position your towers in the best position possible to beat the bugs and convert your victory points into weapons that suit your preferred tactics. Classic strategy gaming meets interstellar gameplay with endless strategic possibilities – can you beat the bugs and save the moon?

PixelJunk Eden™
Prepare to be stunned by PixelJunk Eden™, the game that challenges you to help alien plants flower and bloom in a psychedelic, hypnotic Garden of Eden. Smash into enemies to release batches of pollen, making your flowers grow. Swing higher and higher through your growing paradise, climbing up iridescent stems, swinging from twirling branches, swaying on psychedelic flowers and searching the undergrowth for hidden treasures – with mesmerising graphics and electronic soundtrack created by Japanese artist Baiyon.

Rag Doll Kung Fu™
Rag Doll Kung Fu is a party fighting game based on the ancient principles of kung fu and rag-doll physics. Fast-paced combat, exaggerated action and unique visuals come together in a game that is easy for beginners but has enough depth in its combat system to keep hardcore fighters coming back for more. Using simple SIXAXIS motions to pull off special moves and combat sequences, players compete in matches with up to four other players either online or offline. The perfect party game for experts and beginners alike.

Warhawk™: Operation: Fallen Star expansion pack
The third expansion pack for mighty online warfare title Warhawk, Operation: Fallen Star introduces the remote, forested Tau Crater – the site of a crashed Chernovan warship containing invaluable experimental technology. With the Chernovans trying desperately to salvage the ship, the Eucadians have arrived with a view to stealing it for themselves. This pack brings ten new battlefields to the Warhawk experience – as well as the Infantry Jetpack – a personal rocket pack that allows soldiers to soar above the fray of battle into the aerial realm of the Warhawks themselves.

WipEout™HD
The arrival of WipEout® HD on PLAYSTATION®3 marks the dawning of a new era for the iconic racer, so strap yourself in for anti-gravity combat racing in full 1080p High Definition. Choose a futuristic craft then speed into the thick of the action in adrenaline-fuelled races across eight reversible tracks full of smooth loops, sharp bends and sheer drops. Master the ultra-realistic motion sensitive controls; unleash high-tech weapons to blast your opponents off the track. Take part in global online racing for up to eight players, compete for trophies and test your skills against the best pilots on the planet.

Super Stardust™ Portable for PSP™
One of the most popular PLAYSTATION Network titles arrives on PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable), making outer-space action mobile, so wherever you go, a blast of furious intergalactic shooter fun is close at hand. Retaining all the aspects that made Super Stardust a hit on PS3, Super Stardust Portable is sure to follow in the successful footsteps of its home system counterpart.

All of these titles will be on show at Leipzig 2008, so make you check out the future of PLAYSTATION Network gaming with these incredible, inventive downloadable titles.

Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming arrives on PLAYSTATION®3 with DC Universe™, The Agency™ and FreeRealms™

Leipzig Games Convention, August 2008: Sony Computer Entetainment Europe (SCEE) announced today that SCEE has joined forces with Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) – developer of groundbreaking online Massive Multiplayer Online (MMOs) games including the wildly popular EverQuest® — in an arrangement that will bring a whole new dimension to PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) gaming.

Under the new agreement, SCEE will publish and distribute three MMOs developed by SOE for PS3 throughout the PAL territories. In addition, SCEE will also publish DC Universe and The Agency on behalf of SOE in the PAL territories. The new arrangement allows SCEE to benefit from SOE’s experience in a different area of video gaming publishing, one which opens up a whole host of possibilities for PS3.

The games included in the agreement are The Agency (PS3), a fast-paced, action shooter set in an present day online persistent world of bullets, bomb blasts, and betrayal; DC Universe Online (PS3 and PC), an action-focused super-hero game in a fully realized DC Universe Online; and Free Realms (PS3), a vibrant new world for younger players with an exciting mix of reality and fantasy.

“This is an opportunity for SCEE and SOE to bring the best online experiences from PC gaming to the PLAYSTATION 3 universe, the result of which will certainly benefit PlayStation fans,” said David Reeves, President, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

Here’s a look at the three forthcoming titles.

DC Universe™ Online (PS3 and PC):
Explore one of the greatest fictional universes in history: the world of DC comics. Create your own hero or villain and run loose across famous DC locations such as Gotham City or Metropolis, alongside legendary characters of good and evil including Superman, Batman, Huntress, Joker, Wonder Woman and Green Arrow in scenarios written by DC writers and in an art style overseen by renowned DC artist Jim Lee.

The Agency™ (PS3):
Get your target in your sights with this dark, gritty, online action PS3 shooter, a persistent world of spies, mercenaries and double dealing for aspiring agents everywhere. As you rise thorugh the ranks as a spy through the various missions and in-depth story mode, you can build your own spy faction, recruiting new members to your cause.

FreeRealms™ (PS3 and PC):
An all new social networking service and massively multiplayer online role-playing game in one, FreeRealms gives players freedom across a world where exploration and spell casting is as much a part of life as decorating your house or growing a vegetable garden. You chose how you live your life in FreeRealms from day to day – be a wizard one day, play with your virtual pets the next.

DC Universe Online, The Agency and FreeRealms are the first massively multiplayer online role playing games to result from the arrangement between SCEE and SOE – a partnership that will bring gamers together across the world.

Music Video Streaming Service Brings the Hottest Music Videos to PS3™

Leipzig Games Convention, 20th August 2008: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced today that VidZone™, the online destination for music videos, will deliver their free streaming music video service to PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™). The trial service is scheduled for launch in early 2009 for Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and is sure to be a hit with music lovers everywhere. VidZone’s service allows PS3 owners to watch the best new music videos for free on their PS3 or streamed to their PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) via Remote Play.

VidZone is one of Europe’s leading online music video services, streaming a full playlist of videos from hip-hop to punk and heavy metal to classics. Music lovers can build their own playlists and personalise their VidZone experience to be whatever they choose. All these features and more will be included in the PS3 service, including the option to download songs, music videos and ringtones to a mobile phone for a small charge.

SCEE will be launching a comprehensive film, TV and music download service at a later date.