The PlayStation Network is wil be going offline for scheduled maintenance from 16:05 on Wednesday 9 March 2011 until 03:00 on Thursday 10 March 2011, GMT. During this maintenance, you can continue to collect in-game trophies and these will be updated on your profile once PlayStation Network is back up and running.
Last week, Naughty Dog and SCEA held a press event at the PlayStation.Blog lounge at GDC 2011. The press event began with the first ever demo outside of Naughty Dog halls of UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception in stereoscopic 3D. The real meat of the press event was the unveiling of the central antagonist that will try to foil Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan at every opportunity – meet Katherine Marlowe in the trailer below.
In this week’s episode of FirstPlay, you can find a look at the latest game from Team Ico, The Last Guardian, including an interview with chief creative director Fumito Ueda. Episode 48 will be on the Store from this Wednesday, and apart from the awesome Last Guardian it also includes a preview of PlayStation Move title No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise.
The March episode of Qore covers some serious ‘must have’ titles. The lead story features fantasy role-player Dragon Age 2 as Veronica Belmont catches up with Bioware‘s co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka and Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw as they walk through the story, combat, classes, and a revamped tactics system that should appeal to both RPG and action fans.
The SOCOM 4 Multiplayer Beta will roll out in four separate phases. It’ll begin with a small, private group and then expand weekly from there until it’s freely available to everyone! The date to look out for is April 5th 2011, when the beta goes public to all PS3 users on the PlayStation Store.
Tomorrow, Ubisoft will be releasing its largest DLC offering for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, the Da Vinci Disappearance. This DLC is bringing more AC: Brotherhood goodness with both single player missions and multiplayer content.
inFamous 2 will be getting a limited public beta in April to test the User Generated Content functionality of the game. Sucker Punch spent the last two years adding a User-Generated Content feature to the game, allowing players to build new missions, then share them with the world. Details about the beta will be announced on March 14th 2011.
Insomniac Games have always said that Resistance 3’s MP mode to bring the best of both Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2’s MP and co-op modes, and now the first details about the improvements have been revealed. Resistance 3 will feature 16-player Human vs. Chimera deathmatch and objective-based modes set in locations across the globe.
As the world’s dev community gathers in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference (GDC), one of the talking points will be a new version of PlayStation Home that will empower them to create richer, more sophisticated and better connected gameplay experiences than we have seen before.
Episode 47 of FirstPlay hits the PlayStation Store this week with a look at new co-op title Operation Flashpoint: Red River, and a review of Warrior: Legends Of Troy. You can also find a review of the movie The Social Network on Blu-ray, a look at user creations in LittleBigPlanet 2, and a pocket guide to the strange world of MMOs now they have arrived on PS3.
