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Get your custom PlayStation LifeStyle skateboard!
Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Written by stalkingsilence To earn one of the trophies in Skate 2, you have to add a custom graphic to your skater or your skateboard.  Why not make it a graphic that represents your favorite gaming site – PlayStation LifeStyle.  Now you can rock PSLS gear in the virtual world (because some of our readers [...]

Ubisoft’s H.A.W.X. demo coming to PSN & XBL in mid-February
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Written by stalkingsilence Ubisoft has just informed us (via Twitter) that we will see the demo for Tom Clancy’s new air combat franchise, H.A.W.X., in mid-February on the PSN.  Ubisoft has been pretty faithful with putting up timely demos for the Tom Clancy franchise up on PSN, so we were happy to see this iteration [...]

[Exclusive] Leaked LBP DLC, Patch Schedule from Media Molecule
Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Written by stalkingsilence I was perusing Media Molecule’s Flickr feed when I stumbled upon some very small dry erase marker in the background of one of the pictures.  Using our proprietary PSLS decoding software (uh, looking closely at the picture) combined with our knowledge of the cheese-based naming of upcoming patches for LittleBigPlanet, we will [...]

Ape Escape? GoW? Uncharted? More leaked LBP DLC!
Friday, January 16th, 2009

Written by stalkingsilence The Hong Kong PlayStation Store website has a habit of featuring future LittleBigPlanet DLC before it is announced.  The upcoming DLC for LittleBigPlanet is no exception. Now, we in the US had the opportunity to get the Kratos costume via pre-order and I’m not sure if we’d get the Pipo Monkey from the [...]

Valkyria Chronicles DLC for LBP?
Friday, January 16th, 2009

Written by stalkingsilence No official word from Media Molecule or Sony, but this looks like pretty professional artwork.  Could this be signs of the DLC to come once the regular LBP PSN updates resume on January 22?  What do you guys think? UPDATE: Coincidentally, SEGA has updated their blog with information on upcoming Valkyria Chronicles [...]

For your perusal: Sony’s CES 09 Website
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Written by StalkingSilence Though the Consumer Electronics Show is not a gaming exhibition, we often see some PlayStation and PS-related entertainment news from Sony each year.  Last year we heard about Skype for PSP, Blu-ray digital copy, and Blu-ray news. The Sony Press Conference hasn’t happened yet – but in the meantime, you may want [...]

The Economist: Are Video Games Recession-Proof?
Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence Since we here at PSLS try to focus on the whole gaming “lifestyle” – we think some of you may be worried whether or not video games are still a good gift during these confusing economic times.  Many want to know if the video games industry will survive the turbulent changes we have seen in many other [...]

Media Molecule’s Guide to LBP Publishing (Publishing 101)
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence MarkS of Media Molecule just released a tutorial that gives helpful publishing tips for getting your LittleBigPlanet level more attention.  From the obvious (title suggestions) to the very helpful and often forgotten (how to get pictures published with your level and how to best create a badge). The guys at Media Molecule break down the process [...]

US SingStore Update for 16 December 2008
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence NOTE: The update may not go live until 18 December 2008. In addition to the patch (now live) to allow disc-swapping and audio/video recording of legacy PS2 SingStar titles, we’ll be seeing a pretty significant update to the US SingStore this week.  The update includes 10 songs from this week’s European SingStore update, [...]

PAIN YouTube Replay Editor and 2 New Characters Available Before Christmas
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence We know, we know.  We’ve heard this kind of thing before from the PAIN team at Sony and Idol Minds.  But this time, we want to believe that they have ironed out some of the delay issues and this will be released as scheduled. Travis Williams, SCEA Producer of PAIN, commented on [...]

PlayStation®Network Maintenance: Offline for 4 Hours on December 16 [Update]
Monday, December 15th, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence This just in – the PlayStation Network will be down for four and a half hours tomorrow.  I wonder if this is related to new content for Home or something entirely different. [Update: It is not something entirely different.  When PSLS asked for more info, we were assured that this is just [...]

Media Molecule working hard getting a secret project ready
Monday, December 15th, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence The LittleBigPlanet developers are taking no time off to celebrate their big win at the SPIKE Video Game Awards.  They’ve let us in on a little secret: “we’ve been working hard recently getting the secret project ready…” When asked for some clarification, Jim from Media Molecule responded, “the people in charge would [...]

LittleBigChristmas continues next week
Friday, December 12th, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence Looks like the Christmas-themed costumes for DLC will continue into next week, as the Japanese LittleBigPlanet site has AGAIN broken the release date on DLC info and given us a sneak peek.  We don’t mind finding out about DLC early, we say – keep it up, SCEJ! The Christmas tree costume appears to [...]

Secret Project #1 – What is Relentless Software working on now?
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence When browsing around the Relentless Software website (the guys who brought us the Buzz! franchise), I noticed an exciting section where they hint at their next project: Secret Project #1. “At Relentless we’re more than a one hit wonder. Sony keep us very busy with our Buzz projects but there’s something bubbling [...]

LBP Weekly DLC: SCEJ Contest Winner
Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Written by stalkingsilence The community managers for LittleBigPlanet announced a few weeks back that we’d be receiving the same content worldwide from here on out for LBP DLC (there was one instance of SCEJ receiving the famous white cat as a costume for LBP).  But if that is to be believed, we should be getting the [...]