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PSN Thursday: Begun, the Mushroom Wars have

by Alexander Sliwinski { Oct 15th 2009 at 8:18PM }

The PSN update returns this week with another game that looks adorable and safe, yet conceals some disturbing ideas. Mushroom Wars looks beautiful and innocent, but like any good RTS, it's all about exterminating the competition. Genocide isn't supposed to be cute. This comes following Capybara's Critter Crunch, last week's "cute, yet disturbing game," and remember Fat Princess? That wasn't all that long ago either. We're sensing a theme ... a theme we can't help but put money down on. Check out the full PSN update after the break.

Choose your platform to view the corresponding release list:

(Note: Continue past the break to view both release lists.)

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Test your friendship with Buzz! on Facebook

by Andrew Yoon { Oct 9th 2009 at 11:30AM }

Are you really friends with your Facebook friends? It's time to find out with the new Buzz! application. The "Friend Quiz" lets you and your invited friends to partake in a trivia contest about your mutual buddies. The quiz will draw information from mutual friends' status updates, comments, interests and photos.

Buzz will be narrating the entire game, so expect some snide remarks from the short British host. Each question, in typical Buzz! style, is timed: make sure you answer quickly to get the most points. At the end of the game, you'll be able to post your total score to your Wall, as you wait for your invited friends to beat you. It's a terrific twist on classic Buzz! gameplay, and best of all -- it's free.

[Via PlayStation.Blog Europe]

Scene It? will use BUZZ! controllers (on PS3™)

by Andrew Yoon { Sep 21st 2009 at 10:00PM }

The battle of the console-exclusive peripheral-wielding weirdly-punctuated trivia games has come to an end ... with PlayStation the victor. WBIE is bringing Scene It?, the former 360-exclusive trivia game, to PS3 and Wii. While the 360 version was bundled with a set of special Scene It? controllers, the PS3 and Wii versions of the game will let you simply use your ol' fashioned DualShocks and Wii Remotes.

But what if you want to use a wacky peripheral? Don't fret, as you'll be able to use your BUZZ! controllers with Scene It?. Considering many of the modes of Scene It? require buzzing in, the translation is incredibly faithful.

Swiss gamer comes out on top as Buzz! World Champion

by Xav de Matos { Aug 29th 2009 at 1:00PM }

Earlier this week, Armin Diethelm of Switzerland was crowned Buzz! World Champion in the town of Buñol, Spain, during a massive international competition. Armed with a Buzz! controller and a quick trigger finger, Diethelm walked away from the contest with his new title and a MINI Clubman.

If playing the popular trivia game for high stakes wasn't enough excitement for the 32 national champions flown in from around the world, the competition's conclusion marked the start of Buñol's annual tomato fight, La Tomatina. We don't know the history behind the event, but we do know what kind of soup the people in Valencia will be enjoying for the next six weeks.

Buzz now host to over 1.7 million user generated questions

by Jem Alexander { Jul 14th 2009 at 2:30PM }

Over 1.7 million questions have now been created by users using the MyBuzzQuiz website. That's 218,750 8-question quizzes, which is the equivalent to almost 11 thousand Amateur Quizwriter trophies. Considering it's only been a year since Buzz! Quiz TV was first released (September in the US), this is an impressive number -- enough to fill 350 Buzz retail discs -- and works out to over 18 thousand quizzes being made per month.

These quizzes can all be played and enjoyed by anyone, regardless of whether you own the game or not, thanks to the MyBuzzQuiz website. Alternatively, you can check out the Buzz! Home space which is set to launch this week, where these questions will be pumped in and answered collectively by the Home community.

ESRB: Buzz Jr. RoboJam, SingStar Sampler Pack coming to the US

by Andrew Yoon { Jun 19th 2009 at 6:00PM }

A few more discoveries were made today off the ESRB website. Looks like American PS3 owners will be able to download Buzz Jr. RoboJam off the PSN some time soon. The family friendly PSN game is a port of a PS2 game with the same name and has some of the easiest Trophies around. It'll require the Buzz! buzzers though, so many trophy hunters will be out of luck.

A new SingStar game has also been discovered on the ESRB. The SingStar Sampler Pack looks to be yet another expansion to the franchise, this time featuring David Bowie, Fergie, Amy Winehouse, Rockwell, and the Smashing Pumpkins.

Finally, long-lost PSN game topatoi looks like it may actually be coming out. You can watch the bizarre promo trailer here and check out our gallery.

Gallery: Topatoi

BUZZ! Quiz World is ... more Buzz

by Andrew Yoon { Jun 4th 2009 at 4:30PM }

Unsurprisingly, Sony showed off more BUZZ! games for PS3 and PSP. Quiz World will be available on both PS3 and PSP. For the most part, Quiz World provides an experience that players should be already familiar with. The PS3 game will add 5,000 new questions and will provide an "enhanced" online mode with new game modes. One mode we saw had question answers hidden, with letters slowly appearing. You'll have to be patient, but you'll also have to be quicker than your opponents.

The PSP game will feature 3,000 new questions and introduces online infrastructure mode. Like the PS3 game, players will be able to access user-generated MyBUZZ! content and will offer downloadable quiz packs as DLC.

It's hard to say much more about the game, as we're sure most of you are quite familiar with it. Looks like BUZZ! is taking a Madden-esque approach, with minor updates improving the franchise annually. We're not sure if it'll garner the same following as EA Sports' series, though.

Gallery: BUZZ! Quiz World

Buzz! space coming to Home 'very soon'

by Jem Alexander { May 28th 2009 at 12:30PM }

Buzz! is coming Home "very soon," according to both the US and EU PlayStation Blogs. The new space will feature a 64-player quiz game, which requires you to stand on the correct answer on the giant Buzz! controller as user-generated questions are pumped in from MyBuzz!. Exclusive prizes will be available for those who consistently find themselves at the top of the leaderboard.

Check out the video after the break to see the Home space in action or visit the European PlayStation Flickr set for a selection of screenshots.

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Trophies: BUZZ! Junior: RoboJam

by Andrew Yoon { May 14th 2009 at 12:06PM }

	0 Platinum 1 Gold 5 Silver 5 Bronze	Difficulty: Very Easy Online Trophies? No Time to Completion: 1 hour DLC Trophies? No
	View Trophy List	Read More About the Game

Gallery: BUZZ! Junior: RoboJam

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Buzz! World Championship competition begins this month

by Jem Alexander { Apr 15th 2009 at 7:30PM }

Europeans will have the opportunity to represent their country in an international quiz contest, courtesy of SCEE. The Buzz! World Championship will begin on April 22 in the UK, Germany and France -- May 6 elsewhere. For a month after that, owners of Buzz! Brain of the UK (or any of its regional equivalents) will be able to upload their best scores to the leaderboard. The top 32 will go on to the national final, with the winner in each country finally being flown off to a secret location to play for their entire country.

The prize? That would be the Mini Clubman that you can see above. An intrinsically British prize, even though the contest is Europe-wide. Nevertheless, it could be yours if you demonstrate your patriotic knowledge later this month.

Buzz! Quiz TV getting 'Prehistoric Thumb' pack, Buzz PSN game coming tomorrow

by David Hinkle { Mar 11th 2009 at 12:30PM }

Quiz show fans get some downloadable goodness tomorrow, as PSN will feature two specific items pertaining to Buzz!. First up, Buzz! Quiz TV is getting some DLC in the 'Prehistoric Thumb' pack, which will add 500 new questions that test your knowledge on things such as the formation of the Earth and the fossils of its early inhabitants.

Also arriving on PSN tomorrow is Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party, a title made up of 5 fast-paced mini-games. Available for $4.99, Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party is a title geared towards the younger crowd and allows you to use your Buzz! controller to play through the variety of local multiplayer modes on offer.

Buzz! developer's new game will be a social, PSN title

by Majed Athab { Mar 5th 2009 at 2:00PM }

Relentless Software lives up to its name by releasing even more Buzz! games than necessary, but this latest one from the British studio, which was just teased the other day, is hinted to be something different. It's also said to be a PSN title. According to producer Darren Tuckey, who recently spoke with VG247, the game will be "a PS3 PSN title in the social game genre."

Tuckey says that the company plans "to release more info when [it gets] back from GDC." Perhaps that means we'll hear something in April, as GDC runs until the 27th of March. Until then folks, keep those fingers on the buzzer.

For 250 points: What is Buzz! developer Relentless working on next?

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Mar 3rd 2009 at 2:10PM }

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Look, if the above question ever comes up, the answer's almost always going to be more Buzz! games. If you want to impress the audience with your esoteric trivia prowess, however, you might elect to answer, "Why, a new, unannounced project, of course!" You'll point out that quiz game developer Relentless Software recently updated its website, noting an ongoing hiring process not only for future Buzz! titles, but a secret, self-published project.

"Sony keep us very busy with our Buzz projects but there's something bubbling under at Relentless Towers," reads the site, referencing its agreement with Sony to pump out family-friendly knowledge-em-ups and shockingly omitting the exclamation mark in the game's title. "We've taken everything we've learned about making social games and the result is what, for the time being, is known as Secret Project #1."

For the time being? Don't be silly, Relentless. Who wouldn't buy a game called Secret Project #1?

[Via Eurogamer]

Killzone 2, Buzz and Heavenly Sword LBP DLC revealed

by Jem Alexander { Feb 26th 2009 at 12:15PM }

The observant among you may have noticed that Sony's LittleBigPlanet 2009 DLC roadmap has now finished and we're still clueless as to what's coming next. The PlayStation Blog has updated with some new costume images, as you can see above, including Sev from Killzone 2 (almost certainly due to arrive today, in time for the game's launch tomorrow), Kai from Heavenly Sword and Buzz from, uh, Buzz!.

While unlikely, the low-res textures and low poly-count of the Buzz model have us thinking ... maybe, just maybe, this may be a model from the upcoming PSP version?

Little Caesars, Pepsi team up for PlayStation promos

by Majed Athab { Feb 23rd 2009 at 7:30PM }

Would you like to win a new PS3, PS2 or PSP along with a bunch of Buzz! games? Sure you do. Who doesn't like to win free stuff? Little Caesars pizza chain and Pepsi have teamed up with SCEA to give away up to 450 "PlayStation Trivia Packs" from today up until April 27. 50 packs will be given out each week. Those who participate could win one of the following:

PS3 with Buzz! Quiz TV
PS2 with Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz, Buzz! The Mega Quiz and Buzz! Jr. RoboJam
PSP with Buzz! Master Quiz

But what's the catch, you ask? To enter, participants will need to grab a "Buzz in to Win" scratch-off card from any US Little Caesars restaurant after purchasing a "Hot-N-Ready" pizza with "any Pepsi beverage." Participants will then need to take the scratch-off code to this website, enter their code and see if they've won. If you enter and win, wonderful; if you don't win, you'll still get a $5 coupon (redeemable only at GameStop) for any Buzz! game.