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Sony unveils the 'Media and Events' Home venue
The new area includes jumbo screens on which the keynote speech was broadcast for the beta users to see. There was also a "a video stream of all the action from the real-world PlayStation Day experience." Check out our gallery below for a few screenshots and expect a video to appear online before too long. Sony has said that "following the test event's success Home will now start scheduling more elaborate and exciting productions for the Space." These will not only be available to first party developers, but to third party companies too.
This new part of Home looks like it'll be an excellent way to let gamers experience all of the trade shows that go on throughout the year. Not only that, but we're looking forward to seeing exclusive announcements being made from within Home. Once it's out, that is.
[Via Press Release]
Gallery: Home 'Virtual Events' Space
Video: PlayStation Day demonstration of PlayTV, Go!Explore
Europe gets all the fun stuff! Watch David Reeve's PlayStation Day presentation about the PSP, which talks about two key PSP products available across the Atlantic: PlayTV and Go!Explore. PlayTV gives PSP owners access to DVR content, through connectivity with PS3. Go!Explore is an affordable GPS utility, which adds yet another fancy tool to PSP's ever-expanding features list. C'mon, SCEA! Give us GPS ... now!
Joystiq hands-on: Super Stardust HD Versus mode

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The "Team Pack" adds a Co-op Split Screen mode as well as the incredible Versus Mode. While the concept of Versus Mode remains very simple, the menus add depth and a huge amount of variety to the experience. At your disposal are several gameplay modes, similar to many other multiplayer games' gameplay arsenal, including deathmatch, king of the hill and grab-and-run. This whole mode has been built specifically with party gaming in mind.
Up to four players can play against each other on the same planet, but the "layout" of the planet can be changed before the game commences. This allows you to overlay a maze of rocks onto the planet's surface in various shapes which players will need to navigate through. These rocks can be destroyed and, depending on the options settings, can either harm players who come too close or simply ignore them. For people who prefer a less restricted battlefield, there's an option for a clear level layout too.
Gallery: Super Stardust HD
Photos from the PlayStation Day 2008 show floor
Be sure to check the list of PlayStation Day posts after the break in case you've missed something. Let us know what you thought of the event, and our coverage, in the comments below.
Gallery: PlayStation Day 2008
New Buzz! Master Quiz screens straight from PlayStation Day 08
Gallery: Buzz!
More Buzz! Quiz TV screens than you can shake a wireless buzzer at

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Gallery: Buzz! Quiz TV
PS3 Fanboy hands-on: Super Stardust HD Versus mode
The "Team Pack" adds a Co-op split-screen mode, as well as the incredible Versus Mode. Within Versus Mode, you can partake in a number of different challenges, similar to the offering found in many other multiplayer games: there's Deathmatch, King of the Hill, and Grab and Run. This whole mode has been built specifically with party gaming in mind.
Up to four players can play against each other on the same planet, but the "layout" of the planet can be changed before the game commences. This allows you to overlay a maze of rocks onto the planet's surface in various shapes which players will need to navigate through. These rocks can be destroyed and, depending on the options settings, can or cannot harm players who come too close. For people who prefer a less restricted battlefield, there's an option for a clear level layout too.
Gallery: Super Stardust HD
Buzz! comes to the PSN with Buzz! Junior Jungle Party this Summer
Check out our gallery below to see what sort of thing you can expect from the game when it arrives this Summer.
Gallery: Buzz! Junior Jungle Party
Feel free to sneak into our updated Secret Agent Clank gallery
Gallery: Secret Agent Clank
European PSN Store releases for May 8th

Playable content
- Race Driver GRID demo (free)
- Guitar Hero III "Def Leppard" track pack (£3.99/€4.99)
- Guitar Hero III "Muse" track pack (£3.99/€4.99)
- Army of Two "SSC Challenge" game pack (£3.99/€4.99)
- Mirror's Edge Gameplay trailer (free)
- PlayStation Day "Introduction: Kaz Hirai" video (free)
- PlayStation Day "Play has no limitations" video (free)
- PlayStation Day "Play is hiding and waiting" video (free)
- PlayStation Day "Play is full throttle" video (free)
- PlayStation Day "Play is a thousand stories" video (free)
- PlayStation Day "Play brings us together" video (free)
- PlayStation Day "Play is moving hips, lips" video (free)
- PlayStation Day "Play is unexplored" video (free)
- PlayStation Day "Summary: Play" video (free)
- PlayStation Day Compilation Trailer (free)
LittleBigPlanet open beta will never happen

There's a possibility of a small number of gamers and press being invited into the beta phase, but nothing has been confirmed yet. Releasing the game in its entirety to the public, free of charge would be suicide. Instead, there's talk of a demo being made available, which will curb our monstrous hunger pangs for the game until its October release. What the demo will contain and when it will arrive is still being discussed.
Check out our gallery below for some new images of LittleBigPlanet straight from PlayStation Day. Also be sure to check out the video of the cute-but-ghastly Helghast Sackboys.
Gallery: LittleBigPlanet
Home 'game spaces' being shown off later this month

Game spaces are slightly lower on the list of priorities, but not forgotten. Some are being shown off later this month to beta members and Hill stated that what he had seen of them is "really impressive." Game launching has extended beyond Warhawk to MotorStorm now, and this feature was demonstrated on the show floor at PlayStation Day. The feature allows you to select your option preferences, including track and number of laps, within Home. This allows you to almost immediately jump straight into the gameplay, rather than into another menu.
Hill also confirmed to us that trophies will be available in the XMB. "They have to be," he said. There's no word on when that will happen, but a 2D representation of your trophy list will be visible via the XMB at some point in the future. Obviously, the basic funtionality needs to be created within Home itself before being exported to the XMB, so don't expect it anytime soon.
SCEE announces first made-for-PSN TV show: Movement

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The program will feature many different kinds of music, including French electronica and London "Grindie." Eventually one band will be chosen by Spencer and Martin to have a professional promo video made. There's no word on when we'll be seeing this hit the PSN, other than that it will be "soon." Movement will almost certainly be exclusive to Europe - but you never know. This, along with the GT Academy competition that was announced, shows that SCEE is clearly very interested in episodic video content for the PSN and, to be honest, so are we.
Check out the gallery below for photos of some of the various bands featured in the show.
Gallery: Movement
Twenty-nine stunning MotorStorm Pacific Rift images
Gallery: MotorStorm Pacific Rift
These new WipEout HD screens make waiting even more torturous

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