Buzz! Quiz TV gets Game Launching from PlayStation Home. Also announced that future Buzz! titles will be getting Game Launching too.
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) today announced its participation in the Virgin Mobile FreeFest taking place Sunday, August 30 in Columbia MD. In addition to sponsoring the event which is free to over 35,000 fans, SCEA will be giving away prizes and free game content to several lucky attendees as well as providing entertainment for volunteers from around the country.
Want to see which region got what content? Look no further, as PlayStation LifeStyle has done the searching for you and compiled a list of what's new in this week's PlayStation Store Update, for all regions across the globe.
Wonderwallweb writes: Speaking at the Develop conference in Brighton today, Buzz producer Dan Croucher said that since Relentless introduced user-generated content to its popular Buzz franchise, players have contributed 218,750 quizzes made up of over 1.7 million questions. Now if that is not impressive enough, the developer also revealed that this amount of content is enough to fill 350 standard-sized Buzz games on disc. Blimey! Finally it has also been revealed that the Playstation Home space, which breifly appeared on the service before being taken back down is to return to PlayStation Home this week, which is great news.
There are over 1.7 million user generated questions in the game Buzz.
Rene Merkli – Product Manager, France & Switzerland on Official EU PlayStation Blog: Hi everyone, I'm Rene Merkli, Product Manager in France for Buzz!. Following Round 1 of the Buzz! World Championships, our 32 Finalists were invited to the French final in Paris, which was the first of the National Finals events. The French final took place in a nice old cinema called Ciné 13 Theatre near to Montmartre in Paris.
The highly anticipated BUZZ! Home space has been removed from PlayStation Home. The explanantion is below.
PS3Attitude.com writes: It's Thursday, and it's time for another Homerun, the weekly run-through of whats happening in and around the world of PlayStation Home. There are a few good things to talk about so let's go straight into it, OK? SCEE has launched a new blog (hoorah!) and one of their opening blog posts announced a brand new game space. Last week we saw the arrival of the Resistance 2 space with its amazing mini-game. This time around we hear about Buzz! getting its own Home reincarnation.
Rob Alvarez on Official US PlayStation Blog: Great news BUZZ! fans! We're going to launch a brand new space in PlayStation Home called BUZZ! HQ, where players can chat and meet up with other trivia fans in a new lobby area or take part in a massive 64-player BUZZ! trivia showdown!
PS3-Sense writes: Do you have Buzz and you become good at it? Would you like to anticipate quiz shows? Now is your chance to join the Buzz: World Championship of Discovery Channel. The quiz was started last Saturday and you have until June 9 the opportunity to participate in the national championship of your country. You must become to the best 29 or likely to be one of the three wildcards who are to participate in the national championship of your country.
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