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Interview: Andy Tudor, Need for Speed- Shift Game Add-on ( 18:01 – 24:13)

Interview: Mark Pendergrast, Windows Home Server ( 24:14 – 35:08)

Pretty deep reading list this week, including some nice nuggets about game updates, as well as GTA Episodes from Liberty City coming your way.

If you can take a break from this busy gaming season (feels more like October than the end of January), see if you can’t add something to our list in the comments. See you online!

The PS Blog weekly reading list (Week of January 25, 2010)

• Rust Buccaneers arr coming to PSN this year – Joystiq
• Disgaea Infinite visual novel for PSP releases this May – Joystiq
• Final Fantasy XIII’s Early Beginnings – Gamesugar.net
• New Patch for Bayonetta now out on PS3! – SEGA America Blog
• Console game in handheld: SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 3 – Destructoid
• Q Entertainment Discusses Possible PS3 Port for Rez HD – 1UP
• Critter Crunch Patch Coming Tomorrow – PSN Stores
• GTA: Episodes From Liberty City Goes Multiplatform in March – GameLife
• Six More Screens for MLB 10 The Show – Kotaku
• PlayStation 2010 Preview – What’s ahead for the PS3 and PSP this year? Only everything – IGN
• Aliens vs. Predator Multiplayer Hands-on, PlayStation 3 Preview – IGN
• PS3 Netflix ‘Driving Significant Subscriber Growth,’ says Pachter – IndustryGamers
• Gravity Crash and PixelJunk Shooter – PSN’s Dynamic Arcade Shooter Duo – VGBlogger.com
• Review: MAG – Joystiq
• The Guns, Skills and Buffs of MAG – Kotaku
• MAG: First-Day Impressions of a Burgeoning War – Kotaku
• Heavy Rain’s Mysterious Mailing – Kotaku
• Unboxing the Heavy Rain review mailer – Destructoid
• Zombieland Blu-ray includes dynamic theme for PS3 – Joystiq
• Hands on with White Knight Chronicles for PlayStation 3 – PCWorld
• Waiting For Your Flight? Play PS3 – Kotaku
• PSP Go disassembled in awesome stop motion video — Engadget
• Gaming: The Fifth Network – Kotaku
• Kotaku’s 2009 Game of the Year – Kotaku
• Launch Primer: MAG – G4tv.com
• Review: MAG – Destructoid
• I Find Myself Wanting a PSP – Ronin Reviews
• We Talk To The Musicians Of MAG – GameInformer.com
• Upcoming God Of War Comic Explores Kratos’ Childhood – GameInformer.com

• Pre-Order MLB 10: The Show and Get Free Classic Stadiums — MLB fans, if you pre-order MLB 10: The Show now on PS3, you get classics stadiums like Shibe Park, Forbes Field, the Polo Grounds and more. Plus, we’ve got more MLB 10 posts coming next week.
• Coming to PSN this Week: Hustle Kings — The most realistic billiards game is now available on PSN. Who snagged it? Drop your thoughts here.
• MAG Beta vs. Final Game — Wondering what the differences in the MAG Beta 5.0 and the final game? Zipper’s Jeremy Dunham tells it like it is.
• “Four Days”: The Heavy Rain Online Experience — Get in on the action before the game releases. These challenges are live, online mysteries that play out in real-time over three weeks. Hit the post for all the deets.
• MAG is Out This Week! — Zipper’s first PS3 game is officially out! If you’re not already in on the action, check out the launch video for some great info.
• MLB 10: The Show Soundtrack — MLB 10: The Show is the king of baseball games. And that means the development team takes everything seriously, including the soundtrack. See the list of bands and songs right here.
• SCEA Teams Up With IGN For Haiti Charity Event — We team up with IGN’s online telethon, contributing some rare PlayStation items including an UNCHARTED 2 Fortune Hunter Edition, signed memorabilia and more!
• Coming to PSN this Week: Assassin’s Creed II – Battle of Forli — For $3.99, you get to play some of those corrupted sequences from Assassin’s Creed II. And then DLC 2 is coming next month…
• Gravity Crash PS3 Patch, Sale and PSP Update — Gravity Crash for PS3 gets patched (full details inside), a sale that we hope you didn’t miss, plus an update and screens from the PSP version.
• This Week in PlayStation Home: The London Pub, Limited Assassin’s Creed 2 & BioShock 2 Items + Zombieland & MAG Events — A big Home update this week from Locust_Star with ACII and BioShock 2 items, events and much more.
• PlayStation Comics Store Update — The Comics Updates are picking up steam. Take a look at the digital comics you can get this week from the PlayStation Store.
• It’s Official, God of War III Will Be Attacking Stores on March 16th! — March.16.2010. Better get all your TV, movies, reading, eating, exercising and sleeping in now…
• More White Knight Chronicles Goodness + Character Creation Video — A dynamic theme, LBP White Knight costumes, a new walkthrough video and more!
• Heavy Rain Goes Gold, Demo Coming February 11 — It’s done. And we thinking it’s amazing. Don’t believe us? Start with the demo coming Feb. 11.
• PlayStation Store Update — That UNCHARTED 2 DLC and demo are finally here, plus Hustle Kings, Assault Heroes, ACII DLC and much more.
• PlayStation Network Video Content Update — Lots of new movies and TV shows hit the Video Store this week, plus a new video for Whip It, which I really want to see.
• Kratos Fury Invading Local 7-Eleven Stores — Yep, nothing could be tastier than ferocious blackberries and frostly limes. Unless that something comes in a limited God of War III cup!
• LittleBigPlanet: Sack it to Me – The “Sackboy for Haiti” Edition — Lots of updates from LBP land, in both PS3 and PSP form!

Tons of new info on this post, so we’ll try to keep it short:

Sackboy for Haiti

In an effort to contribute to Haiti relief, we’ve teamed up with our friends over at IGN.com and we’re auctioning off set of a Sackboy hands. These are the same hands used in our latest LBP PSP launch trailer.

Canadian website Canoe has doubled up on videogame violence stories posted to its site in recent days.

First up is a story with the banner “Man Wounded in Xbox Dispute,” which details the shooting of a 27-year old Winnipeg man by his 16-year old brother. While “it was unclear whether the dispute was over the possession of a video game or if it broke out while the pair was playing a video game,” videogames were central enough to the crime that they were utilized in the headline.

The shooting victim, thankfully, was upgraded to stable condition in the hours following the incident.

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