Weekend Essentials – Issue 38

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Share the latest PlayStation news on Facebook this weekend.

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Want to share the latest PlayStation news with your friends? Want to recommend your favourite PlayStation titles to others? You can now share your favourite PlayStation products and content on eu.playstation.com using your Facebook account details.

If you see some breaking news or a competition that you think the world should know about, simply select Recommend on the page, and it will appear in your friends' newsfeed on Facebook. You can also let your friends know which games are the pick of your crop by clicking Like on the game page.

Don't forget that you can also show off your hard-earned trophies on your Facebook profile. Simply link your Facebook account to your PlayStation Network ID and install the PSN application to your Facebook profile. You'll be able to check out your PSN friends list, look at their PSN status to see if they're online, view their trophy collection and invite Facebook friends to become PSN friends.

Downloads and demos

This week Earthworm Jim HD will be launching on PlayStation Store. Join him on his quest to rescue Princess What's-Her-Name across a weird and wacky galaxy of surprises.

Also available on PlayStation Store this week is the classic Premier Manager for PlayStation 3, along with a brand new demo for Madden NFL 11. Keeping with the sporting theme, there are now downloads available for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. Get your hands on some fantastic new courses, from the notoriously challenging Pebble Beach, Florida, to a fantasy, vine-covered course set in an exotic Mexican jungle.

Head over to PlayStation Store now to check out the latest downloads.

PSP summer picks

As the weather gets hotter and school comes to a close for another year, there is no better time to kick back and relax in the sun with your PSP. The PSP Essentials range is packed with loads of great PSP titles that won't break the bank.

Take on some colourful characters over six courses in Everybody's Golf, challenge yourself and your friends with Buzz!™: Master Quiz or go on a thrilling adventure to save Earth in Ben 10: Alien Force.

Check out the great range of PSP Essentials this summer and experience everything from sport to sci-fi.

Get yourself to gamescom 2010

Fancy winning a trip to gamescom 2010? And maybe a fantastic VAIO laptop and bloggie™ camera to document your trip? Your chance is here.

That's right; you and a friend could be jetting off to Cologne, Germany, to attend Europe's biggest videogame show, courtesy of PlayStation, in association with Sony Electronics. All you have to do is submit a review of your favourite PlayStation 3 or PSP game.

The most original, entertaining and interesting review will win this once in a lifetime prize, along with exclusive entry to the Sony Computer Entertainment Europe press conference, flights and accommodation.

gamescom 2010 is waiting for you, so get writing!

PlayStation.Blog just keeps getting better

Over at PlayStation.Blog, a few changes have been made to make your blog experience even more involving. You can now watch videos from the blog on the PS3 browser so you are always up to date with the latest news, as well as share any blog posts that take your fancy with your Facebook friends.

Watch out for more new features coming to PlayStation.Blog soon.

The Friday Debate - Can games be art?

This week the topic up for debate at PlayStation.Blog is the presentation of games - do you think that games can be classed as art? Do you appreciate settings, music and character design; or are you just in it for the thrill of the gameplay?

Take a look at everything from retro classics to recent chart-toppers and share your words of wisdom at PlayStation.Blog.

Keep an eye on PlayStation Blog at blog.eu.playstation.com for the latest PlayStation news as it happens.

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