If you know your followers from your taggers and your floods from your rushed behinds, Sony’s got some downloadable content for you. More »
Trivia fans will soon have their own haven in PlayStation Home, as Sony reveals the Buzz! HQ, a Buzz!-centric space complete with a 64-player trivia showdown. More »
The men and women who toil away at Sony’s popular Buzz! franchise, churning out sequels and expansions to please their overlords, are hard at work on a secret project, currently known as “Secret Project.”
I am not allowed near anything even vaguely resembling a trivia question at this point. Having received rigorous Trivial Pursuit training by my parents as a young boy, I’ve been condition to answer inane questions above any other priority. Case in point, the U,S, version of Sony’s MyBuzz website for the PS3 game Buzz! Quiz TV is now live, allowing players to create their own puzzles that can be shared with friends, rated by the community, and ultimately played within the game once it’s released later this month. As of this writing there are only four quizzes on the site, and despite being a bit behind in my work today I played them all.
More and more stuff keeps pouring in over at Leipzig. Sony annonced today Buzz:! Brain Bender will be making it to the PSP this holiday. The game focuses heavily on, well, making you think, which none of us like doing. The full game will offer 16 mini-games and features player modes, such as Challenge, Training, and Test. You’ll also be able to battle up to six friends online. Full release with details after the jump.
Buzztime Entertainment are suing Sony over their Buzz! series of trivia games. They don’t like the PS2 series’ name, and they don’t like the PS2 series’ tagline “It’s time to get buzzing”, either. As a company that makes trivia games – which use multi-colored controllers – for pubs and restaurants (as well as home versions), they feel that Buzz!’s use of multi-colored controllers in a trivia game for home consoles is cutting it a little fine to their own turf. So they not only want legal fees and damages, they want the US Patent and Trademark Office to not register pending US trademarks for the series, and want all copies currently on the market recalled. Recalled and destroyed. Best of luck with that! Sony Buzz-ed with trademark suit [GameSpot]
Buzz is my secret love.
I suck at trivia nights (oh boy, do I suck), but stick that custom USB controller with the big red button in my hand, and I’m more of a gun than a Kalashnikova.
Dedicated fans, and even a few casual players, will know that Australia’s own Jason Donovan provides the voice of the game’s titular character for the Oz version. The man does an excellent job of providing Buzz with just right amounts of sarcasm, sincerity and chauvinism.
Classic stuff.
If you’d like to let JD know how much you love him in Buzz, or simply how much you love him, he’ll be in Australia very soon to help Sony celebrate the PS2′s seventh birthday.
If you live in Sydney, Donovan will be on the 6th floor of Myer in Pitt Street Mall on November 21st from 1PM. Residents of Melbourne will have the same opportunity on the 22nd from 1PM, at the Myer store on Lonsdale Street, up on the 4th floor.
Press release after the jump. More »
Europe loves Buzz! Loves SingStar, too. In fact, if it involves getting people together in the living room for some good times, Europe are generally all over it. America, though, not so much. Lots of hate for SingStar, and Buzz! has only just been released in the US (despite having been available in PAL territories for nearly two years). Why the disparity? David Amor, bos of Buzz! Developer Relentless, has an idea: I have a feeling that games in America are more in the hands of the core gamer than in Europe. I think gaming has probably spread a bit more widely in Europe, compared with America, and maybe the gaming system in America is still more in the den then in the living room.
Think he’s right, Americans? Are you trailing in Europe’s cultural wake? Or has Amor gone and overlooked that Wii thing everyone seems to be talking about these days. America’s Ready to Buzz!, says Relentless Boss [Next-Gen] More »
In a SHOCKING, SURPRISING move, Sony have announced that Buzz!, the quiz game that NOBODY I know owns (and my net in this case is being cast wide, dear readers) and yet manages to sit in the PAL sales charts week in, week out, is getting a PS3 version. Called Buzz! Quiz TV, it takes a similar approach to the PS3′s SingStar, in that instead of continually releasing themed versions on disc, it’ll connect online and give you access to at first 5000 questions (on the bundled disc, and across all subjects), and later “tens of thousands”. Best part, though, is that you can come up with your OWN questions, which should give them game a fair leg-up in the longevity stakes. Oh, another online feature it’ll be taking advantage of is team play – you’ll be able to form teams and compete against others, in some kind of online pub trivia night but without the cheap schnitzel and the annoying uni kids in the corner blurting out every answer. The game’s due in March 2008. More »
