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Our friends across the Atlantic are going to have an edge when it comes to Trophies, with the release of the new Buzz! Quiz TV Trophy patch. The multiplayer quiz game encourages you to play all the game modes to unlock the Trophies. Over time, it should be easy -- but what about those secret Trophies? Hmm.

Bronze Trophies

• Sofa Subjugator Bronze - Win 5 Sofa vs Sofa games
• The Barnard Award Bronze - Score over 1500 points in Single player
• Lonesome and Loving it Bronze - Play 5 single player games
• MyBuzz Enthusiast Bronze - Play 1 MyBuzz game
• Sofa Surfer Bronze - Play 1 Sofa vs Sofa game
• Socialite Bronze - Play 5 Multiplayer games

Silver Trophies

• Sofa Subjugator Silver - Win 20 Sofa vs Sofa games
• The Barnard Award Silver - Score over 3000 points on single player
• Lonesome and Loving it Silver - Play 20 single player games
• MyBuzz Enthusiast Silver - Play 20 MyBuzz games
• Sofa Surfer Silver - Play 15 Sofa vs Sofa games
• Socialite Silver - Play 20 multiplayer games
• He's on Fire! - Correctly answer 10 questions in a row (Hidden)
• Casting Agent - Play using every contestant (Hidden)
• Flawless Round - Correctly answer all questions in a multiplayer round with all players. (Hidden)

What would the Home space for Buzz! look like? Well, that's the task Cumron Ashtiani was given to figure out. The designer took more than just the visual look of the popular PlayStation trivia game -- no, he added a great level of interactivity which adds to the game experience. Within the Buzz! Home space, players will be able to take part of trivia games en masse. A question appears on a virtual screen and four choices appear. Players must move their avatars over the correct answer space or experience certain death!

Adding different kinds of gameplay to Home certainly looks intriguing. If only it would release to the public at large ... then we'd be able to try out these innoative ideas for ourselves.

[Thanks, KUV1977!]

Ignore the already disheartening news that Buzz! Quiz TV will need a patch in order to activate trophies within the game, despite press releases announcing firmware 2.40 failing to mention it. Buzz! fans are now also up in arms about the evolution (or rather devolution) of one of their favorite franchises. Despite the official trailer showing off "Sofa-vs-Sofa" gameplay, allowing two people on one PS3 to play against another two people online, this feature is not actually available within the game. Playing online is restricted to one-person per console.

Not only that, but online play is considered very short and many game modes and customization features are now missing, having been removed since earlier Buzz! titles on the PS3. Also, despite MyBuzzQuiz.com being a potentially awesome method of creating and playing free user-generated DLC, questions from the service are not playable in the main-game and must be used separately. The forums are abuzz (pardon the pun) with criticisms and people are very much looking forward to a response from Relentless.

[Thanks Zed]

Buzz! Quiz TV is almost out in Europe and, thanks to the 2.40 firmware update, you now have even more incentive to pick it up. The game supports trophies out of the box, according to the various 2.40 press releases, though we've checked our review copy and there don't seem to be any attached right now. No doubt this will be solved with a patch by the time the game is available this Friday. We've contacted Sony to try and confirm this.

If you're after Buzz! Quiz TV and don't quite feel like spending the price of a full game for it, Amazon UK have a pre-order price of £32.98. With the wireless buzzers themselves selling for 30 quid, you'll be picking up the game for less than 3 pounds. Not bad at all. Also, if you're an Amazon Prime member (or if you sign up for their one-month free trial) you can get it delivered to your door on Friday morning for no extra dosh. Bargain!

We know you're all super excited for Buzz! Quiz TV, right? Right. So no doubt you'll be even more excited about being able to create and view DLC for the game right now. MyBuzzQuiz.com is now open and lets you do just that. These quizzes can then be rated and played on-site, in preparation for Buzz! Quiz TV's European release next week (Americans can expect to get the game sometime this September) when you'll be able to download all this user-created content within the game properly.

We love to see new ways for user-created DLC to be incorporated into games and this is one of coolest implementations so far. There are already plenty of quizzes to check out on the site, so go have a look and maybe even have a go at making your own.

Looking forward to some Summer-time quiz gaming on your PS3? You don't have too long to wait as Eurogamer has discovered, via SCEE, that Buzz! Quiz TV will be out in Europe on July 4th. Check out our hands on impressions from Play.com live as well as our huge amount of screenies to whet your appetite. We've enjoyed Buzz! on PS2 in the past, so seeing it come to PS3 along with a load of online bells and whistles so soon has us very excited. As for the US, there's still no word on when it will be released there.

Buzz! Quiz TV isn't the only game of the franchise heading to the PS3 this year. This Summer a new downloadable title will be made available on the PSN "at pocket money prices." Buzz! Junior Jungle Party will utilise the Buzz! controllers, but with "wacky mini-games of skill and speed" instead of quiz-style gameplay. Obviously this is aimed at the wee nippers and will feature five mini-games from the original PS2 version. Jungle Party is the first of many, with Buzz! Junior: RoboJam and Buzz! Junior: Monster Rumble following at a later date.

Check out our gallery below to see what sort of thing you can expect from the game when it arrives this Summer.

We know that sometimes reading words is hard work. Sometimes you need someone to talk at you. To show you. In walks the above Buzz video. If you've had trouble making it through one of our Buzz! Quiz TV posts (including our recent hands on impressions) in the past then let the game's host, Buzz himself, show you exactly what's what. All the special features that promise to make the PS3 version of the Buzz! franchise so great.

Speaking of which, some of those downloadable quizes look great fun -- particularly the video games and sci-fi movie based ones. Is it wrong that we're already putting money aside for this game before it's even released? Oh, and before you ask: Summer. Apparently.

Relentless Software, the developers behind the multi-million selling Buzz! games, have moved into a new, bigger office in Brighton, south England. Despite being big sellers in their home territory, the only Buzz! title that made it out of Europe was Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party. So chances are many of you non-Europeans have yet to experience the series. For those who don't know, the games try to emulate a TV game-show. Complete with buzzer controllers (see attached image) and smooth voiced announcers. They're great fun, especially when in a party context.

It looks like we could soon be seeing more games from Relentless as they are celebrating their new development office by hiring in some fresh blood for upcoming PS2 and PS3 projects. More party games on the PS3 can only be a good thing, in my opinion. We'll keep you posted on any developments.

[Via PS3Forums]