PS3 Multiplayer has had a few faces now over the years. It is just about to return to its former roots as a venue for online multiplayer live events. These proved very...

PS3 Multiplayer has had a few faces now over the years. It is just about to return to its former roots as a venue for online multiplayer live events. These proved very successful and very many PS3 Multiplayer community members enjoyed playing in the events.

The events took the form of scheduled online, well, meetings...

There would be regular weekly events for all the major games such as Call of Duty and Rainbow 6. Members would sign up to the events, a host would be sorted from the staff roster and the game room would be created at the event time.

Signed up members would then join the room and the game would start. This led to 15 or 20 minutes of furiously competetive online gaming as members played for XP and kudos amongst their peers.

We are now programming a new Live Event interface and the Live Events will be coming back.

This time there will be some really cool XP leaderboards which may well work network wide and there will certainly be Monthly prizes for the top dogs and hopefully the occasional sponsored event with prizes.

PS3 Multiplayer wil also, like the old days, offer some cool and funny events such as the classic Knife Only, Pistols only or Bazooka bashing only. I remember now, we even had a couple of races around Poisson and Rouen...

Those were the days...