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Welcome to PST’s Newsletter! Here you will find the latest (site) updates, news and useful links.

We will be publishing a new issue every first Saturday of the month.

We hope you will enjoy reading as we much as we enjoy guiding you.

 

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Issue #2 November 2014

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This month there will be a lot of celebrating, among the members and their families. We would love to wish the following members* a very happy birthday:

 

  • Sunlit Garden (November 1st)
  • x410xDragon (November 1st)
  • bobsnotmyuncle (November 10th)
  • iamQmai (November 11th)
  • idloveacupoft (November 15th)
  • steviej (November 16th)
  • Lysorian (November 17th)
  • Vuule (November 17th)
  • sunnygrg (November 18th)
  • Catbird (November 19th)
  • pennywise247 (November 21st)
  • Ninja95 (November 21st)
  • disinformation (November 25th)
  • Xx_Progenitor_xX (November 27th)
  • TheLastSurvivor1 (November 28th)

 

Happy Birthday to all of you and we hope your day will be special!

 

*Note: we only mention active members, our apologies if we missed out on you

 

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There are always members who do a little more effort than others and handing out the Member of the Month award is just a way to say thank you to those who are dedicated to the site and put much effort in helping.

 

Congratulations to the new Member of the Month: Keyser Soze!

Click here to read his interview.

 

 

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A lot of site awards are up for grabs for numerous activities around the site, from posting and taking part in community events, to writing guides and winning competitions or tournaments. If you keep contributing to the site, you may find yourself with a new award. Here are the award winners this month: http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/announcements/144078-site-award-winners-october.html. Here's a list of all awards and everyone who has earned them: http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/faq/177271-site-awards-faq.html. Congrats to all the award winners this month :applause:

 

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Last month a new graphics team member was brought in and there was a promotion to events lead. TheFlyingToaster returns to the staff in the graphics team and AlphaCookie has been promoted to Events lead. Congrats guys! And thank you RED_REBEL44 for your hard work as a grapics team member!

http:// http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/announcements/249640-events-lead-graphics.html

 

Game Reviews of the month

 

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Click here to read the full The Evil Within review

 

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Click here to read the full DriveClub review

 

Click here to read all the reviews

 

 

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Signature of the Month, the name speaks for itself. During the Signature of the Month competition, people submit a specifically themed signature they made for the competition. The winner is chosen by the members of our community. We are pleased to congratulate Haptism and aka dave this month! Well done on your signatures and we hope to see many more of your creatures in the future!

 

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Leaving PS+ EU and NA this month

 

Leaving PS Plus:

5th November: Dust: An Elysian Tale

5th November: Spelunky (PS4/PS3/PS Vita Cross Buy)

5th November: Batman Arkham Asylum

5th November: Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (PS3 only)

5th November: Pix the Cat (PS Vita/PS4 Cross Buy)

5th November: Rainbow Moon (PS Vita/PS3 Cross Buy)

 

Entering PS Plus:

5th November: Binding of Isaac Rebirth (PS4/PS Vita Cross Buy)

5th November: Steamworld Dig (PS4/PS Vita Cross Buy)

5th November: Frozen Synapse Prime

5th November: Luftrausers (PS3/PS Vita Cross Buy)

5th November: The Hungry Horde

5th November: Escape Plan (PS4/PS Vita Cross Buy)

 

For more information see Remingtonink’s thread or Hungherk’s thread

 

 

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THL ended with October, and many people will come out with an award having earned a blackout or a line in bingo. Congrats to the 70 people who got a line, and the 78 people who went a step (or 11 steps) further and got the blackout. There is a vote for what the blackout award will look like, go here to vote.

 

 

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Staff members, are friendly, helpful but somehow we never really get to know much about the way they think about their job. Therefore we decided to interview one staff, or ex-staff member a month, just to make you more familiar with them.

This month it is a member who we all know and who has been on the staff for over a year now, ladies and gentleman, we present to you: SylarTheNinja.

 

So tell us, who’s the person behind the username?

A: My name is Ben. I'm currently studying Games Development at university.

 

Q: What do you like most about your job as staff member?

A: Being able to give something back to the community.

 

Q: Is there something you dislike about your job?

A: Sometimes alphabetizing some people's names in the max clubs can be a pain, but other than that everything is awesome!

 

Q: How low have you stooped for trophies and would you ever stoop any lower (if possible)?

A: This THL I played Hannah Montana, so I don't think it's possible to go any lower!

 

Q: How did you feel when you were approached to become a staff member?

A: Being approached to be a staff member was amazing, I even still have the PM!

Q: What do you think makes your job as staff member worth it most?

A: The cool purple name of course :p although really it's all good!

 

Q: If you could be admin for a day, what would you do?

A: Make the whole forum be zero post count :devil:

 

Q: We hear that you're a fan of pizza. What would your dream topping combination be?

A: Pepperoni, green peppers, beef and sausage. Or pretty much anything except pineapples and olives!

 

Q: Considering you are a self-certified ninja, you seem to have a lack of ninja gaiden games on your profile. Why is this?

A: Maybe I do have them...

 

Q: Do you have any last words for the community/readers?

A: Nitwit, Blubber, Oddment, Tweak!

 

Thank you for your time but most of all thank you for all the hard work you've done for the site. I'm sure I speak on behalf of the community and other staff members

 

Useful links

 

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That's it for the PST newsletter this month, thank you for reading. Thanks to Glennthomas and Red Rebel for some of the GFX. If you have any content ideas, let one of us two know. See you next month!

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Welcome to PST’s Newsletter! Here you will find the latest (site) updates, news and useful links.

We will be publishing a new issue every first Saturday of the month.

We hope you will enjoy reading as we much as we enjoy guiding you.

 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Issue #1 October 2014

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This month there will be a lot of celebrating, among the members and their families. We would love to wish the following members* a very happy birthday:

 

Dawningwolf55

ESYLD

Blaze Naruto Shippuden

Alpha Cookie

PainofDemise

Fynn84

Darkstar83x

SylarTheNinja

Rawra

Orthmann

Ed-_-

Buttercup

 

Happy Birthday to all of you and we hope your day will be special!

 

*Note: we only mention active members, our apologies if we missed out on you

 

http://i.imgur.com/IHjKvJL.png

There are always members who do a little more effort than others and handing out the Member of the Month award is just a way to say thank you to those who are dedicated to the site and put much effort in helping.

 

Congratulations to the new Member of the Month: Leptonic!

Click here to read his interview.

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/4hLZods.png

 

A lot of site awards are up for grabs for numerous activites around the site, from posting and taking part in community events, to writing guides and winning competitions such as THL. If you keep contributing to the site, you may find yourself with a new award. Here are the award winners this month: http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/announcements/144078-site-award-winners-september.html. Here's a list of all awards and everyone who has earned them: http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/faq/177271-site-awards-faq.html. Congrats to all the award winners this month :applause:

 

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Mendel will be stepping down from his Guide Team Lead role, instead focusing on being a Super Mod. Replacing him at the helm is Terminator. Thank you for everything Mendel, and best of luck Terminator!

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/announcements/248373-new-guide-team-lead.html

 

Game Reviews of the month

 

http://i62.tinypic.com/2ev441g.jpg

 

http://i62.tinypic.com/etft5i.png

 

Click here to read the full FIFA 15 review

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/2ahv8zn.jpg

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/2mnhu0h.png

 

Click here to read the full Destiny review

 

Click here to read all the reviews

 

New on PS+ EU and NA this month

 

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3)
  • DriveClub (Playstation Plus Edition) (PS4)
  • Dust: An Elysian Tail (PS4)
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (PS3)
  • Pix the Cat (PS4 & PS Vita)
  • Rainbow Moon (PS3 & PS Vita)
  • Spelunky (PS4, PS3 & PS Vita)

 

For more information see Remingtonink’s thread or Hungherk’s thread

 

http://i.imgur.com/AlP6AV0.png

 

Staff members, are friendly, helpful but somehow we never really get to know much about the way they think about their job. Therefore we decided to interview one staff, or ex-staff member a month, just to make you more familiar with them.

We are kicking off by interviewing one of the people behind the newsletter: TheManUtdFan. He has been a Guide Team member since January 2014.

 

 

So tell us, who’s the person behind the username?

A: Hi i'm Dan and I'm a 17 year old student from the UK currently doing my A Levels

 

Q: What do you like most about your job as staff member?

A: What I like most is giving back to the great community here who have helped me throughout my years on the site

 

Q: Is there something you dislike about your job?

A: Really the only thing is having to reject guides that people have worked hard on

 

Q: What guide of yours is your favourite?

A: My favourite guide is probably the Batman: Arkham Origins one, as it was the biggest one I ever did on my own and i'm proud of the result.

 

Q: How did you feel when you were approached to become a staff member?

A: I felt surprised as I didn't expect that I would be asked at all. I also felt happy that I was trusted enough to be asked to join the team.

 

Q: Are you ever going to retry getting a platinum trophy 4 p.m. on the day a new THL season starts?

A: Probably not, not going down that road again 😝

 

Q: What do you think makes your job as staff member worth it most?

A: Knowing that i've helped people, especially new guide writers. It's like helping people help other people.

 

Q: If you could be admin for a day, what would you do?

A: I'd keep the site exactly how it is

Q: Do you have any last words for the community/readers?

A: Thank you for being awesome and making being staff a pleasure rather than a chore

 

Thank you for your time but most of all thank you for all the hard work you've done for the site. I'm sure I speak on behalf of the community and other staff members

 

Useful links

 

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That's it for the first revived PST newsletter, thank you for reading. Thanks to Glennthomas and Red Rebel for some of the GFX. If you have any content ideas, let one of us two know. See you next month!

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Thanks for all the support and feedback guys! :)

 

Good job guys! IWith the "ex staff members" how are you going to do that each month? Surely there's not enough active ones around to last more than a few months? :p

 

As Dan said it's ex and current staff members and there are a lot! There are currently 40 staff members and a whole bunch of ex-staff members and I'm sure there will be current staff members stepping down to make place for new ones so don't worry! We might run out of staff members in 5 years from now :p

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A new newsletter is up with some new features!

 

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Welcome to PST’s Newsletter! Here you will find the latest (site) updates, news and useful links.

We will be publishing a new issue every first Saturday of the month.

We hope you will enjoy reading as we much as we enjoy guiding you.

 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Issue #1 October 2014

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

http://i58.tinypic.com/2dwe0yf.png

 

This month there will be a lot of celebrating, among the members and their families. We would love to wish the following members* a very happy birthday:

 

Dawningwolf55

ESYLD

Blaze Naruto Shippuden

Alpha Cookie

PainofDemise

Fynn84

Darkstar83x

SylarTheNinja

Rawra

Orthmann

Ed-_-

Buttercup

 

Happy Birthday to all of you and we hope your day will be special!

 

*Note: we only mention active members, our apologies if we missed out on you

 

http://i.imgur.com/IHjKvJL.png

There are always members who do a little more effort than others and handing out the Member of the Month award is just a way to say thank you to those who are dedicated to the site and put much effort in helping.

 

Congratulations to the new Member of the Month: Leptonic!

Click here to read his interview.

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/4hLZods.png

 

A lot of site awards are up for grabs for numerous activites around the site, from posting and taking part in community events, to writing guides and winning competitions such as THL. If you keep contributing to the site, you may find yourself with a new award. Here are the award winners this month: http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/announcements/144078-site-award-winners-september.html. Here's a list of all awards and everyone who has earned them: http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/faq/177271-site-awards-faq.html. Congrats to all the award winners this month :applause:

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/25uh5bt.png

 

Mendel will be stepping down from his Guide Team Lead role, instead focusing on being a Super Mod. Replacing him at the helm is Terminator. Thank you for everything Mendel, and best of luck Terminator!

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/announcements/248373-new-guide-team-lead.html

 

Game Reviews of the month

 

http://i62.tinypic.com/2ev441g.jpg

 

http://i62.tinypic.com/etft5i.png

 

Click here to read the full FIFA 15 review

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/2ahv8zn.jpg

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/2mnhu0h.png

 

Click here to read the full Destiny review

 

Click here to read all the reviews

 

New on PS+ EU and NA this month

 

  • Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3)
  • DriveClub (Playstation Plus Edition) (PS4)
  • Dust: An Elysian Tail (PS4)
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (PS3)
  • Pix the Cat (PS4 & PS Vita)
  • Rainbow Moon (PS3 & PS Vita)
  • Spelunky (PS4, PS3 & PS Vita)

 

For more information see Remingtonink’s thread or Hungherk’s thread

 

http://i.imgur.com/AlP6AV0.png

 

Staff members, are friendly, helpful but somehow we never really get to know much about the way they think about their job. Therefore we decided to interview one staff, or ex-staff member a month, just to make you more familiar with them.

We are kicking off by interviewing one of the people behind the newsletter: TheManUtdFan. He has been a Guide Team member since January 2014.

 

 

So tell us, who’s the person behind the username?

A: Hi i'm Dan and I'm a 17 year old student from the UK currently doing my A Levels

 

Q: What do you like most about your job as staff member?

A: What I like most is giving back to the great community here who have helped me throughout my years on the site

 

Q: Is there something you dislike about your job?

A: Really the only thing is having to reject guides that people have worked hard on

 

Q: What guide of yours is your favourite?

A: My favourite guide is probably the Batman: Arkham Origins one, as it was the biggest one I ever did on my own and i'm proud of the result.

 

Q: How did you feel when you were approached to become a staff member?

A: I felt surprised as I didn't expect that I would be asked at all. I also felt happy that I was trusted enough to be asked to join the team.

 

Q: Are you ever going to retry getting a platinum trophy 4 p.m. on the day a new THL season starts?

A: Probably not, not going down that road again :p

 

Q: What do you think makes your job as staff member worth it most?

A: Knowing that i've helped people, especially new guide writers. It's like helping people help other people.

 

Q: If you could be admin for a day, what would you do?

A: I'd keep the site exactly how it is

Q: Do you have any last words for the community/readers?

A: Thank you for being awesome and making being staff a pleasure rather than a chore

 

Thank you for your time but most of all thank you for all the hard work you've done for the site. I'm sure I speak on behalf of the community and other staff members

 

Useful links

 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

That's it for the first revived PST newsletter, thank you for reading. Thanks to Glennthomas and Red Rebel for some of the GFX. If you have any content ideas, let one of us two know. See you next month!

 

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Nice thread...good read. :applause:

I just have one thing to point out...

 

Signature of the Month, the name speaks for itself. During the Signature of the Month competition, people submit a specifically themed signature they made for the competition. The winner is chosen by the members of our community. We are pleased to congratulate Haptism and aka dave this month! Well done on your signatures and we hope to see many more of your creatures in the future!

 

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