PixelJunk Eden Is First With In-Game YouTube Support On The PS3

By Paul Munn | July 23, 2008

A new PlayStation Blog post from the President and Executive Producer on PixelJunk Eden notes that the short development cycles of the PSN game allowed them to integrate a couple of very recent PS3 OS features. We already knew it would have PSP remote play support, which is nice, and we knew it would have trophies. What we didn’t know is that it will be the first PS3 game to debut with video recording and direct upload to YouTube support.

“The YouTube upload feature is going to revolutionize how people share tips. Up until now it has been limited to people with video capture equipment, but from now on, anyone can record their game and upload it directly to YouTube from within the game! It is as simple as pushing one button to start and one button to stop and upload, and there is no affect on the gameplay thanks to the power of the PS3 and its abundance of SPU processors.”

What better way to show off how to get the hardest trophies than to record yourself doing it. While other developers are working to catch up with trophy support, Q Games has done them one better with their new release adding both that and YouTube support.

The demo for PixelJunk Eden will be on the store this Thursday the 24th while the final game is expected the following week on the store.

On a side note the post does mention that PixelJunk Monsters, their most popular title to date, may get trophy and custom soundtrack support patched in along with “other features” but that depends on whether gamers reach out the producer on that game and make some noise.

Seen on the PS Blog