While next-gen Sony gamers are on edge for the release of SCEE's WipEout Pulse come September, Sony took their sweet time planning the game's pre-release movements out carefully and surely. WipEout Pulse may look the next-gen part in both innards and gameplay, but SCEE has been focused on building something else: an online experience like none experienced in the series.

If you've got an online community [the buzz about a game] drives on with people. It really important to us. The visual appeal is a huge aspect of WipEout and now we're letting people go online and come up with what they think a WipEout ship should look like.