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News American PlayStation Store Updates: 9th August 2011
Updates Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad Of Gay Tony Sale (PS3) (now $9
99, original price $19.99) Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost And Damned Sale (PS3) (now $4.99, original price $9.99) Midnight Club Los Angeles South Central Ultimate Content Pack Sale (PS3) (now $6.49, original price $12.50) Red Dead Redemption Deadly Assassin...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: PlayStation Network Offline Again Tomorrow Evening
Just heads up: Sony's announced that the PlayStation Network will be going through another bout of scheduled maintenance from 16:05PM BST tomorrow (Thursday 11th) through to 02:00AM BST (Friday 12th)
During which time you'll be unable to access the PlayStation Store and Account Management. You'll still be able to play online if you sign into the...
News Sanuk Games Brings Hysteria Project 2 To The European PlayStation Store Today
After last week's announcement, Sanuk Games has revealed that Hysteria Project 2 will launch on the European PlayStation Store this afternoon as part of today's scheduled update
The FMV-driven choose your-own-adventure sequel promises trickier puzzles and plenty more gruesome death sequences. While we found the original Hysteria Project heavily...
News Beat Hazard Ultra Transforms Your Music Collection Into A Twin-Stick Shooter
Meet Steve Hunt
Not only is Steve super smart, he's also a little bit nuts — crafting upcoming PSN twin-stick shooter, Beat Hazard Ultra, by himself. The glossy shooter transforms your music collection into an exciting shooter with eye-watering visuals. "Everything you see in the game is dictated by the music in some way, from the firepower...
News DoubleSix Announces Strike Suit Zero For PlayStation Network
Burn Zombie Burn
DoubleSix is busy. Not only is the British-based studio working on the upcoming All Zombies Must Die!, but it's also just announced Strike Suit Zero — a deep-space arcade shooter featuring transforming robotic spacecrafts. Details are scarce right now, but we do know that the game's space-crafts have been designed by Junji Okubo...
News Splinter Cell Trilogy Launches Tomorrow On European PlayStation Network
Ubisoft's confirmed that the oft-delayed Splinter Cell Trilogy collection will launch on the European PlayStation Store from tomorrow
The release — which will launch on Blu-ray at a later date — comprises of HD upgrades of Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. As a bundle, the games will set you back...
News Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition Playable Offline
Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition will not utilise Capcom's bizarre PlayStation Network DRM, the company has confirmed
Previous Capcom titles on the PlayStation Network have required players to be online before they can be played, but that won't be the case with the company's upcoming re-released PSN brawler. "The game does not...
News Hamilton's Great Adventure Launches On PlayStation Network Later This Month (For Reals)
Hamilton's Great Adventure has been delayed, oooh, about a million times now
But the Fatshark developed platform will finally release on August 24th the developer has announced. Really. The PC version of the game launched earlier in the year, generating moderate buzz. The game will need about ten-times more buzz on PS3 though, it's going up against...
News Casting For The Tester 3 Begins, Ups The Stakes
The Tester has gone from strength-to-strength since its debut a couple of years ago
SCEA's foray into the world of reality TV has been a surprisingly successful endeavour, driving audiences exclusively through the PlayStation Network and promising winning contestants a job in Sony's QA department. The Tester 3 is seriously upping the stakes though...
News Scribble Shooter Launches In PlayStation Home
As PlayStation Home continues to push into a more gaming oriented direction, Sony's announced that it's launching Scribble Shooter this week
Scribble Shooter is a retro sh'mup with hand drawn artwork and tons of unlockable items and rewards. In addition to Scribble Shooter, GAME's launching top-down arcade shooter Savage Cosmos in the Moonbase...
News Grasshopper Goes Dieselpunk With PSN Shmup Sine Mora
We had to look up "dieselpunk" on Wikipedia
Apparently the buzzword represents "a sub-genre of the pop surrealist art movement, as well as a budding subculture, that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through the early 1950s with postmodern technology and sensibilities". Right. To be honest, all you really need to know is...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: PSN Scheduled Maintenance Kicks Off Again Tomorrow
Sony's announced that the PlayStation Network will be undergoing maintenance starting Thursday 4th August from 16:00PM BST through to 03:00AM BST Friday morning
During which time you'll be unable to access Account Management, the PlayStation Store and PlayStation Home. Online game titles may also be affected, Sony's noted. Those signed into the...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 2nd August 2011
Updates Auditorium HD Sale (PS3) (now $4
99, original price $9.99) Caterpillar Sale (PS3/PSP) (now $2.49, original price $4.99) Gold Fever Minis Sale (PS3/PSP) (now $2.49, original price $4.99) Panda Craze Minis Sale (PS3/PSP) (now 2.49, original price 4.99) Rocks N' Rockets Sale (PS3/PSP) (now $2.49, original price $4.99)...
News EA Sports Launches Season Ticket Subscription
EA Sports has talked about subscription services for its roster of annual franchises for a while, and today its launched the first stages of that vision -- EA Sports Season Ticket
For an annual fee of $24.99 — the service is not currently available in Europe on PS3 — EA Season Ticket will allow you to get early access to EA Sports titles,...
News Monochrome Racing Looks Like A Neat Little Top-Down Racer For PlayStation Minis
Regular readers will know that we adore arcade racing games
Unfortunately, there's a real lack of these types of games on PSP. Yes, there's SEGA Rally and Split/Second, but they don't really work as well as on their PlayStation 3 counterparts. Perhaps then, top-down racing is the best way to ensure an accessible arcade driving experience on PSP...
News Hysteria Project 2 Stumbles Its Way To PlayStation Minis
The original Hysteria Project was a flawed product, but there was merit in its ideas
So we're excited to see if its sequel can fair any better. For those that don't know, Hysteria Project is essentially an FMV horror game where you need to make choices and react to the environment in order to stay alive. Definitely a cool concept. Hysteria Project...
News Sony Confirms Emulated International PSone Classics For Europe
Visit the European PlayStation Blog at any point in the week and you'll no doubt spot a large number of people moaning in the comments
Often these complaints stem from the lack of quality PSone re-releases on the PlayStation Store. SCEE's been pretty open about the challenges of bringing some of this content over in recent months, and so today its...
News Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition To Get Free Balance Patch
Don't worry, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Version 2012 is not a new game
It's a patch that rebalances existing copies of Arcade Edition. And it's free. During a panel at this weekend's fighting game tournament, Evo, Street Fighter gaffer Yoshinori Ono said that the update would be location tested at major Japanese cities towards the end of...
News Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team Launches August 2nd On PlayStation Network
THQ's circled an August 2nd North American release date for its class-based dual-joystick PlayStation Network Warhammer spin-off, Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team
Europeans will have to wait until August 10th to get their hands on the game. THQ's uploaded a stack of information about the downloadable title on the PlayStation Blog. Click through there for...
News Sony: PSN Outage Not As Expensive As First Thought
The bill for the recent PlayStation Network outage is "shrinking" according to Sony
The company revealed during its financial call overnight that the costs will "not be as great as originally estimated". In May, Sony predicted that the cost of the outage would be around 14 billion yen (or £105 million). But, "that was the May...
News PlayStation 3 Hardware Sales Dip, While Software Jumps
Sony's released its sales results for the quarter ending June 30th, showing the biggest sign of a PlayStation 3 price-drop yet
While Sony's estimates for the fiscal year stuck at 15 million units, hardware was actually down for the first quarter by 600,000 units. To us, this says price-drop. Officially, Sony sold 1.8 million PlayStation 3's last...
News Resident Evil Re-Releases To Run You ?15.99
Capcom's upcoming HD re-releases of Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica will each stretch you £15
99 when they release on the PlayStation Network in September. The Japanese publisher announced that Resident Evil 4 will release on September 21st with Code Veronica following a week later on September 28th. Both games boast trophy support...
News All Zombies Must Die! Announced For The PlayStation Network
Doublesix has announced the spiritual successor to its surprisingly addictive cartoon shooter -- Burn Zombie, Burn
</a> — this afternoon. The declarative All Zombies Must Die! is due to release on the PlayStation Network by the end of the year. It sounds like All Zombies Must Die! will lean heavily on Burn's slap-stick humour, putting you in...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 27th July 2011
Summer Sale Offers Slam Bolt Scrappers (was £11
99/14.99 now £6.29/7.99) Swords and Soldiers (was £6.29/7.99 now £3.19/3.99) TerRover (was £8.99/11.25 now £4.39/5.49) Peggle(was £6.29/7.99 now £3.19/3.99) Acceleration of SUGURI X-Edition (was 5.99 -now 2.99) Anarchy: Rush Hour (was £4.79/5.99 now...
News European PlayStation Plus Subscribers Get More Goodies Today
Just a heads up to any European PlayStation Plus subscribers: Sony's got another wave of goodies to give-away this month
Most of which revolve around Section 8: Prejudice, which launches on the PlayStation Store this afternoon. PlayStation Plus subscribers will get access to the exclusive Hunter Armour should they decide to pick up the game. The...
News So, NBA Jam: On Fire Edition Looks Like Fun
EA's dropped a trailer for NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, the PlayStation Network downloadable title that its NBA Jam reboot should have been all along
The game's due out later in the year. [Cheers VG247]
News PlayStation Vita's Activity Feature A 'Possibility' For PlayStation 3
Ever since Sony announced the PlayStation Vita and its social networking feature, LiveArea & Activity, we've banked on it coming to the PlayStation 3
The system allows players to comment on their friends progress within games, and even allows developers to update fans on the latest events in their games. The feature feels like the next natural...
News PlayStation Vita's Battery To Be 'Adequate For Continuous Gaming Experience'
PlayStation India's gaffer, Atindriya Bose, has commented on the PlayStation Vita's battery life, reasurring GamingBolt that the system will have an "adequate battery life for someone to have a continuous gaming experience"
Bose added: "Given the fact that we know that we are creating a personal, portable and a mobile gaming experience, the...
News Ubisoft Announces Assassin's Creed: Embers
We hope you're not done with Ezio yet, as Ubisoft has announced Assassin's Creed: Embers this afternoon -- a short movie which will expand on the final moments of Ezio's story
The animated movie will release alongside Assassin's Creed: Revelations on November 15th. The UbiWorkshop developed movie will ship with the Animus Editions of Assassin's...
News Sony Fleshes Out PlayStation Vita's Array Of Social Features
One of the best features of the PlayStation Vita's hardware is its suite of online social options: Near, Party and LiveArea
In an interview with Eurogamer, Sony Europe's R&D gaffer, Phil Rogers, has offered a little more insight into what each of the features offers and hopes to achieve. According to Rogers, Near is a little like Nintendo 3DS'...
News Marvel Pinball Slings Itself Onto PlayStation Vita Next Year
Zen Studios' excellent licensed PlayStation Network pinball title, Marvel Pinball, is coming to the PlayStation Vita the developer has confirmed
No firm dates were given for the portable version of the title, but a rough "end of 2012" date was referenced. In other Marvel Pinball news, a new expansion called Vengeance And Virtue will launch...
News Brazil Gets Its Own PlayStation Store & PlayStation Blog
Hello Brazil
How're you doing? We hear your economy is booming. So much so, Sony's looking to get a piece of the pie. The company's just announced the launch of the PlayStation Store in the region. You'll now be able to buy content in Portuguese and English. You're even being offered your own Welcome Back package. There's also now a local version of...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 19th July 2011
Updates Bioshock 2 Exclusive Characters Sale (PS3) (now $0
99, original price $1.99) Bioshock 2 Minerva's Den Sale (PS3) (now $4.99, original price $9.99) Bioshock 2 Protector Trials Sale (PS3) (now $2.49, original price $4.99) Bioshock 2 Rapture Metro Sale (PS3) (now $4.99, original price $9.99) Bioshock 2 Sinclair Solutions Tester...
News BloodRayne: Betrayal Rounds Out The Summer
WayForward's two-dimensional twist on the BloodRayne series, BloodRayne: Betrayal, has been pushed out of its "early August" release window for a firm spot at the end of the month
The game will now launch August 30th on the PlayStation Network.
News Laughing Jackal Announce Early August Release Date For OMG-Z
Oh my god, zombies are coming
The undead will shuffle their way into North America on August 2nd with the release of Laughing Jackal's latest PlayStation Mini OMG-Z. Europeans will get an extra day to prepare for the onslaught, with the "gore-splattered chain-reaction shooter" set to launch on August 3rd across the Atlantic. The game will...
Now we're over the hurdle of the PlayStation Network hack and are well on the way towards getting back to normal, it's strange timing for a Sony employee to describe the downtime as a "really good time"
But that's exactly what Tim Schaaff has said in an interview with GamesBeat. "Great experience, really good time," Schaaff said of the...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 13th July 2011
Playable Content Dead Nation (£9
99/12.99, trial and unlock) PixelJunk Shooter 2 demo</ul>Minis Arcade Pool & Snooker (£3.49/3.99) Awesome Summer Minis Bundle (£4.99/5.99) Gamocracy One : Legend Of Robot (£4.15/5.19) Add-On Game Content DanceDanceRevolution: New Moves — DDR Supernova 2 Greatest Hits...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 12th July 2011
Summer Sale Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Full Game (now $6
99, original price $9.99, PlayStation Plus price $4.89) PixelJunk Shooter 2 Full Game (now $6.99, original price $9.99, PlayStation Plus price $4.89) Hard Corps: Uprising Full Game (now $10.49, original price $14.99, PlayStation Plus price $7.34) Hard Corps: Character: Harley...
News Euro PS Plus Members Get Free Castle Crashers Today
All that bickering and moaning seems to have done the trick, as Sony has revealed the first of its "anniversary treats" for European PlayStation Plus subscribers this morning
On top of the huge roster of content currently available for July, Sony is also giving away free copies of Castle Crashers — The Behemoth's awesome looking four-player beat...
News How Come Limbo's Only Just Releasing On The PlayStation 3?
PlayDead's ambitious downloadable adventure title, Limbo, has been available on the XBOX 360 for over a year now
Next week the title will debut on the PlayStation Network — but why's the game taken so long to hit Sony's platform? "Initially, Arnt Jensen, my partner and game director for Playdead, was interested in releasing Limbo as a PC...
News Rain Likely With New Mortal Kombat DLC
NetherRealm's lifted the lid on Mortal Kombat's latest DLC kombatant, Rain
The character — who originally debuted in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 — will be available to download from the PlayStation Network on July 19th. He'll run you approximately £3.19. As the character's name suggests, Rain is able to manipulate water and lightning to his deadly...
News Dust 514 Won't Be Entirely Free After All
Want in? Cough up.
Innovative Move shooter Dust 514 takes place in the world of EVE Online, and although the game is free to play you'll still have to pay to download it. Developer CCP confirmed you'll have to pay a "cover charge" to get in, which will be refunded to you as in-game credits. In the beginning you have to pre-buy credits, so...
Feature What Do You Mean You're Not Playing SuperSonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars?
The online communities of PlayStation Network titles tend to dwindle quickly
But despite being released in the hazy days of 2008, the obnoxiously titled SuperSonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars is still brimming with activity. Given a new lease of life via PlayStation Plus this month, we hopped into the part-racer, part-soccer title to find...
News Limbo Releases July 19th, July 20th On PlayStation 3
PlayDead's macabre downloadable adventure title, Limbo, is set to releae later in the month on PS3
The US will get the game first on July 19th, with Europe joining in on July 20th. Given the heavy praise Limbo has received since its release on XBOX 360, we'll be there day one for the PSN version.
Feature Marvel Pinball: Captain America (DLC) on PlayStation 3 Review
Marvel Pinball's Captain America table is a more refined, elegant release than previous entries, boasting a more traditional design than Zen's more contemporary releases
As Zen Studios extends its table roster for Marvel Pinball and Zen Pinball, we're finding these reviews increasingly more difficult to write. The latest addition to Marvel Pinball...
News Sony to Start PSN Pass Scheme with Resistance 3
One game, one code
Sony has been dabbling with online content codes for its recent shooters, with a single-use code in SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs giving North American players access to the SOCOM "Pro" club. Without the code, entry to the club costs $14.99, but at least there's still online play. Now Sony is ready to change things up again...
News Sony Confirms Online Pass System For Resistance 3, Future Titles
Sony's confirmed that Resistance 3 will be the first PS3 title to make use of a new "network pass program" designed to combat used sales
The PSN Pass — which emerged as part of a boxart leak yesterday — is very similar to the type of system employed by EA, Warner Bros and other third-party publishers. Sony's employed the use of online passes in...
News PlayStation Plus Is A Year Old, Celebrates With Cake
Sony has updated the PlayStation Plus content for July, announcing the service's one year anniversary with images of cake
Sadly your PlayStation Plus subscription does not include a slice of the iced delicacy. Sony reckons that since it launched the service last July it's delivered over £700 worth of content. There are a few cheeky stipulations in...
Out Today Sega Rally Online Arcade (Europe)
Slip slidin' in
After a month of doing donuts in the North American PlayStation Store, Sega Rally Online Arcade has started the European leg of its PSN Rally, complete with PlayStation Move support. The game will set you back £6.29 or €7.99 if you want to take it for a spin. We've already given it a thorough test drive, and here's an excerpt from...
News Be Ready For Your Date With Catherine Next Week
If you're still not entirely sure what Catherine is all about, everything will be revealed next week
Atlus has confirmed that the game will receive a PlayStation Network demo on July 12th, so you'll finally be able to make sense of all the platforming, dating and sheep-people drama. Perhaps. The demo will be exactly the same as the one on the...
