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PS Store Today: Ghost Recon Future Solider, Lego Batman 2, more
It’s Tuesday afternoon, so that means gamers across the country are about to receive another massive PlayStation Store update from Sony. This week’s theme appears to be sequel-related.
For example, there’s the latest entry in the Ghost Recon series, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (PS3). There’s also the most recent Lego game, Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Vita). Rounding out the Full Games update is Two Worlds II: Velvet Game Of The Year Edition (PS3), which took its name from the velvet case it originally came in. Kind of hard to replicate that on the PS Store.
On the PSN front, there’s Magic: The Gathering – Duels Of The Planeswalkers 2013, which is a sequel to the equally tongue-twisting Magic: The Gathering – blah blah blah 2012.
Finally, the PSone Classic Tomba! is now available to download from the PSN. It’s not a sequel, but it did eventually receive a sequel and maybe that game will make an appearance in a future PS Store update.
For more information on all of these games, hit the jump. And for a complete list of this week’s new game add-ons, including the Battlefield 3 “Close Quarters” expansion, head over to the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
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Gravity Rush, MGS HD Collection, Batman: Arkham City, more added to PS Store
This week’s PlayStation Store update is filled with thrills, spills, and chills!
If you’re looking for a thrill, Sony has a pair of Vita games to get your blood pumping: the gravity-defying Gravity Rush and the stealth action of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. A third Vita game, the augmented reality puzzle game PulzAR, is pretty thrilling as well.
If it’s spills you’re looking for, then you’ll definitely want to point your PS3 at the PS3 Full Games section to experience the high-flying theatrics of Batman: Arkham City or the off-road madness of Dirt Showdown. And if you’ve got two left feet like me, there will be plenty of spilling involved in any play session of Just Dance 3.
Finally, the chills are provided by the PSN god game Babel Rising and an Atlus RPG, Gungnir, that’s available on the PSP, a system that has chillingly rose from the dead for one week!
More information on all of these titles can be found after the break and a full listing of this week’s new game add-ons can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
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Sound Shapes coming to PS3, Vita on August 7
Sound Shapes, the musical side-scrolling platformer by Canadian studio Queasy Games, will be coming to both PlayStation 3 and Vita on August 7. Sony made this announcement on the PlayStation Blog. Superbrothers and Jim Guthrie have provided the music and artwork for one of the levels, called Corporeal. In fact, the adorable video above shows Guthrie playing the game and using the editor, creating a level right on the spot.
The beauty of releasing this for both systems on the same day is that there will be crossplay availability from the get-go. As Mathew Kumar so elegantly wrote:
Through the magic of crossplay, you’ll be able to share content between the two systems without even having to really think about it. It’s all thanks to the “cloud” which floats above us like a benevolent data god. Save your campaign data up in the cloud, and download and resume on either platform. Maybe you’ll start creating a song at home on the PS3, but then decide that it’s not really the place to compose your latest masterpiece! Just download it to your PS Vita and make some beats on the bus. Then get off the bus several stops late, in a part of town you don’t know that well, and make some beats there! Then get another bus home, probably.
I’ve been on those buses, Mathew.
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Sony @ E3 12: CoD: Black Ops Declassified, Assassin’s Creed: Liberation coming to Vita
All the muscle of a first-person shooter will be coming to a handheld with this Fall with Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. Not only that, but Assassin’s Creed: Liberation will also be coming to the Vita as well. Activision and Ubisoft have been busy little bees.
Assassin’s Creed: Liberation will have a female assassin (whoa!), and the game can be linked with Assassin’s Creed III for exclusive downloadable content. The game will be out on October 30th, and there will be a white Vita bundle coming out as well.
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Sony @ E3 12: LittleBigPlanet will have cross-platform features with PlayStation 3 and Vita
Jack Tretton discussed some of the cross-platform possibilities between the PlayStation 3 and the Vita, and announced that LittleBigPlanet Vita will be one of those games. There will be cross-platform DLC, including stickers and levels, and level-building will be available in both. Sackboy is now officially going to be everywhere with me.
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Sony @ E3 12: PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, now with Nathan Drake and Big Daddy
PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale unsurprisingly made an appearance at the Sony press conference. Correction, the PS3 and Vita versions of PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale made an appearance at Sony’s press conference.
We got to see a live demo of the game, with Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Fat Princess, and Sly Cooper. The first two characters were played on the PlayStation 3, while the latter two were played on the PlayStation Vita. The game is cartoony, adorable, and surprisingly smooth for being so early in its development.
The characters build up to power ups, and we got to see Sweet Tooth’s, which was a huge mecha that destroyed everyone on screen. The PlayStation 3 and Vita versions are both playable on the show floor, and they announced two new characters: Nathan Drake and Big Daddy.
I don’t like Super Smash Bros. at all, yet I’m intrigued by and excited for this game. I guess it’s because I’m way more familiar with Sony characters these days than I am with Nintendo characters.
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Steampunk shooter Sine Mora soon to be seen on Vita
Even though it was published by Microsoft on the Xbox Live Arcade, Sine Mora, the steampunk shooter collaboratively developed by Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture, will be coming to the PS Vita soon.
“When you’ve got a great game on your hands, there’s nothing you want to do more than share it with everyone,” said Balázs Horváth, director of publishing at Digital Reality. “We had a fantastic launch with Microsoft exclusively on Xbox LIVE Arcade, and we’re really excited to continue that on the Vita.”
In addition to the portability factor, the Vita version will receive an exclusive character: Wilhelmine Muller from G.rev’s Under Defeat. This crossover character will bring a unique special weapon and new chronomes to Sine Mora.
The side-scrolling shooter’s Vita debut wasn’t given a release date, Digital Reality and Grasshopper Manufacture are confident that it’ll appear on the handheld “soon.”
Mega Man creator’s Soul Sacrifice is coming to North America
While Soul Sacrifice, the initial PS Vita offering from legendary video game creator and producer Keiji Inafune, was announced a few weeks ago for release in Japan, there was no word on other territories. However, fans will have no need to organise an Operation: Rainfall-esque mission, with the recent announcement that the game is set for release in North America. Inafune, or INAFKING as he likes to be credited, explained that the game will explore the themes of sacrifice and cruelty, which he associates with reality, in a fantasy setting.
“What I wanted to illustrate in this game was a “reality blended into a fantasy world.” The word “fantasy” normally points to a story that is fictitious; however, with Soul Sacrifice I wanted to illustrate a “reality” within a fantasy that wasn’t sugar-coated. It’s not about focusing on the strange, but to flip the commonly held concept of what a fantasy theme should be with the concept of “reality.”
Cruelty is a reality in our world, and we have to make sacrifices and pay costs on a daily basis. I wanted to blend this “reality” theme into a fantasy world, one filled with magic, and create a new type of gaming experience that relied on the player making sacrifices in order to obtain great power.
There is a “dark pleasure” lying in between fiction and reality that none of us knew was there. If you simply think of it as a “dark fantasy,” then your expectations will be betrayed – but in a good way. Please look forward to Soul Sacrifice. It will be a game that players around the world will surely enjoy.”
The game is being developed by Inafune’s new company, Comcept, who have tasked themselves with generating strong, original concepts and tackling what they have dubbed “Japan’s creative crisis.” The game will also feature music composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and Wataru Hokoyama, the former responsible for the amazing soundtrack heard in the criticall acclaimed Wii JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles.
[Source: PlayStation Blog]
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