MLB, LucasFilm content now on PlayStation Network

MLB and LucasFilm content is now available on PlayStation Network’s video delivery service, if you care. This means that a variety of downloadable entertainment and sports content will now be available from the PlayStation Store. The first piece of content from LucasFilms will be the StarWars: The Clone Wars animated series that airs on Cartoon Network.

Meanwhile, MLB is offering the current 2009 World Series featuring the Philadelphia Phillies vs. New York Yankees (in case you’ve missed any of the games so far), and also a section with classic games.

A new partnership with Image Entertainment also brings feature films like Powder Blue and Management, whole a deal with MPI Media Group brings in such classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a deal with ContentFilm International delivers Hurly Burly and Interstate 60 to the PlayStation Store. Look for this and other new content on the PlayStation Network beginning today.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes released

LucasArts has released Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS and PC. Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes allows players to fight as both Jedi Knights and clone troopers through over 40 missions, all created from shared visual assets from the TV series that airs on Cartoon Network.

Featuring a brand-new storyline, players get the chance to take part in the key events that lead directly into the second season of the animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Jedi characters can slice and dice their way through enemies, commandeer droids and show off their combat prowess on foot and in a variety of vehicles. Clone troopers use a heavy weapons platform that includes rocket launchers, thermal detonators and even jet packs in levels built specifically put run-and-gun gameplay to the test.

The game also supports two player local drop-in and drop-out cooperative play on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Look for the game in stores this week.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Announced

LucasArts announced this morning that it has tapped Australian game development studio Krome to create the next game based on the popular Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series that airs on Cartoon Network. Based on the Cartoon Network series and working with the folks helped create it - Lucasfilm Animation, the new game from Krome will be called Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes and will allows players to take up arms on behalf of the Galactic Republic, while pursuing the mysterious bounty hunter Cad Bane and combating the all-new Skakoan super villain Kul Teska.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes allows players to fight as both Jedi Knights and Clone Troopers through over 30 missions, using the same visual style from the TV series. The game will feature a brand-new storyline that puts players into the key events that lead directly into the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Jedi characters will be to wield their hallmark lightsabers, commandeer droids and drive in a variety of vehicles. Clone Troopers fire will use their heavy weapons and devices - just like in the TV show - including rocket launchers, thermal detonators and jet packs in levels built specifically for run-and-gun gameplay. according to LucasArts.

The Lucasfilm Animation Singapore games will develop the DS version, which LucasArts promises will offer an expanded storyline, touch-screen controls for movement, attacks and puzzle solving and other DS specific features to be announced.

LucasArts also confirmed that the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of the game will support drop-in/drop-out, on the fly two-player online and offline co-op play. Obviously given that the show centers around Anakin’s team, this makes sense. 

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes will be released this September for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS and PC.

Editor’s Note: story edited to include info on cooperative play.