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.
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Sony reveals minis for PSP: small games with a big crunch
Everybody wants to be the iPod Touch or the iPhone. Nintendo tried to get in on the action with DSiWare for the DSi and now Sony makes its play with a new service that will deliver small, bite-sized games to the PSP Go.
At its Gamescom press event in Cologne, Germany, Sony Computer Entertainment revealed minis, a new offering on the PlayStation Store that gives players a range of all-new downloadable games for PSP. Only available via digital distribution, minis will have a 100MB size limit, ensuring they are quick and easy to download to either the upcoming PSP Go or older PSP units. The new minis section will be available on PlayStation Store on October 1 in Europe/ PAL territories and in North America, to coincide with the launch of PSP Go.
Fifteen games will be available at launch across various genres including arcade games, racers, parlor games and more. SCE hopes to up that number to around 50 by the end of this year. These minis will come from developers of all stripes and sizes including Gameshastra, HoneySlug, Creat, and Subatomic Studios. Bigger publishers like EA want to get in on the action too; Electronic Arts is already developing a number of games including Tetris and Sudoku, and more.
We’re extremely interested to see how good these games will be and whether or not they will have the power to excite a PSP user base that doesn’t always get much to be excited about.
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Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman! coming to PSN
Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? is coming PlayStation Network in July, says NIS America. The strategy RPG for PSP will also be released at retail in UMD format. The digital download of the game from the PlayStation Store will be a lovely $19.99 USD. No doubt a dual release of the game is to allow for support of the PSP GO’s UMD-less design.
Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? will be released on July 16 and is being developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and ACQUIRE.
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Konami reveals Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals
Konami Digital Entertainment announced that Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals, a game for Xbox Live, WiiWare, and PlayStation Network is in the works and will be published in North America this fall. In the game Sinister forces have deceived you to believe that your destructive behavior will save an epic hero - when in reality, you’re working for evil.
Players take control of a tornado to tear through open environments, chewing up the landscape and spitting out everything in your path. The more you destroy, the bigger you grow as you work against time based, collection and point challenges in the search for hidden elements and enemies from another world. Zephyr provides sandbox type gameplay with real time destruction in a simple to play game style.
In co-operative multiplayer two players drive through environments picking up and tossing everything standing in their way in an effort to battle against the evil Omegaton. The items in a player’s path range from the usual rusted tractors and rustic farms, to the strange and unexpected as you tear your way through increasingly complex and crowded areas around the world. Through large open worlds, users can take control of how objects are damaged and destroyed with the active destruction game mechanic. For added replayability, players can complete multiple missions and destroy different objects within environments to maximize each level and earn extra points.
Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals is being developed by Loose Cannon Studios.
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Droplitz tutorial video
Atlus USA has released a video introducing players to the concept and gameplay of its upcoming Xbox Live Arcade PlayStation Network, Windows and iPhone game, Droplitz. The video (found below) gives players a crash course on this puzzler that involves leaking drops of liquid. Check it out below, and look for the game soon.
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Call it PixelJunk Shooter
Admit it, Q-Games fans, PixelJunk 1-4 was a stupid name. Q-Games knew it, you knew it, hell even my mom said it didn’t make any sense. So it was with a happy heart that I bring PixelJunk fans the following good tidings: PixelJunk 1-4 will now be known as PixelJunk Shooter. Dylan Cuthbert, President and Executive Producer at Q-Games Ltd. laid out the details on the official PlayStation blogtoday, offering a timeline of how the game went from the old stupid name to the new sexier title.
The new name came from a vote at , where 10,000 users picked a number of names based on the trailer. Since the game is a shooter of sorts, Q-Games chose “Shooter” because it matches the style of the game, despite users choosing PixelJunk Elements - but that name didn’t work. sorry, PixelJunk fans.
The game will be on display next week at the E3 Expo 2009 - so if you can get in, check it out (with co-op play!) - but don’t call it PixelJunk 1-4 ever again, got it?
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Unbound Saga on PlayStation Store in July
Vogster Entertainment’s Unbound Saga will be available on July 16 exclusively from the PlayStation Store. The game will be a digital download for the PSP, though the final price for the game was not disclosed at press time. Unbound Saga is a comic book inspired arcade-style brawler for the PSP based on Dark Horse’s comic book of the same name. The game follows the adventures of self-aware comic book tough guy Rick Ajax, as he battles the constant and cataclysmic threats that are put in his path by the god-like entity known as ‘The Maker’.
The game features cover art by illustration icon Joe Linsner (Cry for Dawn, Dark Ivory), an original story by comic book veteran Mike Kennedy (Star Wars, Superman, Alien vs Predator) and art by fan-favorite Cliff Richards (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wonder Woman, The New Thunderbolts).
Look for the game on the PlayStation Store in July.
The games we're pulling together in this feature won't appear on any of those best-of lists and get confused looks when you mention them in conversation. Just because time has forgotten these titles, though, doesn't mean you should forget them, too.
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.
