If you haven’t played Trine yet, you’re in for a treat as the game is finally hitting the US PlayStation Network this week. It’s been available on PC for a while and hit the EU PSN about a month ago, but US gamers will be able to grab it on their PS3 this Thursday. The game is an action/platformer with a lot of awesome puzzles.
Check out the game’s trailer and be prepared to buy this on Thursday.
I slept on Critter Crunch. I’m not going to lie. Why? Very little information was out about the game, there was no demo, and it dropped the week before Uncharted 2. Three critical strikes in getting me to buy the game. However, after some coaxing from both Nick Chester from Destructoid and Chris Paladino from Promethium Marketing (formerly Gamerscore Blog at Microsoft), I dropped my hard earned ducats on the game on my PS3 this afternoon. It is well worth the purchase.
If you’re a fan of puzzle games, get off your ass an buy this game right now. For the small fee of $6.99, you’ll get one hell of a game. Our full review will be coming early next week, but suffice it to say I didn’t want to stop playing once I fired up the game. My wife is even asking about playing more Critter Crunch. With slow sales through this point, do your part and help a good developer out. Capybara did a great job on this game and you should get out there and show your support.
Once of my favorite video game series of yesteryear was Oddworld. The series has been fairly stagnant of late, with the last release, Stranger’s Wrath, being released on the original Xbox some four years ago. In an interview with Bitmob, series creator Lorne Lanning announced that the original Abe games will be re-released on the PSN in the near future. Huzzah!
Now, when these games will be released is anyone’s guess, although Lanning did say we’d see them “very soon”. Both Abe’s Exodus and Abe’s Oddysee have already been rated by the ESRB and Lanning made no mention of the Munch games in the series, so only time will tell if we see more Oddworld re-released.
To go along with the PSN releases, PC gamers will be able to get a compilation called The Oddbox on Steam. It’ll include both Abe games as well as Munch’s Oddysee and Stranger’s Wrath. Since I roll with a Mac, these won’t be too high on my radar, but you can bet I’ll be buying the PSN releases as soon as they’re available.
I’ll pretend I’m Cousin Larry Appleton and do the dance of joy with an imaginary Balki Bartokomous.
[via Joystiq]
Not to be outdone by Microsoft, Sony announced today that you can now buy PSN content from Amazon. Right now, only around 200 pieces of content are available for purchase. When new content will be added is anyone’s guess, as we were unable to reach Sony for comment at press time.
Just like the Xbox 360 counterpart, your purchase from Amazon will yield a download code that you can enter on your PS3 or PSP to download whatever you want to purchase.
I’m a big fan of this system, especially when you get Amazon gift cards or use Coinstar to get credit with Amazon. Will make it easier than finding PSN cards, as long as content is available on both the PSN and Amazon at the same time. If Sony has a delay in getting content to Amazon from the release date on the PSN, consumers may just skip the program altogether. We’ll have to see as time goes on how well this pans out.
Over the past few months, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of Fat Princess on the PlayStation Network. After getting my hands on the game a few times and participating in the private Beta, I couldn’t wait to have the full experience. Making a chick fat by shoving cake in her gullet has never been so much fun. The wait is finally over though, as Deb Mars, the game’s producer, let loose that Fat Princess will be available this Thursday for $14.99.
Don’t get upset over the price, Fat Princess is worth every penny. You can play as one of four classes in up to 32 player online blood stained battles in an effort to recover your portly princess from the evil clutches of the opposing team. Trust me, it’s insanely fun.
Save up your clams and get ready to feed some digital hotties. If you’re looking for me after Thursday afternoon, you’ll know where to find me.
The Punisher is one of the best anti-heroes in comics. At heart, he is a pretty bad individual. He killed a bunch of people in ‘Nam and a lot of them were innocent. Then, his family gets killed. So what does he do? He kills everyone remotely involved. The moral compass on this guy is pointing straight towards nowhere. Although, it makes a great video game character. There has not been a very good Punisher game, in well, ever. Does this PSN exclusive do Frank Castle justice?
I think above all console digital distribution platforms, the PSN continues to be at the forefront of leading innovation and amazingly fun original titles. The latest being Fat Princess from Darkstar Industries. The concept is simple; two teams of medieval soldiers battle it out to try and get your princess back from the opposing team’s clutches. The gameplay, however, is surprisingly deep, comical, and full of fun. I’d heard a good deal regarding Fat Princess previously but had never gotten my hands on, so I was skeptical of all the hype. After playing it at Sony’s PlayStation.Blog Lounge at GDC, I cannot wait for its release this summer on the PSN.
The game employs a cell shaded look, which is popular right now in various titles. You are among either the red or blue team trying to rescue your princess and prevent the other team from doing the same. As the title suggests, you can continuously feed the princess cake to make her rather portly. The purpose of this insanely funny act is to make it harder for the opposing team to carry her out of your castle. Instead of just one person needed to carry a skinny princess, it’s harder for the other team to get a hefty girl out of the castle without rushing multiple people.
Not wanting Microsoft to take all the credit with their Xbox Live numbers, Sony announced this morning that the PlayStation Network now has over 20 million accounts registered. It took them 1 year 2 months to get to 5 million and only 2 years 3 months time to rack up 20 million. Not too shabby.
I do take issue with these numbers, however. Sony does admit this includes both PS3 and PSP users, but doesn’t account for the fact that PlayStation Forum members and those who want to comment on Sony sites need to register for a PSN account as well. Couple this with many PS3 owners having multiple accounts per console and it’s tough to see exactly how many PlayStation 3 users are really utilizing the PSN. I doubt we’ll ever really get the truth there for any system.
All in all, though, you do have to give Sony credit for growing the PlayStation Network from nothing when the PS3 launched to where it is today. They’ve made huge strides in just a little over two years. It’ll be interesting to see where things go over the next two years.
I’ve been struggling with just how to write this review to convey all the emotion you’ll feel while playing Flower. Thatgamecompany’s second PSN game is an utterly beautiful experience that’s certainly worth every penny of the $9.99 asking price. As you control the wind, the game takes you through an environmentalist narrative that you won’t want to put down.
The controls of the game could not be more simple. You take control of the wind, not the flower petal, as you might expect. Pressing any button increases the wind speed and makes you go faster through the world collecting more and more flower petals as you fly by. As your petal trail gets longer, your speed increases. Your motion is entirely controlled by Sixaxis movements and Flower is the most fluid implementation of those controls I’ve encountered. At no point was I frustrated by the game’s control scheme.
If you loved the Katamari games, you might want to check out Noby Noby Boy today on the PSN. Created by Keita Takahashi, it’s a difficult game to explain. So why not check out the trailer? The game will be available later today in this week’s PSN update, so pick it up if you like this quirky style of game.
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