No Mega Man is not going out on a date, he finally gets a street date for his newest release Mega Man 9 or as I like to call it Mega Man Nueve. Get your internet connection and console of choice ready because Mega Man is here for you to start downloading his newest adventure.
The wait is fianlly over: Mega Man 9 hits North America next week!
The game will be released for download on the September 22 for the Wii.
Playstation Network gets it September 25th, and XBLA will have it October 1!
These dates are for North America ONLY.
No pricing structure was mentioned just yet, but I will pay Capcom whatever they want for this game. Most likely grabbing this bad boy for my Xbox 360, which means I will have to wait a bit, but patience is a virtue.
I’ve enjoyed PAIN since it was first released on the PlayStation Network almost a year ago. The hilarious ways you could inflict pain and destruction made a very fun gameplay experience. But the amount of content that shipped with the game wasn’t huge. Only one environment, Downtown, was available. Now, Sony and Idol Minds have released a new level, the Amusement Park.
When I first saw videos of The Last Guy, I was confused. Then I saw the “developer interview” on the PSN and got even more confused. When I finally played the demo, I went with a bad taste in my mouth, and to that effect, the demo didn’t blow me away, but I did see potential. When I fired up the full game, I started playing and didn’t put the controller down for four hours.
A lot of buzz has been circling the upcoming title form EA, Mirror’s Edge, in regards it’s overall great gameplay and most recently a rumor that it would be a timed exclusive. Well recent accounts have dispelled the timed exclusivity of the title for the Sony PS3, but some other news took its place very quickly. Seems that Mirror’s Edge will get exclusive downloadable content on the Sony PS3 because of an agreement that Sony and EA have worked up. No details on what the DLC will be or how it will differ from the Xbox 360 content, but in todays race to more sell units I am sure many PS3 execs are smiling right now. Stay tuned for more on this.
However, Sony did confirm that although Mirror’s Edge is multi-platform, “PlayStation has an exclusive marketing agreement with EA regarding the title.
Plus, the spokesperson added, “Exclusive downloadable content will be offered on the PlayStation Network.”
One of the positive aspects of the PlayStation Network is that you don’t have to pay a dime to get your online gaming fix. Sony has stated they want to keep the PSN free as well as offer you a good amount of other free services.
We like to provide as many services as possible for free — we already provide our network access for gameplay for free — and the interesting thing about the network side and the Internet business is that there’s a variety of revenue sources. Not necessarily getting people to pay, but with advertising and so on.
Those are things we’re looking at, and learning how we can provide a service without people having to pay — but we still get our operation running with funding from somewhere so that we can maintain the level of quality we want.
Sounds like a plan to me. Free is good, as long as the quality is there. Sony has been making tremendous strides with the PSN to bring it up to speed. We’ll see how well this works.
Have you ever watched Starship Troopers and though “Damn I want to fight giant bugs?” You’re chance is coming on the PSN this Fall. Savage Moon will meld together Starship Troopers style alien bugs with tower defense gameplay.
To defend the mines, you start off with machine gun towers and can expand your arsenal to include wide range of weaponry and heavy artillery. This is where your strategizing skills come into play. It’s up to you when to upgrade, add new towers, or save your money, and your strategies will make the difference between escaping unscathed and watching the mines go up in flames. You have to place the tower defenses in areas where they will be most effective in killing the different kinds of Insectocytes before they make it to the mining facilities. And as you kill the Insectocytes, you earn valuable points that you can use to upgrade the size and firepower of your defenses, and to develop new weapons and technologies.
I’m a big fan of tower defense, from games like Desktop Tower Defense to PixelJunk Monsters. Savage Moon looks to add nicely to the aresenal and will most likely take up a lot of my gaming time this Fall. That is when I’m not playing Resistance 2, Gears of War 2, Rock Band 2, and all kinds of other good stuff.
The upcoming PSN Ratchet and Clank game has been dated. It was priced at $14.99 at E3, but Sony dropped the date on us of August 22nd.
For those of you who don’t know much about Quest for Booty, Ratchet continues the search for his missing mate, Clank, in this pirate-themed sequel to Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. Even though Q4B is a downloadable game, it packs all of the AAA-production punch you’ve come to expect from every Insomniac Games title.
As for the gameplay, Q4B focuses heavily on exploration and platforming, along with some of new experimental action for the franchise. For example, Ratchet will use the new kinetic tether on his Wrench to manipulate the environment, and he’ll use elements such as light and shadows to his advantage.
This is high up on my priority list for August. I absolutely loved R&C Future, so I’m looking forward to checking out this PSN game in a few weeks. No Trophy support, unfortunately. According to James Stevenson, the Community Relations Manager at Insomniac, the Trophy standards were finalized about the same time Quest for Booty was completed. Oh well.
Have you been dying to play the Penny Arcade game, but you don’t have an Xbox 360 or a PC? Shame on you. If that’s the case, you’re in luck as the game is coming to the PlayStation Network this Fall.
“We keep getting emails asking why our Penny Arcade game is not on PSN,” said Hothead’s CEO, Vlad Ceraldi. “We have always said we wanted to have our games on as many platforms as possible to give choice to gamers. All good things take time and we are very excited to be debuting our first PS3 title and look forward to bringing more games to this platform in the future.
One can ony imagine the rest of the game’s episodes will ship for the PS3 at the same time as the Xbox 360 and PC.
Check out the upcoming PSN game, Rag Doll Kung Fu. You can to rock some 2-4 player Kung Fu fighting with rag doll characters. Looks pretty, almost like Smash Brothers, but in a different style.
Sony quietly dropped some new features on the PlayStation website. You can now link your PSN name to your PlayStation Underground login. They’ve setup Portable ID cards that you can embed on sites around the intarwebs. Not only that, but you can also view your friend list on the site as well.
Cool features, but they’re a little lacking in their current form. It’s a bit cumbersome to signup for a PSU login and link your PSN name if you’re new. Why not just create a new account with your PSN credentials and have it auto-linked? The friend list is a bit raw as well, as you can only view your friend’s status. I’m hoping this gets expanded soon to allow you to add friends, send and check messages, and view Trophies, similar to how My Xbox works.
This is another feature that PS3 users have been requesting, so it’s nice to see Sony listening to their user base. I wish they would have taken a bit more time and added a bit more polish before launching this. Just like firmware 2.40 (and 2.41), some things are just never enough for gamers.
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