For today only, you can pick up the highly entertaining, old school style hack n’ slash, Castle Crashers for just 560 MS Points ($7). That’s half it’s regular price!
Castle Crashers is one of the best games available on the XBLM, so I recommend taking advantage of this deal while it lasts!
Bioware has revealed some new downloadable content for their RPG hit Dragon Age.
Entitled, “Return to Ostagar,” the DLC will include a new quest in which players embark on a quest to attain King Cailan’s armor by returning to Ostagar, site of the Grey Warden’s greatest defeat, and uncovering King Cailan’s secrets.
The DLC is priced at 400MS Points ($4.99 for the PS3 version), and will be hitting the PC and 360 on January 5th. The PS3 will get the content sometime later in January.
For those brave adventurers traversing the extremely hazardous Kingdom of Boletaria, you may find yourself facing enemies not as deadly, as From Software has turned the World Tendency to Pure White in recognition of Winter Solstace. Enemies won’t be as tough, and item drops tied to world tendency may be easier to come by, as well as NPC’s tied to tendency as well.
The event will last until next Tuesday, December 28th, so take advantage of it while you can!
Media Molecule has announced that their Playstation 3 exclusive darling Little Big Planet will receive it’s first new level pack since the Metal Gear Solid Pack next week, December 22, in the form of a Pirates of the Caribbean set.
The pack will include 5 new levels, 1 new costume, 4 new music tracks, 1 new level background, 8 materials, 14 decorations, 27 objects, 133 stickers and 11 new PlayStation Trophies. Additionally, the much anticipated “Water Upgrade” will make it’s debut with this pack, allowing Sackboys and Sackgirls to get themselves into all sorts of waterlogged adventures.
The pack will retail at $5.99 (USD).
An Editorial By Figboy
Ever since Sony announced that the Playstation 3 would include a high capacity Blu Ray disc drive in each console, the decision was highly criticized for being Sony’s attempt to Trojan Horse Blu Ray into the marketplace, and how the need for a higher capacity disc was not needed in gaming.
However, over the past three years the Playstation 3 has been on the market, it has shown, time and time again, that having that extra space does more for gaming than earlier pundits believed. I’m going to outline just a few of the benefits that extra 25-50 gigs of space on a single and dual layer Blu Ray has brought to gaming. Continue reading
Genre: Thumbstick Shooter/Puzzler
Platform: Playstation 3 (PSN)
Developer: Q Games
Price: $9.99 (USD)
Q Games has been making a name for themselves as a developer that can craft engaging, fun games with the simplest of graphical presentation and game play mechanics. Their latest, Pixel Junk Shooter takes the familiar “Thumbstick Shooter” genre, and marries it with a unique premise to bring us one of their best, if not, best titles in the PixelJunk series. Continue reading
That’s about the long and short of it. I briefly detailed the update a few days ago. It’s optional, so you’ll have to go to the “System Update” tab in the Cross Media Bar and get to downloading!
EA has just announced that their entry into the hack n slash genre next February, Dante’s Inferno, will receive some bonus content exclusively for the Playstation 3 version of the game.
Dubbed the “Divine Edition,” the game will feature developer commentary, a Wayne Barlow digital art book, the game’s soundtrack, and, interestingly enough, a digital version of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno.
And how much will this special edition cost? Why, the same as the plain Xbox 360 version (which, as of this writing, has no additional content), $59.99.
EA is certainly trying to entice PS3 owners next February, possibly in response to the pending release of the much anticipated God of War 3 in March.
In what is becoming an increasingly stuffed quarter 1 2010, Sega has announced that their rather popular in Japan Yakuza 3 will be hitting North American, European, and Australian Playstation 3 systems in March 2010.
The game will need all of it’s Yakuza connections to compete with the likes of God of War 3, Gran Turismo 5, and Final Fantasy XIII, which are also slated for a March release on the PS3 in the English speaking countries.
I really enjoyed the Japanese demo of the game, as well as the first entry in the series (never got a chance to play the sequel), so I’m certainly looking forward to it, but I don’t think my wallet can support so many titles being pushed to March. There are 11 other perfectly viable months of the year in which to release games, perhaps you should look into them, gaming industry.
Word from the Playstation Blog revealed that the next Playstation 3 update, 3.15, will include a host of new features, including the ability to play PSP Mini’s on your Playstation 3.
When the update hits December 17th, the Mini’s will be available on the Playstation 3’s Store. For those that already own Minis for their PSP Go, they will simply have to download the Mini from the network. I’m hoping this is just one step closer to having all PSP games playable on the Playstation 3 in the future.
The optional firmware update also allows gamers who have purchased more than one Playstation 3 console to transfer data between the two consoles. This includes everything from save and game data, to videos, photos, and music. The new PS3 will have to be activated in order to use downloaded Playstation Network titles, but being able to transfer all game data is a big plus (as a person who has owned a Playstation 3 that died, it would have been nice to have this feature a year ago, and thus not lose any of my game progress).
More info is available via the link below.
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