This week on the US PlayStation Video Store you will find Naruto Shippuden Uncut the TV series. For a limited time episode 1 will be free on the Store, so head over for your free download. As always, all the latest TV shows are available to purchase as well as several SD and HD movies. As for this week’s top download, Trick ‘r Treat is on top followed by X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Year One, all unchanged from last week.
The MAG Public Beta has received a client update, bringing the version to v1.30. his new MAG Public Beta release includes over 8,000 updates and fixes, too many to list in detail, but we’ve included some of the significant changes below. If you are not yet a part of the MAG Public Beta there is still time. If you pre-order MAG at GameStop in the US or EB Games in Canada you receive access to the MAG Public Beta. And remember, from November 9th until November 20th the only way to access the MAG Public Beta in North America is to pre-order MAG.
The first episode of Uncharted: Eye of Indra is now available to download from the PlayStation Store, and its free! Eye of Indra is a four part motion comicand the original prequel store to Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. A Motion Comic is essentially an animated comic book – you watch it like a movie. Characters move, there’s some 3D effects, and cool panel transitions. Eye of Indra has actually been over a year in the making and was only recently announced by Naughty Dog.
This week on the PlayStation Store you will find many titles available at a discount on both the European and US Stores. Europe has a new demo available for download and the US has three new demos, including the first of two Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time demos. A new episode of PULSE is available to download from the US store and the first episode of Uncharted: Eye of Indra. Check out the lists below for details on what’s new.
The PlayStation 3 PlayTV software has been updated to v1.21 today. The biggest change in the 24MB patch is the ability to watch, pause and record high-definition TV, though it’s not clear which countries this feature applies to. Other features include multi-channel audio playback, improved remote play usability, better SD upscaling, and support for Sony’s Aino remote play.
If you are unfamiliar with the story of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune but want to play Among Thieves, Naughty Dog has released a motion comic to fill you in on the action. The motion comic will be available in four parts, of which, we have a trailer of the first episode below. The Uncharted Motion Comics’ first episode goes live on PSN later today, and the complete set of four will be available by the end of November. The individual price for each episode has yet to be confirmed but you can purchase all four episode for $2.49.
The first of two Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time demos will be available to download from the PlayStation Store tomorrow. That’s correct – there will be two demos available for this game. The Clank Demo will be released as part of tomorrow’s PlayStation Store update.
The Uncharted 2 PlayStation Home Space will be going live tomorrow. The PlayStation Space will feature a Nepalese village environment contains no less than three mini-games as well as an array of must have PlayStation Home Rewards, leaderboards and more. Take part in the multiplayer Fortunate Thieves adventure or try and re-assemble all of the pieces of the shattered mask for the mysterious Stone Face in Mask Mayhem.
The PSOne Classics Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus will both be available on the PlayStation Store for only $9.99 each starting Thursday, October 22. Finally, gamers who never got the chance to meet and play as Abe when he first came out on the PSone system, will now get that chance to meet the guy who graced many magazine covers and proved the unlikely hero that captured people’s hearts.
The Calling All Cars servers will be shutting down in the new year, making it the first game to shut down its servers. On January 14th 2010, the servers will be taken offline. The only way to play the game from this date is locally. The announcement was made in-game. Calling All Cars has been available for a few years now so it’s about time really.
