Late last week, and over the weekend, Sony began rolling out the new PlayStation Store across America for the PS3. The updated PlayStation Store is now available in United States, Canada, Brazil and Mexico, after the original launch was delayed. The updated store has improved navigation, better search and more.
This Russian PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale trailer is pretty awesome, compared to the trailers shows in other countries. The trailer promotes the cross-play features of the game with players dressed-up as their in-game counterparts. The game releases later this month across Europe and North America.
When Viking’s Attack is now available for pre-order from the PlayStation Store in Europe, with the game being released this week on the PS3 and PS Vita. However, if you pre-order the game before release, you can add 30% off the full price. Even better is that the game is cross-buy compatible, so you will pay just £5.49/€6.99 for both the PS3 and PS Vita versions of the game.
This month, PlayStation Plus subscribers in Europe can look forward to new games, including Crysis 2 and Ratchet and Clank All 4 One. Both titles will be added to the Instant Game Collection from November 7th 2012. Also, releasing on the same day is the extremely addictive Cubixx HD.
Portal 2 is getting new DLC next week, titled Portal 2 in Motion, which was first announced back at E3 in June 2012. The release of the new DLC coincides with the digital release of Portal 2 on the PlayStation Network, which has also been updated to include layStation Move support (implemented by Sixense) for the entire single-player and cooperative campaigns.
BioWare has confirmed the release date for the recently announced Mass Effect Trilogy, giving firm North America and European release dates. Unfortunately, the game comes to the PS3 a month after PC and Xbox 360 owners, but at lease it’s just in time for the holiday season.
EA and Visceral Games have revealed that the sequel to Army of Two: The 40th Day is coming out in March 2013 in North America and Europe. Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel was first announced back in August, and features both online and local co-op.
If rumours from last night are true, Sony have begun shipping PlayStation 4 / Orbis development kits to development studios in North America. According to VG24/7, the Dev Kit is essentially a modified PC using components close to what the final PS4 will actually contain. A updated Dev Kit with near-final specs will ship in January.
Sony have announced their financial results for the 2nd quarter of the year, running from from July to September 2012. The figures show PS3 and PS2 sold 3.5 million units combined, and the PS Vita and PSP selling 1.6 million units combined. However, the figures don’t reveal how well the PS3 and PS Vita are doing individually.
Sony has gone a bit trailer mad this week and has released a number of new Halloween themed trailers this week for three upcoming titles. We’ve conveniently put all three trailers in one place for your viewing pleasure – see below for new trailers for Until Dawn, Puppeteer and soon-to-be-released LittleBigPlanet Karting.
