This week on the PlayStation Store, Europe and the US has received a massive content update including a ton of new add-on content, permanent price deductions and new premium avatars for Heavy Rain. Episode 6 of The Tester is available on the US store and new add-on content includes Rock Band and Guitar Hero tracks, LittleBigPlanet costumes and level kits and more.
This week on the PSP Store you will find new Easter related add-on content for LittleBigPlanet, complete with a free Sackboy costume. A new PSP minis title is also available in both the US and Europe and a number of new downloadable games have hit the stores too.
The PlayStation Move controller was demoed to the press recently, allowing journalists to try out the technology first-hand. Below we have a tech demo video from CrunchGear showing off the technology with some simple games. We also have a video from Engadget’s hand-on impressions of SOCOM 4.
If you are a LOST, the TV series, you may want to pick up a copy of Just Cause 2. The developers have recreated the complete LOST island in the game, including the initial plane crash to the “hatch” and a mysterious monster. Check out the screenshots below, taken from Games Radar.
God of War III hits the headlines again this week with more sales related news. The title has not only outsold the previous two titles in week one sales, but has now broken the 1 million units mark. Sales for the title up to March 20th 2010 indicate that just over 1.1 million units were sold worldwide. In terms of regional breakdown around 700,000 units were sold in the Americas and 400,000 in Europe and Other Regions (excluding Japan).
The custom soundtrack feature on the PS3 hasn’t received much support since it was added in Firmware 2.40, but it has been confirmed that ModNation Racers will support the feature. According to Chuck Lacson, the Associate Product Marketing Manager of SCEA, ModNation Racers will have custom soundtracks support, “If you play music on your XMB, that’s the music that will replace the in game soundtrack.”
Tomorrow, the US PlayStation Home will be updated with a number of new spaces including Assassin’s Creed II and Alien vs. Predator. The Assassin’s Creed II space is packed with heaps of interactive content – including a multiplayer tower defense game that pits Assassins against Templars. A ton of Alien vs. Predator content is also headed to PlayStation Home this week with full Predator costumes and full Alien costumes.
Another PlayStation system celebrates a birthday this week – this time it’s the PSP. March 24, 2005 will always be known in PlayStation history as the day Sony debuted the PSP system in North America. With its best-in-class, 4.3 inch high-resolution LCD display, vast library of software titles and built-in wireless communications, the PSP system was the first integrated handheld entertainment system to introduce console-quality gaming and comprehensive entertainment capabilities to the portable market.
The “Maxed Out” trophy in God of War III can only be obtained after completely upgrading all your weapons (or so you would think). A forum user at PS3Trophies.org has discovered an alternative method to acquiring the trophy (see below). The glitch appears in Combat Arena, which will be unlocked once you beat the story and Challenge of Olympus mode.
Nintendo recently announced 3D portable gaming on their DS console, dubbed the “3DS”. You would expect Sony to pursue in a similar direction with the PSP console, however, SCEA’s Director of Hardware and Marketing John Koller said the company is only focusing on the 3D console space right now. “Our focus on 3D right now is on the console,” he said. “There’s a tremendous amount of opportunity on PlayStation 3 with 3D.”
