With Christmas just around the corner, Santa needs your help – in PlayStation Home that is. The Winter Wonderland Space will open in PlayStation Home on December 10th 2009, featuring elves, presents, Santa’s grotto and more. Final preparations are underway, however some of Santa’s helpers seem a bit … well, less than useful. Santa and his elves will need your help to complete the preparations and make sure this festival is one to remember.
On Nov 30th, LittleBigPlanet will get it’s biggest game update so far, and it will be for free. The patch is packed full of great new functionality and improvements. Update 1.21, also known as Leerdammer, contains new features such as Online Create, increased profile space, improved networking, and better saving functionality. A lot of improvements will be made to the game – see all the details are below.
A free update is available for EyePet allowing you to share your special video moments with other EyePet owners. You can also view and rate videos made by other players. All of these options can be found in the ‘EyePet Online’ option on the Main Menu. You will be prompted to download the update next time you boot up the game.
The US PlayStation Video Store hasn’t been updated this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday but the European Store has been. See the list of new titles for the UK, Spain, Germany and France below. The Dan Brown promotion is still running on the European Store until the end of this month. If you buy Angels & Demons from the store, you will recieve a voucher code to download The Da Vinci Code for free.
If you don’t already know, last week Sony released the first comic title for the PSP to mark the launch of the upcoming service. This week, we have two more codes to allow you to download two additional titles for free (see below). The Comic reader application is available to download from the XMB if you have firmware 6.20 installed. See below for codes to download Star Trek: Enterprise Experiment #1 and Astro Boy Movie Adaptation #1.
On the European PSP PlayStation Store this week, many new games are available for download, including Breath of Fire 3 and NBA 2K10. There are also two new PSP Minis titles available for purchase: Blast Off and Dracula. As you may have seen, the US PSP Store was updated earlier this week.
This week on the European PlayStation Store, the first two episodes of the Uncharted 2: Eye of Indra motion comics are now available download – the first episode of which is free. Two new playable demos are available too along with a new downloadable game and a PSOne classic. The US PlayStation Store was updated yesterday, in case you missed it.
Guitar Hero 6 has been confirmed to be in development, but not by publishers Activision. Tesla‘s guitarist, Dave Rude, has confirmed that their single, Modern Day Cowboy, will be a track on Guitar Hero 6. Guitar Hero 6 has yet to be officially announced by Activision, but it’s no surprise really.
Feedback from Ubisoft latest Assassin’s Creed title has been “overwhelmingly positive”. Ubisoft has revealed that the game has sold over 1.6 million copies worldwide within its first week of release. While its not the same number as Modern Warfare 2 sold, the figure is up 32 percent on first week sales for the original Assassin’s Creed.
The US PlayStation Store has been updated early this week to celebrate Thanksgiving. This week on the Store, you will find LittleBigPlanet and Tekken 6 for the PSP, as well as five new PSP Minis titles. New downloadable content for Disgaea 2 is available two – seven packs in total. Check out the US list of additions below. The European Store will be updates tomorrow as usual.
