As many of you know, this week marked the third anniversary of PS3 and PlayStation Network for Japan and North America. At launch three years ago, PS3 was a cutting edge gaming console, ushering in the idea of a forward thinking format like Blu-ray that few people had heard of. Since then, there has been many updated to the PS3, in terms of both hardware and software.
This Thursday November 12th, Braid descends upon the PlayStation Network. Braid is a platform/puzzle game, originally released on August 6, 2008 on Xbox Live Arcade, and is now coming to the PS3. The enigmatic story describes the attempt of a man named Tim to rescue a princess from a monster. The game features traditional aspects of the platform genre; the player runs, jumps, and climbs through a linear set of stages, while solving puzzles and defeating enemies.
The PlayStation Network will be down this morning for scheduled maintenance. The PSN will be unavailable from 8:00am GMT until 11:00am GMT. As usual, you may experience issues connecting to the PlayStation Network, though the PlayStation Community Team Leader, MusterBuster, notes that “users will be affected for only 15 minutes during this period.”
Two new PSN titles hit the US PlayStation Store this week. First off, Military Madness: Nectaris will be released this Thursday on the PSN, featuring native 1080p graphics and focusing on multiplayer. Numblast, which is already available in Europe and Japan, is a addictive puzzle game (available for both PS3 and PSP) at the attractive price of $4.99 for either platform.
Just in time for Halloween, a new PSP Minis title has hit the PlayStation Store for just £3.99/4.99. Zombie Tycoon lets you take ‘control’ of a hilarious zombie horde in order to achieve complete world domination. Doing so will require a lot brain throwing, building trashing, mascot bashing as well as equipping some of the silliest loot ever conceived.
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.
Mushroom Wars, a Real Time Strategy game, will be available to purchase from the PlayStation Store tomorrow for €9.99 / £7.99. Mushroom Wars is a fast-paced and accessible RTS, with a quaint, anime-inspired visual style, where you send your cute armies into battle, upgrade your mushroom bases, improve your weaponry and fight skirmishes in close-quarter maps.
The PSN title Savage Moon is heading to the PSP with new weapons, maps and gameplay. For the last few months FluffyLogic personnel have been toiling away in an underground bunker to produce the mobile incarnation of the game: Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign. For those new to the game, Savage Moon is a tower defence strategy game which launched on PS3 last winter. The game pits the player (humans), who is trying to mine valuable minerals from sentient asteroids or Imoons, against massive chitinous, armoured bugs called ‘Insectocytes’.
Sony has announced that Amazon will start selling digital access codes for more than 200 PlayStation Network games and game-related content for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. You can start redeeming codes right now from Amazon.com, and use them to download content for the PS3 or PSP systems with US PSN accounts. The codes will stay in the customer’s Your Games & Software Library so you can retrieve them at a later time if needed.
Comrades, the Red Alert 3 battle rages on! This entry in the Command & Conquer series challenges players to take on the world’s toughest commanders and conquer the globe in 50 unique challenges. The Commander’s Challenge throws the player into intense battle challenges against a set of nine different commanders, including 16-time world champion “Nature Boy” Ric Flair.
