[Arwin]

Europe

GAMES

► Crash Commando (€9,99 | £7.99)
► Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer (€9,99 | £7.99)
► Buzz! Brain Twister (PSP) (€29,99 | £19.99)
► Football Manager Handheld 2009 (PSP) (£29.99)
► Ultimate Board Game Collection (PSP) (£9.99)

ADD-ONS

► Everybody's Golf World Tour
○ Costume Pack Pirate (€3,99 | £3.19)

► Guitar Hero World Tour

○ The Eagles Pack (€5,49|£4.39 or €1,49|£1.99 per song)
♪ Frail Grasp On The Big Picture
♪ Life In The Fast Lane
♪ One of These Nights

► LittleBigPlanet

○ Santa Hat and Beard (free)
○ Festive Goodies Level Kit (€2,99 | £2.39)

► Mercenaries 2
○ Blow it all up... Again! (free)

► Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
○ Storm Pack 3 (free)

► Rock Band

○ “Going Country” Pack 01 (€6,59|£5.25 or €1,49|£0.99 per song)
♪ “Mud on the Tires” - Brad Paisley
♪ “Hillbilly Deluxe” - Brooks & Dunn
♪ “Free & Easy (Down the Road I Go)” - Dierks Bentley
♪ “Sin Wagon” - Dixie Chicks
♪ “Gunpowder & Lead” - Miranda Lambert

► Super Stardust Portable (PSP)
○ Expansion Pack (€3,99 | £3.19)

VIDEOS

► Prince of Persia
○ Developer's Diary #3

SHOOT!

► 8.3 Minutes
○ Full Movie
○ Trailer "The Pitch"
○ Interview with director Klaus Thymann
○ Behind The Scenes

THEMES & WALLPAPERS

► Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - wallpapers
► Crash Commando - themes & wallpapers
► Loco Roco 2 - wallpapers
► Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer - wallpapers
► Savage Moon - theme
(from Gaf)

Decent update! I bought the Super Stardust upgrade stat - Endless mode is great, should have been included in the original release, but I guess they wanted to experiment with DLC like this on PSP. The leaderboards for that game work now by the way, I tried them again somewhere last week.

Apparently, the U.S. gets this little thing called Castlevania Chronicles this week, as well as some MGS themed Sackboy stuff and such (the latter comes to Europe probable next week). If I see the full list somewhere I"ll post it here.

As for Home, there's a lot of stuff happening again in Japan. SCEJ is really picking up on Home far better than any other region, which many probably hadn't expected. The Namco Beta items are gone (as expected, at least by me) but now there's a huge Namco space full of Arcades, trailers, and what not, and they have a winter themed Home plaza now with a Christmas tree, the Diesel store has been added, that expensive Furniture brand (which also has a free chair and table by the way), etc.

The U.S. gets only a small fraction of that, and the E.U. so far seems to get virtually nothing - some Santa clothes you can buy (and which I've seen several people have in fact bought) and that's about it, though all the locations have been tweaked somewhat because I had to redownload them, including my summer house. My free items from the closed beta that now cost money are still there though.

And indeed, voice chat is gone. But also I had no more trouble logging in, and that's also very important - one colleague whom I had convinced to try Home was pretty turned off by the errors.

Oh yeah, and I almost forgot - beards!

[obonicus]

Did you buy LocoRoco 2 via PSN, Arwin?

[dubyateeeff]

Games I bought and tried recently:
Astro Tripper is one to avoid - the controls are really bad. Otherwise it would just be a boring shooter. Now its a boring bad shooter.
Crash Commando - Like quake in 2d. Or Bionic Commando in Death Match mode. Fun!
Puzzle Quest - the hours just pass by, before you know it is morning again. Gets a bit repetetive. No trophies!

[Arwin]

Originally Posted by obonicus

Did you buy LocoRoco 2 via PSN, Arwin?

Yeah, I did. I almost regret it a bit though - it's great to have on the memory card, but it's 1.6GB! You better buy the UMD if you don't have a big memory card. I was (and still am) using a 2GB card so that's a bit of a stretch for that card. I may swap out for a 4GB one or get an 8GB for Christmas though, because otherwise it's really quite nice to have full games on the memory card, and this week shows Sony means business, with 3 more PSP games on PSN, as well as the Super Stardust expansion pack (which I just tried - good one to have on MC, as the total game including expansion pack only takes less than 80MB )

[Asher]

The LBP "level" pack is still not on the PSN in Canada...

Edit: It's finally up. When I try to buy though, it tells me "An error has occurred. (80023102)

They make this so difficult...honestly, I don't use the PS3 all that much and it seems like whenever I try to do something I need to sit through 15 minutes of patching, or I get some random error. This is insane. They need to hire competent software developers, truly.

[tirminyl]

Wish me luck....going to download the Sonic Unleashed Demo.

[obonicus]

I noticed there's an Indie Games Channel. How long has that been there? And aren't Echochrome and The Last Guy Japan Studio games? How exactly are they indie?

Has anyone tried Crash Commando?

[tirminyl]

Originally Posted by obonicus

I noticed there's an Indie Games Channel. How long has that been there? And aren't Echochrome and The Last Guy Japan Studio games? How exactly are they indie?

Has anyone tried Crash Commando?

Indie Games Channel has been there since at least the last store update, maybe before. They typically provide some kind of "collection" channel with the store updates. They do this for the Video store as well.

It could be a indie developer that is published by Japan Studio kinda like Everyday Shooter is published by Sony Santa Monica but developed by Mr. Mak. OR it could just very well be the style of game, but I will probably go with the former.

[tirminyl]

Originally Posted by tirminyl

Wish me luck....going to download the Sonic Unleashed Demo.

This was promptly deleted from my harddrive.

[Shifty Geezer]

Originally Posted by tirminyl

Indie Games Channel has been there since at least the last store update, maybe before.

It's sponsored by Mountain Dew, isn't it? I think it's 'indie' more in a promotional way - Mountain Dew, as drunk by independent developers who take no nonsense and live life by their own rules!

[dubyateeeff]

Originally Posted by obonicus

Has anyone tried Crash Commando?

Yes, after playing it till 6 AM this morning... I LOVE Crash Commando. Feels like Quake 3 to me.

[obonicus]

Originally Posted by dubyateeeff

Yes, after playing it till 6 AM this morning... I LOVE Crash Commando. Feels like Quake 3 to me.

How exactly? It looks like it plays more like MP Contra.

[dubyateeeff]

Originally Posted by obonicus

How exactly? It looks like it plays more like MP Contra.

I guess it is the pacing of the game, the flying around with the jet packs reminds me of the platform-jump-around in Q3DM17 (or whatever it name was), the game modes are quite basic (death match, team death match, CTF and one other) just like Q3 (CTF wasn't just in Q3Arena right)? The weapons are very quake-like, after a while special armor and weapons spawn too. Some game mechanices are tweaked or different but all of the things I mentioned reminds me of Quake3... which is a good thing!

And I got it for a similar price (99kr Q3 vs 90kr CC)

[Arwin]

United States

DEMOS

► Lord of the Rings Conquest
○ 1313 MB

GAMES

► Lumines Supernova
○ $14.99

► PSOne
○ Suikoden ($5.99)

BOMBA

► Jeopardy
○ $9.99

ADD-ONS

► Buzz Quiz TV
○ National Geographic: Undersea ($7.99)

► Disgaea 3
○ Absence of Justice Disgaea 2 Character Pack ($4.99 or as listed each)
- Rozalin ($1.99)
- Adell ($1.99)
- Nekomata ($0.99)

► Guitar Hero World Tour
○ Reggae Rock Track Pack (free)
♪ "Jimi" - Slightly Stoopid
♪ "Your Face" - Pepper
♪ "Sacrifice" - Expendables

○ Untitled Track Pack ($5.49)
♪ "Use Me" - Hinder
♪ "Because of You" - Nickelback
♪ "Light it Up" - Rev Theory

► High Velocity Bowling
○ Gutter Bird Ball (Free)
○ Patches Pack One (Free)

► Hot Shots Golf Out of Bounds
○ New Character Toro (Free)

► Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2
○ Various Tracks ($1.49 each)
♪ In the Air Tonight
♪ Time of the Season
♪ Too Little Too Late

► LittleBigPlanet
○ Metal Gear Solid levels & goodies ($5.99)
○ Metal Gear Solid costumes ($5.99 or $1.99 per costume)
- Solid Snake
- Meryl Silverburgh
- Screaming Mantis
- Raiden

► Lumines Supernova
○ Holiday Pack (Free)

► PAIN
○ Ao No Kutsu ($0.99)

► Rock Band
○ Rockin The Holidays 2008 Pack ($2.99 or $0.99 per song)
♪ “Hanukkah Blessings” - Barenaked Ladies
♪ “Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You” - Billy Squier
♪ “Blue Christmas” - The Pretenders

○ Foo Fighters Pack ($5.49 or $1.99 per song)
♪ "DOA"
♪ "Times Like These"
♪ "This Is A Call"

► Shaun White Snowboarding
○ Glamour Pack - Target Edition ($4.99)
○ Glamour Pack - Regular Edition ($4.99)

VIDEOS

► Pulse
○ 12/23 Edition

THEMES & WALLPAPERS

► Savage Moon
○ Wallpaper 1
○ Wallpaper 2

► Resident Evil: Degeneration
○ Theme

► Premium Themes ($1.99 | $1.49)
○ The Dark Knight: Batman Theme
○ The Dark Knight: Harvey Dent Theme
○ The Dark Knight: Joker Theme
○ Alpine Winters Theme
○ Bikini Photo Shoot Theme
○ Digital Blast Theme
○ School Girls Theme
○ University of Virginia Theme

Europe

DEMOS

► WipEout HD
○ 1040 MB

► Metal Gear Online
○ 886 MB

► Sonic Unleashed
○ 239 MB

GAMES

► Savage Moon
○ £6.29 (€7,99)

► Mahjon Tales: Ancient Wisdom
○ £7.99

PSP GAMES

► Guilty Gear Judgement
○ £9.99 (€12,99)

► Dead Head Fred
○ £15.99

► Off Road Racing
○ £9.99

► Pipe Mania
○ £9.99

SEASONAL OFFERS

► WipEout HD (£11.99) (€14,99)
► Super Starudst HD (£3.99) (€4,99)
► Pain (£3.99) (€4,99)
► The Last Guy (£3.99) (€4,99)
► Toy Home (£3.99) (€4,99)
► Echochrome (£4.79) (€5,99)
► flOw (£3.99) (€4,99)

○ Toy Home: Second Gear Pack (£1.59) (€1,99)
○ Snakeball: Team Mode Pack (£1.59) (€1,99)
○ Eye of Judgment: Biolith Rebellion SET.2 and SET.3 Combo Pack (£8.39) (€11,99)

ADD-ONS

► Buzz Quiz TV
○ National Geographic: Undersea (£6.29) (€7,99)

► Everbody's Golf: World Tour
○ Mainichi Issho Lobby Character Headwear (Free)
○ Extra Character - Toro (Free)

► LittleBigPlanet
○ Metal Gear Solid levels & goodies (£4.79) (€5,99)
○ Metal Gear Solid costumes (£4.79 or £1.59 per costume) (€5,99 or €1,99)
- Solid Snake
- Meryl Silverburgh
- Screaming Mantis
- Raiden

► Shaun White Snowboarding
○ Glamour Pack - (£3.99) (€4,99)

► Rock Band
○ Rockin The Holidays 2008 Pack (£1.69 or £0.59 per song) (€2,99 or €0,99)
♪ “Hanukkah Blessings” - Barenaked Ladies
♪ “Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You” - Billy Squier
♪ “Blue Christmas” - The Pretenders

○ Foo Fighters Pack (£2.49 or £0.99 per song) (€5,49 or €1,49)
♪ "DOA"
♪ "Times Like These"
♪ "This Is A Call"

► Guitar Hero World Tour
○ Reggae Rock Track Pack (free)
♪ "Jimi" - Slightly Stoopid
♪ "Your Face" - Pepper
♪ "Sacrifice" - Expendables

○ Hard Rock Track Pack (£4.39 or £1.59 per song) (€5,49 or €1,99)
♪ "Use Me" - Hinder
♪ "Because of You" - Nickelback
♪ "Light it Up" - Rev Theory

[tirminyl]

LBP MGS level dlc is mine!

[DJ12]

Savage Moon is great, like Pixeljunk Monsters only faster paced and more options. The aliens don't always take the same route either.

[Arwin]

I heard about High Velocity Bowling getting an update. Didn't see one at first, but then I deleted the gamesave and yep, there it was. It's the same update the U.S. people got and it gives online play, trophies, ball management and some other stuff. Pretty good update and the game has certainly upped a point in score over time.

I also noticed the other day that Go! Sudoku got an update. I have no idea yet what was added though, other than that I noticed vibration is in (when you place a wrong number). I can't find anything on the interwebs either.

[patsu]

I am waiting patiently for my Fat Princess.

[Shifty Geezer]

Originally Posted by Arwin

I heard about High Velocity Bowling getting an update. Didn't see one at first, but then I deleted the gamesave and yep, there it was.

Hang on! You're saying that for people who have bought HVB, there's an update they're not told about which requires the save game to be deleted, which they're not told about? What's the point in building a patch if people aren't going to install it?!

[Arwin]

Well, say that you've played a tonne of the game and unlocked most of the trophies. In this case, you'll want a proper update. However, say that you are a new player and have just bought the game today or are running the game for the first time, or for the first time with this account. In this case there's no harm in getting the update (in case you just bought it, you'll never even have to know there was an update).

I've seen this happen before, where if you bought the game new or downloaded it new from the store, you got the new version, but if you had bought the game previously, you didn't - yet. A little later the update was also made available for those people, presumably after the update process had been tested in a controlled environment for a bit more. After all, the SCEA region does get a proper update notification as far as I know, so we'll get it eventually also.

I guess that nothing pisses people off more than losing a gamesave.

Just guessing though, there could be a tonne of other reasons. But we work pretty much like this in our company also, even if it's not games.

[DJ12]

I didn't need to delete my savegame to update it.

Read that the patch was up at PS3throphies fired it up and away it went.

[Nesh]

Why do they have so many PS Classics in the Japanese store and almost none for the US and EU?

There are so many I d gladly pay for!

[Arwin]

From gaf again:

DEMOS

► Wanted: Weapons of Fate (815 MB)
► Watchmen: The End is Nigh (1263 MB)
► WWE Legends of WrestleMania (1003 MB)

GAMES

► Watchmen: The End is Nigh (€14,99) (£12.99)

► No Gravity: The Plague of Mind (PSP) (€9,99) (£8.99)

ADD-ONS

► Burnout Paradise

○ Toy Collection (€9,99) (£7.99)
(both Car Collections + Toy Firehawk)

○ Toy Car Collection 1 (€4,99 | €1,99) (£3.99 | £1.59)
- Hunter Cavalry
- Manhattan
- Krieger WTR
- Jansen P12

○ Toy Car Collection 2 (€4,99 | €1,99) (£3.99 | £1.59)
- Hunter Takedown 4x4
- Carson GT Concept
- Carson Inferno Van
- Hunter Citizen

○ Toy Nakamura FireHawk (€2,99) (£2.39)

► Guitar Hero World Tour

○ European Track Pack 3 (€5,49 | €1,99) (£4.39 | £1.59)
♪ "Break it Out" - Vanilla Sky
♪ "In the Shadows" - The Rasmus
♪ "C’est Comme Ca” - Les Rita Mitsouko

► High Velocity Bowling
○ Bruce Pack (€0,99) (£0.79)
○ Carmen Pack (€0,99) (£0.79)

► Lumines Supernova
○ Classics Pack (€3,99) (£3.19)

► Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm
○ Storm Pack 8 (free)

► Prince of Persia
○ Epilogue (€9,99) (£7.99)

► Rock Band

♪ "New" - No Doubt (€1,49) (£0.99)

○ Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (€10,99 | €1,49) (£7.49 | £0.99)
♪ "Love Struck Baby"
♪ "Pride and Joy"
♪ "Texas Flood"
♪ "Tell Me"
♪ "Rude Mood"
♪ "Testify"
♪ "Mary Had A Little Lamb"
♪ "Dirty Pool"
♪ "I’m Cryin"
♪ "Lenny"

► Street Fighter IV
○ Femme Fatale Pack (€3,99) (£3.19)

VIDEOS

► F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
○ Launch Trailer

► Metal Gear Online
○ SCENE Trailer

THEMES & WALLPAPERS

► Crash Commando - theme & wallpaper
► LocoRoco 2 - theme

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Also, Age of Booty got a trophy patch apparently.

[tha_con]

It would be nice to see Capcom support Bionic Commando and SFII: HD Remix the same way.

[tirminyl]

HD Remix is getting a patch to fix a few things but unfortunately no trophies.

I downloaded Wanted, Watchmen, and Age of Booty demos. I also purchased Noby Noby Boy. I will absolutely have no time to play them though.