PlayStation Store Update

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Hey everyone, time for another fantastic PLAYSTATION Store update. First off, you’ll notice that we’ve updated some of the thumbnails in the Store. There are new genres for the Game Demos category. Hopefully, this makes it easier to get to the content you want. Oh, and speaking of content, we’ve heard a lot of folks asking about the NHL Demo and Poker and yes, we’ve got them both this week — and a whole lot more. Check it out.

New downloadable games:
• PixelJunk Racers ($6.99) – A single and multi-player slot car racing game, with 32 modes, 10 tracks and online rankings.
• High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition ($9.99) Ante up! Play limit or no-limit poker in five different game types. There’s single player mode or you can play up to five others online.

Demos, demos and more demos:
• PixelJunk Racers
• Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground
• NHL 08
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• FIFA 08

Of course, more movie trailers and videos and wallpapers for your favorite new and upcoming games:
• Everyday Shooter trailer
• Warhawk trailer
• Lair Behind the Scenes video
• Feel the Noise trailer
• Juiced 2 trailer
• High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition trailer
• Soul Calibur IV trailer
• High Stakes: Poker wallpaper
• 2 PixelJunk Racer wallpapers
• Folklore wallpaper

And finally, we also have a free music track from our favorite dragon game, Lair.

Hope you enjoy this week’s update. Stay tuned for more…

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363 Comments

  • crack mate your an idiot

  • LOL, you heard it hear first folks, MS are DOOMED according too defronte, so u might as well all sell your xbox’s cos microsoft have no money and are quitting the console market. God the amount of idiots on here is amazing

  • Yeah….. Anyway, the Sega Rally demo is available on Xbox Live today (downloading now). As well as Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights, Fifa 08, Spiderman: Friend or Foe, Tony Hawks Proving Ground, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for arcade, all released over the past week. Not to mention the Ninja Gaiden 2 trailer which freaking rocks, and the Skate demo about 2 weeks ago. Somehow I don’t think they’re doing so bad. Sony, I need my MGS4 demo nooowww, or how about FFXIII. I know you guys have this stuff so cough it up already.

  • Oh blimey, lookie here European users, just register another user account for yourself in the states too, then you can access the US releases. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s done this.

    Sadly whiners are just one of the downsides of an open forum such as this. It’d be nice if they were a little more sensible but that’s joe public init?

    Sony guys and gals, nice bunch of releases, thanks. Let’s see if the demos confirm what I already think about some of those releases.

    As an aside, might I request that support for an animated wallpaper be worked on? It’d be nice to have gently flowing water in the background, or a clip from a space battle, slightly reduced contract and darkened to make it suitable for wallpaper. Perhaps, the wallpaper routine could have some preferences where brightness and contrast could be set. Some pictures that I’d like to use as a backdrop are too vivid for use. Anyway, see what your boffins can do please.

    Many thanks!

  • Oh Sony my very good old friend,Halo 3 is right around the corner, and with the pushback of MGS4, and GTA:4 and no real competition from ourside i think this is gonna hurt.I love Sony, the only MS items i own are the OS on My comp and whatever plugins u need on the comp, other than that i swore off MS like an ex user might due to their respective habit.
    For the first time in the console wars i am now worried that you dont grasp the importance of wining now not (within10 years) Halo 3 is gonna give MS alot of rebound in whatever sales u may have gained, I think You Really need to push out more, better and now, i will never leave your side only at the time that you decide to stop making good things Sony is known for, which at 1 point was the Video Games Market that you had owned,
    But there has to be a new plan when EA cant get 60fps to work on a superior peice of hardware. Make your dev kits alot more user friendly or something, if not this damn war is nothing more than Nintendo and MS teaming up to drop the proverbial Nuclear weapon on Sony Loyalist…………………. Please Kick Their Tails Like we know you can.

  • FOR THE ATTENTION OF : PATRICK SEYBOLD

    CAN YOU CONFIRM YOUR STORY ABOUT SKATE PLEASE.

    CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ALSO CONFIRM WHEN SKATE DEMO WILL BE IN THE PSN STORE

    THANKYOUS!

    WE DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS

  • When is the movie/tv/music download service going live? My friend was talking about how he watched Fracture on demand from his M$ 360 the other day and I’d love to do the same on my PS3!

  • this material, sounds boring to me

  • Unify the world through the PSN

    I think there are two key things that need to happen for the PSn to reallly become a success and it seems one of them will never happen due to Sony not putting in the effort needed.

    What are those two things? The first is a global unification through a universal PSN, you need to give everyone access to the same content regardless of what region they are in because of those who speak more then one language or who are staying in other countries.
    The only thing needed with this is for you to make it clear what language it is in so people know what they are recieving.

    And the other, is opening up the PSN so more then just those with a PS3 can enjoy it. I know you would prefer everyone who bought a PSP go buy a PS3 even if they are only interested in the PSN but wouldn’t it make more sense that they be able to buy those $5 games directly from their PSP so that it is indeed a portable?
    Really, this shouldn’t be that hard to do since you long ago said that it would be available on the PSP right after the PS3 launches in the US and it never hapened; why not?
    Is it that you decided to shove the PSP aside and continue ensuring the device can’t do as well mainstream simply because it needs support since comsumers really only see the more features and go for simpler?
    Is it that you would rather iTunes dominate for music and videos to go and make your supporters consider a new route just to have GOOD portable media?

    Really, I’ve been waiting long enough and so has everyone else. At least your allowing for some feedback through here though, I’ll give you that.

  • Pixel Junk Racers is the best!! Sad that my favorit PS3 games are Pixel junk and Super Stardust. Ususlly i have spent more money on games than the system…. Warhawk is awesome, but the simpler games are more addictive.

  • @Krono

    it is!

    @HatchetHarry

    READ POST 138

    and dont expect Sony to confirm ANYTHING…they’re not in the business of confirming…only ignoring

  • Aw, Lucy Fur. Are you still hyping your 3FixMe?

  • If GT5:P isn’t out in N.A by this holiday i will sell my PS3. I don’t really care if this is the right spot or not, but so far the only decent games are Warhawk and Dirt. In all reality if MS can build an xbox that works before this holiday it is very likely I will just turn to them for my video games since all you have so far sony is a BD player that also has a few games for it. I don’t fricking care about BD movies and won’t ever buy one so worry about GAMES since you released a VIDEO GAME CONSOLE.

  • @mastershake86
    you’re right – this ISN’T the right spot.

  • GREAT! PS JUST GETS EVEN BETTER!!!

  • You annoying bunch of whiners, it’s still early days the top teir games are on there way.
    _

    Updates are good :)

  • I think that a download-only model would totally shake up the industry, and in a good way. Hate it or love it, the PSP has established itself as name in the handheld race and if Sony were to do something truly revolutionary like that for the next itineration, it would knock a ton of people on their asses.

    Of course that would mean that Sony would need to get their asses together on the PS Store. Think about how popular this device would be if you could sync it with an all-in-one applet (akin to iTunes) at a retail station or through your PS3 or home computer and download and transfer songs, movies, and games in one go?

    I think that the mainstream crowd would eat it up. Couple it with a spacious hard drive and memory slot and you’d have a device that could be posed to shoot down the iPod and “that other handheld”.

    Ease of use and synergy would be the most important aspect to getting this service off the ground and Sony has enough hands in the entertainment industry to secure some good content.

    Give users some option to validate their current hard-copy games and then give them the option for a free download. Don’t want to alienate 20 million people.

  • Just FYI Sony, it’s the 17th now ;)

  • What Sony needs to show me at TGS

    A new controller, with Rumble & Sixaxis enabled for use. The tech better not be the same rumble we’ve used for years, either. I want a new feel and way it works. I’ll pay 100 for the damn thing, if it’s a good controller.

    Eightdays… Where is it, Sony? I bought my Ps3 for this and Naughtydog’s uncharted… now you’ve pulled the rug out from under me. I don’t want a shoddy PSN game out of it, either. I want a Blu-ray only game. A game bigenough and long enough to only take advantage of blu-ray. What are we buying into PS3 for, if you’re releasing the big games over the PSN too?

    Suckerpunch to change the way that stupid ass smack lead character looks in Infamous, or better yet… Give us the option to make the lead look anyway we wat too. User created content, Sony… remember?

    Patches for rumble support for Resistance, Lair, Motorstorm and Heavenly Sword.

    PS1 games uploaded onto the PSN… Good ones, by the way. The garbage you all are passing off is laughable at best.

    Get to work Sony… Lay out some future proofing plans.

  • Is Sony management really going to sell Cell production plants and copyright to Toshiba ?!
    If that’s going to happen then the PS3 will be doomed, the whole Sony business will be doomed, Blu-Ray will get killed by Microsoft and Toshiba.
    Which managers there at Sony recently received “gifts” from Microsoft to accomplish such a suicide like it happened there at Paramount, uh!?
    First Sony managers halted R&D on next Cell revisions with the excuse of being too expensive for the group, then this.. it’s insane!

  • I can’t believe how utterly impatient people on here are.

    Do you want good games, or do you want incomplete games now?

    Do you want fully developed and tested features, or do you want shoddy features thrown together now?

    It’s quality over expedience people.

    Realize that Sony, doesn’t control the development timeline of 3rd party games. They can’t make those games release any sooner than their developers dictate. Check a PS3 release schedule. There are a ridiculous amount of awesome games on the horizon, you just have to wait for them though.

    So cool your jets and play what you’ve got. And if you’re tired of what you’ve got – well, there are plenty of things to do in this world besides playing video games and griping about video games. You’ll find something to do if you try hard enough.

    Also – I’m betting the employees over at Sony that are reading and writing on this blog are far more likely to pay attention to you if you try being polite and civilized in your comments. I know if I were them, I’d probably ignore the posts of those that insult them, complain about their post frequency, or demand things from them that they are not, in any way, shape, or form, obligated to provide to you.

    Sony is listening to the users, and they’re making an effort to give us what we want, but guess what – you can’t have everything you want. It just doesn’t work that way. Take what Sony gives as it arrives.
    The more ridiculous things you demand, the more disappointed you’re going to be.

    Take a moment to think about what kinds of things Sony has on its plate right now. One thing in particular comes to mind. Home. Now take a moment to think about what a huge technological undertaking such a feature is going to be. Nobody has unlimited resources to through around at any whimsical feature or request, including Sony. If you want Home out on time and done right, don’t expect all these other requests to get filled till they can free up the resources to work on them.

    If you really want to make demands and be impatient, don’t buy a fully functional console, buy Sony itself. Then you can make all the demands of the company you want.

  • bluevariant: The following your way of thinking car manufacturers could ship their products with unfinished engines, non-working/failing tyres and so on. And customers should not complain nor request more and just keep waiting because multinationals don’t have unlimited resources, as per your words. So that’s enough for you, customers must not complain whatever mistake groups make in any field. That’s great, then Microsoft is probably the most happy about this since they are the ones ripping customers off the most.

  • @ Grace Chen

    I really Appreicate the updates and am hoping you will be bringing the Pirates of the Caribbean at Worlds End demo soon.

    I also hope you can let EA know that they really don’t know how to make demos by limiting the play time of the Harry Potter Demo to 5 mins and having it timeout they are just Annoying the consumer there was NO need to have it timeout when they locked most of the Doors limiting the play. That was a good enough measure. I really hope you can pass on the Message to them since you probably can talk to the right people.

    Keep up the Good Work!!!

    P.S. I also am hoping that a Lair Demo will be released sometime soon as most of us are curious of it’s quaility although I will most likely buy it. It can kinda look bad if a game gets bad reviews and a demo is never released. All I’m saying is people tend to think things. Hope to see it soon.

  • @bluevariant and I quote’The more ridiculous things you demand, the more disappointed you’re going to be.’
    Yea its pretty ridiculous to spend £400 on a console and expect some decent titles, gosh what am i thinking. By the way do you work in SONY’s pr department or something.

  • TGS post anyone? :)

  • Wow,
    Sony… that was really inconsiderate of you. Why did you delete my comment? All I was suggesting was that you start working with Apple, to destroy Microsoft.

    Is that so wrong?

  • why does europe get the hdtv tuner before us? why the first psp didnt come with 20$ av cables.why we cant use av cables on the first psp.

  • @327

    Happens all the time to good ‘ol gamesblow here… Don’t stress on it. The big, huge, gigantic issue here “to me” is what ol’ buddy brought up about Sony selling off the cell production plant to Toshiba

    Scary times to be a consumer “more like investor” of a 600 dollar product, folks. Scary times indeed.

    I read that news bit yesterday and didn’t think much of it, when they said it wouldn’t affect ps3’s production at all, and that Sony would oversea it inside the plant… Now, I’m not so sure. I see Ps3’s bargin binned by next year if low sales, the sell goes thru and 3rd party keeps on ignoring sony.

  • The deal between Sony and Toshiba has little too nothing to do with the Playstation brand. Again false buisness news from gamers.
    http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/18/ap4127857.html?partner=alerts

  • Makasu | September 18th, 2007 at 4:09 am

    TGS post anyone?
    Hells yeah only 2 more days.

  • yeah this site disappoints. you would think they would be teasing us with TGS and what not, but they don’t.

    There is no way they can all be so busy as to not have 10min to come here and post something..

  • PixelJunk SUCKSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

  • @Kratos_ate_Snake
    this is the SCE”A” site, NOT the SCE”J” site.
    asking SCEA to tease and talk about TGS is gonna get you as far as all the Europeans in here bitching about SCEE.

    @gamesblow
    i can’t wait for your 3FixMe to get back from the repair shop so you’ll have something better to do with your time than post disinformation on here. you and Loucifer are nothing but M$ tools and do nothing but give fans of the other console(s) a bad rep.

  • Yeah, when this site was launched I thought it was going to be an outlet for Sony and gamers alike to actually relay messages of love, like, hate, disappointment, don’t change a thing and could be better thoughts… Sadly, it’s not.

    What gives, Sony? This is your chance to set yourself apart from Ms and Nintendo with 100% devoted customer service, but you’re ignoring it.

  • Aredo – since when does the PS3 not work? The system is finished. Everything else is an add-on.

  • my x box gets demos and add-on every day except weekend.but my ps3 gets a little only on thursday.sept.18,halo trailer,3 other game videos,1 picture pack,sept.17,3 game videos,1 gamer pict. pack,juiced multi.player demo,sept14,2 game videos,fifa demo,spider man demo,sept13,sonic demo 2 pic packs 3 game videos. there is more .

  • Yumm, SCIV. Speaking of Soul Calibur… TGS is coming. I would be very happy if Sony brought TGS to the PS3. *ahem* Especially Square-Enix’s closed-mega theatre. ;)

  • when will “skate” and “call of duty 4 modern warfare” come out for demo or buy??

  • 40cal: The group that control Cell production and owns the technology actually affects PS3 products since Cell is the main core of the console.
    The most stupid thing Sony managers could do is just selling the Cell production plan and rights to Toshiba. Why not IBM which developed the CPU in the first place and with more resources than Toshiba? Why Sony managers now want selling the whole division to Toshiba, the same group that is trying to kill Blu-Ray and PS3 Sony own and promoted technologies ? Something is really wrong there and some managers need to get fired before it’s too late and Sony gets in trouble.

  • good update but id like to see skate demo come on ea said they gave it to u why dont u put it out already

  • WTF. Nothing I post is posting.

  • Great ! but download is slow in PS3
    Chevere todo esto para bajar a el PLAYSTATION3 , pero es muy lento cualquier acceso en este equipo. no se la razon. pues con la misma conexion de internet en un pc es muy buena.
    algo pasa….

  • Well Microsoft sucks by default so… :)

    Anyway :E

    Hopefully the Skate demo will come out tomorrow.

    To you retards telling us europeans to ”just make a US account olloollol” : Why should we even need to make one? Everyone should get the same content at the same time. I don’t think people care if the demo they want to dl is in english or w/e language they’re speaking :|

  • Time for some homebrew! Sony, any chance you might let us play some time?

  • @Fabio: Your right a majority of this content should be delivered simultaneously but I think there are separate approval processes which each country has to go through. Nevertheless, its not an excuse or a justification as it doesn’t warrant the amount of material they withhold from one region to the next.

    You have my support.

  • i´m really angry because i have more than a month with my ps3 and i can´t buy anything from the store i need to if there going to be another way to buy instead the credit card because i am from venezuela… ps network card please!!!!

    p.d: sold by amazon…

  • i would just like to say that there is still one thing i would like to see for my ps3 and that is the possibility to control the video playback with my Universal Remote (logitech harmony) so could you make ir adapters work with ps3 and then i will never ever request a function more.. EVER :P

    thank you for this great console i absolutely love it :)

  • I think because of recent game delays we should get a GTA, Metal Gear, and Assasin’s Creed Demo. Also when are we gonna see Home?

  • I hear ya DLF. I would buy one if it worked with my PS3’s. Sony please manufacturer an adapter or let a 3rd party run with it.

    DLF, you have my support.

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