Hi Everyone – It’s Liz, manager for the video store. Tomorrow on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, we’re very excited to announce an opportunity for you to team up with PlayStation Network and help save the planet, one digital download at a time! Go to the video store tomorrow and help support Conservation International, a nonprofit organization that seeks to protect Earth’s high-biodiversity wilderness areas and important marine regions around the globe.
Then don’t forget to also visit our Featured Collections category for a special “Save Our Earth” selection of titles made up of science-fiction, action movies, anime and other films which showcase planet earth, and our effort to defend it from forces who attempt to destroy it. We’ve included such titles as Cloverfield, Hancock, The Abyss and The Day After Tomorrow for your viewing pleasure.
So, this Earth Day you can download your favorite movies and TV shows from PlayStation Store and feel good about helping our planet earth!
Also, as a reminder, video files you’ve purchased from the PlayStation Store can be backed up to an external storage device and then restored to PS3’s internal hard drive for playback – so you can clear up space on your hard drive and then restore the video anytime in the future. Try it.
And we are also pleased to reveal that one of the most environmentally friendly video games will indeed becoming to PlayStation Network North America. Trash Panic (Gomibako in Japan) will becoming to PSN this Spring… more details to come here on the blog.
Trash Panic Sounds interesting.
Peace,
VG
Can I restore that ‘back up’ to a PS3 that I get back from getting my PS3 fixed?
Can I restore that ‘back up’ to the other PS3 I own and have the same PSN id on?
Nice to see a new name on the blog…perhaps you could hang out at the Thursday PSN/PSNVS updates and answer alot of questions your customers have.
cool!!!
hmmmmmmmmmmmm interesting so the key to saving the planet is……giving sony money. never wouldve thought of that. so for every $10 – $15 purchase made sony will donate $1. I could save $9 – $14 and not buy some of the crap u guys pass for content instead of listening to your loyal supportes and just donate $1 myself to Conserve interantional. Maybe when sony listens to us about what content we want on the store we’ll listen to them and their crappy promotions.
Any word on when the video store will be coming to Canada?
on btw jus so u people realize this promotion only applies to movies and tv shows, not games. most of which can be found cheaper on amazon or ebay.
Would love too, if you made it available everywhere besides the US. Don’t know why you guys can’t do it in Canada, Live has a video store up here.
cool. it’s always good when companys team up to help out a worthy cause
Wow global warming propaganda comes to playstation. Negative Kudos to this blog.
Sweet! I was going to buy “Gomibako” off the japanese store just cause it looks so unique and I figured there was no chance in hell it was ever going to come out here. Now all I have to do is just wait till Spring………..to get it in english.
How is this really a earth day special group of videos with out Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth :) You must admit thats a good question.
Hello Liz, i’ll make you a deal i’ll purchase something to help save the Earth if you have a “Save Vengeful’s Wallet day” and let me download stuff for free?
I think that’s a good deal.
yay, I was on the fence for the english Version of Trash Panic on the Hong-kong-Store, but now I’m happy it comes to the US(/PAL) Stores :)
though lol that you combine this game with Earth Day XP
The trash game sounds fun. Will we ever get to try a demo?
Because Inconvenient Truth has been proven to be an over hyped lie. Do you know Al Gore makes a ton of money by selling carbon credits to people dumb enough to pay him money. He is profiting off of the hysteria he created. Do some real research and you will find that there are many scientist who do not agree with global warming and that we are just going through typical hot and cold cycles.
More PSone games please
OK, I’ll go and buy a bunch of videos in the video st– OH WAIT, it’s not in Canada, still.
The 1st 10,000 transactions? That’s it? I’d think donating a dollar for any transaction made during Earth Day would be more worth while. 10,000 seems little IMO.
Actually, this promotion seems to have nothing to do with “global warming.” Conservation International is about biodiversity.
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Um…because Inconvenient Truth is full of Convenient Lies, at least 9 of them. Surprising from the guy that invented the internet I know but there you have it.
lol 10k is that it
Treehuggers(?)
Why not extend it to games? People not in US can’t get in on the save Earth day promo.
Cool sounds good. Maybe i should finally pick up Bionic Commando Rearmed
Trashpanic = tetris with odd shapes and physics. Totally awesome!
Also, nice work with including “The Day After Tomorrow” in the Earth Day collection. haha pretty funny. I was worried for Earth Day that you would turn off the PSN servers to GO GREEN for a day. You have made the better choice ;)
I really don’t think encouraging people to turn on their PS3s is saving the planet! Tut tut.
COOL! The game seems really interesting! And it’s GREAT that you kind folks are donating!
THANKS! : )
Sweet, too bad I have already purchased Gomi Bako off of Japan’s PSN store, its really fun, but quite challenging.
Cool, companies with morals and goals like this are always welcome.
You know what else would be welcome?
That trash game is the result of PlayStation C.A.M.P. (Creative Audition Mashup Project)–which takes indie game designers and gives them the chance to make PSN or PSP software…..
PLEASE PLEASE OH GOODNESS PLEASE BRING PlayStation C.A.M.P. OR AN EQUIVALENT TO AMERICA! I AM BEGGING YOU SONY PLEASE! IF MS CAN DO XNA YOU CAN SHOW THEM UP PLEEEEEEEEASE!
PlayStation C.A.M.P or PlayStation Yarouze FTW!
Cant wait for trash panic.
I’ve been looking forward to Gomibako since the last E3. I’m so glad it’s going to be released here in North America.
I would support this, but Sony doesn’t support Canada. Way to be superficial about saving the planet Sony!
I think I will just watch Planet Earth in full 1080p and Surround Sound, a quality PSN videos can’t touch!
The game looks fun though!
1 dollar for every 10 k transactions…does that mean ALL Store downloads or just ones that involve money, because if its the latter you guys dont seem to be giving a lot.
Will the donation be from every PSN transaction? or only from the content that is featured on the collection?
Donation will be based on movie and tv show transactions (paid content). Happy Earth Day!