The Drop: Week of April 8th 2013 New Releases

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The Drop: Week of April 8th 2013 New Releases

Cross-Buy Guacamelee! for PS3 and PS Vita on PSN this week. Guacamelee! draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters. The game also blurs the boundaries between combat and platforming by making many of the moves useful and necessary for both of these.

The game features a down on his luck Mexican named Juan Aguacate, who sets out to save the world when El Presidente’s Daughter is kidnapped by an Evil Charro Skeleton. The story takes place in and around a small village in Mexico, and has the player travelling between parallel dimensions on his quest to rescue the girl he loves.

Enjoy this week’s The Drop.

Guacamelee!

(Cross-Buy PS3/PS Vita) — Guacamelee is a Metroidvania style game with a light world/dark world component where you play as a luchador. The game can be played entirely cooperatively with the first player controlling Juan and the second playing a woman known as Tostada. The combat consists of melee attacks, as the name suggests, such as punches, grapples and throws. There are also other moves you learn to help traverse the environment such as uppercuts, ground pounds and turning into a chicken. The switching between the light and dark worlds is done on the fly and is used in both combat and traversal.

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XCOM_Enemy_Unknown_Game_CoverXCOM: Enemy Unknown — XCOM: Enemy Unknown will place you in control of a secret paramilitary organization called XCOM. As the XCOM commander, you will defend against a terrifying global alien invasion by managing resources, advancing technologies, and overseeing combat strategies and individual unit tactics.

The original X-COM is widely regarded as one of the best games ever made and has now been re-imagined by the strategy experts at Firaxis Games. XCOM: Enemy Unknown will expand on that legacy with an entirely new invasion story, enemies and technologies to fight aliens and defend Earth. You will control the fate of the human race through researching alien technologies, creating and managing a fully operational base, planning combat missions and controlling soldier movement in battle.

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X — Set in conceived version of the future inspired by the best-selling Tom Clancy videogame franchises, this flight combat action game imagines a world where a private military force has cumulated such power that it attacks the USA. Thrust into the cockpits of incredibly powerful and technologically advanced jet fighters, gamers will benefit from hi-tech piloting assistance, providing comfort, security and enhanced perception. As players gain skills and confidence, they will be able to shed the assistance. But before choosing performance over security, they’ll have to weigh the risks carefully.

John Daly’s Prostroke Golf — John Daly’s ProStroke Golf is an interactive game with a number of fully licensed courses and five different play modes. Put the ball in play with the revolutionary design and realistic physics of ProStroke View and Prostroke Swing!

Table Mini Golf (PS Vita) — Table Mini Golf is a bite-sized game with monster-sized scope – you’ll use the AR Play cards to construct dozens of mini-golf courses across most flat surfaces of your choosing, and then pick one of three stylish characters to show off your putting skills in style.

Fatal_Frame_CoverartPlayStation 2 Classic

Fatal Frame — An isolated imposing manor lurking silently at the edge of a forest and near the outskirts of a small nameless village? Such is the starting point for this game which reinvents the survival horror genre. Project ZERO will immerse players in a frightening and oppressive atmosphere, forcing them to confront their worst nightmares.

PSone Imports

  • Evergreen Avenue
  • Favorite Dear (Jyunpaku No Yogensha)
  • Mahjong Mahjong: Youchien Tamago-Gumi

[Editor’s Note: The following dates are subject to change. Game details are gathered from Press Releases, Retail Descriptions, from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.]

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134 Comments

  • Wow, and actual “Classic” PS2 game, still own it on disc, but an amazing sight none the less.

  • Wish there would be a DEMO for the vita, so i can see if i pre-order it, maybe the game will hit the U.S without DEMO for it :(

  • Another lousy drop. Was hoping that eventually the Vita would start getting as many new and exciting releases as the PS3 had been — turns out it went the other way!

  • Guacamelee in ps vita Awesome!!!!!!

  • FATAL FRAME EPIC UPDATED!!!!!! yeah!!! I had all of them (ps2), I will buy it for sure!!!

    Hope to se Fatal frame 2 and 3!

    Just one Question Rey… May I play Fatal Frame in my Ps vita????? I need that kind of game in my vita.

  • Fatal Frame? Hell yes, day one.

    Guacamelee looks good – I’ll pick it up as soon as it goes on sale with Plus. There’s always some kind of discount in the first few weeks, and I’ve got other games to play now.

  • Bummed out that another week goes by without the Soul Sacrifice demo. Japan had access to it for a least a month if not 2 before release.

  • Getting Guacamelee this evening. Looks fun as hell!

  • @94: Because licensing… duh. I just said it.

    Explain to me how all of them, but those are up on PSN…

    One would think that indicates they WANT to put all their content on PSN. Yet they haven’t with those two… GEE WIZ, WHERE’S NANCY DREW WHEN YOU NEED HER? All these others are on PSN, they put everything on there, but these aren’t? WUTTTTTT WHYYYYYYY

    Maybe because they can’t. Maybe they would if they could, and if they could.. they would have.

    Durr

  • Can we psvita owners please get ps2 classics playable on the vita? Please. I really love GTA San Andreas but, i cant play it because i only have my psvita since my ps3 is gone.

    PS. Anyone who reads this and wants to be able to play ps2 classics on your psvita, post a coment and hopefully Sony will take notice and make it possible…

  • Sony all i need from you is an update for UMVC3 that enables crossplay(Vita/Ps3). And you guys are seriusly Slacking bringing Ps2 classics to the Vita,i mean COME ON!!!!! the only ps2 game i want on my Vita is MVC2 if i had 1 choice..Get with the program SONY!!Big sony fan since PS1!!!! Come on!!!

  • How about adding these to the PS Store!

    PS1 Classic Dead or Alive 1

    PS2 Import Classic Arcana Heart 2

    Also how about a Price Drop on:

    Tekken Tag 2

    Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition needs a Pricedrop it’s only 19.99 at Retail stores… Please Drop the price on the PS store… Thanks!

    Why not add to the PS store these games as Digital Copy’s?

    Ulimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
    Street Fighter X Tekken
    Original Street Fighter 4
    Tekken 6 (PS3 Version) Not that PSP u already have! We want PS3 one!

  • Come on Sony,you guys are porting old regular Xbox games to the vita( Oddworld:Strangers Wrath) and you cant put PS2games on the Vita???? Come on!!!! Whats the deal???? Umvc3 crossplay please??? lol :D

  • Yea sony,all i ask is for is Umvc3 crossplay!!!! and PS2games on the Vita PLEASE!!Get with it Sony!!! Ps2 on the Vita!!!!!!!!

  • Any word on when you’ll put the ps2 classic haunting ground on the store? It was rated a while back by the esrb. Said it was for ps3 so i assume ps2 classic…

  • PSone imports…. how about normal PSone games …. the whole library still isnt there XD …. and more PS2 classics would be good too one every too weeks shouldn’t be that hard

  • Fatal Frame??? Awesooome! Totally getting it~ Hope you add the other FF as well!

  • PRICE FOR XCOM??

  • Would be cool for the import section that the Super Robot Wars games were added. Oh well. I am intrigued at seeing Fatal Frame on the list. Played the 2 and 3 but never the first. At least now I’l have the opportunity to do so.

  • CAN WE PLZ GET INSTAGRAM FORTHE PS VITA ASAP!!!! PLZ PLZ PLZ! THNX

  • DRAGON QUEST VIII, Please for PS2 classics.

  • FATAL FRAME!!! :)

    Tecmo Koei NEEDS to release an HD collection of the Fatal Frame Trilogy on disc for PS3. There is no reason not to. Lots of Fatal Frame fans would instantly buy it. So sad that *other* video game company bought the rights to the series and then proceeded to do NOTHING with it in North America. It was such a great franchise.

  • Guacamelee, my Vita awaits you!

  • So I read that this iteration of Fatal Frame will have updated graphics and tweaks to the gameplay. Just wondering if there’s trophy support to go with it?

  • Sweetness glad to see XCom now available in PSN. Have a question. For those who bought stuff for at least fifty dollars I bought bioshock infinite in march when are we getting our ten dollars?

  • Holy crap Fatal Frame my body wasn’t ready.

  • Fatal Frame! <3 *sigh*

  • Been waiting a long time for Guacamelee. Looking forward to it!!

  • All I want for you Sony is Darkcloud. I know Japan has, so we should to! Please and Thanks!

  • good thing i’ve got Fatal Frame I and II on PS2.

    II is r are as hell, going 90$ on amazon O_____O

  • Can’t wait to play guacamelee. Looks all types of fun.

  • okay look Sony you guys need to put out better games for the PS vita during these updates and stop giving little big planet updates every freaking week its getting annoying okay give us some ps2 games on the vita i know there are people out there who would want ps2 games on the vita okay and don’t say you guys cant because if ps1 games and some ps3 games can be played on it and cross play than i know you guys could put ps2 games on there so hurry up and do it i mean yes guacamelee may be good but come on man give us something that will make people by the vita because as of now the reason why its not selling is because of this. Another thing if you guys were to do this you will be selling PS vita like crazy and japan will send us better games as well like the tale games but because you guys are not thinking you guys are not selling the vita

  • Hey Sony, What about these titles?

    MegaMan X Collection (PS2)

    MegaMan X4

    MegaMan X5

    MegaMan X6

    Brave Fencer Musashi

    Final Fantasy V (Playable on Vita)

    –How long must we keep on waiting for you to do simple things!

  • Please TECMO and SONY, Give me FATAL FRAME 2 AND 3!

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