PS3 Full Games

DMC Devil May Cry ($59.99)

In a society corrupted by demons only The Order can see the world for what it really is. Join Dante in the ultimate experience of stylish action chain together combo after combo with panache and dispatch demonic spawn back to hell. Call upon unimaginable powers combined with Dante’s epic arsenal of weapons: sword, scythe, axe, pistols and more. Face your demons…
ESRB: M // File Size: 6.5 GB

Angry Birds Trilogy ($39.99)

Angry Birds is taking flight for the first time ever and crashing on PlayStation 3 systems everywhere! Includes: 3 Best-Selling Angry Birds games and 19 exclusive levels.
ESRB: E // File Size: 1.8 GB

PSP Games

Corpse Party: Book of Shadows ($19.99)

A series of eight lengthy vignettes expanding and elaborating on the 2011 cult horror classic “Corpse Party.” Taking place before, during and after events from its predecessor, Book of Shadows seeks to answer the questions, what if, what then, and what now? New point-and-click adventure style gameplay, binaural 3D audio with original Japanese voices, dozens of endings and tons of unlockable extras will keep players awake for many nights to come.
ESRB: M //File Size: 1.1 GB

PS Vita Apps

Wake-Up Club (Free)

Add some excitement to your morning! Wake-up Club is a socially connected alarm clock application for your PS Vita. With it, you and up to 11 friends can challenge each other to wake up and complete short mini-games at a set time.
File Size: 105 MB

Added to Vita Storefront

• Corpse Party: Book of Shadows (PSP game)
• Disney Pixar A Bug’s Life (PS1 game)
• Disney Pixar Toy Story 2 (PS1 game)
• Disney Pixar Toy Story Racer (PS1 game)
• Disney Pixar Monsters Inc. Scream Team (PS1 game)

PSP Bundles

Farm Frenzy Bountiful Harvest Pack ($5.99)

Never before has this much farming fun been packed into a single bundle and at a price this low! Enjoy hours of hilarious time management action when you buy the Farm Frenzy Bountiful Harvest Pack!
ESRB: E //File Size: 82.6 MB

Montezuma Well-Rounded Player Bundle ($3.99)

The Well-Rounded Player bundle from Alawar Entertainment offers countless hours of entertainment! Collect gems in the jungle and then go platform-hopping around the world as you guide Snowy home!
ESRB: E //File Size: 57.2 MB

PS2 Classics

Siren ($9.99)

Explore the occult and experience incredible terror in the town of Hanuda.
ESRB: M //File Size: 4.3 GB

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness ($9.99)

The king of the Netherworld is dead. Join his son, Laharl, as he embarks on a quest to take his rightful place on the throne in this tactical RPG.
ESRB: E10+ //File Size: 1.2 GB

PlayStation Store Highlights

This week on the Store you can purchase the newest version of Devil May Cry — DmC. The ever-popular Angry Birds also launches onto the Store with Angry Birds Trilogy, which comes with 19 exclusive levels. If you enjoyed the PSP game Corpse Party you’ll be happy to hear that Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is now available for you to download on either your PSP or PS Vita.

PS Plus members will receive Darksiders for free this week along with a discount on Stardrone Extreme.

As always, please leave your thoughts in the comments below. You can also chat about this update in the PlayStation Community Forums.

PlayStation Plus

Click here to learn more and purchase online or go to the PlayStation Store to activate instantly.

Price Change

• Dungeon Hunter Alliance – PS Vita Game (now: $26.99 original price: $29.99)
• Lumines Electronic Symphony – PS Vita Game (now: $26.99 original price: $29.99)
• Orgarhythm – PS Vita Game (now: $19.99 original price: $29.99)
• Rayman Origins – PS Vita Game (now: $26.99 original price: $29.99)
• Sumioni: Demon Arts – PS Vita Game (now: $14.99 original price: $19.99)

Sales

• Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter – PS Mini (now: $1.49 original price: $3.99)
• Carnivores: Ice Age – PS Mini (now: $1.49 original price: $3.99)
• Derrick the Deathfin – PS3 Game (now: $5.99 original price: $7.99)
• Droplitz – PS3 Game (now: $4.99 original price: $9.99)

PS Vita Add-ons

Wake-Up Club

• Color Theme Pack ($0.25)

PS3 Add-ons

Borderlands 2

• Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt ($9.99, free for Season Pass holders) – In Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, players will enter an uncharted territory deep in the swamps of Pandora where a massive Hyperion ship has crashed. The wreckage is rumored to have stockpiles of loot. But watch out, mutated creatures, and armies of savages also have an interest in the ship.

Dance Magic

• Outfits 1 ($1.99) – Outfits and weapon sets for all characters.

Far Cry 3

• Deluxe DLC Bundle ($9.99) – Get even more insanity with the Far Cry 3 Deluxe Bundle. Includes six single-player missions, four rare animals to hunt, a bow and flare gun for multiplayer, and all other previously released retail bonuses in The Monkey Business Pack, The Lost Expeditions, The Warrior Pack, and The Predator Pack.
• High-Tides Co-Op (Free) – The co-op story is far from over. The High Tides DLC pack includes two new story chapters for Far Cry 3 co-op. Hoyt’s privateers have ambushed the four survivors and taken them hostage. It’s up to you and your friends to escape an underground prison and find a way off this island of insanity. Also includes four new character skins.

Gran Turismo 5

• 2014 Corvette Stingray Final Prototype (Free) – This DLC adds the 2014 Corvette Stingray Final Prototype ’13 to ‘Gran Turismo 5′. In January 2013, the final prototype of the next generation Corvette was unveiled on the eve of the Detroit International Motor Show. With this car you can share in on the excitement of development engineers, until its actual production starts in the latter half of 2014.

Rock Band 3

• A Bridge That Will Burn ($0.99) – Moving Picture Show
• Don’t Talk to Strangers ($1.99) – Rick Springfield
• Fragments ($1.99) – Serianna
• Inheritors ($1.99) – Serianna
• I’ve Done Everything For You ($1.99) – Rick Springfield
• Jessie’s Girl ($1.99) – Rick Springfield
• Monday Night Football ($1.99) – John Parr
• The Distance ($0.99) – Drugstore Fanatics
• Rick Springfield Pack 01 ($5.49) – Includes ‘Don’t Talk to Strangers,’ ‘I’ve Done Everything for You,’ and ‘Jessie’s Girl’

RockSmith

• Alive ($2.99) – Pearl Jam
• Cliffs of Dover ($2.99) – Eric Johnson
• No Rain ($2.99) – Blind Melon
• Pearl Jam Song Pack ($7.99) – Includes Play ‘Black’, ‘Jeremy’, and ‘Alive’

PS3 Themes

• Army Strong Dynamic Theme – $2.99
• Army Strong Sunset Dynamic Theme – $2.99
• Bitchin’ BMX Static Theme – $1.99
• BMX Action Static Theme – $1.99
• BMX Beasts Static Theme – $1.99
• Create by Studio Output Dynamic Theme – $2.99
• Dazed and Confused Dynamic Theme – $2.99
• INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US THEME – $0.99
• LittleBigPlanet 2 2013 Calendar – $1.99
• Sasha Static Theme – $1.99

Wallpapers

• BIG SKY INFINITY WALLPAPER 2 (Free)
• KNYTT UNDERGROUND WALLPAPER 1 (Free)

PS3 Avatars

• Sound Shapes Avatar Pack $1.75
• Sound Shapes Guitar Walker Avatar $0.49
• Sound Shapes Music Box Avatar $0.49
• Sound Shapes Player Blue Avatar $0.49
• Sound Shapes Player Brown Avatar $0.49
• Sound Shapes Record Player Avatar $0.49

Game Videos (Free)

• Battlefield 3: Aftermath Launch Trailer
• Battlefield 3: Aftermath Premiere Trailer
• Fuse Trailer ‘The Dalton Rules’
• The Cave Character Trailer
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Slingshot Trailer

Available In-Game Only (Not on PlayStation Store)

NCAA Football 2013

• Under Armor Uniform Pack 3 — ($1.99, $1.79 for EASST users)

Real Steel

• Real Steel Trial: Carapace Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Cheetah V2 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Clunky Arm Lv.5 (L) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Clunky Arm Lv.5 (R) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Clunky Legs Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Colossus Fluid — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Crusted Arm Lv.5 (L) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Crusted Arm Lv.5 (R) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Head Defender — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Insectas Glove Lv.5 (L) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Insectas Glove Lv.5 (R) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Juggerjuice Supra — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Monster Fist Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Neck Cracker — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Omega Release — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Outlaw 4s — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Picket Fist Lv.5 (L) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Picket Fist Lv.5 (R) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Power Reprocessor — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Powerhouse R-50 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Real Steel: Monster Fist Lv.5 (R) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Scrapheap Arm Lv.5 (L) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Scrapheap Arm Lv.5 (R) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Scrapheap Body Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Scrapheap Head Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Scrapheap Lv.5 Full Parts Set — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Super Power Reprocessor — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Titantrol 2.0 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Weevil Head Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Weevil Legs Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Weevil Lv.5 Full Parts Set — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Zelezo Arm Lv.5 (L) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Zelezo Body Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Zelezo Hand Lv.5 (L) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Zelezo Hand Lv.5 (R) — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Zelezo Head Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Zelezo Legs Lv.5 — $1.99
• Real Steel Trial: Zelezo Lv.5 Full Parts Set — $9.99

Rock Band 3

• I’ve Done Everything For You ($0.99) – Pro Guitar – Rick Springfield
• Jessie’s Girl ($0.99) – Pro Guitar – Rick Springfield

Well, the time is almost upon us. A week from today – Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 – Corpse Party: Book of Shadows will be available for purchase on the North American PlayStation Store for $19.99, with a European release to follow shortly thereafter. It’s been a long journey getting this game to you guys, so it seemed prudent to give you all a bit more information about it. After all, an appetite for blood and dismay is at its best when thoroughly whetted…

And since each chapter in Corpse Party: Book of Shadows tells its own standalone story, I thought the best way to make you salivate even more would be to give a brief, spoiler-free introduction to each one. So without further ado, here’s a taste of what’s in store for you when you fire up your PSP (or PS Vita) next week.

So, are you ready? If not, there’s a whole new website full of information and images to peruse, as well as a brand new short trailer. Which means, if you’re not already scared out of your gourd… well, you will be. Oh, you definitely will be!

And let’s face it. You wouldn’t have it any other way.

Corpse Party on PSP. What more can you say about it? In my previous PlayStation.Blog entries, I’ve likened it to horror classics such as Clock Tower and Fatal Frame. I’ve talked about how it’s one of the creepiest, most effective horror games I’ve ever played, and how its unique visuals, its 3D binaural audio and its storytelling methods help give it an uncomfortable, unforgettable atmosphere. And you, fair players… you agreed with me. You played it late at night with headphones on, just as I suggested, and it kept you awake. It haunted your nightmares and made you jump every time your house creaked or your neighbor’s kids smacked the wall… until you realized, wait a minute, I don’t have any neighbors!

And then you were never heard from again…Presumably because you were too busy getting every wrong end in the game, of course. It’s hard to resist the charm of those horrible, horrible deaths, after all! Call it morbid curiosity if you will, but we all know you, like Morishige, get a certain sadistic thrill out of seeing (or, more often, hearing) these characters you’ve come to know and love get killed, slowly, in the most creatively twisted ways imaginable.

But then, some of you reading this might not have the slightest idea what I’m talking about, because you’ve committed the ultimate sin of never having played Corpse Party. Well, fear not! You can make up for it on the cheap, since Corpse Party will be available on the North American PlayStation Store for $9.99 – half off its regular price! – from tomorrow’s Store update until two updates later on November 6th.

But wait, there’s more! Not only is Corpse Party cheaper than ever, its sequel Corpse Party: Book of Shadows has officially been announced for digital release on PSP in North America this winter (with a European release planned for sometime shortly thereafter). So you’d best get familiar with the denizens of Heavenly Host Elementary School now, as they’re going to be coming back full-force in a just a few short months!

…Ah, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows. I’ve been translating that game for the last couple months, and I have to say, it is one hell of a sequel. It’s divided into eight chapters, each of which tells its own self-contained short story. Some of them help fill in the blanks of what happened during crucial off-camera scenes from the original game. Others go into the back-story of various characters, helping to flesh them out and make their roles in the series mythos a bit clearer. Still others ask “what if?,” presenting an alternate version of events from the first game in which characters who previously died are kept alive and given a fleeting chance to stay that way. And the game’s wonderfully-titled final chapter, “Blood Drive,” serves as a true sequel, focusing on two of the first game’s survivors as they venture somewhere even deadlier than Heavenly Host Elementary School in order to dig up some answers.

The whole game is presented in a first-person point-and-click adventure game style, and is much heavier on dialogue- and narrative-driven cutscenes than its predecessor (even venturing into visual novel territory at times). The spooky atmosphere is as thick as ever, though, and the gameplay is aided by fast-forward and message log features, as well as the ability to open the menu and save at absolutely any time (even during cutscenes).

Fans of the first game are virtually guaranteed to love Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, and fans of survival horror and horror fiction in general (especially Japanese horror) who haven’t already given this series a try are strongly encouraged to do so, since it really is among the best at what it does.

Specific information on pricing and release timing will be available in the coming months… and in the meantime, that first Corpse Party is calling your name, quietly and mournfully, in the voice of a child. A dead child. And how can you possibly ignore the voice of a dead child?
How, indeed…