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

  • this sucks i can’t update my ps3 it give me an error

  • so glad fifa08 demo is out, im barely playing it now
    thanks

  • ok, guys thanks for the updates to the PSN but I think something is funny and for the 1st time ever the downloads is slow as anything and pauses all the time after 1.93. some help please?

  • I agree, I tried earlier this evening to update several times and gave up. I checked my email and received an invite to buy Pixel Racers later in the evening. I would be interested if I could sign in and update. Like others I am stuck at 4%.

  • We need and international PNStore, o create a credit system for areas with out a store, like LatinAmerica, i know a lot of people who would love to buy game but we are no longer enable to do it.

    CREDIT SYSTEM OR INTENATIONAL STORE please!

  • IDEA:
    I know we can use png files as wallpapers. But we should take ADVANTAGE of the transparency within it. For instance, a wallpaper that though it, you see the waves on the xmb.

    This allows for such AWESOME customization. (For those of you who know how to use the .png format, you know what I’m talking about)

  • is there anyway to get more game support with remote play…..games in ps3 store plus demos?

  • I LOVE pixeljunk racers… i plan on buying it as soon as i steal my moms credit card again. hehehe. Great PSN update. Awesome job Sony. I’m also downloading Tony Hawk as I type this. Can’t wait BALLIN’!!!

    Lh

  • This update was good this week but what the psn needs is to add Marvel vs. Capcom 2

  • Yeah! Fantastic is a perfect word to describe this update.

    Unfortunately the Poker game seems to be broken. I (and many others on the forum) cannot get online.

  • The Lair music is awesome!!! Please put up some more next week :).

  • These recent updates have been very good I hope you guys keep it up and keep getting better too. However until I feel that I can purchase these PSN games and actually be able to play them I will not buy another one. There is no excuse to release such buggy games as Poker,SPF, and T5:DR online no to mention the amount of headaches some have to go through just to finish the download. Like I said the UPDATES have been good, but it’s hard to believe that after almost 1 full year your online is still so appallingly poor. Thanks for you time and I hope I didn’t offend anyone, but I like online games and just want them to play the way they were meant to.

  • for those having the 4% 1.93 problem, go to the australian playstation site and download the update, i did it and now im downloading the demos from the store, oh wait… no i cant… they freeze every 5 minutes

  • Excellent update!!!!!!! I’m still waiting for the SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2 TURBO HD REMAKE REMIX OR WHATEVER THEY ARE CALLING IT LOL!!!! Now that will be one game on the store i’ll be downloading!!!! AND THROW THAT RATCHET AND CLANK DEMO ON THEIR ALREADY PLEASE!!!!!

  • i can’t wait for Everyday Shooter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Good Update but please fix the poker game- bought it today and hoped to play online. Broken on launch and fix it later shouldn’t be the motto : ( .

  • Great demos. I played the FIFA 08 demo after just playing the demo on the 360, and the controls are much more responsive for me on the PS3 version.

    Please fix the poker online. I was looking forward to this and now I feel cheated. Also please test all of your games to make sure they work on the latest firmware version in the future, and don’t release broken games.

    Thanks

  • Everyday Shooter is the one I am looking forward to playing. Hope it hits the fall like it says and J.M. Can get some rest! =D

  • Isn’t it about time we get some sort of Lair demo?

    I mean, the game got flogged by reviewers but I still do want to give it chance. A demo sure would help my decision along.

  • Hey Sony! I live en Europe(a little continent east of the Atlantic Ocean). I’ve payed the same for my system as the american consumers, so can any one explain me why this is fair:

    American Playstation Store update:

    New PSN games:

    Pixel Junk Racers
    High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition

    Demos:

    Pixel Junk Racers
    Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground
    NHL 08
    Harry Potter og Føniksordenen
    FIFA 08

    Trailers:

    Everyday Shooter
    Warhawk
    Lair – Behind the Scenes
    Feel the Noise
    Juiced 2: Hot import nights
    High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition
    Soul Calibur IV

    Wallpapers:

    High Stakes: Poker
    2 x Pixel Junk Racers
    Folklore

    European Playstation Store update

    Demos:

    Harry Potter og Føniksorden

    Trailers:

    LocoRoco: Cocoreccho

    I love my playstation, but I like to use it, who require new contents!

  • what’s up ya’ll. Sony it’s o.k. to ask for help when needed. You need better tech personel to run your servers. 1.93 is impossible to download. Thanks for listenning.

  • Good job SONY. i loved fifa 2008 ima buy it :D

  • I havent post in a while but I really have to say this…

    I LOVE YOU guys, I love you all..

    hahaha

    Really.

    The past updated have been so great. I think we got more demos in the past three weeks than since PS3 update was released.

    I am definitely going to check all of this.

    Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This blog rocks! PSN is getting better and better.

  • Weeeee! We have a new update… and now i can´t get a connection from the server -_-U… well, that suck for a change xD

  • The PS Store has good content. The PS Network is craptastic, with pausing downloads, network disconnects, and 4% *mandatory* updates, and a website that’s always 5 days behind where you’re supposed to download the firmware.

    This is coming from one of the biggest media companies in the world. HIRE SOME GOOD NERDS ALREADY AND FIRE THE SMACKTARDS CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF THIS.

  • @Nikiel

    You’re free to create a US account to download demos.

  • Just remember people… Less console sales mean less games from less 3rd parties.

    No 3rd party is going to give Sony an exclusive with these console sales from August. Sony can’t win in America or the UK… it’s barely doing decent in Japan and the only reason it’s seen as doing alright there is because the xbox 360 is doing so bad.

    3 consoles have never been supported in the history of gaming. The gamecube was heavily shunned last gen… Dreamcast was pushed out befor that. Jaguar and 3d0 before that. PS3 will not sustain a console life at this stage in the game. 10 year life cycle my damn foot. xbox 3 will be out around december 09 to december 10… Then what Sony? What a joke.

  • Why, oh why are ou coming here with that crap. Call someone who cares, like Sony Customer care.

  • The warhawk servers got an update this morning and seems to have fixed all problems. Lets hope it holds up. Thank you Sony.

  • Keep the demos coming!!!

    Also, we need some decent video codec support and we are golden :)

  • @ 236 “Laughed”

    He’s coming here with taht becuase it’s a real problem and this is where Sony needs to hear this stuff…everything is not Okey-Dokey with the PS3, and we know it!

    We simply want some help!

  • @235

    Obviously your videocard is outdated. May I recommend a directX10 compliant card and at least 2 gigs of ram…. oh wait PS3? yeah…thats not normal…..call costumer support.

  • I have been trying to download the new system update since yesterday but keep getting an error message, anyone else having this problem?

  • is it just me or is Gamesblow’s rants starting to sound a lot like Loucifer?

  • I dunno if thats Loucifer or not, maybe he got banned and had to remake a name, I’m on their side right now tho, i’m very unimpressed with PS3 right now…come on Halo and Mario Galaxy? What’re we doing about it? Oh the “10 year life cycle” jibberish again?!? I heard that speech waaaaaaay too much and its not gonna save the PS3…maybe MGS4 if it makes it out in time before the PS3 loses the war and turns into a Dreamcast.

    The only thing thats definitly getting any of my money right now is FF Tactics and Crisis Core PSP Bundle pack which i’m saving up for instead of buying anymore PS3 games right now since Lair wasn’t very impressive…it was a good rental atleast. By the time Xmas comes around I should be ready to buy that bundle pack YAY!

    Anyway, I dunno what Sony can do to save itself right now but seems like Ouren’s got a good point about Apple…the iPod and stuff is HOT right now and has been…why not a partnership?

    DO SOMETHING!!! :(

  • we need ps1 games pls!!!

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  • im liking these updates, their really sweet, all we need now is to be up to speed with the demos 360 gets.

  • Is there ever going to be an PC accessible PSN component? Like being able to see who’s online and message, nothing too big.

  • frito @ 237
    Don’t get me wrong, if there is an issue let’s discuss it but not like that. Call Sony, sort it out then tell us what you dealt with. All caps and demanding for help for an issue we and the marketing assistants posting to this board have no control over… lame.

  • @TsunamiPepper

    there is something with home i saw that was like myspace or something during e3…..

  • @ Nikiel

    Please do not complain to SCEA for the content on the PS Store. I’m sorry it may seem like I’m calling you out it, but there are many others that do the same. First off, SCEA, SCEI, and SCEE all operate independently from each other basically, except they all share the name SCE. SCEA is responsible for the NA PS Store content, SCEE is responsible for the European content, and so on. SCEA heard us saying we wanted more demos, which is why we got more (although demos take around 2-3 weeks to be approved due to testing and other things). SCEE themselves haven’t done anything to get the demos on their store, along with other content. Basically, if you want more PS Store content for Europe, you gotta complain to SCEE about it, because SCEA has zero control over the European market, and SCEE doesn’t seem to be working with devs close to SCEA (like the devs of Pixel Junk Racers) to assure it comes to Europe sooner.

    Anyway, back on topic, the PS Store content this week is good and I’m very happy. PixelJunk Racers is all right, but I’m looking forward to Loco Roco, Everyday Shooter, etc. soon.

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  • Gamesblow is absolutely right about the state of the PS3. If things don’t turn around, I can forsee Xmas of 09 to consist almost entirely of first person Sony games and next to none third party games. The ratio of PS3s sold vs. the ‘other’ systems continues to move in the wrong direction, and with a HUGE system selling game coming out very soon for the ‘other’ system the sales ratio is gonna look worse and worse for the PS3. Especially since there really aren’t any compelling exclusives to sell PS3 coming out until 2008…..gonna be a distant third place again this XMas season I’m afraid.

  • ….and I have always thought the idea of a Sony/Apple partnership would be incredibly profitable for both companies….but I don’t see it happening unfortunately. A PS3 version of iTunes would be a megaton in the land of digital entertainment.

  • So uh, Ratchet and Clank Future demo is out…at EB/Gamestop when you pre-order the game. Why the heck is it NOT on Sony’s own online service to download?

  • Good job SCEA.

    Darsh, the R&C Future demo is coming to the PS Store October 4th.

  • Things I would like to see for a Network Update:
    -Vertical Sync option for all ps3 games
    -Support for Divx/Xvid (even if it is via a purchase in Playstation Store)
    -Temperature Monitor option to view current temperature of ps3
    -Fan speed Monitor option to view current fan speed of ps3

  • @248

    I realize that. I also realize that the demo at Gamestop now is also the E3 build. However, it’s unknown if this will be the same build that goes up on PSN (this build has tearing/v-sync issues, as well as cruddy strafe controls).

    However, I don’t see the point in waiting so long between the two. If you can go through the trouble to press these demos and ship them off to stores, what’s the harm in putting the demo on your own network?

    It makes no sense and it’s representative of how Sony is just mishandling things as of late. =/

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