Jeff and I had a blast this week at the Engadget community meet-up! Seeing your amazement and reactions to Killzone 3, Motorstorm Apocalypse and MLB 11 The Show in Stereoscopic 3D was worth the price of admission (sure, it was free, but still awesome.) Fans of Patapon and PixelJunk, listen up!
We’re celebrating Patapon 3 and the launch of PixelJunk Shooter 2 with style and PlayStation class this week, by tossing a massive community event at The Mighty this Monday night and you’re all invited! Come one, come all fans of the PixelJunk series, to hang with team PlayStation, members of Q-Games and hundreds of your fellow gaming compatriots. The festivities don’t end when we kick on the house lights folks, you can continue the party in your subterranean vehicles on Tuesday when PixelJunk Shooter 2 launches on PSN this week.
Jeff, Sid and I hope to see you all there and look forward in meeting each and every one of you in person. Just look for my branded hair and PlayStation ink. In the mean time, enjoy this week’s The Drop.
PlayStation Network
PixelJunk Shooter 2 — In PixelJunk Shooter, players pilot a subterranean vehicle to explore the interior of diverse cave-like complexes. The player must affect the surrounding and dynamic terrain to progress.
The goal is to safely navigate through each vivid stage and rescue survivors scattered about the cavernous environment. Each stage is in-effect a flow simulation whereby the player attempts to control various types of liquid (water, magma, etc) and solid matter (rock, earth) either by destroying it, manipulating it or moving it.
Modnation Racers — ModNation Racers is a thoroughly fresh take on classic kart racing that empowers the player to personalize their entire game. Players can express themselves by creating their own Mod character, styling their own racing kart and even building — in just minutes — an imaginative track that can be shared with the rest of the PlayStation community via the free PlayStation Network service.
PSN Demos
- MLB 2K11
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Top Spin 4
- Alien Breed 3: Descent
- Marvel Pinball
PlayStation 3
Fight Night Champion — Step into the ring for this 2011 entry in the knockout king boxing franchise. Fight Night Champion sets out to define a new standard in sports videogames by delivering the most dynamic simulation fighting experience to date, pushing visual boundaries and redefining the single player journey for the category.
Rango: The Video Game — Rango The Video Game invites players to continue on Rango’s wild journey through new adventures inspired by the movie. Set in a gritty, pint-sized, Wild West World filled with off-color characters, wild rides and frantic shoot-outs, Rango invites players of all ages to meet the residents of the town of Dirt and play through Rango’s whacky Tall Tales of Adventure, brimming with intense action and outlandish scenarios.
PSone Classics
Vagrant Story — Adventure into a world of unparalleled depth and danger with SquareSoft’s Vagrant Story. In this sweeping dungeon-crawling epic you play as Ashley Riot, a young assassin and spy for the organization known as Riskbreakers. Your goal is to unravel a deep and twisted plot and come to terms with the recent death of your wife and child. If this sounds a bit too cerebral never fear. Your path to recapturing your sense of humanity hinges on the destruction of countless vicious monsters and the exploration of dark and dangerous dungeons.
[Editor’s Note: The following dates are subject to change. Game details are gathered from Press Releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.]
Why is there no price for pixeljunk shooter 2
What about Hard Corps: Uprising? And what is the price point for DS2: Severed?
Props for getting Xenogears and Vagrant Story in the store. Now on to Parasite Eve 1 & 2!
@39: Sir, you (and your children by relation) ammount to less than the crust on a single hair of the ps3’s colossal sack.
Aanyway… I’ll be pickin up PJ Shooter 2 (hope its longer/deeper than 1), maybe vagrant story i’ve never played it. But you guys have 1 more week to put up Hard Corps: Uprising before I begin my boycott. Seriously, I’ve been waiting for that game for a really long time
Where’s Hard Corps: Uprising?
PJS 2 is $9.99
Ah…where’s Vagrant Story? I see PJ Shooter 2 made the drop today, but so far no VS. Come on, Sony, you can’t be a year and a half behind Japan and then falsely advertise the drop date…no fair
Where’s the pc engine games?
When do the new games come out??
Its 4:30pm and Vagrant Story is nowhere to be found…….. :(
When is the store getting the Update???? i want to buy ModNation Racers already!!!!
The Best way to find a game, you know is coming on psn, as soon as possible. Is to do a search for it with the magnifiying glass icon near the upper right of the screen.
Games tend to show up before the main page updates.
Rather supprised that vagrant story is only about a 97 MB download though. Thought it would be bigger.
I’d love to buy these PSone Classics, but I’m wondering if you guys have fixed the bug in the emulator for downloadable PSOne games?
If you download a PSOne Classic from the store and then used the classic “Texture Smoothing” feature on it, it makes the image skinnier and ruins the aspect ratio. This happens on HDTVs. Regular disc based PSOne games work fine with the option activated. Are you guys ever going to fix this? It’s been forever with no word on it.
Looks like I’m DROPPING my essay writing to play with my nephews.