Need for Speed The Run is an illicit high-stakes cross-country race from San Francisco to New York. You’ll be playing as Jack, who is a marked man and his only way out is to battle other 200 racers for a sweet $25 million dollar prize. Starting October 19th, PS3 owners can get their hands on The Run demo!
The Resistance 3 multiplayer demo is coming exclusively to PlayStation Plus. If you’ve checked out the our previous coverage, you will see that the R3 multiplayer demo will be accessible to SOCOM: Special Forces (aka SOCOM 4) purchasers in North America.
The MotorStorm Apocalypse Demo is out to download on the PlayStation Store today. In the demo you can race one of the lightning-fast Supercars or extremely agile Superbikes, both available for action racing in MotorStorm for the first time. Also new, (but not playable in the demo), are Choppers, Superminis and Muscle Cars, plus the legendary mix of diverse vehicle classes from previous MotorStorm games.
Sony has created a new tech demo video of the PlayStation Move in action. The new video gives you a better peek as some of the upcoming Move titles like you’ve never seen them before. The video also shows Anton comfortably sitting on a couch when using the PlayStation Move controllers and the PlayStation Eye never reacted negatively to its reflection from the wall of monitors.
Next week, the PlayStation 3 will be getting a playable demo of Vanquish. The demo will be live on the PlayStation Network on August 31st 2010. You can find a trailer and some more information about the game below.
The PS3 version of ModNation Racers, the upcoming kart-racer from United Front Games, will be getting a demo soon. If you didn’t get a chance to join the Beta back in December, this will be your chance to try out the game before release. The demo doesn’t have a confirmed date yet but Chuck Lacson, Associate Product Marketing Manager for SCEA, did let slip that the demo will be available “very soon”.
The Split/Second demo hits the PlayStation Store tomorrow as part of the weekly US PlayStation Store update. In Split/Second, you build up your power meter through skilled driving techniques and then trigger something call “Power Plays” to take out opponents and alter the track. All this takes place in the premise of a huge global broadcast event where you play as a contestant trying to win the season championship.
Disney and Black Rock have released a demo for Split/Second on Xbox Live earlier today and it will soon be heading to the PlayStation Network too. Unfortunately, the demo is available exclusively to Xbox Live until May 11th 2010, which is when it will be released on PSN. The full game will be available to purchase later in May, with the North American release slated for May 18th and May 21st in Europe.
Today’s PlayStation Store update adds the Lost Planet 2 Multiplayer Demo for all to download. The demo lets you together with up to 16 players, grab some weapons, jump in a vital suit and compete in Elimination, Team Elimination, or Data post Grab modes. The demo shows off just some of what the full game contains, which ships on May 11th 2010.
Capcom has been giving away access to the Lost Planet 2 demo a little early to though who signed up to their website lostplanetcommunity.com or by following @SonyPlayStation on twitter. In a few weeks, the demo will also be released to the general public – on April 22nd to be exact.If 1.5 million people download the demo on public release, Capcom will also donate a whopping $25,000 to charity.
