Back at New York Comic Con, Dark Horse Comics and Naughty Dog announced The Last of Us: American Dreams. The Last of Us: American Dreams is a four issue comic book series that peels back the layers on the early days of Ellie as it dives into her backstory. It will expose her personality and the motivations that drive her as it explores the first steps of the journey that leads to becoming the character we ultimately meet in the game.
United Front Games have released a new trailer for LittleBigPlanet Karting, titled “Story”. The trailer gives you an insight into the Story for the upcoming game, which is set after the events of LittleBigPlanet 2. Sackboy’s new adventure involves chasing down otherworldly scavengers known as The Hoard.
Wonderbook: Book of Spells is about a month away from release, and Sony has released a new behind-the-scenes video of how the book was put together. If you haven’t had a chance to see Wonderbook in action at one of Sony’s many events, sit back and watch London Studio explain how it works.
SEGA has announced a “Model 2 Collection”, a series of classic arcade games to be released for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 in the next few months. The first three titles in the collection will be released this Autumn, and more will be release in 2013. The games will be straight ports of the original games, but will include online play.
Rockstar has revealed that Max Payne 3 will be getting more multiplayer DLC. The Hostage Negotiation Pack has been announced as next DLC pack, and will arrive at the end of this month. The pack will include four new multiplayer maps, a host of new weapons and items and a completely new avatar faction.
If you live in Europe but aren’t seeing the new PlayStation Store in your territory, don’t worry. Sony has postponed the launch of the new store in come territories after the roll-out yesterday didn’t go exactly as planned. “The phased launch of the new PlayStation Store has been temporarily postponed in some territories as teething issues related to the global roll-out of the Store are being addressed and resolved,” Sony said in a statement.
Treyarch has released the launch trailer for upcoming first-person shooter Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2. The trailer shows new game footage, including a look at some of the tech from 2025 and a number of explosions. The game is scheduled for launch on November 13th 2012 on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Developer Bloober Team has teamed up with Namco Bandai Games to bring PS Vita title A-Men to the PS3, which is now available in Europe. This new version of the game is loaded with exciting new features, including full HD, new action‑based multiplayer modes, Cross Play with the PlayStation Vita version and more PSN trophies.
We’ve had a play around with the new re-designed PlayStation Store and have recorded it in action, so you can have a look. The re-designed store is available across PAL territories, and will be heading across the pond to North America next week. In addition, Sony has also released a walkthrough video showing the North American PlayStation Store.
This week on the (redesigned) European PlayStation Store you can again find a number of new PS3 titles, including Doom 3 BFG Edition and Sleeping Dogs. New PlayStation Plus content is also available, including early access to The Unfinished Swan and beta access to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
