The first of two Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time demos will be available to download from the PlayStation Store tomorrow. That’s correct – there will be two demos available for this game. The Clank Demo will be released as part of tomorrow’s PlayStation Store update.
Grand Theft Auto: China Chinatown Wars is now available on the PSP via the PlayStation Store and on UMD. Originally released on the Nintendo DS, Chinatown Wars brings a unique, arcade-like approach to the series. On the PSP, the game includes some exclusive missions, music, re-optimized controls, and an intense high-resolution graphical overhaul that could only be done on this platform.
The Uncharted 2 PlayStation Home Space will be going live tomorrow. The PlayStation Space will feature a Nepalese village environment contains no less than three mini-games as well as an array of must have PlayStation Home Rewards, leaderboards and more. Take part in the multiplayer Fortunate Thieves adventure or try and re-assemble all of the pieces of the shattered mask for the mysterious Stone Face in Mask Mayhem.
The PSOne Classics Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus will both be available on the PlayStation Store for only $9.99 each starting Thursday, October 22. Finally, gamers who never got the chance to meet and play as Abe when he first came out on the PSone system, will now get that chance to meet the guy who graced many magazine covers and proved the unlikely hero that captured people’s hearts.
To aid NIS America’s decision to release Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! on UMD, a UMD pre-order process has been started. Fans of the game have been asking for a UMD release for some time, but NISA is concerned about the actual demand. You can pre-order your copy from RosenQueen.com. However, in order to make it possible for NISA to manufacture the UMD, they will have to get at least 1000 orders.
The Calling All Cars servers will be shutting down in the new year, making it the first game to shut down its servers. On January 14th 2010, the servers will be taken offline. The only way to play the game from this date is locally. The announcement was made in-game. Calling All Cars has been available for a few years now so it’s about time really.
The PlayStation 3 received trophy support over a year ago, bring more replay value to games and also rewarding gamers by completing special feats. We think trophies were a great addition to PS3 games, and its about time it comes to the PSP. More often than not, we find ourselves playing games purely for the trophies, and we’re not alone. There are many trophy whores out there.
Sony has announced Cold Front, a new downloadable content pack for SOCOM: Confrontation. Loaded with features, the pack will bring a snowy Eastern European area of operations into play with two new maps and three classic SOCOM maps for 16 to 32 players. The classic maps are drawn from the most popular SOCOM maps of all time, each built from the ground up for the PS3.
This week on the PlayStation Store, Land of the Lost, Drag Me to Hell, and South Park Spooktacular are now available for download. Lots of new TV shows are also available including the latest episodes of Heroes, House, Smallville and other favorites. As for this week’s top movie downloads, Trick ‘r Treat is the number one download followed by X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Year One in second and third place, respectively.
Infinity Ward has scrapped the co-op support for Modern Warfare 2’s main campaign mode, claiming it “really broke” the game’s cinematic experience. Speaking to VG247, communications head Robert Bowling commented, “We did it early on; that’s what Spec Ops started out as, as co-op through story.” As a result, the original co-op mode formed the nucleus of what would later become the Spec Ops feature, allowing players to tackle a number of segments from the main campaign which proved suitable for a two-player experience.
