Daft Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 Liven Up Your PlayStation ‘Home’ with a Pet Sony apparantly likes the idea of giving you pets to play with. First with EyePet, and now, pets are coming to PlayStation Home. Nothing brings warmth, and life to a home more than a happy, furry critter that loves you unconditionally. Sony hopes to bring that life to PlayStation Home by offering pets. According to PlayStation Home Community Manager Locust_Star, pets are currently in the works for PlayStation home. http://playstationlifestyle.net/2009/08/14/liven-up-your-playstation-home-with-a-pet/ Awesome. I'd actually pay for a pet in Home. If it linked up to EyePet, which oddly enough we were talking about in the Playstation thread, that would be epic. I won't hold my breath though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I just came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diageo Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Because of pets in home? I'd hate to be your girlfriend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 No I'm just continuing my non-fanship of Home in a side-splittingly hilarious manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted August 17, 2009 Author Share Posted August 17, 2009 I'd hate to be your girlfriend. No shit.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 You're on a roll Daft, keep this up and I may actually start believing that there's belief behind the 'bashing'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted August 18, 2009 Author Share Posted August 18, 2009 That was a bash at Diageo. Sorry, if it seemed otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 PS Home game-launching this autumn Sony has announced that PS3 game-launching within PlayStation Home will be a reality this autumn. This was a feature trumpeted loudly when Sony announced Home in March 2007. Game-launching arrives as part of update 1.3, and will apparently work across all PS3 titles. Pop the disc in the console and follow the on-screen prompts to begin, says the US PlayStation blog - it's as simple as that. And some games will have "varying degrees of additional multiplayer functionality built in". The update also brings in-store item previewing - both clothing and furniture - and lets you rent consumable items such as the shrink potion. Portable objects will be introduced too, such as free cameras that you can snap things with (in first and third-person view) and display in frames in your Home space. There are a raft of minor additions as well. Avatars will get additional emotes and poses, and there are new categories of clothing. The targeting system has been "optimised", a new queuing system introduced, bugs fixed and a cache-size option added to speed things up. The SingStar space announced during the Sony gamescom conference will launch around the same time, too. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ps-home-game-launching-this-autumn Completely missed all this. It looks like a good step forward for Home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookyman Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Zen Pinball – Street Fighter II Tribute Table - £1.59 Bargain! Love me some Zen Pinball -criminally underated game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I hope we get these aswell! From Thursday, PSone instalments Abe's Oddysee (1997) and Abe's Exodus (1998) will be available for $9.99 apiece, according to the US PS blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Yeah I saw a while back that they had been rated by the ESRB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Yeah I saw a while back that they had been rated by the ESRB. Consider them bought. Plans for Stranger's Wrath and Munch's Odyssee too. On topic for Home: With all these new mini-games popping up, most recently Ratchet's, Sony are saying focus may shift to make Home less about a 3D facebook or more of a gaming platform to complement the 'real' bigger games. Never tried Home myself, personally.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Consider them bought. Plans for Stranger's Wrath and Munch's Odyssee too. On topic for Home: With all these new mini-games popping up, most recently Ratchet's, Sony are saying focus may shift to make Home less about a 3D facebook or more of a gaming platform to complement the 'real' bigger games. Never tried Home myself, personally.. Yeah I'd hear that its going to shift away from being a social network and become more a casual games platform. It's a good idea tbh...as a social network its plain sucked unless you into dancing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 PSN finally gets Braid. PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system owners, the wait is almost over! Soon you too can run, jump and bend time, as Hothead Games announced today that it will be digitally delivering Jonathan Blow's Braid to the PlayStation Network in North America on Nov. 12 with a European version to be announced shortly thereafter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 PSN finally gets Braid. oh bollocks. I not that long ago bout it on Steam...have to play it lower graphics mode because of only being on a netbook will wait to see how much it costs before weighing up whether or not to invest for a second time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Does anyone know if the HD Films on the video store are 1080p? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sec Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Does anyone know if the HD Films on the video store are 1080p? Well if they're anything like the trailers you can download, then most likely yes, tho i think you can pick between 720 and 1080.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 MASSIVE UPDATE TODAY: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/17/%E2%80%98heads-up%E2%80%99-playstation-store-update-17th-december-2009/ Best out of all this is that Dead Head Fred is reduced to just £2.39 on PSP! Also new game on Home: PlayStation Home is moving its social network toward the gaming space by releasing a real, honest-to-god video game through Home. Meet Sodium, "an arcade shooter in an MMO wrapper." The game launches today, featuring a new game space accessible through a teleporter in the Plaza. If any of you regular Home users were wondering what that tank in the Plaza was, here's your answer. Home Director Jack Buser and several members of Sodium's development team from Outso were on-hand to give journalists a little taste of what is now out there for all you Home users to enjoy. Buser's hinted before at his intentions for Home to become a gaming platform as opposed to a virtual world tacked onto a gaming platform. He's used the words "mini-MMOs" to describe what he envisions the spaces within Home becoming. We've seen the beginnings of it in places like the Uncharted Nepal space (also developed by Outso) and now we're getting the first bite of Buser's ultimate vision for Home. Sodium can best be described as a Facebook game. No, seriously – any of you who've played Mafia Wars or any of the "freemium" games where microtransactions drive gameplay will know exactly what they're getting into when they discover that only the first five out of 50 levels of Sodium are free. Sodium features a futuristic sci-fi setting where players pilot tanks to shoot up other tanks in an arena setting. There are other quests, too, such as stomping neon colored scorpions or a drinking game called Desert Quench – you'll have to check with the cyborg non-playable character Vicky to get them. Some quests are isolated experiences where you blow up NPC tanks; others are social games where you work cooperatively with other players to, say, squash a certain number of scorpions. Also, the developer said there were tower defense missions and proper boss fights at the end of each level. Within Sodium, there are also social spaces that look a lot like the rest of Home – or any tavern in a fantasy MMO role-playing game. There's a big stage for where the developers plan to have live music events, a bar where you can buy virtual drinks in funky shaped glasses and even a VIP section where only tank pilots can go. (And tank pilots are always going to be people who paid for the game – the dudes with special colors on the sleeve of their jumpsuits to denote rank.) The whole setting looked like a cross between Burning Man (which turned out to be a major inspiration for the developer) and Dune. As in David Lynch's take on it with a lot of neon. What makes this interesting from a gamer's perspective is that it's freemium gameplay on a major console. There are smaller, 3D games that have existed before Sodium on PC – like this game Korean shooter I used to play in college – but I'm hard pressed to come up with anything like Sodium on Xbox Live that functioned purely on microtransactions. From a purely intellectual perspective, I find Sodium interesting because of what it will do to Home. I've talked before about how Home isn't as static as Xbox Live because when you go in, everything is instantly changeable. But if you've got a network of people who only log into Home to play these games – and their appearance changes in the game based on how much they've played or how much they've paid for – will it make Home more static? Static or not, Home is definitely still growing. Buser was proud to announce that since the last time I spoke to him in November, Home has shot up from 8,000 users to 10,000 and the number of virtual items has doubled to something like 2,000. Home celebrated its first birthday just last Friday. And now for a Sodium trailer: http://kotaku.com/5428426/home-produces-sodium?skyline=true&s=i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Massive update before Christmas. PlayStation Store via PS3Additional Special Offers (Until the 7th of January) * Fat Princess (was – £11.99/€14.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * WarHawk (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £16.99/€20.99) (reduced until the 21st of January) * Resistance: Retribution (PSP) (was – £24.99/€39.99 now – £14.99/€19.99) * LocoRoco 2 (PSP) (was – £19.99/€29.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * Numblast (PSP) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) Available from the 24th of December: * Trine (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * Worms (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £6.29/€7.99) Special Offers (Until the 7th of January) * Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (was – £19.99/€29.99 now – £14.99/€19.99) * Burn Zombie Burn! (was – £6.29/€7.99 now – £3.19/€3.99) * Bomberman Ultra (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £3.99/€4.99) * Battlefield 1943 (was – £9.99/€12.99 now – £6.29/€7.99) * Red Alert 3: Commander’s Challenge (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £5.19/€6.49) * High Velocity Bowling (was – £6.29/€7.99 now – £3.99/€4.99) * Lemmings (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £3.19/€3.99) * 3 on 3 NHL Arcade (was – £6.29/€3.19 now – £3.19/€3.99) * Burnout Paradise (was – £24.99/€29.99 now – £13.99/€17.99) * Burnout Paradise – Big Surf Bundle (was – £27.99/€34.99 now – £19.99/€24.99) * Fight Night Round 4 – Champions Pack (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Skate 2 – Maloof Money Cup Pack (was – £1.59/€1.99 now – £1.19/€1.49) * Skate 2 – Time is Money Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Skate 2 – Filmer Pack (was – £4.79/€5.99 now – £3.19/€3.99) * Skate 2 – Dyrdek’s Fantasy Plaza Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Skate 2 – San Van Classic Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Dead Space – Scorpion Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Dead Space – Obsidian Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Dead Space – Military Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Dead Space – Tank Pack (was – £3.19/€3.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * The Godfather 2 – The Corleone Bundle (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £4.79/€5.99) * Burnout Dominator (PSP) (was – £17.99/€24.99 now – £11.99/€19.99) * Burnout Legends (PSP) (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99) * Def Jam Fight for New York: The Takeover (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * EA Replay (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * Crash Team Racing (PSone Classic) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Kula World (PSone Classic) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) Downloadable Games * Hustle Kings (£6.29/€7.99) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: All locales PSone Game (emulated for PS3/PSP) * Vagrant Story (£4.79/€5.99) Rating: PEGI 16 Availability: All locales Demos (free) * Dante’s Inferno – Gates of Hell Demo: Rating: BBFC 18/PEGI 18 Availability: Not available in Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Africa or UAE * Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues: Rating: PEGI 7 Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia or UAE * MX vs. ATV Reflex: Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa or UAE minis (emulated for PS3/PSP) * Cubixx (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand * International Snooker (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: Not available in Australia, New Zealand or Portugal * Tiger Trouble (£1.99/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: Not available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain or Switzerland Add-On Game Content * LittleBigPlanet o Pirates of the Caribbean Will Turner Costume (£1.59/€1.99) o Pirates of the Caribbean Tia Dalma Costume (£1.59/€1.99) o Pirates of the Caribbean Elizabeth Swann Costume (£1.59/€1.99) o Pirates of the Caribbean Barbossa Costume (£1.59/€1.99) o Pirates of the Caribbean Davy Jones Costume (£1.59/€1.99) o Pirates of the Caribbean Sack Sparrow Costume (£1.59/€1.99) o Pirates of the Caribbean Costume Kit (£4.79/€5.99) o Pirates of the Caribbean Level Kit (£4.79/€5.99) Rating: PEGI 7 Availability: All locales * PAIN - Kato-San Character (Free) Rating: PEGI 16 Availability: All locales * Dragon Ball Raging Blast – Ginyu Force Pack (free) Rating: PEGI 12 Availability: All locales * EyePet – Lucky Dip Styling Pack 10 (free) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: All locales * Rock Band o (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To by Weezer (£0.99/€1.49) o Beverly Hills by Weezer (£0.99/€1.49) o Let It All Hang Out by Weezer (£0.99/€1.49) o Weezer Pack 03 (Contains the three tracks listed above) (£2.49/€3.99) o A Lot Like Me by The Offspring (£0.99/€1.49) o Build A Bridge by Limp Bizkit (£0.99/€1.49) o Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard (£0.99/€1.49) Rating: PEGI 12 Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and UAE * Guitar Hero 5 o Harder To Breathe By Maroon 5 (£1.59/€1.99) o Hark The Herald Angels Sing By Steve Ouimette (£1.59/€1.99) o New By No Doubt (£1.59/€1.99) o Our Song By Taylor Swift (£1.59/€1.99) o Celebrity New Years Rock Track Pack (£4.39/€5.49) Rating: PEGI 12 Availability: Not available in Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and United Arab Emirates Applications * Adhoc Party Application (free) Availability: All locales Premium Avatars * LittleBigPlanet – (£0.20/€0.25 each) o Sackboy Avatar o Craft Earth Avatar o My Moon Avatar o Sky Avatar o Arrr! Avatar o Marvin Avatar o Gloria Avatar o Great Blue Avatar o Frost-E Avatar o Hugo Avatar o Lily Pad Avatar o Christmas Tree Avatar o Santa Avatar o Giftboy Avatar Availability: All locales Videos (free) * Digger HD Trailer * Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign Trailer * James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game Launch Trailer * Hustle Kings Trailer * PixelJunk Shooter Trailer Themes (free) (static themes) * Gravity Crash Theme * Mushroom Wars Theme Premium Theme (static theme) * Disruptive Theme – Tropical Paradise Theme (£1.19/€1.49) Wallpapers (free) * Gravity Crash Wallpaper * Gravity Crash Sun Wallpaper * Gravity Crash Planet Wallpaper * Gravity Crash Space Wallpaper PlayStation Store via PSP and Media Go Additional Special Offers (also available via the PS3 store) (Until the 7th of January) * Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £16.99/€20.99) (reduced until the 21st of January) * Resistance: Retribution (PSP) (was – £24.99/€39.99 now – £14.99/€19.99) * LocoRoco 2 (PSP) (was – £19.99/€29.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * Numblast (PSP) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) Special Offers (also available via the PS3 store) (Until the 7th of January) * Burnout Dominator (PSP) (was – £17.99/€24.99 now – £11.99/€19.99) * Burnout Legends (PSP) (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99) * Def Jam Fight for New York: The Takeover (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * EA Replay (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99) * Crash Team Racing (PSone Classic) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) * Kula World (PSone Classic) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.39/€2.99) Downloadable Games (also available via the PS3 store) * Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign (£6.29/€7.99) Rating: PEGI 7 Availability: All locales * Thrillville: Off The Rails (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 7 Availability: Not available in Russia PSone Game (emulated for PS3/PSP) * Vagrant Story (£4.79/€5.99) Rating: PEGI 16 Availability: All locales minis * Bowling 3D (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: Not available in Saudi Arabia, South Africa or UAE * Cubixx (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand * International Snooker (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: Not available in Australia, New Zealand or Portugal * Tiger Trouble (£1.99/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3 Availability: Not available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain or Switzerland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Hmmm Trine down to £7.99 thats a more reasonable price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 The only thing that interests me there really is the Burnout Paradise game + DLC pack for £20. Still, it's good to see prices lowering. I'm waiting for a Braid price drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 The only thing that interests me there really is the Burnout Paradise game + DLC pack for £20. Still, it's good to see prices lowering. I'm waiting for a Braid price drop. Yeah me to...I own it on PC via Steam bought it for like £2 but its the low graphic version so could look better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 Braid and Trine, two incredibly overrated games. Don't believe the hype. My God, don't believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I don't think anyone really raved about Trine. I played the demo, first 5 minutes were good, then it completely dragged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 (edited) I don't think anyone really raved about Trine. I played the demo, first 5 minutes were good, then it completely dragged. I've heard on quite a few podcasts people raving about, was vaguely interested but the high price point killed all hype for me. EDIT: Just noticed Warhawk is down to £7.99 that is a bargain! Edited December 22, 2009 by flameboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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