Japan is getting Siren: Blood Curse as a series of episodes, but it doesn’t look like they’re going to be sold that way. In a unique marketing tactic, the first two episodes of Siren: Blood Curse will be on Japan’s PlayStation…

Initial D: Extreme Stage just came out in Japan and Sega isn’t wasting anytime selling downloadable content. Five volumes of digital manga are online, priced at 320 yen ($3) a piece. However, the collaboration between Sega and Japanese manga publisher…

The tidal wave of PsOne pachinko games were a prelude to Irem’s first digitally distributed game. Pachipara DL Hyper Sea in the Caribbean is sitting on the Japan's PlayStation Store priced at 2,500 yen ($23). A pachinko simulator might not be…

Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice isn’t the only strategy RPG to add scenarios with downloadable content. Sega is running a similar business model with Senjo no Valkyria, better known as Valkyria Chronicles internationally. In August, Sega will patch Japanese copies…

Square-Enix has been slow when it comes to offering many of their classic titles available for download via Virtual Console and Playstation Store. King's Story was a nice touch as was Actraiser, but what about their other classic titles? If…

Last week we gave a skeleton outline of Nippon Ichi’s downloadable content plan for Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice. The first content pack for Japan comes out in June and it includes a few familiar faces.   Pick up the package on…

PlayStation 3 owners are probably too busy playing Metal Gear Solid 4 to notice the PlayStation Store update which added a PsOne game to the classics selection. A downloadable copy of Metal Gear Solid could have piggybacked on the Solid…

Sony updated Japan’s PlayStation Store with even more “classic” PsOne games. I put classic in quotes since most gamers won’t consider three of Yamasa Entertainment’s digital slot machines “classic” material. In any case they are available for PlayStation 3 and…

One nice thing about having an Asian region PlayStation Store account is you get access to all of the Japanese PsOne Classics and a fair number of the English games. The other is Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong occasionally has…

Shiki-tei (literally: Four seasons garden) is like Viva Pinata, minus the talking pinata animals. The PlayStation Network “game” lets players plant trees, place stones and design a serene garden. The idea behind Shiki-tei is to take players to a place where…

The Echochrome mysteries keep coming, but I this may explain why Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Echochrome page lists a 310MB save file. Unlike North America, Europe is getting a retail, UMD version of Echochrome with 228 puzzles on the disc. This…

Hudson hasn’t got around to creating a Bomberman game for the PlayStation Network, but as a quick replacement the PsOne remake of the Bomberman game for the NES is now on the Japanese store. Like all of the PlayStation archives…