Post 14282

Survive the Siren: New Translation time trial

By Spencer . July 4, 2008 . 2:19am

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…

Post 14250

Digital Initial D manga drifts onto the PlayStation Store

By Spencer . July 3, 2008 . 9:54am

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…

Post 14206

Irem dips into digital distribution with the PlayStation Network

By Spencer . July 2, 2008 . 6:58am

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…

Post 14146

Valkyria Chronicles extended with new episodes

By Spencer . June 30, 2008 . 11:19am

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…

Post 13979

Square-Enix brings PSOne classics to Japanese PS Store (update: online now)

By Rolando . June 24, 2008 . 8:13pm

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…

Post 13966

Adell and Rozalin become playable characters in Disgaea 3

By Spencer . June 24, 2008 . 3:50pm

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…

Post 13681

Syphon Filter 3 sneaks on the PlayStation Store

By Spencer . June 12, 2008 . 4:24pm

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…

Post 13629

PlayStation Archives cash out with slot machines and Jade Cocoon

By Spencer . June 11, 2008 . 3:09am

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…

Post 13454

Import PsOne games get a price cut on Asia’s PlayStation Store

By Spencer . June 5, 2008 . 3:52pm

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…

Post 13297

Relax with the PS3 garden simulator, Shiki-tei

By Spencer . May 30, 2008 . 2:03am

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…

Post 13295

Europe gets Echochrome on UMD and PSN?

By Spencer . May 30, 2008 . 1:29am

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…

Post 13241

Bomberman comes to the PS3 and PSP

By Spencer . May 28, 2008 . 1:03am

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…

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