Next spring there will be a PlayStation 3 motion controller and Sony is making a new Ape Escape game for it.

Sony has a major upgrade prepared for the PlayStation 3 version of Echochrome. A patch adds the cloud, a public area where user created stages can be uploaded and shared with the world.

It’s no big secret that Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is pushing digital distribution for the PSP. All of their first party games get a retail and digital release on day one. Now Sony is extending this policy to their back catalogue, namely their PSP The Best series. “The Best” games are essentially Japan’s Greatest [...]

1994 marked the first time for many listeners in English-language regions that videogame soundtrack albums became available. Through promotional offers in gaming magazines, Nobuo Uematsu’s score to Final Fantasy VI was released as the three-disc album "Kefka’s Domain."  The soundtrack to Donkey Kong Country went on sale under the name "DK Jamz."  Around the same [...]

With digital distribution making it possible for a greater variety of unconventional titles to reach the market, imaginative new forms of puzzle gameplay are emerging.  Echochrome for the Playstation 3 and PSP, whose art direction mirrors the logic-defying line drawings of M.C. Escher, is one such example.  The physical laws of the in-game environment [...]

Those who have "knocked on the door" of Echochrome are accustomed to its minimalistic style. Players guide a mannequin avatar across beams, onto catapults and up staircases, all of which obey the physical laws of a two-dimensional universe. The innovative puzzle game by Sony called Mugen Kairou or "Infinite Corridor" in [...]

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 number is over double the amount of stages on the Japanese/Asian version [...]

As of last Thursday, North America has Echochrome care of the PlayStation Store, but not the complete package found on the UMD version. The PSP version in Japan/Asia is a retail package with three modes: solo, pair and others. The mode where you tag shadowy echoes and journey back to the starting point is [...]

Echochrome is the most mind boggling release this year with many different versions bearing the same name. Adding to the confusion is a European version of Echochrome for the PSP, which will not be a PlayStation Store download like in North America. Echochrome will be heading to retail stores with pop box art sometime [...]

The real treat for people who picked up the PlayStation 3 version of Echochrome is user created stages distributed over the PlayStation Network. Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has a plan to roll out a collection of these over the next few weeks and these puzzles look fantastic.
 

 
Take a look at the stage above [...]