Sony only released PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe as a PlayStation Network download in North America. In Asia it’s a retail game too.

According to a retail listing on Play-Asia yes! No details were announced for the PixelJunk 3in1 Pack, but it’s easy to imagine this release, if real, is PixelJunk Racers, Monsters, and Eden on a Blu-ray disc.
 
Sony used a similar strategy with their downloadble PSP games in Europe by releasing PlayStation Network Power Packs. We didn’t [...]

It’s a holiday week and we’re light on video game releases. Chrono Trigger is this week’s attention grabber, but there isn’t much coming out. Sony feels your pain and wants to redirect you to some of their older, but creative PlayStation Network games like PixelJunk Eden and echochrome. These games are getting a 50% [...]

Baiyon is a DJ, art director and graphics designer based in Kyoto, Japan. Several years ago he released the album “Like a school on lunch time,” an experimental approach to minimalistic electronic sounds. He has collaborated on a variety of visual design projects and museum exhibitions, which can be sampled on the website [...]

Otograph is the group name of Sachiyo Oshima and Takashi Iura, the artists behind the original soundtrack to PixelJunk Monsters. Their music to the tower defense title by Q-Games was included in the first album available for purchase on the Playstation Network. Titled Dive Into PixelJunk Monsters, it can be listened to [...]

Jeriaska is enamored by the style, setting, and audio of PixelJunk Eden. I’m mesmerized by its uncommon features. PixelJunk Eden is the second title with YouTube recording and the second game with trophies. I spoke to Matt Morton, Associate Producer at Sony Studios Santa Monica about how these features were implemented into PixelJunk Eden [...]

 
Q-Games' third title in the PixelJunk series was on hand at the Sony press booth at E3, where senior producer Deborah Mars gave an introduction to the game’s unique play mechanics and explained the title's collaboration between Dylan Cuthbert, president of Q-Games, and Baiyon, the Kyoto-based visual artist and DJ.  The latter designer is responsible [...]

Before PixelJunk Monsters went online Q Games developed a series of tech demos for the PSP and tinkered with 3D ducks for the PlayStation 3 visual showcase. The Kyoto based studio is comfortable toying with new technology. PixelJunk Eden continues the trend. Q Games is equipping the game with rumble, remote play, YouTube video sharing, [...]

Last week I had a chance to speak to Dylan Cuthbert, a leading member of the original StarFox team and the President of Q-Games. I prepared a number of questions regarding PixelJunk Eden only to throw them out the window at the start of the interview.
 
That topic was off the table and an impromptu chat [...]

Starting Thursday, Sony will sell PixelJunk Racers, the first PlayStation Network game developed by Q Games, at almost half cost. PixelJunk Racers will drop to 500 yen ($4.60) instead of the usual 900 yen ($8.50) price until the end of the month.
 
The discount is only for the handful of PlayStation 3 owners who have a [...]