The Drop: Week of Feb 28th 2011 New Releases

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Jeff and I had a blast this week at the Engadget community meet-up! Seeing your amazement and reactions to Killzone 3, Motorstorm Apocalypse and MLB 11 The Show in Stereoscopic 3D was worth the price of admission (sure, it was free, but still awesome.) Fans of Patapon and PixelJunk, listen up!

We’re celebrating Patapon 3 and the launch of PixelJunk Shooter 2 with style and PlayStation class this week, by tossing a massive community event at The Mighty this Monday night and you’re all invited! Come one, come all fans of the PixelJunk series, to hang with team PlayStation, members of Q-Games and hundreds of your fellow gaming compatriots. The festivities don’t end when we kick on the house lights folks, you can continue the party in your subterranean vehicles on Tuesday when PixelJunk Shooter 2 launches on PSN this week.

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Jeff, Sid and I hope to see you all there and look forward in meeting each and every one of you in person. Just look for my branded hair and PlayStation ink. In the mean time, enjoy this week’s The Drop.

PSN: PixelJunk Shooter 2

PlayStation Network

PixelJunk Shooter 2 — In PixelJunk Shooter, players pilot a subterranean vehicle to explore the interior of diverse cave-like complexes. The player must affect the surrounding and dynamic terrain to progress.

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The goal is to safely navigate through each vivid stage and rescue survivors scattered about the cavernous environment. Each stage is in-effect a flow simulation whereby the player attempts to control various types of liquid (water, magma, etc) and solid matter (rock, earth) either by destroying it, manipulating it or moving it.

Modnation Racers — ModNation Racers is a thoroughly fresh take on classic kart racing that empowers the player to personalize their entire game. Players can express themselves by creating their own Mod character, styling their own racing kart and even building — in just minutes — an imaginative track that can be shared with the rest of the PlayStation community via the free PlayStation Network service.

PSN Demos

  • MLB 2K11
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Top Spin 4
  • Alien Breed 3: Descent
  • Marvel Pinball

PS3: Fight Night Champion

PlayStation 3

Fight Night Champion — Step into the ring for this 2011 entry in the knockout king boxing franchise. Fight Night Champion sets out to define a new standard in sports videogames by delivering the most dynamic simulation fighting experience to date, pushing visual boundaries and redefining the single player journey for the category.

Rango: The Video Game — Rango The Video Game invites players to continue on Rango’s wild journey through new adventures inspired by the movie. Set in a gritty, pint-sized, Wild West World filled with off-color characters, wild rides and frantic shoot-outs, Rango invites players of all ages to meet the residents of the town of Dirt and play through Rango’s whacky Tall Tales of Adventure, brimming with intense action and outlandish scenarios.

PSone: Vagrant Story

PSone Classics

Vagrant Story — Adventure into a world of unparalleled depth and danger with SquareSoft’s Vagrant Story. In this sweeping dungeon-crawling epic you play as Ashley Riot, a young assassin and spy for the organization known as Riskbreakers. Your goal is to unravel a deep and twisted plot and come to terms with the recent death of your wife and child. If this sounds a bit too cerebral never fear. Your path to recapturing your sense of humanity hinges on the destruction of countless vicious monsters and the exploration of dark and dangerous dungeons.

[Editor’s Note: The following dates are subject to change. Game details are gathered from Press Releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.]

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  • Sony, Why keeping SUPER SECRET for Hard Corps Uprising and Good and Evil HD?

    From my detailed research, it is not said anywhere if those games are part of a timed exclusive for Microsoft for there House party … whatever thing. Obvious to see areselves.

    But please, WHY IN [DELETED] IS THE RELEASE DATE ON PSN OF THOSE GAMES ARE KEPT SECRET???

    Last Summer, Lara Croft and Guardian of Light was CLEARLY said it was a timed exclusive for Xbox 360, so WHY THE SECRET FOR THESE GAMES?????????????????????

  • @88 Thanks for the heads-up, man. Will definitely factor that info into my memory stick management. (I can fit that in my PSP, EASY.) (^_^)

  • i love you sony! thanks for vagrant story. i still have my psone disc but i’ll still get this on psn. Dreaming of a ps3 sequel for this.

  • Dont forget everyone Black Ops map pack releases March 1st 2011

  • PixelJunk Shooter 2 better be $9.99
    If it is $14.99 then I’ll pass….
    I still gotta beat the first one anyways.

  • I know this is probably not the right area to post this but im so annoyed its unbelievable ive recently bought items in playstation home e.g Infiltrator outfit $4.99, Slap Happy Hands 0.99 ameratasu sofa, and speakers 0.99 each i have not recieved any of these itemsthey taken the money as i have email confirmations ive checked double checked storage area of inventory and i have deleted home and reinstalled 3 times to no avail, i have also sent 3 messages to glasswalls on psn he ignored me all 3 msgs i live in UK so it is expensive for me to call SCEA i would like a response from a sony official on here or i will try to take matters futher by contacting media and authorites, this is theft as ur selling a product andi have not recieved im at the end of my tether with this matter and wont be using playstation home again just to add i was going to get 1 yr of ps plus tomorrow but i think i’ll pass now u dont deserve another cent

  • About 39’s comment you can kinda see the shift in audience just by looking at the stuff I have for PS/2. Most of my PS stuff is E rated and just one T game. Most of my PS2 stuff is T rated with a few E and one M. And my PS3 stuff is so far evenly split between E and M and T is currently in the lead. It’s pretty crazy.

  • I LONG for the day that Destruction Derby 3 is in a PS Blog post of Weekly drops…. tho you can drop the PS1/PS2 versions on the PSN if you like… i just want a new one….. everyone wants it, trust me.. they just arent thinking about it… and it would make for an excellent online multiplayer game….

  • Vagrant Story??????!!!!

    Ohhh MY, i’ve played this game when i was so little, i didn’t care at all about the story, i just passed the text rapidly, but now, i will be able to play it again yay!!!

    PixelJunk Shooter 2 looks amazing, i’ll buy it, not on day one, but i’ll buy i’ve enjoy quite a bit the first one.

  • My Blockbuster (SALE) is closing there doors. I guess the digtal age is finally here. But having a blast on Killzone 3 just wish multi player worked. And the Sharp Shooter very Sweet but it’s not prefect wish the start and selet button was put closer to your fingers.

  • You had me at PixelJunk Shooter 2. Then you killed me softly with Vagrant Story.

  • Top Spin 4 demo will have MOVE support, right?

  • LMAO @ black ops demo, game has been out since November. It’s crap to.

  • Been waiting to see Vagrant Story on the US store for awhile since Europe has had it. :D
    Love that game!

  • Couple questions:
    1. Why is it sony can either only put 0-1 PSone classic up per week?
    2. In regards to the PS2 classics, seeing as sony too away backwards compatabilty, will we ever see PS2 classics re-released on PSN or will sony be putting the PS2 classics on blu-ray?
    3.As there is few mmo’s on PS3 what is the possibility that FFXI online will appear on PSN or As a disk re-release. As ffxiv has been delayed, and seeing that there is no comfirmed release date as of yet.

  • @ PS2 Classics, There are 5 out already the prince of persia series and god of war collection. They are also both HD upgrade.

  • guys, BG&E HD is in microsofts stupid seasonal promotion thingy, were gonna have to wait at least a month for it now, just like we did with Lara Croft & tGoL, which is complete crap. thanks M$

  • @#102LordAbsu: Glad to help, but my post was #90, not #88, but no big deal, lol ; ). I’m just glad to see a PS One Classic, and an RPG at that, with a file size of a big PS Minis game, what with geting so many RPGs with file sizes of several hundred MBs and many over a GB.

  • Vagrant Story and PixelJunk Shooter 2 for me. And since I’m a + memeber, Sonic the Hedgehog and Spyro 3 for free as well…

    PSN has been amazing this year.

  • VAGRANT STORY!!!

    …FINALLY!!!

  • PROLOGUS!!
    Please! …Come On! …T_T

    Vagrant Story! … Tomorrow it’s gonna be legen – wait for it – dary!

  • Vagrant Story!!! wow Now my Hopes for Legend Of Dragoon Has Awoken!!!

  • That’s for finally getting real classics for the PS1 rolling out, two in a row is awesome.

  • I am thoroughly enjoying Playstation Plus!

  • Awesome, PixelJunk Shooter 2!!! But you guys forgot the DLC for Dead Space 2, Severed. It’s gonna be awesome!!!

  • Been Eagerly awaiting Shooter 2.
    Xenogears and Vagrant Story?! Square, you make me so happy!

  • What happened to Hard Corps Uprising???

  • I’m impressed with these new ps1 classics coming to the store..heres hoping that chrono trigger is coming down the line soon!

  • Thanks alot Sony.

    Finally PSOne classics that are actually Classics. Keep rolling the classics. I hope you don’t kill the momentum by releasing some irrelevant PSone game and label is as part of classics. Bass Masters was stupid enough to get ahead of all these classic worthy games.

    Something must be wrong with this gen for me to get excited for psone classics. Parasite Eve, Legend of Dragoon and Bushido Blade 2. I could go on, legend of legaia, suikoden 2, breath of fire 3 and 4…the list goes on. The PSOne has such an amazing lineup, take advantage of it, many of us are willing to spend for that digital copy and it shows newcomers on the stuff they missed out on. What made playstation what it is today.

  • any news about dissidia duedecim prologus?… no?

  • guys, BG&E HD is in microsofts stupid seasonal promotion thingy, were gonna have to wait at least a month for it now, just like we did with Lara Croft & tGoL, which is complete crap. thanks M$.

    This. Same with Hard Corps Uprising. I’d say AT LEAST 2 more weeks for Hard Corp, probably won’t see BG&E until April. It would be nice for Sony to give us dates, but they probably can’t because of the MS exclusivity. And obviously Sony doesn’t want to advertise that u can get those games on the 360 platform and not their own.

  • Oh and final fantasy I and II please?

  • Right on Rey . You fight right in with the rest of this blog. Rarely answers anyways I mean .

    BTW if you are gonna bother answering the same question twice,the least you could do is answer the more important questions.

  • *fight = fit

  • @TomHoang

    How did you get that Ratchet & Clank ‘Select’ avatar?

  • Yay, Vagrant Story… Thanks for that one, BUT:

    [rant]
    Who writes those game descriptions?!? Did he/she even play the game? The organization is called “VKP” (Valendia Knights of Peace), whose agents are called ”Riskbreakers”. How could you mess that up?
    [/rant]

  • Again, it would be great if your first big title of the game actually got some support on the PS store sometime soon, instead of months after it was released. In case you forgot which game that is, Killzone 3………..just saying.

  • @#118 Hey, machismo83! I don’t know why your post number changed, but I’m certain I double- and triple-checked before posting that it was 88! What’s up with that?? But, yes, it IS nice to see a sick, blistering old-school Square RPG that isn’t in the multiple-GB territory. Far from it, in fact. 93Mb is TINY. Awesome!

  • Vagrant Story yes Thank you!!! Wow two great weeks in a row for PSOne classics, you’re doing great keep them coming and i will keep buying

  • “If this sounds a bit too cerebral” !?

    If anything, this generation of games are dumbed down to the point of idiocy.I’m so tired of seeing shooter after shooter these days just because they are cheap to make (at least the ones with pre-built engines)and sell well.

    I’m probably in the minority here but I’d love to see more RPG’s and strategy games.

  • Xenogears and Vagrant Story! THATS how you do it!

    Great to see PSN is listening!

  • Prologus, please

  • lol bops demo

  • PJ shooters is the eye catcher of “the drop” this week. Price?

  • Is it really going to be priced at 5.99? I was told Xenogears was as well, but when I purchased it on the Playstation store it came up as $9.99 . Was that an error or was it really meant to be priced that way?

    Anywho, this is great news because now I can play two of the great RPGs I missed back in the PSOne era. Now just waiting on Parasite Eve 1 & 2 ;)

  • dam, just bought disc version of vagrant story, might have to buy digital version for my GO. will the save file from disc still work with digital, also any info on socom 4? thought there supposed to be a announcement.

  • WTF?!
    Back to the Future + MVC3 + Neptunia -> Xenogears-> Vagrant?
    Thatz what I call a combo

    Whatz next?!……Dissidia Duo Demo? =D

  • Sry the double post.
    Yes Spectrum, I made my PSX saves works on my PSP, by copying them to PS3 first and then transfering them to my PSP.

  • @Sonicfan11589 and Jvasq. Yea I can wait if at all for Parasite Eve 1&2 to come onto the american PSN. I saw that it was already out on the Japanese PSN, guess cuz of 3rd Birthday. I would buy them but my Japanese isnt perfect.

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