So, last week I promised you a bumper seven days for indie announcements, and I hope you’ll agree that we duly delivered. We took the wraps off Spelunky, Terraria PS Vita, Limbo PS Vita, Guacamelee!, Metrico, Primal Carnage and Divekick, among others, and saw progress updates from the genius teams behind rain, Velocity Ultra and ibb & obb.
With the likes of Hotline Miami, Frozen Synapse, Thomas Was Alone, Sportsfriends and Luftrausers also on the way, it’s shaping up to be a fantastic summer for those PS Vita and PS3 owners into the quirkier side of gaming. And there’s more exciting reveals to come, of course. ;)
That said, the indies didn’t have a total PS Blog monopoly this week. Ken Levine stopped by to mark BioShock Infinite’s triumphant launch, Insomniac boss Ted Price answered your Fuse questions, we caught our first glimpse of some Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag gameplay and Sly Cooper returned to the wild. Oh, and don’t forget the beefy Spring sale on PlayStation Store.
See the full reading list below and, should it be observed in your region, I hope you all have a great Easter holiday weekend!
- Community update: Tribal Knowledge Base launched – A new feature that allows several users to collaborate and create an article together.
- Video Store update: Skyfall, Rise of the Guardians – Four new Video Store releases arrived this week.
- Doctor Who is coming to PlayStation Home – The world’s most famous Time Lord is entering the virtual world!
- Fuse: Your questions answered, release date announced – Insomniac boss Ted Price stops by to discuss the studio’s new squad shooter
- Sack it to Me: BioShock Infinite heads to LittleBigPlanet – Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth arrive in the BioShock Infinite Costume Pack.
- Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag gameplay revealed – Plunge into the chaotic, treacherous yet verdant world of the West Indies of 1715…
- Rain: Take a look at the first gameplay trailer – Take a closer look at Japan Studio intriguing adventure title.
- Primal Carnage: Genesis announced for PlayStation 4 – A first glimpse of a new episodic adventure due for PS4.
- Fighting community phenomenon Divekick is coming to PSN – Divekick began as a late night joke: “What if there was a game called Divekick, and the characters were Dive and Kick, and the buttons were Dive and Kick?”
- Spelunky is coming to PS3 and PS Vita this Summer! – The famously fiendish indie platformer is on its way to PlayStation platforms.
- PlayStation welcomes more indie developers to current and future PS platforms at GDC 2013 – All the announcements from this year’s show.
- LittleBigPlanet PS Vita’s Marvel Arcade Pack lands next week – Includes three fantastic new games, each of which will challenge you in very different ways.
- BioShock Infinite reaches for the skies on PS3 this week – Irrational’s Ken Levine makes a guest appearance on the Blog to herald the arrival of his FPS masterpiece.
- Guacamelee! body slams PS3 and PS Vita next month – Platformers don’t get any more eye-popping than this…
- PlayStation Home update: Doctor Who arrives in Home – Doctor Who, Grow Home and more in this week’s update.
- Announcing Metrico, a new PS Vita exclusive via Pub Fund – First look at an atmospheric puzzle action game that strives to create a unique mindset of its own.
- God of War: Ascension update 1.03 tweaks Trial of Archimedes, adds customisation features – Santa Monica details a handful of updates to its latest action title.
- Defiance – Ark Hunter Chronicles episode 6 – Called “Vanishing Commodities”, this episode shows our trio of Ark Hunters setting out to find new weapons for their activities.
- The PlayStation Store Egg Hunt starts today – There are all manner of great delas in the week’s sale.
- Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time launches on PS3 and PS Vita this week! – Join master thief Sly Cooper as he makes his long-awaited return this week.
- ‘Heads-Up’ PlayStation Store update, 27th March 2013 – This week’s arrivals include BioShock Infinite, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Dead or Alive 5+ and more.
- Velocity Ultra: new trailers and new features for PS Vita shoot ’em up – Futurlab stops by to update us on its hotly anticipated shoot ’em up.
- Table Mini Golf tees up on PS Vita soon – All the details on the latest SCEE AR Play title, available for pre-order now.
- Acclaimed sandbox adventure Terraria coming soon to PS Vita – The brilliant side-scroller goes handheld later this year.
- ibb & obb: How one man realised his PS3 indie dream – The full story of how Richard Boeser’s unique game took shape.
- The PlayStation Store Egg Hunt – offer 2 – Grab a massive saving on Tomb Raider.
- Weekend Debate: The best sports game of all time – Up for grabs this week: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 on PS3.
- PlayStation Store Egg Hunt – offer 3 – Our third update offers a discount on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
Fred, I understand Chris might be indisposed, but someone should answer questions :-/
And yeah, the last week’s posts were pretty great. Only one I didn’t care for was Metrico, since I have no more information on the game after the post than I’ve had before.
Hi Fred,
I don’t know if this is the right place to ask a question, but I’m going to do it anyway :P
Is there any chance the Dragon Age: Origins DLC will go on sale sometime? Since the DLC costs more than the actual game itself, it would be great if it would be available cheaper. I don’t want to buy the Ultimate Edition, and end up with 2 copies.
Thanks in advance!
There are no plans at present, but your request is noted!
Questions:
• Machinarium’s release date on the Vita?
• Can you please host a PS Classics sale soon?
• Are the PS1 Grand theft auto games lined up to debut on the PSN; just like Rockstar’s recent surge of PS2 Classics?
• Any niche PS1 games you recommend? I have £10 on my account – £5 of which will go towards Machinarium Vita – I’m after a good game with the remaining money.
• I asked Fred whether Driver 2 would come to the PSN last week, took his advice and contacted Ubisoft. So far my attempts were futile, could anybody at SCEE get in touch as you have more authority than I do.
Thanks.
1) No date at present but it’s in submission and coming soon
2) I’ll pass that on to Chris
3) That’s a question for Rockstar I’m afraid
4) Tomba!
5) It’s a decision for Ubisoft to make. They’ll be aware of your interest.
I nearly forgot, any word of these titles coming to the PS Store in the EU?
• Silent Hill: Origins (PSP)
• Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (PSP)
• Gun: Showdown (PSP)
Those are questions for Jawad, though I’ve not heard anything about those titles.
Hi Fred, in store update blog entry you recomended me to wait until weekly recap. So if you allow me to give apology and some explanation about my “spamming” regarding forced Singstar icon/ad. I’d like you to understand that we reached point where we are out of options. We complained and sent constructive criticism to official PS support many times, but it looks like their purpose is act like firewall and we received only unified PR answer which even didn’t admit there is a simple solution – option to delete which can’t harm any customers who appreciate Singstar in XMB and could make everybody satisfied. After SCEE missed their chance to get thing right with FW 4.40 i was so much angry, that i even used some really bad words to PS support (I am really sorry, Bernie, i hope you received my apology). In addition we use official Singstar forum on http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/SingStar/Feedback-on-the-Singstar-XMB-icon/td-p/17318024/page/58 and petition on http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network-General/European-petition-to-remove-icon-singstar-from-the-list-games-on/td-p/17338154/page/48 … (continuing on next post)
I’m afraid I’ve no additional update for you on this since our statement late last year.
(continuation from previous post) …but we didn’t get any official reaction or solution yet, not even after 5 months. Like both doesn’t exist. Looks like nobody from SCEE cares and it make our frustration going even deeper. I’m pushing initial Ninas Scherer arrogant reactions aside for obvious reasons. We don’t have any proof that our complaints reached any responsible employer. On top of that we are deeply convinced that SCEE doesn’t play clean game with us, because NA customers have Singstar optional and not like us – forced at most eminent place in our XMB, undeletable and unremovable. All these SCEE (non)actions as written above are beyond my understanding and can’t be logicaly defensible. Otherwise i must admit that SCEE did great job changing me from fanboy to hater in less than several weeks. I hope you understand our desperate position and maybe you will try to help us. Thank you.
I appreciate that it’s the weekend/Easter, but Playstation EU have nobody that can correct a simple error/answer my question? really? What’s the point in having a sale on at he weekend if no one can correct any mistakes? Ghost Recon been on sale since Wednesday…tried buying it on Thursday, noticed the PS+ discount was missing and have been trying to find out why ever since, to no avail.
The sale’s a great deal and I’m sure many appreciate it, myself included, but it’s quite annoying that everyone’s comment on here has been completely ignored since Thursday night/Friday morning.
I’ll investigate this with the Store team right now. Apologies for the delay in responding – I was out of computer contact over the Easter weekend.
Hi Fred, before commenting on this week’s news, do you happen to have any update on the Darksiders II Online Pass codes? As it seems they’re given to new digital edition owners, I find it even stranger.
Thanks for this :)
On this week! What a GDC and Easter :P It’s nice to see how SCE has been building a better relationship with smaller devs, in fact, I was rather pleased to read an article on what improvements were made towards the PS4. Also, I just discovered ibb&obb, which for some reason went off my radar. Looks quite interesting and well done, and on the upcoming indies, Metrico seems really original.
And for other GDC news… Well, I believe it showed to us that Hideo Kojima is the biggest troll on the whole world :P He really tred it this week. It’s strange that no post on Metal Gear Solid V/Phantom Pain was on the Blog (or the US one), one would think Konami would post about it.
I’ll see if I can get an update on the THQ issue. Many of their IPs are in the process of being sold so this situation is in constant flux.
Where’s Terraria on the EU store for PS3?
Why is the submission process taking so long?
Give a straight god damn answer!
The EU version is currently in submission and will be coming soon. As soon as there’s a confirmed date we’ll let you know.
Hi Fred
Can’t wait for the new plus offerings for April. One of the downers of having plus games is when a good sale comes up on one, you can’t buy it! It would be great if this could change as then the developers could get some more income to make more games (if you like the gaming circle of life). I have a idea that may help a little as it would seem unlikely the above could happen (otherwise it would of already happened), anyway now that the new months freebies have been announced how about those games going on a sale before they go free. Just an idea what do you think?
I’ll pass that on to the Plus team, but I suspect there may be a conflict of interests there!
The EU is still waiting for Terraria on the PS3 never mind on the Vita! Priced at £11.99 /€14.99 when it does get released with no PS+ discount it’s significantly more expensive than both the US PSN and XBL versions.
Hello Fred,
About a week ago, we were informed in the forums that Uncharted 2 (digital) DLC incompatibility issue was fixed. We were also told to go download the fixed version from the store, but unfortunately it keeps asking for full price again! The old broken file is still in our download lists but the newly fixed file doesn’t seem to recognize itself as an already owned file. Could you please look into this?
I informed Jawad last Wednesday, he promised he would look into it but we still have no idea what’s going on. It took this issue 8 months to get fixed and now we can’t even get the new files because the game keeps asking for money again.
I’ve also been tweeting @PlaystationEU for 8 months and no acknowledgement whatsoever occurred.
I can’t take this anymore, I am this close to giving up, Fred please please put an end to this.
Thanks
Sure, I’ll chase Jawad for an update this morning.
Here is the link to the topic in the official forums, all details are there.
http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Network-Technical/Uncharted-2-DLC-not-compatible-with-the-digital-version-of-the/td-p/17253556/page/14
Yup, awesome week guys. Especially that guacamelee announcement, can;t wait.
Now, how about Qforce Vita, surely we’re due an update on that? This week? :D
Hopefully! As soon as we have news I will pass it on.
Any word on what’s happening with the THQ content? Online passes being removed from the store is a pretty big deal. Is any of the content ever coming back?
See my post above.
Hi, sorry to bother you but I can’t seem to find my 1-year Playstation Plus redemption code that I won in last weeks weekend debate.
@TheFistsOfAnElk
Go to playstation.com and go to the forums. Sign in and look at your private messages, it should be there.
@Lucreto I went to http://community.eu.playstation.com and clicked the letter in the top left corner. Says I have no private messages.
Can you drop me an email at psblogeu@gmail.com and I’ll sort this for you.
DOA5+ demo is out too?
Best thing this week was Rain and Primal Carnage: Genesis. Fred do you think it would be possible to get Ashton to answer some questions now on that post whenever he’s not busy?
Look forward to seeing whats new for next week. Hope we get some more PS4 news soon and some on Battlefield 4.
I’ll give him a chase, for sure.
any news of an update soon on Ratchet and clank q force vita as people want news and so far we had none, also Ratchet Gladitor (hopefully i spelt that one right) news please
Still missing those 3 free Bioshock Infinite DLCs via Plus, that are available in the UK and that Ross wanted to see everywhere. Don’t force me to use the “Discrimination” bullet Fred! ;)
Golwar, I’m investigating!
Hey Fred i think there is something wrong with the AR tresures in Sly Cooper Thieves in Time. So i have beaten the game and gotten all the clue bottles but decided to use the AR features of the Vita version to help get the treasures and Sly masks but whenever i try to connect the Vita won’t connect to the AR server. It just keeps saying that the connection has failed. I tried to connect it over 20 times i think and it has not connected. So is it being worked on or is there any suggestions on how to get it to connect.
@ryannumber3gamer:
Have you turned on AR Server on the PS3 version? If not, then you might have encountered that issue.
When do you incompetents at SCEE (those responsible) think you can manage to get a YouTube app for PS Vita in Denmark?
Once your pet UK market was taken care of you just forgot the rest of us. Truly pathetic.
Remind me again, why I should buy a PS4 when you can’t get even the most basic services for your customers (outside your beloved UK).
SCEE = SCUK… and the rest of us peons can die in a ditch.
@supersmith2500 Yes i have turned the server on in the PS3 version. Still does not connect. I remember that the US were having these problems as well when it came out for them last month :/
This has been flagged. I’ll do my best to keep you updated.
Looking forward to terraria EU release………… will we get it before
the US gets the vita version?
Hi Fred,
I was wondering if you or somebody else could help me with a data transfer problem on PS Home. As you may know, patch 1.75 for PS Home is no longer saving information on the HDD. Instead it says they are going to save everything on the PS servers, and so our data must be transferred to the servers.
The problem is that before the transfer finishes I keep getting an error. It claims the character save failed to transfer, and retrying doesn’t work. It says I can continue with the transfer process, but I’m unsure what negative effects this might have later. Help, please?
Thanks
I’ve raised this issue with the relevant team and should have an update for you soon.
Our systems indicate that your data was migrated at 12.22pm yesterday. Is everything working for you ok now?
I brought marvel avengers assemble from the playstation video store
Hd and sd
I downloded it, watched it and deleted it for space. I go to redownload it but it’s disappeared from my download list, whats going on??????
Could someone please help me.
@Juhal_1234
Did you try searching for it and download from there instead? Never done a video before but if it’s the same as the games then it should say downloaded instead of a price.
Would be great if you fix the Store. Please!
I can’t wait to get Okami HD this Wednesday :)
I heard many good things about it
supersmith2500 THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE PS STORE ITS YOUR PS3 GET A NEW ONE
and the next 10000000000000000000000000000 to moan about the ps store being broke IT IS NOT BROKE ITS YOUR PS3 THATS BROKE
@mman1235; Here’s another good thing- it’s one of the greatest games ever released. In no particular order, I consider the best three as Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII and Õkami. ^^
@CoolRichy008UK:
You can’t just stop making more account do you? Also, my PS3 works fine thank you very much.
@ Project2insanity
Well everyone has their own best game ever haha :)
I hope it is as good as you and many others have said
When today is Defiance out on EU PSN?
You should remove the Comics section on the PS Store updates on the right hand side of this blog, as the service is shut down.
Yes, we’ll be revamping the Blog soon.
My above comment is saying awaiting moderation?
Good Morning Fred, I hope you had a happy easter with your kids and girlfriends! Is there plans to bring the greatest PS2 game ever to ps3 or ps4? The Game Black.
That’s a decision for the publisher, EA, to make. I’ve not heard news of it coming to PSN, but never say never!
Can you look into this.
In the PS Store the PlayMemories Studio app is listed as DLC:
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/games/playmemories-studio/cid=EP4288-NPEB00873_00-HDDBOOTDEMO00001
While the Trial Key is the main app itself.
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/playmemories-studio-trial-key/cid=EP4288-NPEB00873_00-TRIALKEY00000001
I think there’s a mistake.
Can you look into this?
(I’m reposting this cuz for some reason it said Awaiting Moderation.)
Not again! Again it’s awaiting moderation! :(
Fred can you check on the PlayMemories Studio app? The app is listed as DLC and the trial key is the main app itself.
I can’t give the links as for some reason it’s saying Awaiting Moderation!
I’ll ask again: When is Defiance out today? I really wanna start downloading it cause my speed is SLOOOOW
This is being pushed live this morning and should be available to download in the next 90 minutes or so.
Defiance (available from 2nd April).
It’s April 2nd for 10 hours now, why is it not available yet?
BTW, Fred, could you have a link on the blog to the forum, seems lacking. Had to google it in order to find the fora :O
YEAH! Thanks Fred ;-)
Thanks for the update, Fred :)
Defiance is now up but no plus discount?
Ok, so now, Defiance is available but where is the PS+ discount ?