‘Heads-Up’ PlayStation Store Update (15th April 2010)

Brilliant update, Mike!

The Skate 3 demo is definitely worth checking out, along with the Sam & Max trial. Also, the addition of new avatars is good, but I’m not really a fan of EyePet. Then of course, there are the GTA episodes tomorrow, which will keep me occupied for a long time.

why is gta more expensive in euro’s than it is in pounds?

£14 converts to €16.. not €18

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MONOPOLY is the american board. I went ahead and purchased it for £3.99 assuming as its in the UK store, it would be the UK board with PALL MALL and MAYFAIR etc, but it is not.

I will be deleting this game straight away as I simply can’t stand playing monopoly on a non UK board. I grew up with it.

VERY disappointed.

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Yay, a proper classic, never played Oddworld so I’m downloading now. Thanks guys!

Now can we have Tomb Raider 1-5?

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don’t get your hopes up i am still waiting on a lot off anime orientated games that aren’t coming here any year soon and why the hell are threre no ATLUS psp games on the PSN yet for christ sake they only developer with great PSP games

Still no Flower soundtrack? Is it a joke?

I know this is probably stupid, but with the GTA episodes will I need the GTA4 disc to play them?

If I do will just have to buy the disc. Cheers!

if i recall you do if your downloading from PSN and you don’t if you buy the disc version for the DLC but not sure

thanks dgnfly, will just buy the episodes disc then tomorrow.

in other words your cheaper off buying disc version

Some DLC is like a rip off the disc verion off grand theft auto 4 is cheaper and you get more out off it just like the fallout 3 DLC you paid more money for DLC than you would ever buying the GOTY edition
i don’t even know why they bother putting this stuff on psn they should look at pricing a lot better instead off playing us off like stupid

Out of all the games mentioned here, Sam & Max is the one I’m most definitely NOT be buying. Not that it’s a bad game, on the contrary. It’s just that I don’t feel like paying twice for an adventure game I’m only going to play once.

final fight? oh the memories… i would love to get that but 10€ for two 15+ year old games that should be priced like minis and should be separated… don’t think so, since i only want final fight…

laughs at GTAIV DLC, dayum, i’m paying less than that for the stand alone pack.

it’s good but about 2yrs too late.

YES oddworld finally!!!
Was beginning to worry that it was not coming to europe with the us versions being released 6 months ago.
Any news when abe’s exodus will be hitting the store?

Hot damn that is one impressive update. I’ll be picking up Gravity Crash and Prince of Persia for sure, but a lot of the other stuff there is a real bargain, most especially Astonishia Story and Mega Drive Collection on PSP.

Pricing on Final Fight however is decidely LESS impressive. That should have been around the £6.25 price point at most, £7.99 is a step too far for what you get.

Very pleased overall though, especially now PSN 20 quid cards are dirt cheap if you look around(I gather we’ve all heard that you can get two of them from Zavvi for 29 quid using the code APRIL2 by this point, yes?).

Thanks for a great update!

Got my first episode of Sam & Max today and having lots of fun! Alsow bought my first minis game ever today, the scary game Hysteria Project!

Wel worth the money and it was actualy scary as he** at times

If you get anything, get Abe’s Oddysee. Truly ahead of its time and holds up just as well today. Incredibly immersive, incredibly relevant and incredibly…odd. Fronted by Mr Lanning, one of the greatest creative minds in gaming. I hope strong sales of the game will give him the necessary encouragement to get him back into the creative business. It feels less odd without him.

i cant call this an update,sorry for being harsh..but..damn..terrible update =(

again,sorry for being harsh,cheers mate,even if your probably not reading this

Can we expect a midnight release for the GTA DLCs?

I can´t find this -Monopoly (£3.99/€4.99) in the Portuguese PSN Store and many more, why????????

When is Grandia (PSone) coming to europe?

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Some people only want 1 DLC (like me) I don’t mind paying 20€ for 1 DLC that I want instead of 30€ for 1 that I want and another one that I don’t care or will consider playing

please keep adding more game trailers.
I like watching them on my Beast/PS3

SUPERB update, Now we’re talking, Good classics.

Thank to the people responsible for this.

Thanks to the ‘Hustle Kings’ guys again this week for another FREE Table. COOL BEST Pool game EVER!

More old-school games on PSN please to[from Namco, Taito, Sega etc]

Awesome Mike!! oddworld

wow oddworld?
after being out on the US store for months?
its about god dam time!
maybe $ony are finally waking up and starting to treat us Europeans like valued customers?
nah, who am i kidding!?

Finally, another real PS1 Classic! That’s always a good thing, but on the downside, at this rate we’ll have all the remaining classics that US store have by the end of 2020. Legacy of Kain series, Tomb Raider series, Resident Evil series, and much much more…

Btw, still waiting for Williams Pinball Classics.

so what time of the day are we expecting the gta dlc, are we ever going to get any of the ps1 resident evils just curious

also 153 your disapointed that monopoly is’nt a uk board does it really matter where it’s set

at long last the GTA Packs are on the store….. My weekend is sorted.

Hey Mike, do you know the size (in MB) of the two episodes of GTA4?
Thanks

>> GTA DLC £13.99 seems a bit steep to me as the the USA
>> store it’s only $20 not sure what the current exchange
>> rate is but it can’t be that bad surely ;-( but i’ll
>> will get it just not yet ;-(

20/1.54 + 17.5% vat = £15.26

anyhoo.. does anybody know the file size for the first play episodes?. 30mins at 720p, i’m guessing they’re probably around 700-800mb?

Downloading the GTA DLC now…

They are about 2050Mb each (2Gb)….

Ghostbusters, which was £14.99 for the PSP, came down to £9.99 for the favourties promotion but has now actually gone UP to £19.99!
Who does this pricing, it’s just so totally RANDOM!

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I can’t see Grandia coming myself, Ubisoft released it in Europe originally and Mike did say that licenses and publishing deals expire after time.

The only hope I can offer is that Ubisoft still have the rights and submit it to SCEE or SCEE pick up the rights themselves.

Annoying that the store says you do need GTAIV for the new episodes. Not for me personally as much as I do still own GTAIV (though can anyone who’s bought the episodes tell me if you do need the GTAIV disc in there? I’d rather just run it all off the hard drive with no disc swapping needed as I often just leave Uncharted 2 in the blu ray drive) but the only friend I know I’d play online doesn’t have GTAIV on his PS3 having owned it for Xbox360 before switching to PS3. If they run on their own he said he’d buy the new episodes. Maybe the disc version runs without GTAIV.

oh and by the way loving Final Fight and Magic Sword all over again. Love having the arcade monitor filter (scanlines yay!) and online functions.

Abe… nice!
Too bad R2/L2 is kind of akward, but overall it’s a terrific game! Finally a classic!

[DELETED] I just bought the lost and damned for my PS3 threw PSN and it’s not working just because i bought my copy in USA… im so [DELETED] right now…

How can you announce GTA IV DLC (Way too late to garner any respectable sales figures..Sorry RockM$tar) and System Of a Down (De La Rocha, Cornell, Maynard James, Fallon and more are better than Serj bloody Tankian) and not mention Abes Oddysee?

Oddworld Inhabitants were one of the last true innovators in gaming..Yet they pull out of game-making, and now we have guys like Infinity Ward (Massively overhyped droll FPS’s) EA (Swallow any successful company) Sega (Imports come with cut content) and Bethesda (Glitched, near-broken games) filling shelves with cliched games and damn carbon-copy shooters.

All hail Oddworld Inhabitants!!!

Square Enix Asks Fans To Tweet PlayStation Classics Wish Lists

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/04/16/square-enix-asks-fans-to -tweet-playstation-classics-wish-lists/

i kinda doubt it will be off any use for european users cause we always get left behind if this was a war we would be doomed

mike, you’ve probably been asked a million times but any news when wipeout 2097 will arrive. I used to love that game

Hi,
I would really like to buy Prince of Persia Classic, but can’t find it in Portuguese Store! Why?
Can someone help? Please?