‘Heads-Up’ Game Store Update 12th January 2011

Welcome back all, I hope everyone has been settling back into work okay and everyone’s sticking to their New Year’s resolutions!

Another fairly small update this week with a few highlights I wanted to point out. After last week’s sudden removal from the schedule, the Angry Birds mini does finally make it onto the PSN Store this week, so make sure you give those pigs what for. Also, we have a genuine PSone Classic in the form of Tomb Raider Chronicles – yes, we now have the first and last games in the PSone Tomb Raider series… the middle ones are on their way soon too. And don’t forget that this week we are providing you with the DC Universe Online subscriptions for one, three or six months of game time, so when your free month runs out we’ve got you covered.

On PSP, Buzz: The Ultimate Music Quiz hits for all you would be musical masterminds to test your knowledge and we have a small selection of permanent price reductions on some great PSP titles too.

Also a quick bit of service information for you:

- The final content list for the January Sales will go up in a separate blog post on Monday (like we did for the Christmas Sale). Not quite as much content in the second round but there are some great titles in there and I think you’re all going to be very happy with the list. We also have some great Special Offers already scheduled for Q1 and more TBA.

- You Dutch speakers who have been confused by the info for all the Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers content being written in a strange tongue, rest assured that this is being sorted on our end in conjunction with Wizards of the Coast.

- We’ve done some content wrangling and the pieces of Rock Band content that has been reported as missing (including the Freezepop Pack) will be restored in this week’s publish.

- The Good News: Six highly-requested, Sony published PSone titles received legal clearance for publish in SCEE territories just before Christmas!

The Bad News: I can’t tell you what they are yet until we know there are no other issues. Sorry! Expect that info post about PSone titles and the problems we face in getting them to you at the end of January.

And so we come to the end of another update – until the 19th January, my friends…

PlayStation Store (via PS3, PSP and Media Go)

Special Offers

(Offer prices available until the 19th January)

• UNO (PS3) (was – £6.29/€7.99 now – £0.79/€0.99)
• H.A.W.X. Supremacy Pack (was – £7.99/€9.99 now – £4.79/€5.99)
• Blood Bowl (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £9.99/€12.99)
• Pro Cycling 2010: Tour de France (PSP) (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £13.99/€17.99)
• UNO (PSP) (was – £6.29/€7.99 now – £0.79/€0.99)
• Driver (PSone) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.99/€3.59)
• Alien Havoc (mini) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.49/€2.99)
• Bubble Trubble (mini) (was – £3.99/€4.99 now – £2.49/€2.99)

Permanent Price Reductions

• Alien Breed: Impact (now – £7.19/€8.99)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (now – £7.99/€9.99)
• Tom Clancy’s EndWar (now – £7.99/€9.99)
• Prince of Persia: Revelations (now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Prince of Persia: Rival Swords (now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Splinter Cell Essentials (now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Driver ’76 (now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Brothers in Arms: D-Day (now – £11.99/€14.99)

Trial and Unlock (PS3)

• Faery: Legends of Avalon (£11.99/€14.99) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: Not available in Russian Federation

Downloadable Games (PS3)

• Germany’s Next Top Model (€9.99) Rating: USK 3

Availability: Only available in Austria, Germany and Switzerland

• PopStars (€9.99) Rating: USK 3

Availability: Only available in Austria, Germany and Switzerland

Subscriptions (PS3)

• DC Universe Online
• 30 Day Subscription (£9.99/€12.99)
• 90 Day Subscription (£27.99/€34.99)
• 180 Day Subscription (£44.99/€64.99)

Rating: PEGI 16
Availability: Not available in Russian Federation and Turkey

Downloadable Games (PSP)

• Buzz! The Ultimate Music Quiz (£21.99/€26.99) Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: All locales

• Crystal Mines (£11.99/€14.99) Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: Not available in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Russian Federation

minis (PS3 and PSP)

• Angry Birds (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: All locales

• Jane’s Hotel (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: All locales

PSone Classics (PS3 and PSP)

• Tomb Raider Chronicles (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: All locales

Demos (PS3)

• Winter Sports 2011 Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: Not available in Australia, Belgium, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal and Russian Federation

Demos (PSP)

• Crystal Mines Rating: PEGI 3

Availability: Not available in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Russian Federation

Add-On Game Content (PS3)

• ModNation Racers - Jak and Daxter Mod Pack (£1.39/€1.75) Rating: PEGI 7

Availability: All locales

• The Sims 3 – Asian Fusion (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: All locales

• Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage – Shin and Thouzer: Original costume and 2 new missions (£4.99/€6.19) Rating: PEGI 18

Availability: Not available in New Zealand

• Super Street Fighter IV – Ultra Shadaloo Pack (£3.19/€3.99) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: All locales

• Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
• January Mega Pack (£13.99/€17.99) (contains the following tracks which are also available separately)
• ’2nd Sucks’ By A Day To Remember (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘All I Want’ By A Day To Remember (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘Buried Myself Alive’ By The Used (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘Closer’ By Nine Inch Nails (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘Head Like A Hole’ By Nine Inch Nails (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘Rescue Me’ By Hawthorne Heights (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘The Downfall Of Us All’ By A Day To Remember (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘The Hand That Feeds’ By Nine Inch Nails (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘We’ve Got A Situation Here’ By The Damned Things (£1.59/€1.99)
• ‘Wings Of A Butterfly’ By Him (£1.59/€1.99)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not available in Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and United Arab Emirates

• Rock Band 3
• Linkin Park Pack 01 (£4.99/€7.99) (contains the tracks listed below which are also available separately)
• Crawling (£0.99/€1.49)
• In The End (£0.99/€1.49)
• Numb (£0.99/€1.49)
• Somewhere I Belong (£0.99/€1.49)
• Waiting For The End (£0.99/€1.49)
• What I’ve Done (£0.99/€1.49)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and UAE

• Rock Band Network
• ‘Gasoline’ by The Bouncing Souls (£0.59/€0.79)
• ‘Let Us Slay’ by GWAR (£0.59/€0.79)
• ‘Saint Simon’ by The Shins (£0.99/€1.49)
• ‘Smokahontas’ by Attack Attack! (£0.99/€1.49)
• ‘White Knuckles’ by Okay Go (£0.99/€1.49)

Rating: PEGI 12
Availability: Not available in Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and UAE

Add-On Game Content (PSP)

• Prinny 2 - Asagi Wars Premium Special Ticket (free) Rating: PEGI 12

Availability: Not available in Australia and New Zealand

FirstPlay (PS3)

• FirstPlay Episode 40 (£0.99/€1.20)

Availability: Ireland and UK only

Avatars (PS3)

• EyePet
• Looking Back Sitting Pet (£0.20/€0.25)
• Rapper Pet (£0.20/€0.25)
• Boxing Pet (£0.20/€0.25)

Themes (PS3)

• Spare Parts Theme 1
• Top Darts Theme

Premium Themes (PS3)

• Disruptive Themes
• Smooth Notes (£1.19/€1.49)
• Draco: The Return (£1.19/€1.49)

Dynamic Themes (PS3)

• Thumbstar Themes
• Shine (£1.59/€1.99)
• Cube (£1.59/€1.99)
• Destinations (£1.59/€1.99)

Wallpapers (PS3)

• Dragon’s Lair HD Wallpaper
• Eat Them! Purple Monster Wallpaper
• Eat Them! Red Monster Wallpaper
• Spare Parts Wallpaper 1, 2 & 3

Wallpapers (PSP)

• Legends of War: Patton’s Campaign Wallpaper 4

Videos (PS3)

• Faery: Legends of Avalon Trailer
• Dead Space 2 The Sprawl
• Crazy Taxi Launch Trailer
• Kung-Fu LIVE! Launch Trailer
• Dead Nation Housemarque Trailer
• MotorStorm Apocalypse Developer Diary

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