Upcoming PSN Titles:
Soldner-X: Himmelsstürmer - Offical Site Release: "Winter '07" Cost: TBA Players: 1 Online: Yes, Rankings
"Initiated into production by leading online retailer Play-Asia.com (and to be delivered on PS3 via the PSN downloadable service), Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer is a shooter designed to bring back true arcade action and fun to the home gamer. Set in the distant future, the game is a fast and furious shoot 'em up with state-of-the-art graphics, driving soundtrack and classic fun gameplay sprinkled with fresh innovations. In the storyline, planet Earth's resistance aims to stop a deadly infection consuming both life forms and technology alike, oddly having to rely on an anti-hero mercenary and bounty hunter to pilot a mighty prototype star fighter. His goal: To fight his way to the virus' origin, save civilisation and earn cash to boot!"
Gran Turismo Prologue Date: "Early '08" Cost: TBA Players: 1-16 Online: Yes, Ranking, Racing
"Game will feature 16-player online races, 50 cars, five tracks and support full 1080p... Polyphony Digital Gran Turismo 5 promises to possibly be the most exacting and detailed racing videogame ever created. The Gran Turismo 5 Prologue gives you an online-enabled sampler of the GT5 experience."
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Release: August 30, '07 Cost: $10 Players 1-2 Online: Yes (VS, Ranking)
"Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix downloads Capcom's incredibly popular puzzle game into the new generation. The new version of the game features newly created 1080p HD graphics, several new game modes, improved game balance, new stage backgrounds courtesy of Udon Entertainment and online play."
=Previews= Drop them gems... in super high-def.E3 '07 Preview.
Everyday Shooter- Offical Site Release: TBA Cost: TBA: Players: 1 Online: TBA
=Previews= "Everyday Shooter is an album of games exploring the expressive power of abstract shooters. Dissolute sounds of destruction are replaced with guitar riffs harmonizing over an all-guitar soundtrack, while modulating shapes celebrate the flowing beauty of geometry"
"Everyday Shooter, an independent game originally created by Jonathan Mak, will be coming to the PlayStation Store in the near future. This game plays a lot like Geometry Wars, but offers a lot more creativity than you might initially think."
Snakeball Release: TBA Cost: TBA Players: 1-8 (4 split screen) Online: Yes 8 players
"In Snakeball, you pilot a "bizarre hoversnake" across an "outlandishly dazzling disco floor," all the while devouring delicious spheres, blasting other players and whacking them with your bizarre hoversnake tail. The game supports online multiplayer, as well as the newly announced PlayStation Eye camera, ideal for plastering a face over your bizarre hoversnake pilot. Three Speech expects the game to arrive in July."
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Release: "Fall '07"Cost: TBA: Players 1-2 Online: Yes
"Set for release this fall, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will retain the arcade game's original code, but features graphics redrawn for 1080p resolution. The redrawn art will be created by Udon Comics, publishers of the current Street Fighter comic book. The game will be released on Xbox Live Arcade and the PS3's PlayStation Network, and will feature online multiplayer matches, in-game voice chatting, worldwide rankings, and more."
Go! Sports Ski Release: August* Cost: TBA Plyers: 1-4 Online (1-2 Local split screen confirmed) Online: Yes (Ranking and play)
"Go! Sports Ski is a skiing game that's controlled exclusively via motion controls. Your goal is to get the best time on your skiing runs and look good in the process, using the SixAxis controller to twist and turn and pull off tricks. Go! Sports Ski will feature global rankings and four player competitive online play. The global rankings bit suggests a worldwide release."
Pain Release: Cost: Players: Online:
"Cause pain for points in this scar-inducing downloadable game! The core, unique mechanic of the game allows the player to load a character into an extreme launching device, such as a human-sized, ultra-powerful slingshot, and fire the character into an active, physics-controlled environment, filled with precarious and humorous situations. The player receives points by stringing together painful collisions and inducing chaos in the environment. The player must achieve a wide variety of goals and / or reach various scoring milestones in each of the different modes of play."
Echochrome Release: TBA Cost: TBA Players: TBA Online: TBA
"This curious puzzle game by SCE's Japan Studio, echochrome is most simply described as a playable version of a M.C. Escher drawing. Created in simple black-and-white line drawings (Sony boasted that the game offers "The least graphics and yet most gameplay" of any game ever made), the title looks to play much like the PSP's own Crush or the upcoming Portal. You move on beams set in random space, and there are bounce boards and holes in the path that will complicate your movement. By rotating the stages around and adjusting the dimensions, you will be able to unravel the puzzles."
High Stakes on the Vegas Strip Release: August* Cost: $10 Players: 1-6 Online: Yes
"High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition gives players a chance to show off their skills in Texas Hold'em, Super Hold'em, Billabong, Tahoe and Shanghai. Each of the five different styles of poker can be played as limit, pot limit or no limit poker. Multiplayer is available for all games, and allows up to six people to play together on one table at a time, in high definition up to 1080p.
Players have the option to log in for a quick match or play through a whole season. The game also offers a Turbo Mode to power through the tournament circuit to advance a player’s career. In addition, players can track their stats and see how they compare to others through online leader boards, and use points earned to unlock items for their customizable character. The in-depth hand statistics include stats such as percentages of hands played and won, flops seen, checks, calls, bets, raises and more."
=Previews= More than just another poker game?There's one thing we can confidently say about the upcoming PS3 Network title, High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: it's a good deal.
High Velocity Bowling Release: TBA Cost: $10 Players: TBA Online: TBA
"High Velocity Bowling is a motion-control variation of the sport, using the PlayStation SixAxis controller to allow players to roll a strike! Holding the controller in your hand, the motion of your movement translates to the accuracy and power of your shot. the game packs 10 bowlers that each have their own variation on the accuracy meter as well as personalized alleys, ball weights, spins ratings, speed, accuracy, strengths and weaknesses. Also feaured are a number of modes, including trick shot competitions, tournament and head-to-head battles in challenge mode."
Rocketmen: Axis of Evil Release: October 11th, '07 Cost: TBA: Players: 1-4 Online: Yes
"WizKids' popular constructible strategy game comes to the videogame world with Rocketmen: Axis of Evil. In this arcade shooter, players will join the heroes of the Alliance of Free Planets in their white-knuckled, frenzied struggle to free the Solar System. Up to four players will be able to cooperatively shoot their way through multiple levels, powering up their weapons, picking up bonuses and laying waste to anything that moves."
=Previews= Stand by for action! Capcom wages war against the Legion of Terra, and you are there...
Wipeout HD Release date: TBA 2007 Cost: Unknown Players: Unknown Online: Yes
"Wipeout HD is to be a downloadable entry in the WipEout racing franchise and will be released on the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Store. The game supports high-definition 1080p and 60fps output, and will feature online multiplayer racing.
Rather than a brand-new title, this is a downloadable entry featuring remastered, high-definition tracks from previous Wipeout games. It will appear during 2007, before the next main 2008 PlayStation 3 entry, Wipeout PS3."
PixelJunk Racers Release Date: August* Cost: TBA Players: TBA Online: TBA
=Previews= "PixelJunk Racers is a "slot car simulator," and that's probably the most accurate way you could describe this title. For those of you who are unfamiliar with slot cars, we're referring to the small toy cars that are guided along a plastic track and are controlled by a separate trigger that increases or decreases acceleration. Well, Q-Games has hit this minimalist control scheme right on the nail, since you only have two ways to control your car: squeezing R2 or L2 adjusts your car's speed, while right and left on the D-Pad switches your car from one track to another (you can't do that with real slot cars, but we don't mind)."
"One of a series of game project by Q-Games, the team formed by Dylan Cuthbert (creator of Star Fox) and Kenkichi Shimooka (creator of Ape Escape.) Pixel Junk is a game distribution service by the Kyoto-based company (as well as a line of games likely bearing the Pixel Junk name), and the service promises to feature unique, casual game experiences delivered to PS3 owners via the PlayStation Network."
Talisman Release: TBA Cost: TBA Players 1-4 Online: Yes (VS)
Based on Games Workshop's classic board game, Talisman is the quintessential fantasy hybrid board/role-playing game for up to four players, either online or offline. The game takes place in a fantasy realm and is based very closely on the board game through a 3D representation of the map with animated productions. Players scour dungeons, attack other creatures, cast effects-laden spells and use magical items and weapons to enhance their actions.
Loco Roco PSN (AKA "Oideyo LocoRoco!! Boo Boo Cocoreccho!") Release: September 21st (Japan) TBA (US) Cost: TBA Players: TBA Online: TBA
"A peculiar chapter in the LocoRoco series, this entry in the franchise includes more advanced technology and graphics as well as the use of the SixAxis controller. The PS3 LocoRoco is said to feature 200 LocoRoco characters in a new world."
=Videos=
Video 1
Release PSN Titles!!!
First one is Super Stardust HD.
"In the game you control a tiny spacecraft that hovers over planets. Your mission is simple: destroy everything in sight. The ship has three different weapons, each of which has a different impact on the various asteroids and ice crystals floating around. For example, while some weapons are able to break asteroids more effectively than others, they create far more debris as well. After blowing up enough asteroids and crystals, enemies appear -- once you eliminate those, you move onto the next phase. Each planet has five phases, with the last featuring a boss battle."
http://www.1up.com/media?id=3247894
http://www.1up.com/media?id=3254009
Piyotama (AKA "Chirpie Egg")- Offical Site
"While the game looks like a Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble clone, it appears to have a much different control scheme. It still appears to stick to the 3-colored item rule for clearing out stacks of Tamago, freeing the Piyos within, however, making it look like solid fun."
Nucleaus
"For instance, Nucleus doesn't take place in outer space, but in "Inner Space" (no relation to the film, as far as we know). And instead of shooting aliens, you fight bacteria while swimming around blood cells and collecting proteins. Players control a "remote unit" which looks a bit like a sperm cell. It, ahem, squirts, shoots, and deploys protein bombs (once enough protein has been collected). To gain more protein, players need to shoot cells that release it."
Soldner-X: Himmelsstürmer - Offical Site Release: "Winter '07" Cost: TBA Players: 1 Online: Yes, Rankings
"Initiated into production by leading online retailer Play-Asia.com (and to be delivered on PS3 via the PSN downloadable service), Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer is a shooter designed to bring back true arcade action and fun to the home gamer. Set in the distant future, the game is a fast and furious shoot 'em up with state-of-the-art graphics, driving soundtrack and classic fun gameplay sprinkled with fresh innovations. In the storyline, planet Earth's resistance aims to stop a deadly infection consuming both life forms and technology alike, oddly having to rely on an anti-hero mercenary and bounty hunter to pilot a mighty prototype star fighter. His goal: To fight his way to the virus' origin, save civilisation and earn cash to boot!"
Gran Turismo Prologue Date: "Early '08" Cost: TBA Players: 1-16 Online: Yes, Ranking, Racing
"Game will feature 16-player online races, 50 cars, five tracks and support full 1080p... Polyphony Digital Gran Turismo 5 promises to possibly be the most exacting and detailed racing videogame ever created. The Gran Turismo 5 Prologue gives you an online-enabled sampler of the GT5 experience."
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Release: August 30, '07 Cost: $10 Players 1-2 Online: Yes (VS, Ranking)
"Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix downloads Capcom's incredibly popular puzzle game into the new generation. The new version of the game features newly created 1080p HD graphics, several new game modes, improved game balance, new stage backgrounds courtesy of Udon Entertainment and online play."
=Previews= Drop them gems... in super high-def.E3 '07 Preview.
Everyday Shooter- Offical Site Release: TBA Cost: TBA: Players: 1 Online: TBA
=Previews= "Everyday Shooter is an album of games exploring the expressive power of abstract shooters. Dissolute sounds of destruction are replaced with guitar riffs harmonizing over an all-guitar soundtrack, while modulating shapes celebrate the flowing beauty of geometry"
"Everyday Shooter, an independent game originally created by Jonathan Mak, will be coming to the PlayStation Store in the near future. This game plays a lot like Geometry Wars, but offers a lot more creativity than you might initially think."
Snakeball Release: TBA Cost: TBA Players: 1-8 (4 split screen) Online: Yes 8 players
"In Snakeball, you pilot a "bizarre hoversnake" across an "outlandishly dazzling disco floor," all the while devouring delicious spheres, blasting other players and whacking them with your bizarre hoversnake tail. The game supports online multiplayer, as well as the newly announced PlayStation Eye camera, ideal for plastering a face over your bizarre hoversnake pilot. Three Speech expects the game to arrive in July."
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Release: "Fall '07"Cost: TBA: Players 1-2 Online: Yes
"Set for release this fall, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will retain the arcade game's original code, but features graphics redrawn for 1080p resolution. The redrawn art will be created by Udon Comics, publishers of the current Street Fighter comic book. The game will be released on Xbox Live Arcade and the PS3's PlayStation Network, and will feature online multiplayer matches, in-game voice chatting, worldwide rankings, and more."
Go! Sports Ski Release: August* Cost: TBA Plyers: 1-4 Online (1-2 Local split screen confirmed) Online: Yes (Ranking and play)
"Go! Sports Ski is a skiing game that's controlled exclusively via motion controls. Your goal is to get the best time on your skiing runs and look good in the process, using the SixAxis controller to twist and turn and pull off tricks. Go! Sports Ski will feature global rankings and four player competitive online play. The global rankings bit suggests a worldwide release."
Pain Release: Cost: Players: Online:
"Cause pain for points in this scar-inducing downloadable game! The core, unique mechanic of the game allows the player to load a character into an extreme launching device, such as a human-sized, ultra-powerful slingshot, and fire the character into an active, physics-controlled environment, filled with precarious and humorous situations. The player receives points by stringing together painful collisions and inducing chaos in the environment. The player must achieve a wide variety of goals and / or reach various scoring milestones in each of the different modes of play."
Echochrome Release: TBA Cost: TBA Players: TBA Online: TBA
"This curious puzzle game by SCE's Japan Studio, echochrome is most simply described as a playable version of a M.C. Escher drawing. Created in simple black-and-white line drawings (Sony boasted that the game offers "The least graphics and yet most gameplay" of any game ever made), the title looks to play much like the PSP's own Crush or the upcoming Portal. You move on beams set in random space, and there are bounce boards and holes in the path that will complicate your movement. By rotating the stages around and adjusting the dimensions, you will be able to unravel the puzzles."
High Stakes on the Vegas Strip Release: August* Cost: $10 Players: 1-6 Online: Yes
"High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition gives players a chance to show off their skills in Texas Hold'em, Super Hold'em, Billabong, Tahoe and Shanghai. Each of the five different styles of poker can be played as limit, pot limit or no limit poker. Multiplayer is available for all games, and allows up to six people to play together on one table at a time, in high definition up to 1080p.
Players have the option to log in for a quick match or play through a whole season. The game also offers a Turbo Mode to power through the tournament circuit to advance a player’s career. In addition, players can track their stats and see how they compare to others through online leader boards, and use points earned to unlock items for their customizable character. The in-depth hand statistics include stats such as percentages of hands played and won, flops seen, checks, calls, bets, raises and more."
=Previews= More than just another poker game?There's one thing we can confidently say about the upcoming PS3 Network title, High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: it's a good deal.
High Velocity Bowling Release: TBA Cost: $10 Players: TBA Online: TBA
"High Velocity Bowling is a motion-control variation of the sport, using the PlayStation SixAxis controller to allow players to roll a strike! Holding the controller in your hand, the motion of your movement translates to the accuracy and power of your shot. the game packs 10 bowlers that each have their own variation on the accuracy meter as well as personalized alleys, ball weights, spins ratings, speed, accuracy, strengths and weaknesses. Also feaured are a number of modes, including trick shot competitions, tournament and head-to-head battles in challenge mode."
Rocketmen: Axis of Evil Release: October 11th, '07 Cost: TBA: Players: 1-4 Online: Yes
"WizKids' popular constructible strategy game comes to the videogame world with Rocketmen: Axis of Evil. In this arcade shooter, players will join the heroes of the Alliance of Free Planets in their white-knuckled, frenzied struggle to free the Solar System. Up to four players will be able to cooperatively shoot their way through multiple levels, powering up their weapons, picking up bonuses and laying waste to anything that moves."
=Previews= Stand by for action! Capcom wages war against the Legion of Terra, and you are there...
Wipeout HD Release date: TBA 2007 Cost: Unknown Players: Unknown Online: Yes
"Wipeout HD is to be a downloadable entry in the WipEout racing franchise and will be released on the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Store. The game supports high-definition 1080p and 60fps output, and will feature online multiplayer racing.
Rather than a brand-new title, this is a downloadable entry featuring remastered, high-definition tracks from previous Wipeout games. It will appear during 2007, before the next main 2008 PlayStation 3 entry, Wipeout PS3."
PixelJunk Racers Release Date: August* Cost: TBA Players: TBA Online: TBA
=Previews= "PixelJunk Racers is a "slot car simulator," and that's probably the most accurate way you could describe this title. For those of you who are unfamiliar with slot cars, we're referring to the small toy cars that are guided along a plastic track and are controlled by a separate trigger that increases or decreases acceleration. Well, Q-Games has hit this minimalist control scheme right on the nail, since you only have two ways to control your car: squeezing R2 or L2 adjusts your car's speed, while right and left on the D-Pad switches your car from one track to another (you can't do that with real slot cars, but we don't mind)."
"One of a series of game project by Q-Games, the team formed by Dylan Cuthbert (creator of Star Fox) and Kenkichi Shimooka (creator of Ape Escape.) Pixel Junk is a game distribution service by the Kyoto-based company (as well as a line of games likely bearing the Pixel Junk name), and the service promises to feature unique, casual game experiences delivered to PS3 owners via the PlayStation Network."
Talisman Release: TBA Cost: TBA Players 1-4 Online: Yes (VS)
Based on Games Workshop's classic board game, Talisman is the quintessential fantasy hybrid board/role-playing game for up to four players, either online or offline. The game takes place in a fantasy realm and is based very closely on the board game through a 3D representation of the map with animated productions. Players scour dungeons, attack other creatures, cast effects-laden spells and use magical items and weapons to enhance their actions.
Loco Roco PSN (AKA "Oideyo LocoRoco!! Boo Boo Cocoreccho!") Release: September 21st (Japan) TBA (US) Cost: TBA Players: TBA Online: TBA
"A peculiar chapter in the LocoRoco series, this entry in the franchise includes more advanced technology and graphics as well as the use of the SixAxis controller. The PS3 LocoRoco is said to feature 200 LocoRoco characters in a new world."
=Videos=
Video 1
Release PSN Titles!!!
First one is Super Stardust HD.
"In the game you control a tiny spacecraft that hovers over planets. Your mission is simple: destroy everything in sight. The ship has three different weapons, each of which has a different impact on the various asteroids and ice crystals floating around. For example, while some weapons are able to break asteroids more effectively than others, they create far more debris as well. After blowing up enough asteroids and crystals, enemies appear -- once you eliminate those, you move onto the next phase. Each planet has five phases, with the last featuring a boss battle."
http://www.1up.com/media?id=3247894
http://www.1up.com/media?id=3254009
Piyotama (AKA "Chirpie Egg")- Offical Site
"While the game looks like a Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble clone, it appears to have a much different control scheme. It still appears to stick to the 3-colored item rule for clearing out stacks of Tamago, freeing the Piyos within, however, making it look like solid fun."
Nucleaus
"For instance, Nucleus doesn't take place in outer space, but in "Inner Space" (no relation to the film, as far as we know). And instead of shooting aliens, you fight bacteria while swimming around blood cells and collecting proteins. Players control a "remote unit" which looks a bit like a sperm cell. It, ahem, squirts, shoots, and deploys protein bombs (once enough protein has been collected). To gain more protein, players need to shoot cells that release it."
