Flow in late Feb.
"What's the deal with flOw and its release date?" is one of the most asked questions we get here at IGN PS3, and we've been wondering the same thing ourselves. First advertised for a December release on the official PlayStation 3 website, and then January, ThatGameCompany's port of the wildly successful flash game has been conspicuous by its absence... and we wanted to get to the bottom of it.
To do so, we called up representatives at Sony Computer Entertainment America and asked them for the official word. Luckily, we got it, and the mystery of flOw's mysterious street date was finally made public:
"We'll be posting a trailer at the end of this month [January] / beginning of next," clarified our Sony contact. "As for the game itself, we'll be releasing near the end of February."
A specific day that gamers can expect to the organism-eating flOw wasn't provided and neither was a final pricing structure. We expect to learn both over the next couple of weeks."
Calling all Cars in March
"Spokespeople at Sony Computer Entertainment were on a roll today when it came to telling us about the fate of its downloadable games. First the company confirmed flOw for a late February release and then revealed a name change for its unreleased puzzler, Go! Swizzleblock2. But that wasn't all, because as the old saying goes, "Everything happens in threes." To complete its EDI information trifecta, Sony reps also revealed that David Jaffe's upcoming vehicle-based actioner, Calling All Cars, would hit the PlayStation Store sometime in March.
"It's really coming along just as expected," remarked the Sony representative. "If it continues like this, then it should be ready to go before the end of March."
Calling All Cars, formerly known as Criminal Crackdown, is a drastically different project than the God of War mastermind's last project and is said to be a hybrid of games such as Demolition Derby, Twisted Metal, and Bomberman. From what's been seen so far, it's targeted at a more casual audience and has a distinct "pick up play" vibe about it. Either way, we want to play and should have more on it rather soon."
