Posts with tag downloadable
Posted May 21st 2007 2:10PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Downloads, Burnout
Burnout Dominator, EA's latest entry to the famed racing series, is getting a little bit bigger on PSP. New downloadable content is available for the game, available via in-game wi-fi (see video, above). For those without wireless internet, a quick visit to EA's official site will give you access to a brand new track, "Carnival City." It certainly looks great, and the price makes it all the more worthwhille.
[Via PSP GadgetZ]
Posted May 7th 2007 5:45PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Worms, Video
Worms Open Warfare 2 is getting serious about online. Not only does it feature Infrastructure play, it will offer a plethora of other features that will make it one of the most fully-featured online titles on our handheld. IGN's recent preview notes that "you can even create clans, text chat, track your online stats, share battlefields you've created in the level editor."
Of course, that's not all. Like Wipeout, the game will have a great deal of longevity thanks to its downloadable content. Players will be able to "download some of the classic maps from previous Worms games via the title's online capabilities." With all these new features, Open Warfare 2 looks like a substantial upgrade to the franchise's previous iteration.
Posted May 7th 2007 9:00AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Interviews, Wipeout
Wipeout Pure is one of the best, if not the best, entries in the series. The PSP launch title featured brilliant graphics (which hold up to this day), the best handling of a
Wipeout title, and a seemingly never-ending amount of content, thanks to brilliantly executed downloadable extensions released months after the game's launch.
Eurogamer was able to talk to Clark Davies from Studio Liverpool about their upcoming PSP sequel,
Pulse. Some highlights include:
- Improved controls. "The handling is smoother, the ships are more evenly balanced. We're confident that the control is the best and most accessible the series has seen to date."
- Grid creator for players to create their own challenges.
- The ability to absorb weapons remains. However, the Disruptor weapon is gone. In its stead are a few new weapons, some of which will affect your ability to play: "things like smoking engines, fire damage, HUD interference, etc."
- The adrenaline-pumping Zone mode is back, but this time there are no levels designed specifically for the mode. All levels will be playable in Zone, and all of them will get a visual makeover when playing in Zone.
- Downloadable content returns. When questioned why content is available at launch (why not put it on disc?), Davies reminded readers that "a game is finished about two months before it hits the shelf ... So it's the case that we've scheduled our time well enough so we can carry on working on extra content once the rest of the game is ready."
We have to say this interview got us even more excited for this futuristic racing sequel. Even if the game didn't have improvements (if it were simply
Pure with more tracks), we're confident it would still be fantastic. Let's hope to see more footage of the game soon.
Posted Mar 28th 2007 9:50PM by Steven Bailey
Filed under: News
I've complained from time to time about the selection of downloadable PSone games for PSP in the US, but right now the UK has it much worse. At launch of the PS3, there are zero PSone games on the PlayStation Store for download to PSP. Sony hasn't made any statement as to when they'll show up, but the US had to wait a little while for this feature. Still, since the UK launch was much later than in Japan and the US, one would think Sony would have titles lined up for day one. In any case, let's hope for the sake of UK PS3 owners that the wait isn't too long.
[Via Games Radar]
Posted Mar 22nd 2007 7:15PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News
YourPSP's official PSP Store is Europe's premiere destination for PSP downloads. It's provided us with a great number of
downloadable demos and other goodies. However, it looks to be
getting an overhaul. What new upgrades might the site be receiving? Full downloadable games, if this page from the
UK PlayStation site is to be believed.
To the right of the page, links to downloadable demos of
Loco Roco,
Killzone and
Ridge Racer 2 can be found. But more interesting are the descriptions for
Wipeout: Pure and
Go! Sudoku: "
Download full game now."
Sony has promised that the PLAYSTATION Store would one day
find its way to PSP. As they've shown with the PS3, full downloadable games are a crucial part of Sony's strategy. Could Europe be the first region to receive downloadable retail games? If so, how will it work? When will it expand to other countries? Was the
web version of the PLAYSTATION Store the beginning of something bigger? Stay tuned for more.
[Via
Gamespot]
Posted Mar 15th 2007 9:35PM by Steven Bailey
Filed under: News
Last week PSP owners had the option of downloading the first of a game series that has a newer version already on PSP. I
complained about it. Well, I probably should have just been happy there was a new PS1 game to download, because this week there's no PSP content with the weekly PLAYSTATION Store update. When I think of all the possible amazing PS1 games I could have downloaded it
makes me cry that I have nothing. I'm sorry I yelled at you Sony, please give me more games to download for my PSP. In the meantime I'm going to start e-mailing Sony non-stop until they release
Rival Schools: United by Fate for download.
Posted Mar 9th 2007 11:00AM by Steven Bailey
Filed under: News, Wipeout
Yet again Sony has released a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store that is already available in a better form on PSP. The original
Wipeout from the days of PS1 has landed in downloadble form on Sony's PS3 market. I'm sure for hardcore
Wipeout fans this is exciting and more playable games for PSP is never a bad thing, but why can't Sony focus on games that aren't already available on PSP and give us some downloadable games worth getting excited about? I'm sitting with my hands outstretched and they have money in them. Sony can take that money as soon as they give me some games I want to download and enjoy on my PSP.
Posted Feb 2nd 2007 4:30PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News, Wipeout
Who doesn't like free stuff? Sony's getting the big picture: we like free content downloads. As reported by
develop, SCE Worldwide Studios VP Michael Denny states, "All games, whether they are launched on disc or electronically, need to create a community and have active community websites and extra content."
One of PSP's launch titles,
Wipeout Pure, featured tons of downloadable content after release. In fact, the various packs released over the months following release doubled the amount of content available in the game. It was free for the consumer, and undoubtedly boosted sales. "Downloadable content helped keep the game on the shelf and encouraged people to not trade the game in," explains development director Clemens Wangerin. The game also delivered more than 800,000 downloads and became the first PSP title to reach Platinum status.
While speaking about
Wipeout, it looks like Sony accidentally revealed that sequels were being made for both the PSP and PS3 platforms. If you haven't figured it out, the next iterations of
Wipeout will also deliver even more downloadable content. Hopefully, it will still retain the nice price that Pure set: free.
[Via
Joystiq]
See also:
Killzone Liberation online beta coming soon
Posted Jan 13th 2007 2:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Ask PSP Fanboy
Every Saturday, PSP Fanboy will answer your burning questions. If you have a question for the team, send an e-mail to
andrew @ www.pspfanboy.com with the subject "
Ask PSP Fanboy."
The opinions stated in this article are those of the author, and do not represent the views of Weblogs Inc or AOL.
Q: I noticed you are more free to speak of mods/hacks/homebrews lately. Do you have restrictions on what you can and can't say? If not, are you finally being more open now realizing that Sony has recently been putting the customer last?
Andrew says: We do mention homebrew once in a while on the site, because it is newsworthy, and important in the PSP scene. However, we don't focus on it because our target audience doesn't use homebrew. We're one of the few (if not the only) fan sites out there that want to focus on getting the most out of your PSP through Sony-sanctioned firmware. My personal belief is that although Sony may not make the best decisions, that doesn't give us the right to promote software piracy. Yes, many will argue that homebrew isn't about that (I too have one PSP that runs 3.03OE-B). However, piracy is a large and active part of the homebrew scene--and it's something I avoid wholeheartedly. Any PSP "fan" that downloads ISOs and emulators should understand that they're simply hurting our beloved console, and industry as a whole.
See more questions after the break.
Continue reading Ask PSP Fanboy: Volume 2
Posted Jan 2nd 2007 4:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Killzone, Demos
While
Killzone: Liberation didn't take PSP
Game of the Year honors, it still has a legion of fans that love its action-packed top-down gameplay. If you missed this game last year, now's your chance to try a sweet downloadable demo.
1.
Download the demo ZIP file.
2. Extract the contents of the ZIP file.
3. Connect your PSP to your computer using a USB cable.
4. Go to the PSP/GAME folder.
5. Copy UCES00279-Demo folder into directory.
Check out our new demos site:
demos.pspfanboy.com
Posted Nov 9th 2006 10:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News, Exit
Did you snag Kangaeru Exit when it was available for cheap? Hope so, because on November 24th, 150 new stages will be made available for download. That's a lot of gameplay for free. The levels are designed by aspiring game programming students at various universities around Japan, making this project one of the coolest school assignments I've ever heard of.
[Via DCEmu]
Posted Nov 3rd 2006 6:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Ape Escape, Demos
Yet another
Ape Escape demo. This one lets you catch bananas, against the CPU or a friend.
1.
Download the demo ZIP file.
2. Extract the contents of the ZIP file.
3. Connect your PSP to your computer using a USB cable.
4. Go to the PSP/GAME folder.
5. Copy UCES00302 folder into the GAME directory.
Check out our new demos site:
demos.pspfanboy.com
Posted Oct 29th 2006 1:40PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Loco Roco, Demos
And finally, the last of the
downloadable demos for today. It's
Loco Roco! But wait, haven't we already received a
Loco Roco demo? In fact, haven't we already received
two? Well, that hasn't stopped Sony from releasing a
third demo of its beloved game for the masses. Unlike the other two demos released, this requires almost no knowledge of Japanese. You know what to do: tilt the stage and get our friends to the end without getting too badly eaten. The game's available now, so you may want to
pick it up. Or wait for even more downloadable demos, which will secretly combine and form the entire game.
1.
Download the demo ZIP file.
2. Extract the contents of the ZIP file.
3. Connect your PSP to your computer using a USB cable.
4. Go to the PSP/GAME folder.
5. Copy UCJS10041-2 folder into directory.
Check out our new demos site:
demos.pspfanboy.com
Posted Oct 29th 2006 1:15PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Blocks Club, Demos
Here's
Blocks Club, the second
downloadable demo released on the web today. I was completely baffled as to how to play this game. That is, until
Wikipedia showed me the light: "Each player is given a pile of
Tetris like blocks. Players must place blocks on the board starting at the corners and then extend it from the corners of the pieces they have placed. The game is over when no one can place any more pieces. The player with the fewest pieces remaining wins."
Ahh. To start playing, make sure you choose the right option at the game's start, and press O (not X) to confirm. Once again, this game doesn't have a US release, so this might be the only way for you to play with
Blocks Club. (It's available for
import at a budget price, if you're interested.)
Demo #1:
1.
Download the demo zip file.
2. Extract the contents of the zip file.
3. Connect your PSP to your computer using a USB cable.
4. Go to the PSP/GAME folder.
5. Copy ULJS00068 folder into the GAME directory.
Check out our new demos site:
demos.pspfanboy.com
Posted Oct 20th 2006 2:05PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: Ridge Racer, Demos
Yesterday, we told you
new demos were coming soon. And today, one of them has been made available.
Ridge Racer 2 is now available at
ridgeracerpsp.com. You'll need to be registered at YourPSP (for European users only),
OR you can download
directly from us (not bad, huh?). The game demo requires firmware
2.81 2.80 or above.
1.
Download the demo ZIP file.
2. Extract the contents of the ZIP file.
3. Connect your PSP to your computer using a USB cable.
4. Go to the PSP/GAME folder.
5. Copy
UCES00422 folder into the GAME directory.
Check out our new demos site:
demos.pspfanboy.com
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