1. Poor update again.

   
   Comment by CaptainMurdo — Jan 15, 2009 @ 5:35 pm

2. “High Velocity Bowling Carls Season Greetings costume, £0.79/€0.99″

   Better late than pregnant.

   No demo for “Magic Ball(tm)”

   And no full version of “Cuboid”.

   “Skate 2 Demo (Playable Demo)” currently downloading… at a grinding 1,718 Mb.

   (1-4 Players; HDTV screen resolution: 720p, 1080i, 1080p; DUALSHOCK®3] - “One time fee for use of downloads on up to 5 activated PS3™ systems”.

   BFN,

   fp.

   
   Comment by fanpages — Jan 15, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

3. Suck a bit :\

   
   Comment by --- — Jan 15, 2009 @ 5:39 pm

4. Cannot see these in my ‘Store presentation for this week either…
   —
   FAR CRY® 2 FORTUNES PACK, €9.99

   Star Wars - The Force Unleashed Character Pack #1, €4.99

   Star Wars - Character Pack 2, €4.99

   Star Wars The Force Unleashed Jedi Temple Mission Pack, €9.99
   —

   As the download for “Skate 2 Demo (Playable Demo)” has been going since 5:19pm & it is only at 89Mb (5%) almost 30 minutes later perhaps the whole Network is slow & the extra items will turn up later?

   BFN,

   fp.

   
   Comment by fanpages — Jan 15, 2009 @ 5:46 pm

5. Where is Street Fighter 2 HD Remix????
   Seriously this is just ridiculous now.

   
   Comment by Nathan — Jan 15, 2009 @ 5:53 pm

6. i’ll give the Skate 2 Demo a miss, i sucked balls in the first one.
   my mad skillzors were totally lacking

   
   Comment by mobiletone — Jan 15, 2009 @ 5:59 pm

7. bah!
   I echo the complaints about SF2HDR and Cuboid being ominously missing from these recent updates.
   I mean what happened to Sony trying to have parity with each store? it was working great in the lead up to christmas, but now its just gone!

   and why isnt Home feature complete yet? its been over a month!!!

   
   Comment by stefan — Jan 15, 2009 @ 6:07 pm

8. @ Fanpages, the Christmas update is beaten by the Halloween pack, renamed “Horror Ball Pack” to save SCEE’s blushes (what exactly takes so long to clear a bowling ball for the EU Store?)!

   Do you remember the good old days when little games like Magic Ball used to be £4.99? I used to buy games like that at a drop of a hat, £7.99 doesn’t seem quite so throwaway though.

   Sony really must start offering demos as standard for any game that costs more than a fiver…

   Does look quite good though, I am tempted to pick it up, and it does have a decent 40 levels. I’d sooner pay £7.99 for something original like that than for Cuboid (aka Bloxorz) which uses identical levels to the original free Flash game…

   
   Comment by Apnomis — Jan 15, 2009 @ 6:24 pm

9. I find myself to be an incredibly picky person when it comes to downloadable content….

   My only ever DLC purchases:

   Warhawk - PS3
   Mass Effect “Bring Down The Sky” - 360
   Linger in Shadows - PS3
   LittleBigPlanet MGS Packs - PS3

   Warhawk = it looked fun,
   Mass Effect = wanted more gametime,
   Linger = it looked “interesting”,
   LBP = Loved metal gear.

   Have yet to find any game with the “zazz” that just makes me want to buy it there and then….

   Flower maybe…

   But nothing right now.

   
   Comment by JohnSketch — Jan 15, 2009 @ 6:49 pm

10. poor but free I suppose got enough full price titles to be going on with anyhows
    xenokiller90 add me

    
    Comment by andy — Jan 15, 2009 @ 6:56 pm

11. yeah what the hell where is SF2THDR!! And SOCOM:Confrontation!?

    
    Comment by Noisepurge — Jan 15, 2009 @ 7:01 pm

12. no wwe second update either

    
    Comment by t3rr0rt!me — Jan 15, 2009 @ 7:04 pm

13. Wow, another spectacularly terrible update. I can only assume that SF2HD has been cancelled in Europe.

    
    Comment by Ataru — Jan 15, 2009 @ 7:17 pm

14. Had enough! Finally bought Street Fighter HD on 360, downloading right now…

    Dead Space Demo I downloaded on 360 ages ago and off the US store for Ps3, Skate 2 demo got for 360 last week can’t be bothered to download again for Ps3…

    No trophy patch for echochrome, or at time of writing, patch for Eden, no Lumines, more than a handful of Psx games missing, and lots more…

    Judging by how long it took for the Soul Cailbur IV content packs to arrive to the PAL PSN, canceled my pre-order for Street Fighter IV on PS3 and ordering 360 version now…

    Only Killzone, Heavy Rain & Yakuza 3 & other exclusives are keeping my small (and rapidly diminishing) faith in the “playstation” brand at the moment…

    Maybe Sony as a company wouldn’t be reporting a loss if it actually let customers have access to products they WANT to buy…

    
    Comment by Mr.Monkey — Jan 15, 2009 @ 7:23 pm

15. I used to look forward to Thursdays… Now they bring me only disappointment.

    
    Comment by Mace — Jan 15, 2009 @ 10:18 pm

16. TRAVIS BARKER WOOP!!!

    
    Comment by E-ROLE — Jan 15, 2009 @ 10:28 pm

17. And the new contents are not avaiable in all psn stores in Europe, some of the stores dont have the game or the packs.

    
    Comment by RV — Jan 15, 2009 @ 11:11 pm

18. “Magic Ball(tm)” appears to be an Arkanoid-like title (the 1986 Taito game based upon “Breakout” brought to the world by Atari in the 1976… I feel old now!), but with the ball bouncing from the player’s paddle into the Z-Axis of the screen rather than vertically (Y-Axis):

    [ http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/01/15/magic-ball-available-tomorrow-for-ps3/ ]
    —
    15 January 2008

    Magic Ball for PS3 Available Today

    Posted by Olga Sokolova // Producer, Creat Studios

    Hello once again, and welcome to the Magic Ball blog!

    Magic Ball (available today, January 15 for $9.99 on the PS Store) is another addictive game from Creat Studios and TikGames and it’s filled with fast action, great humor and giggle-inducing fun.

    While the game doesn’t have an overall storyline like Cuboid, we have created comedic scenes for each level – so in a way, each level has its own little story! Each of the scenes is divided between two visual themes – Pirates and Knights - and each theme has its own mini-story scenes.

    Magic Ball boasts a vast number of trophies that players can try and achieve – each of the trophies requires the player to overcome a specific challenge. It was a blast trying to come up with the trophies, and we tried to keep a lot of them consistent with the humorous themes of Magic Ball. For example, we have the “25 in a row” trophy where you need to complete 25 levels in a row and several “Goodbye Cruel World” trophies where the player needs to pick up 5 skulls while completing the level.

    One of the strategic elements of Magic Ball is the random Power-Ups that fall from pieces of the level that are broken up by the Magic Ball. The Power-Ups are completely random, and the challenge is trying to get your paddle over to where they are falling, while also keeping the Magic ball in play!

    But be careful – not all Power-Ups are beneficial! As you complete levels, you will unlock new Power-Ups, so keep an eye out for them! Here’s a hint – try to get the ball through gaps in the objects so that the ball will bounce between the objects. This will break them up quicker, which makes less work for you!

    Magic Ball for the PSN is a unique twist on the “ball-breaker” type of game. We have true 3D environments and superior physics and graphics, and every object in the playing field is completely destructible. All of these elements combined really push Magic Ball to the next level.

    We’re also excited about the look and feel of our mini-scenes. We think they are really fun – and Magic Ball also has multiplayer with VOIP support! So what could be more fun than smashing up some objects and scoring points and Power-Ups with your friends!?

    We all loved the original Magic Ball and were inspired to make our own version with our own unique twists, including new takes on some of the classic levels and adding some bonus ones as well! During the development of the game, we were able to bring in some focus groups that allowed us to make tweaks and adjustments that really helped to round out the fun-factor for each of the levels.

    One of the areas that really got an overhaul during testing was the difficulty level of the game – apparently it was too easy! Man, you PSN players are really hardcore!

    We are quite proud of our levels, and our lead designer and lead artist worked on them constantly during the development cycle. We had originally planned for a more casual game, but testing proved that players wanted more action. So we rebalanced and are really happy with the outcome.

    Two of the other areas that were reworked completely were the SFX (special effects) and VFX (visual effects) of Magic Ball. The power of the PS3 allowed us to do many things that we had originally thought we might have a hard time with, but special effects such as waving grass and flowers are easily handled by the PS3 and the real-time physics with several hundred – even thousands! – of objects were easily managed. Once we saw how much more we were able to do graphically, we could then re-budget our development time and concentrate on gameplay.

    We had a blast developing and playing Magic Ball, and we hope you will too. Let us know what you think!
    —

    I think I’m going to have to buy it, as I like Arkanoid & Breakout.

    Damn.

    But yes, £7.99 is still a lot to take a chance on (at present).

    Economics isn’t my strong point (I only have an Advanced Level qualification some 20+ years ago), but a sub-five pounds introductory price for the first week of availability on the ‘Store would have been a welcome promotion & certainly an incentive for PlayStation Network members to try the game.

    If the title is proven to be a worthwhile addition to their hard drive gaming life, then over the next week the circulation of this news & ad hoc reviews would reach various Interweb sites & more sales would result as a consequence. A lower price than originally intended over the first 7 days, but with a higher quantity overall. Those who missed the introductory offer would then feel left out & purchase anyway.

    Like I said, you do the math… (Sony)

    BFN,

    fp.

    
    Comment by fanpages — Jan 15, 2009 @ 11:19 pm

19. I got Magic Ball, at the exhorbitant price of 8 pounds… seriously sony should stop being such a !”$!%$%£%£!”$!”£!2 and make us pay 5.99 for psn games.

    
    Comment by darkos87 — Jan 16, 2009 @ 12:08 am

20. Today I have stopped buying from PSN I am sick of the prices on the UK store. MAgic ball £8?????
    And i just noticed that the UK made GTi Club just got released in USA for HALF the price of the game in the UK.
    ITs over SCEE I am not even checking your rip off store anymore i am sick of the way EU is getting robbed when and if the content ever shows up.

    
    Comment by Good bye — Jan 16, 2009 @ 7:28 am

21. Skate 2 demo! Have not tried it out yet but looking forward to doing so when I get home!

    
    Comment by reakt — Jan 16, 2009 @ 9:13 am

22. Another poor udate nothing on there worth spending money on. but there is some good stuff coming.

    KILL ZONE 2 DEMO - 26.02.2009
    RESIDENT EVIL 5 DEMO - 05.02.2009
    SOCOM: CONFRONTATION - 05.02.2009

    
    Comment by Strike — Jan 16, 2009 @ 9:25 am

23. “High Velocity Bowling Carls Season Greetings costume, £0.79/€0.99″

    hahah what a bunch of morons. honestly…

    
    Comment by numptydumpty — Jan 16, 2009 @ 9:50 am

24. Hey JohnSketch, try the SavageMoon, you’ll be hooked. Bloomin thing just needs one more go, you know?

    This weeks releases were a little, erm, light on content? Lumines please. Flock too please! AgeOfBooty fix please! Flower?

    Now, there I was, adding a couple of new themes from the net, and I thought, animated icons! Mmm! Can this be done? Animated backdrops would be nice too, but I suspect they’d be a bit distracting. The icons though, could look rather special. Perhaps that’s a firmware thing.

    
    Comment by LordOfRuin — Jan 16, 2009 @ 10:55 am

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26. Err the Force Unleashed & Far-Cry DLC was out a few weeks ago threespeech…

    
    Comment by Mr.Monkey — Jan 16, 2009 @ 11:10 am

27. Apart from Killzone there is very little exclusive content coming this way which I’m excited about. Note to Sony: This isn’t a good thing.

    
    Comment by Terry G — Jan 16, 2009 @ 11:21 am

28. @Good bye
    Another game that’s half-price is Loco-roco 2 £19.99 here on PSN and $19.99 RETAIL in the US
    http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/01/14/get-locoroco-2-for-the-cost-of-just-two-movie-tickets/

    
    Comment by Mr.Monkey — Jan 16, 2009 @ 11:31 am

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33. Another week, another let down

    Still no Lumines which is the PSN gaming i’ve been looking forward to for ages - at this rate might end up investigating a way of getting it from the US PSN as they’ve had since before Christmas

    Seriously, Sony need a Major Nelson type character as the utter lack of communication from Sony to its customers is poor beyond shocking

    I hate moaning -I love my PS3 and look forward to the update to see whats new, but (nearly) every week it’s the same old disappointment

    
    Comment by Mr_Leisure — Jan 16, 2009 @ 2:07 pm

34. By time SSFII HD comes out SF IV be out!!!!…

    
    Comment by funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id) — Jan 16, 2009 @ 4:15 pm

35. RUBBISH, still no SF2T HD remix…

    
    Comment by mark76 — Jan 16, 2009 @ 6:30 pm

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37. btw Epic Fail called threespeech.

    there is no WWE 2nd package,i just got the confirmation from THQ

    Available now on PlayStation Network and coming soon for Xbox LIVE Marketplace
    Price: $4.99 on PlayStation Network, 400 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE
    Evan Bourne - playable Superstar
    Ted DiBiase Jr. - playable Super$star
    Charlie Haas - playable Superstar
    Chris Jericho - alternate attire
    And on PlayStation Network, the pack will also include these exclusives:
    Masked Kane - playable Superstar
    Kelly Kelly - Christmas-themed attire
    Maria - Christmas-themed attire
    Edge - alternate attire
    MVP - alternate attire

    thats 1 PACKAGE..

    
    Comment by t3rr0rt!m3 — Jan 16, 2009 @ 8:31 pm

38. Where is Lumines Supernova?

    Why can Microsoft put out nearly every bit of content day and date with America but Sony can’t? I did have to wait over 3 weeks and still be waiting for Lumines Live!

    
    Comment by Michael — Jan 16, 2009 @ 10:45 pm

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40. Skate 2 demo rules.

    
    Comment by reakt — Jan 17, 2009 @ 4:37 pm

41. @reakt,

    yeah I’ve been playing it over and over again all weekend, Skate 2 is amazing.

    I love the new features, the walking and the moving objects is amazing.

    I was building hugely complex runs through demo park, rail onto table, onto rail etc.

    
    Comment by John — Jan 19, 2009 @ 11:00 am

42. Couldn’t even be bothered to announce that the HVB online play and trophies patch went up, eh?

    Remind me of the point of this site?

    
    Comment by Steve — Jan 19, 2009 @ 11:08 pm

43. SCEE where are the PSN-Cards?

    
    Comment by TVM — Jan 20, 2009 @ 3:11 pm

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