The PlayStation Store update hit last night, bringing with it a bounty of new downloadable treats for good little boys and girls who have credit cards.

Leading the week is Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime for $9.99, and Swarm at $14.99. Battle: Los Angeles is available if you want it for some reason, and both PlayStation Move Heroes and DC Universe Online are available as full game downloads. The PS1 RPG Legend of Mana is available for $5.99. Read more »

Sony has outlined the goodies and discounts coming to PlayStation Plus users in the next few weeks. As previously announced, the SOCOM 4 multiplayer beta will come to Plus users a week earlier than standard account-holders, on March 22.

Other additions that week include a PlayStation Move Heroes full game trial to coincide with its release, and a launch day discount on Swarm. It will cost $11.99, instead of $14.99, for Plus users. Read more »

Microsoft has once again outlined the next two weeks of Xbox Live Marketplace Arcade games, discounts, Games on Demand, and other assorted goodies.

Halo: Reach delivered digitally through Games on Demand will be $49.99 for one week only, starting today, no doubt to promote the launch of the Defiant Map Pack. And if you love Batman but don't yet own Arkham Asylum, you don't exist -- but the game is getting a price drop to $29.99 starting today anyway. Read more »

DeathSpank developer Hothead's latest unusual protagonists, a group of "50 pudgy blue morons," will make their debut next week when the "action-platformer" Swarm launches on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

It'll hit PlayStation Network on March 22 and Xbox Live Arcade on March 23, Hothead announced on Twitter over the weekend. The European PSN release, however, will be on March 30. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

For this special "Valentine's Day" edition of the Daily Filter we've got a slew of new content that's sweet as candy. New media for today includes Portal 2, Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection, Okamiden, Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle, Cars 2: The Video Game, Rift, the Fall of Setarrif expansion for ArcaniA, MindJack, MotoGP 10/11, Shadows of the Damned, the newly announced movie-based title Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, Warriors: Legends of Troy, Swarm, Rock Band 3, Monday Night Combat, the alpha version of A Valley Without Wind, Yars' Revenge, The Flying Dutchman, The Rockin' Dead, Amazing Zombie Defense, and Mactabilis. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features Resistance 3, Anarchy Reigns, Armored Core 5, Gods Eater Burst, Swarm, Rift, We Sing Down Under, F.E.A.R. 3, Dynasty Warriors 7, and the newly announced XBLA-exclusive codenamed "Class3." Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features media for Bulletstorm, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, Killzone 3, Trials HD, Dead or Alive Dimensions, Dive to the Titanic, Breach, Guild Wars 2, Crusader Kings II, Swarm, Shift 2 Unleashed, and Rift. Read more »

The next downloadable title from developer Hothead Games, Swarm, is on its way to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network fairly soon. Late last week, Hothead's Director of Game Technology, Joel DeYoung, stopped by the Shacknews offices to give us a quick peek at the chaotic, new action-platformer, and to chat a bit about the game's evolution and design.

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Developer Hothead Games has confirmed that its new action-puzzle title Swarm will be released on both Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network in "early 2011."

Hothead's Director of Game Technology, Joel DeYoung describes the game's charmingly obtuse (and blue) protagonists, and the inspiration for the game's style: Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features new content for Swarm, Battle vs. Chess, The Lord of the Rings Online, The Haunted: Hells Reach, The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest, Blade Kitten, Company of Heroes Online, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, and Knights in Shining Armor: Our King's Tale Episode One. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter includes new media from PAX 2010. We've added a "Story" trailer for Vanquish, gameplay footage for Dungeon Siege 3, a "Causality" trailer for EVE Online, a trailer featuring the "Mysteries" of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the launch trailer for Kirby's Epic Yarn, the debut trailer for Fluidity, gameplay footage for Mega Man Universe, a number of "Making Of" trailers for Dead Rising 2, a "flythrough" video of Rift: Planes of Telara, and the announcement trailer and screens for Swarm. Read more »

A swarm of fifty adorable blue Swarmites is the star of DeathSpank and Penny Arcade Adventures developer Hothead Games new title Swarm, announced at E3.

"Swarm lets the player take control of 50 utterly fearless Swarmites and drive them through an intense, entertaining and often suicidal battle for a greater good," publisher Ignition explains. "Run, bash, huddle, boost, stack, jump, push and throw your way through gauntlets of death and destruction in an attempt to collect valuable DNA and ensure that at least one Swarmite survives." Read more »