The days of waiting until you get home to purchase items from the PlayStation Store are over. Sony has finally launched its browser-based Sony Entertainment Network store, letting you pick up games and add them to your list of purchases from anywhere.
The PlayStation Network has made huge inroads on Xbox Live Arcade over the years, now looking the better online service in many ways, but it has been missing a way to access the store over the cyberweb. Thankfully, Sony is launching a site to browse and buy games in your browser this month, having debuted such a thing in Europe in December.
Rocksmith, the game that attempts to make real rockers out of gamers, is adding free DLC in celebration of the holiday season. The content is available now on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store.
Rocksmith's holiday DLC includes "Carol of the Bells" by Seth Chapala, "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" by Brian Adam McCune, and "We Three Kings" by Versus Them. Santa Claus shaped fireworks are not included.
The official PlayStation Store for 'PlayStation Certified' Android devices launched today, with a starting lineup of ten vintage PSone games for the handful of Certified gadgets.
The digital market is part of Sony's PlayStation Suite initiative, which is intended to spread the PS experience to a wider audience. However, only Sony has produced Certified devices so far, the Xperia Play and Sony Tablets.
Take a hulking chicken, add a hefty dose of John Rambo and a big 'ole pile of guns, and you end up with the hero of developer Ratloop Asia's Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken. In the PlayStation 3 exclusive action-platformer, Hardboiled--as he's called--is tasked with ridding the city of Albatropolis of an entire army of evil penguins and their bumbling supreme leader, Putzki.
The PlayStation Network is going down briefly this morning for routine scheduled maintenance in North America, Sony has announced. It'll begin at 9am Pacific and is expected to end around 11am.
Sony continued to catch up with its backlog of new PlayStation Network content in yesterday's PS Store update, with another blast of games and DLC both new and over-due.
In the realm of downloadable games, you can now scoop Outland and Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 for $9.99 apiece. You'll also find Akimi Village, and downloadable editions of Greg Hastings Paintball 2 and Midnight Club: Los Angeles' Complete Edition. Read more »
E3 hasn't stopped the march of the PlayStation Store update, and now that it's back, the marketplace is getting pretty hefty loads of content.
New demos include El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron and Dungeon Siege 3. New game downloads featured this week include New Adventure Island and Soldier Blade for $5.99 each, and the fourth episode of Back to the Future. Read more »
At long last, the PlayStation Store has returned, six weeks after it was taken down in the wake of the PlayStation Network hack. Its return is celebrated with a massive burst of new content, helping Sony start catching up on the huge amount that should've been released during the downtime.
True to its plan of multiple Store updates per week, Sony says that the next batch of new releases will come this Friday. On top of that, "some special publishes"--whatever that means--are due after the weekend over E3 week; Sony urges "be sure to check back daily." Read more »
The PlayStation Network, Sony's online service for PlayStation 3 and PSP, is due to finally be fully restored this week, over a month after it was hacked and taken offline. While this certainly isn't the first time Sony has made promises regarding the return of PSN, this time it's confident enough to issue a proper flashy press release and everything.
This will see the PlayStation Store return at long last, along with the usual PSN functionality and certain parts of the Qriocity music service. It won't happen quite everywhere, though; Sony says "the Americas, Europe/PAL territories and Asia, excluding Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea" can expect their service by the end of the week. Read more »
Sony is taking down the PlayStation Network for scheduled maintenance today, but that doesn't mean a Store update is imminent. A PlayStation Blog update says the maintenance will last from 8 am to 5 pm, Pacific time, but most users should still be able to play online.
"For those asking about the PlayStation Store, we're still targeting restoration of all services by the end of the month," reads the post by social media manager Jeff Rubenstein. "Contrary to reports, the Store will not be publishing today." Read more »
As was previously reported and later confirmed, the new Mortal Kombat requires an online pass (dubbed, the "Kombat Pass") in order to battle online on the PS3 and Xbox 360. Due to recent PlayStation Network issues (and because the PSN Store is still offline), many PS3 users have been unable to decimate friends over the net. Until now. Read more »
[Update 11:45] Giant Bomb reports that Sony's Patrick Seybold has responded to the reports, emphasizing that no specific date has been set for the PS Store restoration.
While of course we want to keep our partners in the loop with the latest developments for bringing back the PlayStation store, we've not announced a specific date other than to say we expect to have the service fully restored by end of the month. Anything other than that is purely speculative.Read more »
Yesterday, if you haven't been keeping track of things, was Tuesday. As ever, Sony celebrated the weekday with a new round of releases for the PlayStation 3 and PSP through the PlayStation Store.
This week's new PlayStation 3 titles were anime fighter Arcana Heart 3, fancy platformer The Fancy Pants Adventures, vintage TG-16 Legend of Zelda clone Neutopia, the classic Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Telltale's Puzzle Agent. That's not all, as survival horror Dino Crisis 2 and Square's RPG Threads of Fate were also re-released as PSone Classics. Read more »
Sony's weekly PlayStation Store update arrived, as ever, on Tuesday night, bringing new games, demos, downloadable content and more to the PlayStation 3 and PSP.
Only two new releases were in this week's update for everyone, demolish-o-licious vehicular spin-off Red Faction: Battlegrounds and pinball-ish, breakout-y StarDrone. Read more »
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