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back to another edition of Video Game Bits. This will likely be the
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is today's Video Game Bits.
Playstation
3 induces
PAIN
Sony
Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced the launch of
PAIN
on the Playstation Network today. The game is available exclusively
through the Playstation Store for Playstation 3. Developed by
Denver-based Idol Minds,
PAIN
has
players launch their character from a giant slingshot into a
destructible downtown environment loaded with obstacles.
“
Complete
with various single player and multiplayer modes,
PAIN
is a highly creative, comedic experience that invites players to
explore the environment on their own, play head-to-head with friends
or compete with the masses via the online leaderboards. Additionally,
PAIN
offers a robust
online community that allows players communicate with the development
team in-game and online (via www.PAINPS3.com) and provide real-time
feedback of their game experience – which characters, real or
fictional, they would like to launch, for example.”
PAIN
is available for download for $10.99 CAD and is rated T for Teen.
NCsoft
lets players turn back time in
City of Heroes
Today, for the first time
since it purchased
the franchise, NCsoft released an update for
City of Heroes
.
The company announced the release of
City of Heroes Issue:
11: A Stitch in Time,
a new,
free expansion for subscribers which provides them with new content,
including the ability for heroes and villains to travel back in time
to participate in world-altering missions. Also included with the new
expansion are a new weapon customization tool and two new power sets
and enhancements to the inventions system.
Of
course, the headline feature of
Issue
11
is the ability to “flashack” in time and participate in events
from the histories of Paragon City and the Rogue Isles.
Heroes
and villains can also use this feature to play or replay hundreds of
missions from earlier in the game. Players will be able to set
mission parameters to earn special badges and participants’ levels
will be set appropriately to ensure that the challenge of each
story-arc remains constant.
The
two new power sets in the game are called Dual Blades and Willpower.
Both are available to melee Archetypes – Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes
and Stalkers. Willpower is a new defensive set, which offers a strong
mix of resistance, defense and regeneration, and Dual Blades is a new
offensive set which lets both Heroes and Villains hold blunt or
bladed weapons in each hand, allowing them to dish out massive
attacks using the new “combo” combat system.
Playstation
Store update
This
week's Playstation Store update includes a nice mix of games, content
packs, videos and walpapers. Here is the full list:
Downloadable
Games
PAIN
($9.99 USD/$10.99 CDN)
File
size: 200 MB
Add-on
Game Content
Resistance:
Fall of Man
:
Map Pack 2 ($4.99 USD/$5.99 CDN)
This
map pack contains both Bracknell and Axbridge. Both are additional
multiplayer maps designed to be played with
Resistance:
Fall of Man
.
Both maps support all
Resistance
multiplayer game types. You must own
Resistance:
Fall of Man
and update your game to the most recent online update to play either
map. Also available:
Resistance: Fall
of Man
Map
Pack Bundle which includes Map Pack 1 & 2 for $7.99.
File
size: 340 MB (Map Pack 2), 652 MB (bundle)
MotorStorm
Vehicle & Skin Pack ($1.99 USD/$2.99 CDN)
Increase
your range of
MotorStorm
vehicles with this new batch of rides and skins.
This pack adds
two new vehicles, each with three different paint jobs, and two new
Team Paint job sets, each with a new skin for 7 classic
MotorStorm
vehicles.
File
size: 100 KB
Guitar
Hero III
:
Boss Battles Track Pack (free)
“Devil
Went Down to Georgia” as performed by The Charlie Daniels Band;
“Original Composition by Slash” as
performed
by Slash; “Original Composition by Tom Morello” as performed by
Tom Morello.
File
size: 77.3 MB
Rock
Band
Customize
your Rock Band experience by purchasing these playable Rock Band
tracks. Please note: you need to actually own Rock Band in order to
play these tracks:
Heroes
– David Bowie ($1.99 USD/$2.99 CDN)
Moonage
Daydream – David Bowie (
$1.99
USD/
$2.99
CDN)
Queen
Bitch – David Bowie Age (
$1.99
USD/
$2.99
CDN)
David
Bowie Track Pack 01 ($5.49 USD/$6.49 CDN)
File
sizes: 24.9 MB - 48.8 MB (singles), 99.2 MB (Track Pack).
ELDER
SCROLLS IV: SHIVERING ISLES
PSN ($29.99 USD/$32.99 CDN)
Download
Shivering Isles
,
the full official expansion for
The
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
.
Enter a massive new realm of Oblivion with unique locations,
dungeons, and dozens of quests. Discover all new creatures, weapons,
clothing…even armor you can have forged for you.
File
size: 1.20 GB
Game
Videos
Ratchet
& Clank
BTS - Weapons (free)
Get
a behind the scenes look at the weapons of Ratchet and Clank Future:
Tools of Destruction. Download it now!
File
size: 304 MB (HD)
Timeshift
FPS Differently Video 2 (free)
Watch
this series of videos on how you can Master Time to Become the
Ultimate Weapon!
File
size: 50 MB (HD)
Movie
and Blu-ray Disc Trailers
Stop
Loss
Trailer
(free)
Decorated
Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his
small Texas hometown following his tour of duty.
File
size: 30 MB (SD), 111 MB (HD), 146 MB (1080)
Resident
Evil: Extinction
(BD Trailer)
Milla
Jovovich is back to kill more zombies in the third chapter of the hit
Resident Evil franchise!
File size: 157 MB (1080)
Memoirs
of a Geisha
(BD Trailer)
A
Cinderella story set in a mysterious and exotic world, this stunning
romantic epic shows how a house servant blossoms, against all odds,
to become the most captivating geisha of her day.
File
size: 158 MB (1080)
PS3
Wallpaper
Aquatopia
Wallpaper (free)
Customize
the background of your PS3 system with this new Aquatopia Wallpaper
File
sizes: 362 KB
(6)
PAIN
(free)
Customize
the background of your PS3 system with this new
PAIN
Wallpaper
File
sizes: 348 KB – 714 KB
(5)
Resistance: Fall of Man
Wallpaper (free)
Customize
the background of your PS3 system with this new
Resistance:
Fall of Man
Wallpaper
File sizes: 432 KB – 718 KB