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PAIN On PS3 - Video Game Bits

By Eli Green
November 29, 2007 - 23:20

Welcome back to another edition of Video Game Bits. This will likely be the last edition of Video Game Bits for the week, but don't be discouraged. We'll be back with more video game news next week. Here 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

Last Updated: August 31, 2023 - 08:12