6d ago - Today Tyrone Rodriguez at Nicalis has announced 1001 Spikes on PS Vita, dubbed a game for the masochistic gamer.

To quote: What if you had 1,001 lives in your favorite 2D platformer? Think you could beat the game? That's 1001 Spikes.

1001 Spikes will likely be the most challenging game to come to the Vita this year. In developing the game, we looked to classic games such as the original 8-bit Spelunker and Hudson's Famicom game Challenger as inspiration.

Aside from utilizing a truly 8-bit art style, in developing 1001 Spikes, we've focused on making an incredibly difficult platformer with very precise controls requiring pixel-perfect inputs.

On the surface, the short levels seem minimalistic, but at the core, they're loaded with strategically placed obstacles hidden to the naked eye. The designers have spent countless hours fine tuning placement of every obstacle and item in the game, literally every detail of the game was meticulously planned and thought out, tested, tuned and retested.

Broken down to its most basic design, the goal in 1001 Spikes is to find the key to open the door to the next level. Each level will present a different challenge both in the procurement of the key and then making it to the door alive. Although some levels look impossible at...

6d ago - Sony's Jawad Ashraf of the PlayStation Store Team is here with this weeks European PlayStation Game Store updates below, as follows:

It's is finally available from June 14th, riding a wave of huge critical acclaim. Survive in a brutal world beautifully crafted by the team at releases Final Fantasy XIII-2 onto PS Store.

What does the future hold? Adventure through time with Serah and Noel to find out. Tame monsters and reset time to see events unfold in a number of ways.

Check out PS Store for update to the E3 sale, as well as some of the E3 trailers for many upcoming additions to the PlayStation family.

PlayStation Network New Content

Content may be added or removed, or move dates - please stay tuned to your weekly Store Update for the most up to date listings. Listed savings are approximate, based on SRP excluding Special Offer pricing and should be considered as a guide only.

PS3 games

Carnivores Bundle
Price: £5.99/€6.99
PEGI: 12
Availability: All

Final Fantasy XIII-2
Price: £15.99/€19.99
PEGI: 16
Availability: All

Tekken Revolution
Price: Free
PEGI: 16
Availability: Not available in Germany

Tekken Revolution
Price:...

2w ago - Sony PlayStation Digital Platforms Community Manager Morgan Haro is here with details of whats to come with the next PlayStation Plus update, which features 3 new fixtures in the Instant Game Collection as outlined below.

To quote: With E3 right around the corner, everyone here at PlayStation is putting the final touches on what's sure to be an exciting event for gamers everywhere.

Among other things, we're excited to see PlayStation Plus continue to evolve, and we're happy to announce the inclusion of three new PS3 Full Games.

With next week's PlayStation Store update, we'll welcome UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and LittleBigPlanet: Karting into the Instant Game Collection!

As many of you keenly observed in Monday's PlayStation Plus blog post, three PS3 Full Games - LittleBigPlanet 2, inFAMOUS 2, and Ratchet & Clank All 4 One - have only four days left in the Instant Game Collection.

This means that it's your last chance to download these great titles as they'll be stepping down after a year of faithful PS Plus service.

June 11th PlayStation Plus Update

UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception (PS3) Single Player and Free to Play Multiplayer Bundle
PSN Price: This item is only Free for PS Plus members

2w ago - Today PlayStation 3 developer nullptr has released a homebrew application he calls PS3 Game List followed by v1.5 with details below, as follows:

Download: PS3 Game List / PS3 Game List (Mirror - same version but will show more info should an error occur) / PS3 Game List v1.5

To quote: Hello all!

I wanted to quickly create a list of my backups. I didn't have any app that could do it, so I wrote a simple one and would like to share it. There might be other (more professional) apps, but it's nice to have alternatives.

The application scans for games in a directory and creates a list of games names and their respective IDs.

The list can be saved to a text file. Also games trophies can be browsed if they're available.

Hope you like it!

v1.5 Changelog:

• Added support for scanning games in network shared folders (proper permissions should be set)
  
• Browsing trophies while scanning for games.
  
• Double click an item on the list to show its text on a tool-tip.
  
• Fixed minor bugs.

2w ago - Following up on their previous update, PlayStation 3 developers Estwald and D_Skywalk have updated the PS3 backup game manager known as Iris Manager to version 2.50J with the changes detailed below.

Download: Iris Manager v2.50J for v4.XX PS3 CFW / Iris Manager v2.50J (Animated Icon) / GIT

To quote, roughly translated: IrisManager is a port of HermesManager based on PSLIGHT, Tiny3D, PS3Soundlib and OpenPS3FTP, is a completly legal open code manager Made with Homebrew tools.

Supports the custom firmwares: 3.41 (Hermes), 3.55 (Kmeaw), 4.21 & 4.30 CEX (with LV1 access, like Rogero or Rebug), 4.31 CFW (MiralaTijera), 4.21 DEX, 4.40 CFW and 4.41 CFW.

What's new in version 2.50J:

• Fixed an issue of dates where it is now marked as 32 of may (do not take off the coat!
  
• Updated languages Chinese simplified/traditional (Thanks Liqianyu)