4w ago - Sony's Jawad Ashraf of the PlayStation Store Team is here with this weeks European PSN Game Store updates below, as follows:

First up this week, revisit the mysterious town of Greenvale with Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut and discover more secrets, bask in the beauty with redefined graphics and move with greater freedom with a complete control overhaul.

UPDATE: Deadly Premonition will now launch on 1st May.

"All roads lead to Gran Soren". Oh yes they do. One of my favourite games of 2012, Dragon's Dogma receives the digital treatment. Assume the role of Arisen and take on goblins, harpies, wyverns and other ferocious creatures in this fantasy action RPG.

Experiment with the variety of classes on offer and journey across the grand world of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. Includes the original full game and the Dark Arisen expansion.

Dead Island: Riptide takes players to the island of Palanai on the Banoi archipelago, infested with bloodthirsty zombies and only a few remaining survivors still fighting for their lives.

Introducing terrifying new enemies, deadly weapons, a new...

4w ago - Sony's Jawad Ashraf of the PlayStation Store Team announced the official start of the PlayStation Store Lost Treasures PSN sale today.

Below are the details, as follows: You know how it goes. A friend raves about a game that you aren't familiar with, and you then keep meaning to check it out but never quite get around to it. Well, we're giving you a chance to catch up on some of those 'hidden gems' at discounted prices.

A bucket-load of great titles, including Sound Shapes, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, Oddworld, Deathspank and Trine, will be discounted for your pleasure from 24th April until 8th May 2013. Here's the full list of deals:

PS3

After Burner Climax
Was €7.99/£6.49, now €3.99/£3.19
Additional 10% off for PS Plus subscribers

Back to the Future: The Game - 5 Game Series
Was €19.99/£15.99, now €9.99/£7.99
Additional 10% off for PS Plus subscribers

Beyond Good & Evil HD

4w ago - Sony PlayStation Store Director Grace Chen is here with this weeks new PS3, PS Vita and PSN releases below, as follows:

PS3 Full Game

Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII ($19.99)

You are the leader of Operation Wildcard, an undercover and elite squad of pilots secretly created by the American government. Your mission is to sabotage and destroy the Third Reich's evil plans to create a weapon of mass destruction. During this mission you and your team discover that the bad guys also have an elite team of their own.
ESRB: T // File Size: 12.5 GB

Dead Island Riptide ($49.99)

They thought they had escaped Banoi, but can't wake up from this nightmare. Thrown back into the midst of the Zombie outbreak, the fight for survival continues!
ESRB: M // File Size: 2.74 GB

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($39.99)

An epitaph speaks of another's demise...A mysterious island known as Bitterblack Isle appears off the coast of Gransys. Its depths have claimed the lives of many Arisen their voices still haunt the labyrinth that lies deep beneath its surface-a labyrinth ripe with secrets waiting to be discovered.
ESRB: M // File Size: 11.5 GB

Soul Calibur V ($19.99)

The latest entry in the premier...

4w ago - Sony Senior Social Media Specialist Rey Gutierrez is here with the new PS3 and PSN releases for the upcoming week below today, as follows:

On PSN and PS3 Blu-ray, Dead Island Riptide brings back the franchise's explosive mix of open-world gameplay, co-op first-person action and Action RPG elements to fans worldwide. Also included is an eclectic mix of hero characters, each with with their own backstory.

Also on PSN and PS3 Blu-ray, the award-winning Star Trek game casts players for the first time ever as Kirk and Spock in a totally original co-op experience worthy of gamers and fans. Set in the new canon of director and producer J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot, players will be immersed in the game's rich story and action-packed combat.

Dead Island Riptide (Also on PS3 Blu-ray) - The survivors of Banoi thought they had escaped the terrors of the tropical island and survived the apocalypse on a corrupted paradise.

Then their fate took a turn for the worse. Shortly after the battle-hardened team had landed their helicopter on a military ship, a furious storm hits and havoc quickly spreads on board. Suddenly they find themselves struggling for their lives again with all hope drowning in the rising waves.

With invigorating new elements infused into a proven...

5w ago - Old School Games Producer Nick Madonna announced via Sony's blog today that God Mode storms PlayStation Network on April 23, 2013.

To quote: Old School Games is a new game studio launched by Saber Interactive whose focus is to deliver low-cost, high-quality downloadable titles.

Using Saber's technology and development platform, we strive to create digital games that look like retail products. With our first release, God Mode, we wanted to create a lighthearted throwback experience, which focuses on arcade-style action over story. We came up with a classic premise - fighting to get out of Hell - then wrapped it in a third-person shooter with 3D graphics on par with full-price titles.

Finally, we added a slew weapons: plasma launchers, rail guns and what we affectionately call the "buzzsaw," in order to wipe out waves and waves of demonic hordes.

We decided that God Mode should be less about deep narrative and more about action. This approach gave us the ability to really go crazy and build a unique world full of plenty of characters to shoot, blow up, impale and maim.

After making this decision early on in the design process, the designers...