EU PlayStation Store Update 6th April

By Robert Purchese Published 6 April, 2011

Shop redesign!

The PlayStation Store has been redesigned. A bit.

There are new sections you'll notice when you tootle down the virtual aisles today. There's a top-level Demos category; a Franchises section to group all content by, say, Call of Duty; a Charts section for the most popular forms of all Store content; easier to find Themes and Avatars; and a more organised PlayStation Plus area.

Those changes are presented with a new cosmetic flourish.

As for actual Store content, highlights include a SOCOM: Special Forces multiplayer beta, ooh, as well as a MotorStorm: Apocalypse single-player demo.

Also arriving are new games Dungeon Hunter: Alliance and Red Faction spin-off Battelgrounds. There's a free trial of online shooter MAG up for grabs, too.

PS3 DLC of note includes The Lost Hobo King add-on for Stacking and the Steel Rain Map Pack for Killzone 3.

Decent Monster Hunter clone Gods Eater Burst can be bought and downloaded on PSP, too.

Today's full PlayStation Store update - courtesy of the EU PlayStation blog - can be found below the video.

SOCOM: Special Forces - try it today.

PS3 Demos

  • SOCOM: Special Forces Multiplayer Beta - size 781MB
  • MotorStorm Apocalypse Single Player Demo - size 1206 MB

PS3 Games

  • MAG (free trial, unlock key £24.99/€29.99) - size 4774MB
  • Dungeon Hunter: Alliance (£9.99/€12.99) - size 945MB
  • Red Faction: Battlegrounds (£6.29/€7.99) - size 607MB
  • Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 1 And 2 Bundle (£11.99/€14.99)

PS3 Game Content

  • Killzone 3 - Steel Rain Map Pack (£3.99/€4.99) - size 342MB
  • Stacking: The Lost Hobo King (£3.19/€3.99)
  • My Aquarium - Underwater Glamour Set 2 (£0.79/€0.99)
  • Test Drive Unlimited 2: Aston Martin DBS Carbon Edition (£0.79/€0.99), Aston Martin V12 Vantage Carbon Black Edition (£0.79/€0.99), Audi RS 5 Coupe (£0.79/€0.99), Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport (£0.79/€0.99) , Caterham Superlight R 500 (£0.79/€0.99), Chevrolet Camaro Synergy Special Edition (£0.79/€0.99), Ferrari 612 Sessanta (£0.79/€0.99), Ford Shelby GT 500 (£0.79/€0.99), Jaguar Xxr Speed Pack And Black Pack (£0.79/€0.99), Pagani Zonda Tricolore (£0.79/€0.99)
  • Hyperdimension Neptunia: Black Heart Booster 1 (£0.79/€0.99), Compa Booster 1 (£0.79/€0.99), Green Heart Booster 1 (£0.79/€0.99), If Booster 1 (£0.79/€0.99), Neptune Booster 1 (£0.79/€0.99), White Heart Booster 1 (£0.79/€0.99),
  • EyePet: Sealife Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99)
  • LittleBigPlanet: MotorStorm Apocalypse Mini Pack (£2.39/€2.99)
  • ModNation Racers: El Snake-O Pack (£1.39/€1.75)
  • Splatterhourse: Lost Island (£1.19/€1.49), Survival Arena 4-Pack (£2.99/€3.59)
  • Yoostar 2: Rueben Commits A Dating Foul (£1.39/€1.75), Row, Row, Row Your Boat (£1.39/€1.75), I'm Done Being A Rogue (£1.39/€1.75), I Ask You For Justice (£1.39/€1.75), Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates (£1.39/€1.75), I Know What Love Is (£1.39/€1.75), Inside Dr. Lecter'S Cell (£1.39/€1.75), You Lost My Bag! (£1.39/€1.75), Khaaan! (£1.39/€1.75), Dorothy Meets The Cowardly Lion (£1.39/€1.75), You Work Under An Alias? (£1.39/€1.75), Turquoise Lagoon And Waterfall (£0.59/€0.75), Star Trek 5-Pack (£4.39/€5.49), Blockbusters! Scene Pack (£4.39/€5.49)
  • Rock Band 3: "The Loco-Motion" - Grand Funk Railroad (£0.99/€1.49), "We're An American Band" - Grand Funk Railroad (£0.99/€1.49), "Freeze-Frame "- J. Geils Band (£0.99/€1.49), "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division (£0.99/€1.49),
  • Def Jam Rapstar: Eve - "Who's That Girl" (€1.49), Young Money - "Every Girl" (€1.49), Ghostface Killah - "Chercez Laghost" (£1.19/€1.49), Method Man & Redman - "How High" (£1.19/€1.49), Raekwon - "Ice Cream" (£1.19/€1.49), Wu Tang Clan - "Protect Your Neck" (£1.19/€1.49)

PSP Games

  • Gods Eater Burst (£23.99/€29.99) - size 978MB

PSP Game Content

  • Buzz UK Culture Quiz Pack (£3.19/€3.99)
  • Lord Of Arcana - Dlc Pack 4 (free)

minis (PS3 and PSP)

  • Karoshi (£2.49/€2.99) - size 10MB

Special Offers (until 13th April)

  • Faery: Legends of Avalon (was - £11.99/€14.99 now - £7.19/€8.99)
  • Spectral Souls: RotEE (PSP) (was - £13.99/€17.99 now - £9.99/€12.99)
  • WWII: Battle over the Pacific (PSP) (was - £6.99/€7.99 now - £4.79/€5.99)
  • StateShift (PSP) (was - £6.99/€7.99 now - £4.79/€5.99)
  • International Athletics (PSP) (was - £6.99/€7.99 now - £3.99/€4.99)
  • Skate Park City (PSP) (was - £6.99/€7.99 now - £4.79/€5.99)
  • World of Pool (PSP) (was - £6.99/€7.99 now - £3.99/€4.99)
  • Spinout (PSP) (was - £6.99/€7.99 now - £3.99/€4.99)
  • Sports Superbike 2 (PSone) (was - £3.59/€2.99 now - £1.99/€2.49)
  • All-Star Boxing (PSone) (was - £3.99/€4.99 now - £2.39/€2.99)
  • Ace Armstrong vs. The Alien Scumbags (mini) (was - £3.99/€4.99 now - £0.99/€1.19)
  • Card Shark (mini) (was - £2.49/€2.99 now - £0.99/€1.19)

Permanent Price Reductions

  • Arcade Darts - Reduced to £1.74/€1.99
  • Arcade Air Hockey and Bowling - Reduced to £1.99/€2.49
  • Soccer Bashi - Reduced to £1.99/€2.49
  • 101-in-1 Megamix - Reduced to £7.99/€9.99
  • Fading Shadows - Reduced to £3.99/€4.99
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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • HiddenAway #1 1 year ago

    Eh? I can't see the update on the EU blog.

    Edit: Not that I don't trust you ;) but I thought Gods Eater Burst for example was not going to be released until 20th according to Namco Bandai.
    Edited by HiddenAway at 06/04/11 @ 13:12

  • ZizouFC #2 1 year ago

    Thank God.

  • dominalien #3 1 year ago

    Oooh, Apocalypse demo for me tonight :-)

  • GRIDRUNN3R #4 1 year ago

    No Back to the Future episode 2? This makes me sad

  • FladgeMangle #5 1 year ago

    Assuming the "freedom fighting" little penises at anonymous let me sign in today, I'll have a look.

    Currently fuming at error 8071092.... cunts.

  • Architect_z #6 1 year ago

    Will the SOCOM Beta be available to everyone or only Plus members?
    I can't wait to give SOCOM a whirl, should be fun.

  • captain_Carl #7 1 year ago

    SOCOM is out for everyone today.

  • Andrefpvs #8 1 year ago

    Back to the Future episode 2 is out today as well.

  • menage #9 1 year ago

    Is this a different Motorstorm demo?
    Edited by menage at 06/04/11 @ 13:32

  • Golgo #10 1 year ago

    The monologue in that Socom ad made me lol at the same time as a little piece of sick rose up in my throat. Deadly ad.

  • VashNL #11 1 year ago

    @FladgeMangle: I had the same problem (couldn't update a game, Store crashed numerous times and Trophies wouldn't update) and I tried out different things. What worked fore me was to turn off the internet connection on the PS3 itself, switch it off, wait for a minute, turn it on and turn on the internet connection. Haven't had problems since.

    Maybe that will work for you too.

    Edit: Apparently they're either at it again, or Sony still hasn't recovered the service correctly. Had no problems this morning with checking the store and such, and now I can't login again. Not on the PS3, not on my PSP nor on the official websites. :(
    Edited by VashNL at 06/04/11 @ 13:51

  • sonicyoda #12 1 year ago

    It's really disappointing that weeks go by with no new PSone additions. I have a feeling the Xperia Play is going to get better PSone support than PSN.

  • gamefan #13 1 year ago

    PSN is DOWN - hackers blamed - any comment Eurogamer?

    http://uk.playstation.com/
    Edited by gamefan at 06/04/11 @ 13:56

  • albinas #14 1 year ago

    no its not...

  • MavSkipper #15 1 year ago

    I guess EG haven't bought anything from the store lately. The layout has been like that for more than a week now.

    Some good releases this week though especially for Plus members.

  • ShiftyGeezer #16 1 year ago

    Been looking forward to various Action RPGs like Dungeon Hunters Alliance since last year. Really glad to see it up today, but I can't play today as my broadband drops from 6 megabits daytime rrate to 0.6 megabits in the evening, so I won't be able to actually download the thing. :(

    Still, for once there's a game on there I'm interested in, and there are quite a few to come. Nice to hear about the store update that brings it more into line with the superior NA store (although why was it ever different??).

  • K1LLAY #17 1 year ago

    It's the old Motorstorm Apocalypse demo! WTH!

  • Psychotext #18 1 year ago

    Can't believe the demos section took them 4 years. Was pretty much the main reason I signed up US and Japanese accounts.

  • dllord #19 1 year ago

    I wonder if its got a 3D section like the US now?

  • Psiloc #20 1 year ago

    @Psychotext

    There's been a demo section for years, it's just been moved to the top level.
    Edited by Psiloc at 06/04/11 @ 17:58

  • Murton #21 1 year ago

    "but I can't play today as my broadband drops from 6 megabits daytime rrate to 0.6 megabits in the evening"

    This is the sort of thing the Digital Economy Act was supposed to address, instead it ended up being so weak it may not exist when it comes to the conduct of ISPs and overly heavy handed on consumers. Luckily EU legislation was passed last year saying that all member states must be able to deliver a minimum of 2mbps 24/7 though whether missing the target would result in penalty for the state in question or the ISPs responsible remains in the grey area.

    Great store update this week, and the Plus stuff looks even better, just a shame that I can't get online right now due DDOS attacks, attacks that are being both glorified and supported by the media who are referring to these people as "hacktivists" making them look like the good guys rather than the borderline-criminal malcontents that they truly are.

  • dwalker109 #22 1 year ago

    Fuck you Anonymous. Bunch of cunts. Have we still not cracked the problem of DDoS attacks? At the prices Cisco charge for their network hardware you'd fucking hope so.

  • FenderMaster #23 1 year ago

    Great store update this week, and the Plus stuff looks even better, just a shame that I can't get online right now due DDOS attacks, attacks that are being both glorified and supported by the media who are referring to these people as "hacktivists" making them look like the good guys rather than the borderline-criminal malcontents that they truly are

    borderline?

    These guys steal gamers, site members, and amazon customers data, that's full blown criminal. If they targeted the companies alone i might not care, but these guys not only don't avoid collateral damage, they actively seek to cause it. I wouldn't dream of comparing it to the real deal, but that sounds more like terrorism than activism to me...

    cunts indeed

    edit

    seems theres some anonymous supporters around here, if you want to support criminal lowlife thieves, then go ahead and rage against the "machine", and by machine, i mean ordinary decent internet users, because thats who anonymous targets.
    Edited by FenderMaster at 06/04/11 @ 21:56

  • Murton #24 1 year ago

    @dwalker - the trouble with DDOS is that it's a brute force attack, there are defences but the whole point of brute force is to smash whatever defences are in place and do your damage in spite of them. Many security experts have gone as far as to say that there is no true defence vs DDOS because as soon as an attack fails work begins on further increasing the size of the botnet ready for the next attack. The only real defence is to configure your servers in such a way that they can't be overloaded, but that has serious impact on how many legitimate users you can accommodate and that can have consequences on a company's revenue.

    @ Fendermaster - I say borderline because as yet it can't be proved that these guys are engaging in a criminal activity. These DDOS attacks are a misdemeanor at best and will likely be heard in civil courts with compensation damages rather than a criminal court with a jail sentence. These guys haven't done any of the things you say, at least not that can be proved anyway. That being said if they carry through on their threat to steal the personals of Sony employees and abuse them in the way they described yesterday then maybe we'll see them in a criminal court before long, but right now I think the term "malcontents" best describes this particular "organisation"

  • disappointed #25 1 year ago

    Just tried the SOCOM demo. First run it updates itself to v1.01, then it proceeds to download more updates of some sort, amounting to roughly 1.7GB! After five minutes, it had got about 70MB so I gave up.

    Want to try the Move control on MAG but need to free up space first.

  • alegl5141 #26 1 year ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Loving the price on that Penny Arcade bundle, bought that off the US PSN for 3 dollars a month or so back!