Gravity Crash heads PSN Store update

By Robert Purchese Published 27 November, 2009

Plus: Borderlands DLC! Madden Arcade!

It's not like us Europeans to take a day off work just to say thank you and shove large chunks of turkey in our gobs. No that wouldn't do at all. Instead here we are, WORKING, and telling you what's on the PlayStation Store.

To start there's Gravity Crash (£6.29), a rare PSN exclusive made by Just Add Water and heavily promoted by Sony presumably as a game that can narrow the gap between PS3's online offerings and Xbox Live Arcade.

Or there's the first (always the most exciting) batch of DLC for Borderlands, The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned. This, as you may have seen, was reviewed on Eurogamer earlier this week.

EA Sports' new cartoony, more casual take on Madden also airs this week. It might be good, it might be rubbish - we've no idea.

Elsewhere there are more clingy costumes for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 that you have to pay for, plus a pair of PSP Minis to look out for. Dracula: Undead Awakening was featured on the European PlayStation blog yesterday.

The US PlayStation Store was updated on Tuesday ahead of this week's Thanksgiving celebrations. Yesterday was turkey day over there and today is Black Friday, when people flock into shops to buy discounted goods. Have a hunt around online, you may find a bargain you can benefit from.

PS3 Games

  • Madden NFL Arcade - £9.99/€12.99

PS3 Demos

  • Comet Crash
  • Mushroom Wars

PS3 Game Content

  • Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned - £6.29/€7.99
  • Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Character and Mission Pack - £7.99/€9.99
  • Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2: Costume Pack - £3.19/€3.99
  • Dragon Ball Raging Blast: Warriors on Earth Pack - Free
  • EyePet: Lucky Dip Styling Pack 6 - Free
  • LittleBigPlanet: Limited Edition LBP for PSP T-Shirt - £3.99/€4.99
  • Rock Band: "Beautiful Thieves", "End Transmission", "Love Like Winter", "Medicated" and "The Leaving Song. Pt 2" by AFI - £0.99/€1.49 each
  • Rock Band: "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles - £0.99/€1.49
  • Guitar Hero 5: Neveroft Thanks the Fans Pack - Free

PSP games

  • Breath of Fire 3 - £13.99/€17.99
  • Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures - £15.99/€19.99
  • Obscure the Aftermath - £23.99/€29.99
  • Power Stone Collection - £13.99/€17.99
  • Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron - £15.99/€19.99
  • Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes - £31.99/€39.99
  • NBA 2K10 - £15.99/€19.99
  • Lilo and Stitch: Trouble in Paradise (PSone) - £3.99/€4.99

PSP Minis

  • Blast Off - £2.49/€2.99
  • Dracula: Undead Awakening - £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.

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Comments (30) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Moonprince #1 2 years ago

    '... and heavily promoted by Sony presumably as a game that can narrow the gap between PS3's online offerings and Xbox Live Arcade.'

    Wait, what?

  • Aname #2 2 years ago

    "a rare PSN exclusive made by Just Add Water and heavily promoted by Sony presumably as a game that can narrow the gap between PS3's online offerings and Xbox Live Arcade"

    I don't think I've ever seen as much fanboy in a single sentence before. Remarkable.
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/09 @ 10:41

  • Zebula77 #3 2 years ago

    lol

    Gravity Crash was sorta fun. Not something I'll be buying but it's worth checking out the trial version. The music was very nice, and the visuals simple but effective.

    I'll be waiting for PixelJunk Shooter tho.

  • septimus #4 2 years ago

    Ah EG. Have to get a 360 reference into every PS3/PSN/Sony/Sony's distant cousins flatmate story.

    Subtle ;)

  • Gaol #5 2 years ago

    A bit tragic eh. You wonder how many of the fanboy trolls around these parts are staff socks.

  • Arwin #6 2 years ago

    Also, in the Netherlands we finally got vidzone! Very nice.

  • Arwin #7 2 years ago

    "To start there's Gravity Crash (£6.29), a rare PSN exclusive made by Just Add Water and heavily promoted by Sony presumably as a game that can narrow the gap between PS3's online offerings and Xbox Live Arcade."

    Actually, I read that as a snark towards the heaps of low quality crap on Live Arcade versus the many awesome and original games on PSN.I don't see a review of the game though - I reckon that if the game scores better than 7, I was wrong, and if it scores lower than an 8, you lot were wrong. ;) So we'll just have to wait and see - although if the game isn't reviewed shortly, I'm also taking that as meaning I was right, because good games on Live Arcade or PSN tend to get their own reviews. ;)
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/09 @ 11:05

  • Aname #8 2 years ago

    Ohhh.. Maybe right there about it being sarcastic. Be a bit mental otherwise as the game's not really been promoted much at all..
    Edited by 3 at 27/11/09 @ 20:47

  • Red930 #9 2 years ago

    Where the bloody hell is F1 2009??

  • cherryuk #10 2 years ago

    Gravity Crash is very good tho!

  • groovychainsaw #11 2 years ago

    Errr, as a buyer of both, there are way more good titles on the xbox at the moment. Sony seem much more selective, and only tend to release original, interesting stuff, but there are still far more excellent game on the xbox live arcade at the moment. Fanboy or not, you can't deny in recent times the xbox really has got something for everyone, whereas sony have a few excellent, slightly niche games.

    Edit - I thought I'd add on the PSN side, wipeout HD - awesome, flower - awesome, pixeljunk monsters - awesome, shatter - brilliant. But the xbox has so many more, carcassonne, catan, magic:TG, puzzle quest, castle crashers, braid, shadow complex, geometry wars, outrun, just to name the first few that I've enjoyed
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/09 @ 11:53

  • Gregolution #12 2 years ago

    @GroovyChainsaw

    A lot of the titles you mention as good xbox games are on PSN too (braid, puzzle quest and MTG is coming soon) and don't forget SuperStardust HD is the equivalent of Geometry Wars.

    I'll probably get Gravity Crash, there's something about it which seems very fun and different to any games made in the last 10 - 15 years. Precision controls and real difficulty I think.
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/09 @ 12:01

  • Moonprince #13 2 years ago

    Yeah groovey, gonna have to agree. That's a weird list you've made yourself there...

  • GreyBeard #14 2 years ago

    @Groovychainsaw

    To be fair, Braid is out in the US PSN already (4/12 apparently in EU), Castle Crashers is coming, Outrun is on EU PSN, Catan has been on JP PSN forever...

    Really this year's XBL best exclusives have been Trials & Shadow Complex, whereas PSN has had Flower, Shatter, Fat Princess, Wipeout Fury, Trash Panic, Trine, etc.

    Its been a good year on PSN.

    Edited by 1 at 27/11/09 @ 12:12

  • jefranklin18 #15 2 years ago

    It would nice in someways to be able to block Purchese for his constant snide remarks. I don't give a crap about the console war, I have a PS3 because that is the console I chose to buy, the reason being it was backward compatible with my PS2 library and (shock horror) I actually quite like Sony products.

    When an idiot makes forum posts about how PS3 sux or Xbox sux, they're easy enough to ignore but to read it within an article is beyond tiresome. I wish Eurogamer would quit with the fanboy baiting, it really is quite juvenile.

    Edit: grammer
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/09 @ 13:18

  • BOBBYLUPO #16 2 years ago

    What about the video stored update? Didn't they mention 50 new titles a week? All seems rather quiet and we're only on week 2.

  • M_of_the_sys #17 2 years ago

    I've never ever tried any of these games you mention. With the exception of Wipeout HD I've always imagined them to be much like free internet games for some strange reason. Does anyone know what that Linger in Shadows is all about? I saw the trailer ages ago and it confused the hell out of me.

    And while we're mentioning the Video Store, are films like Terminator Salvation and Star Trek going to have a HD version as I can only see an SD option?

  • SYS64738 #18 2 years ago

    Would love to play Gravity Crash on the PSP, think it suits a handheld even more than a home console. Apparently out next year, shame cos would buy it in an instant, video looked great.

  • Zebula77 #19 2 years ago

    Linger in Shadows is an interactive demo of sorts. Interesting and visually creative, but not much more than that.

  • freakzilla #20 2 years ago

    Played the gravity crash demo, this shit is goooooooooooooooooood!!!11one. The ship controls are perfect (except aiming) it feels great to steer it around even after the objective is complete. AWSUM.

    The other one, (comet crash) isn't so good, great idea, just badly executed. You can just spam the shit out of the enemy.

  • Gaol #21 2 years ago

    99% of Linger in Shadows sales were due to the free trophys it provides.

  • freakzilla #22 2 years ago

    "I thought I'd add on the PSN side, wipeout HD - awesome, flower - awesome, pixeljunk monsters - awesome, shatter - brilliant. But the xbox has so many more, carcassonne, catan, magic:TG, puzzle quest, castle crashers, braid, shadow complex, geometry wars, outrun, just to name the first few that I've enjoyed"

    A lot fo the XBL ones you mentioned are on PSN or are coming soon, and superstardust HD beats geometry wars and I guess trine is the closest thing I can think of to shadow complex (as I haven't actually played SC), comet crash is great too. And there's obviously the PSone stuff too.

    I think PS3 just got stuck with a label of having inferior online offerings and despite improvement the assumptions stay. But I don't mind, it just means Sony are under pressure to match up to a "superior" service and the benefits for me are welcome.
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/09 @ 16:20

  • ShiftyGeezer #23 2 years ago

    GRAVITY CRASH MULTIPLAYER IS A RIPOFF!

    If you're wanting Gravity Crash for multiplayer, forget it! Most of the advertised features don't apply to multiplayer. No level editor, no powerups, no extras. It's 4 dull maps for each of deathmatch, race and collectathon. 30 minutes mediocre fun as you try the maps, and that's it. If the editor was available with all its features, multiplayer could be awesome. Instead, GC offers a good single player game with completely gimped (and falsely advertised) multiplayer component. Personally I feel the listings and PR have been misleading.

  • Mono_X #24 2 years ago

    The graphics for Gravity Crash are awesome, they immediately reminded me of Thrust - which we played on the BBC Micros in Computer Studies at school when the teacher paying attention.

  • Diomedes #25 2 years ago

    PSN has lots and lots of great games ,between them many true exclusives (Wipeout HD Fury ,Flower ,Fat Princess ,Trine ,Shatter ,Pixel Junk Monsters ,Pixel Junk Eden ,Pixel Junk Shooter ,Warhawk ,Super Stardust HD ,The Last Guy ,Cuboid ,Crash Commandos and so on).Plus ,its getting most of the best of Live Arcade as Braid ,Castle Crashers etc.

    Frankly ,I do see it as superior to the Live Arcade marketplace.At the very least ,equal.And its a good ground for a lot of innovative games.

    But ,as usual (and specially evident in the DF comparisions ) some Eurogamer redactors just cant shake their bias and fanboy prejudices.
    Edited by 1 at 27/11/09 @ 19:27

  • onyxbox #26 2 years ago

    Blatant bias if you ask me.... tut tut Eurogamer... Have you been asleep for the past 2 years?

  • Beano #27 2 years ago

    '... and heavily promoted by Sony presumably as a game that can narrow the gap between PS3's online offerings and Xbox Live Arcade.'

    WOW... what happened here???

  • zedzee #28 2 years ago

    "Gravity Crash"?

    You mean more like AcornSoft's "Thrust" for the BBC Micro!

  • GreyBeard #29 2 years ago

    @zedzee

    I think most people will remember the C64 version of Thrust most fondly. 1. Because of the excellent Rob Hubbard music, and 2. Because it was only £1.99.

    Top game.

    If J.A.W have any sense they'll try and expand to doing something like Exile for their next effort.
    Edited by 1 at 28/11/09 @ 14:29

  • denis09 #30 2 years ago

    Why Eurogamer chose to review the not-yet-released PixelJunk Shooter instead of Gravity Crash eludes me. I honestly thought PJS would be out this week along with the review. Checking the store I find Gravity Crash instead, a bit of a letdown :(