Pain

PAIN Developers Victims Of “Sony Budget Cuts”?
21 Oct, 20:32 Idol Minds facing job cuts, sources say.

Pain Confirmed For Blu-Ray
16 Jun, 13:30 Seems we were right: expect PAIN on disk next week.

Pain To Come Out On Blu-ray
12 May, 8:15 Looks like a greatest hits, if you'll excuse the pun. No? Ah, well.

Pain Gets Sore Spots
27 Apr, 10:30 This article ends with a really poor pun. Honestly, I’m staggered by just how weak it is. You have been warned.

Some of Today’s PSN Content
13 Nov, 13:09 Yes, I'd like to hurt you. I'd like to beat you savagely but I'll make do with Pain.

Street Fighters In Pain
06 Nov, 8:53 Will the Street Fighter clan be appearing alongside the Hoff? Seems so.

The Hoff In Pain
23 Oct, 6:39 Knight Rider gets strapped into the Pain catapult. No, really.

Pain Goes Hollywood
16 Oct, 15:07 New trailer shows Hollywood Studio. More Trophies, then?

Pain Trophies Delayed
03 Sep, 19:28 Trophies made easier to get, but the wait for them gets harder.

Fat Bloke In Pain
21 Aug, 20:50 Look, a fat guy, a rapper and a Japanese schoolgirl. Launching soon.

Pain Updated
13 Jul, 12:46 New adverts on billboards, unless we're mistaken (hungover).

Pain Park Trailer
09 Jul, 7:54 Amusement Park, Trophy support, multiplayer modes. Pain grows up.

Amusement Park, Trophies
04 Jul, 11:15 We read another site, publish news here. That's how it works.

Pain Gets Update Today
19 Jun, 6:30 As we mentioned last week, Pain is due for an update very soon, bringing about lots of new modes and a new Character, Nigel. Well, the US Blog has confirmed that this update will be today – expect it over here in Europe too as part of today’s Store Update.

Pain Gets Trophies, Custom Soundtracks
11 Jun, 18:00 According to the official Pain website we’re all set to get a bumper patch this month, which will include more trophies, custom MP3 playback and a host of new modes. The new game types include Block Party which sees the launcher on the other side of Downtown and Demolition which has the launcher in the [...]

Pain
25 Mar, 9:05 Pain is a much misunderstood game from Idol Minds that encourages sadism! Alright, it doesn’t really encourage sadism, but that was a hell of an opening line, right? Pain is unique in the way that there is nothing else that’s really like it. And we mean that in a good way. It could be compared [...]

Pain Wallpapers
21 Mar, 10:53 To celebrate the release of Pain for us Europeans yesterday, here are a few 1080p wallpapers for your PS3′s XMB background. General consensus is that the game’s pretty fun, and with downloadable extras to come like additional environments and new characters, let’s hope Sony keep us refreshed with new stuff a little more quickly now.

Pain to be Released This Thursday
16 Mar, 17:10 It’s finally been confirmed that Pain, the slightly sadistic person-catapulting PSN game, will be released this coming Thursday, along with a few add-on packs. That’s right, not only is Pain finally being released in the EU, but things should be picking up from now on with PSN updates. We can hardly wait. Also, the localisation [...]

Pain, Elefunk, EchoChrome Dated
04 Mar, 15:09 Sony have kindly let us know the release dates of three major PSN titles for PAL gamers, and although they’re only rough ‘month’ dates at least we now have some kind of idea when to expect them. Firstly, Pain is due this month, and the additional characters will also start catapulting our way during March. [...]

Everyday Shooter this Thursday
11 Feb, 22:49 Well, we have a source that says the PSN game Everyday Shooter, that was released in America in October, is finally coming to the EU PSN store this Thursday. Why has it taken so long? Well, we don’t know, but we’re sure there a very good excuse reason for it. We should all be thankful [...]

Blu-Ray Kills HD-DVD Again
11 Feb, 21:20 We couldn’t resist this story as HD-DVD takes another hammer blow. Netflix, the online DVD rental service of choice when we lived over the pond, has announced that they are to drop HD-DVD support later this year. Of course, the best part of this whole thing is that the HD-DVD zealots can now start a [...]

IGN Updated Release Dates
11 Feb, 12:50 Before we go ahead, we want to highlight the fact that these release dates are not concrete, they could be subject to change. With that out of the way, here is a large list of updated PS3 release dates for the UK. We’ll be kind though; so you don’t have to sieve through them all, [...]

In-Game Advertising
11 Feb, 9:00 In game advertising has increased slightly over the last few years, a few games using it subtly whilst others (usually downloadable PC games) use it extrovertly. Sony are having second thoughts about it, however, saying that ‘young people don’t like advertising very much’, and that they are sceptical about its growth in the future. Well, [...]

The Giants Are Coming
09 Feb, 21:41 This is the image that was over at Team Ico’s blog before the blog went down – from an overload of visitors as a result of the image or because they’re doing something to it, we don’t know yet. It’s a cryptic message, and it hints at a world of possibilities – some people think [...]

UK PSN Update 07/02/08
07 Feb, 18:22 Today’s update brought a couple of demos, which aren’t much to scream about, Sky Diving the game, which is pretty good (graphics are gorgeous) and some other stuff – this game was released a month ago or so in Japan, and it’s already here…so why haven’t we got Pain yet!? * Sky Diving (£3.50) * [...]

PSN Content: 17/01/08
17 Jan, 14:44 Thursdays are officially FUN. Not because it’s payday, or that the milkman sometimes brings fresh orange along with the milk, or even that it’s nearly weekend. No, Thursdays are FUN because it’s that crazy game of guess-the-Store-content in which plot twists, cameo appearances and rubbish endings define the afternoon’s entertainment. Despite us saying we won’t [...]

No Pain Until February?
16 Jan, 11:23 We’ve been moaning about the terrible updates for the PAL PlayStation Store for weeks now, and they don’t appear to be getting any better just yet. We’ve had word in (yeah, we know) that whilst PixelJunk Monsters is due for next Thursday (€4.99) alongside Sky Diving (€4.99) and a PSP version of Flow (and the [...]

iPhone Home Screen Icon
16 Jan, 9:43 Just a wee note to say that if you try to do a homepage bookmark from Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch you’ll a cool little blue TSA icon instead of the usual screen grab that other sites might get you. How did we do this? It’s simple: 1. Create a square PNG, at [...]

France: Xbox? Non. Merci.
15 Jan, 19:56 The French. Whatever your preconceptions of our magical neighbours, you can’t fault their taste in consoles: despite the 360 being out for much longer than the PS3, Sony are just about to overtake Microsoft in next-gen sales, according to these guys. PS3 = 563,000 units sold.360 = 589,000 units sold. With numbers like this being [...]

PSN Content: 10/01/08
10 Jan, 12:48 A little birdie tells us both Pain and Everyday Shooter are due for the UK PSN Store later today. We’re marking this under ‘rumour’ mind until we know for sure, but as ever we’ll update this post with the full list once we have it confirmed. There’s also a chance we’d get High Velocity Bowling, [...]

Pain Missing Features
30 Nov, 9:01 The US release of Pain appears to be missing a few (mainly online) features that were promised in the original press release, the text of which has now changed. The line claiming PAIN will have a robust online community feature set that will include: head-to- head and cooperative gameplay, leaderboards, the ability to upload and [...]

PAIN: PS3 Comedy Gold
10 Nov, 11:31 The idea behind PAIN is to cause chaos in the game environments by firing your character from a slingshot into those environments. The player will score points the more chaos they cause and the environments include plenty of opportunity for slapstick mayhem with which to build that score. It’s a PSN download and some of [...]