PSN Store Update: 15/08/12

Peter Chapman 38 Comments

Let’s just be totally honest about it: last week’s store update was very disappointing. There just wasn’t much to pique our collective interest.

[videoyoutube]This week’s? Oh, this week’s is automatically about a bajillion (that’s a real number, okay?) times better thanks to the inclusion of Sound Shapes on PS Vita and PS3. Those accursed inhabitants of Americaland have had it for over a week now and it’s about time us plucky Europeans got in on the action.

Of course, that’s not all we’re getting for this Store Update. Even though most of Europe’s games industry is currently in Germany preparing to give conceive and give birth to an horrendous hangover, there’s still some goodies for us to download.

Papo & Yo looks bizarre but enthralling and it has a demo. There’s also a demo for Sleeping Dogs, which comes out on Friday and is really rather good.

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Papo & Yo
Papo & Yo is a Puzzle-Platforming Adventure that follows the tale of a young boy, Quico and his best friend Monster, a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth and an addiction to poisonous frogs. The minute Monster eats a frog he goes into a violent rage that’s bad news for everyone around. And yet, Quico will make a dangerous journey through a magical world to find a cure for his best friend.

Price: £11.99,€14.99,AU$23.95
PEGI: 12
Availability: All
File Size: 976MB

Sound Shapes
Sound Shapes is a completely unique take on the classic side-scrolling platform game. Play through a series of beautiful levels, or create your own, building environments and choosing enemies and obstacles – and all the while composing your own ambient background music.

Price: £9.99,€12.99,AU$19.95
PEGI: 3
Availability: All
File Size: 1087MB

Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends
Compatible with PlayStation 3.
Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends is the ultimate driving experience for fans of the Ferrari Brand

Price: £39.99,€49.99,AU$79.95
PEGI: 3
Availability: Only AU, AT, FR, DE, IT, NL, ES, CH, UK
File Size: 2309MB

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Sound Shapes
Sound Shapes is a completely unique take on the classic side-scrolling platform game. Play through a series of beautiful levels, or create your own, building environments and choosing enemies and obstacles – and all the while composing your own ambient background music.

Price: £9.99,€12.99,AU$19.95
PEGI: 3
Availability: All
File Size: 977MB

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Dragon’s Dogma Adventure Demo
PEGI: 18
Availability: Not available in Germany
File Size: 3519MB

Papo & Yo
PEGI: 12
Availability: All

Sleeping Dogs
PEGI: 18
Availability: Not available in Germany
File Size: 2454MB

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Release Date Thursday 16th)
Map 12.2
Elite Drop 16
Elite Drop 17
Elite Drop 18
Prices: Free for Elite
Availability: All

LittleBigPlanet 2
Disney Princesses Costume Pack 2 (£4.79, €5.99, AU$9.95)
Rapunzel Costume (£1.59, €1.99, AU$3.45)
Tiana Costume (£1.59, €1.99, AU$3.45)
Ariel Costume (£1.59, €1.99, AU$3.45)
Belle Costume (£1.59, €1.99, AU$3.45)
Availability: All

Quantum Conundrum
Puzzle Pack 1
Prices: £1.59,€1.99,AU$3.45
Availability: All

Real Steel
Assembly Robot Value Pack #2
Prices: £6.49, €7.99
Availability: Not available in AZ, DN, FI, NZ, NO, PO, RU, SW, UK

Risen 2: Dark Waters
A Pirate’S Clothes (£2.39, €2.99, AU$4.95)
Treasure Isle (£7.99, €9.99, AU$15.95)
Availability: All

Saints Row The Third
Unlock Pack
Prices: £1.19,€1.49,AU$2.45
Availability: All

Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping Dogs Accelerator Pack 1 (£1.19, €1.49, AU$2.45)
Sleeping Dogs Retro Triad Pack (£1.19, €1.49, AU$2.45)
Availability: All

Warriors Orochi 3
Bgm Pack 4 (£1.59, €1.99, AU$3.45)
Original Wallpapers (£3.19, €3.99, AU$6.95)
Samurai Dress Up Costume 1 (£3.99, €4.99, AU$8.45)
Samurai Dress Up Costume 2 (£3.99, €4.99, AU$8.45)
Samurai Dress Up Costume 3 (£3.99, €4.99, AU$8.45)
Stage Pack 6 (£2.39, €2.99, AU$4.95)
Stage Pack 7 (£1.59, €1.99, AU$3.45)
Availability: Not available in NZ

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Touch My Katamari
Make It Big
Prices: Free
Availability: All

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As usual, head over to the EU Blog for all the other bits and pieces.

Update: Apparently the demo for Sleeping Dogs and Urban Chaos have both been pulled from the store and will return next week.

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38 Comments

  1. Do you get both versions of Sound Shapes from one purchase?

  2. Dam it bethesda…..you know what i want from you…..

    • We can all dream, but i don’t think they are up to putting out a non-buggy game on PS3 mate! ;P

  3. Tempted by sound shapes. Might wait a little until I have a bit more money.

  4. Sound Shapes is a must for me. Papa & Yo I’ll hold off on as it sounds super buggy. Katamari DLC makes my child-like sense of humour laugh.

  5. No YouTube APP for us in Europe, yet again Sony treats us like a red headed step child

    • Just download it off the American store. It is pretty good to have YouTube on my PS3.

    • I tried four different videos this afternoon and it froze up four times, forcing a system restart each time.
      Some have said they’ve had no problems with it but plenty of people seem to be finding it completely broken. So probably best wait until they finish it anyway.

      • I played around 15-20 vids last night with no problems – other than the lack of features/options… :/
        Could be worth trying a re-install?

  6. Sleeping Dogs demo? Sweet! :) Wasn’t expecting that

    • Lol – You probably should have stuck with not expecting it if the below is correct! ;P

      • Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(

      • Still, there’s always next week i suppose?

        (although the game will actually be out by then…)

      • Also, sorry to be the bearer of bad news (not that i actually was, but i was at least the pointer to bad news).

        It actually gives me no pleasure to highlight SCEE’s cock ups. This one doesn’t actually affect me, but there’s always the next time when it could!

      • Too late anyway to “try before you buy”…… the game will have been despatched for most people by today anyway :P

      • Oh well, I have Darksiders 2 on order for next Tuesday and then my wife is picking up Borderlands 2 late September so I suppose I may as well wait for this game to drop in price a bit before picking it up.

  7. I’ll give Papa & Yo a go, not expecting anything highly polished but intrigued by the storyline. Sleeping Dogs demo is a welcome surprise so i’ll grab that too. Just picking up MaxPayne3 today, finally, so all going well that will keep me going while i make my mind up about Sound Shapes.

  8. Hmm.. cant sign in to PSN on my Vita

  9. i tried the Papo and Yo demo off the us store this morning, and absolutely loved it.

    it does sound like the meat of the game is the relationship with this creature, but in the demo all you see of it is its shadow, looking menacing.

    the demo seemed to be about chasing this mysterious girl who can open portals in walls and floors.
    i don’t think it was Chell though. ^_^

    but what was there was just brilliant.
    manipulating the environment with these glowing white symbols.
    from pulling a lever to make part of a building extend out into a set of stars to winding up clockwork buildings to make them move and throwing your little robot pal, who also provides a handy jetpack, at switches to move parts of the scenery.
    the parts where you pick up boxes that move buildings to create a path are fun.

    it has a great atmosphere as well, it reminded me of a Miyazaki anime, like, My Neighbor Totoro or Spirited away.
    with that kid exploring and discovering there’s a world alongside ours that nobody can see.

    my only concern is how much replayability there might be in it.
    the puzzles all seemed to have just a single solution, but maybe things open out a little when you meet this creature.

  10. On the off chance that people haven’t checked back on the blog, Jawad has just stated that both the Sleeping Dogs demo and Urban Chaos have been pulled from this weeks update and will be out next week instead.

    • that eplains why it disappeared for me… it was in the store, but when i tried downloading it (or anything else) i git an error message… when i left the store and entered again, it was gone…

    • so now they’re even holding stuff back, after they’ve put it out.

      • Update day wouldn’t be the same without some kind of screw up … the new sale stuff has issues too, the 5 vita games that have been added to the sale are still at their original price and LocoRoco 2 (PSP) isn’t there at all.

      • yeah, im actually really pissed… i didnt expect a demo, but after they announced it, i was really looking forward to giving it a try…

      • Whooo – Go SCEE! XD

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