American Playstation Store Updates: 15th October 2009.

Updates

• Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty Price Drop (now $9.99)
• Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars Price Drop (now $4.99)

Playable Content

• Mushroom Wars ($9.99)
• .detuned ($2.99)
• BUZZ! Junior: Monster Rally ($4.99)
• topatoi: The Great Tree Story ($9.99)
• Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (PSone Classic) ($5.99)
• NBA 2K10 Demo

Add-on Content

• BUZZ! Question Pack: Space ($5.99)
• Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds Costume Pack + PS3 Theme ($2.99)
• High Velocity Bowling Doug Graves ($0.99)
• High Velocity Bowling Ball Pack: Halloween ($0.99)
• High Velocity Bowling Ball Pack: Planets ($0.99)
• Red Faction Guerrilla Smasher Pack ($4.99)
• Guitar Hero: Wolfmother ($5.49)
  • “California Queen” by Wolfmother ($1.99)
  • “Cosmic Egg” by Wolfmother ($1.99)
  • “Pilgrim” by Wolfmother ($1.99)

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.detuned on Playstation 3 Hands-On Impressions.

.detuned is not a game. Like the bonkers Linger In Shadows that paved the entrance of the demo-scene onto Playstation 3, .detuned is part audio visualiser, part creative set-piece. It’s also ten-times more crazy than the floating dogs of Linger In Shadows.

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European Playstation Store Updates: 15th October 2009.

Special Offers

• Call of Duty: World at War – Map Pack 1 (£3.99/€4.99) (valid until 19th Oct)
• Resident Evil 5 – Versus Mode (£2.39/€2.99) (valid until 22nd Oct)
  
• Everybody’s Golf 2 (£9.99/€12.99) (valid until 22nd Oct)
  
• Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) (£16.99/€20.99) (valid until 22nd Oct)
  
• Magic Carpet (PS One) (£3.99/€4.99) (valid until 22nd Oct)
  
• Populous (PS One) (£2.39/€2.99 (valid until 22nd Oct)
  
• Sim City 2000 (PS One) (£4.79/€5.99) (valid until 22nd Oct)
  
• Theme Hospital (PS One) (£2.39/€2.99) (valid until 22nd Oct)
  
• Theme Park (PS One) (£2.39/€2.99) (valid until 22nd Oct)
  
• The Little Mermaid II (PS One) (£2.39/€2.99) (valid until 29th Oct)

Playable Content

• WipEout HD Fury – The Complete Pack (£17.99/€24.99)
  
• .detuned (£2.39/€2.99)
  
• Uno (£7.99/€9.99)
  
• Mushroom Wars (£7.99/€9.99)

Add-on Content

• Buzz! – Space Quiz (£3.99/€4.99)
• Lumines Supernova – Holiday Pack (£1.59/€1.99)
• Lumines Supernova – Bundle Pack (contains the Classic Pack and Holiday Pack) (£3.19/€3.99)
• High Velocity Bowling — Doug Graves (£0.79/€0.99)
• High Velocity Bowling — Halloween Ball Pack (free)
• High Velocity Bowling — Planets Ball Pack (£0.79/€0.99)
• Rock Band tracks (continued)
• Guitar Hero 5 tracks (continued)

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.deTuned Will Allow "Players" To Manipulate Music Stored On The XMB.

We don’t care what anyone says, we’re adamant that Linger In Shadows was a great £1.00 spent. We know people didn’t “get” it, and we’re certainly not the type of publication who want to go all pretentious about it – but we enjoyed it. The music and the art-style were two things that will live in our memories for a while to come — the whole experience reminds me of what Playstation is all about.

On one hand you have Nintendo and Microsoft’s consoles – with the fanbase respectively calling one innovative and the other “better”… But in our opinion, no one does it quite like Sony. Things like Linger In Shadows, flower and LittleBigPlanet are constant reminders that brand-Playstation is constantly taking risks to push new experiences. These are the kind of experiences that fly over the mainstream’s heads – but reward Playstation owners over and over.

Thus it’s with great delight that we get to talk about the spiritual successor to Linger In Shadows – .deTuned. The game is being developed by .theprodukkt. This time the program is an application that allows the inputs of the Sixaxis controller to make a new experience from music stored on the XMB. Basically, an interactive visualiser.

The screens look beautifully whacky, and while there’s no doubt that this is going to be anything more than a show-piece and a bit of 5-minute fun, we’re so grateful to Sony for supporting these kind of experiences which genuinely can’t be experienced anywhere else.