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inFAMOUS & LittleBIGPlanet heading to PlayStation Store next Week

2 new PS3 Full Games will be heading to PlayStation Store next Week. The original inFAMOUS and LittleBIGPlanet follows other Games, like Burnout or FIFA ...

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sinncross5484d ago

You know, Sony should really add Heavenly Sword, Lair and Haze to the PSN, and see how sales go.

I know the latter 2 were not as good as PS3 gamers would have hoped but if interest is high in the PSN versions then maybe better sequels to these IP's can be made. I think all 3 have potential to be good series.

darthv725484d ago (Edited 5484d ago )

Are any of these games larger than the std dvd capacity or the ones that MS has on live? I would think that they were on bluray so they would have to be. At least the audio being uncompressed would take up some space.

edit: nevermind. I got my answer down further.

dangert125484d ago

bad idea cause the quality of the games would be questionable i know they were released and were wack but come on looking at the psn store there is only top notch games compared to xbox market place that has a few top games and a load of sh*t lol id prefer these games not to be on psn not that it bothers me to much as it is optional if i deicide to buy it

nickjkl5484d ago

i hope its 20 dollars because that's all i have in my wallet heres hoping

WildArmed5484d ago

I bet it's timed with the PSN+ service.
Since you can try full game demos, (aka d/l the game) then just buy it online and cont. the game from where your trail ended.

It'd be great to see more games (full) up on the PStore.
And hopefully not at the retail 60bucks price.
I think 30bucks is fine (greatest hits price I think)

Parapraxis5484d ago (Edited 5484d ago )

I may sell my copy of LBP and just keep the digital copy if you get it with PS+. (currently only EU users get LBP (full game) when subscribing so lets hope we get it at a later date)
Actually, I may give it to my GF's siblings instead, they always have a blast with LBP.
:)

nunley335484d ago

It's the standard version not the GOTY Edition so if you the better version, no need to do this and keep your game.

sikbeta5484d ago (Edited 5484d ago )

Even If don't like Digital distribution or Full DL Games, it's Awesome to see more additions and those 2 Games are a Total Blast...

WildArmed5484d ago (Edited 5484d ago )

Oh heads up,
according to Playstation Blog,
we'll be getting TWO full PS3 titles per month on the PStore ATLEAST.
Since the PSN+ service 'guarantees' 2 new full-game trials each month.

EDIT:
NVM, apparently Full game trials also extend to PSN titles like Fat Princess XD

I guess I interpreted it wrong.

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NYC_Gamer5484d ago

i guess sony could start giving away these platinum titles to psn+ members...

Parapraxis5484d ago (Edited 5484d ago )

I thought you got LBP with PS+, I am double checking now, maybe it's just a full game trial..brb

OKAY EU subscribers get LBP free
"Most noteable in his blog post is that EU subscribers will get a Free Downloadable copy of the original Little Big Planet, available for people who purchase a 1 year subscription between June 29th and August 3rd. Free to keep forever and ever."
http://www.ps3center.net/ne...

US users get to try it out for 3 months free.
Maybe it'll come to US subscribers at a later date.

You Noob5484d ago (Edited 5484d ago )

Correct.

PS+ subscribers will get the FULL version of LittleBigPlanet (only in europe)

darthv725484d ago

That would be cool. I was under the impression that the games are yours to keep so long as you are a paid member. If you no longer pay for the sub, the games become some how invalidated.

darthv725484d ago

Curious what the overall size of those games are. Obviously they arent taking full use of the bluray space but needless to say they are great looking titles. Just goes to show that good developers can make good games regardless of media capacity.

I have never compared a digital ps3 game to the disc version. I know the bluray has space for fully uncompressed soundtrack. So how does the quality differ between the two?

OpenGL5484d ago

The Infamous ISO was something like 7.5GB, so making it a downloadable title makes enough sense. I'm not sure how large Little Big Planet actually is, but I seem to recall the disc having roughly 46GB of data on it. A lot of that could have been redundant, so cutting it down to 10GB or so may not be an issue.

fantasygamer5484d ago

idk if this is real.. cause the games would be massive in size o.o..

WildArmed5484d ago

I believe they are going to do some massive compacting, and since it's going to be stored on the HDD, it's not too much trouble having the data compacted vs having compacted data on blu-ray.

Kinda like how they worked out burnout paradise and warhawk into a nice decent sized file

GrandDragon5484d ago

If they can do this then why can't they do the same with PS2 games? or is Sony already working on that?

If they are then that's good.

Marceles5484d ago (Edited 5484d ago )

I wish they could, I know they're having emulations problems or whatever. But if they pulled off full PS1, PS2, and PS3s then the PS Store would be unbelievable. Second to none

sikbeta5484d ago

Something Tells me that PS+ Subscribers will know about that at some point...

nunley335484d ago

I'm sure PS2 games are coming but they'll wait till after Dreamcast games come out to not steal their thunder.And i do want my PSN Dreammcast games w/trophies and network support, pure awesomeness!

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Infamous Franchise Deserves Another Chance From PlayStation

Sucker Punch rejuvenated the superhero genre with Infamous, a series that focused on the pure fun of wielding destructive powers.

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shinoff2183370d ago

Atleast release a remaster trilogy or something to gage interest. I'd buy it. With that said I'm pretty over superheroes at this point. Infamous is still dope as fk though so it'd be a buy

isarai370d ago

Omfg i would go apesh!t for that 😩

jznrpg370d ago

I agree but games take 4-6 years to make so who knows when they would do it? After Ghost of Tsushima2? They could have something else in the world as well in early production who knows.

mkis007370d ago

It's a shame Sucker Punch finally figured out a good open world formula only while making Ghost of Tsushima. Infamous 1 and 2 were great for their time, but Second son felt too much like a checklist in It's design. I love the hell out of all 3 games (2 and 3 are just so damn good, while 1 shows it's age and the ps3 struggles), but I would love to see how they would do another infamous with all they have learned. Wouldn't hurt to release a remastered collection either.

Demetrius370d ago (Edited 370d ago )

This series, days gone, will continue to get ignored by sony, luckily we still have the horizon series, sly cooper not getting pushed anymore, speaking of that I'm bout to get on my ps2 and play some sly 2 anyways lol, but seriously I never woulda thought back then sony would ever cold shoulder most of their franchises I'm actually surprised they're still letting ratchet&clank be around

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel415d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga414d ago (Edited 414d ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow414d ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo182414d ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie413d ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow413d ago (Edited 413d ago )

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere413d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin413d ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere413d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

ApocalypseShadow412d ago

Lying to yourself is unbecoming.

Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.

Hereandthere413d ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

ApocalypseShadow412d ago

At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.

Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.

OtterX414d ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

Cockney412d ago

They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.

RNTody414d ago (Edited 414d ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno414d ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Sheppard7t3414d ago

How did Sony kill the series?

Inverno414d ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii413d ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno413d ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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Most Offensive Video Games That Would Never Cut It Today

Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.

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thorstein467d ago (Edited 467d ago )

Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.

The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.

In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.

MrBaskerville466d ago

Yeah, people wouldn't be constantly outraged if there weren't games that people found enraging. The whole SBI discourse shit wouldn't be a thing if all games were inoffensive. A game like Starfield can make a guy froth at his mouth, so there will always be room for a list like this.

0hMyGandhi466d ago

Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but there are massive caveats.
TV shows like Venture Bros, Ren and Stimpy, and Aqua Team wouldn't/couldn't be made today. Hell, Ren and Stimpy was a *children's* show, same thing with Rocko's Modern Life.

It's not for some arbitrary reason, either. It's branding and IP alignment. Companies are far more risk-averse than they were when I was kid in the 90's. Of course, you have companies coming out of the woodwork to hell spur on similar content, but remember: Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and some incredibly provocative material.

And for movies? it's pretty obvious. American Pie/Wedding Crashers/Eurotrip among many other "raunch coms" have fallen out of style, and are absolutely outside what the modern day film industry is willing to stand by.
Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, Rat Race, Harold and Kumar, and Van Wilder follow suit.

Remember: I am not explicitly talking about films put onto streamers. I am talking wide-releases in actual theaters. Same thing goes for games: Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Manhunt, Six Days In Fallujah (with their original concept), Hatred, and so on and so forth. Of course, I'd be inclined to mention most tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Joint Ops as well, due to cultural sensitivity regarding *who* you are shooting and why.

And not all of it is bad (obviously). Tastes change, and perspectives change to fit the demographic.
I should add that I'm a lefty, living in L.A. Working in film.

thorstein466d ago

The Boys, Invincible, Jojo Rabbit, Deadpool, Gen V, Last of Us, Banshee... There are plenty of media being made today that people will claim "can't be made today".

Profchaos465d ago

Yeah but if you consider manhunt which was basically a snuff film could you seriously make that game with high than PS2 era graphics.

thorstein465d ago

The Outlast Trials just came out.

But the storyline of Manhunt was that you were executed. But then lived. And if you didn't do as you were told, you'd die. And the people you killed were not innocents.

It was all filmed by a psychopath.

As we speak GTA VI is being finished up for a release. You get to play a Bonnie and Clyde type of protagonist who run up against the law.

Bodycam looks so real.

People are making those games. Articles like this will always exist no matter how incorrect they are, no matter how many times they blame "them" for whatever it is "they" do to prevent "those" games from being made.

ZycoFox466d ago

The UK is the biggest junk country pandering to that nonsense as well, with laws against free speech and expression to match. It got so bad even Rowan Atkinson made a video on free speech about it.

Now the UK raises the age rating on harmless films like Mary Poppins, it's just a load of pansy weak ass nonsense.

MrDead466d ago (Edited 466d ago )

The right wing Tories have been in power in the UK for the 14 years you know the ones that are "anti-woke", blame them for your perceptions.

Killer2020UK466d ago (Edited 466d ago )

Are these snowflakes in the room with us now?

This is more faux outrage designed to get hits. The consequences are unfortunately creating hysteria amongst those willing to buy into it and blame "them" or "the left" or "liberals" meanwhile the left are kicking off about genocide, actual real world abhorrent acts. Nobody is campaigning to censor this shit.

Huey_My_D_Long466d ago

Not too mention the fact that some of these game are controversial for you know, underage porn and encouraging rape.

So either the guy just came in to comment snowflakes without reading anything, or he is calling people snowflakes for having a problem with said titles. Crazy how much brain rot someone can have.

banger88467d ago

Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."

"Feminist Whore" lmao

gold_drake466d ago

ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.

its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.

ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.

Barlos466d ago (Edited 466d ago )

They're not offensive.

And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!

Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Deeeeznuuuts466d ago

Would love a new fat princess game 🤟

CantThinkOfAUsername466d ago

Games literally about sexual assault, mass genocide, bombing civilians, and school shooting. None of which is satirical.

isarai466d ago

Actually it's about fat princesses

Huey_My_D_Long466d ago (Edited 466d ago )

Its crazy that people are fixated on Fat princess when clearly the list is going over controversies, and not all of them are equal. Like way worse examples but pretend the entire list is like that.

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