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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Humor is a subjective thing, and never has video game humour been more subjective than in the case of Naughty Dog’s contribution to PlayStation platforming sidekicks, the obnoxious ottsel, Daxter.
On November 2, PlayStation Portable game God of War: Ghost of Sparta hit stores. But its developer, Ready at Dawn, is already questioning the rationale for creating PSP games. Don’t blame the hardware, blame piracy.
Later this month the Sore Spots add-on for Playstation Network title PAIN, hits the console bringing with it the PAINalympics.
Are Ready at Dawn reconsidering their flight from Playstation Portable development?
It would be safe to call Daxter *the* PSP game. First released in 2006, it’s been bundled with the handheld twice: With the Ceramic White unit and the new silver Slim & Lite PSP. Now, developer Ready At Dawn announces that December was one of the game’s strongest months and that the game has sold 2 million copies of Daxter worldwide. From Ready At Dawn’s website: Daxter has been an incredible success for us, especially considering it was our very first game as a company.
Congrats! Over 2 Million Served [Ready At Dawn Studios]
Ru Weerasuriya, Ready at Dawn co-founder, dropped me a line to let me know that his studio has put two eBay auctions up to hlp raise money for Child’s Play.
The studio managed to get their hand on one of the last Daxter PSP Entertainment packs around and then had everyone at Ready at Dawn Studios. As if the cool autographed, hard-t0-find PSP weren’t enough, the Ready at Dawn folks are throwing in an autographed piece of original production art from the game.
All proceeds go to Child’s Play. Hit up the link for the U.S. auction, and check out Ready at Dawn’s other auction if you live in Europe.
If you’ve been holding out for a Playstation Portable 2000 now’s the day to hit up your local retailer. The limited-edition Daxter PSP Entertainment Pack just went on sale for $US200. The pack includes a “Ice Silver” PSP2K, a copy of Daxter; Family Guy – The Freakin’ Sweet Collection on UMD and a 1GB Memory Stick PRO Duo.
