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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land One of the best features about Sony’s Echocrome is that it embraces user-generated content. Thing is, it only embraces it temporarily. Like a female praying mantis, coupling with a mate in a fit of passion before turning on it and devouring it whole. See, each new round of user-generated levels, when thrown up, replaces the last lot. So if you want to play the best homemade designs available, you’ve only got a limited time before they’re gone. Gone forever. Not sure I really like this idea, since Echocrome isn’t a game that really makes me want to rush through it. echochrome: no end in sight [PlayStation.Blog]
This week’s PlayStation Store store update doesn’t shy away from a game release like some people did, bringing the mind-bending puzzler echochrome to North American PlayStation 3s and PSPs. It’s the main draw this week, with a Dark Sector demo available for those with tightly shut virtual wallets and a taste for first-person throwing. It’s low key, but a whole mess of Rock Band tracks, wallpapers and videos await you after the jump.
As the minimal headline suggests, Sony’s long awaited Escher-esque 3D puzzler echochrome will arrive digitally on North American shores tomorrow. The PlayStation 3 and PSP versions will each ring up at $US9.99 and features 56 platform specific, ultimately controller flinging puzzles. I’m off to sell a pint to scrounge up the funds for both.
echochrome arrives tomorrow! [PlayStation.blog]
Anxious to get your hands on the perspective-bending puzzler echochrome for the PlayStation 3 and PSP? At the official PlayStation Blog, the game’s associate producer Kumi Yuasa has just announced that the demo for the game will be available tomorrow via the PlayStation Store on the PS3, with the PSP demo also available on the PC version of the store. The demo will only take you through a brief tutorial, but Yuasa is excited about what’s in store for us once the game releases.
Unsurprisingly, Sony will bypass regular retail channels for its minimal PSP and PlayStation 3 puzzler echochrome, with Newsweek confirming that the UMD version for PSP will be a Japan and Asia only offering. North Americans will see the PSP arrive as a digital download only. While that may not sit well with some gamers, a title like echochrome would have very little chance of success at retail, with its intentionally simple aesthetic and potentially cheaper PlayStation 3 counterpart.
The release of SOCOM Confrontation via the PlayStation Network this fall may have the mass appeal to be a digitally distributed “killer app” for the PlayStation fan base, but Sony has plenty of unique offerings over the next few months, some of which we are already intimately familiar with. Echochrome and Wipeout HD haven’t been lacking in exposure, but MTV’s Stephen Totilo goes hands-on with two more PSN originals, Elefunk and PixelJunk Monsters Encore to get a handle on what’s next for the Store.
As the headline states. If you’re after impressions, it’s the same demo we played at TGS. If you’re after some news that will please prospective downloaders, it’s this: the demo’s not only got an English language track, but it’s there for both the PS3 and PSP. Go!
The minimalist stylings of Echochrome are certainly welcome, but seeing the game play in a photorealistic environment with a man in an all-white suit and stunning afro makes me wonder what might have been…
Say, this is only a fortnight away! I might have to import.
PSN puzzle game Echochrome looks very intriguing and, better yet, different. The game has gotten a Japanese release date (March 19), but no official US one. Game site Siliconera asked Sony Computer Entertainment of America about its US release, writing this: I was told plans for the PSP version were up in the air and the summer slot is specifically for the PlayStation 3 version. Don’t take this conversation as confirmation that the PSP version got the axe, its fate has not been sealed.
There ya go. Semi-official confirmation. Expect more details as they’re released. Echochrome Slated for Summer [Siliconera]
Here’s something disconcerting if it pans out as true: Siliconera reports that Echochrome will cost more than double for a UMD PSP ($US 37) version than a downloadable PSN/PS3 version ($US 17) when released on March 19th in Japan. While we’ve seen similar pricing discrepancies with downloadable vs. retail versions of Warhawk, that price difference included a headset for online chat.
The questions then become, are these two versions identical and will the game support Remote Play? And if so, just how much is it worth to have a UMD? UPDATE: Siliconera updated their post, pointing out that PSP Echochrome has twice the levels. I guess that explains the price difference. PS3 Echochrome costs 50% less than PSP Echochrome [Siliconera via OpposableThumbs]
