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Why Robin Makes Batman Better The PlayStation Store for North America has been updated with a slew… no, no a plethora of quality goodies for PLAYSTATION 3 owners to slowly download. In addition to the already mentioned Folklore demo, PS3 owners can enjoy a recently updated Folding@Home experience. The new Folding@Home adds two new weapons to the title, four new cars, and fixes a bug that allowed certain ball and stick wiggle motions to cause the console to crash.
Flip on your PS3! The Folkore demo has hit the North American PlayStation Network. The game, which is already out in Japan under the goofy name FolksSoul, will be released this October in the West. This demo is a limited time offering and will be yanked from the PSN on October. Enjoy it while you can.
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In honour of Folklore’s playable debut at the Leipzig Games Convention, SCEE has gone ahead and put a demo of the game up on the Euro PlayStation Network so all PS3 owners can get a chance to put the game through its paces. There’s a catch though. The demo will only be available through August 31st, after which it will be taken down from the store forever, which is a very long time. That, and it’s for PAL territories only. I cry! The skinny: Isabelle Tomatis, Marketing Manager PSN commented, “Folklore is a game we are really excited about and we recognise that not everyone can afford to get to Leipzig. PSN gives us a new way of talking to and rewarding our loyal fans so we have decided for the first time to get them on the inside track with the early release of this demo! We hope they enjoy it and look forward to the feedback”.
Ooo, I’ve got some feedback – PAL PS3 owners can bite my ass. *runs off to pout*
Like the looks of Folklore? Don’t own a PS3? Own a PSP? Man, you just got lucky. At a Sony event in London yesterday, Kikizo wondered where the hell Kouji Okada (Shin Megami Tensei), who was supposed to be working on Folklore, had gone to, since Game Republic’s Yoshiki Okamoto was the one showing it off at Leipzig this week. Had he just wandered off, alone, into the woods, never to be seen again? No! He was still around, still working on Folklore. The PSP version. Mystery solved. Sony’s Folklore Jumps From PS3 to PSP [Kikizo]
New Folklore trailer. I could have sworn I heard them say at the start, “Here, put this RIDICULOUS outfit on and you can talk to the dead”.
The PlayStation Store has finally been updated for this Thursday’s refresh, bringing a slew of new content to PLAYSTATION 3 owners. Demos for EA’s NCAA Football 08 (728 MB) and Codemasters DiRT (553 MB) are up now and ready to download. New game videos include the new animated episode and a second “making of” clip for Ninja Theory’s Heavenly Sword, as well as new trailers for Folklore and Timeshift.
New movie trailers for Pixar’s WALL-E, The Brothers of Solomon and The Lives of Others join new PS3 wallpapers for Blast Factor: Advanced Research and, again, Heavenly Sword. This update is so solid it makes me want to do our secret, multi-step handshake—you know, the one that ends with us doing a little hip bump and double finger gun snap-point at eachother?
Worst game title in recent memory? FolksSoul. There isn’t even a space! Say it a few times out loud. It’s truly rotten. No wonder they retitled this PS3 game for the Western market — though, Folklore isn’t really that much better. Though, the developer certainly was banking that the game would appeal to both Western and Japanese gamers. Folklore producer Eric Fong says: Folklore really seems to bridge any and all cultural gaps. Not only do the characters appeal to all audiences, but the themes of death, love, and redemption are about as universal as it gets. So far, anyone that has played Folklore immediately connects with it. The sound and graphics grab the player’s attention, then the combat system and story line draws them into the experience.
Think we all can agree: The title still sucks. Not a fan of the font, either. Actual game looks alright. Fong Interview [PSU]
Playstation Underground is currently holding a creature contest for their upcoming fantasy action-adventure, Folklore. Interested parties are asked to create an original “Folk” with it’s own unique abilities and a special attack that will be gained by the lead character after defeating said “Folk.” The ultimate winner will have their character added into the game via a downloadable character pack and will be weaved into the game’s storyline. The winner and four runners up will also receive a free copy of the game when it launches in October.
Folklore Create-A-Creature Contest [Sony] [Thanks, Sethmilk]
