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David Hasselhoff is coming to PAIN. People magazine reveals today that the star of Knight Rider, Baywatch and America’s Got Talent will be ensuring his résumé remains consistent as one of the celebrity torture victims in the expansion PAIN Amusement Park for the PlayStation 3.
Well LittleBigPlanet might be having some problems, but things are going just swimmingly for PSN title Pain, which is gearing up for the launch of an all-new level next month. Movie Studio is the game’s take on Hollywood, with various popular movies spoofed and tons of new things to hurt yourself on. You’ll find new single player modes, the return of Bowling and HORSE modes, and an all-new unlockable character in the form of Buzz from the popular quiz game series. Hit the jump for more details on the upcoming expansion. PAIN: DA-WOOD & DA-MOCKRACY [PlayStation Blog]
Pain producer Travis Williams has once again dropped in over at the official PlayStation Blog, this time revealing some of the trophies being added to the game in the upcoming Amusement Park expansion, due out on the 4th of September. There’s a nice little selection of trophies, ranging from the impossible Gold “Affliction Addiction” – Get one billion points – to the more modest (in a way) Bronze trophy “Harder Dick’s Balls, which challenges you to get all of Dick’s Balls in the Block Party dumpster without resetting.
My personal favourite would have to be the Silver Trophy for scoring 50 strikes in Bowling with The Dude, which they have named “The Dude Abides”. Indeed he does.
PAIN Trophies [Official PlayStation Blog]
If you haven’t had enough PAIN, Sony and developer Idol Minds are bringing more with an amusement park themed add-on. In PAIN: Amusement Park, players can fling their ragdolls around, well, an amusement park. As Sony producer Travis Williams explains:
Sony’s PAIN, released just last week on the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3, lets players inflict suffering on horribly dressed ragdolls for points. It also treats them to plenty of billboard-style in-game advertising. Sony’s taking a somewhat unique approach to how it charges advertisers, however, as the PAIN‘s advertising scale increases for those planting ad spots in the game if more players are playing the game online.
The stats that help advertisers make their decisions – and scale pay rates – will be handled by the Nielsen Games group, well known for their ratings tracking services. Ominously, Nielsen was quoted as saying, “Currently we can tell you who is playing their PlayStation 3 and other consoles, when they’re playing them and what they’re playing. We can’t get inside the game, at least not yet”. Time to check that PlayStation Network user agreement more closely…
PlayStation’s Game Plan: Scale Ad Rates for Videos [AdWeek via Game|Life]
This week’s additions to the PlayStation Store are lead by the downloadable game PAIN, an expansion for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and new content for Resistance: Fall of Man, MotorStorm, Guitar Hero III and Rock Band. For those who didn’t pick up the first Resistance map pack, a bundle containing both map packs makes for a better value. There’s plenty to see (and buy) this week.
Fans of buying things you don’t really own will be in downloadable content heaven. Hit the jump for the full list.
Looks like Thursday’s PlayStation Store update with bring PAIN with it, as the game’s producer Jason Coker mentions at the official U.S. PlayStation blog. For those unaware of PAIN‘s premise, you essentially launch some hapless ragdoll of an avatar against all manner of things. Hence, PAIN. I played a bit of the game at Tokyo Game Show, but may not have spent enough time with it to “get” what it was all about. Coker walks you through in his latest entry. Hope they’ve got a demo planned to clue the clueless in.
Bring the PAIN – Thursday [PlayStation.blog]
