Yes, better late than never, we know. Still, earlier is better than late.

Also of note this week is the release of the addictive/adorable Critter Crunch, LittleBigPlanet’s digital release on PSP, some other great PSP releases (Disgaea, some Darkstalkers) and some Dragon Age DLC.

PS3 STORE

Special Offers
(from 19th November until the 3rd of December)
Buzz! Brain Bender (PSP) (was – £19.99/€29.99 now – £9.99/€14.99)
EA Replay (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
Medal of honour Heroes (PSP) (was – £9.99/€14.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
Medal of honour Heroes 2 (PSP) (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)

Downloadable Game
Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao (£9.99/€12.99) Rating: PEGI 12+
Gravity Crash Released on Tuesday the 24th of November Rating: PEGI 7+(£6.29/€7.99)

PSone Classic
Metal Gear Solid (£7.99/€9.99) Rating: PEGI 18+

Trial & Unlock Key
Critter Crunch (Trial free, Unlock Key £4.49/€5.49) Rating: PEGI 7+

Demo
Smash Cars Demo Rating: PEGI 3+

Add-On Game Content
Dragon Age:Origins
o Warden’s Keep (£5.49/€6.99)
o The Stone Prisoner (£11.99/€14.99)

LittleBigPlanet
o Assassin’s Creed II Ezio Auditore Costume Released on Tuesday the 24th of November (£1.59/€1.99)
o Thanksgiving Costume (only available for one week) (free)

Pain
o Flavor Flav Pack (£1.19/€1.49)Rating: PEGI 16+

EyePet
o Medieval Styling Pack (£2.39/€2.99)
o Lucky Dip Styling Pack 4 (free)

High Velocity Bowling
o Psychedelic 60’s Ball Pack (£0.79/€0.99)
o Techno Modern Ball Pack (£0.79/€0.99)

Beatles: Rock Band
o A Day in the Life (£0.99/€1.49)
o Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite (£0.99/€1.49)
o Fixing a Hole (£0.99/€1.49)
o Lovely Rita (£0.99/€1.49)
o Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (£0.99/€1.49)
o She’s Leaving Home (£0.99/€1.49)
o When I’m Sixty-Four (£0.99/€1.49)
o Within You Without You (£0.99/€1.49)
o Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Album) (this pack contains the all tracks listed above) (£7.49/€8.99)

Guitar Hero 5
o I Was Made For Loving You by KISS (£1.59/€1.99)
o Lick by KISS (£1.59/€1.99)
o Modern Day Delilah by KISS (£1.59/€1.99)
o KISS Track Pack (£4.39/€5.49)

Videos
Final Fantasy XIII Announcement Trailer
DC Universe Brian Stevens Interview
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Space Trailer
Army of Two: 40th Day Sniper Trailer
Dante’s Inferno Greed Dev Trailer

Premium Themes
Wise Father Theme (£1.19/€1.49)
Yuefeng Theme (£1.19/€1.49)
King Zumo Theme (£1.19/€1.49)
Cavalier Warrior Theme (£1.19/€1.49)

PSP STORE

Special Offers
Buzz! Brain Bender (PSP) (was – £19.99/€29.99 now – £9.99/€14.99)
EA Replay (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
Medal of honour Heroes (PSP) (was – £9.99/€14.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
Medal of honour Heroes 2 (PSP) (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover (PSP) (was – £15.99/€19.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)

Downloadable Games
LittleBigPlanet (£21.99/€36.99) Rating: PEGI 7+
Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines (£23.99/€29.99) Rating: PEGI 16+
Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier (£21.99/€36.99) Rating: PEGI 12+
The Warriors (£9.99/€12.99) Rating: PEGI 18+
Star Wars Battlefront II (£15.99/€19.99) Rating: PEGI 12+
NBA 2K10 (£15.99/€19.99) Rating: PEGI 3+
Mercury Meltdown (£4.79/€5.99) Rating: PEGI 3+
Megaman Maverick Hunter X (£13.99/€17.99) Rating: PEGI 3+
Capcom Puzzle World (£13.99/€17.99) Rating: PEGI 3+
Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (£13.99/€17.99) Rating: PEGI 12+
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (£11.99/€14.99) Rating: PEGI 12+
Mana Khemia: Student Alliance (£19.99/€24.99) Rating: PEGI 12+
Williams Pinball Classics (£11.99/€14.99) Rating: PEGI 3+

minis
Echoes (£2.49/€2.99) Rating: PEGI 3+
Pinball Dreams (£3.99/€4.99) Rating: PEGI 7+

Demo
MotorStorm: Arctic Edge Demo (free) Rating: PEGI 12+
PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe Demo (free) Rating: PEGI 3+

Add-On Game Content
Rock Band Unplugged
o California Über Alles by Dead Kennedys (£0.99/€1.49)
o You’re No Rock and Roll Fun by Sleater-Kinney (£0.99/€1.49)

There’s currently a trial program in place in the state called “Empire 2.0″, which is all about the government extending existing services and means of communication to 21st century outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.

Of course, gaming consoles are included in that, and NY are in the process of testing – across Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network and the Wii’s network – a means of distributing emergency warning messages across those platforms, so anyone with their console on (and TV or radio off) can be reached.

It’s a good idea. I actually had the displeasure of hearing the “whoooop whoooop” of an emergency warning back in 2003, but I only heard it – and evacuated my house in time – because it was on both the radio and television. These days, I’d be far more likely to be on Xbox Live or the PSN.

Not that I live in NY, just saying… it’s a good idea.

Interop: New York Tests Xbox-Based Alert System [IW, via Gizmodo]

Yes, that’s right, we’re now publishing reader reviews here on Kotaku. This is your chance to deliver sensible game purchasing advice to the rest of the Kotaku community.

And thanks to the very kind chaps at Madman Entertainment, purveyor of all kinds of cool, indie and esoteric film, the best reader review we publish each month will win a prize pack containing ten of the latest Madman DVD releases.

This review was submitted by Ben Carey. If you’ve played Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, or just want to ask Ben more about it, leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars (PSN)

As far as I’m concerned, having a fifteen syllable title alone makes this game awesome. However, if I’d never played the game before, a title like this would make me think of a next generation, revamped Destruction Derby, which, incidentally I would be very keen on.

The easiest way to describe SARPBC is this: it’s basically soccer with nitrous oxide fuelled remote controlled cars. That would make a good title in itself.

Loved

Bang for Your Buck: Nowhere else will you find this much quality gameplay for under ten dollars. The aim of the offline mode is to collect as many stars as you can. There are 100 stars to collect in the mini-game mode and 65 to collect in the tournament mode. These modes are both excellent training for when you start playing against real people. You have to practise your flips and twirls and pirouettes, let me tell you.

Multiplayer: Perhaps even more enjoyable is playing with (or against) your friends. You can play with a mix of human players and NPCs or you can keep it strictly man vs machine, if that’s what you prefer.

Replay Function: Replay mode makes you feel like god: you can freeze time; slow it down or speed it up; fast-forward or rewind; and rotate the camera (which allows for Matrix-cam). You can even edit it up and upload it straight to YouTube (and trust me, there are times you will definitely want to).

Hated

Online: The online mode is clunky and prone to lag. It’s not uncommon to try and steal the ball only to find it’s already in your goal at the other end of the field.

SARPBC has a lot of replay value, and occasionally the developers add new tracks, at no extra charge. Now that’s value!

Reviewed by: Ben Carey

You can have your Reader Review published on Kotaku. Send your review to us at the usual address. Make sure it’s written in the same format as above and in under 300 words – yes, we’ve upped the word limit. We’ll publish the best ones we get and the best of the month will win a Madman DVD prize pack.

PSP owners with a hunger for playing people over the internet via their PlayStation 3’s should grab the adhocParty app, then show your interest in seeing more games support the feature. And if you’ve got six bucks left in your wallet, a download of Resident Evil 2, one of two new PSone Classics, might be an amusing trip down memory lane.

There’s plenty of new content dying to get into your download queue, all of which is after this…

Apps
adhocParty (free)

Games & Demos for PlayStation 3
Peggle ($9.99)
PSone Classics – Resident Evil 2 ($5.99)
PSone Classics – Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver ($5.99)
Smash Cars demo

Games & Demos for PSP
Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines ($39.99)
PSP minis – D-CUBE Planet ($3.99)
PSP minis – Echoes ($2.99)
PSP minis – Circles ($3.99)
PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe demo
LittleBigPlanet demo
Promethus demo

Expansions & Add-ons
Peggle Nights ($4.99)
PAIN: Flavor Flav character ($1.99)
High Velocity Bowling: Psychedelic 60’s Ball Pack ($0.99)
High Velocity Bowling: Techno Modern Ball Pack ($0.99)
Way of the Samurai 3 Accessories (free)

Guitar Hero 5 tracks

• “Lick It Up” by KISS ($1.99)
• “Modern Day Delilah” by KISS ($1.99)
• “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” by KISS ($1.99)
• “KISS Track Pack ($5.49) – “Modern Day Delilah”, “Lick It Up “, “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” by KISS

Rock Band tracks

• “Beautiful Thieves” by AFI ($1.99)
• “End Transmission” by AFI ($1.99)
• “Love Like Winter” by AFI ($1.99)
• “Medicate” by AFI ($1.99)
• “The Leaving Song, Pt 2″ by AFI ($1.99)
• “AFI Pack 01 ($8.49) – “Beautiful Thieves,” “End Transmission,” “Love Like Winter,” “Medicated” and “The Leaving Song, Pt 2″ by AFI
• “Walk Like An Egyptian” by The Bangles ($1.99)

The Beatles Rock Band tracks

• “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)” by The Beatles ($1.99)
• “Within You Without You” by The Beatles ($1.99)
• “When I’m Sixty-Four” by The Beatles ($1.99)
• “She’s Leaving Home” by The Beatles ($1.99)
• “Lovely Rita” by The Beatles ($1.99)
• “Fixing A Hole” by The Beatles ($1.99)
• “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!” by The Beatles ($1.99)
• “A Day In The Life” by The Beatles ($1.99)
• “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Album) ($13.49) – “Fixing a Hole,” “She’s Leaving Home,” “Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!,” “Within You Without You,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lovely Rita,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise),” and “A Day in the Life” by The Beatles

Game Videos
Pulse 11/19 Edition
Pain: Flavor Flav Trailer
Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier Launch Trailer
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves 15 sec Accolade TV Spot
FIFA Soccer 10: Director’s Cut Trailer
Madden NFL Arcade Trailer
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Flag Runner Trailer
NBA 2K10 TV Commercial
Assassin’s Creed II Arsenal Trailer
Assassin’s Creed II TGS Trailer
Assassin’s Creed II Dev Diary 3
Assassin’s Creed II GP Trailer
Critter Crunch “Feeding Time” Trailer
Army Of Two: 40th Day Extraction Trailer
Peggle Trailer

Themes & Wallpapers
Peggle theme (free)
Celtic Maidens 2 Premium Plus Theme ($1.99)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 wallpapers
Topatoi wallpaper
Peggle wallpaper

Those 33 million users download a staggering 25 petabytes of data a month. More importantly for Sony, they’re also spending three times what they did last year at the PlayStation Store.

Sony’s presentation highlights what it called a significant revenue in downloadable games and add-ons. The company also pointed out that its video delivery service now has more than 2417 movies and 15,047 television episodes.

A final point made in the slide presentation by Sony about the PlayStation Network is that a new revenue stream is coming from a subscription model.

Reached for contact this morning, SCEA told Kotaku that in terms of the PlayStation Network and subscriptions “we’re looking into a variety of options, but nothing to announce at this time”.

Some on the Japanese internet are suggesting that the reason for the delay is that cute cartoon characters have four figures — “four” is the equivalent of “13″ in Japanese, a highly unlucky number that can reference death. Also, when yakuza chop off fingers to apologise for mistakes, they are left with four digits.

However, Mickey Mouse has four fingers in Japan, so not sure if I entirely buy that reason. However, the cover art for Left4Dead ran into censorship issues in Japan regarding missing fingers…

The release date for Fat Princess in Japan is TBA.

PlayStation.com(Japan) | お知らせ | PlayStation®3専用ソフトウェア『ぽっちゃり☆プリンセス』（PlayStation®Storeダウンロード専用タイトル）発売日延期のご案内 [Sony via はちま起稿]

Thoughts, impressions, etc in the comments!

The main attraction will of course be Facebook integration with your trophies, store purchases and in-game progress. Though, as someone who uses the feature all the time, the new improved photo galleries are also something to look forward to.

Oh, and yes, that means today is also the day your friends list should look a lot less awful.

Sony Releasing PS3 Update 3.10 Today [1UP]

We expect that Peggle and the darker, no-more-dangerous Peggle Nights for PSN will feature match the PC and Xbox Live Arcade versions, with Challenges, Adventure modes and replays intact. What the PS3 version brings to the table is the option to upload replays to YouTube, directly from the game itself. Awesome.

Price for Peggle? $US9.99. Peggle Nights will run you an additional $US4.99, once the fun of the original has been sufficiently drained.

Coming to PSN this Week: Peggle & Peggle Nights [PlayStation.blog]

PlayStation 3 owners who haven’t enjoyed Number None’s time twisting platformer should really drop the $US14.99 and do so. Other highlights include the release of a quartet of Pinball Heroes games for the PSP, the digital release of Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble and… a Dita Von Teese theme for your PlayStation 3? Perhaps for those lonelier gaming sessions, when a wallpaper of Dita downloaded from the internet simply won’t do.

Two bucks is just a little too rich for my blood, especially when there are comparable Tekken 6 Nina, Lilli and Zafina wallpapers to download for free.

Games & Demos for PS3
Braid ($14.99)
Star Trek: D-A-C ($9.99)
PSone Classics – Command & Conquer: Red Alert ($5.99)
Inferno Pool demo
NCAA Basketball 10 demo
MX Vs. ATV Reflex demo
Star Trek: D-A-C demo

Games & Demos for PSP
Pinball Heroes – High Velocity Bowling ($3.99)
Pinball Heroes – Hot Shots Golf ($3.99)
Pinball Heroes – PAIN ($3.99)
Pinball Heroes – UNCHARTED ($3.99)
Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble ($39.99)
PSP Minis – Bubble Trubble ($4.99)

Expansions & Add-ons
PAIN Fat Princess Character (free)
PAIN Speed Oocher Mode ($1.99)
Rag Doll Kung Fu Mistress of Mime Character (free)
Rag Doll Kung Fu Shaolin Scarecrow Character (free)
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Costume Pack ($3.99)

Guitar Hero 5 tracks

• “Fly Away” by Lenny Kravitz ($1.99)
• “Lady” by Lenny Kravitz ($1.99)
• “Let Love Rule” by Lenny Kravitz ($1.99)
• Lenny Kravitz Track Pack ($5.49) – “Let Love Rule”, “Fly Away”, “Lady” by Lenny Kravitz

Rock Band tracks

• “Club Foot” by Kasabian ($1.99)
• “Employee of the Month” by SpongeBob SquarePants ($0.99)
• “A Day Like This” by SpongeBob SquarePants ($0.99)
• “Ridin’ the Hook” by SpongeBob SquarePants ($0.99)
• SpongeBob SquarePants Pack 2 ($2.99) – “A Day Like This,” “Employee of the Month,” and “Ridin’ the Hook” by SpongeBob SquarePants.
• “Smash it Up (Part II)” by The Damned ($1.99)
• “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” by White Stripes ($1.99)
• “Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine” by White Stripes ($1.99)
• “Icky Thump” by White Stripes ($1.99)
• White Stripes Pack 1 ($5.49) – “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground,” “Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine,” and “Icky Thump” by White Stripes.

Game Videos
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time – Launch Trailer
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time – Space Trailer
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time – Time Trailer
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time – Weapons Trailer
Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines Teaser Trailer
The Saboteur Just Getting Started Trailer
The Saboteur Pre-Order Trailer
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Limited Edition Trailer
Star Trek: D-A-C Trailer

Themes & Wallpapers
Ratchet & Clank Dynamic Theme ($2.99)
Dita Von Teese Theme ($1.99)
Deep Space Theme ($1.49)
Junkyard Girl Theme ($1.99)
Road to China Theme ($1.49)
Tekken 6 Lars Wallpaper
Tekken 6 Lilli Wallpaper
Tekken 6 Nina Wallpaper
Tekken 6 Yoshimitsu Wallpaper
Tekken 6 Zafina Wallpaper