PlayStation Home is in the middle of one of their biggest content updates ever, and the North American release of the Japanese Siren: Blood Curse space plays a major part.
A patch, some clothes and Watchmen-themed costumes are out for Home this week. Street Fighter, SOCOM, Uncharted and Siren stuff is on the way.
Sony’s giving Japanese PlayStation 3 owners a place to chill—a PlayStation Home “lounge” dedicated to the horror game Siren. Looks like a lovely place to have a Home dance party!
Hope this story from last week didn’t get your hopes up. Turns out that information – about a Blu-Ray release for Siren: Blood Curse in the Fall – was for European eyes only. You Americans, you’re still in limbo, left only with the option of downloading the game and these helpful words from SCEA:
At this time, there is no Blu-ray Disc version planned for the North American market. Please note, however, that you are able to delete and then re-download episodes since the purchase is linked to your PSN account. The developers kept this functionality in mind knowing that the episodes were fairly beefy.
Hah. “No plans”. Already, our favourite catchphrase of 2008! Of course, being a PS3 game it’s not too hard to import it, so long as you don’t mind the characters telling you to stick to the footpath, mind the grey-skinned chaps and use only aluminium weapons. Side note to publishers: more press statements need the word “beefy”.
Still No U.S. Plans For Disc-Based ‘Siren: Blood Curse’ [MTV]
A 60 GB PlayStation 3 seems like a massive beast, until you download the entire Siren: Blood Curse saga, which devours a good 66% of your hard drive, and what about those poor 20 GB PS3 owners? For those of you not wanting to turn your console into a dedicated Siren machine, Sony has plans to release all 12 episodes on a single Blu-ray disc this fall, with extra bells and whistles to make the full release attractive even to those who’ve already played through the survival horror title. Nothing on pricing as of yet, but I could certainly see it following PSN pricing for the full game at $US 39.99. Siren: Blood Curse to get Blu-ray release [Eurogamer]
The PlayStation store has updated today, bringing with it the survival horror creepiness of Siren: Blood Curse, as well as bargains as far as the eye can see! The big news is of course Siren, a Blu-ray-sized game cut up into bite-sized chunks for easy consumption. There are twelve chapters of the game in all, sold in sets of four for $US 14.99, or in one big, money-saving $US 39.00 package. Siren is joined by Capcom’s 1942: Joint Strike, priced at a more modest $US 9.99.
Scary time! On July 24, Siren: Blood Curuse drops. The reworking on the original PS2 horror title will also be available via PlayStation Store and Blu-ray disc. According to website Eurogamer, Blood Curse will also be broken up into four downloadable chapters, each with three episodes per chapter for PSN downloads.
SIREN最新作がPLAYSTATION Store [Famitsu]
The third game in the Siren series – Blood Curse – will be coming in two flavours. In Japan, you’ll be able to get it on Blu-Ray. But in the US? It’s being released as episodic, downloadable content, presumably in order to test the waters, see if there’s really a market for the game in the US. Fine for Sony, but what if you’re less a single-issue buyer, more a trade paperback kinda guy? Here’s what you do: import the Asian edition of the game, which also comes on a Blu-Ray disc. Like most Asian edition’s, it contains an English-language option, so you’ll have it all on one disc and be able to understand the thing. Win win!
A way to experience Siren: Blood Curse on Blu-ray [Siliconera]
Someone hold me.
