The publisher decided to lay on the one-two whammy yesterday, pushing out both Spider-Man: Friend Or Foe (meh) and Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (yah!) onto Australian retail shelves.
Activision demoed these titles at Activate Asia earlier this year, and we couldn’t help but take a look. Hit the jump for press release snippets with platform and pricing details, and links to our previous coverage. More »
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron hits next week for the PSP, exclusively, right alongside the Star Wars Battlefront Entertainment Pack bundle. That’s the one that comes with a Darth Vader portrait screened on the back of a white PSP Slim. To celebrate the release of the game, Sony is hosting a launch party with Lucasarts at PlayStation Store at the Metreon in San Francisco, bringing with them the usual bunch of Star Wars cosplayers, prizes, fireworks, dancing bears, etcetera.
The reason you might actually want to show up? They’re giving away Han Solo-trapped-in-carbonite PSP cases to the first 200 folks who buy the aforementioned Entertainment Pack. You’ll look at it, your PSP encased in Han encased in carbonite and say “I love you”. It will respond “I know”. I… I’m tearing up a little bit.
More details and a full-sized pics at the official PlayStation blog.
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron Update [PlayStation.blog] More »
Yes, it’s more excitement from the recent Activate Asia 2007.
Activision went to the trouble of setting up a couple of PSPs, including those white ones you never see (well, I never see), running Star Wars: Renegade Squadron multiplayer. I had my reservations about playing Rebellion’s third-person shooter in the confines of a handheld, but I was pleasantly surprised. More »
