As April draws to a close, Sony has one last treat in store (pun intended) for PlayStation Plus subscribers in North America. Cross-buy title Zombie Tycoon II: Brainhov’s Revenge will be added to the Instant Game Collection in today’s weekly update, and can be downloaded for free on the PS3 or PS Vita. In addition, Sony is also having an enormous franchise sale on games with their characters featured in PlayStation All-Stars.
A new indie puzzle game, Quell Memento, is headed to the PS Vita, and will be available for download soon. The game prototype was originally created on an Amstrad CPC computer, way back in 1993, but back then it was called “Last of the Smileys” and was a lot more 8-bit in style. The game has over 150 puzzles to solve, as well as a backstory, that is revealed to the player at intervals throughout the game.
Lucid Games has announced a new PSN title, Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery, for the PS Vita. The game is an episodic adventure brimming with weird and wonderful characters and a host of brain teasing puzzles. The game was developed using the powerful Unreal Engine 3, and features puzzles written by some of the worlds leading puzzle authors, as well story from the BAFTA nominated George Poles.
New PS Vita games have been added to the European PlayStation Store this week, including cross-buy title Thomas Was Alone and Draw Slasher. Thomas Was Alone is also available to download for free if you are a PlayStation Plus subscriber. DLC and other new content has also been added to the PlayStation Store.
A few new games have been added to the PS Vita Store this week in North America, including cross-play indie title Thomas Was Alone and Draw Slasher. A few new PSP games have also been added to the PlayStation Store including Black Rock Shooter: The Game. For PlayStation Plus subscribers, SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny has been added to the Instant Game Collection.
Amanita Design’s puzzle point-and-click adventure game, Machinarium, will arrived on the PS Vita on May 1st 2013. The PS Vita will be the eighth platform to receive the game, with the game first releasing on the PC back in 2009. The game sees you take on the role of a robot called Josef (named after Josef Čapek, the creator of the word “robot”), who tackles the misdeeds of the Black Cap Brotherhood by solving puzzles and brainteasers.
Sony and Naughty Dog has announced that the Jak and Daxter Trilogy, released on the PS3 in February 2013, is heading to the PS Vita. Arriving in June, three of your favorite Jak and Daxter titles – Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, and Jak 3 will be coming to PlayStation Vita as Jak and Daxter Trilogy. The PS Vita version will include the reproduced graphics form the original games and touch-screen functionality for certain mini-games.
New content is available on the European PlayStation Store this week, including a playable demo of Soul Sacrifice. Not much else is available for the PS Vita on the store this week except for some LittleBigPlanet and Dead or Alive 5 Plus DLC content.
Sony has released a minor update for the PS Vita, updating the portable console to version v2.11, less than a week after releasing firmware v2.10. The minor update simply “improves system stability and the playback of some titles”. So, if you’re having issues with running some games, this update should fix the issues for you.
A light update on the European PlayStation Store with with just a handful of new games and DLC content for the PS Vita. Cross-buy title Guacamelee! is available for purchase for both the PS3 and PS Vita, with PlayStation Plus getting a 20% discount (two weeks only). PS Vita title Virtue’s Last Reward has also been added to the Instant Game Collection, the first of two new titles being added to the collection this month.
