PlayStation Network membership passes 20 million

Remarkable Milestone Achieved in Only 2 Years and 3 Months Since Its Launch on November 11, 2006

Sony Computer Entertainment announce the cumulative number of registered accounts on PlayStation Network worldwide has exceeded 20 million as of February 20, 2009. The registered accounts on PlayStation Network reached 5million in 1 year and 2 months, 10 million in 1 year and 8 months, and exceeded 20 million in only 2 years and 3 months from the service launch on November 11, 2006*1. The number of users connected to PlayStation Network is ever growing, thus successfully building a robust network business platform.

PlayStation Network is a free to access network service for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system and PSP (PlayStation Portable) handheld entertainment system, that has more than 70 million sell-in units*2 around the world both platforms combined. Directly accessible from PS3, PSP or PC, users are able to enjoy a broad range of on-line content and services, including on-line gaming, video chat and text messaging with other PS3 users on-line, as well as many games and video content downloadable from PlayStation Store. Since its launch, PlayStation Network has expanded its services to over 55 countries and regions around the globe, gaining strong support from users for its breadth of entertainment content available for both PS3 and PSP systems in addition to its free to use basic features and services.

To offer more fun and excitement to users, PlayStation Network is continually enhancing gaming experience through online game features such as online battle and team play, as well as adding more and more downloadable game items. More than 600 titles incorporated with online features have been released for the PS3 system worldwide, including Resistance: Fall of Man, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and LittleBigPlanet from SCE.

PlayStation Store offers more than 14,500 diverse digital content, ranging from exclusive on-line games, downloadable version of UMD titles, game demos and items, and titles from “Game Archive,” through which legendary and popular titles from the original PlayStation are made playable on PS3 and PSP, to more than 5,900 movies and TV episodes that are available through Video Delivery Service*3 that started in the United States in July 2008. To date, more than 380 million pieces of content*4 have been downloaded, with total sales exceeding 180 million US dollars*5, and the business scale is rapidly expanding.

PlayStation Home launched its service in December 2008 and in less than 2 months, the number of users has exceeded 4 million. Within the ground-breaking 3D environment, users are able to meet, share gaming experiences, and enjoy communication with each other.　Collaborative initiatives with various game titles and franchises are underway to offer more new fun on games in the world of PlayStation Home as it evolve over time, adding new spaces, features and functions to create a living, growing platform for the PlayStation community

Additionally, the number of users enjoying Life with PlayStation has now exceeded 2.6 million*6. Life with PlayStation offers users a new way to obtain information on a TV monitor in the living room by connecting it to the network via PS3. With “time” and “place” as keywords, Life with PlayStation will add more channels to enjoy content on the internet and broaden the world of entertainment beyond the realms of games that is made possible through connecting PS3’s vast computational power to the network.

SCE, along with content providers and users will continue to further expand the entertainment experiences with PS3, PSP and PlayStation Network to create a new world of computer entertainment.

*1　Launched in Japan on November 11, 2006.
*2 PS3: 21.3 million units as of December 2008, PSP: 50 million units as of January 2009.
*3 Launched in July 2008. As of February 2009, over 1,400 movies and 4,400 TV episodes are available for download.
*4　Includes free of charge content (downloadable demos and promotion videos).
*5 As of February 2009.
*6 As of February 2009.

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Go Play Circus Star - Nintendo Wii video game

Entertain Rowdy Crowds With Amazing Circus Feats In This Motion-Based Family Game Due This June

Are you ready for the big time? Then step into the Big Top and realize your star potential as Majesco Entertainmen announce Go Play Circus Star for Nintendo Wii. Featuring a full collection of all-time favorite circus attractions, players can wow the crowd with death defying stunts, animal tricks and sleight of hand in 15 different events.

Developed by N-Fusion Interactive Entertainment Corp., Go Play Circus Star includes intuitive motion controls and integrates support for the Wii Balance Board™ accessory in a majority of games-balance on the tightrope and the backs of elephants, steer the human cannonball, dodge pie-throwing monkeys, jump to new acrobatic heights on the trampoline and much more! Players choose from a range of memorable circus performers and fabulous costumes before stepping into the arena to perform for the fans in aerial, animal and other classic circus events, including: Trapeze, Amazing Silks, Big Cat Taming, Rola Bola, Pony Dancing, Mile-High Stunt Diver, Knife Throwing and Juggling, among others. The more daring and death-defying the tricks, the more money you can earn as you win over the cheering crowd. But fumble in the air or miss a trick and the fans will boo in disapproval as they pellet you with tomatoes! Amazing performances will unlock additional events and new venues as you follow your circus career all the way to the Las Vegas Stadium. A fun game for both family and friends, Go Play Circus Star also lets players compete against up to three other aspiring circus performers.

Go Play Circus Star joins Go Play Lumberjacks as the second announced title in Majesco's new Go Play brand of games designed for motion-based family entertainment. Both games are expected to launch this June.

Lego Power Miners game Rock Rocket

Dallas-based Blockdot has released “Rock Rocket,” a power-packed game for LEGO Systems, one of the world's leading manufacturers of play materials for children.

The game, which was created to promote the new LEGO Power Miners product launch, lets players take control of one of three rock monsters for high-flying fun through hidden caves below the surface of the Earth! Additional Rock Monsters can be unlocked by players who learn secret Power Miners codes.

Grab your mouse and dive into the game, because the fun is about to begin! Shake your mouse left and right to build the momentum of your Rock Monster….then launch! Watch as the Rock Monster hurdles through the air. Click your mouse to gain altitude — and grab crystals to pick up points. The longer and farther you fly, the better your score.

Blast off with Rock Rocket’s frenetic fun by playing the game on the LEGO Power Miners site http://powerminers.lego.com or on Blockdot’s gaming portal http://www.kewlbox.com/games/GameDetail.aspx?GameId=319.

Read what LEGO fans are saying about the game in the official LEGO forums http://messageboards.lego.com/en-US/default.aspx, including:

• “It’s Brill! It deserves prizes!” — Moonshadow007

• “IT’S AWESOME!!!!! I love it! I also really like the poll-I was Firox!” — lswmaster4

• “Rock Rocket is so asome!!!!!!” — Ha-ya-to422

• “I played and I am beast” — jjrhee

• “Wow... Amazing game. My highest score was somewhere in the 4,000's. I also learned I'm most like Fireox. Cool game, LEGO.com, I'll be playing for weeks!” — smiley23atgym

Fruity Slot - Fruit machine for iPhone and iPod Touch

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Retro action video game UFO Pilot 2 released

Pilot your ship through underground caverns while battling the evil Phadt Armada

Spell of Play Studios and nornware announce the public release of action-adventure game Ufo Pilot 2: The Phadt Menace

Experience the thrill of intense gravity defying action gaming and unique game controls in this action-adventure game. Your goal is to rescue the imprisoned pilots of StarFleet using stealth, tactics or firepower.

You have complete control over your ship's configuration and can adapt it to suit both the mission and your own style of playing. To top things off you get two additional game modes: Arcade and Time Attack, both with online highscores.

Ufo Pilot 2: The Phadt Menace is a true gem of retro gaming fun.

Free Demo is exclusively available for download at
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• Arcade modes, battle the armada for the best online highscore!
  
• Featuring original music by johno, Oliver Beach, and Orhan!

Terminator Salvation - the video game

In Terminator Salvation the videogame, based on the upcoming Terminator Salvation film from Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures, players assume the role of John Connor, a soldier in the resistance, battling for survival against the far superior forces of Skynet.

Terminator Salvation the videogame is an intense action-packed third-person shooter featuring concentrated armed combat against all of the Skynet enemies from the film and new killer machines specifically designed for the game. Taking place two years before the events of the upcoming film set in a post apocalyptic, decimated Los Angeles, players will be lead through a visceral, story and character driven gaming experience.

Featuring intense third-person action, Terminator Salvation the videogame will take combat to the next level with iconic enemies, cinematic fight sequences and advanced weaponry, drawn directly from the film, as well as an innovative, multi-layered cover mechanic.

Features -

New Installment of Terminator Mythology: Set two years prior to the upcoming Terminator Salvation film, players will get the opportunity to be John Connor for the first time and continue the epic fiction of the Terminator mythology.
Unrelenting Intelligent Robotic Enemies: Unrelenting and incredibly resilient iconic enemies from the Terminator franchise fight to the bitter end on land and in the sky. Designed to pursue the player by any means necessary, damaged or broken enemies will literally claw their way forward to inflict harm.

Advanced Destructible Cover Gameplay: Terminator Salvation – The Videogame will incorporate advanced cover mechanics which allows players to use the destructible environment as protection and strategically navigate through enemy entrenched territory. The cover mechanic’s multi-faceted design changes the way “cover” gameplay is executed.

Diverse Array of Advanced Weaponry: The player has access to a wide array of weapons including shotguns, fully automatic machine guns, huge mounted weaponry, grenades, rocket-launchers and even a plasma firing Skynet tank.

Rugged Armored Vehicles Gun Fights: Pursue, attack, or evade enemies through post-apocalyptic environments on foot or inside rugged armored vehicles in extremely kinetic and extensive cinematic gun battles.

RELEASE DATE: May 2009
PUBLISHER: Equity Games Production, Evolved Games
DEVELOPER: GRIN Studios
DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
ESRB RATING: Rating Pending
GENRE: Third-Person Shooter
PLATFORMS: TBA

MotorStorm festival off-road racer Artic Edge on PSP and PlayStation 2

Brutal off-road racing, MotorStorm Arctic Edge, arrives on PSP (PlayStation Portable) and PlayStation 2

Multi-route tracks, unpredictable terrain, hostile AI and sub-zero conditions: never race the same lap twice!

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The MotorStorm festival has ripped-up the Monument Valley desert, it’s obliterated everything that stood in its path on The Island, and now it’s set for a whole new challenge. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is delighted to announce that MotorStorm Arctic Edge is set to arrive in Autumn 2009 for PAL territories and will be available on PSP (PlayStation Portable) and also on PlayStation 2.

Developed by award-winning Bigbig Studios, the team behind the best-selling Pursuit Force series, MotorStorm Arctic Edge sees the music, the festival and the brutal off-road racing arrive in the breathtaking yet lethal and unpredictable setting of Alaska. With temperatures plummeting, sudden avalanches, broken ice bridges, and three different racing altitudes, this is possibly the most inhospitable environment the MotorStormers have ever had to deal with. With grip at a premium, and in addition to the six existing classes from the original MotorStorm, two new vehicles have been introduced to combat the ice, the cold and the snow - the Snowcat and the Snow Machine. One has the power and size to blast through packed snow, whilst the other has the grip and pace to combat most of what the sub-zero conditions can throw at it.

MotorStorm Arctic Edge is great for single player action, online multiplayer or playing with friends; two to eight players can compete against each other wirelessly via Ad Hoc Mode on PSP. Alternatively, you can also compete via online multiplayer using Infrastructure Mode on PSP to make it to the summit of the online global leaderboards.

A further new introduction to the MotorStorm festival is personalisation of your vehicle class. Each vehicle in the game has a selection of different parts - for example wheels, exhausts, spoilers - liveries and stickers to choose from. Players can also create their own liveries from a set of base patterns and decals. There are so many combinations that each player could own a unique vehicle!

MotorStorm Arctic Edge comes exclusively to PSP and PlayStation 2 hot on the heels of the multi million selling titles MotorStorm and MotorStorm Pacific Rift.

The end of 2009 is going to be as cold and challenging as it gets. So lose your t-shirt and your shorts, keep hold of sunglasses and grab your thermals – it’s time to take a trip to the top of the world to see if you can conquer the most unwelcoming terrain the planet has to offer.

Shin Megami Tensei - Persona video game for PSP out in US

Atlus, announce that Shin Megami Tensei - Persona for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, a remake of the first entry in the critically-acclaimed RPG series, will be released in North America within the calendar year.

Shin Megami Tensei - Persona stands as a proud relaunch for the award-winning series, featuring a completely redone localization and content never before seen in North America.

Combined with gameplay enhancements and additions new to the remake, fans will have the chance to experience the first Persona game released in North America in a whole new way.

Those looking to see the original epic in a whole new light, those who missed out the first time around, and even those PSP system owners who crave a marquee RPG: that which you seek is approaching.

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona is currently scheduled to release this fall.

CID Crash Impact Dummy video game info

Mia has grown, and is struggling with the fact that Professor B M Werken wants her to be his little girl when she wants to be her own person.

D-Troit is pure evil and has his own Crash Impact Dummy manufacturing plant, now joint market leader with the Professor’s outfit. His Crash Test Dummies are a little evil-looking though. There’s just... something about them. There’s still a little tiny piece of good in him, mind you, and that’s important.

D-Troit wants revenge on the Professor for something he did in the past but what? How can D-Troit avenge the wrong he feels? Easy, steal the one thing that’s precious to the Professor, Mia.

The Professor is distraught and must regain his precious Mia. He turns to what he knows and trusts, selecting CID one of his crash impact dummies to save the day and recover his daughter. Sure, CID has heard about Mia, all the dummies have and like all the other dummies, CID has heard rumours that she’s the most beautiful girl in the world. As the boss’s daughter, they all thought she was untouchable. But... given the chance to rescue her? That’d show them something, right? It’d show that a mere Crash Impact Dummy, a nobody, a guy stuck in a job that he hates through no choice of his own - it’d show that he really can be something…….

About CID The Dummy

A star is born and he's made to last. CID THE DUMMY makes his debut in Oxygen Games’ all-new action platformer. CID THE DUMMY is sure to grab you with its enjoyable, fun gameplay, featuring a totally original character with charisma and lots of moves. CID has many different fighting styles with which to battle enemies, from unarmed combat to weapons like the Bazooka that can freeze, hit and burn.

• Interact as only a crash impact dummy can. Climb walls, swing on ropes, burn obstacles, destroy exploding barrels, use lifters, bounce on springs and with a neat head butt destroy walls all in stunningly realized environments. Game environment interaction is the most important part of the gameplay.
• CID's world is swarming with a host of fearfully fun enemies like the Dumper, Cursed Dummy and the bizarre Failed Experiment.
• Apart from fighting enemies, the player will enjoy solving puzzles, avoiding traps and using acrobatic skills to get out of dangerous situations!

CID The Dummy will be released on Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2, PSP System, and PC.