American PSN Store update for May 8th

by Jem Alexander { May 8th 2008 at 3:15PM }

Don't feel left out, Americans. Despite how it may feel, Europe isn't the only region getting PSN Store updates this week and today's US update is rather tasty. Between the demos, trailers and PixelJunk Monsters Encore there's more than enough content to keep everyone happy. If you're intrigued about PlayStation Day, however, and want to check out the keynote then, sadly you're out of luck. Here's the full release list:

Playable content

Rocketmen: Axis of Evil ($10 - game now available from store, rather than from within the demo)
Haze demo (free)
Bourne Conspiracy demo (free)
GRID demo (free)

Add-on content

PixelJunk Monsters: Encore ($6)
Rock Band DLC (found after the break, as usual)

Trailers

WipEout HD trailer (free)
Mirror's Edge gameplay trailer (free)
Mercenaries 2: Payback trailer (free)
Overlord: Raising Hell trailer (free)
Wheelman trailer (free)
TNA Impact trailer (free)
Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie trailer (free)
The Love Guru movie trailer (free)
Iron Man movie trailer (free)

Themes and wallpapers

Sports theme (free)
PixelJunk Monsters Encore theme (free)
2x PixelJunk Monsters Encore wallpapers (free)

Today's Rock Band DLC is as follows:

Scene pack ($5.50)

"This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" - Fall Out Boy ($2)
"Date With The Night" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs ($2)
"It Hurts" - Angels & Airwaves ($2)

Tags: pixeljunk-monsters, psn-store, releases

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

wisconsinista @ May 8th 2008 3:21PM

Haven't touched Warhawk since the expansion I bought. They seriously hampered the game since zone play is only on the small maps.

Rated-G @ May 8th 2008 3:34PM

Where'd the Warhawk stuff come from?

rafael @ May 8th 2008 3:37PM

VERY true. I don't understand why so many people hate big maps, big maps are the best (aka I love Omega Dawn). Full VGlacier with zones is genuinely fun...

that being said im really interested in Haze... shall it live up to expectations?

Squirtforce @ May 8th 2008 3:21PM

Now that is one fantastic update!

never$$hort @ May 8th 2008 4:59PM

Yeah this is the best update we have all seen in a while and also something that I could get regularly used too on a weekly basis... Thanks Sony.. keep it up!!!

Mow of to try the PJ monsters expansion that just finished downloading!! ;)

never$$hort @ May 8th 2008 5:02PM

Dam I got so excited I did some great grammatical errors there, sheesh...

"Mow of to try the PJ monsters" is supposed to read "Now off to try the PJ monsters"... haha

never$$hort @ May 8th 2008 5:02PM

Dam I got so excited I did some great grammatical errors there, sheesh...

"Mow of to try the PJ monsters" is supposed to read "Now off to try the PJ monsters"... haha

never$$hort @ May 8th 2008 5:04PM

Stupid comment system, blah!! Now I'm really off to play PJ Monsters dammit

leiwei @ May 8th 2008 8:26PM

Best update ever!

justinb @ May 8th 2008 3:21PM

YAY! I can't wait... I've got to leave work early just to make sure I can get this great stuff this week....

Rated-G @ May 8th 2008 3:22PM

The Haze demo is the same as the European one right?

What about the WipEout HD trailer? Is that the same one that's been in the European store for the past month? The mouth-watering-ly beautiful one that's been in that store?

adolson @ May 8th 2008 4:17PM

Nope, looks to be a bit smaller, by maybe 100MB, give or take. Not sure why yet..

adolson @ May 8th 2008 4:19PM

lol, I misread and thought you asked if they were the same size.. Anyhow, my comment still stands.. They've branded it specifically as 4-player co-op demo, but I'm sure you could still play it in solo mode.

Livi70590 @ May 8th 2008 5:57PM

Less Languages.

Nils @ May 9th 2008 4:47AM

how do I get to download the us-released games? is it enough to just create an account with "recidence" in the us? I'm tired of waiting for games!

True_Darknight @ May 8th 2008 3:29PM

Oh the love we get is sooo nice!!!

Bourne demo, Grid Demo and trailers galore.. I know what I will be downloading later on tonite!!!

muahauahauha!!!!!!

Damn Prestige MODE~!!!

mathab @ May 8th 2008 3:36PM

Can't wait to sing Date with the Night ... then have my neighbors look at me forever with odd stares.

Brambler @ May 8th 2008 3:37PM

Great update! Harmonix really needs to step up the quality of their DLC though. The songs have sucked a majority of the time.

adolson @ May 8th 2008 4:29PM

WHAT??! How can you not like the songs from... From... Aw crap, what are they called again?

Joe @ May 8th 2008 3:52PM

Thursday, 2:46pm CDT. No update on my PS3. WTF? Dont rush home to update. might as well wait till closing time. PSN apparently has no deadline.

Nerdkiller @ May 8th 2008 4:11PM

Does this mean that there will more people getting jipped for buying Rocketman now that its avalable in the Store?

Nate @ May 8th 2008 4:39PM

More than they were jipped by buying it at all? ;)

Zing!

Victus @ May 8th 2008 4:19PM

Wow, what a load of garbage for Rock Band. Seriously, Fall Out Boy is the 1st thing I think of when simultaneously, violently spraying from both ends. "Man, how'd I get this sick? Must have heard a Fall Out Boy 'song' recently."

HAAS599 @ May 8th 2008 4:49PM

Yeah yeah yeahs are there. Im happy and The Cars are on their way.

6 bucks for encore is a steal!!

Christian @ May 8th 2008 7:30PM

I so don't give a shit what anyone thinks, but I fuckin like Fall Out Boy. I liken their music to a Michael Bay flick: Crazed, incoherent, with dashes of random pop-culture references for fun.

So shoot me.

Lars @ May 9th 2008 12:15PM

I like Fall Out Boy too. But I'm not part of the young crowd who has grown to associate it with emo kids, so I guess I have more of an unbiased opinion. Good stuff, classic punk-style rock. I like the drums a lot too. The drums are far more interesting than about 50% of the other songs for Rock Band.

You want to talk about crap... how about that Judas Priest, eh? It was fun in the 80's but come on... really?

kentuckyfried @ May 8th 2008 7:02PM

Oooohhh...Bourne demo. Great. I hope that game succeeds. I hope Haze doesn't bomb either.

JAH75157 @ May 8th 2008 4:44PM

looking forward to trying out haze and bourne tonight.

fanpages @ May 8th 2008 4:45PM

On the US Store:

Haze(tm) Demo (Playable Demo) [PS3] - 1,474Mb (Note: UK Store’s file is 1,557Mb!)
GRID(tm) Demo (Playable Demo) [PS3] - 961Mb (UK: 962Mb)

These differences in file size could be regional language changes but almost 1Mb of adding "u" to "colour" seems a tad excessive, so maybe there are some in-game differences too?

BFN,

fp.
(1upGamers.com)

Xoonaka @ May 8th 2008 4:52PM

Don't all European releases get at least four languages in them, regardless of country? I would think the UK Demo also has French, Spanish, and German in there too.

Joe @ May 8th 2008 4:54PM

Don't forget the Muse GH3 add-on ;)

Eggy @ May 8th 2008 5:05PM

How can anyone with half a brain expect three demos every week? There are only so many games released each month.

AshStampede @ May 8th 2008 5:40PM

anyone know if pixel junk is region locked? I bought the UK version of the game, so will the US add-on pack work for me?

MikeGold @ May 8th 2008 7:14PM

I'm interested in it as well. Got european Pixel Junk and cant wait to buy this expansion >

clif @ May 8th 2008 6:08PM

Also, for Rock Band McDonalds and Harmonix have 99 cent tracks every week. This week it's Paramore and Rock n Roll Band by Boston.

It's there in the Rock Band content under Limited Time offer section. Here's the other coming every thursday.

http://www.rockbandmods.net/news/mcdonalds-adds-rock-band-songs-to-dollar-menu

importuner923 @ May 8th 2008 7:35PM

I love the haze demo but its too short. (heavenly sword should ring a bell) but the game still pretty good regardless. Nectar FTW!!!

importuner923 @ May 8th 2008 7:37PM

oops ment "the game is still pretty good."

chimaera9 @ May 8th 2008 8:23PM

I checked the PSN store, and the only thing missing was the Rocketman add-on, which is what I was looking for (yes, it's true, and I have fun playing it with my 5 year old: she's quite excited for the "expansion." Believe me, I'd much rather play this with her than play with dolls.)

However, the Rocketman add-on is nowhere to be found, and believe me, I looked everywhere. Any news on this? I'm sure most of you don't care, but perhaps they delayed this one?

Ptrack_Git @ May 9th 2008 3:46AM

hmmm... thanx

Lars @ May 9th 2008 12:12PM

The expansion is coming, not here yet. The only update to Rocketmen was to make it available for purchase directly, instead of via the in-game store.

Ptrack_Git @ May 8th 2008 8:40PM

My daughter will only play Puzzle Fighter Turbo HD Remix (good lord that's a long name) with me... it's a good game, but I barely get to play cause she dies so fast most of the time.

chimaera9 @ May 9th 2008 1:13AM

Ptrack: That's my daughter's 2nd favorite game on the PS3 right now. I can beat her only about 30% of the time--she knows how to play, but instead decided it's more fun to bring things down as fast as she can, stacking randomly, until she gets the diamond. It's insane, she's nearly unbeatable, and even on the hardest difficulty against the computer, her technique works. Tell your daughter that trick, and she'll love beating you every time she plays despite your best efforts at strategy.

halebound00 @ May 8th 2008 9:01PM

So.....Bourne Conspiracy just officially moved to the tippy top of my most wanted list. That was the best demo ever. They should all be that good. I've played it like 10 times already and its completely different every time. I hope I get to Haze tonite.

StevenRafael @ May 8th 2008 11:02PM

Wow. I'm actually a bit impressed with that Haze demo. Sure, I'm not without disappointment. My chief complaints are the seemingly bland characters and the somewhat unpolished controls...

But the nectar thing added a nice little element to combat. I disregarded it at first, but it's already grown onto me.

I also like the use of actors during the introduction movie. It brings back memories of Resident Evil 1.
I'll be testing out 4 player split screen tomorrow with some friends. I hope they like the demo as much as I did, because I'm definately looking forward to this game's release.

adolson @ May 9th 2008 9:49AM

I don't think the demo has 4-player split, but it does have 4-player online co-op. I don't know if the final game will have 4-player split either, but it will at least have 2, as the demo does.

obtusegoose @ May 8th 2008 11:30PM

I've been playing PixelJunk Monsters Encore for a few hours. It is INSANELY hard, compared to the original. I have lost quite a few times on the easy levels (which are anything but easy). Good luck everyone! :o)

Dan Davis @ May 9th 2008 10:29AM

Yup... I rainbowed the first level the very first time, but now I can't even beat the next level leading to the easy "special stage". MUCH more difficult!

E.x.A. @ May 9th 2008 6:49AM

Bourne demo was the best demo I've played. The game suddenly is on the top of my most wnted games list. Didn't expected that it will be so good. Hopfuly the full game is so goodor even better than demo. Maybe the first game made from movie which is not going to be f**k up.