American PSN releases for September 11th

by Jem Alexander { Sep 11th 2008 at 4:45PM }

While many Europeans are sitting around twiddling their thumbs for the PSN Store update that never was, Americans can rest happily know that their bumper update is ready and waiting for them. There's a lot of stuff available today, including the MotorStorm: PR demo, which you can access via the latest issue of Qore. There's also a Mirror's Edge theme which we're looking forward to trying out. Here's the full release list:

Playable Content

Jeopardy full game ($14.99)
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift demo (available via Qore only)
Fifa 09 demo
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith demo

Add-on Content

PAIN Amusement Park expansion ($5.99)
PAIN "Yeony" character ($0.99)
PAIN "Tati" character ($0.99)
PAIN "Kenneth" character ($0.99)
Rock Band DLC (found after the break)
Guitar Hero III DLC (due on Friday, found after the break)

Videos

Golden Axe: Beast Rider trailer
Fifa 09 trailer
NHL 09 teaser trailer
NHL 09 defensive sizzle trailer
Blitz: The League II trailer
Saints Row 2 "Uncle Gary Sticky Bombs" trailer
Saints Row 2 "Uncle Gary Throwing People" trailer
NFS Undercover launch trailer
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway "Brutality of War" video
Legendary "Behind the scenes" episode 3

Themes and Wallpapers

PAIN Amusement Park wallpaper
Mirror's Edge theme
NFS Undercover theme
PAIN Amusement Park theme
PAIN Yeony theme
PAIN Tati theme
PAIN Kenneth theme

Rock Band DLC

All That Remains Pack ($3)

"This Calling" ($1)
"Chiron" ($1)
"Two Weeks" ($1)

Guitar Hero III DLC

Metallica "Death Magnetic" Album ($17.99)

"That Was Just Your Life"
"The End Of The Line"
"Broken, Beat & Scarred"
"The Day That Never Comes"
"All Nightmare Long"
"Cyanide"
"The Unforgiven III"
"The Judas Kiss"
"Suicide & Redemption J.H."
"Suicide & Redemption K.H."
"My Apocalypse"

Tags: psn-store, releases

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

drdre74 @ Sep 11th 2008 4:50PM

cool I'll be playing the motorstorm demo tonight if it doesn;t take 10 hours to download like some of the other big demos to come this year.

kevin @ Sep 11th 2008 5:56PM

its 650 mb ....

Lars @ Sep 11th 2008 8:26PM

Not too bad, 20 min DL.

Effing Qore... Hate them delaying the demo for everyone else to try and get more subscribers/suckers.

mewoks @ Sep 11th 2008 4:56PM

If any brave souls buy the Jeopardy! game, please let us know if Trebek is in it in anyway shape or form. It just wouldn't be Jeopardy! without him.

DeforMAKulizer @ Sep 11th 2008 5:12PM

I'd like to know too hehe... And give us your views of the game.... Is it worth paying 15 $?

kevin @ Sep 11th 2008 7:17PM

it sucks questions are hard they dont talk at all.
but it is 1080p

rich @ Sep 11th 2008 5:30PM

i cannot see the fifa 09 demo on there ????

NipGrip @ Sep 11th 2008 4:59PM

Very cool, grabbing the Motorstorm demo now and will check out that Aerosmith demo though I'll never buy it I'm sure.

Packfan @ Sep 11th 2008 5:34PM

Gh Aero isn't even worth the demo. It will make you cry and yours ears will start bleeding, all in one small package!

SnazzyD @ Sep 11th 2008 5:21PM

I'd buy Jeopardy! if the Sean Connory character is in it, and you can make jokes about Alex's mother...

kevin @ Sep 11th 2008 7:17PM

they dont even talk,

JerusalemFunkFactory @ Sep 12th 2008 8:57AM

Is that an SNL reference?

Dan Davis @ Sep 12th 2008 3:17AM

ANAL BUM COVER!

VoLiTioN @ Sep 11th 2008 5:13PM

Jeopardy is $15?! Was kinda expecting it to be $10... Ah well.

Chad @ Sep 11th 2008 5:23PM

No Alex, good game though. Is multiple choice input, so luckily you don't have to type it all in.

Archon @ Sep 11th 2008 5:26PM

You forgot about the free Stephen Colbert song for Rock Band:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/11/stephen-colbert-brings-freedom-charlene-to-rock-band/

andyscout42 @ Sep 11th 2008 5:34PM

There's also a free Rock Band song that got a surprise release today. By Stephan Colbert.....

Shaun @ Sep 11th 2008 5:53PM

Motorstorm demo only 615MB Nice.

FunkyFlyChicken @ Sep 11th 2008 6:06PM

Anyone know if the new Rock Band patch, will allow the Rock Band Strat (guitar) to work with the GH:Aerosmith demo?

kevin @ Sep 11th 2008 7:18PM

why the hell would that reflect another game its like saying will the battlefiled update fix the mic problem on cod 4....

FunkyFlyChicken @ Sep 11th 2008 7:37PM

Someone needs to learn to read. I know kids nowadays aren't learning what they need to in school, but come on.. that wasn't a hard statement to get.

I was asking if the guitar FUNCTIONS OR NOT. Not giving any sort of opinion on whether it should or not.

/shakes head

FunkyFlyChicken @ Sep 11th 2008 7:51PM

Besides Kevin, the patch was to make the guitars cross compatible, have been a ton of articles about it lately. Keep up with things before you go being an ass.

NipGrip @ Sep 11th 2008 6:29PM

Wow, Motorstorm has improved quite a bit since the first iteration. MUCH more vibrant colors and overall the graphics are sharper. The game seems much faster paced as well and I like the demo's selection of vehicles. They handle nicely and the track has plenty of alternate routes you can take. It reminds me of a cross between the original Motorstorm and Excite Truck from the Wii. More arcade-y than the original, less arcade-y than Excite Truck.

I was debating between this and Pure, but at this point, my expectation have been exceeded by Motorstorm and it's a definite purchase.

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playcrackthesky @ Sep 12th 2008 12:36AM

Height, Weight, Sex info also please. Needed before I make such decision.

Fausk @ Sep 11th 2008 6:34PM

and don't bother with the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith demo, doesn't work with Rock Band guitars. So much for Sony enforcing consistency.

Lars @ Sep 11th 2008 8:27PM

Hahaha, way to go Activision... lock out half the guitrollers out there so those people are completely unimpressed by your demo.... nice.

DrunkRaba @ Sep 11th 2008 6:46PM

Aww nothing for me this week other than maybe that Mirror's edge theme. Maybe we will get another kick-ass update to the video store tomorrow.

PSN ID -- TheUnforgivenII @ Sep 11th 2008 7:07PM

FIFA 09 is awful, what a pity.. :(

shortyvs @ Sep 11th 2008 7:11PM

I wonder how PS3 Fanboy gets it's information. This certainly isn't the first time they've missed some PSN update items.

jarhead906 @ Sep 11th 2008 7:24PM

PS3fanboy needs to have an article for each Qore episode that arrives on the PSN. Im tired of wondering if the purchase will be worth it for each one, considering that some of the content I know of doesn't interest me. I'd like to see a review (Buy or not to buy) and ALL of the extra content available with purchase because I miss out on some goodies when I use the activation code in the Playstation: The Official Magazine.

Wat up Homie!! @ Sep 11th 2008 7:25PM

don't see motorstorm demo at all

Arda82 @ Sep 11th 2008 7:44PM

Fifa 2009 simply ROCKS... way better than Fifa 2008 and fifa 2008 was way better than PES 2008...

thank you EA.

LatinoLA1 @ Sep 11th 2008 11:51PM

when i first looked at Fifa 2009, it looked pretty good but know i dont know it might just be cause im use to fifa 2008 so this might need some time to get used to it seems a little more fast paced and dont know why but the balls can curve crazy style now which is a little weird, but ill just wait and see..

Arda82 @ Sep 12th 2008 8:32AM

yes the game is a modified version of 2008 but with improvements... i found that shooting from outside the box is more accurate... also long balls, through passes one and ones are much better. It is true that the game is faster than fifa 2008. But for me thats good because faster is better

Mr. Joe @ Sep 12th 2008 10:44AM

i am really liking this fifa 09 demo. i was trying to wait for fifa 10 because i hate ea and their "new" game every year and i was trying to hold out. but this version is slick. it feels way better than 08. the animations actually feel real time. in 08 you feel like an animation takes four seconds before your character will do anything else. goalies respond well. and blasting the ball into the stands is actually pretty easy. people fall down after getting touched. all these combos make it feel and look much more like a real football match, imo. this demo got me excited. this is a great upgrade from 08.

matahtak @ Sep 11th 2008 9:39PM

Ok here are my impressions of Jeopardy! :

First thing you'll notice is how silent this game is, there is minimal sound, and no music or voices. There isn't a host either. Other than that it basically has all the other familiar sound bits from Jeopardy! from the board filling up with images to the final Jeopardy! theme song.

Character creation isn't that wonderful, it's basically pick a gender, race (by means of "Face"), and then clothes and name. You have 5 characters slots of custom characters that can hold stats. The animations in game, though probably un-intentional, are nothing short of hilarious.

When a clue appears you can read it in silence until you are ready to buzz in. You can buzz in at anytime so the faster reader usually will buzz before you. Whether or not they know the answer.

You then get to choose one of four answers, and you have literally 3 seconds to do so. This is probably my biggest disappointment with the game. I can understand that they are trying to promote players knowing the answer before buzzing in, but if the person has trouble finding the answer he knows then it's too late. Would like to see this patched.

Final Jeopardy! shows you the clue and then when you read it, you get to respond in the same fashion as with the rest of the clues. This is another mistake on the developers part because when you select your answer the other players around you know which one you pick (I'm speaking about offline multiplayer). They should have done this Madden style and have a controller button match up with each of the four possible answers.

After you complete a game you are rewarded with statistics of your percentage of answers right to wrong, and how many answers you got right in a row. This adds to your grand total along with your wins to losses.

Overall, interesting for $14.99, but definitely could use some work. If you have your buddies over and want a good laugh then try it out. But if your serious about Jeopardy! Then this will insult you.

bill @ Sep 12th 2008 8:31AM

Wow .... ive always been a hardcore ps3 fan ... ive sat through about 3-6 PSN updates with no good games ....... and PSN japan has stuff like Einhander ....Considering how badass castle crashers is for 360 ... PS3 is lookin real shitty at the moment .....I NEVER thought id say that ... want to buy good update .....