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[PlayStation Store Update] August 30th

Downloadable games! Demos! Trailers! Hey, it's a decent update!
Author: Sam Bishop
Published: August 30, 2007
To help better outline some of the stuff that will hit the PlayStation Network and the PS Store for all you PS3 owners out there, we've decided to offer short 'n sweet summaries of all the content you'll see once the US store is updated. In the future, we'll try to expand it out to include other regions, but for now, here's what you'll see this week:


[Games]
Super Puzzle Fighter II HD Remix -- The drought of downloadable titles finally ends this week with a doozy: Puzzle Fighter is go, allowing you to match and smash gems to your heart's content either at home with a friend or online against other folks.
Price: $9.99

Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online -- Finally! Tekken 5 goes online, allowing you to play against the insanely good Tekken freaks all over the world. The online component can be purchased along with the offline Tekken 5 DR if you don't have that yet, or as a stand-alone add-on if you do.
Price: $9.99 - Add-on | $29.99 - Bundle

[Demos]
All-Pro Football 2K8 -- Now you can finally see what all those years Visual Concepts spent toiling away on a football game that isn't actually NFL-licensed was all about in this here demo goodness.

NASCAR '08 -- Vrooooommmm! Zip around a track forever turning left as the excitement (or a drunken stupor) piles on! Or just do what we do and drive in the opposite direction and watch the craziness ensue.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 -- Tiger's back, but this time you can challenge him and just about anyone else online to a shot-by-shot grudge match that lets you rack up the best shot possible on EA Sports' GamerNet.

[Videos]
Heavenly Sword "Making Of" - Episode 4: The Sound of Combat -- As we have discovered first-hand, the art of adding foley (that's sound effects for those of you who don't try to sound like you're all Hollywood) is a subtle but absolutely necessary component in selling a game's presentation. See how the NY-based foley team did it.

Heavenly Sword Anime - Episode 4 -- This whole endless cycle of bloodshed over a supposedly divine sword is seriously messing with the tribes in the game. Find out just why they keep hacking off each others limbs for the thing in part four of the anime.

[Game Trailers]
Clive Barker's Jericho -- Poor Clive Barker must've had a seriously messed up childhood, because the upcoming squad-based game he helped create has some insanely creepy stuff going on in it.

Folklore -- "Surviving the Netherworld" teaches you all the ins and outs of traveling from our world to that of faeries and imps and whatnot.

[Movie Trailers]
Bee Movie and Beowulf