Available January 7th in U.S. and Jan 14th in Europe
Paul McCartney New York City Pack 01 $5.50:
“Band on the Run (Live)” $1.99
“Jet (Live)” $1.99
“Sing the Changes (Live)” $1.99
Blink-182 Pack 02 $5.50
“Adam’s Song” $1.99
“First Date” $1.99
“I Miss You” $1.99
Individual Songs
The Psychedelic Furs – “Love My Way” $1.99
The Psychedelic Furs – “Sister Europe” $1.99
The Ramones – “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” $1.99
Gunstar Heroes is an example of how to correctly redo a classic. For those who don’t know, Gunstar Heroes was originally a SEGA Genesis game, released in 1993. The game consists of three different types of gameplay. On-foot shooting parts, hoverbike shooting parts, and spaceship shooting parts. Basically, you’re shooting the whole time, in three vastly different environments. The whole game can be completed solo, or with a friend locally, or online, although very few people were playing. Thankfully, you can save anywhere, and continue from that point at anytime.
The first level is a rapid killfest. You can just aim your weapon around the screen and bet you’ll kill everything. The second level gives you a taste of the hoverbike portion. You go along a set of rails, on either the top or bottom of the screen, and shoot everything. The third level has the same premise of the first, yet the action never seems to get old or repetitive. 
The fourth level presents you with a game board of sorts, where you roll a dice, and you’ll most definitely and on a mini-boss fight. After a few of mini battles, you beat the final boss for that level, and move onto the spaceship sections. The game took me around 3-4 hours to complete, and I enjoyed almost every second of it.
The game also has a unique weapon system. You’re able to carry two different types of weapons. You can pick up different weapons scattered about the levels. Each combination produces a different outcome. For example, some combinations make a very power, short-range laser, while others make long-range fireballs. If you’ve never played Gunstar Heroes before, I would give it a shot. On sale for $2.99 until Thursday, you can’t go wrong. Even at $4.99, I would recommend it for anyone who hasn’t experienced this classic game before.
Recorded with my capture card earlier today. Excuse the terrible gameplay – in order to cature it with the capture card, i’ve got to play without the HDMI cable, instead with composites. Not so hot on an HD TV! Very blurry picture while playing, which made spotting enemies far away pretty tough. I did rack up a few kills though, so all is well.
Enjoy.
Blast Off may be a mini, but it packs a major punch. Released on November 24th by Halfbrick Studios, Blast Off is a game with a simple concept but with ad added twist, gravity. In the game, your objective is to maneuver your spaceship to rescue little astronauts floating around in space, and then travel to an exit. You launch your ship into space from a rotatable planet Earth. The longer you hold down X before you launch, the more thrust your launch will have. You then must retrieve a certain number of astronauts to open the exit portal. The challenge come in with the gravity factor. The larger the planet, the more gravitational pull it has. So, if you’re trying to grab two astronauts around a giant planet, chances are you’re gonna get sucked into it in the process. Thankfully, if you screw up mid-flight, you can simply hit L to reset the level, which you will find yourself doing very often in the later levels.
The game contains four difficulties, with an average of twelve levels per difficulty. Which brings me to another point, This game is HARD. You’ll most definitely be throwing your PSP against the wall in rage once you get into the Hard and Insane difficulties. Some of the levels are a cakewalk, though. 
If you’re determined, you could probably complete the game in about an hour. But, you can always go back to rescue every single astronaut in a level to get a gold medal. At $2.99, Blast Off is a bargain for the amount of content it has. Plus, it works great on the PS3. If you have a few dollars laying around in your wallet wondering what to buy, I have to say that Blast Off is a must buy.
The PS3 exclusive beta for DICE’s upcoming game, has been extended even longer to an unknown time. The following was spotted on Bad Company 2’s Twitter, “Haggard took out one of Santa’s Reindeer so the #PS3 Beta is going a bit longer while we deal w/the police report.” Although there is no official word from EA or DICE as to how long the beta will run, they will probably try to keep it alive as long as they can until it gets taken down by Sony. The beta expires in February 28th. So after that, it will no longer launch from the XMB at all.
Do you like cash? I’m sure you do! Do you want DOUBLE the cash? Well, now you can accomplish your dream of earning double the cash on Uncharted 2 this weekend! From December 25th through the 26th, you can earn double the cash you normally would when playing any multiplayer mode. Plus, all of the characters have the added bonus of wearing a Santa hat! So, get some of that double cash while you still can kids!
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