If you rely on this post and only this post for all of your PS3 news each week, you don’t know they’re introducing a 40GB model with no backwards capability and slashing the price on the 80GB model. But you’re not doing that, so I just wasted a link there.
on the shelves
– Oblivion (Game of the Year Edition) [gamestats] – a bundle of Oblivion, the expansion pack (which isn’t otherwise available), and downloadable stuff. Maybe I’m understanding it wrong, but it sounds like they’re tricking you into buying another copy of the whole game to get the expansion. $$$$$$$$! Almost every review of the original game, an immense RPG released in March, gives it 9/10 or better and it’s the best rated PS3 game on Gamestats.
– Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground [gamestats] – this is Tony Hawk 9, if you’re counting them out and arranging them numerically. I will not judge you. Reviews vary on this one – IGN accuses it of Maddenitis, a solid game that’s not much new or improved from last year. PGNx Media very much likes the new ideas added. They highlight the video editor feature, but I tend to think anyone who posts video highlights of their video game play is a tremendous dork.*
Demo:
Folklore (RPG-ish)
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (racing)
Game Video
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (Action Adventure; making of)
Burnout (racing; trailer)
Turok (dinosaur hunting; trailer)
Devil May Cry 4 (hack and slash; trailer)
Movie/Blue Ray Trailers
Rails & Ties
Incubus – Alive at Red Rocks
Underworld
Wallpaper
Eye of Judgement (2)
They’re also dropping the price of Calling All Cars to $4.99 till next Thursday.
NEXT WEEK: Games based on cartoon movies, games based on movies based on books, games featuring characters you figured would be a cartoon by now but apparently aren’t, and more
* – exceptions made for RBI Baseball and playing thru Mario all the way on one life.