Tag Archives: Minis

FuturLab has announced Velocity, scrolling minis shooter with gameplay featuring a teleport mechanic which allows players to jump around the screen and return to previous areas of a level to solve “time sensitive logic puzzles.”

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SNK Playmore USA has announced the North American release of eight SNK Arcade Classics as PlayStation minis titles for the PSP and PS3.

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A whole raft of offers are detailed on the EU PlayStation blog, check inside for the highlights.

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The always-reliable Australian Classification Board has listed yet another unannounced project – three “Mega Minis” bundles for the PSP.

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Sony wants folks to help Swedish developer The Bearded Ladies Consulting make a PlayStation Network game.

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Namco Bandai’s announced on the US PS Blog that Pac-Man Championship Edition will be available on PS minis for $4.99 tomorrow. The title will be “a relatively more traditional take on PAC-MAN” than what Championship Edition DX was when it released on PS3 and PSP last year.

Sony’s confirmed that iPhone mega-hit Angry Birds will release on PSN this week.

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Sony will release FirstPlay Episode 34 later on tomorrow, and subscribers should be pleased to know it comes with a free minis title.

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SCEA’s announced it’s holding a massive winter sale on the PS Store for PS3, PSP and its minis collection.

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Sony has announced its minis range has passed the 1 million download milestone across PAL, Asia and US territories.

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You can never have enough games. Never.

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Remember all the hoohah about the cost of ESRB ratings contributing to the consumer charge for PSP Minis? It’s bollocks, according to the ratings body.

“The ESRB has a reduced fee of $800 for games that have development costs under $250,000,” said ESRB spokesman Eliot Mizrachi, speaking to Kotaku.

Obviously this “would likely apply to virtually all PSP Minis,” he added.

This doesn’t quite tally with comments last week from Fieldrunners developer Sergei Gourski, who said that, “The costs of ratings such us ESRB is significantly more then we had realized”.

Maybe Fieldrunners cost more than $250,000 to make, or something. God knows. Hit the links.

SCEE just press released all the Minis shipping with PSPgo today, giving details for all 13 games.

Alien Havoc, Tetris and so on are available now. Hit the link for everything.

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iPhone tower defence juggernaut Fieldrunners will release as a PSPgo Mini this week, it’s just been confirmed on the Euro PS Blog.

The PSP version includes new maps, new towers, new music and “enhanced graphics,” according to that post.

Can’t say fairer than that. Hit the link for more. Movie after the break.

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SCEA PSN boss Eric Lempel has directly contradicted comments made by SCEA senior account manager Justin Cooney on the matter of whether developers are allowed to patch and add multiplayer to PSP Minis.

“You can patch Minis,” Lempel told Destructoid, “but we won’t have multiplayer functions in the beginning.

“Basically, to get these developers on board, and to make it easier to test and get it through the pipeline, we won’t be allowing that functionality for the first stage of Minis.”

Cooner told Gamasutra last week that, according to the site, “PSP Mini digital download games will not be allowed to have wireless multiplayer functionality, downloadable content, or software updates.”

What a crazy, crazy mess. Somebody should write a letter. Minis launch alongside PSP go on October 1.

Update: PR added.

Original Story: The first launch title of the Minis game collection, which was announced in Cologne last week, has been confirmed as a title known as Vempire.

According to the description of the game, it’s a puzzle game, which has a hint of strategy added into the mix. Collect artefacts, collect powers and more, these are just some of the gameplay features for the title.

More at PS3Center.

The game, and more to be announced from the Minis collection, will launch alongside the PSPgo on October 1.

We’re checking with SCEE for more info.

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Sony announced during their GamesCom conference this evening that a set of mini-games, known simply as Minis, will be available from October 1: the day the PSP Go launches in Europe. They are 100Mb in size and will be available from the PS Store at launch and downloaded directly from the PSP.

SCEE president Andrew House promised that an extensive line-up of the games will be available, all the way from the PC and mobile game markets.

It’s unclear if this will work with older PSP models.

Read what happened during the conference here.