<![CDATA[Kotaku: blast factor]]> http://tags.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: blast factor]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/blastfactor http://kotaku.com/tag/blastfactor <![CDATA[PlayStation Store Update: Advanced Rock Edition]]> This week's PlayStation Store update should be going live right around.... now. It's a rather solid week, containing the expansion to the previously released Blast Factor known as Blast Factor: Advanced Research. That's a $4.99 download. On the free side, demos for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and The Darkness are also available. But that's not all!

PlayStation Store's passive side features trailers for Michael Clayton, Get Smart and The Game Plan. That's twice The Rock!

A Resident Evil 5 wallpaper has also been added as has a cheaper Super Rub-A-Dub. The duck steering game has dropped from $6.99 to $2.99 as of today.

Each new addition should take you no more than a few hours to download, now that the PlayStation Store data center has added a second modem.

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<![CDATA[Blast Factor Multiplay, Jet Moto Hits PS3 Today]]> blastf.jpg

Sony Computer Entertainment America plans to add a new multiplayer pack for Blast Factor today.

The $3 pack lets gamers choose from a variety of grudge and coop modes and support up to four players. You can also play with up to a 150 percent speed increase. It probably goes without saying that you need to have Blast Factor to use the multiplayer pack. So I won't say it.

Sony also announced that they are releasing their PSP racer Jet Moto on the store today. It will sell for $6.

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<![CDATA[New Downloadable PS3 Content Comin']]> An e-mail from the PlayStation Underground indicates that new downloads are headed to the PlayStation Store.

Both Genji: Days of the Blade and Blast Factor will see downloadable updates in the near future. The former will come in the shape of a costume pack, one that has been available to Japanese consumers (for free) for some time. The other download is a "Co-op Play Download Pack" for the Geometry Wars lookalike Blast Factor.

No price point or availability date is mentioned for either.

Does this signal the beginning of ugly microtransactions infecting the Store, designed to squeeze a few more dollars out of gamers who think they've already paid for the full game, or is this simple generosity, an example of the capabilities of the PlayStation Store? I don't mind games that are upfront about their planned expansions via downloads, SingStar for example, but the withholding of content for future horse armor-like screwjobs just suck.

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<![CDATA[PS3 Online Game Blast Factor Shoots A "Meh"]]>

Blast Factor is one of the few titles up on the PlayStation Network. The tumbstick control and game play will invite obvious comparisons to Geometry Wars. That didn't really bother me at all. What did was that Blast Factor is easy. Like, really, really easy. Perhaps the demo is easy, cause I flew through it in approximately two minutes. Basically, I just moved my ship in the middle and spun around firing in all directions, killing everything. No timing involved, not much skill. I would've downloaded the entire game, but I felt it would've been a waste—not of money, but of time.

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<![CDATA[PlayStation 3 Network Games Priced, Sized]]> Sony Computer Entertainment is set to launch the PS3 in like, hours, over in Japan. Yeah, I had kind of forgotten, too. That means the PlayStation Network is going to be officially launching, too.

One of the downloadable arcade style titles from Sony themselves, Blast "Don't Call It Geometry Wars" Factor has been priced and measured, according to IGN. Weighing in at a slim 95 MB, the first party downloadable game will set Japanese consumers back 840 yen. That's seven bucks and change American, but since when does SCEA go by simple currency exchange rates? I'll eat my hat* if its not $10.

* Please note I do not currently own a hat.

First PlayStation Network Pricing [IGN]

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<![CDATA[PS3 E-Titles, Screenshots Leaked]]>

Some wily NeoGAF forumers somehow managed to get their hands on screenshots and info of games coming to the PS3's online service, inadvertently leaked before they were set to be revealed at the San Francisco Press Day on Thursday. The games include:

Blast Factor
Flow
Go! Sudoku
Lemmings 2
Swizzleblocks

Blast Factor, Flow and Lemmings 2 look particularly snazzy.

Games being shown at Gamer's Day event [NeoGAF.com]

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