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Playstation Store Update November 3, 2015

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November’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

  • Magicka 2 (PS4) – 2.1GB
  • The Walking Dead Season 2 (PS4) – 4GB
  • Dragon Fin Soup (PS4, PS3, PS Vita) – 463MB
  • Beyond Good and Evil (PS3) – 1.5GB
  • Mass Effect 2 (PS3) – 12.6GB
  • Invizimals (PSP; playable on PS Vita) – 1.3GB

PlayStation Plus Specials
PlayStation 4 Games

  • Blood Bowl 2 – $34.99
  • Curses n Chaos (cross-buy) – $7.49
  • One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 – $41.99
  • Pure Hold’em World Poker Championship – $15.99
  • Tearaway Unfolded – $27.99

PlayStation 3 Games

  • One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 – $34.99
  • Space Hulk – $35.99
  • Steins;Gate – $27.99

PlayStation Vita Games

  • Amnesia: Memories – $17.99
  • Curses n Chaos (cross-buy) – $7.49
  • One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 – $27.99
  • Space Hulk – $31.49
  • Steins;Gate – $27.99

Ubisoft Sale
PlayStation 4 Games

  • Assassin’s Creed Chronicles China – $3.30
  • Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Helix Credit Large Pack – $19.79
  • Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Helix Credit Medium Pack – $14.99
  • Assassin’s Creed Unity Helix Credit Large Pack – $13.39
  • Assassin’s Creed Unity Helix Credit Large Pack – $7.49
  • Boggle – $6.99
  • Child of Light – $7.50
  • Grow Home – $5.59
  • Monopoly Family Fun Pack – $13.99
  • Rabbids Invasion – $11.99
  • Rabbids Invasion Gold Edition – $17.50
  • Tetris Ultimate – $3.30
  • Toy Soldiers: War Chest – $11.24
  • Toy Soldiers: War Chest Hall of Fame Edition – $20.99
  • Trials Fusion – $11.99
  • Trials Fusion Awesome Max Edition – $20.00
  • Valiant Hearts: The Great War – $7.50

PlayStation 3 Games

  • Beyond Good & Evil HD – $3.30
  • Child of Light – $4.95
  • Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon – $4.95
  • Far Cry Classic – $3.30
  • Monopoly Deal – $2.50
  • Monopoly Plus – $5.00
  • Risk – $5.00
  • South Park: The Stick of Truth – $10.00
  • The Smurfs 2 – $10.00
  • Trivial Pursuit Live – $5.00
  • Valiant Hearts: The Great War – $4.95

PlayStation Vita Games

  • Child of Light – $4.95

Other Deals

  • Abyss Odyssey: Extended Dream Edition (PS4) – $7.50
  • Abyss Odyssey (PS3) – $7.50
  • Class of Heroes (PSP, PS Vita) – $7.50
  • Commander Cherry for PlayStation Camera (PS4) – $7.97 (PS+ members save an extra 7%)
  • Crimson Gem Saga (PSP, PS Vita) -$7.50
  • Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble (PSP, PS Vita) – $7.50
  • Rollers of the Realm (PS4, PS Vita) – $5.00
  • Rock of Ages (PS3) – $3.00

 PS4 Games

  • Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers
    $39.99
  • Arcade Archives Ikki
    $7.99
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Out on 11/06)
    $59.99
  • Dragon Fin Soup (3 Way Cross Buy)
    $19.99
  • Indivisible Prototype Beta
    FREE
  • Need for Speed
    $59.99
  • Poncho
    $14.99
  • Snoopy’s Grand Adventure
    $39.99

PS3 Games

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Out on 11/06)
    $49.99
  • Dragon Fin Soup (3 Way Cross Buy)
    $19.99

PS Vita Games

  • Dragon Fin Soup (3 Way Cross Buy)
    $19.99
  • Norn9: Var Commons
    $39.99

PSOne Classic

  • Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return
    $5.99

Bundles

Console Bundle Price
PS4 Need for Speed Deluxe Edition $69.99

PS4 Add-ons

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

  • Steampunk outfit for Evie (Free)
  • Steampunk Pack ($4.99)

Digaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance

  • Scenario: Disgaea 2: Adell Episode($3.99)

Evolve

  • Behemoth ($9.99)
  • Crow ($4.99)
  • Gorgon ($9.99)
  • Gorgon Scarab Skin (Season Pass 2 Exclusive) ($2.99)
  • Lennox($4.99)
  • Slim ($4.99)
  • Sunny ($4.99)
  • Torvald($4.99)
  • Wraith Tropical Skin ($2.99)
  • Hunting Season 2($24.99)
  • Hunting Season Pass ($14.99)

Rocksmith 2014

  • David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust ($2.99)
  • Def Leppard – Hysteria ($2.99)
  • Foghat – Slow Ride ($2.99)
  • Wolfmother – Joker and the Thief ($2.99)

Tales of Zestiria

  • Idolmaster Costume Set ($3.99)

The Escapists

  • Duct Tapes are Forever ($4.49)

PS3 Add-ons

Rocksmith 2014

  • David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust ($2.99)
  • Def Leppard – Hysteria ($2.99)
  • Foghat – Slow Ride ($2.99)
  • Wolfmother – Joker and the Thief ($2.99)

PS Vita Add-ons

Samurai Warriors: Chronicles 3

  • Samurai News 19 (Free)

Avatars

Console Theme Price
PS3 A Biker Skull USA Avatar $1.99
PS3 A Dragon Eye Avatar $1.99
PS3 A Face Full Of Anger Avatar $1.99
PS3 A Gangsta’s Grill Avatar $1.99
PS3 A Killer Bear Avatar $1.99
PS3 A Shot To The Head Avatar $1.99
PS3 A Tank $1.99
PS3 A Target Is Acquired Avatar $1.99
PS3 Cross Gun Girl Avatar $1.99
PS3 Gun Prep Avatar $1.99
PS3 Mars Avatar $0.99

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Why Was Dead Space Such A Great Game?

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Why was Dead Space such a great game?
By UNDED

To the surprise of many, Dead Space was a sleeper hit that quickly cemented itself as a mainstay horror series. At the time of release, the horror genre had grown somewhat stagnant due to “horror” titles such as Alone in the Dark, Left 4 Dead, and Silent Hill: Homecoming, that either more resemble action games, or just weren’t scary. With its engaging combat, unsettling audio design, and creepy visuals, Dead Space immediately became a fan favorite.

Following the story of Engineer Isaac Clark, you are dispatched to the USG Ishimura to investigate radio silence. The ship has gone completely ‘black’ and you are sent to help get things running again. Your ship is damaged upon arrival, leaving you and a few other ship mates stranded. Before long, you are greeted by the most haunting visuals at the time. Rooms are pitch black except for console lighting. Severed body parts and blood cover the hallways. What should be a well-maintained ship is in total chaos. The second you enter the Ishimura you are given a very clear sense of dread, that what happened here was not done by a human, and that’s what’s most startling.

As you make your way through the ship, the noises take a turn to the macabre. Loud audio engineering in movies is frowned upon for being a cheap scare, but in Dead Space its systematically designed to accompany a visual effect. Lights flicker, bodies move, creatures pass by in vents. All the while the ship creeks and bangs, and pipes spout vapor –staples of deep space horror games/movies since the original Alien.

You’re soon faced with zombies in the form of Necromorphs, the twisted undead remains of crew members aboard the ship. The Necromorphs aren’t technically “zombies” because even though they do eat you, that is not their sole purpose. One of the biggest reasons Dead Space became such a hit was because it flipped conventional combat on its head. Years of zombie and military games trained gamers up to this point to aim for the head. Necromorphs can only be dispatched by dismemberment, aiming for the limbs and finishing off with a devastating stomp to the head. The variety of enemies (babies with tentacles, winged bat creatures, tiny spores that can’t be killed by conventional Dead Space means) also kept the game feeling new to the end.

Dead Space 2 took everything that made part one great and added to it, easily making it the best entry of the series. Even with the inclusion of microtransactions in Dead Space 3, the series still kept to its roots as it concluded protagonist Isaac Clark’s story. The entire series playing with on Isaac’s guilt about his girlfriend dying aboard the Ishimura and the resulting PTSD from part one, working with the mental illness in part 2, and coming to terms and moving past it in part 3. Dead Space, however, deserves the credit for stepping out of the gaming norms and trying something new and in turn, refreshing a genre that even now, often gets overlooked.