The Last Guy, PixelJunk Eden, echochrome (PS3), Novastrike, and Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 are temporarily priced at $4.99. Promotion ends 12/4/08.

Downloadable Games

Brain Challenge ($9.99)
Boost your brain and relieve stress through 25 Visual, Memory, Logic, Math, and Focus mini-games. Choose your favorite coach and get detailed evaluations of your performances in personal training sessions. Compare yourself with other players online and/or offline in 3 delirious multiplayer modes. Thanks to the special Kid Test and Senior Test modes, gather all your friends and family around the game.
ESRB Rated E
File size 220 MB

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix ($14.99)
The original MMA series is back! SFHD Remix receives a whole new look while improving on the innovative fighting system of the original game. Updated with 1080p HD redrawn art and online support, the game offers a unique experience that appeals to new fans and Street Fighter purists alike.
ESRB Rated T
File size 303 MB

Add-on Game Content

LittleBigPlanet Turkey Head Costume (free)
A seasonal exclusive costume for SackBoy!
File size: 1.04 MB

LittleBigPlanet Chimera SackBoy Costume ($1.99)
A premium costume for SackBoy!  From Resistance 2.
File size: 1.04 MB

Guitar Hero World Tour
For all song credits please visit www.guitarhero.com

• “Human” by The Killers ($1.99)
• “Losing Touch” by The Killers ($1.99)
• “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers  ($1.99)
• The Killers Track Pack ($5.49) - Downloadable Track Pack for Guitar Hero World Tour featuring “Human”, “Losing Touch”, and “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers. Please Note: Many songs are available both as singles and as a part of a Track Pack, so please carefully consider your purchases before downloading.

File sizes: 29 MB - 43 MB (singles), 121 MB (track pack)

Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2
Expand your Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore 2 library by purchasing these tracks.

• Unfaithful ($1.49)
• Are You Happy Now? ($1.49)
• Heartbreaker ($1.49)
• All My Life ($1.49)

File sizes: 15 MB - 59 MB

Rock Band
Build your Rock Band library by purchasing these song game tracks. For song credits, visit www.RockBand.com.

• “Mr. Brightside” - The Killers ($1.99)
• “Smile Like You Mean It” - The Killers ($1.99)
• “Spaceman” - The Killers ($1.99)
• The Killers Pack 01 ($5.49) - this track pack includes all of the above The Killers singles.
• “Caprici Di Diablo” - Yngwie Malmsteen ($1.99)
• “Damnation Game” - Yngwie Malmsteen ($1.99)
• “Red Devil” - Yngwie Malmsteen ($1.99)
• Yngwie Malmsteen Pack 01 ($5.49) - this track pack includes all of the above Yngwie Malmsteen singles.
• “Pretty Noose” - Soundgarden ($1.99)
• “Jesus Christ Pose” - Soundgarden ($1.99)
• “Laid to Rest” - Lamb of God ($1.99)

File sizes: 22 MB - 45 MB (singles), 103 MB - 121 MB (track packs)

Game Demos (free)

Dead Space Dismemberment Demo
Download the Dead Space Dismemberment Demo to get a taste of the most intense game experience of the year! As Engineer Isaac Clarke, strategically dismember the Necromorph hordes as you carve a bloody path to survival.File size: 506 MB

Game Videos (free)

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Fighting Mechanics Trailer
File size: 190 MB (HD)

Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Story Mode Preview Trailer
File size: 102 MB (HD)

NBA 2K9 Iguodala Trailer
File size: 25 MB (HD)

NBA 2K9 J In Your Face Trailer
File size: 25 MB (HD)

Prince of Persia - Art Video
File size: 69 MB (HD)

Prince of Persia - Dev Diary 1
File size: 119 MB (HD)

Dew Tour: Orlando - Orlando BMX Highlights
File sizes: 95 MB (HD)

Dew Tour: Orlando - Orlando Skate Thrills
File sizes: 94 MB (HD)

Dew Tour: Orlando - Orlando FMX Recap
File sizes: 91 MB (HD)

Movie and Blu-ray Disc Trailers (free)

Punisher: War Zone
File size: 69 MB (HD)

Lost: The Complete Fourth Season
File size: 105 MB (1080)

PS3 Wallpaper (free)

Prince of Persia Wallpaper (x3)
File sizes: 303 KB - 1.75 MB

Super Street Fighter II HD Turbo Remix Wallpaper
File sizes: 275 KB - 1.25 MB

Game Music (free)

Super Street Fighter II HD Turbo Remix tracks (x5)
File sizes: 3.85 MB - 6.80 MB

PlayStation Store for PSP

Downloadable Games

* PBR Out of the Chute ($14.99) (also downloadable via PS3)

Game Videos (free)

* Everyday Shooter Trailer

Each of the following tracks will cost you 160 Microsoft Point ($2.00)

• “Laid to Rest” by Lamb of God
• “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers
• “Smile Like You Mean It” by The Killers
• “Spaceman” by The Killer (Day & Age)
• “Red Devil” by Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force
• “Caprici di Diablo” by Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force

The following Track Packs will cost you 440 Microsoft Points ($5.50)

• The Killers Pack 01– “Mr. Brightside,” “Smile Like You Mean It,” and “Spaceman”
• Yngwie Malmsteen Pack 01–”Caprici di Diablo,” “Damnation Game,” and “Red Devil”

Note that all Malmsteen tracks do not contain vocals therefore, you will not need a person to sing when playing these (duh!).

(Thanks Major!)

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Call me crazy, but I'm writing a feature for The Age on the 20 most influential games of all time.

"Influential" clearly does not mean best, although there would be few games in contention that were not brilliant fun.

What's more important is the legacy that these games created, their impact on the industry and the medium, which makes the exercise a little more interesting than the typical "best games ever" lists.

But it's certainly easier said than done. Deciding what makes the cut and what misses out is obviously very controversial, as is ranking one game ahead of another.

My work in progress Top 20 list can be found below. I don't want to give away too much by listing my reasoning for each game, but let me know how I'm going so far and feel free to argue among yourselves.

To make it easy to chastise me, I've also included a list of suggested titles that might also be worthy of attention.

1. Pong
Arcade, 1972

2. Grand Theft Auto III
PlayStation 2, 2001

3. Space Invaders
Arcade, 1978

4. Super Mario 64
Nintendo 64, 1996

5. The Sims
PC, 2000

6. Tomb Raider
PlayStation, Saturn, 1996

7. Doom
PC, 1993

8. Tetris
PC, 1985

9. Pac-Man
Arcade, 1980

10. Half-Life
PC, 1998

11. Super Mario Bros
Nintendo Entertainment System, 1985

12. SimCity
Amiga, PC, 1989

13. Command & Conquer
PC, 1995

14. Ultima Online
PC, 1997

15. Civilization
PC, 1991

16. GoldenEye 007
Nintendo 64, 1997

17. The Legend of Zelda
Nintendo Entertainment System, 1996

18. Street Fighter II
Arcade, 1991

19. World of Warcraft
PC, 2004

20. Wolfenstein 3D
PC, 1992

Other contenders:
Gran Turismo
Myst
One on One: Dr J vs. Larry Bird
Parappa the Rapper
Resident Evil
Wii Sports
John Madden Football
Metal Gear Solid
Guitar Hero
EyeToy
Pitfall
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Super Mario Kart
Halo 2
StarCraft
Metroid
Final Fantasy VII
Nintendogs
Elite
Mortal Kombat
Wing Commander
Alone in the Dark
Diablo
Dune II
Wipeout
Quake
The Seventh Guest
Ultima
Populous
Pole Position
Driver
Spacewar
Geometry Wars
Deus Ex
Zork
Test Drive
Donkey Kong
Hard Drivin'
Pokemon
Adventure
Final Fantasy
Maniac Mansion
Counter-Strike
Zaxxon
Outrun
Gauntlet

Keith Fung, a 43-year-old retired telecommunications engineer, started his "gaming life" on an Atari 2600 and then with an Apple II clone.

He eventually upgraded to a Commodore Amiga 500 and then switched to PC gaming.

Like many other Australians, he also recently bought a Wii game console because of its "uniquely different wireless controllers" - the Wii Remote and Wii Fit's Balance Board - because they "added a new dimension to my gaming experience".

Click below for Keith's first Your Turn contribution to Screen Play, prompted by my recent interview with Ubisoft's Alain Corre.

Gameplay over eye candy

Screen Play's recent interview with an executive director of Ubisoft flagged the inherent contradiction between aspiring to deliver great games to consumers while implementing a creatively barren corporate cookie cutter approach creating games.

My view is great gameplay in a computer game is akin to a interesting movie plot, and eye candy cannot disguise poor gameplay for long. Pamela Anderson shaking her "assets" does not make the movie "Barb Wire" into a thought-provoking story or a dark dystopian future science fiction classic!

Many games have such thread-bare plots that we cringe when German impresario, Uwe Boll translates them in to his latest "masterpiece" for the silver screen (or direct to video).
It is easier for the corporate machine to deliver eye candy than good gameplay. It's only a matter of working out how many bodies (programmers/artists), dollars (Euros/Yen) and CPU (pixels/shaders) time to render the game environment and characters to deliver eye candy.

This demand for greater graphical realism drives the massive technological arms race between NVIDIA and ATI for more complex and hence more expensive graphics card. Evolving from a simple memory buffer, video graphics cards sport more transistors than a CPU and demanding more complex on card cooling solutions as they strive to render pixels faster than the previous generation of video cards. This forces us poor gamers in a constant PC upgrade cycle to maintain the frame rates of the next new game.

Development by focus group and committee is guaranteed to deliver more of the same bland "me too" games. Ubisoft will continue to crank out thinly disguised future worker conditioning programs to brainwash Gen Z (Imagine: Nursing Home Carer, anyone?)

With game development costing millions and the potential to deliver billions, corporate conservatism is like the movie industry concentrating on cranking out sequels as sure fire money spinners, rather than risk taking a chance to make something original.

A prime example is Electronic Arts assembly lines cranking out annual sports title. EA's current slogan "It's in the game" is a philosophy which steers the development focus in to packing more and more detail in to every game. So that getting the right shade of green for the grass on the fairway at TPC Saw grass is part of the annual "enhancement" program for each successive iteration of Tiger Wood's branded golf games. It is very different from EA's founding CEO Trip Hawkin's original vision that promoted the creatives behind each game (eg Bill Budge Pinball).

Great game play is perennial and not necessarily original. Take the classic Blizzard game Diablo which is about to receive its third iteration within the near future. At its essence, Diablo owes it game play to that classic arcade game Gauntlet, which also has had three iterations in the past. Gauntlets core game play consisted of a group of players cooperatively working to combat wave after wave of different foes across differing maps while collecting "Phat Lewt"drops.

Diablo alumni who left Blizzard went on to develop their own versions of this basic premise (cooperative game play against relentless waves of foes) in the form of the relatively successful Guildwars series and the less than successful Hellgate: London.

As the old saying goes, money talks. So as consumers, we should direct our purchasing power towards games that deliver on gameplay so they will make more of them. Shunning the cookie cutter sequels, will force the corporates to stop making mediocre copycat games which will only lose them money.

- Keith Fung

Screen Play readers can submit articles or ideas for consideration in Your Turn using the email address screenplayblog@gmail.com. The best blog post each month as judged by Jason Hill will win a PlayStation 3 console from Sony Computer Entertainment worth $699. The next Your Turn prize winner will be announced on November 28. Only Australian residents are eligible and the judge's decision is final.

• "Mr. Brightside" (160 / $2)
• "Smile Like You Mean It" (160 / $2)
• "Spaceman" (160 / $2)

• "Caprici Di Diablo" (160 / $2)
• "Damnation Game" (160 / $2)
• "TRed Devil" (160 / $2)

• "Jesus Christ Pose" - Soundgarden (160 / $2)
• "Pretty Noose" - Soundgarden (160 / $2)
• "Laid to Rest" - Lamb of God (160 / $2)

Rock Band Weekly: The Killers, Yngwie Malmsteen, Soundgarden, Lamb of God originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A couple of minutes of footage beyond the cut show that. Shame it’s not something really meaty like the assault marines escaping from a collapsing bridge, or the fight with the ork warboss. Eurogamer have a more recent hands-on just here.
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According to eagle-eyed Score Hero forum folks, a sneak peak at next week's Rock Band downloadable content briefly appeared on the in-game music store.

And what exactly did they see? Oh, just this pile of rad ...

Soundgarden Singles:
"Jesus Christ Pose"
"Pretty Noose"

Lamb of God single:
"Laid To Rest"

Yngwie Malmsteen Pack 01
"Red Devil'
"Damnation Game"
"Caprici Di Diablo"

The Kilers Pack 01
"Spaceman"
"Mr. Brightside"
"Smile Like You Mean It"

If this is true, it looks like there's a little something here for everyone. Or, from where I'm looking at things, nine God damned songs I'll be spending money on next week. No word on pricing, but it'll likely be in line with earlier DLC (i.e. every dime I've got ... jerks).

[Thanks, power-glove]