Big Franchises Coming To PSP

24 Feb 2009 at 17:02:58 by Tim McDonald

Sony has announced that LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm, and Buzz! are all coming to the PSP.

Details on any of them are few and far between, but we know that LittleBigPlanet will allow "players to create their own levels and share them with the community," just like its big brother on the PS3.

MotorStorm: Arctic Edge for the PSP by Bigbig Studiobrings the off-road racer to new icy arctic locations. Gamers canexpect sudden avalanches, broken ice bridges, and three differentracing altitudes.

Two new vehicles are also being introduced tocombat the ice, the cold and the snow - the Snowcat and the SnowMachine. Vehicles can also be personalised with a selection ofdifferent parts including wheels, exhausts, spoilers,  liveries andstickers.

Multiplayer modes include  two to eight playerswirelessly via Ad Hoc Mode on PSP or alternatively, you can alsocompete via online multiplayer using Infrastructure Mode on PSP to makeit to the summit of the online global leaderboards. Motorstorm: Arctic Edge will also be coming to PS2.

The Buzz! release is titled Buzz! Brain of the UK, and we're guessing it'll have a lot of community focus, since it's apparently "searching for the smartest people in the country."

Excitingly, all three are due this year. We imagine we'll be hearing a lot more about them soon.

The Assassin's Creed franchise will be coming to the PSP, in addition to Rock Band, in the form of Rock Band Unplugged. The Assassin's Creed release will be officially announced by Ubisoft later this year.

But, perhaps most excitingly of all, we'll also being seeing outings for the Petz series on the PSP.

All of these games should be out sometime in 2009.

“There are a lot of big claims in the gaming industry but we’reconfident when we say that 2009 is going to be an exciting year forPSP,” said Mark Hardy, European Marketing Director, SCEE. “Our fanshave demanded big PSP titles and this year, we’re going to deliveragain and again. With Resistance: Retribution, already on its way tostores, PSP gamers are going to get one big franchise after another."

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