Signed, Sealed And Dated

So it falls upon me to divulge a bunch of new dates for multiple games, packs, and so on. Thankfully this was a great week for finding out some high profile release dates, as well as some that people have been itching to get their hands on. But we might as well as start off with the release we've got the most deets on; Tomb Raider: Underworld for the PS2.

Europe

UK, Italy, BeNeLux - 23rd January
Scandinavia - 26th January
France, Germany, Spain - 30th January

US

Everywhere - Early March (we'll update you guys when we know more.)

But that's not where all this Tomb Raidery goodness stops, oh no, we've got something more. You know the two new chapters that's coming up for the Xbox 360 as DLC, Beneath the Ashes and Lara's Shadow? Well, here's a sneak preview of what they're working on, deduce from it what you will!


The release date for the first chapter, Beneath the Ashes is February 10th, and alongside it comes six new outfits and 125 points worth of achievements. The next chapter, Lara's Shadow, will come a month later on March 10th. Warning: both will bring new awesome places to raid, (possibly tombs.)

Now as you may have known, other dates have cropped up over the Internet, but here's the ones that we'll be keeping our eye on (coz they're for Europe!).

Flower (PSN) - February 12th 2009
[Edit (Octopus)] Nobi Nobi Boy - February 19th 2009
Killzone 2 (PS3) - February 27th 2009
Red Alert (PS3) - March 2009
Fat Princess (PSN) - March 2009
I Am Alive (PS3) - April 2009

Jeez. I'm going to love the next two months.

-AW

Upcoming Releases

A break from our regular intelligent reportage to inform you, as we occassionally do, of some actual news. A whole bunch of release dates for upcoming network and disk PS3 games have found their way on to the wonderful creation known as the internet lately. Vamoose:

• SOCOM: Confrontation (PSN) - February 5th (the disk and headset bundle should be out on the 6th)
• Flower (PSN) - February 19th
• Patapon 2 (PSP) - February 19th (that's for download, the disk should be out on the 20th)
• Killzone 2 (PS3) - February 27th
• Resistance Retribution (PSP) - March 12th (again, the download, disk should be the 13th)

Looks like it's gonna be a good spring, and there's still Fat Princess and Ragdoll Kung-Fu to be dated for release.

Right, time to find some money.

Home

It's like pulling a block out of a Jenga tower. There's always worry and anticipation, possibility for failure and humiliation, but when it goes right? Complete joy.

That's what it feels like in Home right now. After years of development, it's finally released and ready for god knows how many people to flood in thrusting and harassing their way to fame. I was worried that the servers would struggle, Sony never seems to be good at guessing them kind of things, but right now it's all pretty smooth. Octopus is reporting some instabilities, but it could be random, who knows.

Couple of things that we need to point out that are missing:

• Everything

Yeah, so much for the new Square, flying saucer game, and Watchmen trailers, (we already knew the clothes, furniture and game spaces were delayed a week) which were supposed to be as soon as you log in, but SCE must've thought better of it. Knowing them it's either coming tomorrow or next week with the rest of the content (i.e. Red Bull air race) but that's yet to be clarified.

So for you beta testers logging in now, don't be alarmed there's nothing new, but you newbies, go out there, make some friends, dance suggestively (in that order) and have fun.

What can we say? Home, is finally...Home.