3 on 3 NHL Arcade Trophies

This arcade version of the NHL hockey games should be hitting the PSN in the near future.

Bronze Trophies:

• Let's Play - Play and complete an online game.
• Team Player - Play and complete a quick ranked game with 3 users on your side.
• Score Big - Score at least 10 goals in one game.
• Big Player - Score two goals with a Big Player powerup in one game.
• Super Speed - Score two goals with a Super Speed powerup in one game.
• Super Shot - Score two goals with the Super Shot powerup in one game.
• Ice Man - Score two goals while an opponent is frozen in one game.
• Double Up - Score two goals using the Double Score powerup in one game.
• Over and Out - Hit a player over the boards.

Silver Trophies:

• Brick Wall - Win a game without being scored on.
• Race to Victory - Win a game to at least 15 goals.
• Trickster - Score a goal using a trick move.

Gold Trophies:

• Jack of all trades - Score with 5 different powerups in one game.

TWP Awards 08: Best Trophies

This summer, Sony finally introduced its rewards system Trophies, and we turned from the sort of people that beat on Acheivement junkies, to rabid Trophy whores (or at least I did). Here we celebrate the best trophy lists so far.



Winner: Warhawk (PS3/PSN)

I think that Warhawk deserves this prize, purely because it pulls off this whole Trophy balance thing perfectly, and also because they patched such an old game when many others didn't bother. The list for Warhawk features a couple of easy bronzes, and then a mix of bronze silver and gold for quirky events in-game, as well as ranking up. But it is the surprise trophies that are the best - when you are playing a perfectly normal frantic game, and just see a random trophy pop-up.



Runner Up: Pain (PSN)

Pain is here because its trophies really seperate the men from the boys -they are bastard hard, and require a helluva lotta commitment to the game.



Runner Up: Burnout Paradise (PS3/PSN)

Runner Up: LittleBigPlanet (PS3)

These two are here because they, like Warhawk, get the balance just right, and use the trophies to encourage players to get involved with the community.



Runner Up: WipEout HD (PSN)

In this list just because you know you've won at life when you acheive 'Trancendence"



Honourable Mention: Linger in Shadows (PSN) & Far Cry 2 (PS3)

Their trophies aren't as great as the rest on this list, but here as honourable mentions because of the sheer WTF factor. LiS' trophies are acheived by messing with the game/movie with the controller, and have useless descriptions. Far Cry 2's are just as unhelpful descripton-wise and sound a lot more epic than they likely actually are.

Our Best Games of 2008

Hello there stranger, just a heads-up that all day on New Years Eve, we will be posting our best games of 2008 in a wide variety of categories that we are mysteriously keeping secret until the big day. So pop back throughout Wednesday to see our choices!

Savage Moon (PSN) Trophies

It seems like lately, all we're posting are trophy lists. But that's okay, we've got an excuse; Christmas. Or more specifically, Christmas chores. We've got stuff to write, just no time to do it, whereas trophy lists don't require much imagination.

And I will create a rule, right here, right now, that we will only post trophy lists for games we will buy, to stop us from deterring from what we intend to become.

Bronze Trophies

• Xipe Imoon Trophy

Award for exemplary completion of an Imoon nebula. All levels of the nebula must be completed with a minimum score achieved on each to win this award.

• Ymir Imoon Trophy
  

Award for exemplary completion of an Imoon nebula. All levels of the nebula must be completed with a minimum score achieved on each to win this award.

• Zeus Imoon Trophy

Award for exemplary completion of an Imoon nebula. All levels of the nebula must be completed with a minimum score achieved on each to win this award.

• Imoon Agamemnon Trophy

This is the award for the successful completion of the first level of the Xipe nebula.

• Imoon Technician Trophy

This award is for the first successful building of a tower upgraded to level 5.

• Imoon-Bane Trophy

Awarded for killing a huge number of Insectocytes.

• Imoon Survivor
  

Awarded for surviving for an impressive amount of time in any Vengeance Mode level.

• Command Degree Trophy
  

Awarded for completing all of the tutorial sections of the game.

• Command Credit Trophy
  

Awarded for earning a significant amount of credits during your levels.

• Command Skill Credit Trophy

Awarded for earning a significant amount of credits during your game using Command Skills.

Silver Trophies

• Imoon Conqueror

This is the award for completion of all levels of the three Imoon nebulae.

• Imoon Artisan

Award for mastery of technology. This is achieved by researching and building all tower types in the game.

Gold Trophies

• Imoon Admiral

This is the award for completion of all levels of the three Imoon nebulae without any damage to mining operations.

Now that's it. I'm off to go wrap some things and defend my moon from savagery.

-AW

Whatever You Want

I was taking a looksee at the search terms that bring people to our lovely internet home we have here, and decided that it'd be nice to share what is making us so popular!

• Want the Astro Tripper trophy list? Right here.
• Yes, GTi Club has trophies too, they're here.
• So does Blast Factor. Looky here.
• The Wanderer's awesome Home unlockable list is here, for those people of you looking for it.
• The GECK add-on for Fallout 3 is indeed now available on PC, and no we don't think it'll be coming to PS3. Should GECK make it to a console at all, Microsoft already bought the exclusive rights to console DLC.
• And if you're trying to get the Blast Factor trophies and happen to be in Europe, that would explain why you're not getting any, the trophy patch is yet to go live here. And no, we don't know when it's coming. Here's hoping soon (and ditto for Echochrome and High Velocity Bowling).
• The latest we've heard, the Resident Evil 5 demo is coming "early 2009".
• A red exclamation mark on a costume in your LBP Popit menu means there is an issue with the costume. This can be for one of two reasons: either the account you downloaded the costume from has been deleted from your PS3 (or the password has changed if you've got it from another account) so the costume has been de-autorised. If this isn't applicable or the mark shows up on a costume you've made yourself, it's a problem with your game data file. There's nothing you can do apart from delete the data and try again.
• Oh, and you can get Home by just going to the Home icon under the PlayStation Network category in the XMB.

Don't say we don't do our public service. If you want to know anything you think we might know, leave us a comment!

Astro Tripper Trophies

Hello again, Octopus here with another trophy list for a just-released PSN game - Astro Tripper. Not too many trophies here, but they are valuable: 3 bronzes, 3 silvers and 2 golds. Happy hunting!

Bronze Trophies:

• Pod Oppressor - Destroy 10 mutated pods in any one level of training grounds.
• Spidery Point - Destroy the Spidery Boss on Arachnophobia [without destroying any of its weapons].
  
• Tank Oppressor - Destroy 20 tanks in sequence.

Silver Trophies:

• Tank Sympathiser - Destroy both generators on Claustrophobia without killing a Tank.
• Fly Swatter - Destroy 3 Flypods withing 5 seconds on any level of Insect Infestation.
• Sneeky Incursion - Destroy the Boss without opening more than one outer door. Only 1 of the 3 outer doors may be open to any degree.

Gold Trophies:

• Worm Tangle - Destroy 3 Worms in sequence on The Ooze.
• Wheel Collector - Complete level Fizz Wheels without killing a Fizz Wheel (the rolling wheels connected by a laser).

Store Detectives: 05/12/08

Well well, it's gonna be a short post this week. Not because there's a small update, but because so much of it is shit.

To begin with however, there is one good thing here: Sony are keeping up with the whole releasing classic PSone games on the store. This week, both are quite good (Red Alert Retaliation and Jet Rider), and neither cost £6 (in fact, it seems £3.99 is the new price point). I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank EA for their support of the Store and in particular the PSone Classics thus far.

Unfortunately, that's about all the good content this week. Even trophies couldn't make me buy GTi Club+ (read Aquatic's hands-on here), and Brain Challenge looks even worse. Unless of course you go for that sort of thing. In which case, the incredibly boring trophy list should stop you in your tracks. The Lego Batman demo is marginally more exciting, in the same way being shot in the crotch and having your eyes gouged out with a spoon made of pain would be more interesting than being shot alone. It's just like all the other Lego games, just more stale.

Whilst the LittleBigPlanet is gorgeous as ever (love the Japanese) and free, from friends with the other games with DLC this week, it all seems very little for extortionately high prices, something which is apparently most relevant to the Force Unleashed bits and bobs.

Whilst the Skate 2 trailers are quite nice, they don't really excite me that much (re-release Pro Skater 4 for PSone please), but this weeks Shoot short film is fantastic. "Hands" is very clever, and I actively encourage you to go watch it yourselves. Oh and Sony, sticking the Resistance 2 trailers on the release list doesn't make them new - they came out the other week. The Undercover wallpaper is quite nice, as are a couple of the EndWar ones, but the rest of the 'papers and themes are fugly as ever.

So, you know what, this week you don't need to spend anything at all! Unless you want the PSone games, which are pretty nice, but don't you have enough games to be playing now anyway? It's nearly Christmas.

Blast Factor Trophies

We've had a few days off from blogging for a little bit of R&R (read: heavy schoolwork), but now we're back and better than ever. And so to kick things off, here's the trophy list for Blast Factor, available now on the PlayStation Store.

Bronze Trophies:

• Junior Researcher: Complete Blast Factor Specimen 1.
• Graduate Researcher: Complete Blast Factor Specimen 4.
• Advanced Junior Researcher: Complete Advanced Research Specimen 1.
• Advanced Graduate Researcher: Complete Advanced Research Specimen 4.
• Chain-Tastic: Get x100 chain multiplier.
• Survivor: Finish a Survival Cell without dying.
• Jackpot: Complete a Specimen without dying.
• Mix It Up: Complete Hybrid Mode.
• Death Wish: Complete a Boss Cell without using the Repulsor.
• Doing the Dishes: Flip 10 Big Tip enemies with one tip.
• Chain Gang: Destroy 5 Big Chains with one shot.
• The Cleaner: Complete a Cell using the Super Repulsor.
• Matador: Dodge 10 Repulsed Back ARs at the same time.
• Life is Good: Get 10 lives.

Silver Trophies:

• Head Researcher: Complete Blast Factor Specimen 7.
  
• Advanced Head Researcher: Complete Advanced Research Specimen 7.
  
• Ultimate Survivor: Finish all Survival Cells without dying.
  
• Immortal: Complete 3 consecutive Specimens without dying.
  
• Death Wish Part 2: Complete a Survival Cell without using the Repulsor.
  
• Death Wish Part 3: Complete a Boss Cell without destroying any enemies.
  
• Friends Forever: Complete Blast Factor in co-op (any mode).
  
• Tough Guy: Complete all hard Cells in any mode.
  
• Attention to Detail: Complete all Cells in any mode.
  
• Speed Master: Finish Basic Research in 2xAT mode.
  
• Advanced Speed Master: Finish Advanced Research in 2xAT mode.

Edit: The patch is now live in the US but has been apparently slightly delayed for Europe and elsewhere.

GTi Club Trophies

This has been sitting in my notepad since Eurogamer Expo when we sneakily jotted them down from the build on show, and although you'll be hearing more about the game next week when the Wanderer gets back from Italy next week, here's the trophies for GTi Club+, which should be launching on the PSN Store sometime this side of Christmas.

Bronze Trophies:

• Photo Finish - Finish in first position less than 0.1 second ahead of an opponent.
• L Plates - Finish any Race.
• Back at Ya - Pass the bomb back to a player within 5 seconds of recieving it.
• Bombtag Bully - Pass the bomb to the same player 3 times in one race.
• Rolling on Suds - Clean your car in the car wash and finish a race.
• Me First - Finish each lap of a race in 1st position.
• Exhibit - Customise a car.
• Dented Pride - Win a race after crashing into all oponents at least once.
• Solo Polo - Win 5 Races using the VW Polo.
• Scorpion Fight - Win 5 Races using the Fiat 500.
• French Fenzy - Win 5 Races using the Peugeot 207 GT.
• Minitastic - Win 5 Races using the Mini Cooper 2007.
• Common Courtesy - Complete 5 Races without crashing.
• New Breed - Win 2 Easy Races with each of the new cars.
• Born Winner - Win 2 Medium Races with each of the new cars.

Silver Trophies:

• Pro - Win a Hard Race.
• Showboating - Finish first whilst reversing over the finishing line.
• Dont Stop Me Now - Finish in the top 3 without using the brake or handbrake.
• Top Dog - Beat the fastest time for a Hard Race in the records.
• Impossible Turnaround - Win a hard race after finishing your 1st lap in last place.
• Leader of the Pack - Win 3 Hard Races with each of the new cars.

Gold Trophies:

• Speed Demon - Complete a lap in less than 37 seconds.

WWAP #4: New Arrivals Edition

Hey there, you should finally be hearing from us again on the site this week, we’ve both been laden with schoolwork and unfortunately that meant we didn’t have the time to spend working on the blog. Hopefully though, the heavy work is now past us, and we will be continuing and expanding the site in the near future. More on that soon.

The last two weeks have been quite odd games-wise. I completed Burnout Paradise to get my very first Platinum Trophy (hopefully the first of many), and then took a bit of a break -too much Burnout kills your eyes - marking the first lengthy period of time away from my PS3 since I got it.

Then of course we had the not-so-pleasant news of the LittleBigPlanet delay, made marginally easier by the fact we know we'll be playing it on Wednesday (more on that next week), but unfortunately the new release date of November 5th is the day the Wanderer is off to Italy for the week, so he'll miss the launch. :(

Later on Mercenaries 2 got patched for trophies, so the Wanderer left his collection of Network games for a bit to play, and I ordered my copy for £25 from Play.com, which came this morning. More on that one later. Oh and Dead Space just arrived in the Aquatic Household, and from what I've heard from him, he'll be waxing lyrical about that one.

So yeah, been a bit of a break from games and the blog whilst we concentrated on school - we'll be back very soon.