Now Playing: February 22-28, 2010

by James Ransom-Wiley on Feb 22nd 2010 11:45AM

Forecast says it's gonna be heavy.

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Last updated: Thursday, 9:37 PM

Retail
Endless Ocean: Blue World	[USA]	$29.99	TUE
Pony Friends 2	[USA]	$29.99	TUE
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing	[USA]	$39.99	TUE
WiiWare
Family Go-Kart Racing	[USA]	$5.00	MON
GhostSlayer	[USA]	$6.00	MON
Mouse House	[USA]	$6.00	MON
DLC
Guitar Hero 5 / Band Hero: Third Eye Blind tracks [more info]	[USA]	$2.00 ea.	THU
Rock Band: HIM & misc. tracks [more info]	[USA]	$2.00 ea.	TUE

Retail
Hello Kitty: Birthday Adventures	[USA]	$29.99	TUE
Lovely Lisa and Friends	[USA]	$29.99	TUE
Pony Friends 2	[USA]	$19.99	TUE
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing	[USA]	$29.99	TUE
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia	[USA]	$29.99	TUE
DSiWare
Nintendo DSiWare™ Aura-Aura Climber	[USA]	$2.00	MON
Faceez	[USA]	$2.00	MON
Flight Control	[USA]	$5.00	MON
Flipper	[USA]	$5.00	MON

Retail
Heavy Rain	[USA]	$59.99	TUE
Last Rebellion	[USA]	$49.99	TUE
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing	[USA]	$49.99	TUE
Hardware
DualShock 3: Ceramic White	[USA]	$54.99	TUE
PSN Updates
North American PSN Update	[USA]	varies	THU
European PSN Update	[PAL]	varies	THU

Retail
Metal Slug XX	[USA]	$19.99	TUE
PSN Updates
North American PSN Update	[USA]	varies	THU
European PSN Update	[PAL]	varies	THU

Retail
Borderlands Double Game Add-On Pack: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned / Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot	[USA]	$19.99	TUE
Deadly Premonition	[USA]	$19.99	TUE
Risen	[USA]	$49.99	TUE
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing	[USA]	$49.99	TUE
XBLA
Fret Nice	[USA]	$15.00	WED
Greed Corp	[USA]	$10.00	WED
Lazy Raiders	[USA]	$10.00	WED
Demos
Darksiders	[USA]	free	THU
MLB 2K10	[USA]	free	TUE
DLC
Avatar Marketplace: The Force Unleashed items	[USA]	varies	THU
Borderlands: Secret Armory of General Knoxx	[USA]	$10.00	TUE
Deal of the Week: Duke Nukem 3D [Gold only]	[USA]	~~$10.00~~ $5.00	MON–SUN
Guitar Hero 5 / Band Hero: Third Eye Blind Track Pack [more info]	[USA]	$5.50 / $2.00 ea.	THU
Lips: Add-on Songs	[USA]	$2.00 ea.	FRI
Rock Band: HIM Pack 01 & individual tracks [more info]	[USA]	varies	TUE
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Hoth Mission Pack	[USA]	$10.00	TUE
Games on Demand
Pure	[USA]	$19.99	TUE

PC / Mac

Retail
Borderlands Double Game Add-On Pack: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned / Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot (PC)	[USA]	$19.99	TUE
Borderlands: Secret Armory of General Knoxx [DLC] (PC)	[USA]	$10.00	THU
Napoleon Total War: Limited Edition (PC)	[USA]	$39.99	TUE
Warbirds: DogFights (PC)	[USA]	$29.99	TUE
Steam
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing (PC)	[USA]	TBA	THU

Eds.' note: The PC/Mac retail listing is not necessarily indicative of all releases for the week, but highlights games that have major or otherwise noteworthy distribution.

Tags: DS, Microsoft, newgames, Nintendo, now-playing, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (101)

HEEAAVVYYY RYAAAIIINNNNNN

Whole lotta meh. Good thing Darksiders has me hooked like crazy right now. Hope it holds me off until FF13!!!!

Heavy Ryan?

It was this fat kids nickname.

Chubby Rain?

That was me you jerk!

That's no drizzle fo shizzle!

Heavy Rain
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
Heavy Rain
**I move away from the mic to breath in
Oh wait that's not how it goes...

Chocolate rain?

heavy rain is amazing. it comes with a little origami sheet and i was a little confused.. when you boot up the game during the install it explains to you what to do with it.. and you make the little thing on the cover... its a neat addition to the game.... considering the poor cover art we got in america.

ON YOURRRR WEDDINGGGG DAAAY

Caught.....IN THE DRIZZLE!

Prince with his hit new single
"PURPLE HEAVY RAIN"

The music world says that's it has more weight than Prince's other top single, "PURPLE RAIN".

What, is there some problem with the Earth's gravitational pull in the future?

Your comment is the best thing I read this morning! Thanks for the good chuckle :)

Great Scott!

Ahhh Physics

Cycling in the rain is very dangerous

I'm on the fence about Heavy Rain. Other than that nothing too interesting.

So being on the fence is not allowed eh?

Nope, if you don't blindly love what is popular your opinion is invalid.

I'm so excited for Pony Friends 2. I think I'll put it on my shelf next to hello kitty island adventure.

So, Pony Friends got a sequel after all. Good thing too, after the cliffhanger ending of the first Pony Friends.

and how are they gonna top the first one too?

I'm excited but skeptical. I'll probably wait for reviews, but the various hair brush upgrades and tail ribbons might keep the gameplay mechanics fresh.

nofriendo,

I agree, this sequel just feels unnecessary. Pony Friends felt like a complete game with a perfectly concluded plot until they threw in that twist right at the end. It'll be interesting to see if this is a legitimate continuation or just a quick cash-in.

*SPOILERS*

Could you believe that they let you use a blue hairbrush?

you guys are being sarcastic.......right?......right?!

Sarcastic? Have you played Pony Friends 1? It was amazing. By the time the credits rolled I was in tears. Such an emotional ending, not even the forced cliffhanger could ruin it.

Will the cast of Serenity be reprising their roles as the voices of the pony friends?

Next, I hope David Cage teams with Jenova Chen to produce Heavy Flow.

Preferably on the iPad.

I've been waiting three years for Pony Friends 2, this last day is going to be torture!

Still need to install the Heavy Rain demo, so that's a maybe. Another maybe on Metal Slug XX, though I'd prefer to wait for the XBLA version.

I got Heavy Rain since 19th of this month.

Ashkental: Breaking Street dates since Mario on NES.

Is the version that you acquired early, any different than the one coming out this week?

No?

Then I don't care. Sorry.

Meh, I was just joking, ass.

Ashkental: Boasting about breaking street date since 10/22/2010 at 11:58 AM (So far as I know.)

hehehehehhe

I just couldn't help it...

I went on vacation @ disney and had to talk my way with the gamestop guy... pretty nice guy actually.

Now that i'm back to brazil it's time to play it :D

It would seem the only people who are 'on the fence' about Heavy Rain, have read Jim "Anything Other than Cheese Burgers, FPS's, and Button Mashers Are Bad" Sterling's very biased, and self-interested, review.

And yet he still gave it a 7, which I consider to be a decent score. It was a pretty thorough and well-articulated review in my opinion. People all bent out of shape at the fact he gave it a 7 need to relax because a lot of the points he raises are valid. I was still ready to buy it right away after reading his review, what put me on the fence is the demo I played.

I give Markez's comment a 7. What now?!?!

Out of all the reviews I read that was the one I actually found the most useful. The points he brought up were exactly the things that made me really worry about that game, and while he confirmed that they are indeed valid complaints, he also made it clear that they don't ruin the experience and it's still a game worth playing. I'm still deciding whether or not to drop my $60, but while some people saw the review as negative, it actually pushed me a bit closer to buying the game.

Woops. Posted this reply originally as its own thread.

I'm not really bent out of shape about it. I think his review score was on par. My problem is with the content of the review. Reading his review, I would have expected a 3 or a 4 as a score. I think the review content was biased, and the score was legit.

Ignoring the fact that I don't buy hardly any games at launch for full price, I'd consider myself "on the fence" when it comes to my personal predictions from the demo and from what I've heard... And I haven't read that review. Sooooo suckiiiiit

BIASED! Markez clearly deserves a re-review.

I keep singing Heavy Rain like Tay Zonday.

Thanks for the help, Captain Obvious. You've saved the day again.

*I move away from the mic to use six axis

Any reviews yet for Risen? I need another RPG, but I'm hesitant about this one.

I dunno about reviews, but I'd think twice about buying the game. It's essentially a remake of Gothic (due to Piranha Bytes losing the franchise to JoWood) which would be great, except the game sort of falls apart at the halfway point. Plot gets stretched thinner, there's a point in the game where you pretty much have to backtrack over the entire game world near the end, and the final fight is seriously out of place in a modern RPG... feels more like an old NES platformer, "shoot the boss in his left eye when it flashes red" kind of thing. That's a comparison, not a spoiler.

It's good for a rental if you liked the Gothic franchise as I did, but I think ultimately it's an unsatisfying attempt at a reboot. Your mileage may vary.

If I am going to pick up Borderlands, do I *need* to play it co-op? Seeing the DLC continue to trickle out keeps making me want to pick it up, but I haven't managed to convince my usual co-op buddy to buy it yet.

I had fun grinding at it Solo. I might start at it again when the new DLC rolls out. Ill hit you up.

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