Q*Bert released on the PlayStation Store

PS3 News | A few trailers too.

The Australian PlayStation Store has been updated to include Q*Bert, an old puzzle title where you have to hop around squares changing their colours so that they all match.

A little known fact about Q*Bert was that it had a number of different titles before the developers settled on "Q*Bert", ranging from "Snots and Boogers" to "@!#?@!". After building a series of prototype cabinets, the developers wisely decided that having a pronounceable name could only be a good thing. True story.

The game is priced at AUD $5.00.

A second music pack has also been made available for Ridge Racer 7 and is being offered for AUD $6.95. Two trailers are also on offer: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and a making of 'This is Living' (Sony's marketing campaign for the PlayStation 3). Meanwhile we're still waiting for Mortal Kombat II and Calling All Cars.

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3 Comments

Dare

5 years ago

Finally one of our Palgn long-timers is available on the Playstation Store

Apologies for 'being out of the loop here', but is the Playstation Store any good?

donovan515

5 years ago

Dare wrote

Finally one of our Palgn long-timers is available on the Playstation Store

Apologies for 'being out of the loop here', but is the Playstation Store any good?

Only if your in America

Then again can't you make an American account?

Nev

5 years ago

donovan515 wrote

Only if your in America

Then again can't you make an American account?

You can - it's as simple as creating a new user with a Master account, and stating your country of origin as United States, rather than wherever you're actually from.

This gives you access to a ridiculous amount of content compared with the somewhat sparse Australian store, including demos for Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Armoured Core 4, and more HD trailers than you'd ever possibly want to sit through.

Unfortunately, you can't do the one thing you'd want, and that's purchase downloadable games, like Calling All Cars, Mortal Kombat II, or any of the PS1 classic titles. Since you input your country as US, it's looking for North American credit card accounts, and will reject anything else.

Them's the breaks, unfortunately.

The other trick is, if you start playing a new game with that account, you'll have to always log in as that user when you want to play that game (since the save files are separated by user ID). I learned that the hard way, and it's especially annoying when a game takes up to 5 minutes to load, only to force you to exit back out to the XMB to log in as a different user.

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