PAIN producer Travis Williams from the Playstation Blog has some new information about the upcoming PAIN trophies and the new amusement park coming on 4th September.
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In addition to PAIN Labs, the PAIN Amusement Park, Trophies, Online Multiplayer, and other features all hitting the PLAYSTATION Store simultaneously this summer, the crew at Idol Minds is churning out even more content that should be making it your way soon!

Jeff Litchford of Idol Minds gave us a little more info on what we can expect. We've taken the liberty to highlight some info you may not have already known about. But we still can't find out what exactly PAIN Movie Lot is!!

New features in development:

* Amusement Park
* Online (multiplayer) gameplay
* PSN trophies
* Advanced Replay Editor
* PAIN Labs
* Theme 3 (just about at Alpha)
* Theme 4 (we're in early prototype/concepting on this)
* Celebrity playable characters
* Video Game IP characters
* Chinese/Korean localization

After seeing the Kratos sackboy, I'm pretty excited at the prospect of cross-game Sony characters. Looking forward to what the PAIN crew will dish out next!
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Nestled deep in the comments section of the official PAIN Blog, Producer Travis Williams has been busy responding to the community. There's plenty of back-and-forth banter, but there are also some hidden gems of info which we thought you might be interested in. PAIN's expansion pack, the Amusement Park, will be available this Summer for "less than $6.99" and a video of it in action will be shown on the official PlayStation Blog at some point tomorrow. A European release will happen simultaneously.

With regards to trophies, this will be included in the expansion pack and won't end there. Travis says that "new trophies for PAIN will come out as long as we continue to add content." Hopefully this is a common occurrence, with future game expansions for existing titles bringing more trophies. Could this mean more Super Stardust HD trophies are coming at some point in the future? Considering there's no Platinum trophy, we're guessing so.
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The Amusement Park has had many different incarnations before we decided on the final format. It had to represent what we know of the PAIN play style and add layers to it. It wouldn't do to have another level like Downtown. We needed to move beyond that area. We needed to step it up. That meant¿
More ways to move around.

More community Interaction

Different ways to move around

A different launcher

A multi-leveled environment

Longer PAINful runs

MULTIPLAYER

Oh and¿.less time between new content updates
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Greg Miller: "This afternoon, Sony updated the PlayStation Network with a wealth of trailers, demos, games, and content, but it would appear that the latest PAIN patch is messing up the game's online options.

After we downloaded the update -- which adds the ability to play music from your hard drive during the game, gives you a few new layouts for downtown, and more -- we started PAIN and were presented with an error.

"A network error has occurred, you must restart PAIN and reconnect to access any online content," the message stated.

We restarted several times and kept getting the error. Even with the error message, you can still play the game, but the store and any other online functionality are locked to you. Other IGN users are reporting the problem on our message boards, and a Sony rep said the company is investigating the problem.

We'll keep you updated.

UPDATE (5:15 p.m.): "We are aware that some users are receiving a network error message and are working to rectify this as soon as possible," a Sony rep said. "We expect this situation to be resolved withing the next 12 hours.""
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Travis: "Whatup!

My name is Travis Williams and I am the Senior Producer for PAIN for the PlayStation Network. It's been a while since I last posted on the Official PlayStation blog. Every time I have it's been a great experience. You all have shown me "da-love" so I wanted to make sure that when there was something cool to share with you that I would be back. I want to tell you what we've been doing with PAIN and why you should pay attention to us in the months to come.

Tomorrow, the 19th of June we are releasing our next free update to PAIN. This will be a two-week process where each week we release new features and content to PAIN. This is a two-week process because we are perfecting our content delivery process. We have always had this goal with PAIN that we should be able to move faster with our content delivery than most games. If you are a normal PAIN blog reader you might laugh at that comment. They have been waiting for months for us to pick up the pace. Some of them were wondering where I've been lately. "
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StalkingSilence of PlayStation LifeStyle found this post by Travis Williams, Senior Producer at SCEA. The post was taken down from the Official PlayStation.Blog at the time this was published.

Travis Williams writes [in the deleted post]
"So what's in the 6-19 update then? Here you go¿

"Jukebox Play ¿ Now you can play your own tunes inside of PAIN. If you have some time go back to my previous blog posts and you will see where you users took us to task about including this option. So it's DONE.New Downtown Layouts ¿ We have new configurations for downtown. Demolition and Block Party. Go to the trophy room after your update and you will see how to unlock these areas. You can also play these areas in HORSE now too.

"Multiple Character Selection ¿ Many of our players wanted to play two player games with different characters. So there you go.Logo Skip ¿ Now you don't have to wait for the logo sequence to get right to the game."
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In their weekly feature, PlayStation LifeStyle takes a look at what we should be getting:
- Fatal Intertia EX full game & demo ($29.99)
- Guitar Hero III DLC: Coldplay Track Pack ($6.49)
- Hail to the Chimp demo*
- Hot Shots Out of Bounds DLC*
- The Incredible Hulk DLC: Multiplayer Expansion Pack*
- Konami "Surprise" [!]*
- NCAA 09 demo
- PAIN DLC: Nigel add-on character*
- PSP full game*
- Rock Band DLC: Avenged Sevenfold (x2), The Offspring, and Crooked X
- Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 demo*

Additional Content:
- LingerInShadows Trailer*
- PAIN (Nigel) Theme*

NOTE: This list is not all-inclusive (videos, wallpapers, etc.) and content is always subject to change.

*Items marked with an asterisk denote rumored content, while the other content is confirmed.
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According to the official Pain website we're all set to get a bumper patch this month, which will include more trophies, custom MP3 playback and a host of new modes.

The new game types include Block Party which sees the launcher on the other side of Downtown and Demolition which has the launcher in the centre. There's a new difficulty called Platinum Club and a new character called Nigel.
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The latest blog on the official Pain website shows two designs for a new Zombie character in the game. There is also new of a new bug patch, and the long-awaited in-game mp3 player.
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