PsB: "Tsubasa here. I'm excited to announce a new update, coming June 18, for my favorite PSN puzzle game - echochrome! The update is for the PS3 version (The game was released last year for both PS3 and PSP. Both versions are available now for $9.99 each). We've added a ton of new features to the game since last year's launch, including Trophies."
Siliconera reports; Sony has a major upgrade prepared for the PlayStation 3 version of Echochrome. A patch adds the cloud, a public area where user created stages can be uploaded and shared with the world. Replays with the picture-in-picture window can be saved to your hard drive or uploaded directly to YouTube.
TheSixthAxis: "Well it seems that the EU Echochrome trophy patch has gone live today. Simply load it up, install update 1.01 (which is less than 7MB) and off you go.
Gamasutra writes:
The High Velocity Bowling patch is now live in Europe, containing custom soundtracks and trophy support.
Tsubasa Inaba writes on the Playtation.Blog:
TheSixthAxis writes:
Tatsuya Suzuki and Jun Fujiki, lead developers on the PSP and PlayStation 3 puzzler echochrome, announced that a 2D version of the game is coming to PlayStation Home at an unspecified date. Instead of tapping into the PS3's 4D capabilities, the Japan Studios team is going in the other direction, presumably adhering to their gameplay credo of "getting people to play with rules and laws."
Excerpts from PS3 Attitude: "During their speech at Develop 08, SCEJ revealed that the total number of user levels created for Echochrome have exceeded 2,500."
TalkPlayStation.com writes:"Echochrome, the mind numbing puzzle game, already out in America was meant to be released in Europe as part of last weeks Playstation Store update. Did it make it? No.
Both EchoChrome and Elefunk were previously meant to hit the European PSN Store today, but failed to do so. A cursory glance at the official PlayStation site suggests EchoChrome will land next week, with Elefunk the week after. Let's hope so.
According to the Official UK PlayStation website, the puzzle game Echochrome will be released on the PlayStation store this thursday. As well as completing the pre-created puzzles players are also able to download user created puzzles.
Kumi Yuasa at PlayStation.Blog writes:
With digital distribution making it possible for a greater variety of unconventional titles to reach the market, imaginative new forms of puzzle gameplay are emerging. Echochrome for the Playstation 3 and PSP, whose art direction mirrors the logic-defying line drawings of M.C. Escher, is one such example. The physical laws of the in-game environment are determined by the way the player manipulates the perspective, making illusions of perception the literal truth. For the music accompanying the game, Hideki Sakamoto has created a collection of classical music tracks, recently released in a soundtrack album by Team Entertainment. For this discussion on the sound of Echochrome, the composer joins Siliconera for a deeper look at the design underlying the innovative puzzle game and its original soundtrack.
Elefunk, Echochrome and Pixel Junk Eden have all been given release dates for Europe. They will all be available for download on the Playstation Store.
Playstation blog writes: "Hello again, PlayStation.Blog readers. I'm back with another echochrome extra-level update. Twenty free, new puzzles are making their way to your PS3 over the next two weeks.
Kumi Yuasa, associate producer of Echochrome, has confirmed that 20 new user-created levels will be released over the next few days.Starting from today until May 21, the 20 levels will be made available to PS3 Echochrome players via the game's Freeform mode."The additional levels will appear at random in Freeform mode if you set your difficulty level to 2 or 3," explains Yuasa."The difficulty level is represented by the ...
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