PixelJunk Racers - PS3 Network

PushSquare: Racers, racing? Did you like that one? It took an entire degree in journalism for us to be able to come up with stuff like that. Bet you wish you went to Uni now don't you? Anyway, yes. PixelJunk Racers - the black-sheep in the PixelJunk franchise. It's not that it wasn't any good (it was), it's just that the game's been overshadowed by the likes of Shooter, Eden and Monsters. Q-Games aim to rectify that with a cheap and cheerful DLC pack for the top-down racer -- PixelJunk Racers: 2nd Lap.

According to the ESRB, a second PixelJunk Racers game is coming to the Playstation 3.

Mike Hartnett at Tawkn.com writes: The spaces just keep on coming as Q-Games has just announced that they will debuting all-new spaces dedicated to the PixelJunk series. We've got the pics as well as the statement from Q-Games for ya!

Jeff Rubenstein from US Playstation.Blog writes: Today marks the 3rd and final day of our GDC PlayStation.Blog.Lounge, and we're very happy to welcome Q-Games President Dylan Cuthbert into the fold. Chances are you've already already played one of his company's titles, PixelJunk Eden, Monsters, or Racers (and read about the upcoming Eden Encore). But who are the people that make such innovative games? And why don't they wear shoes when they work? Take the tour...

Matt Morton from SCEA Santa Monica Studios writes: Hi PixelJunkies! I'm Matt Morton, Associate Producer at SCEA Santa Monica Studio and I've had the great fortune of working on the PixelJunk series since the very first title, PixelJunk Racers. We've been working hard to keep spreading the PixelJunk Love (as Deb Mars calls it) and wanted to give you a heads up on the upcoming patch for PixelJunk Monsters and PixelJunk Monsters: Encore. The patch will be releasing VERY soon, with Japan getting the first patch release on October 23. If all goes well with final testing, you will see the patch in SCEA and SCEE territories on October 30. If there are any delays to the above mentioned dates, we will be sure to update the blog to let you know about it, so stay tuned!

In the final Independent Games Summit lecture of Monday, Kyoto, Japan-based Q Games' Dylan Cuthbert discussed the PixelJunk series for the PS3's PlayStation Network, revealing the psychedelic PSN titles PixelJunk Eden and PixelJunk Dungeons. He then explained the thinking and development behind the series.

Dec 21, 2007 December is the month of giving and, better yet, receiving. December is the month when sugarplum visions of $400 consoles and $60 games dance through your head. And, of course, December is the month when your loved ones usually just cheap out and buy you a gift card instead. So long as that gift card is an online points card from Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo, however, you'll be alright. With so much downloadable content available for so little money, you could stretch a few

Loot Ninja just got a media alert from Sony letting them know that starting today and running through November 29th, you can grab four PlayStation Network Games for $4.99 each. Calling All Cars and Everyday Shooter are originally $9.99, with fl0w originally $7.99 and PixelJunk Racers originally $6.99.

So, you may have spotted that Q-Games' indie title PixelJunk Racers, which appears to be something along the lines of slot-car racing for the 21st century (woo!), debuts on the PlayStation Network today. But something you may not have spotted (and I just did, thanks to Brandon Boyer!) is that there are teaser images for their next two downloadable PlayStation 3 games in the series on the Pixeljunk.jp website.