Echochrome

WorthPlaying contacted SCEA to find out if it planned to match the PSPgo Rewards program announced by SCEE this morning and was told that Sony had no plans at this time to match the European offer. There hasn't been any announcement yet that there will be an equivalent rewards program for North America...

Gamasutra writes: Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet leads the nominees for the ninth annual Game Developers Choice Awards with seven nominations, organizers have revealed. Number None's Braid follows closely with five nominations. Among the nominations for LittleBigPlanet is the coveted Game of the Year award. Other nominees for that category include Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead, each of which received a total of four award nominations; Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto IV, which earned a total of three nominations, and Lionhead Studios' Fable 2. Winners will be honored at an awards show taking place during the 2009 Game Developers Conference.

Tsubasa Inaba writes on the Playtation.Blog: We have kept quiet for a while, but we bring you good news today. The world of echochrome expands again!

Echochrome Trophies Confirmed. 7 bronze 1 silver 2 gold This is going to be rough...

PSblog reports: Hey, PlayStation Blog Readers! Just when you were close to beating all your clear times on all 56 echochrome stages on your PSP, we have even more challenges coming your way! An expansion pack for echochrome is coming to the PSN on October 9th for $4.99. You can almost double the fun of the original with an additional 40 new stages to master. For those of you who don't have the original version, not to worry. We have a bundle pack ready for you guys and gals too, so you can pick up the game and expansion pack all at once!

Kezins.com reports that the PSP-3000 will be launched in North America as part of two packs. One of the packs will be the Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters PSP Entertainment bundles which will be released on October 14th. The other pack will be a 4GB Entertainment Pack which is due out in November. Both packs will be retailed at US $199.99.

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. Elefunk - 26 June Echochrome - 3 July Pixel Junk Eden - July Follow the link for more details about each of the 3 games.

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

Sony's mind-melting puzzler, Echochrome, is out on the US PSN today for your brain-aching pleasure.

In case you've not been following it, Echochrome is an innovative little title which sees you rotating simple 3D environments to create paths for a little walking make to traverse.

It uses a clever optical illusion mechanic, where obstacles like holes or gaps in the path disappear when you can't see them. It hurts just trying to