GamesRadar - Echochrome

PSPgo - No Free Game Downloads Planned for North America (News)

Sep 25, 2009

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..."

LittleBigPlanet, Braid, Left 4 Dead lead game developers choice award finalists (News)

Feb 9, 2009

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."

echochrome PS3 Update Today: Trophies and User-generated Stages! (News)

Dec 11, 2008

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!"

Time to destroy your mind again... (News)

Dec 1, 2008

Echochrome Trophies Confirmed.

7 bronze
1 silver
2 gold

This is going to be rough...

71% More echochrome PSP, Coming Tomorrow (News)

Oct 8, 2008

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!

Sony's PSP-3000 US Release Date Announced (News)

Oct 6, 2008

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.

Siliconera: Sound of Echochrome - Hideki Sakamoto Interview (News)

Jun 12, 2008

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.

3 Top PSN Titles Given EU Release Dates (News)

Jun 10, 2008

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.

User generated Echochrome levels incoming (News)

May 15, 2008

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 ...

Echochrome (Review)

May 1, 2008

Echochrome looks arty. Pretentious. Snooty, even, but for all its edgy minimalism, few games provide such a colorful challenge. It’s a dignified and well-measured puzzler - and PS3 certainly needs some more of those.

As you can tell from the screenshots, Echochrome uses impossible structures like those conceived by MC Escher (that well-known hip hop artist), and gives you the apparently simple task of guiding an ...

Echochrome hits US today (News)

May 1, 2008

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 ...

Echochrome - import hands-on (Preview)

Apr 30, 2008

A monochrome game where a stickman chases shadows around logic-defying structures hanging in space, you say? Yeah, that’ll be Echochrome. But that hasn’t stopped us from loving every head-scratching minute. The first hour or two playing Echochrome was mostly spent just enjoying the novelty of its concept.

You don’t control the walking/jumping/falling character as such; you control the level (or the camera, ...

Echochrome (Screenshots)

Apr 30, 2008

New Echochrome Screens shows how hard it is (News)

Apr 24, 2008

Either you've already played the Japanese demo or you're about to play the American one, doesn't matter, Echocrome's teaser levels make things look easy. Pedestrian. As though the dev team came up with a neat concept, but couldn't think of ways to really push it. Yeah, no, that's WRONG. Look at these new screens. These later, harder levels are built for one purpose: to take your mental ass, wine it, dine it, then kick it.

Echochrome demo tomorrow, 4/24 (News)

Apr 23, 2008

When it premiered at E3 2007, echochrome was the talk of the town, were the internet a town and forum posters people. Nearly a year has passed since then with very few things being mentioned as its buzz slowly quieted. Then a bolt from the blue appeared in the form of a post on the official Playstation blog. The post let everyone know that the game, scheduled for a May launch, will have its demo released it tomorrow on PSN and for ...

Echochrome - Trailer (Video)

Apr 23, 2008

Elegantly twisted puzzle game, that abuses the power of perspective. Mental.

Sony dates PSP summer line up (News)

Apr 17, 2008

June dates revealed for Secret Agent Clank, EchoChrome and ATV Offroad Fury Pro.

Sony Confirms Echochrome US Release Date (News)

Apr 16, 2008

Game Focus reports: "In the latest Official Playstation Blog, Peter Dille, Senior Vice President, Marketing, hinted that innovative puzzle Echochrome would be released next month in the Americas."

Echochrome set to hit Europe in May (News)

Apr 13, 2008

Seems that Echochrome will be coming soon.

"We're not afraid of overusing a joke, and seeing as we are talking about Echochrome again we are happy to tell you news of the Euro release is here. It's all here in black and white you might say."

echochrome getting US release, only $10 (PSP version) (News)

Mar 30, 2008

The brain teaser echochrome is finally getting a US release. The PSP version of echochrome will be a downloadable title, available in early May for only $10. All the content featured in the PSP version will be unique to the system (and none of the content from the PS3 version will be in the handheld version either).

Echochrome For PS3/PSP Labelled "Racist" (News)

Mar 24, 2008

Ripten writes:

"The mind-twisting puzzle game Echochrome made its way to Play.com Live, available on the same unit as Hot Shots Golf 5. Recently released in Japan, I was able to get my hands on some of the latter levels in the game.

As the difficulty ramped up, a mini crowd built around me. With them in awe of my genius (read; luck) I wasn't quite expecting the opinion I overheard."

Videogamer: Spring PSN updates to include flOw on PSP and Elefunk (News)

Mar 4, 2008

Videogamer reports that Sony has confirmed release dates for a host of upcoming PlayStation Store titles, both for PS3 and PSP via the PC PlayStation Store.

Coming to the PS3 store this month is Pain, followed by Elefunk in April and the wonderful looking echochrome in May. Pain was released on the US PlayStation Store late in 2007 and we're not entirely sure why it has taken so long to get a European release. Those that do pick the game up this month can also look forward to a bunch of new character packs.

Coming to PSP this spring are flOw and Ape Quest. flOw, a PS3 PSN launch period title, will be available for PSP this month and sees players guiding a luminous creature, hunting and eating other creatures in order to evolve. It's peaceful, calming entertainment and certainly worth a look later this month.

PlayStation Network PAL Releases (News)

Mar 4, 2008

Akayuki writes:

"Sony has confirmed the release dates of a couple of games that were announced last year at E3.

Elefunk and Echochrome are probably the most exciting ones, but there is also Fl0W for the PlayStation Portable, if that interests you. Also, Pain is set to release on the European PSN store this month, along with bonus characters and an expansion.

Hit the jump for a press release."

Sony preps Echochrome demo for Japan this March 6 (News)

Feb 29, 2008

If you're intent on getting an early run of Echochrome, then you may want to keep an eye out on the region's PlayStation Network. SCEJ has recently announced that they will be releasing a demo of this puzzle title for both the PSP and PlayStation 3 on March 6 (Thursday) next week. That's 13 days before the full game's release.

The Echochrome demo for the PSP is expected to be downloadable from Japan's PlayStation Spot locations, and the PlayStation Store (either PSP or PC). The demo's PlayStation 3 port will be available via the PlayStation Store.

Echochrome to be released this summer (News)

Feb 21, 2008

While continuing to dig around for a solid answer on the PSP version of Echochrome I spoke to Scott Goryl, a Public Relations Specialist from SCEA, who told me Echochrome is actually on target for a Spring release in North America. However, this date is currently only for the PlayStation 3 version. They are evaluating the PSP version and if they will bring it to North America or not. (This is consistent with the earlier report I wrote up.)

I followed up with questions about the extra levels, if they would come out as a download pack, and if the canvas mode will remain part of the PlayStation 3 package. In response he explained, the feature list for the PlayStation 3 version has not been announced yet.

Echochrome PSP/PS3 price difference explained (News)

Feb 10, 2008

The PSP version of Echochrome costs twice as much as the PS3 version, but Siliconera explains there is reason for the extra money. All of the answers are found over at Impress Watch (Japanese).

The PlayStation 3 version is actually "Echochrome: Jokyoku" or "Echochrome: Prelude" in English. For 1,800 yen ($17) you get a get a sample of Echochrome by tasting 50 puzzles. The 3,980 yen ($37) PSP version contains 100 puzzles and multiple modes including a variation where you have to avoid walking dark echoes.

Fortunately, both versions come with canvas mode, which lets players create and upload puzzles on the PlayStation Network or transfer data via the PSP's Ad-Hoc mode. With this new information the PSP version is more tantalizing. However, the cheaper PlayStation 3 version supports users-created content, which devalues the addition of the extra 50 puzzles.

PSP Echochrome costs 55% more than PS3 version (News)

Feb 8, 2008

Gamernode: The unique puzzle game, Echochrome, will land in Japan on March 19th. It will be available both as a PlayStation Network download for the PS3 and in UMD form.

PSP-2008: New Year Of Portable Passion (News)

Jan 27, 2008

So you think that 2008 is all about consoles? Well check out these upcoming releases exclusive for the Playstation Portable and you'll see why the PSP is here to stay.

Echochrome arrives on the PlayStation Store in March (News)

Jan 16, 2008

Siliconera » Written by: Spencer on January 16th, 2008 @ 9:10 am

Last week Spencer mentioned Echochrome was arriving on the PSP on March 19. Now he can confirm it will arrive on the PlayStation Store as a downloadable PS3 game on the same day. The price has not been announced, but if Sony is selling the PSP version for 3,990 yen ($36) it will probably fall in the $25-$30 price range. Details are also hazy if the PSP release contains the same puzzles as the PlayStation 3 version or if you can play the PS3 release on the PSP via Remote Play. That would be an awesome idea and we'll find out soon when Echochrome arrives in Japan.

E3 07: Meet Echochrome (News)

Jul 17, 2007

[UPDATE] While we're not backtracking on our opinion that Echochrome has the potential to be one of the sleeper hits of the PS Network, we've just found out that the game was far from Sony's "original" idea. The game has existed as a tech demo for PC here since last year, described as an "interactive optical illusion" and coded by one Jun Fujiki. It appears Sony has been given permission to develop this free game for the PS Network, only with preset levels - the downloadable version simply ...

Sony Press Conference Lowdown (Feature)

Jul 12, 2007

Sony's annual E3 press conference opened with what could have been the biggest reveal of the entire show if it hadn't been leaked last week: the new $499 price of the PS3, as well as the introduction of a new $599 model that comes with an 80GB hard drive and a copy of online-enabled dirt racer Motorstorm. This left biggy-wig Jack Tretton (who began the event speaking through his character in the PS3 virtual world Home) to launch right into the publisher's game-centric, four-part ...