Move.me app sounds great, but if they really wanted to encourage development they could have just let it out for free? How complex would it be to simply reroute the signals from the PS3 to the PC? A 100$ for that just seems a little too much. I was just as shocked when Apple released XCode for 5$ on the Mac App Store. The point of it is not the price, but the fact that there IS one. Development tools published by owners of the respective platforms SHOULD be free, because the apps made using them only serve to popularize and perpetuate the respective platforms. Dev tools should be an invitation to developers to "come, try our platform. Show us what it can do". Not a gate to be pushed aside only for select patrons. Tools developed by third-parties on the other hand are as good as any other stand-alone application, they have invested effort and resources to build a product appealing to a specific segment of users, which just happens to be developers; hence they can charge just like any other stand-alone application might. But when the OWNER of the platform demands a price for letting you experiment with and expand their own platform, it's just downright cheap or greedy. This is a very bad trend, and I hope it dies down very VERY soon.
PlayStation Store Update: Move.me App, Section 8: Prejudice
Sony updates virtual storefront with software engineering tool, TimeGate's sci-fi shooter; Dragon Age II and Homefront DLC, Deadliest Warrior: Legends, and Back to the Future conclusion also out.
Sony added a host of new content to its online store this week, but the main attraction is not a game but an application.
Leading the pack this week is the $100 Move.me application. Described by Sony as a software server application, the tool is intended for designers to create software using the PlayStation Move controller, PlayStation 3, PC, and PlayStation Eye.
According to Sony, the application is aimed at "academic researchers, university instructors, college students, programming hobbyists, and HCI developers." Move.me hooks up to the PC, which affords users the ability to use the PlayStation Move controller as an input device to "supply sensor data" for a PC application. For more on the Move.me app, check out the user's guide.
Also out now on the PlayStation Network is TimeGate Studios' Section 8: Prejudice ($15). Released on the Xbox 360 in April, the game includes two new multiplayer game modes: Skirmish and Assault.
Additionally, those who purchase the game this week will score the Blitz Armor pack and the Overdrive map pack for free. Further, the first 1,000 PlayStation Plus subscribers to purchase Section 8: Prejudice will be awarded the in-game Hunter Armor, as well as a digital copy of the well-received original Section 8.
Gamers looking to add to their copies of BioWare's Dragon Age II can grab the Legacy downloadable content ($10) today. In the content, gamers will suit up again as protagonist Hawke and travel to an ancient Grey Warden prison and uncover additional details about his family history. Additionally, Hawke will visit new environments, battle new and "improved" enemies, craft a deadly weapon, and ultimately come face-to-face with a terrible horror.
Players looking for new environments to battle in inside THQ's near-future shooter Homefront can grab the Fire Sale map pack ($3) today. The DLC includes two new environments set on American soil: Spillway and Big Box.
Also out now on the PlayStation Network is Deadliest Warrior: Legends ($10). A follow-up to last summer's tepidly received Deadliest Warrior: The Game, the new installment adds a host of classic combatants.
In Legends, gamers will control deadly warriors and take on famous figures like Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Hannibal, Hernan Cortes, Shaka Zulu, Sun Tzu, Vlad the Impaler, and William Wallace.
The last two new PlayStation 3 games out this week are Golden Axe ($5) and Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 5: OUTATIME (free with $20 season pass purchase).
A full list of the week's deals and new PlayStation Store content, including themes, wallpapers, demos, discounts, and add-on content, is available on the PlayStation Blog.
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