Today on Headline RePLAY: North American
PS Vita owners will miss out on the UMD Passport program, the Kinect Star Wars Bundle has a release
date and Mass Effect: Infiltrator for
the iOS is announced!
Possibly a deal-breaker for many PSP-owners planning on transitioning to the PS Vita, Sony
has told Kotaku there won’t be a North American equivalent of the UMD Passport
program, which would’ve allowed PS Vita owners to transfer their PSP games
over.
Sony announced the program
back in November, which Japanese PSP owners could opt to register their games
onto PSN accounts, pay a small fee and re-download the games on the PS Vita. No
alternatives were provided at this time.
Déjà vu. Reminds me of
the situation with the PSPgo two years ago, which almost guaranteed the
handheld’s doom.
Sony has yet to
provide an explanation for the exclusion.
*Source: Kotaku
Overhauled for 2012 in the form of a Xbox
360 and controller, R2-D2 and C-3PO will finally be in the hands of Star Wars
fans and gamers alike in the Kinect Star Wars Bundle, which is slated for
release on April 3rd.
Price is set at $449 for the 320GB system and it comes with the
droid-themed console and controller, a white Kinect sensor and a copy of Star
Wars Kinect Adventures.
*Source: Engadget
In what could be the first mobile tie-in
to Mass Effect 3, BioWare announced Mass Effect: Infiltrator was coming to the iOS.
The title was announced at a press event
in New York today, where it was described as a “fully featured iOS third-party
shooter” with “stunning graphics and authentic weapons and powers from the Mass Effect series.”
It isn’t a Mass Effect title without story, and BioWare doesn’t disappoint
here: the narrative will involve freeing prisoners from a hostile Cerberus base
and collecting evidence of the organization’s crimes.
Players will “receive rewards” for
gathering evidence and increase Galactic Readiness. “Every completed rescue and
intelligence discovery in Infiltrator
will increase a players’ Galactic Readiness rating directly through the ‘Galaxy
at War’ system in Mass Effect 3,”
said EA.
As icing on the cake, actions taken in Infiltrator can affect the Mass Effect 3 storyline and weapons
unlocked in the mobile title can be used in Mass
Effect 3 too.
*Source: Kotaku
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