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Savage Moon lands on PSP December 22
It looks like the PSP is quickly becoming the new destination for tower defense games. Savage Moon joins the growing list of tower defense games on Sony's handheld, such as PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe and Fieldrunners; however, unlike the other games listed here, the handheld Savage Moon isn't a port, it's a brand new game, adding "two new species, a new interface and the ability to unlock vengeance mode for each Imoon." Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign can be downloaded from the PlayStation Store next week, December 22, for $9.99. See a trailer after the break. %Gallery-75333%
Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign headed to PSP
click for Savage Moon: The Hera Campaign gallery Usually, when games head to a mobile platform from a home console they, by necessity, tend to get pared down. But it sounds like just the opposite is happening with the PSP version of PSN tower defense game Savage Moon. For The Hera Campaign, you'll now additionally have the option to access the Tactical Layer, a zoomed out view of the action that casts you as the Supreme Commander of the armada, deciding how and where resources will be used in the humans' fight against the Insectocytes. If you're interested in the plot of the new campaign (incomprehensible to the Savage Moon neophytes among us) you're gonna need to read for yourself. %Gallery-75333%
Savage Moon producer responds to patching problems
Have your days of extraterrestrial tower defending come to a screeching halt due to problems brought about by the latest patch for FluffyLogic's Savage Moon? The title's creators hear your cries -- producer Simon Livesey recently responded to complaints from players whose copies of the game have been rendered unplayable by the patch, and explained that the error is only hitting people who downloaded the trial version of the game, then later unlocked the full version.FluffyLogic is hard at work to fix the game-wrecking bug -- fortunately, Livesey mentioned an easy workaround for the error: Simply delete the game, download the trial version again, and unlock it. There, see? That wasn't so bad. You can now return to your regularly scheduled insect-alien genocide.
PSN Thursday: A savage, bejeweled moon will challenge your brain
Savage Moon finally makes an appearance on the American PSN Store this week alongside a smattering of other tasty offerings. PopCap's first PSN release, Bejeweled 2, is available as well as a pretty decent amount of LittleBigPlanet downloadable content. There are also the normal rhythm-based add-ons and Burnout Paradise's price has been dropped to only $19.99. At that price you'd have to be insane not to pick it up. Choose your platform to view the corresponding release list: PS3 / PSP (Note: Continue past the break to view both release lists; Euro releases here.)
PS3 Fanboy review: Savage Moon
For a relatively new genre, Tower Defense games have become incredibly popular. Among the PS3 crowd this is in no small part thanks to Pixeljunk Monsters, but that hasn't stopped other developers trying their hand at competing. For Tower Defense fans variety can only be a good thing, but how do they stack up against each other. Savage Moon has a very different aesthetic to Pixeljunk Monsters, but is difference in gameplay worth the purchase?The gameplay follows the same basic principles of every other Tower Defense game. Your base is at one of the level and beasties (in this case, Insectocytes) approach from the opposite end. It's your job to build a series of gun towers in their path to prevent them from reaching and damaging your base. Simple stuff, on paper. Not so easy in practice. Savage Moon builds you up and, to begin with, lulls you into a false sense of security. The first few levels will train you up via an extensive tutorial, which is necessary because the game is slightly more complex than most in the genre. As usual you'll spend money on different sorts of towers and you'll receive money from each individual beasty you kill. The levels are laid out so that there are areas of rocky mountains, level ground and lava. Lava cannot be built upon and usually marks the Insectocytes' pathways. Towers can be built everywhere else but are much more protected when on large rocks.%Gallery-30084%
See PSN title Savage Moon in action
We've just watched the first, straight-from-PAX video of upcoming PSN title Savage Moon (don't worry, we've put it after the break for you) and it looks (as Sony said it would) like a sophisticated tower defense game, albeit a really attractive one. We do have one quibble we feel compelled to pass on though: The decision to put crowd noises into the game is a bizarre one. They're almost louder than the guns! C'mon, Sony, get it together! Who wants to hear that?!
