Capcom’s upcoming real-time multiplayer strategy game Age of Booty has been priced at $10.

In a post on Capcom’s Unity Blog, Daryl revealed that after checking out the final version of the game two of his friends said they would buy it for $10 while one said he would fork out as much as $20. The lucky friends only got to see the multiplayer game play over LAN, so the single player mode, map editor and match ranking system are still under wraps.

Although we don’t know an exact release date yet, Capcom recently announced that Microsoft is taking a look at the build for Xbox Live Arcade and that Sony would soon get their hands on the PlayStation Network version. According to a comment by Daryl on the blog, the game is expected to arrive in early October.

Daryl promised more information on the demo soon but he did confirm that the XBLA and PSN trials will be available on release day.

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SCEA have taken the wraps off the “mystery game that [it] had up its sleeve.” Savage Moon is a downloadable PS3 title that will be coming exclusively to the PlayStation Network this fall.

Described as a “frantic, action-packed tower defense game in a gritty sci-fi setting,” Savage Moon tasks players with protecting mining facilities from space bugs. Not only will you need firepower to keep the bugs at bay, you will also need to use your best strategy to survive the onslaught.

Each level of the game is set on a living asteroid known as an Imoon. Humanity needs these Imoons to survive since they are rich in mineral deposits, however, deadly creatures known as Insectocytes will stop at nothing to end your mining endeavours.

Players start with machine gun towers but can expand their arsenal to various weapons and artillery to defend the mines. Your strategy will dictate when you upgrade, add new towers or save your money, ultimately deciding whether you survive the waves of bugs or if your mines will be destroyed.

Place your towers defenses optimally to kill the different kinds of Insectocytes most effectively, earning points as you kill which you can then use to upgrade the size and firepower of your defenses as well as develop new weapons and technologies.

According to SCEA’s Producer, Daimion Pinnock, “Savage Moon is addictive and the action is relentless, making it fun no matter what your skill level is. The action is intense, but you also have to think and have a solid strategy to survive. The best players can even post their scores to the online leader boards to see how they stack up.”

More details were promised soon.

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Sierra Online’s Red Baron Arcade will be released on the PlayStation Network on the 18th of September.

Red Baron Arcade is an arcade air combat game featuring online multiplayer capabilities. Set in WWI, the game sees players manning the gun turrets on an aircraft as they take on pilots in dogfights and seek to rise through the ranks of the Red Baron’s squadron.

Battle AI or pit yourself against up to seven players online in Deathmatch, Team-Deathmatch and Capture the Flag modes.

A free demo of Red Baron Squadron will be released on the PlayStation Network on the 18th of September. Download the demo and jump into the multiplayer action with up to eight players online in a special battle arena available in the game – a PlayStation Network first.

According to the Capcom-Unity blog, Age of Booty is one step closer to being released on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network.

“Microsoft is now taking a look at the XBLA build. Sony will soon have their hands on the PSN version.” Capcom also revealed that a “PC Beta Test will be popping up very soon.”

Developed by Certain Affinity (of Halo series fame) Age of Booty (originally titled Plunder) is a real-time multiplayer strategy game that sees players stepping behind the wheel of a pirate ship, looting and capturing towns and defeating enemies along the way.

Team up with online players or AI controlled pirate ships to become the ruler of the high seas. Up to four players can connect on a single console or up to eight players over Lan or internet. Use booty to upgrade and customize your ship as you take on 25 challenges and seven Pirate Alliances. The game features online leaderboards as well as a map creation system that allows players to create and share maps.

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Another Ratchet and Clank game, another double entendre. The latest release, Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty, will see the tititular heroes in a mini-sized adventure, available on the UK PlayStation Network this Friday, for £9.99.

While it’s obviously expected to be much shorter than a full disc-release game, it’ll pack the same graphical detail and game play mechanics seen in the full PS3 release last year. Speaking of disc-based releases, Quest for Booty will also see a Blu-Ray release in September, also retailing for £9.99. If you’re not yet convinced, have a look at the debut trailer released during E3 for some confirmation of its wallet-worthiness.

The remake of the original 2D action-platforming classic on the NES, Bionic Commando: Rearmed has finally made its way to PAL territories via the PlayStation Network. It’s available now for £6.99.

The ‘hook’ of this particular game is the ability to use your grappling arm to reach different areas, as well as using it during combat and to solve puzzles, all while shooting up baddies and bosses. To celebrate the release, an awesome trailer has been unleashed unto the world to show off the explosive, action-packed nature of the game. Recommended watching.

Burnout Paradise is the latest in the series of car-smashing, slow-mo wreckage racing games. This much you know. Did you know, however, that you’ll be able to buy and download the full version of Burnout Paradise through the PlayStation Network later this year?

If you missed it the first time, you’ll be able to get Burnout Paradise for $29.99, including all of the updates Criterion have thus far released for the game, as well as support for PlayStation Trophies (Achievement-like rewards), all through PSN. This is a great sign of things to come as far as digital distribution goes, and only enforces Criterion’s ‘Year of Paradise’ campaign - their mission to support the game completely with new, free content.

If you can’t wait, however, Paradise is still available on PS3 and Xbox 360 as a disc-based game, but that format is *so* 2008.

Capcom has announced that Street Fighter Alpha will be available as a new PSone Classics game for download on the PlayStation Network this Thursday.

Capcom promised a surprise announcement relating to Street Fighter early this week and the publisher certainly has delivered. Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors’ Dreams (known as Street Fighter Zero to some SF fans) hit the arcades in 1995 and was released on the PlayStation in 1996.

Alpha featured a new art style, animation and game play additions. The game brought together a cast of 13 characters from the collective SF universe including Ryu, Chun-Li and Ken. The inaugural title in the series introduced super combos and alpha counters.

Head over to Capcom’s blog to check out the intro clip.

Psyonix Studios has announced Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, an arena-based online vehicle sports game for the PlayStation Network.

Apart from bringing together animated vehicles in sports-like game play, the game boasts being one of the longest named games ever online.

Players will be able to launch high into the air, rolling, flipping or spinning their cars in the air, or accelerate at break-neck speed on the ground thanks to physics-based maneuverability and boosters. The game is team-based and you will see the soccer-inspiration when you use your vehicle to save goals, attempt to score and take out opponent’s cars.

In addition to team and league play, you will be able to track your statistics, keep an eye out for rankings and rewards and even upload videos to YouTube. The game also features mini-games and single player matches as well as team and league matches and scrimmage matches online. Best of all Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars will feature trophies!

“It takes a pretty special game to carry such a lengthy title and be able to hold its head high amongst games with much shorter names,” commented Dave Hagewood, Director of Development at Psyonix Studios. “Thankfully, we don’t have to worry about fitting this title on a package.”

Expect to see Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars on the PlayStation Network in early autumn.

Three artists from Interscope Records including Marilyn Manson will be available in a new track pack for Guitar Hero III tomorrow.

Flyleaf’s ‘Tina,’ ‘Carcinogen Crush’ from AFI and a remix of Marilyn Manson’s ‘Putting Holes in Happiness’ by Nick Zinner will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store for 500 Microsoft Points or £3.99.

Speaking of Guitar Hero, more evidence has been added to the smoldering pile of rumours that Metallica will soon follow in Aerosmith’s footsteps.

Metallica leader Lars Ulrich recently told MTV Multiplayer that “There’s an Aerosmith game out there that’s super successful, and if somebody’s gonna follow that up… We’re talking, and it’s exciting, and the people at Guitar Hero and Activision are rapidly becoming our best new friends in the world. You can put the rest of it together yourself.”

To celebrate the release of PixelJunk Eden on the PlayStation Network, here’s some cool footage of the game, showing off the awesome visuals and some actual game play mechanics.

In PixelJunk Eden, you play as a Grimp (because you ‘grip’ and ‘jump’, get it?) that has to spread pollen from one flower to the next in order to grow plants and continue on your adventure.

Bionic Commando Rearmed will be available to download in North America in mid-August.

This is the latest word from Capcom, who confirmed that Bionic Commando Rearmed will hit Xbox Live Arcade on the 13th of August for 800 Microsoft Points and the PlayStation Network on the 14th of August for $10.

For now the release dates are for North America “for sure,” so it looks like Capcom is not yet certain whether the game will be released across PAL land on the same dates.

Bionic Commando Rearmed is GRIN’s remake of the 1988 NES original. The game will retain its 2D side scrolling gaming but will feature reworked graphics and introduce co-op and competitive multiplayer modes.

According to Capcom’s Kramez it is “one of the best digital games you will ever play” and “you’re more than going to get your money’s worth out of this particular title.” There you have it, straight from the horses mouth.

Hothead Games is currently developing Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One for the PS3. The popular RPG adventure game series will debut on the PlayStation Network in late autumn.

Set in a comic book-come-horror 1920’s universe of New Arcadia, the game sees playing lending a hand at the Startling Developments Detective Agency. The PS3 version is said to be priced in line with the Xbox 360 version which is available on Xbox Live Arcade for 1 600 Microsoft Points.

“We keep getting emails asking why our Penny Arcade game is not on PSN,” said Hothead’s CEO, Vlad Ceraldi. “We have always said we wanted to have our games on as many platforms as possible to give choice to gamers.”

“All good things take time and we are very excited to be debuting our first PS3 title and look forward to bringing more games to this platform in the future.”

Check out some game play footage for a PlayStation Network game called The Last Guy.

Using real satellite images to act as the ‘level’ in which you run around, players, as the titular ‘Last Guy,’ need to gather up survivors and lead to them to safety, all while avoiding monstrous bugs. So far, The Last Guy only has a Japanese PSN release date.

Harmonix and MTV Games have announced more exclusive tracks for Rock Band, coming to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live this week, from Nine Inch Nails and Shinedown.

Nine Inch Nails tracks to be added are “Burn” from the Natural Born Killers soundtrack, “Capital G” from Year Zero, and “Last” from EP Broken. Tracks from Shinedown will be available in the form of “Devour” from The Sound of Madness as well as the never released “Junkies For Fame.”

Each track will be available for $1.99 or 160 Microsoft Points while the Nine Inch Nails three-pack will be available for $5.49 or 440 Microsoft Points.