Playstation Move: Ape Escape Message Board

Back in the day Ape Escape was Sony's way to showcase their new Dualshock technology. The game was a tech demo expanded into a fun and fast-paced game. There would have been some nice symmetry if Sony used the franchise to showcase PlayStation Move. Instead, a year after the device launched, Sony releases PlayStation Move Ape Escape, a short, boring, on-rails shooter that is the opposite of what Ape Escape should be...

The PSN update is mostly about fast cars and deep discounts this week. Burnout Paradise is a mere $8 now, with many of its DLC packs slashed to $2. Not to be outdone, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit packs have also been reduced by almost half.

Meanwhile, some Capcom PSP games, including Power Stone Collection and Ultimate Ghosts N' Goblins, are a scant $5. Race on past the break for this week's update details.
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Every Tuesday, Sony drops a bunch of new stuff onto the PlayStation Network. Those with a PlayStation 3 or PSP can download these goodies, which include PSN games, movies, themes and more. While the Official PlayStation Blog outlines these updates in full each week, we thought we'd help truncate the good news into something more digestible...

I hope you had a great July 4th weekend. Did you all get to try the PlayStation Move Ape Escape demo last week and experience catching monkeys with the PlayStation Move motion controller? I hope you’re ready for even more mayhem, as the full PlayStation Move Ape Escape game hits the PlayStation Store today! We’ve put a video together introducing the full game, so please take a look.

Let me tell you a little bit about PlayStation Move Ape Escape. There are a total of 15 levels and you will cross between the past and present in pursuit of Specter, the leader of a monkey invasion. At the end of each mission, a review of your performance will display regarding how many monkeys you caught, your score and the details of any bonuses you have earned. You have a chance to compare your scores with players around the world, so try uploading your score every time you complete a mission and check the online leaderboards! Don’t forget to earn trophies as well.

As you progress through the game, you will unlock mini-games. Each of these use the PlayStation Move motion controller in a unique way and provide a fun change of pace from the story mode. So take a well-earned break from your pursuit of Specter and enjoy those mini-games.

We are very eager for Ape Escape fans old and new to try out the PlayStation Move version of the franchise. Pick up the full ape-chasing adventure today for $19.99, grab your PlayStation Move motion controller and start capturing those mischievous monkeys!

Make your escape in this gameplay featuring the PlayStation Move!

Ape Escape comes to PlayStation Move on the PS3!

How can apes be so unimprisonable? It's a question for the ages, obviously, and a premise that's fueled countless games in the beloved Ape Escape series. The latest game, PlayStation Move Ape Escape (guess which peripheral it uses?), has been confirmed for PSN with a July 5 release date in the US -- it's already available in Europe -- and a demo will precede the full game on Tuesday, June 28, if you're into that whole try-before-you-buy thing. Us, we're more the impulse purchasing type.

PlayStation Move Ape Escape is a port of the Japanese game, Ape Escape: Fury! Fury!. You can check out our preview from last year's TGS show right here.

Way back in March, we reported about a new Ape Escape game coming exclusively to the PlayStation Network. It's called PlayStation Move Ape Escape, and as the name suggests, it's a PlayStation Move-enabled title. And now, is has a release date...

Huge news for Ape Escape fans: that downloadable and PlayStation Move-supported next entry was lightly detailed and given a release window over on the official PS blog. PlayStation Move Ape Escape, as it’s been creatively dubbed, will hit PSN at some point later this summer, and it’ll ship with a total of 15 levels.

The core campaign appears to revolve around--get this--catching monkeys via the PS Move controller, which is transformed on-screen into an “an assortment of gadgets” that can scoop, swat, and target monkeys. The game will also host a number of mini-games with names that really don’t betray what they’ll have you do, though the promise of "wacky" seems apt judging from the last screen:
 





No word on price yet. Also, the post was careful to mention that PlayStation Move Ape Escape release window was only for the US, which makes sense since this is a localization of Ape Escape Fury! Fury!.     

Japan's (mostly) on-rails Ape Escape entry for PlayStation Move, Ape Escape Fury! Fury! is getting a North American release on PSN this summer, according to a post on the PlayStation blog. In a stroke of marketing apathy, it'll be hitting here under the woefully unimaginative title PlayStation Move Ape Escape.

We actually previewed the Japanese version last fall -- it's essentially a collection of 15 levels and some minigames in which players snatch up space monkeys by waving the Move controller. In other words: It's not a PS3 remake of the original Ape Escape, which would have been really cool.

PlayStation veterans remember the original PlayStation title Ape Escape well. It was the very first game released on the system that required a DualShock controller to play, and it was generally very well-received upon its release in 1999...