Australia is a land where games are late and cost twice as much, so it’s hardly surprising that the over-expensive PSPgo isn’t doing so well over there. A number of Australian retailers have even refused to stock it, due to its price and all-digital format, and the impact has been felt, with Sony downplaying reports that the system has sold fewer than 1,000 copies in the country. Michael Ephraim, managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia and New Zealand, has denied that the PSPgo sold under 1,000 units, although hedidhave to admit that his own figures aren’t much better, claiming that “it’s slightly over 1,000....

At GDC this year, Dale North, Nick Chester and I giggled like school girls when we wereshowna super secret and surprisinglyintergalacticsequel to the addictivePuzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords.Honestly, this first trailer forPuzzle Quest: Galactrixdoesn’t reveal much at all. It shows enough, though, to give you a quick taste of the all new gravity mechanic. As you play each stage, the traditional colored tiles will actually fall in different directions depending on where your “puzzle ship” is in space....

An id Software shooter without multiplayer modes? What crazy world do you think we live in? Of course the developer’s upcoming first-person shooter will features multiplayer game modes… but they’re not what you might expect. Instead of opting for standard deathwatch modes, previously id’s bread and butter, it’s focusing on vehicle combat and two player cooperative play forRage. [Note: Bethesda hasn’t provided any images of Rage’s multiplayer offerings; everything seen here is taken from the single-player campaign....

THQrevealed earlier todayRed Faction: Battlegroundsfor the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.Battlegroundsis a multiplayer-focused vehicular combat game where tanks and mechs square off on the surface of Mars. Four players can play online or locally in the game’s Survival, Annihilate and Flag Frenzy modes. And as this is aRed Factiongame, there will be plenty of destructible buildings for you to demolish. Players will also be rewarded with bonus content such as maps, vehicles, weapons and other items that will be playable inRed Faction: Armageddon....

TheArt Styleseries has silently grown from a small collection of Japan-only GBA games to a large catalog of minimalist masterpieces on DSiWare and WiiWare. At last count, there were 12 games released in the United States under theArt Stylename — not bad for a series that’s only been around for a few years. The latest in this low-profile line of Nintendo-published titles islight trax, a vector-graphics-based puzzle-racer that combines the light cycle combat ofTronwith the structure ofMario Kart....

Media Molecule once said thatLittleBigPlanetwould never get a sequel, that it was something the studio wouldn’t ever want to do. Whatever changed between then and now,LittleBigPlanetgot the second installment that the more cynical among us always thought was inevitable. The trouble with a sequel to a game likeLittleBigPlanetis that it’s difficult to imagine what more you could do.LittleBigPlanetwas more than a game; it was a breathtaking toolset of new ideas and fresh content....

Whenever possible, Destructoid rediscovers and discusses an old game (or content) for our “Revisited” series. A colossal asteroid punches through the inky black, hurtling towards a thriving human colony. Millions will be eviscerated by the impact, countless others by choking on their ashes. An entire planet will wither from the upcoming catastrophe, unless the first human Spectre decides to ignore an intergalactic threat and take on the task of stopping Asteroid X57’s deadly descent....

WhenRock Band 2was announced for the Wii, Harmonix promised that downloadable songs would finally be available. It’s been a week, but where are they? They’re certainly not on anyhard drivesSD cards right now. If you’re one of the twisted creatures who were looking forward to downloading songs for the Wii, don’t fret too hard. The DLC is in the “final testing stages,”as confirmedby Harmonix community manager Sean Baptiste. Twenty free bonus songs will be released, along with thirty other tracks, “as early in 2009 as possible....

So, yesterdayRock Bandwas finally released in Canada, due to the fact Electronic Arts and Harmonix had to push our release date back twice.[Editor’s note: Harmonix has insisted that initial announced North American date didn’t apply to Canada to begin with.]They didn’t have enough units to cover even the U.S. launch, so they pushed our launch date back in hopes they could handle the U.S. demand at first. And hey, that’s fine … we’re used to getting screwed....

Surely you’ve heard aboutRock of Ages, the upcoming boulder roller coming to Xbox Live Arcade from Atlus at the end of this month. I had a really great time playing withWesleytoday in the game’s two-player split screen mode. We first did a bit of warming up with the game’s Skeeball mode. This mode is simply both players rolling down a hill, screen split, trying to mow over targets. In the end you’ll actually try to roll into holes on a ramp, all with assigned point values, just like the skeeball you’d find at an arcade....

Yes, we know that everyone thinks theyknow. Everyone we’ve talked to has thissecret, official sourcethat has let them knowfor surethat the price reduction is coming. Is this the next ‘worst kept secret’? What’s unfortunate is that no one can really, truly confirm a price drop for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. It’s in the air, and we can almost taste it, but we don’t really know for certain. Because of this, chalk the following up to rumors....

More than any other genre, I find myself playing more puzzle games on my handhelds than anything else. So the Agetec published PlayStation Portable title,Puzzle Guzzle, looks like it’ll be right up my alley. The game has you aseembling triangles and other shapes by rotating marked square pieces. As the speed of the shape appearance ramps up, the puzzles become more difficult, your hands start to sweat, and then you cry like a girl....

ScrewAttack are my homies, as you well know if you have ever turned into their daily showHard News. Guys on a mission to make the industry less deadly serious and more fun are the perfect candidates in my mind to launch their own gaming convention, and that’s exactly what my friends have done. The official website for SGC launches December 1st and the event itself will take place July 3rd-5th at the Westin DFW in Dallas, Texas....