{"id":15220,"date":"2011-11-01T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"psn-gets-more-ps2-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15220-psn-gets-more-ps2-classics","title":{"rendered":"PSN gets more PS2 Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, we reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/14672-PS2-Classics-heading-Europe-PSN.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MyGaming PS2 Classics coming to PSN\">PS2 Classics would be making their way onto the PSN<\/a> for download and play on PS3.<\/p>\n<p>While there is yet to be a release schedule announced for that particular plan to hit the UK Playstation Network &#8211; the US Playstation Store is padding its stock with a few more PS2 titles.<\/p>\n<p>Joining God Hand, and Odin Sphere (amongst others) are BloodRayne, Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland and Raiden III &ndash; bringing the total amount of PS2 Classics available on PSN to 8.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/harvestmoonps2s2_358075158.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it&rsquo;s not all that impressive, yet &ndash; and Sony may be stretching the concept of &#8220;classic&#8221; here &#8211; but it&rsquo;s good to see that the number of PS2 games are growing, and that the initial deal wasn&rsquo;t just some &ldquo;oh let&rsquo;s just chuck this out there&rdquo; once-off thing.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&rsquo;d like to see some other games getting added to that list &ndash; Gitaroo Man wasn&rsquo;t a massively graphically intensive game, and that was loads of fun &ndash; totally plausible for a PSN release.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, Sony, there is a massive library of games at your fingertips &ndash; and a wealth of fresh consumers who are yet to experience; start cashing-in on that.<\/p>\n<p>Still no word on when this is all happening for us in the EU-zones, but we&rsquo;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/bloodrayne_pic_212759757.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/article\/70855\/more-ps2-classics-coming-to-playstation-store-this-week\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Shack News\">Shack News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19808-US-PSN-gets-more-PS2-games-UK-still-waiting\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forum Link\"><strong>US PSN gets more PS2 games UK still waiting<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out today for the US \u2013 probably coming to the UK as well at some point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}