Sony Announce Helghast Assault And Helghast Scout Troops Are Coming To Lost Planet 2

Sony have announced that coming exclusively from June, players will be able to download for free from the PSN Helghast Assault and Helghast Scout troops for Lost Planet 2. The Trailer Sony have released showing the Helghast fighting in Lost Planet 2 appears to show the the Helghast Assault character fights with a heavy weapon, whilst the Scout Troop has the invisibility Cloak from Killzone 2 and a sniper.



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From EU Playstation Blog

Sony Announce A Special Killzone 2 8 And A Half Hour Long Warzone Game

Sony has announced that on Boxing day there will be a special 8 and a half hour long Warzone match being played in Killzone 2. to join, you'll need to look for the "BOXINDAYKILLZONE" game. the password needed to get in will be forumfun. The match is scheduled to run from 10Am to 6.30PM.
There may even be some goodies to get whilst playing.

From EU Playstation Blog

Killzone 2 has outsold Halo Wars

I head on the 1up podcast, listen up [1], that Halo Wars had been outsold by Killzone 2.
this surprised me so i had a quick look at sales figures for both games.

Killzone 2 has sold around 1.57 Million units [2]
Halo Wars has sold around 1.18 Million [3]

Guess they were right, Halo Wars May have outsold Killzone 2 in America during it's First week, but for the rest of the world, Killzone 2 has outsold it. Subsequent week sales for Halo Wars have all been less than Killzone 2

[1] http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3172882
[2] http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=12253&region=All
[3] http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=7715&region=All

Killzone 2 Vs Halo 3 - Japanese Sales Figures Week 2 Goes to Killzone 2

Last week I wrote about how Halo 3 managed to outsell Killzone 2 in it's first week sales in Japan. It was a fair achievement seeing as the 360 had sold around 2 Million consoles less at halo 3 release than the PS3 at Killzone 2 release.
I Guessed it could be down to the Halo franchise being much more well known and played than the Killzone franchise, @Doom_CMYK responding via twitter that Microsoft also had a bigger advertising Promotion In Japan than Sony or Guerilla had given Killzone 2.

The second week figures are now in for Killzone 2, and when compared to Halo 3 figures, they show a higher level of support. Halo 3 went from selling 62,415 in it's first week to just 7,133 [1]. Killzone 2 also has a drop in sales but no where as high as Halo 3, going from 42,660 sold in week 1 to 16,069 in week 2. [2]

Halo 3 still sold more than Killzone 2 during it's first two weeks, but it will be interesting to see if Killzone 2 sells more over a longer period of time.


[1] http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=6964&region=All
[2] http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=12253&region=All