1 new Mini in the world this week.

Hungry Giraffe’s gameplay can’t be reduced to words. It’s a game from Laughing Jackal.

*Red = New Worldwide

NA Minis

• Nothing

EU Minis

• Prehistoric Isle (£1.99/€2.49) – Review

Price Drops (EU)

• Gold Fever – Sale – (Was £3.99/€4.99 – Now £1.74/€1.99) – Review
• Rocks N Rockets – Sale – (Was £3.99/€4.99 – Now £1.74/€1.99) – Review
• Panda Craze – Sale – (Was £2.49/€2.99 – Now £1.74/€1.99) – Review
• Shapo – Sale – (Was £2.49/€2.99 – Now £1.74/€1.99) – Review
• Caterpillar – Sale – (Was £2.49/€2.99 – Now £1.74/€1.99) – Review

PlayStation Plus (EU)

• *Hungry Giraffe – Free

Futurlab, the makers of Coconut Dodge, have been long and hard at work on their next Mini, a vertical space shooter based on a teleportation mechanic. The good news is they finally have almost finished it and plan on a submission to Sony in February, which would mean a release date in the first week of March if everything goes smoothly.

They also recently had a focus group test the game, where it was very well received, which makes me wonder if we will see shameless knock-offs of it, like what occurred with Coconut Dodge?

The screenshots didn’t really give a sense of gameplay, but this gives a good idea of what the game is like. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a movie is worth a thousand pictures (unless it’s a movie by Uwe Boll). Also reveals an interesting twist—improved graphics when played on a PS3. That seems to be a first.

Hungry Giraffe should be out this week free for PS+ members in Europe, then next week for PS+ members in North America. Then available to buy after two weeks being exclusive for PS+ in each respective region.

Twisted Dragon updated their site with more info on their upcoming Mini, Defenders of the Mystic Garden. As they previously mentioned, it’s a tower defense game where you must protect the gnomes’ garden from being pillaged by a horde of ravaging something or other.

You do this by placing a number of adventurers of various classes at certain points on the map, who then attack the incoming invaders. Apparently they will patrol a given path rather than simply stay fixed like a tower, and they can also level up. As shown in the picture, each map has three different difficulties.

Laughing Jackal’s next upcoming Mini, Hungry Giraffe, has a release date of February 8th February 1st in Europe for members of PlayStation Plus and will be available to the rest of us 2 weeks later for £2.49/€3.49. No news on a release date for North America.. February 7th for members of PS+ in North America, and 2 weeks later available to buy for $3.49.

Update: New information on the release date from Al of Laughing Jackal, and they added a page on their website for the game, with new screenshots.

2 new Minis in the world this week.

Both Bermuda Triangle and Gold Medalist are SNK arcade classics.

*Red = New Worldwide

NA Minis

• *Bermuda Triangle ($2.99)
• *Gold Medalist ($2.99)
• Stick Man Rescue ($3.99)

EU Minis

• Mecho Wars (£3.99/€4.99) – Review

Price Drops

• Revoltin’ Youth – Permanent – (now $0.99, original price $1.99) – Review
• Mad Blocker Alpha – Permanent – (now $2.99, original price $3.99) – Review
• Ninjamurai – Permanent – (now $1.99, original price $2.99) – Review

PlayStation Plus

• Nothing