While PSN may be down for the near future, in Australia (and Europe?) you can get your Mini fix the old fashioned way—on UMD! Sony has just released 3 compilations of 4 titles per UMD, as part of the budget Essentials line. You also get voucher codes to download the games, as well as a [...]

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Well this week we might not have received any games in the minis section, aside from the Sony developed ones of course (which may count as negative games in some peoples books), but something notable did happen in the North American store, a price drop. Halfbrick studios’ Echoes, an already pretty cheap game at three [...]

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Frima Studio’s Zombie Tycoon was one of the most popular minis released last year, remaining in the Top Ten Downloads chart on the PlayStation Store for several weeks, so we were very pleased to have the opportunity to talk to Martin Brouard, executive producer at Frima, about the studio’s experiences of working with the minis [...]

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Frima Studio’s Zombie Tycoon is the first game that has been developed exclusively as a mini, and also the first using the Vicious Engine. If this is the shape of things to come, then the long-term future of minis is looking very rosy indeed. A lot rosier, in fact, than the future of the hapless [...]

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We thankfully didn’t have too long to wait for this mini after the tantalising trailer was released this week, and after a few hours play it really is shaping up to be every bit as good as the trailer promised, if not more.
Zombie Tycoon is the first mini to be released utilising the Vicious Engine, [...]

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More exciting developments on the minis front today with Quebec’s Frima Studio announcing the release of their Zombie Tycoon mini on October 29th, just in time for Halloween. It’s highly likely that this will be a simultaneous multi-region release, which is great news for all the minis-starved regions out there! Judging by the very impressive [...]

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