Hooray for demos! We’ve been Wanting some Watchmen Booty for a while and today we get to indulge ourselves threefold. Speaking of Booty, there are toys for you to play with if you are into that kind of thing. Toy cars that is, the Burnout Toy Car Collection is live for some fun shenanigans in our favorite concrete playground. And please don’t forget to watch the Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li trailer so we can discuss just how awful it’s going to be.

Get ‘em now before some else gets to them first (unless you like sloppy seconds) after the break.

Street Fighter Arena Category

• Everything Street Fighter is at your fingertips in this new PS Store category.

Downloadable Games

• Watchmen: The End is Nigh ($19.99)

Game Demos (free)

• Watchmen: The End is Nigh Demo
• Wanted: Weapons of Fate Demo
• Age of Booty Trial Version

Add-on Game Content

• NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM Pack 10 (free)
• Prince of Persia: Epilogue ($9.99)
• Skate 2 Throwback Pack (free)
• Street Fighter IV Shoryuken Pack ($3.99)
• High Velocity Bowling - Bruce ($0.99)
• High Velocity Bowling - Carmen ($0.99)

Burnout Paradise

• Burnout Paradise: Toy Car Collection ($12.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Car Pack 1 ($5.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Car Pack 2 ($5.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Hunter Cavalry ($1.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Hunter Citizen ($1.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Nakamura Firehawk ($1.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Carson GT Concept ($1.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Carson Inferno Van ($1.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Hunter Takedown 4X4 ($1.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Hunter Manhattan ($1.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Jansen P12 ($1.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Toy Krieger WTR ($1.99)

Rock Band

• “New” - No Doubt ($1.99)
• “Dirty Pool” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “I’m Cryin’” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “Lenny” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “Love Struck Baby” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “Mary Had a Little Lamb” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “Pride and Joy” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “Rude Mood” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “Tell Me” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “Testify” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• “Texas Flood” - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble ($1.99)
• Texas Flood (Album) - Stevie Ray Vaughn ($15.99)

Guitar Hero World Tour

• “Break It Out” by Vanilla Sky ($1.99)
• “C’est Comme Ca - Les Rita Mitsouko ($1.99)
• “In the Shadows” by The Rasmus ($1.99)
• European Track Pack 03 ($5.49)

Game Videos (free)

• Midnight Club Los Angeles: South Central Trailer
• Watchmen: The End is Nigh Rorschach
• Watchmen: The End is Nigh Nite Owl
• Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection Trailer
• Tom Clancy’s HAWX PS3/YouTube Upload Video
• Tom Clany’s HAWX Gameplay Video

TV, Movie, and Blu-ray Trailers (free)

• Watchmen: Sets & Sensibility
• Watchmen: Minutemen
• Watchmen: Dressed for Success
• Watchmen: Attention to Detail
• Breaking Bad Webisodes (x 5)
• Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li Trailer

PS3 Themes

• MLB 09 The Show MLB Theme (free)
• MLB 09 The Show Team Themes (x5) (Orioles, Pirates, Padres, Mariners and Nationals) (free)
• Bunnies Pinups ($0.99)

SCEE has some demo love of its own; Wanted: Weapons of Fate and WWE Legends of WrestleMania are yours for the taking. We have not spent time with a good wraslin’ title in quite some time so we are eager to take this one for a full nelson suplex tonight. You PoPers out there can grab thePrince of Persia Epilogue and continue enjoying the company of the charming donkey-less Prince.

Killzone 2 Now More Robust - 1.20 Patch Released

Though keeping with our tradition of staying rumour free, that’s not to say we can’t present a body of evidence and posit that something is going to happen.

We’re done it before in the past, and though we’re still waiting for that particular seed to blossom, we’re happy to talk about what’s happening behind other closed doors and opine our “learned” judgment on the matter.

The closed doors in question here are those of Sony Bend, and now that Resistance Retribution has been finished, we decided to review recent mounting evidence and postulate that a PS3 Syphon Filter game is on the way.

Read on for why we think you’ll be playing with Gabe again in HD come 2010.

For the uninitiated, Syphon Filter is a series of games that started life on the PS1. Back when Metal Gear Solid was wowing the West with stellar production values and an alternative to simply blasting through enemies, Gabe Logan appeared on the scene to prove that whatever Snake could do, he could do - differently.

Though the game-play focused more on the fire-fighting and less on the tactics, and Syphon Filter’s protagonist was slightly more brash and direct than Metal Gear’s Snake, the Agency’s operative still employed stealth techniques along with a healthy dose of gadgetry to overcome one international crisis after another. Released in 1999 (a full two years before 24 emerged on our screens) there is some resemblance between conflicted yet deadly everyman Jack Bauer and Logan; a man trained to do a job who gets mixed up with a conspiracy way over his pay grade.

Gabe went on to get into a series of global catastrophes surrounding the Syphon Filter (a deadly bio-weapon capable of wiping out entire demographics) with two direct sequels before Syphon Filter: Omega Strain appeared on the newer PS2 and allowed players to offer Gabe a much needed break and create their own character.

Of course, readers may be more familiar with the more recent PSP outtngs, Dark Mirror and Logan’s Shadow; both of which received favourable receptions. Between the aforementioned three PS1 games, the PS2 version and these two PSP offerings (plus the PSN download Combat Ops) Bend have produced seven Syphon Filter games. But why stop there?

Fans of the series have been waiting patiently for any indication that the high-action espionage game would be coming to the PS3. The first portent of such a possibility came from a job posting on Gamasutra’s web-site showing Sony Bend actively looking for a PS3/Xbox 360 Senior Tools Programmer. Though hardly irrefutable proof that any future PS3 games at Bend would be Syphon Filter related, it was a start.

This sliver of suggestion was compounded when our friends at Gamezine ran a story about Robert W. Rose, a developer at the aforementioned studio, talking on his blog about how Cell programmers, those who work closely with the PS3’s complex array of SPUs etc., have the highest egos within the ecosystem of game software engineering.

Once again, still no mention of Syphon Filter and, considering Bend have yet to announce what their next game after Resistance Retribution is going to be, it’s no giant leap to think that they would be working on a new PS3 title. Still, such comments at least support the suggestion that the guys at Bend are cutting their teeth on new hardware and moving away from the PSP. Considering their pedigree with Syphon Filter games, it’s no great stretch to join the dots here.

The last piece of the puzzle, and probably the most testifying considering there is at least a tangible reference to the actual existence of a new Syphon Filter game, is PCBProductions’ recent listing where, amongst the many games they’ve worked on - plain as day - they state that they’ve been credited with “facial mo-cap” for “Syphon Filter 5″ on the PS3 for Sony Bend.

Now, we admit that the numbering is a tad baffling considering there have been more than five games in the series so far but, technically, you could argue that The Omega Strain doesn’t really count considering Logan’s back-seat in the story. And Combat Ops is hardly a Gabe Logan adventure at all, more a level builder. So, this could all fit together nicely.

The largest indicator however that a PS3 Syphon Filter will happen is, of course, economics. The series has been immensely popular on three Sony platforms up until now so it’s almost common sense that Sony would want to continue with the series into the next generation of gaming. Gabe is a likable character, SOE’s The Agency is about to whet people’s appetite for spy-based action and, with the PS3 really coming into its own with games such as Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone 2 and God of War III, maybe the powers that be were simply waiting for Bend to finish up another big franchise and then return to familiar ground with all barrels blazing.

What say you? Are you looking forward to a new Syphon Filter escapade? Do you think it will be on the PS3 or will Bend stick to the PSP? Let us know in the comments.

It looks like Black Rock Studio didn’t lose any time after the release of Pure, since they are already working on a new title. It all began when a supposedly leaked video hit YouTube. From what we’ve seen, the creators of Pure decided to focus on cars this time around.

The presence of high speed races in urban environments and phantasmagoric crushes led many to resemble it to the Burnout series. Why don’t you watch the video - located in the upper section of the article - and tell us what you think?

Last but not least, the trailer informs us that we shall know more on March 11th. Until then, patience…