Halfbrick announces four PSP Minis games

Nintendo has its regular Art Style series of download games, and it seems that Sony is positioning the output of Australian developer Halfbrick similarly.

It's announced four 'quick play, instant action' games that will be released under the brand Halfbrick Fridays.

These are:

Halfbrick Echoes (screens shown) - a topdown action puzzle game in which you collect crystals within various surreal worlds. As each crystal is collected, an enemy called an Echo will spawn. Echoes are translucent versions of the player's hat icon, and they will walk the exact same path the hat walked between collecting crystals.

Halfbrick Blast Off - a physics-based sci-fi arcade game in which you collect lost astronauts and safely navigate around the gravitational pull of nearby planets.

Halfbrick Zombies - an arcade action game where you must survive the onslaught of zombie waves by using a full arsenal of different weapons to dispatch the braindead foes.

Halfbrick Rocket Racing - a topdown racing game with a vertical twist. You control the racing craft via left and right pressure-sensitive triggers, which operate thrusts on each respective side. Hold both to move forward and alternate power on different sides to turn. Gravity will also affect the speed of racers going up or down different parts of each course.

Interestingly, Blast Off and Echoes have already been released on Xbox Live Arcade - something which fits into Sony's philosophy for minis, which is repurposing existing games to quickly fill the available catalogue.

There's currently no news on release dates or pricing, but we'd expect Blast Off and Echoes to be available around the 1st October launch.