This week at the Playstation Store, we have some more Rock Band songs, a Lost Planet demo and Crash Bandicoot: WARPED, the third Crash Bandicoot game, among other stuff.

The trilogy of the PS1 Crash games wound up an unfortunate victim of timing, starting with the first game being sandwiched between the unique look of Sega’s NiGHTS Into Dreams and the unique everything else of Super Mario 64. They’re a highly derivative but nevertheless fun bunch of platformers and WARPED was constantly lauded as the franchise’s apex.

Here’s a complete rundown of this week’s update…

A recent press release from Vivendi Games Mobile revealed all of the company’s planned cell phone titles for the first half of 2008. A wide variety of genres and licenses can be expected in the coming year, such as The Bourne Conspiracy, Celebrity Hangman, Crash Nitro Kart 2, Prison Break, Pub Darts 180 and Wordox: Word Snatcher. The first title to hit cell phones will be a mobile version of The Spiderwick Chronicles, which should be available through providers before the end of February, 2008.

To go along with newly reimagined Nokia N-gage platform/service, Vivendi Games Mobile is releasing another game in the Crash Bandicoot franchise.

VU previously released a port of Crash Nitro Kart as an N-Gage cart in 2003. The details for the new Bandicoot game were pretty sparse, only indicating that it will follow “the original storyline where the crazy marsupial must save the world” and be filled with the usual antics and humor found in earlier games. No word on release date, exact game title or pricing.

If you’re like me, you have a good number of Playstation and PS2 favorites you’re not willing to give up on just yet. So where does the PS3 stand with backward compatibility for such games? To date, there is a fair amount of popular titles that have no major problems working on the PS3. God more »