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CrossBuy: Sony’s One Way Street

There are two interesting services that Sony deployed with the PS Vita: Cross Save and Cross Buy. The first allows you to pick up a save file from the PS3 when you were last playing on the Vita, or vice versa, and the second allows you to purchase a game once, but get a copy for both your PS3 and PS Vita. For those of us with both devices, these features are like the future incarnate; and for PSN games, it works fantastically.

However, when it comes to purchasing an actual PS Vita cartridge, you do not get the Cross Buy deal, even if the physical PS3 copy has this feature included. Unfortunately, I found this out the hard way.

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SPS: Escape Plan

I love my PS Vita, but sometimes it feels more like an expensive drawer gnome than a portable game system. It had a great launch lineup, but since then it hasn’t done much and tends to get left behind when I leave the apartment; it feels less secure in the pocket than a 3DS and requires a much larger one, too. However, I love the hardware and jump at any excuse to play it, so Escape Plan’s recent 25 cent DLC pack, The Asylum, was an excellent chance to reintroduce my ignored little handheld to the light of day.

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