It's a huge day here at Criterion.

We've been working closely with Sony for some time to make Burnout Paradise available for download on their awesome US Playstation Store.

We're finally able to announce today that we're coming to the Store, and we'll be ready to ship this Fall!  The Store screen will look something like this.



A new way to buy Burnout

This is incredibly exciting news for us.  It obviously means you'll be able to get Burnout Paradise however you want.  Pick it up in your regular games retailer or kick back in the comfort of your own home and download it from the Playstation Store.  And the laziest of us will appreciate not having to get up to switch games or remember where we left the disk!

It's obviously big news, but there's more to it than that.  

This year, we brought Burnout kicking and screaming into the next-generation with Burnout Paradise.



Obviously, we delivered awesome visuals and destruction on PS3 and Xbox 360 in our most ambitious game yet.  We built our first open-world game and introduced a mountain of fresh innovations – everything from "Mugshots" (sending instant snapshots of your face to anyone who runs you off the road) to our new "Showtime" game mode (steer a wrecked car through the city picking up dollar damage scores for everything you hit).

New Criterion

But the big change for us was creating a fun, social online experience that people could come back to again and again.

We invented "Easydrive" – the simplest way to hook up with friends online – and focused our action on collaborative rather than ultra competitive online play through "Freeburn Challenges" – just hanging out with friends and working together to complete simple challenges.

And that's just the start.

Big brother's watching you!

We can see everything that happens in Paradise City.  Here's where everyone crashed yesterday!



Our telemetry team watch how you play, and we're refining Paradise and redesigning our future content, based on what we see.  We've never built a game with this much info at our fingertips and the result will be a better Burnout experience than ever before.

Next in the Burnout Series

We've made the decision to support our players more than any other game out there.

The follow-up to Burnout Paradise is on the way, in fact you can already play it.

Our recent free Cagney update, gave players 3 new game modes, 70 new Freeburn Challenges, some awesome vehicles and paint-jobs and an in-game news page and calendar.



We've almost finished developing our Bike Pack.  This brings motorcycles and characters to Burnout for the first time.



And we're hard at work on our Playstation Trophy Pack now.  This will be followed by a new island location, more game modes and some unbelievable new vehicles.

As always, we'll bring you all the news here on the site and on our video podcast – Crash TV.

This year, we're taking Burnout on its biggest adventure yet.

We hope you'll join us for the ride!