News September PlayStation Plus Update Information Incoming Next Week
Instant Game Collection to be outlined imminently
News You Won't Have to Worry About Watch Dogs' Infamously Tedious Drinking Game Ever Again
New patch also extends single player content
News - 2014, Week 34
Sunday24th Aug 2014
News Is PSN Offline? Yes, and the Scheduled Maintenance Doesn't Start Until Tomorrow
All services currently down
We know that Sony’s planning to run some Bank Holiday tests on the PlayStation Network, but the manufacturer’s servers appear to have come crashing down a day early. While status reports from the Japanese giant claim that its online platform is currently up and running, we can’t log in using any of our consoles in...
News You'll Be Able to Join The Golf Club Starting Next Week on PS4
Fore the players
HB Studios’ hotly anticipated The Golf Club will putt a place on the PlayStation 4 next week in North America, the Canadian developer has announced. The simulation will set you back a relatively steep $34.99 when it rolls onto the green on 26th August. Those of you in Europe will have to wait a little while longer for the caddy to...
News Sony Executive's Flight Rerouted Following Alleged Bomb Threat
Sigh
This isn’t a story that we expected to be writing on what should be a slow Sunday, but there are reports that Sony Online Entertainment chief John Smedley’s flight has been rerouted following bomb threats by the same group claiming responsibility for today’s PlaySt
Monday25th Aug 2014
Review CounterSpy (PlayStation 4)
From Russia with regret
CounterSpy is a strange beast. Developed by fledgling studio Dynamighty, it's an ambitious game that strives to bridge the gap between 2D and 3D stealth, while also attempting to juggle randomly generated levels. And while it plays host to some truly unique mechanics, and consistently brilliant presentation, it's...
Sunday24th Aug 2014
News No Personal Information Has Been Accessed in PlayStation Network Outage
Hack job
Well, this is all starting to seem eerily familiar now, isn’t it? There were signs earlier today that the PlayStation Network was coming back online as planned – we even logged in for a few fleeting moments – but the service hasn’t returned quite as quickly as we anticipated. In fact, it’s been out for nearing 12 hours now, which...
News Yakuza Zero Looks to Turn Back Time on PS4 and PS3
Zero chance of a localisation, huh?
As promised, SEGA has announced that the next entry in its popular Japanese gangster series will be named Yakuza Zero: Chikai no Basho – or, Yakuza Zero: The Place of Oath. The game – which is due out on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 like its predecessor Yakuza: Ishin – was announced as part of a live...
Saturday23rd Aug 2014
News Don't Worry, Crystal Dynamics Considered Your Feelings Over the Whole Tomb Raider Ordeal
What a Lara rubbish
Rise of the Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics definitely didn’t mean to upset you when it agreed to an exclusivity deal with Microsoft. In the aftermath of last week’s Gamescom 2014 backlash, the studio has posted a new message on the franchise’s
News These New Screenshots Prove That Tearaway Unfolded Is the PS4's Cutest Game
Nyaw
Tearaway Unfolded was one of the more magical surprises from this year's Gamescom conference, and in order to keep the magic flowing, Sony has released a slew of screenshots which show off the adorable game's beautiful style. It takes a lot to melt the heart of this otherwise cynical and jaded writer, but seeing the puzzle platformer's...
Round Up Metro: Redux PS4 Reviews Celebrate in an Abandoned Subway
Anything but dark and dreary
Metro 2033 was one of those strange mid-tier titles that decided to avoid the PlayStation 3’s complicated architecture, releasing in early 2010 as a console exclusive for the Xbox 360. The post-apocalyptic first-person shooter – based upon the novel of the same name by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky – proved an...
Weirdness Destiny's Ghost Has Taken the Ice Bucket Challenge
And it's nominated Joel from The Last of Us
While we appreciate that it’s all for a very good cause, we were just beginning to get bored of the influx of Ice Bucket Challenge videos online – but this brilliant Destiny clip has refreshed our enthusiasm. After being nominated earlier in the week, the Peter Dinklage voiced Ghost has been drenched...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 35
Shake off the work week blues
The problem with running WAYP on a weekly basis is that your humble host is invariably going to forget to put together the article from time to time – as this issue evidences. Your editor needed a firm reminder from news reporter Nicola Hayden, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this in the first place. To be fair,...
Friday22nd Aug 2014
News September PlayStation Plus Update Information Incoming Next Week
Instant Game Collection to be outlined imminently
It’s once again time to get hyped over your latest selection of free software downloads, as the September PlayStation Plus update is set to get outlined very soon. In response to an eager fan on Twitter enquiring about the quality of next month’s refresh, PlayStation Blog manager Fred Dutton...
News You Won't Have to Worry About Watch Dogs' Infamously Tedious Drinking Game Ever Again
New patch also extends single player content
Even those who haven't played a minute of Watch Dogs may have heard about its infamous drinking minigame, especially if you frequent popular gaming forums. The incredibly tedious optional activity has long been the bane of many a Platinum Trophy hunter, purely because of the awkward nature in which you...
Review Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (PlayStation Vita)
Queen of Lastation
Irrespective of allegiance, we’ve all witnessed the console wars. From the days when Nintendo and SEGA contested store shelves, all the way to the triple pronged struggle of the current generation, it’s something that, as gamers, we’re all familiar with. This eternal war is at the heart of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1...
News A Bank Holiday's Coming, So Sony's Pulling the PSN Offline
Maintaining scheduled maintenance tradition
As has become a frighteningly frequent occurrence of late, Sony’s decided to run some mandatory maintenance on the PlayStation Network – during a Bank Holiday weekend. Those of you living in the UK will probably be looking forward to a full three days away from work right now, but you may not be able...
News What's the Best PS4 Bundle in the UK? This Destiny Pack Is Priced Astronomically Low
Cheap as chips
Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles since its launch last year, making it one of the fastest selling systems of all time. However, we’re sure that it’s looking at the fast-approaching holiday season with wide eyes, as it’s typically in the second Christmas that consoles truly take off. And with the likes of Destiny,...
News Not Even Sony Understands Why the PS4 Is Selling So Well
Commercial confusion
To say that the PlayStation 4 has been a success in its first nine or so months on the market is an understatement: it’s actually hit a figurative homerun. The console has already exceeded sales of 10 million units, making it one of the fastest selling video game machines ever launched. Even more impressively, the system was...
News How Delicious Does That White Destiny PS4 Look Out of Its Box?
Tastier than grilled cheese
We appreciate that we may have already talked you into picking up the vanilla Destiny PlayStation 4 bundle that’s on offer at Amazon.co.uk right now, but we’re about to make your decision that little bit more difficult. Our friends over at PlayStation Access have posted an unboxing video of the Glacier White console,...
Weirdness 16-Year-Old Makes Minecraft in Trials Fusion
Welcome to the future
We love level editors because they often serve up insanity such as LittleBigPlanet’s infamous calculator, but this is potentially even more amazing than that. A 16-year-old Trials Fusion player has built, well, a functional version of Minecraft within the motorcycle simulator. Just let that sink in for a few seconds...
News Still Confused By PS4 Adventure The Vanishing of Ethan Carter? Yeah, So Are We
Who killed Laura Palmer?
If you thought that continuously walking down P.T.'s single hallway was a treat, you'll likely be chuffed to bits at upcoming PlayStation 4 murder mystery The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. As this recently released gameplay clip demonstrates, the title features multiple hallways, and will even let you explore the outside world...
Thursday21st Aug 2014
Feature 21 of the Most Awful PlayStation Network Avatars
Fashion disaster
Buzzfeed is so ridiculous that it’s already broken the fourth wall and started parodying itself, but there’s definitely a degree of entertainment to be derived from human stupidity. While we’re not diving down that rabbit hole, we thought that it was time to pad out the post-Gamescom
News Silent Hills' Latest Easter Egg Is Quite Literally Out of This World
Twilight zone
Incredibly, people are still pulling secrets out of last week’s Silent Hills playable teaser. Considering that the demo was built by Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, it’s perhaps no real surprise – but this latest Easter egg maintains a long running tradition. If you’ve played a Silent Hill game before, you’ll know that...
Friday22nd Aug 2014
News Sony: PS Move Was Ahead of Its Time, But There's No Appetite for Motion Right Now
Project Morpheus will change that, reckons Shuhei Yoshida
Pop those PlayStation Move controllers in the cupboard: you’ll need them, but not right now. In a candid interview with Pocket-Lint, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has admitted that motion gaming is in a bit of a rut right now, and will stay that way until Sony’s virtual...
Thursday21st Aug 2014
News Travel Through Time in Far Cry 4's Gorgeous New PS4 Trailer
Great Scott
Far Cry 4 looms large on the horizon, and in an attempt to raise the title's profile, developer Ubisoft recently released this nifty clip on the PlayStation Blog. While there isn't a truckload of new information here, it does give us a much better insight into the game's time-traveling mechanics. As the remarkab
News Don't Own a PS Vita? You Must Buy This Brilliant Bundle
Uncharted, Tearaway, and more included in the box
There’s enough doom and gloom surrounding the PlayStation Vita to make a Thomas Hardy novel look uplifting by comparison, but that doesn’t mean that the system has suddenly transformed into a waste of space. In fact, despite the negativity, we’re still enjoying the device as much as ever –...
News PS4 Exclusive The Last of Us Remastered to Loot Free Maps
Studio still trying to solve connectivity issues
As we explained right around launch, The Last of Us Remastered is not just an exceptional single player game, but it’s also pretty darn impressive in multiplayer as well. Unfortunately, the next-gen re-release has been hampered by some unfort
News These LittleBigPlanet Costumes Clearly Didn't Take Very Long to Make
All different shapes and sizes
There are some absolutely incredible costumes in LittleBigPlanet, which must have taken hours upon hours to produce – but these Thomas Was Alone outfits aren’t an example of that. While the Mike Bithell developed indie carries our coveted stamp of approval, we can see how a game about geometric shapes may not...
News Puyo Puyo Tetris to Clear Screens on PS4 in Japan
A blob's life
The decline of the puzzle game has been sad to see. Once a popular genre on the PSone and PlayStation 2, smartphones and social networks practically rendered anything other than Tetris redundant in the previous generation. Fortunately, you’ll always be able to import a copy of SEGA’s intriguing mash up Puyo Puyo Tetris, which is...
News The Walking Dead: Season Two Stumbles to a Conclusion Next Week
Still keeping that hair short
Regular readers will know that this editor has spent the past few months desperately trying to catch up on Telltale’s episodic adaptation of The Walking Dead. Well, your humble host recently finished Season Two, Episode Four, which means that he’s ready for the finale. And best of all, the misery will unfold from...
Wednesday20th Aug 2014
Review Diablo III: Reaper of Souls - Ultimate Evil Edition (PlayStation 4)
Heavenly hell
Diablo III is samey and full of repetition in the best possible way. Sure, the package is packed with some truly stunning cut-scenes and the odd nugget of nonsensical narrative exposition – but it’s the never-ending combat that will keep you hooked. Such a rinse and repeat formula should perhaps be frowned upon, but even through...
Review Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment (PlayStation Vita)
Sleepy hollow
In an age where we have Project Morpheus lurking right around the corner, Sword Art Online, the popular Japanese anime about gamers entering a virtual gaming world, has resonated with many viewers – especially the gaming crowd. Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment makes its way onto the PlayStation Vita in the form of a third-person...
Review Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition (PlayStation 4)
Who needs a degree?
Some games just like to poke fun at you, often by being notoriously difficult, with the likes of Dark Souls, Flappy Bird, and QWOP springing to mind. These titles frequently find success through their brutal difficulty levels, and even amass cult followings of dedicated fans, who are able to succeed where so many fail. Surgeon...
News Minecraft on PS4 Fails Quality Testing, Gets Buried by Sony for a Little While Longer
There and block again
Evergreen sandbox adventure Minecraft was expected to come out this month on the PlayStation 4, but earlier today, the studio in charge of porting the smash hit announced on Twitter that the game had failed quality testing. "Sony found some issues we have to fix in their final test of Minecraft PS4," 4J Studios wrote, before...
Review Hohokum (PlayStation 4)
Tripping the light fantastic
Whenever we played British developer Honeyslug’s latest game Hohokum at conventions and the like, our biggest issue was quite simply explaining the experience to others. What exactly is the vibrant title starring a multicoloured worm all about? Is it art? How do you play it? Heck, what do you even do? Having spent...
News Sony's Done a Great Job with Indies, Says Former Nintendo Man
Little and large
Dan Adelman knows a thing or two about indie games. The industry veteran previously spearheaded the launch of Microsoft’s wildly successful Xbox Live Arcade, before switching his attention to Nintendo’s digital push, where he secured a slew of top titles for the House of Mario’s machines, including World of Goo and the...
News inFAMOUS: First Light Firm Sucker Punch Zapped by Layoffs
Studio struck by round of redundancies
Sucker Punch’s sizeable superhero spin-off inFAMOUS: First Light may be mere days away from its debut on the PlayStation 4, but the Seattle-based studio has been struck by a fresh round of layoffs behind the scenes. There’s no word on how many have departed the firm, but Sony has confirmed that there’s...
News Bloodborne Goes for the Throat in New PS4 Gameplay Footage
Maybe this one won't boil your blood
Bloodborne is perhaps one of the biggest benefactors of Sony’s late announcement strategy so far. Ignoring leaks, the release was revealed mere months ago, and is already on the home straight ahead of its launch early next year. The good news for fans of the
Store Update 20th August 2014 (Europe)
Name's Spy, CounterSpy
It’s all espionage and beating bad guys over the head with clubs on the PlayStation 4 this week, with CounterSpy and Hotline Miami both deploying as cross-buy releases. Other new arrivals include vibrant platformer The Last Tinker: City of Colours and weedy third-person shooter Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.
Store Update 19th August 2014 (North America)
Reaper of souls
It’s a gigantic week in the PlayStation Nation, with more new arrivals than we possible have space to list in this increasingly unnecessary pre-amble paragraph. Highlights include cross-buy espionage adventure CounterSpy, hotly anticipated sequel Tales of Xillia 2, and expanded re-release Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition. Let's...
Rumour Is PS2 Classic Earth Defence Force 2 Coming to the Vita?
Fingers crossed
The PlayStation Vita is a pretty nifty piece of tech, but it is woefully lacking when it comes to giant robots. That shouldn't be a problem for much longer, though, as a recent report from Gematsu suggests that fondly remembered PlayStation 2 title Earth Defence Force 2 will soon be ported to the handheld. What's more, it's...
Tuesday19th Aug 2014
Rumour Project Puppet Could Be Japan Studio's Next Big PS4 Exclusive
Update: No, it's not
Update: You can't knock a coconut down everytime, and it seems like we've been duped. This is not Japan Studio's next project, but rather a short movie posted to Vimeo a few years ago. In other words, it's faker than Simon Cowell's front teeth. Hype deflated. Original story: Japan Studio had a rough few years during the...
News Watch a Staggering 37 Minute Gameplay Walkthrough of The Witcher 3 Right Here
What more could you possibly want
We love a good gameplay demo here at Push Square. Cinematic trailers are usually enough to keep the hype flowing — especially around big events like E3 or Gamescom — but it's always the raw gameplay or developer commentary videos that grab us by the collar and demand our attention. You've got to think that if a...
Feature Push Square's Gamescom 2014 Game of the Show - WiLD
Wild thing
Love it or loathe it, the industry is changing. There are fewer big-budget, boxed releases than ever before, which is a symptom of the high risk medium in which we currently reside. However, while the shelves at your local GameStop may be starting to thin, there is a wealth of creativity blossoming on online shopping plazas like the...
News Shu Yoshida Hopes Rise of the Tomb Raider Releases on PS4 Eventually
PlayStation executive shocked by reveal
You weren’t the only one surprised at Rise of the Tomb Raider’s exclusivity announcement during the Microsoft media briefing at Gamescom last week, as Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida was also shocked to learn the news. In an interview with
News Why Won't Sony Allow You to Subscribe to EA Access on PS4?
"It's a business matter"
Sony caused something of a hullabaloo recently when it said that EA Access – a subscription service similar to PlayStation Plus consisting solely of EA published titles – does not represent good value. The initiative – which is available now on the Xbox One – allows you to pay a monthly or annual fee in order to...
News PlayStation Boss Gets Punished for All of E3's Boring Bits This Year
This is for Powers
Regardless of whether or not you liked the content, Sony’s big Gamescom 2014 press conference was much better paced than its E3 2014 one. The folks at SCEE cut out all of the fat, and peppered the organisation’s media briefing in Cologne with trailers, announcements, and very little corporate gobbledygook. SCEA boss Shawn...
News There Are Still More PlayStation Press Conferences to Come
Even more PS4 and Vita announcements incoming
You didn’t think that Sony’s big Gamescom 2014 press conference represented the last of the year, did you? As you should already have learned by now, the Japanese giant loves a good livestream, and, as such, it’s set to host another one on 1st September ahead of the Tokyo Game Show. This same...
News Vita JRPG Freedom Wars Will Revolutionise Western Shelves This October
Not long now
Freedom Wars is one of a dying breed of AAA exclusives for the PlayStation Vita. The jaunty JRPG has been on our radar for quite some time, but it was only recently confirmed to be coming to Western shores. However, Sony had originally planned to only release a digital version of the game in Europe, but
Monday18th Aug 2014
News Is Horror Sequel Silent Hills a PS4 Exclusive?
Scream in silence
The whole Rise of the Tomb Raider mess appears to have caused some confusion in the console exclusives space, so let us teach you a very valuable lesson: if Sony doesn’t scream ‘Only on PlayStation’ after revealing a project, then it’s going to end up elsewhere. Firms may use doublespeak to confuse their message – we saw...
News This Is What Shenmue Would Look Like on the PS4
Wished we could play some
Despite it being one of the most requested sequels of all time, SEGA seems utterly uninterested in making Shenmue III. While that’s to be expected given the dismal sales of the first two games, though, we had hoped that the Japanese publisher would have
News PS4 Title No Man's Sky Is Probably the Biggest Game Ever Made
The infinite frontier
It's safe to say that we're quite excited about No Man's Sky here at Push Square. After all, we did award it our coveted Best of E3 award. Arguably the most intriguing thing about the game is its vast open world, which by all accounts is preposterously big. However, until a recent interview with
Tuesday19th Aug 2014
Rumour Silent Hills May Not Scare You Silly Until at Least 2016
But will it be third-person or first-person?
If you’ve just managed to work your way through the P.T. demo, then you may have a couple of years left to settle your nerves and dry clean your clothes prior to the release of Silent Hills, as director Hideo Kojima has hinted that the game may not be ready until 2016. That’s according to
Monday18th Aug 2014
News Xbox Chief's Uncharted Adoration Motivated Tomb Raider Deal
"We don't have an action adventure game of that quality"
Back when Microsoft ambiguously announced that it had secured Xbox exclusive rights to Rise of the Tomb Raider, we speculated that it may have been looking for a direct competitor to Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. The specifics of the deal are still shaky almost seven days later, but it sounds
Review Gravity Crash Ultra (PlayStation Vita)
Worth the weight?
Gravity has its uses, nobody can argue that. If it disappeared right now, the entire bungee jumping industry would collapse overnight, and there’d probably be some other, less important side effects as well. In some cases, gravity actively works against our goals, highlighted best by Gravity Crash Ultra, and by the many bumps,...
News PS4's Worst Game to Re-Release as Basement Brawl
Bloober Team remaking the title for free
Basement Crawl was in such a dire state when it deployed on the PlayStation 4 a few months back that Sony actually had to provide people with refunds for the atrocity. What was originally billed as a dark twist on Bomberman turned out to be an utter mess, with
Out This Week Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, Diablo III, Tales of Xillia 2
Nothing weedy about this week
We may still be nursing our Gamescom 2014 hangover with a packet of paracetamol, but the release calendar is not going to give us time to dawdle on the job. This is a surprisingly stacked week for all three PlayStation platforms, with no less than 11 new titles due out on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Vita. The...
News PS4 Live Streams Are About to Get a Lot More Interesting
Potentially, anyway
It’s not always easy for a company to predict how consumers will decide to use a particular product, and The Playroom on the PlayStation 4 will definitely have raised a few eyebrows when it started to get used – and, in some instances, abused – by next-gen early adopters. However, recognising the swell of demand for live...
News Whatever You May Think, Hellblade Is Not Heavenly Sword 2
Heaven and hell
Ninja Theory is pleading innocence, but Hellblade’s name has got to be some kind of hint, right? While the British developer made Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and DmC: Devil May Cry, it’ll probably be best known by readers of this website for Heavenly Sword – a PlayStation 3 exclusive that shares a name so similar to its lates
News UK Sales Charts: PS4 Exclusive The Last of Us Remastered Endures Another Week
"We are survivors, Tess"
There’s so little change in this week’s UK sales chart that we considered skipping it entirely and digging straight into the good stuff. That wouldn’t be especially professional, though, would it? As such, here’s your weekly British best sellers report: The Last of Us Remastered is still on top. The exclusive title...
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