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News The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince Make Quite the Double-Act on PS4
A mutual misunderstanding
The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince – yes, that is its real name – sounds like something alright. “In it, you control a wolf, disguised as a princess, who guides a blind prince through a perilous forest in search of a witch capable of restoring his sight,” the press release reads. “The forest is home to a...
News SEGA's Gamescom 2018 Lineup Includes Team Sonic Racing, Fist of the North Star, More
Playable at the show
SEGA has a few pretty interesting titles up its sleeve, and it looks to be bringing most of them to Gamescom 2018 later this month. At the Cologne show, which runs from 21st to 25th August, the publisher will be showing off a handful of games at its Deep Silver booth. The PS4 games on display are: Fist of the North Star: Lost...
News Nautical Roguelike Sunless Sea Sets Sail to PS4 This Year
Wave ya
Sunless Sea has been lost in the oceans of PC gaming for three years, but finally the nautical roguelike is scheduled to crash the beaches of the PlayStation 4 this year. Failbetter Games' alternate history Victorian sailing sim sees you plunging the depths of Unterzee, learning all you can before inevitably perishing and doing it all over...
News World of Horror Proves PS4 Has a Lovecraft Obsession
Cosmic tingles
Call of Cthulhu! The Sinking City! It’s gone Lovecraft crazy on the PlayStation 4 of late, and here’s another title to toss into the cosmic broth: World of Horror. Now don’t judge a book by its Eldritch cover: this does indeed look like it’s been built for the BBC Micro, but it promises a “retro” role-playing experience...
News Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session Marching West in November, No Sign of Signature Controller
Beat down?
Taiko no Tatsujin is a series you may not have heard about before, but it's a popular series of rhythm action games in Japan where you typically play to the beat of the music with a literal drum controller. A version has been available...
News Devil's Hunt Looks Like a PS4 Action Game for Edgelords
Starring a bad ass dude named Desmond
At a point, games stopped being edgy, but back in the PlayStation 2 days it was a very real thing. Like, once upon a time they turned the Prince of Persia into this emo action adventure thing, only stopping short of equipping the eponymous protagonist with an Enter Shikari shirt. Those of you who still think...
News Nickelodeon Kart Racers Is the Weirdest Thing
But we want it
Well, here’s a game that we’ll almost certainly be palming off to Stephen Tailby to review when it launches on 23rd October – not that we won’t be giving him the stink-eye while he plays it. Nickelodeon Kart Racers is a real game, and it features characters from SpongeBob Squarepants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hey Arnold,...
News Pizza Titan Ultra Is the Mech Pizza Delivery Game You Never Knew You Wanted
Pizza time
Who says games don't innovate anymore? Breakfall, the indie studio behind the insane party game Starwhal, is back with another crazy premise, and it honestly looks excellent. It's called Pizza Titan Ultra, and you can see it in action in the above trailer. Essentially, the game has you delivering pizza in a futuristic city via a giant...
News Real-Time Narrative Thriller The Occupation Hits PS4 in October
What a scoop
The Occupation is an extremely promising adventure from White Paper Games, the creators of Ether One. For those out of the loop, you play as a journalist in 1980s England as you look into a terrorist attack and subsequent legislation that threatens to rob people of their civil rights. The main hook here is that the game takes place over...
News The Third Spider-Man Pre-Order Suit Has Been Revealed
Introducing the Velocity Suit
Many suspected that the third and final pre-order outfit for Spider-Man on PS4 would be revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, and that's exactly what happened during today's panel. It's called the Velocity Suit, and you can see it in action in the above trailer. The Velocity Suit is a totally original creation, and was...
News Spider-Man PS4 Pro Bundle Announced
Amazing
Sony has just announced a Spider-Man PS4 Pro bundle via the PlayStation Blog. As you might expect, the console is a vivid red colour and bears the white spider emblem from Spidey's outfit in the game. The PS4 Pro included in the package is a 1TB model, and you'll also get a matching red and white DualShock 4, as well as a copy of the...
News Puzzle Platformer Candleman Lights a Path to PS4 in August
Wicked
We'd forgive you for having never heard of Candleman. It's a well-liked puzzle platformer that launched on PC and Xbox One last year, but it's now heading to PS4 in the form of Candleman: The Complete Journey. You play as a little candle who can only burn for 10 seconds at a time, and as you make your way through the game's gloomy...
News Underwater Survival Adventure Subnautica Confirmed for PS4
Dive in this year
Earlier in the year, there were rumblings that the highly acclaimed seafaring survival game, Subnautica, was making its way to PlayStation 4. In a new announcement on the PlayStation Blog, developer Panic Button is porting the game across to Sony
News State of Mind Brings the Concept of Transhumanism to PS4 Next Month
Complex storytelling arrives in August
Transhumanism is the theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, and that belief is what developer Daedalic Entertainment is attempting to explore in its latest title, State of Mind, when it releases next month on 15th August. Pitched as a thriller set in...
News Japanese Drama 428: Shibuya Scramble Solves a Kidnapping Case on PS4
A former Famitsu 40/40
Man, the PlayStation 4 really has become the home for virtually any kind of game, hasn’t it? 428: Shibuya Scramble is a great example: a Japanese drama fusing text, live action stills, and video to tell the tale of a kidnapping case across five different characters. The title’s been bubbling around for almost a decade in...
News Zero Escape Dev Announces AI: The Somnium Files for PS4
Murder mysteries, and eyeballs?
Kotaro Uchikoshi, best known for his work as director and writer of the Zero Escape series, has announced his next game, a new IP titled AI: The Somnium Files for the PlayStation 4. Revealed at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, you can check out the announcement trailer above. In true Uchikoshi fashion, a glitch appears...
News Asterix & Obelix XXL 2 Remaster Releasing 29th November
Vive la France
We’ve officially reached the point where obscure European PlayStation 2 titles are getting the remaster treatment. Microids announced earlier today that it’s bringing 2006’s forgotten Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission: Las Vegum to the PlayStation 4 on 29th November. Bizarrely this will actually mark the second re-release of...
News Create Your Own Adventures with RPG Maker MV, Coming to PS4 Next Year
Control your fate
NIS America has announced that its RPG creation game, imaginatively named RPG Maker MV, is heading to Western PS4s in 2019. The trailer above doesn't feature much in the way of gameplay, but it hints at some of the variety you'll be able to tinker with. The RPG Maker series does exactly what it says on the tin: it allows players...
News Football RPG Ganbare! Super Strikers Dribbles to PS4 This Year
It's coming home
What if football was a tactical role-playing game? The likes of Captain Tsubasa and Inazuma Eleven have already explored that idea, but Ganbare! Super Strikers looks to revisit it on the PlayStation 4 this year. It’s a turn-based title where you’ll need to level up your players, earn equipment, and out-think your opponents in...
News Cat Quest II: The Lupus Empire Leaps onto PS4 in 2019
Purrfect
The Gentlebros has announced a sequel to Cat Quest, its well-liked feline fantasy RPG. Cat Quest II: The Lupus Empire is making its way to PS4 early next year, and from the above teaser, it looks like it'll offer a similarly twee experience. The major difference, however, is the addition of two-player co-op. You'll be able to play...
News Shikhondo: Soul Eater Brings Beautiful Bullet Hell to PS4
Pattern master
You know it’s the week after E3 2018 when you’re forced to fill your article quota with a game named Shikhondo: Soul Eater – but here we are. Actually, this does look cool if you’re into scrolling shooters: it’s a bullet hell game coming out of Korea. The art’s really good, and it’s all been inspired by Korean mythology,...
News Burnout Creators Developing New Racing Game for PS4
Three Fields Entertainment returns
Three Fields Entertainment is a small development studio that's headed up by a few of the figures responsible for the Burnout series, so we're very interested in what they make. So far, games like Dangerous Golf, Lethal VR, and the Crash Mode-esque Danger Zone have been fun distractions, but we've been waiting for...
News Beyond Blue Is a BBC-Backed Ocean Exploration Game from the Makers of Never Alone
Go fish
Remember Never Alone, that little game about Native Alaskan folklore from a few years ago? The team behind the snowy puzzle platformer has returned, and its latest game swaps the tundra for the seas in Beyond Blue. It looks a little like a more realistic ABZÛ, but the truth is that this game is a fair amount more involved than that. You...
News There's Only 362 Days Until E3 2019 Gets Underway
Mark your calendars
Would the Push Square team please look away now? The Electronic Software Association has announced that E3 will return on 11th June, 2019. This means that there are 362 days until next year’s show gets underway. It sounds like a long way away, but you know how the old adage goes: time flies when you’re having fun. So what...
E3 2018 Telltale is Developing a Stranger Things Game for PS4
It should get plenty of Byers
Telltale Games has announced that it is working on a Stranger Things adventure game. No further details were given, but it comes as a result of its recent partnership with Netflix. Whether Telltale's adventure will take place before, during, or after the events of the popular show's first two seasons is unknown, but...
E3 2018 Overcooked 2 Brings Online Multiplayer to the Table in August
Tasty
Overcooked 2 has been officially announced by Team 17. The sequel adds a few new ingredients to the winning formula found in the first game, including online multiplayer, the ability to throw items to each other, new levels, ...
E3 2018 Sony Details New Wave of PlayLink Titles Coming to PS4 in 2018
Chimparty and Knowledge is Power: Decades confirmed
The trademarks for Chimparty and Knowledge is Power: Decades were discovered a few days ago, and Sony has just confirmed them both, along with a handful of other brand new PlayLink games. You can see a brief glimpse of them all in the above trailer, but you can also read a little more about each...
E3 2018 Trover Saves the Universe is a Bizarre PSVR Game from Rick & Morty Creator
What?
Justin Roiland has already had a hand in the gaming world with ACCOUNTING+ and Rick & Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, and this latest adventure game looks to follow his trend of weird, off-the-wall virtual reality experiences. Trover Saves the Universe was announced for PSVR at Sony's E3 2018 presser, and,...
E3 2018 Trials Rising Crashes onto PS4 Next Year
Smashing
One of the few games that didn't leak before E3 2018 was Trials Rising, an all new entry in the series coming in February 2019. Announced at Ubisoft's press conference, various elements of the game's design have been influenced and shaped by the Trials community, with some having direct input on things like track design, the...
E3 2018 Babylon's Fall Announced, Developed by PlatinumGames
Check out the debut trailer
Babylon's Fall has been announced at Square Enix's brief E3 2018 press conference. It's the new project from PlatinumGames, and it's coming to PS4 in 2019. Sadly, we don't have an awful lot to go on beyond the above trailer, which depicts a historical timeline before cutting to a short...
E3 2018 FromSoftware's Metal Wolf Chaos XD Announced for PS4
Wait, what?
Is this the strangest E3 2018 announcement so far? Devolver Digital has partnered with FromSoftware to bring this obscure game to PS4 in an enhanced form entitled Metal Wolf Chaos XD. If you've not heard of it before, we don't blame you. "FromSoftware originally released Metal Wolf Chaos in December 2004,...
E3 2018 Mobile Game The Elder Scrolls: Blades Will Come to PS4
Touch and go
Bethesda announced a brand new Elder Scrolls game for mobile devices at its E3 2018 presser. Named The Elder Scrolls: Blades, it's a first person RPG that includes elements from the main games, such as a story, quests, and combat with melee and magic. There's also an Arena mode where you can duke it out with other players, and Abyss,...
E3 2018 New Content, Game Modes Coming to PREY on PS4
New Game Plus! Survival mode! Multiplayer!
Remember PREY? It came out just over a year ago, was well received, and is beloved by its players. In an effort to possibly counteract poor commercial performance, Bethesda has announced a slew of updates and new content heading to Arkane Studios' sci-fi horror adventure. A free update has already hit the...
E3 2018 Wolfenstein: Youngblood Is a Co-Op '80s Spin-Off
Double trouble
Wolfenstein will return next year, in '80s spin-off Wolfenstein: Youngblood. You'll play as series hero B.J. Blazkowicz's twin daughters, in a Nazi occupied Paris. The title will emphasise co-op, but you'll be able to play solo as well.
E3 2018 The Elder Scrolls Legends is Heading to PS4
Legendary
Did you know The Elder Scrolls has its very own card game spin-off called The Elder Scrolls Legends? Well, it does, and it's heading to PS4 later this year. The above trailer is for the mobile version of the game, but it gives you enough of an idea of what to expect. Do you like the look of The Elder Scrolls Legends? Are you a fan of card...
E3 2018 Doom Eternal Announced with Hellishly Good Teaser
Hell yes
We figured it was about time to see a sequel to the very well received Doom, and here's our first glimpse. It's called Doom Eternal, and the above teaser trailer has got us all excited for a trip back to Hell. Unfortunately, that's all we know for now. The name is interesting; we're not sure if it's a straight sequel to the last game, or...
E3 2018 Session Looks to Fill the Skate 4 Shaped Hole in Your Life
Announced with trailer
When Skate 4 failed to materialise at EA's press conference, many people turned to Microsoft hoping for an announcement. Funnily enough, a skateboarding game did feature at the Xbox presser, but it wasn't quite the title people were expecting. Named Session, this looks to be an authentic take on the sport, similarly to the...
E3 2018 Dying Light 2 Steps Out of the Shadows, Announced for PS4
Gameplay footage revealed
Dying Light 2 got a surprise announcement at Microsoft's E3 2018 press conference, and you can see the first gameplay in the video above. The sequel features branching pathways that directly impact the open world. The example given is a group of black market dealers who want your help in selling a supply of water. You can...
E3 2018 The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit Announced
From the makers of Life is Strange
One game that didn't get leaked this E3 was The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, announced at Microsoft's press conference. It comes from DONTNOD Entertainment, creators of Life is Strange. Captain Spirit is also set in the Life is Strange universe, and tells an original story about the titular character. The...
E3 2018 Just Cause 4 Officially Confirmed, Launches in December
Plus a new trailer
After a slew of leaks, Just Cause 4 has been officially announced at Microsoft's packed E3 2018 conference. You can check out the debut trailer above, and it's your typical explosive, over the top action. A release date was also confirmed; Just Cause 4 will launch on 4th December 2018 on PS4. Are you excited for Rico's next...
E3 2018 Devil May Cry 5 Announced with Nero As Lead Once Again
Fans may cry over lack of Dante
Devil May Cry 5 was formally announced during Microsoft's E3 2018 press conference, and we really didn't see much at all of Dante. Short of a brief cameo at the end – during which Dante had his luscious grey locks back – we spent most of the time watching Nero beat people up with his new metal hand. It looks...
E3 2018 From Software's New Game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Announced
Published by Activision
As some were expecting, From Software's new game has been revealed at Microsoft's E3 2018 press conference. It's called Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and looks to be the studio's take on samurai. It appears to adopt a similar tone to that found in Bloodborne, though is a little more colourful and little less bleak...
E3 2018 Chimparty, Knowledge Is Power Decades Trademarked by Sony
Sound like new PlayLink experiences
Looks like Sony’s refreshing its PlayLink line, as it’s trademarked Chimparty and Knowledge Is Power Decades in Japan. The latter is likely to be a sequel to Wish Studios’ likeable quiz game, while the former sounds like some kind of casual party experience. Don’t expect either title to be announced...
E3 2018 Kingdom Hearts III Finally Has a Release Date, But it Isn't in 2018
Taking the Mickey
Fans have been waiting for Kingdom Hearts III for a very long time, and over the last year or so, a 2018 release date has been a shining beacon of hope. The good news is the elusive game has at last been granted a concrete release date. The bad news is it misses 2018. Kingdom Hearts III releases on 29th January 2019, just falling...
E3 2018 EA Surprise Releases Unravel Two Today
Yarny's back right now
The announcement of the first Unravel title at EA's E3 2015 show is one of the few bright spots in EA's often uneven shows. The game looked delightful at announce, and ultimately ended up being a rather good game, with wonderful visuals and an exceptional soundtrack. So it's very exciting to see EA greenlight a sequel from...
E3 2018 Twin Mirror Is a Dark Psychological Thriller from Life Is Strange's Dev
Welcome to Basswood
French developer DONTNOD only recently released Vampyr, but it’s already back with a new title: Twin Mirror. Announced during a PlayStation stream mere minutes ago, the title has definite Life Is Strange vibes, but looks to be taking its story in a darker direction. Fans of Quantic Dream will instantly spot parallels to murder...
E3 2018 Avalanche Studios Announces Generation Zero for PS4
An open world co-op shooter
The fine folks at Avalanche Studios are certainly keeping busy. As well as co-developing RAGE 2 with id Software, the studio has just announced Generation Zero, a brand new open world action game heading to PS4 in 2019. Check out the debut trailer above. Taking place in 1980s Sweden, Generation Zero sees you going solo...
News The Game Awards Will Return on 6th December
Keighley's comin'
Last year’s instalment of The Game Awards was by far the best show that Geoff Keighley’s put together, so it’s reassuring to learn that the event will return on Thursday, 6th December. “Our team is deep into planning the 2018 show, which will be our biggest production yet,” the Canadian said. “We’re taking all the...
E3 2018 Tetris Effect Brings a Trippy Take on a Classic to PS4, PSVR
Doing lines
Well this is going to be bloody good. Rez Infinite is already one of the best experiences you can have on PlayStation VR, and now Tetsuya Mizuguchi is back with a trippy twist on a classic: Tetris Effect. The debut trailer definitely has a Rez aesthetic to it, but it’s backed by the auteur’s signature electropop sound. The game will...
News Rockstar Details Red Dead Redemption 2 Special Editions and Pre-Order Bonuses
Daylight robbery
As we've come to expect from all major gaming releases, Red Dead Redemption 2 has plenty of bonuses and options to consider when you're laying down your pre-order. Rockstar has just published a post on its website detailing each version of the game, and what each box will contain. Firstly, all pre-orders will gain access to the War...
