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News Could VRPG Be PlayStation VR's Biggest Game Yet?
Sword Art Online time at last
If there's one major criticism that could be pointed at PlayStation VR, it's that we haven't actually seen any proper games yet. There have been promising tech demos galore, no doubt – but if people are going to spend exorbitant amounts of cash on it, then they're going to want to see some fuller experiences. One...
Feature 33 PS4, PlayStation VR Predictions for 2016
Looking to the future
We're knee deep into 2016 already, which means that we should probably put up some PlayStation predictions before it's, like, way too late. Our very own Kell Andersen was scarily prophetic in our previous article, so this time we're all trying to get a glimpse inside the gaming crystal ball. We've compiled three predictions...
Feature Sony Marks PlayStation Plus' Five Year Anniversary with Stats Plaques for Lifers
Life sentence
If you think that PlayStation Plus is bad now, this author can remember when the monthly update included a retro Mega Drive title, a PlayStation Mini, and a handful of PlayStation 3 themes. The service has changed exponentially since then, and as a reward for lifetime members sticking with the subscription model for all five years of...
News You Can Sign Up for The Tomorrow Children PS4 Beta Right Now
Come forward, comrades
Bonkers PlayStation 4 title The Tomorrow Children is a tough one to describe, but if you're interested in this Sony exclusive, then you may be happy to hear that a beta is planned for the relatively near future. What's more, you can sign up for it right now by clicking through here - although it's worth mentioning that this...
News 23 PS3 Classics Stream to UK PlayStation Now Service
It's now or never
Anyone still using PlayStation Now? We should probably do an article looking at the state of the service in 2016 – but enough content brainstorming, we're actually here to tell you that 23 new PlayStation 3 games have been added to the UK service. Sony's still playing catch-up to North America on these shores, but it's now...
News PS4 Firmware Update 3.15 Is Available Now
But what does it do?
It's PlayStation 4 firmware update time, so prepare your bandwidth and brace yourself for bitter disappointment: more system stability awaits. The console's latest upgrade – dubbed v3.15 for those keeping count – doesn't make any noticeable changes to Sony's device, but it weighs in at just 275.5MB, so at least you'll be...
News PS4 Essentials Go Cheap in NA PlayStation Store Sale
How low can you go?
Sony don't care that it's January and you're broke like a yo-yo without a piece of string – it's sale time in North America, and you're going to hand the organisation your one remaining thruppence. The platform holder's launched a new 'Essentials' sale which has seen the prices plunge on a slew of PlayStation 4 titles...
News Free PlayStation Plus Extension Details to Roll Out This Week
For last week's PSN outage
Remember The Great PlayStation Network Outage™ of, well, last week? Feels a bit like ancient history really, doesn't it? Sony promised that it would offer an extension to active PlayStation Plus subscriptions, as well as PlayStation Now memberships and video rentals. And it sounds like it
News Go Lombax to the Future with Ratchet & Clank on PS4
European date finally confirmed
Stitch up your sides and prepare yourself for a rib splitting adventure, as Sony has finally announced that Ratchet & Clank will release on 20th April in Europe – a little while after its pre-confirmed 12th April launch in North America. For some reason, France will get it on 15th April – we assume purely to...
News Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits Graduates to PS4 This Week
Lads! Lads! Lads! Lads!
Arc the Lad doesn't have an enormous amount of brand cachet in Europe as SCEE infamously only brought one instalment overseas. That entry was PlayStation 2 debut Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Sprits, which was needlessly renamed Arc: Twilight of the Spirits because that's what European companies used to do
Rumour Shadow of the Beast Holds Back the Blood as PS4 Exclusive Is Delayed
Bloody hell
One title that we've quietly been looking forward to for quite a while now is Shadow of the Beast, which was supposed to be launching near the end of this month, on the 27th January – but according to the PlayStation Store, as spotted by VideoGamer, the hack and slasher has been delayed until the 2nd March. Of course, there's been no...
News Naughty Dog Is Still Teasing Nathan Drake's Death in Uncharted 4
Not again
At this point we're just desperate for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End to actually release, because we can't take much more of this. Once again, developer Naughty Dog has set about teasing protagonist Nathan Drake's death in the upcoming sequel. Co-director Neil Druckmann told one terrible English newspaper that "this is the end for Nathan...
News PS5 Could Launch as Early as 2019, Reckons Analyst
Looking to the future
While the PlayStation 4 is already well on its way to the coveted 100 million units milestone, in a secret bunker somewhere, we suspect that system architect Mark Cerny will be thinking about the PlayStation 5. The system's years away at this point, but given that the death knell hasn't sounded on home consoles just yet, we...
News Resogun Dev's Alienation Annihilates Extraterrestrials on 23rd March
Photon home
Even though we weren't the biggest fans of isometric undead off-er Dead Nation, a new Housemarque title is always worth anticipating. And speaking on Twitter, the Finnish firm has revealed that Alienation will be charging its photon blaster in preparation for a 23rd March release. The game was previously listed for 2nd March on the UK...
News PS4 Owners Have Terribad Music Taste
Obvs
It takes a brave company to ditch its own service and replace it with a competitor's, but Sony's been daring virtually all generation. We all knew that binning Qriocity – or whatever it was called – in favour of Spotify was a darn good idea, but corporations can be proud entities, and we doubt that many of you would have bet on the Japanese...
News PlayStation VR Will Cost You at Least $400 Says Research Group
Place your bets
We're not exactly sure what the sweet spot is for PlayStation VR's yet-to-be-announced price point, but we do think that Sony will probably want to go with something lower than the Oculus Rift's recently revealed $599 tag. With that in mind, it perhaps comes as no real shock that research group SuperData predicts that the PS4 headset...
Sweet goof
Hardware: Rivals shares few similarities with Rocket League, but somewhere in the build-up to its uneventful release, someone deemed it unlawful to mention Sony's unneeded car combat reboot without tacking a reference to Psyonix's soccer smash on the bumper. That opening sentence is Exhibit A. The resemblances that it does share are...
Feature 10 Under the Radar PS4 Games to Look Out for in 2016
Sticking up for the little guy
Last year, we previewed 25 games that would make 2016 an excellent one for the PlayStation 4, including huge blockbusters like Final Fantasy XV, Mass Effect Andromeda, and The Last Guardian as well as a couple of smaller titles such as Firewatch and The Witness. While it gives a great picture of ju
News PS4 Exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn Doesn't Place Importance on Map Size
The open world dilemma
Upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn is building up to be an ambitious undertaking for first-party studio Guerrilla Games. Supposedly a sort of action role-playing game hybrid that's set in a big open world, many interested onlookers have no doubt been pondering upon the size and scope of the release, and thanks...
News Many More PS4 Games Go Cheap in European Sale
'Tis the season for savings
Is your wallet still recovering from the Christmas period? Well, dust it off one more time and get ready for yet another round of January discounts, as Sony has plunged the prices on a several more PlayStation Store titles for the PlayStation 4. The list, kindly compiled by Videogamer, includes titles like Alien...
News Whoops, Sony Made a Mistake with Your January PS Plus Games
War does change
We sincerely hope that you weren't super excited to play the blockbuster that is Legends of War: Patton's Campaign on your PlayStation Vita this month, as Sony has stated that its inclusion in January's PlayStation Plus game selection was a mistake. Damn and blast, etc. Thankfully, all hope is not lost, as the company has revealed...
News Sony: There Are 100 PlayStation VR Games in Development
But will they be any good?
The year of virtual reality is already starting to ramp up, and it's a top source of discussion for Sony gaffer Kaz Hirai at CES 2016 this week. But while there's some positivity about the possibilities for the peripheral, some are sceptical that it won't get the kind of support that it needs to succeed. The former...
Reaction Oculus Rift's $599 Price Is Positive News for PlayStation VR
Five hundred and ninety-nine US dollars
We suspect that there may be a few smiles at Sony HQ today as the game of chicken regarding virtual reality pricing has finally come to an abrupt end. It's felt for a while like each of the major VR manufacturers have been waiting for each other to make the first move, and Oculus has faced the unenviable task...
News Kaz Hirai Embraces Memes and GIFs During CES 2016 Presser
Yes we Kaz
The highlight of Sony's CES 2016 presser yesterday was Kaz Hirai presenting a slew of handpicked memes all based upon himself. The executive has admitted that the Japanese giant is willing to embrace its mistakes in the past, and he illustrated that again overnight, using some of parody account @KazHiraiCEO's tweets to show that the...
News PlayStation VR Skips Sony's CES 2016 Press Conference
Hide and Seek
We didn't really expect to see much of the PlayStation VR, did we? There were still some lingering hopes at Push Square Towers that the Japanese giant would finally set a release date and price point for the next-gen headwear, but alas, nothing was said on the matter and we're left dabbing some manly tears from our not-yet-PSVR-ed...
Live Watch Sony's CES 2016 Press Conference Right Here
Consumer electronics! Yay?
We heard that you like smartphones and 4K televisions, so we're bringing you Sony's CES 2016 press conference out of bitter obligation. The show's set to kick off at 17:00PM PST and is seriously unlikely to include anything PlayStation related, but we've got to stay up late just to make sure. CEO Kaz Hirai better at least...
Guide What Time Does Sony's CES 2016 Press Conference Start?
Hirai we go
Consumer electronics! You like phones, televisions, and those dumb gizmos that regularly put Sony in the red, right? Boy, do we have a treat for you, then – as the Japanese giant will be holding its annual CES 2016 press conference in Las Vegas this evening. While this event is usually reserved for the Japanese giant's other...
News Crikey! PS4's Install Base Reaches 35.9 Million Units
Ain't no stopping this train
Holy best seller, Batman – the PlayStation 4 has now sold 35.9 million units worldwide. The number, as reported in a Sony press release, represents the amount of consoles sold through to consumers as of 3rd January – and so it doesn't include those devices sitting in a Wal-Mart warehouse or in transit. The figure's...
News Watch a Hacked PS4 Playing Pokémon: PlayStation Version
Gotta hack 'em all
Sigh. The Push Square office has been a hotbed of communication over the past 24 hours as we consider whether to cover this PlayStation 4 hack or not. Ultimately, it sounds like console cracking crew Fail0verflow are not planning anything nefarious, so we'll give it a teensy bit of attention – if only because the footage of...
News Your January PlayStation Plus Games Are Available to Download Now
Don't all rush
The PlayStation Network went down yesterday for a rather lengthy 12 or so hours, but it's now back online, and it's brought your PlayStation Plus offering for January along with it. Good news, we suppose. In case you've been left out of the loop, this month's games include the brand new Hardware: Rivals and fantastic Grim Fandango...
News Sony Pledges Free PlayStation Plus Extensions After PSN Outage
Reimbursements on the way
If you'd have asked us to evaluate the state of the PlayStation Network this time last week, we'd have told you that it's improved significantly. Seriously, the service barely went down in 2015, and it was rock solid over Christmas. But the Sony rollercoaster never runs out of corkscrews, and, just as everyone was returning...
News Sony Trademarks New Title Named Days Gone
But what could it be?
Could Days Gone be Sony Bend's rumoured open world horror game at last? It's not impossible. The platform holder has filed a trademark for a new title using the abovementioned name, and it's definitely got a survival vibe to it, hasn't it? Of course, it could theoretically be anything – from a Santa Monica incubated external...
News PSN Down Just Days into 2016
That was fast
Oh dear, and there we were praising the PlayStation Network for its stability over the holidays. Sony's online service is currently down for us here in the UK, and we're now getting reports that it's offline for many of you Americans, too. Follow us on Twitter for PSN updates At the time of writing, we can't even sign in, and Sony...
News 2016 Is the Year of VR, Says Sony London Producer
Sink or swim
With PlayStation VR still set to release at some point during the first half of this year, it's safe to assume that Sony's currently gearing up for a big marketing push in the near future. It's still unclear whether or not the PS4 headset will actually be a hit with consumers - as is the case with virtual reality in general - but that...
Feature 25 Games That Will Make PS4's 2016 Insane
The big one
Republished on Saturday, 2nd January 2016: We're bringing this article back from the archives as we look back at some of Push Square's features from 2015. The original text follows. Originally published on Monday, 16th November 2015: We're at the tail end of the crazy Christmas releases period now, and inevitably our attention is...
Reaction Sony Delivers the Greatest E3 Press Conference of All Time
Seriously
Republished on Friday, 1st January 2016: We're bringing this article back from the archives as we look back at some of Push Square's features from 2015. The original text follows. Originally published on Tuesday, 16th June 2015: Push Square Towers is in a state of shock. Uneasiness quickly dissolved into ecstasy, as Sony dropped bomb...
News Uncharted 4's Latest Trailer Looks Even Better in LittleBigPlanet 3
Buried in burlap
It's been a while since we posted about LittleBigPlanet 3, hasn't it? This recreation of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End's theatrical trailer deserves recognition, though, as it's pretty much spot on. Yes, the engine struggles a little bit with the complex 3D scene, but c'mon – this is damn incredible. Incidentally, are any of you...
News Sony: PS4 Will Receive an Unprecedented Rush of Games in 2016
Please look forward to it
Pundits claim that it's been a crap year for the PlayStation 4, but looking back at our internal review document reveals a very different tale. There's been an abundance of quality software on Sony's eraser-shaped box in 2015, but looking ahead to the next 12 months, things are really starting to heat up. You may want to...
News January's PS4 PlayStation Plus Games Revealed
Hardware: Rivals and Grim Fandango Remastered available on 5th January
While no official PlayStation Plus announcement has been released on the PlayStation Blog at the time of writing, emails have been sent out to PlayStation 4 owners disclosing the two free games that they'll be getting come January. First up is online vehicular combat game...
Talking Point What January PlayStation Plus Freebies Do You Want?
Update announcement imminent
Is it really that time again? Yes, it's that time again. Sony's said that, despite the ongoing holidays, we'll learn about January's batch of PlayStation Plus goodies this week, so it's time to think up your wishlist before the Japanese giant shatters your dreams. This time last year we were all looking forward to...
Soapbox Why Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Is 2015's Scariest Game
Hauntin' Yaughton
I'll let you into a little secret: I voted for P.T. in Push Square's internal Game of the Year poll last December. I wasn't alone – the survival horror sampler scraped enough votes to secure our Silver Trophy. The placement spurned outrage: how could a glorified demo possibly factor into our Best of 2014 list? But even today,...
News PlayStation Network Survives Seasonal Onslaught
Outages uncommon as Sony keeps servers online
Y'know, we considered whether we should post this, but we figured that the news doesn't always have to be negative. We'd be right on Sony's case if the PlayStation Network suffered another slip-up like last Christmas, but to be fair to the company, it kept its servers online admirably over the holiday...
Soapbox Why PlayStation VR Has Me Cautiously Optimistic
Sammy Barker's starting to get stoked for the impending revolution
It's almost make or break time for PlayStation VR, the ambitious PlayStation 4 peripheral that promises to make us a part of virtual worlds. Sony's said that the potentially expensive accessory will launch in the first half of 2016, which means that it's less than six months away at...
Feature 27 PS4 Exclusives to Anticipate in 2016
The biggest and best year yet
So, you've excavated a brand new PlayStation 4 from beneath your Christmas tree, and you're wondering what your new box of tricks can do? Well, aside from all of the glorious games that the fat man shoved down your chimney earlier in the week, you've picked the right time to join the new-gen party – delays be damned,...
News PS4 Games Feel Festive Cheer in NA PlayStation Store Flash Sale
Flash in the pan
You didn't think that Europe was going to get a one up on you Americans, did you? SCEE's gigantic January sale may well be excellent, but SCEA's rolled out a pretty sizeable Flash Sale in North America, which is set to end on 28th December. It includes a slew of PlayStation 4 games, such as Batman: Arkham Knight, Mad Max, and Madden...
Guide How to Check if the PSN's Offline This Christmas
Down but not out
Look, we hope as much as you do that the PlayStation Network makes it through Christmas intact, but we have to face facts – there's a strong chance of turbulence over the next few days. Sony's been really good this year at both keeping its servers online and ensuring that – when the worst happens – it responds quickly, so...
News January's PlayStation Plus Freebies Will Be Revealed Next Week
Auld Lang Fine
Nobody wants to head into the holidays with a cloud hanging over their heads, so Sony has smartly delayed January's big PlayStation Plus update announcement until next week – after all, these reveals rarely make people happy these days, do they? Writing on Twitter, PlayStation Blog punching bag Fred Dutton declared that the freebies...
News Gigantic EU PS4, Vita January PlayStation Store Sale Will Empty Your Wallet
Hope you've been saving
Yeah, the 12 Deals of Christmas sucked, but SCEE has delivered at the very last minute. The platform holder's rolled out discounts on over 300 games on the European PlayStation Store today, with tons of PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Vita offers worthy of recommendation. Take, for instance, DriveClub, which can b
News Uncharted 4's Been Delayed Yet Again on PS4
Crap crap crap
Here's a nice Christmas gift for you: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End has been delayed yet again on the PlayStation 4. The exclusive was originally meant to release in late 2015 before it was pushed into 2016, and now it's been knocked back even further. The upcoming blockbuster had previously been pegged with an 18th March 2016 launch...
News Recreate Gogglebox with the All 4 App on PS4
Hollyoaks, here we come
Just in time for Christmas: the All 4 app is launching today on the PlayStation 4. This means that you'll be able to spend your holidays watching old episodes of Peep Show, while simultaneously declaring Homeland's Claire Danes "the one". The app will, of course, include access to Channel 4 catch-up content, as well as...
