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News Save on 2014's Biggest Games in the Latest NA PSN Sale
Critical hit to the wallet
It seems like we can't go a single week without there being some sort of PlayStation Store sale going on. And while we're not necessarily complaining, we still fear for all those poor, empty wallets out there. The latest wave of discounts centre on some of the biggest games of last year. Dubbed the 'Critics' Choice Sale',...
News Pachter: PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Could Sell Up to 12 Million Copies
That's if Sony bundles it aggressively
The jury may still be out on PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886, but seasoned industry analyst Michael Pachter foresees a very lucrative future for the release. Chatting with Gaming Bolt, the Wedbush Securities employee suggested that it could sell five million copies by the end of the year – and may yet...
News These Are the Knights of PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886
Around the Round Table
One of the most important assets of PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 is its characters, and in this brand new behind-the-scenes video, developer Ready at Dawn discusses the cast and some of the design decisions behind them. It also delves into the motion capture process, so if you like watching actors rigged up in silly...
News DriveClub's February Update Is Free to Download on PS4 Now
Tanked up
DriveClub's free February update is now available to download. The patch will start installing the moment that you turn your PlayStation 4 on, and adds a new multiplayer mode named Team Time Trial (which will be available from 18th February), as well as a brand new track. If that wasn't enough, the refresh also implements a handful of...
News Sony Says The Last Guardian Is Still in Development
Breathe again
The rollercoaster otherwise known as oft-delayed PlayStation exclusive The Last Guardian rides another day, as a SCEE representative has told Videogamer.com that the hotly anticipated Team ICO title is still in production. This follows a report yesterday which suggested that the platform holder had abandoned the release's trademark...
News The Order: 1886 Has More Gameplay Mechanics Than Any Single Game Usually Has
More under the moustache
There's no doubt that The Order: 1886 has received a bad rap for its cinematic focus, but there is quite a lot to the game. In addition to third-person shooting and interactive cut-scenes, recent trailers have shown that the title also includes climbing mechanics, exploration, and hand-to-hand combat. As such, there's a lot...
News PlayStation Hounded the Headlines in 2014
Talk of the town
We'd have been doing a pretty poor job on this website if we weren't reporting on PlayStation, but it seems that we've got competition from the rest of the media, as Sony's brand dominated the headlines in 2014. According to ICO Partners, which tracks the content published on some 6,000 websites, PlayStation was by far the most...
News PS4 Firmware Update 2.04 Prompting Plenty of Problems
All for software stability
What's this? A PlayStation 4 firmware update and a PlayStation Network outage all in one night – we've missed out on some traffic today, haven't we? Seriously, though, Sony dropped firmware update v2.04 for its next-gen system overnight, which caused a slew of crippling problems. Many people were unable to download the...
News Super Stardust Ultra May Yet Dazzle Project Morpheus
Star gazer
Sony's already proven that Project Morpheus works at various conventions around the world, but it now needs to show that it can support it with worthwhile software. One studio that's already working on the peripheral is Housemarque, where it's currently testing the headset's compatibility with the recently released Super Stardust Ultra...
News Uh Oh, The Last Guardian's Trademark Has Been Abandoned
Make of that what you will
Despite the fact that it's been years since we actually saw any evidence that The Last Guardian exists, the almost mythical spiritual successor to Shadow of the Colossus still manages to make the news with alarming frequency, such is the anticipation surrounding Team ICO's next game. The latest news comes courtesy of a...
News We Need Different Types of Games, Says The Order: 1886 Developer
Studio comments on length
There have been a whole host of reports regarding The Order: 1886 over the weekend. A handful of stories claimed that the game could be finished in three hours, before a full YouTube upload pegged it at a slightly more reasonable five-and-a-half hours. Speaking with Eurogamer.net, creative director Ru Weerasuriya refused to...
News This One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 PS4 Is One of Sony's Better Custom Consoles
We absolutely Luffy it
Well, this is different, isn't it? Robert Ramsey's typically your host for any sort of Japanese gaming news, but with him busy tucking into his Sunday Dinner – sans parsnips, we suspect – it's down to this editor to report on One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3's custom PlayStation 4. Announced in Japan overnight, the model –...
News Yes, MLB 15 The Show Looks Stunning on PS4
Home run
The weather's pretty glib where we are right now, so even though we're not particularly big fans of baseball, we can certainly still appreciate this MLB 15 The Show trailer. Playing up the impending summer weather, the clip shows sultry evenings, green grass, and plenty of good hits. The main takeaway, however, is that the release looks...
News PS4 Exclusive DriveClub Will Expand Yet Again in February
Gas to burn
Evolution Studios clearly has plenty left in the tank, as DriveClub will be receiving yet another significant update in February. While the Runcorn-based developer admits that there's still a way to go before the racer's free PlayStation Plus edition will release, the studio's post-release support for paying customers has been exemplary...
News You Can Play PS4 with Snoop Dogg at Last
Finally
We can honestly say that we've never had the desire to play games with celebrities, but we suppose that it's an appealing enough idea for some. Either way, Sony's using that concept to do some good with its new PlayStation Heroes application. Available from the PlayStation Store starting from 24th February in North America, the PlayStation 4...
News PS4, PS3, and PlayStation Vita Prices Plunge in NA Valentine's Day Flash Sale
Be still our beating heart
Charli XCX was right: the power of love is more than a song, and it's about to take hold of you, too. Sony has deployed a pretty darn impressive Flash Sale on the North American PlayStation Store this weekend, which is packing some seriously big names. Available now until 09:00AM PST on Monday, 16th February, you'll be...
Review Super Stardust Ultra (PlayStation 4)
Rock 'n' roll
Super Stardust HD drew the dual joystick short straw last generation. Released at a time when the PlayStation 3 was really unpopular, Geometry Wars and its Xbox Live Arcade successor tended to lap up all of the downloadable shoot-'em-up plaudits – despite it never, in this author's opinion, hitting the same highs as Housemarque's...
News Sony's Approach to Indies Is Good for the Entire Industry
Japanese giant is amazing, reckons Disco Pixel
Sony's been banging the indie drum hard for a little while now, but not everyone's willing to dance to its rhythm. There's a growing sentiment among PlayStation owners that the manufacturer's using smaller games to cover for the dearth of blockbusters in its stable, but a quick glance at its 2015 lineup...
News Helldivers Finally Blasts onto PS4, PS3, and Vita Next Month
Hell and back
Co-op shooter Helldivers is finally deploying onto all of Sony's platforms next month, and it's brought a quick trailer along to try and get us all to enlist. The blast-'em-up has you protect the galaxy from alien scum, and promises to be a hardcore twin-stick challenge. It's also got a bit of a comedic twist, so feel free to chuckle...
News Bloodborne's Soundtrack Has Stolen Our Hearts
Love song
Okay, so maybe we're jumping the gun a bit early with Valentine's Day jokes, but with Studio Japan sharing live footage of one of Bloodborne's musical tracks entitled "Cleric Beast", we've been swept off our feet. London based Air Studio provided the performance with choir and orchestra in full form, ready to send shivers down your spine...
News Cupid's Baying for Blood in PS4 Exclusive Until Dawn
Fright night
Roses are red, violets are blue; Until Dawn will whisk you away to a cabin in the woods – but there'll be no time to get nude. That's the theme of this brand new trailer for Supermassive Games' forthcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive at least, as romantic tension paves the way for straight-up tension. "As you may know by now, [the game]...
News We Hope You're Not Expecting DriveClub PS Plus Edition Anytime Soon
Drag race
You may have already noticed, but DriveClub's PlayStation Plus Edition is still nowhere to be found. Originally poised to be the headliner of the service's October update, the free version's been postponed for months with little word on an expected time of arrival. It's grasping at straws, but the racer's official Twitter account has told...
News Finally, You Can Upgrade Your Sub Account to a Master Account on PSN
Someone's been listening
That recent bout of maintenance may have been worthwhile after all, as Sony has announced that you can finally upgrade sub accounts to master accounts on the PlayStation Network. This has been a source of frustration for many for several years, as those that created usernames when they were under the age of 18 were forced to...
News Ready at Dawn: Concerns About PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Are Natural
"We took the risk of trying something different"
The jury's very much still out on The Order: 1886, and we're little over a week away from release. While developer Ready at Dawn has proven that it's capable of taking the PlayStation 4 to places that it's never been before – and it intends to go further yet in the future – there are still many...
News The Order: 1886 Is Just 'Touching the Surface' of the PS4's Power
Here we go
Well, we knew this kind of quote was coming sooner or later. In an interview with Game Trailers, creative director Ru Weerasuriya remarks on how The Order: 1886 is only just "touching the surface" of what the PlayStation 4 can do. The upcoming exclusive looks visually stunning -- that much we know -- but to think that Sony's newest...
News Remember, PSN Will Be Undergoing Maintenance Later Today
Strap yourself in
This is just a friendly reminder that the PlayStation Network will be undergoing scheduled maintenance later today, as stated earlier in the week. The service will be partially unavailable from 17:00PM GMT until 20:30PM GMT, meaning that you won't be able to access account management, the PlayStation Store, and various online...
News This Is What It Feels Like to Go Really Fast in DriveClub on PS4
Fast and furious
Before the game's horrendous online issues, DriveClub was forced to face serious criticism for its decision to run at 30 frames-per-second. It's a conversation that doesn't pop up quite so often anymore, and this video of a forthcoming vehicle moving at 242MPH perhaps evidences why – the sense of speed is terrifying. There's no...
Weirdness This Abandoned Mall Looks Just Like the One from The Last of Us
Out of business
Spoilers: you spend a good chunk of The Last of Us: Left Behind in an abandoned mall. Here's the really, eerie bit, though: the derelict shopping centre appears to exist in real life. Cleveland-based photographer Seph Lawless recently snapped some shots of the snow blanketed Rolling Acres Mall in Ohio, which was shuttered in 2008...
News Sony to Discuss the 'Unique Social Experiences' Made Possible with Morpheus at GDC
Strap yourself in
Unlike motion controllers, Sony's forthcoming virtual reality headset Project Morpheus seems like the most antisocial piece of hardware ever. However, the platform holder begs to differ, as it intends to touch upon the "unique social experiences" possible only with the PlayStation 4 peripheral during a panel at GDC 2015 next month...
News Here's a Reminder That the PlayStation Vita Exists
Remember me?
Despite getting an extended section during PlayStation Experience, the PlayStation Vita's fall from grace has been pretty, well, sudden. We suppose that it was clear from the start that the format would never set the world on fire, but we'd expected a little more effort from the platform holder beyond Killzone: Mercenary and Tearaway...
News PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Is Packed Up and Ready to Go
Time to make history
There's no turning back now. Three weeks after going gold, The Order: 1886 now finds itself packaged up and sitting in shop storerooms. One sneaky Reddit user got a snap of their local outlet's stash, which they posted online for everyone to ogle. There are already copies of this out in the wild, as leaked videos are starting to...
News Insomniac Seems Ready to Talk Ratchet & Clank PS4
Kept you waiting, huh?
Insomniac Games has finally broken silence on its forthcoming Ratchet & Clank reboot for the PlayStation 4. The release was originally announced during Sony's E3 press conference last year, but has been missing in action ever since. With the Burbank-based developer done promoting other platforms, though, it finally seems...
News Resogun: Defenders Makes a Final Stand Next Week
Free update Resogun: Challengers out today
Resogun is still, in this editor's humble opinion, the best game on the PlayStation 4. That's not a slight against the next-gen system's software offering – it's a testament to just how good Housemarque's cylindrical shooter is. And fortunately, the Finnish developer is continuing to support the arcade...
News The Chimera Will Crush Resistance: Retribution's Online Servers in May
Resistance is futile
It's not often that a handheld spin-off becomes the best entry in a console-based series, but this author reckons that Sony Bend's brilliant Resistance: Retribution gives Insomniac Games' numbered trilogy a real run for its money. Released on the PlayStation Portable way back in 2009, the outing offered a third-person twist on...
News Pachter: Sony Won't Mind if PS4 Loses the Console War
But it still wants to be on top
You can always count on seasoned Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter to stoke the flames of the fictional format war. Speaking as part of a wide-ranging interview with Game Informer, the outspoken executive has suggested that Sony doesn't really care about outselling the Xbox One with the PlayStation 4 – but...
News Happy Birthday to Sony Executive Shuhei Yoshida
Many happy returns
Are we doing birthday notices now? Gosh, this site's gone right down the pan – we'll be posting pictures of DualShock-themed tables on Twitter next. Still, we suppose that Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida is just about big enough to have his date of birth acknowledged on these hallowed pages – after all, he has...
Preview The PS4 Exclusives of 2015 - Tearaway Unfolded
Cut from the same sheet
Tearaway should have been the PlayStation Vita's signature game. Designed from the ground up for Sony's pocketable platform, Media Molecule's chirpy platformer not only made use of every single input on the system – but it also ensured that they actually added something to the experience. This is something of a rarity –...
News Phwoar, Feast Your Eyes on These The Order: 1886 Spoiler-Free Screenshots Direct from PS4
The PS4's finest?
At this point, we've known for a while that The Order: 1886 looks amazingly good, and now Sony's gone ahead and released a bunch of screenshots to prove it. Apparently captured directly from a PlayStation 4, the exclusive has us rubbing our faces up and down the screen in sheer anticipation. We reckon it's the detail that really...
News Indulge Your Inner-Eighties with Fresh SHAREfactory Themes
For those with no fashion sense
Way back when Sony released its free PlayStation 4 video editing suite SHAREfactory, we pondered whether it could become a bit of a cash cow for the platform holder. Well, judging by a post on the PlayStation Blog, it looks like that's about to happen, as senior producer Stuart Platt has revealed that the app'
News Are Wallpapers Coming in a Future PS4 Firmware Update?
Shake it up
While we reckon that the PlayStation 4 is in a pretty good place right now, it's clearly missing some minor features that were present on the PlayStation 3 – like the ability to set a custom wallpaper for the console. Themes were introduced as part of the next-gen system's most recent firmware update, but these don't enable you to...
News Hold Up, PS4 Exclusive Drawn to Death Will Be Free?
Ink-teresting
Details regarding David Jaffe's forthcoming arena shooter Drawn to Death have been sketchy since PlayStation Experience, but the Twisted Metal creator has confirmed on Twitter today that the release will be free-to-play. The news was originally revealed as part of a promotional email sent to PlayStation fans, but the God of War creator...
News PSN Offline Later This Week for Maintenance
We're goin' down
Ignore the hyperbole in the headline, because contrary to popular belief, the PlayStation Network rarely goes offline completely when it's undergoing scheduled maintenance. Later this week, from 17:00PM GMT until 20:30PM GMT on Thursday, 12th February, you won't be able to access account management, the PlayStation Store, and...
News You Really Won't Need PlayStation Plus to Play PS4 Online This Weekend
Free to play
The previous PlayStation 4 free multiplayer weekend may not have quite worked out, but this time Sony's putting on a proper event. The platform holder has announced that from 06:00AM GMT on Friday, 13th February right the way through to 06:00AM GMT on Monday, 16th February, you won't need an active PlayStation Plus subscription to take...
News Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Looks Really Close to a Film, Says Naughty Dog Employee
Drawn to life
Frank Tzeng may not be a name that you immediately recognise, but he's one of the people helping to make Uncharted 4: A Thief's End look so darn good. A lead character artist at Naughty Dog, the masterful modeller has worked on dozens of other PlayStation games, including Killzone: Shadow Fall and Puppeteer. However, he believes that...
News This Dude Wanted $20,000 to Smash Up His Anniversary PS4
Haters gonna hate
There's a gag in Life Is Strange that alludes to the ubiquity of bad Kickstarter campaigns, and while it's one of the game's more on-the-nose pop culture references, we reckon that it's bang on going by this particular fund raising drive. Already cancelled by the company monitoring the money making site, one guy was offering to...
News Spoil the Start of PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 with This Clip
Holy textures, Galahad
The Order: 1886 is finished, and copies are starting to pop up around the globe. That means that videos from the finished version are already starting to leak – despite it being some two weeks away from release. The clip embedded below is one such example, showing the opening scenes from the PlayStation 4 foray. It's all in...
News Super Stardust Ultra Flies One More Time Next Week on PS4
Around the world
Sony staple Super Stardust Ultra will enter the PlayStation 4's orbit as soon as next week, the platform holder has announced. The next-gen re-release will deploy on 10th February in North America and 11th February in Europe, and, as you should probably expect, will run in 1080p at a blisteringly fast 60 frames-per-second. In...
News It Sounds Like Shuhei Yoshida Is As Tired of Annualised Franchises As You Are
Yawn
Good old Shuhei Yoshida, eh? The Sony executive has no doubt gained a few new followers on Twitter today after news emerged that he isn't a massive fan of annualised franchises. Speaking at a DICE 2015 panel, Yoshida commented on the marketing and development of games, and how the process has changed over the years. Fortunately, IGN was in...
Live Watch the First Ever MLB 15 The Show PS4 Gameplay Here
Baseball is better
Do you like baseball? Good, because Sony San Diego's getting ready to debut the first ever gameplay footage from the forthcoming MLB 15 The Show on the PlayStation 4 today. The stream will begin at 14:00PM PST (17:00PM EST/22:00PM GMT), and promises a look at the various new features and modes set to appear in the upcoming...
News MLB 15 The Show Has the Best Steelbook on PS4
And it won't break the bank
Sony's been – ahem – hitting it out of the park with its affordable collector's editions of late, so we're pleased to see the PlayStation 4 version of MLB 15 The Show continue that trend. Designed to celebrate the series' 10th anniversary, you'll be able to pick up the release in a wood-themed steelbook – but sadly...
