A number of NeoGAF users have received emails from Sony stating that the price of the three month subscription to PlayStation Plus will be rising from September. The subscription will rise from £11.99 for 90-days to £14.99, but the price for monthly and annual subscriptions will remain the same. The price change takes affect from 1st September 2015, and will affect your subscription on your renewal date.
Square-Enix revealed a new trailer for Final Fantasy XV at Gamescom in Cologne last week, titled “Dawn”. The 3-minute trailer teases events that occurred 15 years before the game, effectively acting as a prologue to the game, but it’s a rather boring trailer and doesn’t really reveal much about the “dramatic events” Square Enix states in the description.
Sony has released the PlayStation Store Download Charts for July 2015, showing the most downloaded games. July saw a number of new releases for the PS4, with five making the top 10, but Journey was the best selling new release overall, beating God of War III Remastered (3rd place) and Life is Strange (5th place). On the PS3, Minecraft returns to the top of the chart (up from 3rd), and Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars come in 2nd place thanks to the release of Rocket League on PS4.
Sony has announced a new feature exclusive to PlayStation Plus subscribers: Vote to Play. The new feature lets subscribers vote on several as-yet unreleased PS4 games to be included in the upcoming month’s game line-up. Although it won’t be a monthly feature, it gives games the power to choose which free game they want to receive.
Sony has unveiled the Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection Special Edition, which will be releasing in October 2015 alongside the standard edition of the game. The Special Edition includes a 48-page The Art of Uncharted Trilogy artbook, a steelbook cover for the game and a handful of stickers. Purchasing the collection will also give you exclusive access to the Uncharted 4 multiplayer beta.
New PlayStation Plus content will be available to subscribers in North America and Europe tomorrow, following the weekly PlayStation Store update. August’s games include Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (PS4), God of War Ascension (PS3) and Sound Shapes (cross-buy). As a result, last months games, including Rocket League will be removed, so be sure to download any games you’ve missed.
Sony is continuing it’s road to financial recovery, having recently reported an increase in profit for Q1 2015. Sony has report $780 million operating profit, up 39% compared to last year, and mostly thanks to the success of the PS4. Sony’s games devision was obviously the most profitable part of the company, reporting 350% increase in profits to $147 million.
With a PlayStation Plus subscription, games get 1 GB of cloud storage included in the subscription plan, letting you back up your savedata. The space is sufficient for the PS3 and PS Vita, where savedata is much smaller (usually a few megabytes per game), but the same can’t be said about the PS4. As I recently found out, many PS4 games have far larger data saved, filling up your cloud storage quickly.
Telltale Games has announced that Episode 5 of it’s Game of Thrones series will be releasing next week, starting with the PC release, and Xbox and PS4 versions to follow shortly afterwards. Episode 5 is titled A Nest of Vipers and is the penultimate episode in the series. A trailer for the upcoming episode has been released, which you can find below.
Over the past few months, Sony has been testing the PlayStation Now game streaming service in the UK, but with selected gamers only. However, as of today, the beta is now available to all gamers. The service lets you stream selected PS3 games to your PS4 and other PlayStation Now compatible devices, with compatibility eventually coming for the PS3 and PS Vita.
