Despite dropping to third in the UK Games Chart last week, The Last of Us is fighting back and has managed to clime up to no. 2, beating off Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is still going strong and managed to stay on top for the second week in a row.
The sequel to RPG Rainbow Moon, Rainbow Skies, has been announced and will be coming exclusively to PS3 and PS Vita in 2014. The game has been in development for almost a year now, and will take place in a new world, with new characters, new monsters, and a story that isn’t linked to its predecessor.
Sucker Punch have released a new behind-the-scenes video from inFamous: Second Son titled “Smoke and Mirrors”, which looks at the smoke powers of the new protagonist Delsin Rowe. The team explain how Delsin must recharge his powers from chimneys and burning wreckage, much like Cole did with his electricity powers from cars, power lines and TV sets.
Ubisoft have released a new trailer for Watch_Dogs, which collates some of the awards and quotes from critics, showing their appreciation for the game. Unfortunately, the trailer doesn’t actually feature any new footage from the game – rather, it’s just clips from the trailers released in the past.
The PlayStation version of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will include one hour of exclusive content starring Assassin’s Creed: Liberation heroine, Aveline de Grandpré. The bonus DLC will come bundled with the PS3 / PS4 copies of the game, and feature three additional missions. However, the missions won’t be a follow up to Assassin’s Creed Liberation, but instead more of a “short story”.
Eurogamer has confirmed that the PS4 will be playable on the show floor at the annual Eurogamer Expo in London this September. This will be the first chance the UK public has to go hands-on with the console and it’s upcoming games. The show runs from Thursday, September 26th until Sunday, September 29th 2013, but be prepared to big queues as 70,000 people are expected to attend the expo.
WB Games and Splash Damage have confirmed that Batman: Arkham Origins will be the first game in the Batman: Arkham series to feature a multiplayer mode. Called Invisible Predator Online, this new mode takes the concept of the earlier games’ Challenge Rooms and puts other players into the role of the Joker and Bane’s thugs.
Sony’s upcoming PS4 is in such demand that the company has imposed pre-order limits in the UK so eager fans are not disappointed when the console launches later this year. Speaking to CVG, retail sources have confirmed that orders should be placed “before next week” in order for them to be fulfilled on launch day, meaning an effective pre-order deadline of August 5th if you want your PS4 as soon as possible.
Another new video from PlayStation Access has been released today, with Community Manager Hollie Bennett (@HollieB) giving you a close-up of the console, the DualShock 4 controller and the PlayStation Camera. The video shows how shiny one side of the console is, which wasn’t completely clear in the early photos of the console.
Sony and Panasonic have announced that they’re working on a new optical disc with the capacity to hold a minimum of 300 gigabytes of content. The work on the new format is expected to be completed before the end of 2015, and will be the successor to the Blu-ray disc, which has a maximum capacity of 50GB in dual-layer format.
