Sony have revealed their plans to live-steam their E3 Press Conference, where the PS4 will finally be revealed. In just over 10 days time, you’ll be able to watch Sony unveil the PS4 along with “the next chapter in the PlayStation story” from their E3 Live Stream website. In the UK and Europe, the Press Conference will take place at 2 AM on Tuesday, 11th June 2013.
If you bough God of War: Ascension back in March, your copy of the game included early access to The Last of Us demo. Today, that demo becomes active, letting you play two levels from the game, each with very different styles of play. The full game releases next month, so this is your chance to see what the game is like before anyone else.
Sony has released a new developer diary for upcoming PS4 FPS Killzone: Shadow Fall, as part of PlayStation’s “Conversations with creators” series. In the new video, the developers talk about what it means to them to be a launch title on the new platform. The game will be releasing towards the end of the year, exclusively available for the PS4.
A new trailer for Rain has been released, titled “Two Silhouettes”, showing how the character’s paths eventually collide. Each of the locations they’ll visit throughout the game varies dramatically from the next, and they’ll need to work together in unique ways to escape their pursuers.
Naughty Dog has announced that PS3 exclusive title The Last of Us will be getting three DLC packs after launch. The DLC packs will include one single-player expansion, and two multiplayer ones, with a season pass available to gamers to get all three packs at a discount. The season pass will cost gamers $19.99, but will also include Day 1 bonuses.
A developer working on PS4 games has told Digital Foundry that all PS4 games that don’t support the PS4’s camera requires Remote Play functionality with the PS Vita. Remote Play hasn’t seen a lot of support in the past, even with the PSP console, so this is good news if the details are accurate. Sony has already stated that the long term plan is to have most PS4 games playable on the PS Vita via Remote Play.
Despite the Xbox One requiring gamers to pay a fee to play a second-hand game, GameStop President, Tony Bartel, has told Forbes that the company will still sell pre-owned Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games. For Xbox One owners, it will mean that consumers will have to pay for the game twice – once at point of purchase and again on Xbox Live.
New PlayStation Plus will be coming to North America today as part of this week’s PlayStation Store update. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend for the PS Vita will be added to the Instant Game Collection this week, along with two exclusive Timed Trials and discounts on games.
Bungie have released a new trailer for their upcoming PS3 and PS4 title Destiny, titled “Law of the Jungle”. The new trailer is a CG/live action trailer that features three Guardians in action, and was created in collaboration with director Jon Favreau, actor Giancarlo Esposito, and visual effects house Digital Domain.
Sony has released a new patch for PlayTV, updating the application to v2.04. The patch, which is 88 MB in size, includes a number of bug fixes to alleviate some of the crashing issues affecting the software. While not all of the issues have been resolved, the app is a lot more stable now.
