Following rumours of a Gold PS4 last week, Sony has today officially announced that the PS4 will be actually getting two new colours: Gold and Silver. Both colours will be come with a 500 GB hard drive and matching DualShock 4 wireless controllers.
The sequel to Tropico 5 has been announced, along with a teaser trailer. The dictator-sim will be releasing sometime in 2018 for the PS4, Xbox One and PC, although details are still scarce. The teaser trailer does reference current events, including UK leaving the European Union.
Sony is currently giving away Star Wars Battlefront Ultimate Edition on the PS4 with new 12-month subscriptions of PlayStatin Plus. This limited time offer bags you seven PlayStation Plus games, instead of the usual six. Unfortunately, it’s only available to new subscribers, so existing subscribers are ineligible for the offer.
Telltale has announced that the second episode for its Marvel Guardian’s of The Galaxy game will be releasing next Tuesday, 6th June 2017. The second episode is titled “Under Pressure” and sees Star Lord and company scour the galaxy for answers on how to control the power of their mysterious new relic.
A Target employee in the US as leaked a photo of a 1 TB PS4 Slim console in Gold via reddit, complete with gold DualShock 4 controller. The new model has yet to be announced by Sony, but Eurogamer has backed-up the rumour, claiming the “images are genuine”.
As reported back in March, production of the PS3 in Japan has now ended, with the final shipment now “complete”. Sony Japan has confirmed that the console is no longer in production, freeing up capacity for the PS4, PS4 Pro and PS VR.
The June 2017 PlayStation Plus line-up has been revealed by Sony, confirming the free games subscribers will be able to download. The new games will be available to download from the PlayStation Store on 6th June 2017, as part of the weekly PlayStation Store update.
May’s last PlayStation Store update has gone live, and it’s quite a big one. You can find twenty new PS4 games and four new PS Vita games this week, along with plenty of new DLC. New games include Star Trek: Bridge Crew, TEKKEN 7 and MXGP3. Check out the full list of new games below.
Sony has released Firmware v4.70 for the PS4, which is a minor update to the system software. The firmware is mandatory, which means you’ll need to update your console before you can play online. The changelog for the update can be found below, which includes improvements to the system performance.
Invites for the closed beta for Everybody’s Golf on the PS4 have started to go out to those who applied to take part. The closed beta itself begins tomorrow, Friday 26th May 2017 from 7:00am BST, through to Monday, 29th May until 8:00am BST.
