Amazon UK has launched a PSN Store on their website, allowing you to purchase PSN Codes for various content, including digital games, add-on content, top-ups and PlayStation Plus membership. The offerings are limited at the moment, but hopefully it means gamers will be able to purchase digital content at sightly lower prices that what the PlayStation Store currently offers.
Sony has revealed that PS4 gamers have shared more than 800,000 gameplay broadcasts, and over 7.1 million spectate sessions via Twitch and UStream. In total, that adds up to more than 20 million minutes of live gameplay across the globe. According to UStream, the average broadcast was 31 minutes long, while Twitch reports that 10% of all content on the platform since 15th November has come from the PS4.
Compulsion Games has released a patch for Contrast to fix certain bugs and glitches affecting the game. The patch is now available to download for the PS4 in Europe, while the North American patch should be releasing soon once Sony has approved it. The PS3 patch will also be available for both territories soon, once the PlayStation Network is updated.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain prequel Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes has been given an official release date. The game will be releasing on current and next-gen systems in North America on March 18th 2014, with the game costing for £29.99 on the PlayStation Store for the PS4 version, but only £19.99 for the digital PS3 version.
New PS4, PS3 and PS Vita games are available on the US PlayStation Store this week, including Doki-Doki Universe (cross-buy on all three platforms), Strength of the Sword 3 (PS3) and Mahjong Royal Towers (PS Vita). You can also find discounts on various titles, along with new DLC for all three platforms.
In the all-formats chart in the UK this week, Gran Turismo 6 has failed to make a big impact despite being the only major new release, debuting in 8th place. The game only managed to generate one-fifth of first week sales compared to its predecessor, Gran Turismo 5. In other news, Call of Duty: Ghosts are returned to the top of the chart, while Killzone Shadow Fall dropped to ninth.
Telltale Games has confirmed that it’s working on a Game of Thrones series based on the TV series and not the books, but is still in the initial stages of planning. Like previous games by Telltale, players will be able to make choices in the game, limited by the story, and will be released in episodes. A release date hasn’t been revealed yet, but the game will be releasing sometime in 2014.
Crystal Dynamics has revealed that Tomb Raider will be getting the next-gen treatment, and will coming to the PS4 in the New Year in the form of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. The game has been pulled apart and rebuilt with enhanced visual fidelity, realism, and a new immersive richness to the world. The game will be in native 1080p resolution, and will feature more sophisticated physics modeling thanks to the powerful hardware of the PS4.
Bungie has revealed that Destiny will be released worldwide in September 2014, with a Beta scheduled for Summer 2014. The game was originally expected to release in Spring 2014 but has since slipped to September. As the game’s release date has been pushed back, so had the beta date, which will now be available in Summer 2014, and available first on PlayStation platforms before releasing elsewhere.
Sony has revealed that there will be another period of maintenance this Monday, affecting European gamers’ evening session. The maintenance window will begin at 4:00 PM GMT on Monday 9th December, and will last up to midnight – a total of 8 hours of downtime. The maintenance could be related to the recent “password reset” issue PSN users have been seeing recently.
