Sony has revealed that six new games are joining the Instant Game Collection in December, including the first two titles for the PS4. Starting on November 27th, two PS3 and two PS Vita titles will be made available on the PlayStation Store, while the two PS4 titles, RESOGUN and Contrast will be available to download on November 29th 2013 – the day the PS4 launches in Europe.
Lots of new PS4 games are available on the North American PlayStation Store this week, including XCOM: Enemy Within, Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus and Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition. A handful of new PS Vita content is available too, and Flower is available on the PS4, and is cross-buy compatible with the PS3 and Vita versions.
Sony has officially released PS4 Firmware v1.50 via the PlayStation website for North American gamers to download in time for the PS4 launch this Friday. The 308 MB patch can be downloaded onto a USB drive before you get your hands on the console and installed to the system when you receive it, saving you some time on launch day.
The full online user guide is now available for the PS4, letting you read up on the features the PS4 has to offer before the console launches in North America this Friday and later this month in Europe. Oddly, we’ve noticed that the manual states that Blu-ray 3D is not supported on the console, despite Sony confirming the feature was available at launch.
The new PlayStation App for iOS and Android is now available to download, just in time for the PS4’s release in North America. The Android App can be downloaded from the Google Play Store here, while the iOS app is currently only available on iTunes in North America here, and expected to be available in Europe very soon.
Trophies on the PlayStation 4 will now include a “rarity” metric, letting you easily see how rare a trophy is. The trophy rarity level will let gamers easily identify which trophies are easy to obtain, while also giving an indication on how many people have played or completed each game. The small detail was revealed by Engadget, who also detail some of the other features of the PS4, including “guest” accounts.
The wait is almost over… Killzone: Shadow Fall comes out this week in North America, and on 29th November in Europe. To celebrate, Guerrilla Games have released the launch trailer for the game. In addition to the launch trailer, the studio has also released a 5-minute long Tech trailer to showcase the numerous ways in which the game leveraged the raw horsepower of the PS4 to push the tech in the game engine to jaw-dropping new heights.
Sony have updated the Terms of Service (ToS) for the PlayStation Network, with new clauses added to prohibit reselling of software and permission to monitor your online activities, should they deem fit. The software clause (section 7.1) states that users cannot resell their games without authorisation from Sony – effectively stopping you from selling games to others.
Mark Cerny has provided some clarity on just how the mandatory game installations on Sony’s upcoming PS4 console will work. As you may have already read, games will install large amounts of data to the PS4’s hard drive, but Cerny has clarified that all games will install data, but it won’t be deleted automatically.
