Lots of new content is available on the PlayStation Store in North America this week, with pre-orders for upcoming titles including Diablo III and Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn; and new PS3 and PS Vita games. DuckTales Remastered i and PayDay 2 are available to purchase on the PS3.
If you can’t wait to get your hands on Gran Theft Auto V when it releases next month, the Rockstar has just the thing for you. Rockstar has created a interactive guide to keep you entertained, while giving you a closer look Los Santos and Blaine County. A number of sections are already available for you to explore, with others opening up soon.
New gameplay footage from upcoming PS3 and PS4 title has been release, titled “Hacking is Your Weapon”. The video is the first in the Watch_Dogs Gameplay series, and shows how Aiden Pearce can hack ctOS, a piece of centralized software designed to watch over the city and keep it running smoothly, to gain ultimate power.
New PlayStation Plus content hits the store today in North America, as the fantastic Bit.Trip presents Runner 2 is added to the Instant Game Collection. In addition to Runner 2, you can also find discounts on some Runner 2 DLC and the Tomb Raider Digital Edition Bundle. For the PS Vita, you can also find discounts on a number of titles in the Japanese Games sale.
Namco Bandai has a released a new trailer for Tales of Xillia, titled “Two Heroes, One Destiny”. The Japanese role-playing game game was released on the PS3 in Europe and North America last week after being available in Japan for almost two years. The game takes place in a fictional world called Rieze Maxia and follows Jude Mathis and Milla Maxwell – the two heroes.
New screenshots of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD have been released, showing just how impressive the remake of the games are looking. A new video has also been released, which gives you a sample of the 30 minute audio episode, created solely for the HD Remasters and written by Kazushige Nojima. Both the PS3 and PS Vita versions of the game include full trophy support too, and you’ll see this in the new screenshots below.
This has to be one of the most expensive and bizarre pre-order bonuses we’ve ever come across: The Saint’s Row IV Super Dangerous Wad Wad Edition. The pre-order pack, costing a hefty $1 million (or around £644,705), is extremely limited edition and the only one available in the world. But it does come with some very rare extras.
SCEA has released the PlayStation Store charts for July 2013, revealing the top selling PS3, PSN, PS Vita, and PS Mobile titles and DLC content. On the PS3, Shadow of the Colossus was the top selling game on the PS3, followed by The Last Of Us. On the PS Vita, Mortal Kombat PS Vita was the top selling title.
Unlike the Xbox One, which locks the console’s Game DVR features behind a Xbox Live Gold subscription, the PS4 won’t require users to have a PlayStation Plus subscription to use the console’s DVR features. The news was confirmed by a tweet from Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida in response to a question from @jonboi204.
