Square-Enix has confirmed that Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD will both support cross-play across the PS3 and PS Vita, allowing players to seamlessly continue their game from the PS3 to the PS Vita (and vice versa). The game’s director, Yoshinori Kitase, confirmed cross-play support at the Japan Expo 2013 held in Paris.
To celebrate this week’s Japan Expo, taking place in Paris, Square-Enix has released a new trailer for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. The new trailer is titled “The Divine Task”, and reveals more about the story, action and characters you’ll encounter in the game when it launches next year.
New PS3 and PS Vita games are available on the European PlayStation Store today, in addition to five new additions to the Instant Game Collection. The Gran Turismo 6 demo is available to download from the Store this week too, along with new DLC content for both the PS3 and PS Vita.
The official PlayStation site reveals that the PS4 will come pre-loaded with The PlayRoom, which includes a number of minigames that make use of the PlayStation Camera and new DualShock 4 controller. However, since the game requires the PlayStation Camera, which isn’t bundled with the console, it won’t be playable unless you also pick up the peripheral.
LOVEFiLM, the DVD, Blu-ray and Video game rental service operating in a number of European countries, will stop renting out games to customers. The Amazon owned company says new customers are no longer able to sign-up to the games rental service, but existing customers, already subscribed to the game rental service, will be able to rent games until further notice.
Lots of new content is available on the North American PlayStation Store this week, and it’s also the first Store update for July 2013. In addition to a number of new PS3 and PS Vita games, Battlefield 3 has also been added to the Instant Game Collection for PlayStation Plus subscribers.
LittleBigPlanet has hit another huge milestone: 8 million user created levels, and still growing! The community has created more than 8 million levels in the five years since the game was released on the PS3, and later to the PS Vita. It’s taken the community just under a year to rack-up another million levels.
Naughty Dog’s PS3 exclusive The Last of Us continues to top the UK sales charts, making it three weeks in a row since the game’s release. The game is continuing to sell well, beating the new retail boxed edition of Minecraft and Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which has dropped to third place.
Mark Cerny’s talk about the “Road to PS4”, which took place at the Gamelab conference in Barcelona yesterday is now available to view on YouTube. In the talk, which was streamed live yesterday, Cerny talks about how the PlayStation platform has evolved over the years, and how the PS4 compares to the previous PlayStation consoles.
While Japan is getting a playable demo of Puppeteer next week, dubbed the ‘Rehearsal Edition’, Sony has revealed that a demo will also be coming to Europe too, but a release date is not yet known. The Rehearsal Edition isn’t a traditional game demo, according to Sony, and the gameplay actions in the demo have been limited to just umping and the scissors mechanic.
