Sony has announced a nice little surprise for PlayStation Plus subscribers. To celebrate the launch of God of War: Ascension next month, Sony have added God of War 1 HD to the Instant Game Collection – but it will only be available for two weeks starting today. The Classic PS2 title will be available to download after today’s weekly PlayStation Store update.
New games are available to pre-order on the North American PlayStation Store this week, including BioShock Infinite and Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel. A few new titles are available to download too, along with new playable demos. There is also plenty of new DLC, themes, videos and other content available to download.
The God of War: Ascension single-player demo will be releasing to all PlayStation Network users from today. The demo will be made available in North America as part of today’s PlayStation Store update, and will be releasing in Europe as part of tomorrow’s update. In addition, a new single-player trailer trailer for the game has also been released.
A new Sony patent has been discovered, dating back to 2011, which covers the detection of pirated games based on its loading times. The patent describes methods that can be used to detect if a game is pirated by measuring it’s average load time and comparing it to a central database. If the load times fall outside of the acceptable range, the game is blocked.
Sony’s PlayStation 4 press release has confirmed that the new console will include cross-game chat – one of the most requested features on the PS3. ‘Through PS4, users are able to deepen their connections through co-op play or “cross-game chat”,’ says the press release.
A new inFamous title was announced for the PlayStation 4 last week at Sony’s PlayStation Meeting. The sequel, inFamous: Second Son will take place seven years after the events from inFamous 2, and will follow a new protagonist Delsin Rowe. As Cole McGrath story ends, conduits continue to crop up around the world, and Delsin is one of them.
The multiplayer component from Uncharted 3 will be going free-to-play this week, allowing gamers to experience the online component of the game, without purchasing the full game. The information first appeared on the US PlayStation Blog, but was quickly pulled down shortly after, suggesting it’s at least coming this week.
Sony recently revealed that Ratchet & Clank: QForce on the PS Vita would be delayed to Spring 2013 to give the developers more time to polish off the game. Sony would like to make it up to those that purchased the PS3 version of the game by giving away two free games. Owners will be receiving a voucher to download MotorStorm RC by the end of the month.
Sony has released a new patch for the PlayStation Store, updating the application to version v1.03. The patch again improves the speed of the application, like speeding up the boot time and making navigation a bit more snappier. The patch also re-works the process of purchasing free content.
SCE Worldwide president Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed that the PS4 will be compatibile with the PlayStation Move, as a tech demo by Media Molecule at the PlayStation Meeting suggested. However, Yoshida has also confirmed that the console won’t suport the current-gen DualShock 3 controller.
