As announced at Gamescom earlier this week, Japan Studio is working on a new PSN title called rain. In this dark, mysterious world, you take on the role of a boy who becomes invisible, so his figure can only be seen in the rain. A new “announcement” trailer for the game has been released, which you can find below.
There has been plenty of news for PlayStation Plus at Gamescom this week, including PlayStation Plus for PS Vita and the increase in cloud storage space to 1GB. In addition, SCEE has announced three new games to be added to the Instant Game Collection this month. In September, two new titles will be added to the collection too.
Steven Isbell, Community Coordinator for LittleBigPlanet, has revealed that costumes purchased in LittleBigPlanet 2 will be cross-compatible with titles including LittleBigPlanet on the PS Vita and LittleBigPlanet Karting. This means that gamers will be able to use their purchased costumes across any game at no extra cost.
High Moon has released a new trailer upcoming Transformers title Fall Of Cybertron to celebrate the game’s launch. The game will be available to purchase in North America and Europe next week.
A new trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has been released from Gamescom 2012, showing over four minutes of footage from the game. In addition, the game’s release date has been narrowed down to February 2013, with a demo of the game coming with the Zone of Enders HD collection.
Last night, there were rumours that the PlayStation Network was hacked for a second time, and 50GB of emails and passwords were leaked. However, Sony was quick to confirm that the claims “completely false” and that no user data was compromised.
Sound Shapes and Papo & Yo are available to download from the European PlayStation Store this week. You can also find new DLC, playable demos, PS Vita games and more.
At Sony’s Gamescom Press Conference, the company announced that Disney is working to bring several franchises to Wonderbook. Since then, we’ve learned that Disney are working to bring both Toy Story and The Muppets to the service. No further details about the Wonderbook were revealed.
Naughty Dog has published a number of videos to talk about the cinematic process, the performances, and the creative ideas at play in The Last of Us. Check out how the team creates the cinematic sequences using mo-cap, which has taken over two years of planning, writing, performance, scripting, animation, lighting, and artistry.
