Commander Fury

Welcome back to PlayStation Underground, our online show about video games! Today, we scream through the post-apocalyptic sands of the Wasteland in Mad Max on PS4. With grease, bullets, and a little gasoline, we’ll help Max take down an enemy camp and survive a torrential lightning storm. Our trusted (and daring) guide Daniel McGuffey from WB gives us this white-knuckle tour through the open-world of Mad Max, and may also drive the Magnum Opus clear off a cliff. All in the name of quality entertainment, folks. Mad Max is out now on PS4, and PlayStation owners have access to 12 exclusive hood ornaments to decorate their metallic steed. Bonus: Fury Road is now 25% off for PS Plus members, if your hungry for more of the Wasteland. Let us know what you think in the comments, and remember that we’ll be back soon with more Underground in the weeks to come. Enjoy the show! View the full article

Hi! I’m the game designer on Leo’s Fortune and I’m here to tell you more about our game before it arrives on PS4 September 8th. We (1337 & Senri) are a small team of three independent game developers from Gothenburg, Sweden. But I haven’t always been indie. Before this I was the lead designer on Battlefield 2 at DICE. The reason I went from AAA blockbusters to making indie games is because I had a desire to make games the way I want to, with the type of creative vision and attention to detail that isn’t possible at a big studio. With each game we make we try to add our innovative spin and personal touch on a genre we love. Leo’s Fortune is our take on the classic platformer. We took classic platforming elements and put our spin on it by adding physics-based puzzles, painstakingly handcrafted graphics, and an original story with fully voiced cutscenes. In Leo’s Fortune you’ll guide Leopold on a quest to recover his stolen gold fortune and uncover the mystery of who stole it. Along the way you’ll encounter some of Leo’s quirky and suspicious family members like Uncle Sergey and Cousin Victor. When you play Leo’s Fortune or check out our trailer, we hope you’ll notice the quality and effort we put into the graphics and environments. Most platform games are designed using a set of repeating texture tiles. We chose not to make our lives any easier and did not use a tile system. Instead, each level in Leo’s Fortune is one enormous unique panoramic image, created from scratch. We even developed our own game engine from scratch. This is why we often refer to the game as “handcrafted.†We could’ve made this game more easily using off-the-shelf tools, but we don’t think the result would have been the same. Designed to meet the quality of a console game, Leo’s Fortune first released as a mobile game where it helped raise the bar of expectations for what a mobile game can be and won some neat awards in the process. We’re proud to have resolutely decided our game would be 100% premium with no free-to-play elements, a difficult decision in the market today. Now we’re proud to present you with the best version of Leo’s Fortune, gloriously rendered with a 1080p graphical upgrade. So please enjoy Leo’s Fortune on PS4 when it launches on September 8th, and let us know what you think when you find out who stole his gold. View the full article

PlayStation Experience 2015 will be taking place December 5th through 6th in San Francisco, and PlayStation Heroes is giving you a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to attend the event in style. Just purchase Foul Play, Mediatonic and Devolver Digital’s side-scrolling brawler set entirely on a theater stage, and register online. It’s that easy! Purchase Foul Play for PS4 for $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $75, or $100 via PlayStation Store to enter and support the USO, Make-A-Wish and The V Foundation. Each dollar you spend on Foul Play will act as one entry for your chance to win a trip to San Francisco for you and a friend to attend PlayStation Experience. You’ll both receive VIP seating at the press conference and panels, front of the line access to play games coming to PlayStation, exclusive PlayStation swag, and developer meet and greets. Get a taste of what Foul Play is all about straight from the team at Mediatonic: Mediatonic’s Foul Play is proud to be joining PlayStation Heroes to add some extra dramatic tension to our debut on PS4! Our theatrical brawler comprises various plays recreating the scarcely believable, but ENTIRELY ACCURATE tales Baron Dashforth’s daemon banishing exploits. The lovingly crafted sets vary from the automatons of Atlantis to werewolves on the misty moors of Somerset and even a cult inadvertently starting the great fire of London! No expense has been spared for the Baron’s one night only spectacular show and it’s a game that rewards performance over pummeling, as every strike and combo has to keep an eager audience entertained! You don’t have a conventional life bar, but a “Mood-o-Meter.†Keep it filled with audience pleasing action and you’ll be met with cheers, whoops and hats in the air aplenty! Miss your cues, get beaten around by the adversarial actors and you’ll find yourself booed off stage… Storm the theatre solo or with a friend and wade through hordes of combat trained actors in a variety of menacing (and/or ridiculous) costumes! You have until September 15th to purchase Foul Play at the price of your choosing, so don’t wait. Pick up Foul Play and register online today for a chance to win a trip for two to San Francisco for PlayStation Experience 2015, all while supporting three great charities. I hope to see you at PlayStation Experience in December! 90% of the purchase price of each PlayStation Heroes Theme will be divided equally among Make-A-Wish®, a charity that grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions the USO, a charity that supports America’s troops and their families and The V Foundation for Cancer Research, a charity that’s making strides in the fight against cancer. Learn more about Make-A-Wish at wish.org. USO is a 501©(3) org., Tax ID 13-1610451, uso.org. The V Foundation is a 501©(3) org., Tax ID 13-3705951, jimmyv.org. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Making a purchase will not increase your chance of winning. The purchases are not tax deductible. The promotion period is from September 1, 2015 1:00PM PST through September 15, 2015 11:59PM PST. Must be a legal resident of the U.S. and 18 years old to participate. Limit 100 entries for a chance to win. Void where prohibited. See www.playstation.com/heroes for Official Rules. View the full article

We’ve been busy preparing our next major system software update for PS4, version 3.00 (codename: Kenshin). The update is packed with content, and we wanted to give you a quick glance at its key features. If you were selected for our beta program, you’ll get to see these features first-hand very soon. Keep in mind, some of this content might not make it into the final version — that’s why we’re having a beta, after all. We’ve added new ways to connect with friends and players around the world, expanding the social capabilities of the system even further. Online storage capacity increase — PS4 online storage capacity has increased from 1GB to 10GB for all PS Plus members. In 3.00 system software, you’ll see that we added a handy usage meter to monitor your available storage capacity, and a new Auto-Upload menu has been added to Application Saved Data Management. YouTube live — PS4 owners will be able to livestream gameplay to YouTube. Livestreams will be viewable across YouTube, including on the new YouTube Gaming mobile app and website. Events — A new hub for events has been added, giving an overview of activities taking place in the games you play most, as well as official broadcasts. For instance, you may see an update for a Double XP weekend, a special enemy appearing at a scheduled time, or seasonal events like in-game towns being decorated for the winter. You’ll also receive notifications when the event starts, or if the timing changes. Favorite Groups — Favorite Groups has been added to the Friends app, letting you quickly access groups of people you like to play games with frequently. This will make the process of getting a game session up and running even easier. Communities — PS4 users will have the ability to create communities based around shared interests, like games, genres, and more. Communities include a message board with general discussion, screenshots shared by players, and the ability to join parties / games. If you want to tackle a big multiplayer raid, but don’t have enough friends available, this could be a great way to connect with other players who are looking for the same thing. Sharing video clips to Twitter — Users will have the ability to share video clips directly to Twitter. Maximum video length is 10 seconds, though you’ll have the ability to trim longer clips. Stickers — Tired of typing out messages? With this update, you’ll be able to send stickers to friends through your messages. Now Playing / What’s New — The Now Playing screen will display even more information about what your friends are doing, and you’ll be able to quickly jump into a game, party, request a screen share, or get sent to the PS Store to buy the game your friend is playing – further enhancing the social relationship with your friends online. Live from PlayStation — We’ve improved the Live From PlayStation app, making it easier to view popular trending broadcasts in real time. Request to watch gameplay — Want to view a friend’s gameplay session? Now you can send a ‘Request to Watch’ notification to a player, which will start a live broadcast or Share Play invitation to the person playing. There’s more included in this update, but that’s a quick glance at some of the items we’re excited about the most. We’ll be back with more info about Kenshin soon, including the launch timing. View the full article

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The Wasteland is a destructive, wild, and savagely endless expanse. Max needs to brave these harsh conditions, to embrace the madness and violence to find the peace he so desperately seeks. On your journey, it’d be easy to be consumed by the thirst and hunger, and to miss the hidden gems that lie buried beneath the concrete and dust, behind the battles and between the points of respite to the plains of silence. We want players to take the time to stop, take a breather, and dig deeper as they travel across the world. Countless things are there to find, out of plain sight, some obvious and others subtle. We hope players will discover the riches of the world as they explore and seek the means to survive. It’s as much about the journey as it is the destination. Here are five things we hope players experience within the open-world Wasteland. What once was a vibrant place of life and color, now only has faded remnants of the old world trying to break through the cracked asphalt like a pervasive weed. The player has a massive open world to explore with the tools to discover and unveil its shrouded or forgotten secrets. Waste not, want not is the ethos of the people here. Critters can be found scuttling across the sands or soaring above wasteland leftovers. These can make for a quick snack on the fly, but you need to be quick on your feet and faster on the draw. Not everything lies above the sand — beneath it, where it’s cool and dark, others have made a home and keep things of great value. Buzzard lairs aren’t the only subterranean spaces to explore. The best way to infiltrate an enemy camp isn’t always the “head-on, smash and crash†approach. Subterfuge and illusion can often be as effective and deadly as a Thunderpoon to the face! Wastelanders value vehicles as a safe haven, a weapon, a prize, and a symbol of great importance and value. Enemy camps or loot locations sometimes hold one of these like a jewel in a crown. Culture and an appreciation for beauty can still exist, even in the harshest of environments. Relics tell the story of the time before the world fell. Images of a long-forgotten normality and its decline into chaos. These weave the story of the people from before into the lore of the wasteland, their scrawling not understood by those who hold them. View the full article

Hey everyone, it’s T.K. back again on PlayStation.Blog. I’ve had the pleasure of being able to peek in time-to-time to talk about the latest and greatest titles from Konami on PlayStation platforms, but today by far outranks them all. I am incredibly proud to announce the launch of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on PS4 and PS3, available today on disc and via PlayStation Store. Metal Gear Solid, for those uninitiated, is the decade-spanning, globe-trotting, epic spy saga about the consequences of war, nuclear détente, and occasionally cardboard boxes. The latest entry, The Phantom Pain, takes place 9 years after the events of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (also available on PS4/PS3) as the legendary soldier Big Boss wakes from his long coma since the events of Ground Zeroes. With the fire of revenge burning in his heart, he sets out to rebuild his former mercenary legion with allies new and old, and swears vengeance upon Skullface and the mysterious XOF organization. Lucky for Boss, he has a big, beautiful playground to work with. Boasting a map bigger than all previous games combined, you will plan, execute, and command the battlefield. And when you finally fight your way to the end of the conclusion to this secret chapter of Metal Gear history, the war rages on in our online Forward Operating Base mode, which pits you in a 1-on-1 match to attack (or defend) critical materials from fellow players around the world! If squad vs. squad is more your tune, we have our full-blown multiplayer coming October 6th, which gives you plenty of time to tackle the massive single-player mode. Need more field support while you are tackling tough missions? Grab The Phantom Pain companion App for in-depth second screen functionality and tactical support, also available starting today for iOS and Android devices. So, to recap, amazing story, massive gameplay, and great multiplayer all in one package. What are you waiting for? We hope you’ll enjoy Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. View the full article

Ever since we revealed Star Wars Battlefront at Star Wars Celebration, you’ve been asking us if there would be a Beta. Today, we are thrilled to finally be able to answer that question, and the answer is yes! Coming in early October to PS4, the Star Wars Battlefront Beta is a technical test and will feature Walker Assault on Hoth, a 40-player multiplayer battle featuring Rebels and the Empire. Walker Assault will also give you the chance to play as two of the most iconic characters in the Star Wars universe: Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. The Beta will also feature our Survival Mission on Tatooine, where you and a Rebel friend must fight back waves of Imperial forces. In addition to those two modes, we are excited to reveal a brand-new mode that will be available in the Beta, Drop Zone. We’ll be sharing more details on Drop Zone in the weeks ahead. As part of the Star Wars Battlefront Beta we are also happy to reveal the Star Wars Battlefront Companion experience. Available during the Beta on the official site, the Star Wars Battlefront Companion experience features the strategic card game Base Command, and lets you earn in-game Credits that unlock Star Cards, weapons, and more in Star Wars Battlefront. In addition to Base Command, the Companion also lets Rebels and Imperials alike check game stats and progression, customize loadouts and appearance, connect with friends, and get notified when they’re playing Star Wars Battlefront — as well as gather intel on their stats and progression so you can see how you match up! The Star Wars Battlefront Companion will be available on web, the Apple App Store and Google Play store prior to the release of Star Wars Battlefront on November 17th. We’ll have a lot more info regarding the Star Wars Battlefront Beta in the weeks ahead, so be sure to stay tuned to PlayStation.Blog, follow us on social, and sign-up for our newsletter to get all the latest news. View the full article

It’s time for more espionage escapades in LittleBigPlanet with the new Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Costume Pack providing costumes for Sackboy, Toggle, OddSock, and Swoop! These costumes can each be purchased individually or you can purchase the complete Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Costume Pack to receive the exclusive Box Costume for Toggle… Just perfect for when Little Toggle wants to be the Hide N’ Seek champion of the gang! The Sackies Return It’s time for your Sackboy or Sackgirl to dress up in their most fashionable of formal attire for the most glitzy and glamorous event on the LittleBigPlanet 3 calendar… The Sackies! The Sackies is the most prestigious celebration of creativity on Craftworld. It’s a showcase of all the amazing creations made by you over the past year. We have seen some truly amazing content published in LittleBigPlanet 3 since its November launch and these awards allow us all to recognize pure awesomeness with shiny awards of the highest accolade! It’s going to be the event of the year for LittleBigPlanet; so be sure to stay tuned for more news on The Sackies! Want to check out some of the latest creations for yourself? Head on over to our portal for community content — LBP.me! Dive-In Comes to LittleBigPlanet 3!Have you visited LittleBigPlanet 3 recently? It’s a growing hub of social interactivity within our community due to the release of a new and improved Dive In feature that makes it easier than ever before to connect with other LittleBigPlanet community members! Our new Dive In feature can be found on your improved Social Screen that also lists your full collection of Online Friends, Offline Friends, and Hearted Players; so there’s never a moment where you’re truly alone in LittleBigPlanet! Want to meet someone new, though? Just hit that Dive In button and choose to join someone else’s game session or take the plunge and Host your own to open your game up for a party of other players to join you! New Feature: Creation CurationsMultiplayer Mania! Along with the return of Dive In, we have the first of our Creation Curations featuring a collection of great community levels that fall under a special theme. To celebrate all of this multiplayer connectivity and online gameplay, our first Creation Curations category is… Multiplayer Mania! Spring & Repaint! by Yu-Kamone This level and many more are currently being featured in the Multiplayer Mania category; so dive right in to LittleBigPlanet 3 today, get a group of players together and check them out today for some fantastic co-op and versus gameplay! View the full article

PlayStation Vita is about to get a splash of color. Starting in November, the Aqua Blue PS Vita will be available in the U.S. exclusively at GameStop for $199.99 (MSRP). Pre-orders for the Aqua Blue PS Vita are now live, so make sure to head over to GameStop.com or your local GameStop store to stake your claim. This is the first time that the slimmer, lighter PS Vita has been available in a color other than black in the U.S. PS Vita is home to more than 1,000 games and sports the ability to stream most PlayStation 4 games from your PS4 via Remote Play. And with the recent launch of PlayStation Now on PS Vita and titles like Super Time Force Ultra, Super Meat Boy and Minecraft: Story Mode making their way to PS Vita, it’s the perfect time to pick up the system – and trust me, that Aqua Blue color looks even better in person. Knowing the passionate PS Vita fan base as I do, the color won’t last long, so pre-order today and get ready to enjoy yet another reason that PlayStation is the best place to play! Pre-order Now View the full article

If you know anything about Q-Games, you know that we made a name for ourselves during the PlayStation 3 era with our acclaimed PixelJunk series. Debuting way back in 2007, we were one of the first indies to cut our teeth on the newly released console. Our idea for the series was simple: rework old school gaming concepts in beautiful high-definition visuals, while keeping the easy to learn, difficult to master gameplay that made us fall in love with games in the first place. From the outset of the PlayStation 4 launch, we’ve been bombarded with questions about the bringing some of our most beloved games over from PlayStation 3 to the new console. There have been calls, emails, tweets, Facebook posts, and yes, even the occasional person showing up to our offices to plead the case for the acclaimed series to enter the next generation of the console. Well, I’m happy to announce that day has finally come! Starting August 31st, you’ll be able to delve right back into the PixelJunk world when the games become available on PlayStation Now! We’re super excited to give old a new fans a chance to experience the now classic PS3 games on PlayStation 4. Subscribers to PlayStation Now will get access to: PixelJunk Monsters PixelJunk Eden PixelJunk Shooter PixelJunk Shooter 2 PixelJunk Sidescroller PixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap Including the recently released PixelJunk Nom Nom Galaxy and last year’s PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate, both available on PSN for individual purchase, PlayStation 4 is now the destination for PixelJunk games! Some of you might be new to PixelJunk, so here’s a primer to get you started: PixelJunk MonstersInspired by the popular and addictive tower defense genre, PixelJunk Monsters takes the simple real-time strategy concept of building, researching and base defending and presents it in a uniquely attractive style. In the game, Tikiman, a dancing defender-of-the-forest, strategically builds a variety of defense towers in a lush 2D environment with the goal of defending the pathway to your home base (and children!) from an onslaught of threatening monsters. With 20 different stages, dozens of different towers, a gaggle of interesting and infuriating monsters, and most importantly – couch co-op! – PixelJunk Monsters has earned a reputation as one of the most beloved tower defense games of all time. PixelJunk EdenPixelJunk Eden is probably the most abstract game of the PixelJunk series. Picture if you will, a psychedelic platformer where you guide a tiny, silk-spinning ‘grimp’ through the gardens of Eden on a mission to grow each by pollenating flowers and finding precious ‘Spectra’. You grip, jump and swing, destroying “Prowlers†and collecting their pollen which lets you grow more plants to take you further and deeper into the gardens. Lush visuals, slick controls and amazing music by fellow Kyoto native Baiyon make it an incredibly atmospheric and addictive experience. Plus, up to 3 player local co-op! PixelJunk ShooterIn PixelJunk Shooter, you pilot a subterranean exploration vehicle to explore the interior of diverse cave-like complexes. You must affect the surrounding and dynamic terrain to progress. The goal is to safely navigate through each vivid stage and rescue survivors scattered about the cavernous environment. Each stage is in-effect a flow simulation whereby you attempt to control various types of liquid (water, magma, etc) and solid matter (rock, earth) either by destroying it, manipulating it or moving it. These dynamic fluid effects are at the heart of the game’s visuals. Plop down on the couch with a co-pilot for even more fun! PixelJunk Shooter 2Expanding on its innovations of its predecessor PixelJunk Shooter, PixelJunk Shooter 2 is a complex and dynamic fluid simulation system, which fills the game world with flowing liquids and hazardous gases, and provides the game its distinctive style. Blast holes in walls or use your ship itself to drill past scorching hot magma. The fluids react in real-time to the player’s actions and to other liquids, creating unique and exciting situations with every play. The goal of the game is to keep cool (your ship is susceptible to overheating) whilst finding and rescuing the many helpless, stranded survivors. You’ll need to master the deformable terrain, the flowing liquids and the fierce life forms as you proceed deeper into ever more challenging environments. And even more local co-op! Notice a theme here? PixelJunk SidescrollerThe final chapter of the Shooter trilogy! Sidescroller finds our Shooter pilot protagonist killing time on his orher way back home by pumping space quarters into a retro side-scrolling shooter. Reinventing the genre from the ground up while maintaining that nostalgic feeling, PixelJunk SideScroller is a bit of side story fun. Dodge flurries of alien bullets and strategically upgrade your weapons as you battle your way through sweeping stages full of hazardous fluid and endless shooting mayhem. Friends need not wait put their quarter in the queue to play next, because Sidescroller is also sporting local co-op. PixelJunk Racers 2nd LapPixelJunk Racers 2nd Lap is an addictive slot car racing game that features single player and multiplayer fun. Intuitive controls, 32 different race modes, and online rankings will provide countless hours of racing mayhem. Racers is the granddaddy of the PixelJunk series and also with local co-op king! Up to 7 players can hit the track, making it a great party game. PlayStation Now includes 140+ games, from blockbuster hits to indie gems—like the PixelJunk series—and everything in-between. We hope you’ll give the service a try for yourself. Click here to start your 7-Day FREE Trial. View the full article

Hey everyone! Johnny V, VP of Production on Disney Infinity here with exciting news… The wait for Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition is finally over! The Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Starter Pack is now available on PS4 and PS3! Our Starter Pack includes the Disney Infinity 3.0 software and base, the Star Wars Twilight of the Republic Play Set piece, Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker character figures, and a web code card that unlocks content for PC and mobile devices — all of this for just $64.99.That’s just five dollars more than a standard video game, plus you get cool toys that come with it! And to top it off, available exclusively for PS4 and PS3 is the Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition: Star Wars Saga Starter Pack ($114.99). This includes both the Star Wars Twilight of the Republic Play Set with Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker character figures and the Star Wars Rise Against the Empire Play Set with Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia character figures one month before they are available on any other platform. This exclusive bundle also comes with Boba Fett figure who won’t be available as a standalone figure until after the holidays! Fans who purchase the bundle will also be the only ones with the Star Wars Rise Against the Empire Play Set until late September when it becomes widely available at retail. If you are an existing fan of Disney Infinity, you are probably wondering if you have to buy a new Starter Pack and need another base. The answer is “no†guys — you can use your existing PS3/PS4 base and digitally purchase Disney Infinity 3.0’s Toy Box mode to get started for an introductory price of just $19.99 from PlayStation Store, then purchase other figures and Play Sets a-la-carte at retail. Don’t forget that all of the Star Wars figures are playable in all of the Star Wars Play Sets and in the updated and improved Toy Box mode. Since we’ve brought together all the major brands from across The Walt Disney Company, players can now mix and match some of their favorite characters and play with them together. Here is the rundown of everything else that is dropping: Star Wars Twilight of the Republic Play Set ($34.99) for players who choose to digitally download the Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Software Star Wars Twilight of the Republic character figures Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi ($13.99 each) Star Wars Rebels character figures Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren and Zeb Orrelios ($13.99 each) Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out Play Set with Joy and Anger character figures included ($34.99) Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out character figures Sadness, Disgust and Fear ($13.99 each) Disney character figures Mickey, Minnie, Mulan, Olaf, Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron: Legacy ($13.99 each) Star Wars Twilight of the Republic Power Disc Pack ($9.99) Tomorrowland Power Disc Pack ($9.99) Thank you again to all of our loyal Disney Infinity fans and PlayStation gamers that took the time to read this! Shout out to our team at Avalanche Software in SLC and special thanks to Adam, Drake, Gio, Rosenberg, Shawn and the entire team at Sony! I can’t wait to see how much everyone enjoys the new game. View the full article

Mark your calendars, folks! We’re excited to announce that Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End will launch on March 18th, 2016. As we all eagerly count down the days, we have news to share on all of our pre-order offerings, including two limited edition versions of the game: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Special Edition and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Libertalia Collector’s Edition. For our PlayStation Store customers, don’t worry, we’ve got something in store for you as well! So, what comes in each package? The Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Special Edition ($79.99 USD, $99.99 CAD) contains a premium, collectible treatment plus an inside look at Naughty Dog’s development process. It includes: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Blu-ray Disc Collectible Steelbook case designed by Alexander “That Kid Who Draws†Iaccarino 48-page hardcover art book by Dark Horse and Naughty Dog Naughty Dog & Pirate Sigil sticker sheet Naughty Dog Points: A pack of in-game currency to unlock various multiplayer content If that’s not enough for you, the Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Libertalia Collector’s Edition ($119.99 USD) includes everything listed above, plus: A 12″ premium Nathan Drake statue by Gentle Giant Three multiplayer outfits: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Heist Drake, and Desert Drake outfits Two custom weapon skins: Golden Weapon Skin and Desert Weapon Skin Henry Avery Sigil ball cap Madagascar Sidekick outfits For those of you who prefer to own your games digitally, you’ll also be able to download the Uncharted 4 Digital Deluxe Edition ($79.99 USD, $99.99 CAD) from PlayStation Store. The Digital Deluxe version will be available for pre-order on the store later this week, but here’s a look at what’s included. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s available. A digital copy of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Uncharted 4 Triple Pack: Includes future access to the first-ever, single-player story add-on for the Uncharted series and two multiplayer packs that will unlock new, rare and legendary multiplayer items Instant unlock of two multiplayer customization items The Triple Pack can also be purchased separately as an add-on. And if you already pre-ordered Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End through PlayStation Store, you can upgrade to the Digital Deluxe Edition for $20 more. And don’t forget — you can pre-order and pre-load from PlayStation Store and play the game the minute it’s released. There’s also a Pre-Order Bonus Pack we’re adding to any pre-order of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (physical or digital). It includes the Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune outfit multiplayer customization, the Golden Weapon customization, and a pack of Naughty Dog Points. Our awesome retail partners are also offering special goodies depending on which retailer you choose pre-order with. Pre-order at GameStop to receive the Multiplayer Booster Pack to instantly unlock a variety of one-time use multiplayer boosts, and The Phurba Dagger Taunt based on the iconic symbol from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Pre-order at Amazon to receive the Snow Camo weapon customization and the Desert Drake outfit multiplayer customization. Pre-order via PlayStation Store to receive the Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Dynamic Theme and the Desert Weapon customization. Phew! We know that’s a lot to review, but I’m glad we can finally spill the beans on Naughty Dog’s biggest game yet. Who’s excited for March 18th? View the full article

Hello again, PlayStation.Blog! Ben here from the indie studio Wales Interactive. Today I have the pleasure of announcing our upcoming PS4 game, the sci-fi adventure-puzzler Soul Axiom! Before we delve into the digital afterlife, we’ve got a brand new story trailer to show you! On top of that, if you’re looking for more gameplay action from our early development stage then can watch that here So, what’s it all about? Well, in first-person, you’ll explore the world of Elysia, a sprawling digital server where memories and dreams become reality. Anyone who fancies the idea of uploading their soul for digital immortality should look no further! Along your journey you’ll collect a range of unique hand powers and use these to manipulate or destroy parts of the environment, which will aid in solving cryptic logic puzzles to progress through the game. To get a better understanding of what these powers are, I’ll introduce to your very first, known as the “Phase†power. With this ability you can essentially materialize and dematerialize objects or walls with the left and right hand respectively. Combining this with other abilities makes for some really… puzzling puzzles. If you happen to recognize some of the features or visuals you see, chances are you’ve played or at least heard about the adventure horror game, Master Reboot on PS3? Well, Soul Axiom is indeed the spiritual successor, set in the same universe but not a direct sequel. This is a completely new game made from the ground up, built on better foundations and featuring new game mechanics, a whole new host of characters, 40 unique locations, and a compelling storyline with multiple endings. When you start the game you are literally dropped into the action with no idea who or where you are. We give you little guidance, but the levels are intuitive and you have to find your own way through the puzzle solving in order to piece together the story as you go along. It’s very important for us to give the player respect to find their own way as there is more satisfaction when you feel that you have solved a puzzle or found out a key bit of information about the story. It’s then up to the player to go on a journey of discovery in order to find out who they are and why they are there. You can find out more about the game by visiting the website. Soul Axiom’s PS4 release date is currently being decided, but as we’re nearing the end of development, expect to see another announcement soon with more details on that. The Wales Interactive team would love to hear your thoughts! If you have any questions then leave your comments below. Diolch yn fawr iawn (Thank you very much) for joining me today! View the full article

Hello, PlayStation nation! Today, we’re very excited to announce that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will be launching on PS4 on February 23rd, 2016. The team has been working hard on the game, and even if its release is still a few months away, having a set date where we know you’ll get a chance to experience the game first hand is a huge motivation for all of us. In the spirit of player choice, which is at the heart of Deus Ex, we’ve put together a special program called “Augment your Pre-orderâ€. It will let you choose the digital pre-order bonuses you want to get for your Day One edition of the game, selected from five different tiers which will unlock progressively. You can of course take part in this program by pre-ordering the game through PlayStation Store. The available rewards within each tier include in-game items packs, digital books and music expanding on the world of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and an extra in-game mission. The very last tier is one of a kind, as its reward will be an early release of the game, four days prior to its scheduled launch! For more details on Augment your Pre-order, check out the official site. If you want everything, we’ve also got your covered. The Collector’s Edition for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will include all the in-game content and rewards from Augment your Pre-order, as well as physical items, selected based on the thousands of votes you submitted to us during our community vote for this edition. The aforementioned physical items include a 48-page artbook created in partnership with Titan Books, a 9″ Adam Jensen figurine, a limited edition steelbook and, of course, the Day One edition of the game — which will all come in an exclusive packaging. We can’t wait for you to experience Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. In the meantime, keep an eye out for more information and reveals in the coming months! View the full article

Some weeks come around and there’s so much good gaming compressed into such a small space of time, panic attacks are induced. This is one such week. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Mad Max, Grow Home, Super Time Force Ultra, and much more all launch on PlayStation this week. Bid farewell to your free time. The long awaited return of tactical espionage action sneaks onto PS4 this week. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain brings a tremendous open world to all the stealthy proceedings, with gameplay heavily rooted in the precedent set by Peace Walker. Control Big Boss like never before, build up and outfit Mother Base, and unravel the mysterious story woven across more than a decade of games. If you’re not entirely the stealthy type, why not get a little grease on your fingers with Mad Max, coming to PS4. Developed by Avalanche Studios (Just Cause series), this brutal open-world action game gives players control of grizzled survivor Max and his beat-up-but-ever-reliable Magnum Opus. That’s just the start, folks! For the full list of new games coming to PlayStation, read on. And enjoy the Drop! New Releases: September 1st, 2015 Armello PS4 — Digital Armello is a grand, swashbuckling adventure that combines three styles of play: the deep tactics of card games with the rich strategy of tabletop board games, mixed with a character role-playing system. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons PS4 — Retail Share in the epic journey of two brothers, as they set out to find a cure for their dying father. Travel across beautiful vistas, through dark and foreboding forests, down perilous rivers, up hazardous mountainsides, and experience the wonders of Nordic mythology along the way. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls PS Vita — Digital, Retail Beyond hope… lies absolute despair. Komaru Naegi and Toko Fukuawa make for unlikely heroes as they try escape Towa City, a town caught in a war between adults and children. Destroy the murderous Monokuma robots, outsmart the Monokuma Kids, and discover the secrets hidden in Towa City. Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (Demo) PS4 — Digital Form an alliance and get revenge in the latest SRPG in the Disgaea franchise. Killia, a loner, is drawn into forming a rebel army with a group of Overlords to oppose Demon Emperor Void Dark, and prevent him from taking over all of the Netherworlds. Disney Infinity 3.0 PS4, PS3 — Digital, Retail (Out Monday) Play in the worlds of some of your favorite characters in Play Sets and create your own universe in the Toy Box! Jump into Play Sets where you can take on epic adventures inside the worlds of some of your favorite characters. You can also test the limits of your imagination in Toy Box 3.0. Fat City PS4 — Digital Chris Knox is the leader of a crew of former special ops personnel and highly-skilled hustlers. Help Chris and his team plan and pull off audacious heists from high-value targets to fill the coffers of a surreptitious crime syndicate in exchange for the life of a loved one. Grow Home PS4 — Digital In Grow Home you play as B.U.D. (Botanical Utility Droid), a robot on a mission to save his home planet by harvesting the seeds of a giant alien plant. On his quest BUD will discover a beautiful world of floating islands that are home to some rather strange plants and animals. Mad Max PS4 — Digital, Retail Become Mad Max, the lone warrior in a savage post-apocalyptic world where cars are the key to survival. In this action-packed open world, you must fight to stay alive in The Wasteland, using brutal on-ground and vehicular weapons against vicious gangs of bandits. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain PS4, PS3 — Digital, Retail Ushering in a new era for the franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions. The Muppets Movie Adventures PS Vita — Digital Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, The Great Gonzo, Animal, and more of the Muppets as the zany gang bring their unique blend of laughs, chaos and adventure to the Hollywood stage. Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence PS4, PS3 — Digital, Retail Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in Nobunaga’s Ambition, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series. Nova-111 PS3, PS Vita — Digital (Three Way Cross Buy with PS4) Pilot your trusty vessel through mysterious and foreign planets in this original sci-fi adventure. Your mission: fix space-time and search out the scientists lost in the aftermath of the Universe’s greatest experiment. Space Hulk PS Vita — Digital The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn-based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds. Play as a small squad of fearless Space Marine Terminators who attempt to reclaim their honor by mounting an assault on a derelict space hulk infested by hordes of vicious tyranid Genestealers. Squares (Trial) PS Vita — Digital Squares is a puzzle reflex game. The objective is to turn all the blue squares gray, while dealing with different kinds of squares before the time’s up. The game features 91 levels as well as a level editor for creating your own challenges. Super Time Force Ultra PS4, PS Vita — Digital (Cross Buy) Super Time Force Ultra is an insane action game filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel! Each member of the force has his or her own special ability that makes him or her useful in battle. Kookabunga, doods! Xeodrifter (+ Demo) PS4, PS Vita — Digital (Cross Buy) Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. Blast your way through alien landscapes, seek out valuable secrets, and defeat ancient guardians to unlock powers from a legendary supreme culture in this exciting journey of mystery and adventure. Zombie Vikings PS4 — Digital Play as the most fearsome Vikings ever raised from Norse soil — Gunborg, Seagurd, Hedgy and Caw-kaa. Hack through the gingerbread swamps of Molgaga! Cruise through the intestines of the Midgaard Serpent! Fight giant poultry! Coming to PS Music Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls Travis Scott – Rodeo Coming to PS Video Pitch Perfect 2 Game of Thrones | Season 5 Spy (Unrated) (9/4/15) Poltergeist (9/4/15) The information above is subject to change without notice. View the full article

This Week’s Top 10 Posts Xeodrifter Launches on PS4, PS Vita September 1st Mega Man Legacy Collection Out Today on PS4 Street Fighter V: Rainbow Mika Enters the Ring! Yakuza 5: Open World Action Across 5 Cities in Japan One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 Out Next Week on PS4, PS3, PS Vita The Insane Combos of Transformers: Devastation on PS4, PS3 Q&A: Dishonored Definitive Edition Blinks to PS4 Today Until Dawn Out Today: New Trailer, Custom Audio Mode Canada: NHL 16 PlayStation 4 Bundle Available September 15th This War of Mine: The Little Ones Coming to PS4 Next Year August’s Free PS Plus Games PS4PS4PS4, PS3, PS VitaPS4, PS3, PS VitaPS3PS3, PS VitaDownload this month’s games | Join PlayStation Plus This Week’s Top Movies1. Mad Max: Fury Road 2. Hot Pursuit 3. Unfriended 4. Furious 7 (Extended Edition) 5. The Divergent Series: Insurgent (Plus Bonus Features) 6. True Story 7. Home 8. Ex Machina 9. Get Hard (Unrated) 10. Sinister PS Blogcast Episode 177 This Week’s PS Store Update Most-Watched Video of the Week View the full article

Hi! We’re called Ice-Pick Lodge, and we’re happy to announce that September 10th will mark the PS4 launch of Knock Knock — a creepy horror game with a rather unusual backstory. What do you, a small-to-mid-sized indie studio, do when an e-mail pops up full of mysterious scribbles, notes, and audio files — coupled with a vague description of a possible game? In all honesty, more often than not you probably try to conjure up a polite and friendly response; perhaps discuss the sender’s ideas with them. But that’s not what happened at Ice-Pick Lodge studios in November 2011. Instead of doing the sensible thing, we set to create a horror game that would incorporate the disturbing nature and the subtly sinister undertones of the .zip archive we were sent while also avoiding the genre cliches like gore, asylums, or jump scares. It feels nice to give yourselves quests. Many innovative and charming games begin with an idea longing to be implemented, with a desire to try out a new mechanic or, say, combine certain traditions. Knock Knock is not so different in this regard — it’s just that our quest was to recreate a place, a feeling, and an idea first captured in a set of disjointed snippets, bits, and pieces that we extracted from the archive. There were audio files that ended up becoming “Lodger speak†— the incomprehensible speech of the game’s main character, the Lodger. There were images and text files that made us realize that the game is set in a cabin lost in the woods. Finally, the very fact of making a game based on an archive from an anonymous source provided Knock Knock with its central motif: the fear of the unknown. We were — and still are — a bit afraid of what we’ve done, you see. Even those of us who were positive it was nothing more than a prank. Why does it matter, anyway? Whether the cabin was located in some real woods or in the mindscape of a very peculiar person, it’s still real in the world of ideas. And the world of ideas was real enough for us to find a note saying “You’ve forgotten someone†when we later went to a forest to fulfill some of the Kickstarter backer rewards (Knock Knock has indeed been successfully kickstarted, and one of the tiers promised that we would plant a tree for the backer). The Lodger’s fears spawn from his own close-mindedness, taking the shape of so-called Guests that visit his cabin and engage in a game of creepy hide-and-seek (Hide-and-sick?) with him. The only thing the Lodger needs to do to win is to survive until dawn. Is it true? Or is he supposed to break the rules created with his own fearful mind? What if it’s all merely a nightmarish prank? Whatever the correct answer is, we did our best to deliver it subtly. The cabin itself is cozy, and the woods you set to explore from time to time are picturesque. So what is wrong with this place? Most human fears boil down to the fact that we reject the alien and the unknown. We fear the dark because something may be there; we indulge in various types of xenophobia because there are a lot of things in this world that simply do not make sense to us. A cleaver-wielding zombie may be frightening as hell, especially if you’re fragile and lack the means to defend yourself, but we honestly believe that an inexplicable creature set about its own business is even more so. It may not even necessarily present a threat, but by god how does its shape even hold together?! That is not how bodies work at all! Coupled with the fact that there may or may not be some twisted game going on with the protagonist being the main player, it works to recreate the disconnected mood of the archive rather well. And it’s not us patting ourselves on the back; after the game was first released, the spooky sender has contacted us once again, claiming we’ve made several mistakes, but got the general gist just right. Knock Knock is a pocket of chaos that serves as a direct contradiction to the belief that the world can be made sense of at all; multiple in-game systems (some of them suggested by our dubious benefactor — seemingly for no reason at all) overlap, creating an ever-evolving situation that keeps the player on their toes. But chaos is unavoidably broken into patterns. That’s just how human mind works — including the mind of our poor protagonist. Perhaps this is what it’s all about. And, well, that’s better than nothing. When you stare into the darkness, anything is better than nothing — even a doppelganger of yours staring back at you blindly. (That is, of course, not a random metaphor, but something that can be encountered in Knock Knock.) The horror genre is extremely robust these days — and whatever the origins of the e-mail were, we’re more than happy that someone or something has given us a nudge to add to it while scaring ourselves witless in the process. Now we hope that the black box that is Knock Knock will continue to serve its purpose. Whatever it is. View the full article

Two Star Wars skin packs have just arrived on PlayStation consoles! Disney Interactive, Lucasfilm, and Microsoft have teamed up and created over 70 new skins for the platform. Use the buttons on your controller, navigate through PlayStation Store to find the pack, then click the button. It’s easy! The Classic Skin Pack includes seven versions of Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Leia Organa, plus some fan favourites including Greedo, Admiral Ackbar, and even a Wampa. The Star Wars Rebels pack gives you the chance to play as Ezra Bridger, Hera Syndulla, Chopper, and more from Ghost’s crew. Download away, crafter folk! View the full article

Board games? Card games? And adorable animals?! Yes, Armello has it all, and it’s launching on PS4 next week. We sit down with Director Trent Kusters to discuss this beautiful project. As an added bonus, the Blogcast team can hardly believe that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is out next week (alongside Mad Max). Too many games! Enjoy the show. Subscribe via iTunes or RSS, or download here Stuff We Talked About Armello Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Mad Max Retro Sale Arctic Wolves Super Time Force Ultra Recent Episodes 176: They’re Actually Spikes 175: Sid’s StayCation 174: Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Send us questions and tips: blogcast@playstation.sony.com or leave a voice message! 650-288-6706 The Cast Sid Shuman – PlayStation Social Media Manager Nick Suttner – PlayStation Account Support Manager Justin Massongill – PlayStation Social Media Specialist Ryan Clements – PlayStation Social Media Specialist [Editor’s note: PSN game release dates are subject to change without notice. Game details are gathered from press releases from their individual publishers and/or ESRB rating descriptions.] Thanks to Cory Schmitz for our beautiful logo and Dormilón for our rad theme song and show music. View the full article

Welcome back to PlayStation Underground, our online show about video games! Today we have quite the special program, with four incredible games being shown at PAX Prime this weekend. Want an early taste of what you can try for yourself? Or perhaps you’re not going and desperate for recompense? We have you covered! Joining us today is Trent Kusters from League of Geeks, who not only brought along the beautiful digital board game Armello, but also provides his own thoughts on three other games making an appearance at PAX. Dungeon Defenders 2 fuses action RPG and tower defense together, Stories builds a dynamic narrative for every player, and Skytorn celebrates pixel art with action-packed platforming. These four games represent a small taste of what’s to come this weekend at PAX, so please join us. Our own Nick Suttner makes many egregious puns throughout for added… value, and Underground veteran Saul Villegas makes his long-awaited return. Let us know what you think in the comments, and remember that we’ll be back soon with more Underground in the weeks to come. Enjoy the show! View the full article

If you’re heading to PAX Prime this weekend, make sure to swing by the PlayStation booth (#222) to see our latest games, take part in fun activities, and grab some cool merch. We’re bringing our virtual reality headset, Project Morpheus, as well as nearly 40 games. That includes this year’s most anticipated blockbusters, like Star Wars Battlefront, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and Street Fighter V. Plus we’ll have upcoming digital titles like Drawn to Death, Fat Princess Adventures, Abzu and Enter the Gungeon for you to try. If that’s not enough the Indie MEGABOOTH/MINIBOOTH (#612) will be teeming with inventive PS4 games to check out. Phew! In addition, we’ll have mini tournaments, giveaways, and demos from our studios on the WWS Community Stage all four days of the show. Saturday at noon you’ll have a chance meet, greet, and beat KindaFunny.com’s Greg Miller at inFAMOUS trivia, hosted by Sucker Punch. You’ll also be able to step into the world of Nathan Drake in the Uncharted photo booth and share your favorite pic with friends, or try to win Fat Princess Adventures prizes by joining the Balloon Armor/Balloon Animal contest – we’ll provide the balloons, you get creative to make the coolest armor and weapons. By playing Fat Princess Adventures or by hanging in our PS Community Booth, you’ll be able to acquire the Fat Princess pin and collect these rad decal stickers. [Psst…there’s a secret message on the back of both.] For the merch collectors, Naughty Dog is working with We Love Fine in booth #7411 to offer Penny Arcade pinnys of Chloe Frazier from the Uncharted series, and everyone’s favorite ottsel, Daxter. Check the schedule near the top of this post to see all the activities we have planned on our stage, and read on for a list of the games playable in our booth. Have fun! Project Morpheus The London Heist: The Getaway Monster Escape Kitchen Headmaster Battlezone RIGS Mechanized Combat League (Saturday only) PlayStation Booth Abzu Alone With You Armello Assassins Creed Syndicate Cosmic Star Heroine Drawn to Death Dungeon Defenders 2 Star Wars Battlefront Enter the Gungeon Fat Princess Adventures GNOG Guns Up I Am Bread Kill Strain Ray’s The Dead Skytorn Street Fighter V Stories Thumper Tearaway Unfolded Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection Indie MEGABOOTH/MINIBOOTHComing to or available now on PlayStation Armello Awesomenauts Distance Chasm FutureGrind GALAK-Z Gang Beasts Hyper Light Drifter Infinifactory Moon Hunters Pillar Timespinner To Leave Viking Squad Wattam YIIK: A Postmodern RPG View the full article

Hey everyone! Nathan from Capy here again. As you probably noticed, Super Time Force Ultra is coming to PS4 and PS Vita on September 1st, free for PS Plus members (and $14.99 for everyone else). The game is cross buy, has a Platinum Trophy, and lets you explode robots and/or dinosaurs and/or angels. The last time I was on the blog, I shared our PlayStation-exclusive additions to the Super Time Force: President of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida, the traveler from Journey, and Sir Galahad from The Order: 1886. This time I am here to share a whopping 14 facts that you probably didn’t know about Super Time Force Ultra. All of these facts are 100% true, 0% exaggerated, and 1000% awesome. Some are also really quite dumb. Let’s dive in! 1.) Super Time Force Ultra’s main character and reckless leader, CDR. Repeatski is actually based off Capy co-founder Matt Repetski, right down to the earrings and certain verbal expressions. Matt, however, does not wear two eye-patches… we added those for character. 2.) Lou Don Jim’s laser sword is called a Light Saver. Repeat after me: Light. Saver. 3.) We worked on the game for the better part of a year before adding the game’s key feature: the Time-Out mechanic. Previous to that, time would automatically rewind to the beginning of a level only after the player had died. It took us awhile to figure out that this was seriously impacting the length and depth of level, enemy, and boss designs. It was also frustrating as heck. The addition of the Time-Out mechanic changed everything and ended up defining the game. 4.) After a successful debut of the Time-Out mechanic at PAX East, Kenneth Yeung (programmer/designer), Kris Piotrowski (Capy creative director), and Dan Vader (designer) celebrated by eating more than 100 oysters in a single sitting. 5.) Capy artist Vic Nguyen hid a 1-frame smiley face in one of the explosion animations that appears throughout the game. Players who are paying attention and slowly rewinding back through time can spot this happy subliminal message. 6.) We made a single, endlessly-scrolling, eye-scorching collection of Super Time Force Ultra GIF’s we call The Wall of Gifsanity. It is perhaps our finest achievement. Behold. 7.) Some of the characters that didn’t make the final cut: US Citizen Ninja, Robo Constable, Jesus, and Normal House Cat. There was also a character with a fully functional grappling hook as well as a “portalâ€-ing character. They were cut because they broke every single level in the game. 8.) The police antagonists that appear in the game don the name “SWAZ†rather than “SWAT†as a tribute to the late American actor Patrick Swayze. There is also a copy of the 1988 movie Tiger Warsaw permanently glued to the Capy fridge. 9.) All death screams used in the game were recorded by audio director Sean Lohrisch from inside his bedroom closet to reduce the chance of frightening his neighbours and/or having the police called on him. Sean himself screamed for the male cast, while musician 6955’s wife Kahori screamed for the women. There are also two appearances of the famous Wilhelm scream, both during boss battles. 10.) More than 20 different enemy types didn’t make it into the final game, including spin kicking ninjitsu priests, pogostick-riding football robots, werewolf mermaids, and blackhole fur balls from another dimension. 11.) A few of the reasons for the game’s Teen rating include one image that contains 2 pixels of “butt crackâ€, as well as the game containing numerous instances of “poo coils†(those are ESRB’s exact terms), and usage of the word “fudge.†12.) Originally, the button icons used for the time rewind controls were the “play,†“rewind†and “fast forward†buttons that you see on a VCR. Then we realized that a lot of the players who will play the game probably have never seen a VCR. We then proceeded to feel pretty old. 13.) Dolphin Lundgren was originally called Soniq the Dolphin. He wore a pair of oversized red sneakers and shot out golden rings as his attack. It was a lawsuit waiting to happen. It was also pretty, pretty, pretty funny. 14.) The original game jam version of the game was called Super Time Squad, which had some fair-sized trademark-related issues. The team rallied around the new name, Super Time Force, partly because we wanted to make a version called Super Time Force Ultra… or STFU. Other names we were considering for the game were: Re/Run (in hindsight, this is a rad name!) The Endless 6 (when we thought we’d only have 6 characters) Timeliners Super Time Defenders (this didn’t abbreviate well) Space Heroes In Time (this also didn’t abbreviate well) So there you have it. Tons of facts about Super Time Force Ultra, which comes out next week on PS4 and PS Vita. Whether you’re a PlayStation Plus member or not, do us a favor and check this bonkers game out on September 1st. Kookabunga, folks. View the full article

Hello, Pawel from 11 bit studios, here. I’m very proud to introduce to you our latest project, something we’ve been working on for the past year and tailoring to PS4. This is a very unusual project: a serious game made for a mature gamer; an experience that will tackle your emotions heavily. And now this very unusual project is unveiled. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me tell you about This War of Mine: The Little Ones, coming to PS4 on January 29th, 2016. This War of Mine: The Little Ones explores the hardships of wartime survival as seen from an entirely new perspective: that of a child. Based on the award-winning This War of Mine, The Little Ones puts you in charge of a group of adults and children stuck in the middle of hell, trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger. The question is: how far will you go to make it through another day? This experience focuses not only on the reality of enduring war, but also the fact that even in times of conflict, kids are still kids — they laugh, cry, play with toys and see the world differently. In addition to thinking about survival, you’ll have to bring back the kid in yourself to understand how to protect the little ones. This sounds very serious, right? Because it is. Our goal as developers was to create a mature experience in which you’re seeing war through eyes of regular people — so not a military action, but a horrible challenge to overcome. As a group of civilians you’ll be facing extremely difficult choices that have to be made just to survive the war: what do you do when you have to sacrifice someone? What do you do when you’re starving but other survivors may have food? You’ll need to get it as well as medication, bandages, and the like. When you run out of necessities, you’ll need to send one man on a mission to scavenge for any supplies. But kids are not as tough as adults — and you will be the ones taking care of them. During the night maybe you’ll find some parts that can be used to fix a toy, which children can then play with during the day — kids still need entertainment after all. But kids also need to talk to someone and feel safe, so don’t forget that as well. Kids create bonds with those who protect them and that’s also portrayed in the game. Again, very serious, right? We’ve had this idea from the very beginning of the development of This War of Mine but we were worried that people may not have been ready for such a serious game. Perhaps even quite a shocking one. But the reception of the game was brilliant — we got tons of positive feedback and acknowledgement for showing war as it was. So the next big step was expanding it by bringing kids to This War of Mine. Now, you’ll be able to experience it on PS4. The main philosophy behind this project is to portray emotions of people surviving a siege of a city. That also requires picturing emotions of kids — that means not only sadness, but laughter, excitement, and a bit of craziness despite the surroundings. Their active imaginations are also being portrayed, for example you’ll see children even drawing on the walls of the shelter. We feel that the spectrum of the emotions your civilians will make you experience has now broadened greatly. And since we’re on PlayStation.Blog, there’s another piece of news we think you’ll be glad to hear: the PS4 edition of This War of Mine: The Little Ones will actually contain an exclusive extra shelter known as the Large Mansion. The daytime phase of the game takes place in your shelter and this is where you’ll be caring for survivors and making the tough decisions — so factors like how the building is shaped, how many floors it has, how well it’s fortified and prepared as a potential hideout all have a huge influence over the gameplay itself. As a result, PS4 players are going to be getting a unique experience here with this new shelter being a part of the game (although you can of course still play in the original shelters, too). We’ve spent tons of time in building up this new shelter in the game, spent an enormous amount of time playtesting it, and we can’t wait for you guys to be able to check it out. Ready for a serious game? I hope so, and if you have any questions, I’ll be ready to answer them in the comment section. View the full article

You may be asking yourself, “Thief Town? What’s that?†Well, it’s only the latest in multiplayer Thief-related action, with graphics that look so real! Now, you may be screaming, “Wow! So cool!†Thief Town is a local multiplayer stealth party game for 2-4 players, coming exclusively to PS4 on Tuesday, September 29th. Stab your buddies in a pixel-perfect rendition of the Wild West. Yee-haw!! You and your friends play as the Thieves, who need to sneak around the Town to try and stab the other players. The only problem is, every player looks exactly alike. Not only that, but the Town is also filled with identical-looking computer-controlled Thieves. You’ve got to disguise yourself in the crowd while figuring out which Thieves are actually your friends. Once you find ’em, stab ’em! Get points and win the game! You can’t just go around stabbing everyone in Thief Town. You’ll only get points by stabbing the other players. If you stab an NPC, the only thing you’ll do is reveal yourself! So be sneaky and make that first stab count, because that harmless Thief behind you might just be another player… Lurk in the crowd, emulate non-player characters, and achieve backstabbing victory. These are the laws that Thief Town was founded upon. The game mode we just described is appropriately called “Thief Town,†a standard round where you hide in the crowd and stab your friends for points. The full package comes with three game modes, two arenas, tons of items, and PS4 bonus features! Spy Town gives players items to trick and trap enemy Thieves before going in for the kill. Use smoke bombs, motion detectors, and teleportation devices to gain an advantage… but be careful, they’re one-use only! Drunk Town is a 1v3 round where one player becomes “The Sheriff,†whose job is to sniff out and shoot those pesky Thieves with his pistol. Too bad the Thieves don’t have their knives this time — they’ll just have to behave until time or the Sheriff’s bullets run out! Thief Town also has two Towns: the Wild West and Spooky Town. Giant, killer tumbleweeds and camouflaging sand storms ravage the Wild West, while Spooky Town’s creepy statues and lightning storms help to reveal the location of players. We’ve also included a number of awesome PS4-exclusive features. Stab your touchpad with your finger to stab your friend in the game! Customize your Thief with 256 potential names, like “Cross-Circle-Square-Squareâ€, or “Triangle-Triangle-Cross-Triangleâ€! We’ve also hidden some secret screen filters in “The Saloon,†our game’s interactive menu… If you’ve enjoyed local multiplayer games like Sportsfriends or Towerfall: Ascension, we invite you to further sharpen your social skills with Thief Town. The team at Glass Knuckle Games has been working really hard to ensure that couch multiplayer remains alive and well, so be sure to grab Thief Town if your parties are lacking some healthy, sneaky competition. You’ll be able to start stabbin’ on September 29th. Got questions about Thief Town? Excited about Wild West antics? Let us know below! Be sneaky, be crafty… View the full article