It’s dark, lonely, and an empty house that was once familiar now feels foreign. As you wander the halls and explore each room, more of your family’s history is laid bare before you. Where is everyone, and what happened here?
The critically acclaimed, first-person story Gone Home is coming to PS4 this week. What a way to start the year!
Gone Home: Console Edition brings the beloved adventure in all its mysterious glory, with more than 90 minutes of developer commentary to sweeten the deal. If you never walked the dark halls of Gone Home, please accept a word of advice: don’t read anything else about it. The less you know before playing, the better!
But that’s only the beginning of our first new games lineup of 2016. Command a mission to Mars in the boardgame-inspired Tharsis, sneak through sand and wind in Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India, and lead your soldiers to victory in The Banner Saga.
For the full list, read on. And enjoy the Drop!
For years, the Humans and the Deimos have been at war in their struggle to capture the Great Spirit Stones. To the Humans, the stones represent a magical source of power and light. To the Deimos, the stones are the viable force behind their spell-casting abilities. But fate is about to place the future of both races in the hands of two men.
An exciting collaboration between The Heroic Legend of Arslan anime and the action-infused Warriors series. The exhilaration of plowing through large armies has been fused together with the charm and style of the world crafted in the anime.
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India throws you into the tension between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company in 1841. When a Master Templar arrives with a mysterious item that used to belong to the Assassin Order, Arbaaz Mir must discover why he’s come, steal back the item, and protect his friends and his lover.
The Banner Saga is an epic role-playing game inspired by Viking legend. Hand-painted landscapes portray a world eerily suspended in perpetual twilight. Cities and towns begin to crumble into chaos. Heroes abandon their hearths and homes to traverse the snowy countryside, gaining allies along the way to help battle a strange, new threat.
Dogchild narrates the story of the young and enigmatic Tarpak, an impulsive and brave guy with extraordinary abilities: a strong sensory union with nature and a special symbiosis with his inseparable dog, Tarao.
You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something’s not right. Where is everyone? And what’s happened here? Gone home is an interactive exploration simulator. Interrogate every detail of a seemingly normal house to discover the story of the people who live there.
The battle for suburbia grows to crazy new heights in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2! In this hilarious, action-packed shooter, zombie leader Dr. Zomboss has strengthened his horde and rebuilt suburbia as a zombie utopia. But hope remains, because for the first time the plants are taking the offensive in an all-out attack to reclaim their turf.
Tharsis is a turn-based strategy game about humanity’s first mission to Mars. It’s an important mission, and not just because of its potential to greatly increase our knowledge of the red planet. No, this mission is humanity’s attempt to locate the source of a mysterious signal emanating from the red planet.
- Panic! At the Disco — Death of a Bachelor
- Tycho — Awake Remixes
- Raury — Spotify Session
- Goosebumps
- Black Mass
- The Last Witch Hunter
- Workaholics — Season premiere January 14 at 10/9c (Available on Comedy Central)
- Colony — New series premiere January 14 at 10/9c (Available on USA)
- Shameless — New season premiere January 10 at 9P ET/PT (Available on SHOWTIME)
The information above is subject to change without notice.
We’re back! Enjoy the Drop.
I thought I’d never see this again. Happy new year Ryan.
Ryan Clements, PLEASE forward the following to the board of executives at Sony:
1. Please make PS2 games on PS4 cross-buy ($5 discount for Platinum trophy PS2 games, except GTA: San Andreas) with PS2 classics on PS3, that is unfair & a big slap to the face to PS3 owners who bought those games as PS2 classics
2. Please release the PS2 version of Donald Duck Goin Quackers as a PS2 game on PS4 and/or PS2 classic on PS3, as well as Haunting Ground & Sonic Heroes.
3. Please release the PSone game Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness on the Playstation Store, that game is listed on the ESRB website for PS3 and Vita.
4. Please work extremely 100% close with Square Enix’s USA division & release the PSone game Pandemonium 2 as a PSone classic on the PlayStation Store.
5. Please make the Dualshock 4 100% compatible with the PS3 (meaning making the PS button, rumble, & Sixaxis controls work)
6. please release a 1TB super slim PS3 and discontinue the 500GB model, 500GB is not enough storage for games like Yakuza 5.
Thanks
Agree
I thought I see at least one of these this week but perhaps next week ryan? Max Payne, Scarface , big mutha truckers , need for speed underground, sonic heros, shadow the hedgog, marvel ultimate alience, star wars ep3, driver 3, gta liberty city stories, GTA vice city stories, yakuza, shinobido the ways of the ninja, juiced.
You guys missed out at least 2/3 weekly ps2 game for ps4 store update I thought you guys planning to give us fans something big but no just another 1 game! If I were to work in your department Ryan I would release them already. Any way please put at least one of these classic next week.
I’ll wait for Gone Home to go on sale. It isn’t a game I believe warrants $20.
If a game merits my hard earned cash or it’s something I want say one then no prob I’ll plunk down the money. Paying $20 for Gone Home regardless of whether or not is a 2-3 hour experience is irrelevant for me. I don’t think it’s $20 because it’s a 2+ year old game and should be cheaper i believe.
Sure I guess I sound entitled. Deal with it. Same thing with PS2onPS4. I will never, ever buy a PS2 game on PS4. It isn’t backwards compatibility. BC is when I can pop in my ps2 games in my ps4 ND play them free of charge or at the very least play my ps2 classics free of charge.
Anyone who disagrees with me can piss off. If MS can offer BC for their X360 games so can Sony. Massive conglomerate, I’m pretty sure they can fix it. For us gamers who have massive PS1, PS2 and PS3 libraries it’s a smack in the face not to be able to play our previously purchased games.
I still can’t believe the gall of Sony to charge us for PS2 games on PS4. Publishers gotta love this.
My rant is over.
Any exercise/fitness games coining out soon ?
Greg and Colin will be pleased…….
@goose_7 the PS3 is EXTREMELY difficult to emulate(even top end modern pcs struggle emulating it), and used extremely proprietary hardware and a proprietary OS. Backwards compatibility is ACTUALLY impossible with the ps4. It is just not something that CAN happen, the device is not powerful enough to emulate it and the software is NOT COMPATIBLE. There is literally no way for them to do it short of recoding every single game(which would take years and NUMEROUS studios). I’d prefer they not invest that.
The PS3 is every bit as different from the PS4 as the Wii is from the PS3. In order for a game to work it’s not just as simple as ‘oh lets pop it in and see how it goes’, they’d basically have to recode every single game to work in the new environment.
The Xbox 360 was essentially designed to run off a modified Windows environment. Thus games on it are essentially already compatible with the XBO, Microsoft just needs to hardware test it. It’s kind of like if I load up Warcraft 2 on my new computer. It doesn’t work perfectly, but it works. You just need to then do some minor tweaks to ensure the more powerful hardware doesn’t mess up the scripting and smooth out the polish for the new graphics engine. (Cont)
(cont) As far as the PS2 stuff… as I said in a post down below, they are committing expensive development resources to adjusting the graphics, smoothing it out, and adjusting the code to work properly in the emulated engine. It’s an expensive endeavour, and thus the consumers have to pay for it. That’s the way the world works. A producer commits resources to generating a product, then consumers pay them for that. Sorry if that bothers you.
As far as Gone Home goes… that’s entirely your right. With how expensive games have become in Canada, unless a game is an ABSOLUTE must have for me, if a developer choose to bump the price to over 75 dollars, then I will not purchase it until it drops under 40. That’s my way of letting them know their price hikes are not appreciated. Since not all studios are bumping their prices up the same amount, it is clearly not JUST the exchange rate, and as such I am voting with my wallet. But I’m not going around to EVERY SINGLE POST that mentions one of those games and *****ing about it. I posted it once or twice, and now for the most part I just stay quiet and vote with my wallet.
Legend of Legaia NEEDS to be on the Playstation Store!! It is one of the most Unique games that I have ever seen in my life. I just feel like this game should have its life extended. The “fighting game-esque” input system is attractive for me and I would like many other people and myself to experience this in the current life time.
PLEASE BRING LEGEND OF LEGAIA TO PS!!!!!!
Thank You!
@goose_7
If you own a lot of PS1 PS2 and PS3 games then turn on your PS1 PS2 and PS3 and play them. You bought them for that system so use them for that system. It is that simple.
@Seluhir
Not talking emulation here, but Darksiders 2 happened on PS3 first, then went to PS4 after overhaul. I bought it again, as a fan, I want to support the studio responsible. I did something similar with Saints Row 4 and Devil May Cry 4.
So, existing PS3 ports have some good examples there.
I have a PS2 for PS2 games. That’s where they belong. HD remixes with the exception of Metal Gear Solid left me uninpressed.
@Ennohex – That requires the studio to essentially recode the game from the ground up.
That’s not ‘backwards compatibility’, it’s an entirely new game. That’s why these games aren’t being given away.
But I agree, I’d be up for seeing more of that. I’d totally buy Catherine, Trails of Cold Steel, and several others again for the PS4.
I don’t know if this is the right place but my Banner Saga PS4 edition has freezing and crashing issues.