
All the headlines that mattered from the last seven days
1. 1TB PS4 Ultimate Player Edition unveiled
This week saw the announcement of a new version of PS4, which doubles the amount of storage from 500GB to a terabyte. Look out for it on shelves from 15th July.
2. DRIVECLUB PlayStation Plus Edition launches
PS Plus subscribers can get their hands on a streamlined version of Evolution‘s excellent racer this week, at no additional cost. Thanks for your patience over the delay – we hope you enjoy the game.
- Find out more from Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida
- Download DRIVECLUB PlayStation Plus Edition now
3. Pick up some Japanese classics in our enormous PlayStation Store sale
A tonne of Japan-made fan favourites saw the prices slashed this week in our latest store sale, including the likes of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, Final Fantasy VII, Catherine and Dragon’s Dogma.
4. Batman: Arkham Knight swoops onto PS4
The third entry in Rocksteady‘s phenomenal ‘Arkham’ series arrived on PS4 this week, effortlessly living up to the hype. Are you playing this weekend? Let us know how you’re getting on in the comments below.
5. New Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 trailer makes its debut
After a few years on hiatus, the much-loved skating series returns this September on both PS3 and PS4. See how it’s shaping up in the brand new trailer.
6. More news on the forthcoming Shadow of the Beast PS4 revival
Any grey-haired gamers out there will no doubt have fond memories of Psygnosis’ classic Amiga side-scroller. The developer behind the impending 21st-century update stopped by PlayStation Blog to let us know how the PS4 remake is coming along.
7. Naughty Dog looks back at that brilliant E3 Uncharted 4 play-through
We caught up with Naughty Dog‘s Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann to get the full lowdown on the brand new Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End footage that debuted at E3 last week.
8. Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition elbows its way onto PS Store
Capcom‘s classic action adventure returned to screens this week with a fistful of additional bells and whistles. Just the thing to chase Arkham Knight down, for those who’ve already reached the finish line.
- Get expert Devil May Cry 4 tips from director Hideaki Itsuno
- Check out the rest of this week’s new releases
9. Strategy JRPG sequel Disgaea 5 gets a release date
Word came down this week that the next entry in NIS America‘s reliably addictive role-player lands on PS4 from 9th October. Mark your diaries!
It seems I’ve missed the PS Plus announcement… OH WAIT. Europe is irrelevant, it’s all about USA now. USA has a holdiay? European blog has ‘Merican day off. European holiday? Lol, you guys are irrelevant! Playstation Plus would have a week delay in ‘Merica? It seems Europe needs some Freedom! Witch Rockets, lazorz and a weekly delay, because Europeans are irrelevant. It was always like this. Europe had better PS Plus games? Nope, ‘<erica brings some freedom to Europe and now it's parity. 'Merica had better deals and events? Well, no parity here, Europe is irrelevant. All that 'Mericanism just serves the media, since whatever happens in 'Murica is always in the news of all gaming sites, but not when it's in Europe. It's absolutely annoying.
PS. Media Player is horrendous, no in built subtitle support or high5.1/10-bit whatever for anime needs. Currently it's less useful than even what a 7 year old Samsung TV offers.
/endrant
Dont forget to add that in the PS3 era, it was us, Europe, the ones that suported Sony wen US was all around Microsoft’s Xbox360. Yet they get to be the golden child this generation. What a shame…
I beat that parity drum so hard the skin split, you rarely see any sensible answera. To my knowledge though nobody from SCEE has ever explained why the “announce last Wednesday, release first Wednesday” promise goes out of the window each and every time the Wednesday happens to be first of the month.
I’d be interested to hear what possible reason there could be for placing an arbitrary delay on our region for PS+ for the third time in 8 months.
Hey folks. As of this month, Plus games go live in both EU and US on the first tuesday of the month (no longer Wednesday in EU). The first Tuesday in July is 7th July, hence why the games aren’t launching this week.
This is great news Fred. I’m glad to see that common sense has prevailed at last. Here’s hoping this is just the first policy gap of many that SCEE are going to close to bring us in line with what I think we can all agree is a much better offering in the US.
@Fred Dutton
Thank you for letting us know. This is a step towards the right direction.
Fred, is that going to affect their announcement date? If i’m not mistaken lately it’s been the Thursday before they come out. Is that still the case?
Do we have an actual ETA for when July’s titles will be announced or is it still, “This week”?
Alas, I can’t confirm an announce date. We generally announce on the Wednesday prior to release, but occasionally that isn’t possible. Suffice to say we’ll have the news for you soon.
@Fred, are there plans to move the Store Update to Wednesday along with ‘Murica’s update?
Fred what nonsense, this has happened before where we’ve simply have to wait. Don’t pretend you were all going to send this on Wednesday as it was the first wednesday of the month for the EU. It was going to be delayed.