TodayWed, 18th Oct 2017

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  Site News Announcing Push Square's Ultimate PlayStation Character Tournament

  You vote for the champion

  Today, we're proud to announce Push Square's Ultimate PlayStation Character Tournament. Hurrah! This is something that we've wanted to do for a long, long time, and now we're finally putting our plans in motion. Without further ado, let's just take a minute to explain what this tournament is all about. Those of...

  • 4 hours ago
  • Ultimate PlayStation Character Tournament
  • Polls
  • Features
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  16

  News That Cool Crystal PS4 Controller Launches Today in Europe

  See through you

  The crystal DualShock 4 that we've been raving about since it was revealed launches today in Europe, a handy tweet from PlayStation has reminded us. Now, we know that not everyone's a fan of transparent hardware, but we've been loving it since the days of those crystal Game Boys. Glorious. In terms of price, you're looking at...

  • 6 hours ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • Accessories
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  7

  News Gran Turismo Sport Scores Free Scapes at Launch

  What up, Invaders

  Gran Turismo Sport already has a generous selection of Scapes at launch, allowing you to place your virtual vehicles in all manner of real-world locations for photography reasons. But it seems Polyphony Digital couldn’t wait to create a few more, as it’s offering a free expansion on the PlayStation Store to coincide with the...

  • 8 hours ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • Gran Turismo
  • DLC
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  12

  Japanese Sales Charts Shadow of War Somehow Manages to Conquer the Top Spot

  Power of the ring?

  Well, we're not sure we saw this one coming. Middle-earth: Shadow of War has claimed the top spot of the Japanese hardware charts, despite shifting only 20,000 copies on PlayStation 4. In other words, this has been a really poor week for new releases. Indeed, traditionally styled role-playing game Lost Sphear absolutely...

  • 8 hours ago
  • Japan
  • Sales
  • Charts
  • PS4
  • PS3
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  11

  News Star Ocean: The Last Hope Lands on PS4 Next Month as a Full HD Remaster

  Supports 4K on PS4 Pro

  Square Enix has announced that Star Ocean: The Last Hope will arrive on PlayStation 4 next month. The confirmed date follows on from last week's news that a current-gen remaster was in the works. We thought that we might have to wait a while for this one, but nope, it's hitting Sony's system on the 28th November. It'll come...

  • 8 hours ago
  • Square Enix
  • PS4
  • Star Ocean
  • Release Dates
  • Screenshots
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  4

  PS4

  Review WWE 2K18

  Be like everyone

  Wrestling fans across the globe had high hopes for the WWE video game franchise when the license was acquired by 2K Games, believing that with a fresh and more reputable publisher at the helm they would finally get the game they had always dreamed of. Unfortunately, since the franchise has moved to the PlayStation 4 it has been a...

  • 9 hours ago
  • Reviews
  • 2K Sports
  • PS4
  • WWE 2K18
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  1

  News Various Indie Games Discounted in EU Digital Zone Update

  Indies on sale

  There seems to be a section on the European PlayStation Store which spotlights a rotating selection of discounted indie games. While the Digital Zone isn’t exactly new, it’s been around long enough for us to suggest that it’s probably going to have some legs. And its latest roster of cheap and cheerful releases includes Rez:...

  • 10 hours ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • PlayStation Store
  • Europe
  • Deals
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  4

  News Dragon Ball FighterZ Scouters a February Release Date in Japan, Nappa and Ginyu Added

  West can't be too far behind

  We're one step closer to getting our hands on the incredibly promising Dragon Ball FighterZ with the confirmation of a Japanese release date. The super stylish beat-'em-up launches on the 1st February 2018 in its native Japan. It currently has a vague "early 2018" window here in the West, but we can't see the final...

  • 10 hours ago
  • Bandai Namco
  • PS4
  • Dragon Ball
  • Release Dates
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  7

  News New EU PlayStation VR Package Bundles in Gran Turismo Sport

  The virtual reality driving simulator

  Gran Turismo Sport’s virtual reality functionality is limited but impressive, and Sony’s decided to release a brand new PlayStation VR bundle including Polyphony Digital’s racer. Available now around Europe, the set includes a spangly new headset, a PlayStation Camera, and copies of the aforementioned GT...

  • 10 hours ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • PlayStation VR
  • Hardware
  • Bundles
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  25

  News There Are Some Dead Good Deals in EU Hallowe'en Sale

  PlayStation Store gets a frighteningly large promotion

  Sony’s unleashed hundreds of discounts with a horror theme onto the European PlayStation Store, with PlayStation 4 games like Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (£24.99) and Mortal Kombat X (£9.99) heavily discounted. The Hallowe’en sale spans literally hundreds of games and add-on packs, with...

  • 11 hours ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • PlayStation Store
  • Europe
  • Deals
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  82

  News There Will Be People Who Think This Sonic Forces Gameplay Is Good

  Drilling into Chemical Plant Zone

  They’re entitled to their opinion, of course – but they’re wrong. Deal with it.

  • 22 hours ago
  • SEGA
  • PS4
  • Sonic
  • Trailers
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  73

  News Microtransactions Are Being Implemented in the Scariest of Ways

  Activision patent sheds light on shadiness

  Whichever side of the microtransaction fence you sit on, we can all probably agree that they shouldn’t be affecting the way multiplayer matchmaking functions. Typically this technology is used to balance teams to an equivalent skill level, and ensure everyone has a quality connection to the match...

  • 23 hours ago
  • Activision
  • PS4
  • Microtransactions
  • Patents
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  6

  News PS4, Vita Strategy JRPG Summon Night 6 Finally Has a Release Date in North America

  Europe coming soon

  It feels like Summon Night 6: Lost Borders has been floating around for ages. A strategy role-playing game with visual novel elements, it was announced for Western localisation back in the summer of 2016. Since then, confirmed release dates have been hard to come by. For a time, the title was due out in February of this...

  • 23 hours ago
  • Gaijinworks
  • PS4
  • Vita
  • Summon Night
  • Release Dates

YesterdayTue, 17th Oct 2017

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  News Sony to Publish Games on Nintendo Switch Under New Label

  Testing the waters

  Sony has always had the capacity to throw a curveball, but under the stewardship of current CEO Kaz Hirai it’s become a lot less unpredictable. Nevertheless, the announcement that Sony Music is to form a new publishing label named Unties definitely comes as a bit of surprise – especially seeing as it will be porting content to...

  • 1 day ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • Nintendo
  • Unties
  • Sony Music
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  48

  Site News Gran Turismo Sport PS4 Review - Where's Our Verdict?

  Race against time

  Gran Turismo Sport is out now in North America and later this week in Europe and Japan, which marks the first instalment of the simulation racer on the PlayStation 4. Millions of you downloaded the demo to get your first taste of the title, and we’ve been faffing around with final code for a few days. However, despite a global...

  • 2 days ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • Gran Turismo
  • Site News
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  Guide Can You Play Gran Turismo Sport Offline?

  What if you're not connected to the Internet?

  Gran Turismo Sport is the first instalment in Polyphony Digital’s series to have a heavy online focus. With the title enabling players to earn an authentic FIA license, there’s a level of integrity that needs to be maintained within the game. This means that the title has some huge online...

  • 1 day ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • Gran Turismo
  • Guides
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  39

  Feature DriveClub Is An Alternative to Gran Turismo Sport Worth Considering

  How fast do you wanna go?

  Gran Turismo Sport launches this week, and it will snatch the PlayStation 4 racing game baton from DriveClub with little resistance. Evolution Studios’ simcade didn’t enjoy the best start to its short life, being driven out of the PS4’s launch window before releasing in a particularly sorry state. But the British...

  • 1 day ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • DriveClub
  • Gran Turismo
  • Features
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  PS4

  Review Rogue Trooper Redux

  Clone army

  PS2 curio Rogue Trooper is an unlikely candidate for the remaster treatment. Taken from the pages of eclectic British comic 2000AD, Sniper Elite developer Rebellion had a decent stab at trying something new with the always swamped third-person shooter genre. Receiving positive reviews, it’s since faded into obscurity.  Hopefully,...

  • 2 days ago
  • Reviews
  • Rebellion
  • PS4
  • Rogue Trooper: Redux
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  14

  News PS4's Sale of Dead Discounts Horror Games on NA PlayStation Store

  Your wallet's already dead

  Sony’s selling off some horror content ahead of Hallowe’en on the North American PlayStation Store, with PlayStation Plus members able to save on games such as Layers of Fear ($7.99), Murdered: Soul Suspect ($5.99), and Resident Evil 7 ($29.99). There are also savings on titles like Outlast

  • 1 day ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • PS3
  • Vita
  • Deals
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  51

  News EA Flings Dead Space Developer Visceral into Outer-Space

  Studio shut down and Star Wars back to the drawing board

  Visceral Games, the Californian developer best known for the Dead Space franchise, has been shut down. The studio most recently released Battlefield Hardline, which was met with mixed reviews. It’s since been working on an original Star Wars title helmed by Uncharted director Amy Hennig,...

  • 1 day ago
  • EA Games
  • PS4
  • Visceral Games
  • Star Wars
  • Industry
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  11

  Store Update 17th October 2017 (Europe)

  Gran Turismo! South Park! PlayStation VR!

  Wow! This is a huge PlayStation Store update for a variety of reasons. The headliner is obviously Gran Turismo Sport, but we can’t possibly forget South Park: The Fractured But Whole which is a huge new arrival as well. PlayStation VR is also enjoying a great week: The Invisible Hours, Raw Data, and No...

  • 1 day ago
  • Store Update
  • Europe
  • PS4
  • PS3
  • Vita
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  3

  News Shadow of War Update Will Allow for an Infinitely Replayable Endgame

  War never changes

  Middle-earth: Shadow of War's endgame, aptly titled the Shadow Wars, takes place after what you could consider the main story, and it basically lets you capture, defend, and recapture strongholds all while fighting against the orc armies of Mordor. The endgame as a whole really puts an emphasis on the fantastic Nemesis System,...

  • 1 day ago
  • Warner Bros
  • PS4
  • Middle-earth
  • Patches
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  12

  News Struggling Shooter LawBreakers May End Up Free-to-Play Down the Line

  Cliffy B. isn't ruling it out

  It's no secret that LawBreakers has struggled since it launched earlier in the year. By most accounts it's a fun shooter, but it's never managed to retain a sizeable playerbase. The only publicity it gets these days is when sites write stories about how dangerously low its player count is on Steam. Could going...

  • 1 day ago
  • Boss Key Productions
  • PS4
  • LawBreakers
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  11

  News Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Brings Out the Big Guns in New Trailer

  Did you Nazi that coming?

  We know Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is having a bit of fun with its occupied America setting, but fictional game show ‘German or Else’ sounds like something that we’d watch. Like, for real! There’s not much to say about the launch trailer for MachineGames’ sequel: it’s got huge firearms, even bigger biceps,...

  • 1 day ago
  • Bethesda
  • PS4
  • Wolfenstein
  • Trailers
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  3

  News Zeku Seems Like a Super Entertaining Addition to Street Fighter V

  The age game

  Zeku, the latest addition to Street Fighter V's playable character roster, has caught the eyes of fans thanks to his stylish design and interesting playstyle. Fortunately, if you've wanted to see more of the age-changing ninja in action, you can get a good look at him in the gameplay trailer that we've embedded above. And yes, we...

  • 1 day ago
  • Capcom
  • PS4
  • Street Fighter
  • DLC
  • Trailers

Monday16th Oct 2017

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  News Sony Announced a $46,000 PS4 Bundle, And It Sold Out

  Seriously

  Sony has announced and sold out of the most expensive PlayStation 4 bundle in history. Available exclusively in Taiwan, the $46,000 package comes with a PS4 Pro, a PlayStation VR headset, a subscription to PlayStation Plus, a Thrustmaster T-GT racing wheel, an APIGA AP1 racing seat, a 4K Bravia television with HDR, a copy of Gran Turismo...

  • 2 days ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • Gran Turismo
  • Bundles
  • Culture
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  16

  News Adding Returning Characters to Tekken 7 'Is Not So Simple', Says Director Harada

  Don't get your hopes up

  Tekken 7 has been out for a good few months now, but the game hasn't really been adjusted or added to all that much since launch. We've had a few relatively minor updates as well as the Ultimate Tekken Bowl downloadable content, but it's safe to say that some fans were hoping for a bit more. Returning characters are always a...

  • 2 days ago
  • Bandai Namco
  • PS4
  • Tekken
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  34

  News Wait, Open World, Sci-Fi Action RPG ELEX Is Out on PS4 Tomorrow?

  Apparently so

  Wow, this one slipped under the radar, didn't it? An ambitious project from the developer behind the rather crap Risen series , ELEX was announced quite a while back, and we honestly forgot that it was out this month. And by this month, we mean tomorrow, the 17th October. Obviously, that means we don't have review code, and we have no...

  • 2 days ago
  • THQ Nordic
  • PS4
  • ELEX
  • Release Dates
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  UK Sales Charts The Evil Within 2 Suffers Shocking Launch

  Shadow of War can't stop FIFA 18

  The Evil Within 2 has sold less than a quarter of its predecessor’s physical launch total, making its commercial performance unquestionably the scariest thing about the survival horror sequel. The game – which we rather liked – will now be banking on Hallowe’en hype to make up the difference. It’s not the...

  • 2 days ago
  • UK
  • Sales
  • Charts
  • PS4
  • PS3
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  28

  News Star Wars Battlefront II Blags a Limited Edition PS4 Pro Bundle

  Ugly as Sith

  Ever feel like Sony is squandering these exclusive bundle deals it has with the biggest games? Like, there’s nothing really wrong with this Limited Edition Star Wars Battlefront II PlayStation 4 Pro that it’s announced for Europe and North America – but we wouldn’t want to buy it, would you? It could be doing so much better with...

  • 2 days ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • Hardware
  • Bundles
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  Interview Talking Tekken 7 DLC, Development, and Future Plans with Director Harada

  Let's get Tekknical

  Tekken 7 launched back in June, successfully putting the series back on the fighting game map. The highly rated sequel has sold well and it's been a hit with the hardcore community, but what's the plan for Tekken 7 moving forward? We got the opportunity to ask series creative director Katsuhiro Harada this very question. We also...

  • 2 days ago
  • Bandai Namco
  • PS4
  • Tekken
  • Katsuhiro Harada
  • Interviews
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  News CD Projekt Red Responds to Rumours of Troubled Cyberpunk 2077 Development

  And workplace concerns

  Over the last couple of months or so, there have been rumours going around that The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red is having some trouble behind the scenes. A lot of this speculation was based on relatively negative feedback that was given by former employees, essentially saying that the Polish studio wasn't the best...

  • 2 days ago
  • CD Projekt Red
  • PS4
  • Cyberpunk
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  37

  Round Up Is the New South Park Game Fractured or Whole?

  Twerk it

  It’s taken an eternity to release, but Ubisoft’s finally shifted that pocket of wind and butt burped South Park: The Fractured but Whole into the hands of critics. The lingering question, then: is it a peach or a ponger? We’ve pointed our Stick of Truth at several sites who managed to get early access to the title; we’re not part of...

  • 2 days ago
  • Ubisoft
  • PS4
  • South Park
  • Round Up
  • Features
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  PS4

  Review RAID: World War II

  Nein out of ten

  Men-on-a-mission movies set during World War II – such as Guns of the Navarone or Where Eagles Dare – that see a mismatched group of people embarking on near suicidal missions have long been inspiration for video games. RAID: World War II – a co-op multiplayer title in the vein of the Payday series – hopes to apply this...

  • 2 days ago
  • Reviews
  • 505 Games
  • PS4
  • RAID: World War II
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  16

  News UK Police Drivers Use Gran Turismo Sport to Train

  Round the bend

  This wasn’t a press release we expected to see in our inbox this morning, but Sony is throwing all of its marketing resources behind Gran Turismo Sport at the moment, so we probably shouldn’t be all that surprised. PlayStation has partnered with Lincolnshire Police Force to – and we quote – “offer supplementary training to...

  • 2 days ago
  • Sony
  • PS4
  • Gran Turismo
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  PS4

  Review Guardians of the Galaxy: Episode Four - Who Needs You

  Just the Drax, ma'am

  Penultimate episodes are a tricky proposition. On the one hand, you've got to set up the story for the big finale in the next instalment, but on the other, you can't promise or give away too much or the coming climax might wind up feeling, well, anti-climactic. Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy - a series that has such little...

  • 2 days ago
  • Reviews
  • Telltale Games
  • PS4
  • Guardians of the Galaxy: Episode 4 - Who Needs You