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News PS4's Price Temporarily Cut in the UK to Combat Competitors
Price wars
Sony's temporarily dropped the price of the PlayStation 4 in the UK, as it continues to battle hard against the Xbox One. Those of you that keep a close eye on the British games industry will know that Microsoft recently dropped the price of its machine to £299.99 as part of a "retail-led promotion", and now the Japanese giant's followed...
News Bloodborne's PS4 Loading Times Just Got Quicker and Prettier
Patch plugs problems
That big Bloodborne logo that used to appear during the PlayStation 4 exclusive's loading screens may be burned into your retinas by now, but it's finally gone. Sony has released a brand new patch for its critically acclaimed outing, which not only cuts down loading times by around 30 per cent, but also replaces them with little...
News Not Everyone Thinks Sony's Resting on Its Laurels with PS4
"Sony is working non-stop"
We suppose that it was inevitable: the PlayStation 4 is the undisputed market leader right now, so of course cynics are heralding the return of the evil Sony of old. To be fair, the organisation's not perfect – Shovel Knight couldn't even release on time, for starters. But, as far as we're concerned, there's absolutely...
Rumour People Are Saying That Sony Will Promote Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Back in black?
Welcome to the latest generation of games consoles – where co-marketing deals have taken the place of the third-party exclusives that don't exist anymore. When you stop and think about it, it's pretty moronic that platform holders are fighting over the rights to advertise games, but this is big business at the moment – just look...
Feature What Do You Mean You've Never Played... Trash Panic?
To bin or not to bin
Trash Panic is rubbish in the best possible way. A concept tossed out by Japan Studio when the PlayStation 3 was about as popular as a bin man in a hoarder's back room, the barmy release sees you playing Tetris with debris. It sounds simple enough, but it's harder than controlling your gag reflexes while washing in a bath filled...
News Sorry Europe, You're Not Getting Shovel Knight Today
SCEE strikes back
Costume Quest 2 is finally out in Europe six months after the holiday that it was produced to promote, so what are you whinging about? Oh, that's right: Shovel Knight, which everyone expected to be part of today's European PlayStation Store update, is actually not due out in the Old World until, er, tomorrow. Maybe. Why? We're...
News Sony's Already Hyping Japan's Decent Spring and Summer PS4 Lineup
Bat! Batter! Battest!
Sony's not only responsible for the success of the PlayStation 4 in Japan – you get the sense that it's single handedly attempting to maintain the relevancy of home consoles in the nation, too. Throughout the months of March, the manufacturer amassed an impressive roster of software – and the market responded emphatically...
News Sony Really Wants You to Pre-Order PS4 Games on the PlayStation Store
The direct route
There's still no real reason to buy retail games digitally. Yes, this author will freely admit that he likes having DriveClub on his hard drive, ready to play whenever he gets the fancy – but we'd never pay over the odds for a digital download purely for convenience, and we know that the majority of you feel exactly the same way...
News This Week's EU PlayStation Store Deals Take a Trip to the Arcade
Throwdown
If you're in the mood for a scrap, this week might be a good time to check out the European PlayStation Store deals, as the prices of numerous fighting games have been slashed. This includes Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Skullgirls Encore, SoulCalibur II HD Online, SoulCalibur V, Street Fighter X Tekken, and quite a few more. Meanwhile, if...
News You Need This Journey Record in Your Life
No, not that Journey
You're not a true hipster until you have a sizeable vinyl collection – preferably spanning indie hits such as thatgamecompany's outstanding Journey. It's a good thing for your coffee shop street cred, then, that iam8bit has teamed up with Sony to create this stunning double LP set for Austin Wintory's soaring score. The...
News Evolution Studios Rolls Out DriveClub's Latest PS4 Patch
Scream if you wanna go faster
As promised yesterday, DriveClub's latest PlayStation 4 patch has rolled out. The meaty update weighs in at just short of 3GB – and that's if you're up to date – so it's going to take a little while to pull if you don't have the best connection. Fortunately, you can always whack your system in Rest Mode, and it'll...
News PS4 Firmware Update 2.51 Is Live and Kicking
Mandatory download up now
Sony's finally got around to releasing that PlayStation 4 firmware update that leaked the other week. The patch – dubbed v2.51 – is mandatory, and is available now. It weighs in at 245MB, and promises both enhanced "system stability" and improved "operation quality". We'll have a poke around shortly and let you know if...
News Sony's Finally Doing Some Maintenance on PS4's Messaging Utility
Snail mail
Messages on the PlayStation 4 have gotten faster of late, but they're still not as immediate as they should be. Fortunately, platform holder Sony has announced some cross-platform maintenance on the PlayStation Network's communications module, which will run – in the UK at least – from 05:00AM BST until 08:00AM BST on Wednesday, 22nd...
News DriveClub's Getting a Free Tour as Part of a New PS4 Update
Tons of other content, too
Evolution Studios may have been close to being shuttered, but that's not stopped the Runcorn-based developer from continuing to support DriveClub with a stupid amount of content. The racer's latest update – dubbed v1.14 for those keeping count – will add in a brand new event named the Startline Tour, which will be free...
News Sony's Been Trying to Make a Super Smash Bros Movie
Smashin' stuff
We already know that Sony's been trying to make a Super Mario movie, but what we didn't previously know is that it wants to make a Super Smash Bros flick, too. Uncovered by Ars Technica as part of the Japanese giant's now infamous emails hack, there are multiple references to Nintendo's mascot mash-up, with the firm apparentl
News Helldivers Gets a Bit More of Everything in Upcoming Content Patch
Devilishly morish
In this age of questionable DLC practices, it's always great to see a developer pumping out new content via free game updates, and that's exactly what Arrowhead Games is doing with Helldivers' upcoming patch. There's no word on when it'll go live just yet, but by the looks of it, it could go a long way in helping alleviate some of...
News People Are Going Ape Over This PS Vita Trademark
But it's probably nothing
Hype's a funny thing: it often leads people to jump to outrageous (and incorrect) conclusions. Take this PlayStation Vita hardware trademark, which some people seem to think is a new handheld revision. It was filed by Sony Computer Entertainment on 1st April, and spotted on a Twitter account which automatically posts fresh...
Review MLB 15 The Show (PlayStation 4)
Infield home run
It's hard to believe that MLB The Show is now celebrating its 10th anniversary. Despite dominating every other baseball title for the majority of these years, Sony's series has never shown complacency. Instead, it's aged like a fine wine, and gotten better with each new release. When booting up MLB 15 The Show, there's nothing here...
News PS4, PS3, and Vita Games Being Flogged in NA Flash Sale
Suits you, sir
The excitement never stops around here, does it? Hot on the heels of the Star Wars: Battlefront reveal, Sony's helping you to get that Friday feeling with another PlayStation Store Flash Sale. This one's not quite as mind shattering as its one dollar predecessor, but it's still packing some darned decent deals – Sonic Adventure for...
News Ultra Street Fighter IV Gets a Release Date on PS4, Certainly Sounds Like an Ultimate Package
PS4 re-release has no input lag
Ultra Street Fighter IV has been dealt a confirmed release date on PlayStation 4, and the good news is that it's not very far away. The brawler will smash up Sony's newest console on the 26th May in both Europe and North America. The next-gen re-release will set you back $24.99, which we assume will equate to around...
News Don't Worry, Alienation on PS4 Looks All Kinds of Rad
Bring the beat back
This is why you should never doubt Finnish developer Housemarque's ability to deliver: Alienation looks freakin' rad. When the studio revealed a few details regarding its isometric shooter earlier in the week, we lamented the lack of footage, as everything that it was describing sounded like Helldivers to us. It turns out that...
Rumour ITV and Channel 4 Streaming to UK PS4s
'Appy now?
Does anyone even watch television "live" anymore? Fair enough, sporting events are best enjoyed as they happen, but we can't remember the last time that we sat down at 19:00PM on the dot to catch the latest episode of Emmerdale – it's all about on-demand these days. It's frustrating, then, that the PlayStation 4 has been missing the ITV...
News Hunting for Witches! Crazy Person Completes Bloodborne with Guitar
Hunter's axe
Bloodborne took this author 40 hours to beat with a DualShock 4; one crazy Twitch streamer has completed it in nine hours with a Guitar Hero controller. You're free to feel a mixture of admiration and jealousy – personally, we feel sick to the very pits of our stomachs. You can view the full archived playthrough through here if you...
News Housemarque's Alienation Will Test Your Teamwork
Out of this world
It's hard not to be hyped for a Housemarque title – but we wished that the Finnish outfit had provided some new footage alongside its latest Alienation progress report, as everything that it's describing screams Helldivers to us. That's not a bad thing – we loved Arrowhead's isometric shooter – but we would like to know what...
News Everybody's Gone to the Rapture in New PS4 Trailer
Hello?
Shropshire's never looked quite so stunning as it does in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Well, to be honest, we've only ever driven through the western county, so we couldn't tell you for sure, but we do know that The Chinese Room's latest adventure looks absolutely extraordinary. Its packing CryEngine technology, and looks like it's...
News Shadow of the Beast's PS4 Reboot Gets Its Claws Out
Have a slash
Shadow of the Beast is back, and it's packing more gore than a Hostel movie. Sony's long awaited reboot of the Psygnosis classic was announced over 18 months ago at GamesCom 2013, but has been kept undercover ever since. Many assumed that it had been cancelled, but developer Heavy Spectrum has been busy beavering away on it behind...
News Sony's Prepping a New PS4 Firmware Update
We wonder what that could be
It looks like Sony's going to release a new PlayStation 4 firmware update in the very near future, if a download file on the official PlayStation website is anything to go by. Dubbed update 2.51, it'll most likely be a standard stability upgrade, following up from the recent launch of firmware update 2.50. Details...
Out in the sun
We suppose that it's about time we heard something regarding Journey's long-awaited arrival on PlayStation 4. thatgamecompany's superb PlayStation 3 adventure still has some of us captivated even today, so news that it'll actually be available both digitally and physically on Sony's newest home console is a pleasant surprise. The...
News Looks Like Korea's Getting Some PS4 Greatest Hits
The essentials
We suppose that the PlayStation 4's just about old enough to command a Greatest Hits label, and it looks like that's exactly what it'll be getting in South Korea from 22nd April. We can't read the region's moon language, so we apologise for any errors in advance, but it seems like the cut-price releases will retail for ₩27,800...
News PS4 Releases Reduced in Latest Round of EU Sales
Cash back
You like LEGO, right? Of course you do – only Mega Bloks fanboys shun the famous Danish bricks. Assuming that you don't fall into the latter category, then you're going to have a field day over the next couple of weeks, as practically every entry in Traveller's Tales' popular series is up for sale. That includes LEGO Batman 3: Beyond...
News Even Xbox's Boss Is Impressed by Bloodborne's PS4 Sales
Hunter's dream
In a move that's been no way orchestrated by Microsoft's marketing team, Phil 'One of Us' Spencer has congratulated Sony on the success of Bloodborne, which has already surpassed one million sales globally. To be fair to the Xbox chief, he did at least acknowledge that people would raise eyebrows at the message – so there's that...
News Bloodborne Patch Will Bust Up Bad Load Times Soon
Various other fixes pledged
If there's one problem that we'd point at Bloodborne – aside from those dreaded Defiled Chalice dungeons – it's the long load times. Sure, you can pretty much run from one end of the world to the other without ever seeing a stumbling block – grotesque enemies aside – but having to travel to and from the Hunter's...
News Bloodborne Sales Are Off to a Bloody Good Start
Blood echoes retrieved
Can you smell the iron? According to Sony, PlayStation 4 exclusive Bloodborne had sold over one million copies by the 5th April, which means that the brilliantly gothic adventure hit that sales milestone after just over a week on the market. To put this feat into perspective, it took Dark Souls II, a multiplatform title, three...
News Sony's Showing Shadow of the Beast in London Today
Alienation also on display
One game that we often get queried about here on Push Square is Shadow of the Beast: has it been cancelled? Heavy Spectrum's take on Psygnosis' classic is hotly anticipated among some of our older readers, and for good reason – the original Reflections releases were among some of the most visually impressive for their...
Soapbox Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid to Play Bloodborne on PS4
Sammy Barker says From Software's latest isn't as impenetrable as you think
I beat Bloodborne last night. I'm tempted to talk up my gaming prowess in this opening paragraph, but I'd be undermining the entire point of this editorial if I did – there's way too much e-peen measuring going on elsewhere around the web with regards to From Software's...
News There Are No Todgers in the Japanese Version of The Order: 1886
Covered up
The Order: 1886 got a lot wrong, but we were able to respect its mature depiction of nudity to a degree. While certain games – God of War, for example – revel childishly in the odd bit of revealed flesh, Ready at Dawn's historical shooter just gets on with things, showing various parts of female and male anatomy when the context is...
News Housemarque Only Started Work on Resogun PS4 Eight Months Before Launch
Studio worked on Overdrive
Even after the likes of Bloodborne and Velocity 2X, you could still make a case that Resogun is the best game on the PlayStation 4. Housemarque's next-gen launch title is one of this author's favourites, so perhaps the most impressive thing about the shooter is that the Finnish studio only fully started working on it eight...
News New PS4 Patch Gives The Order: 1886 a Glorious Photo Mode
Phwoar
Being such a good looking game to begin with, it only makes sense for The Order: 1886 to snag its very own photo mode. Teased ages ago, the mode will allow you to snap some glorious screenshots with the help of numerous photo-taking tools. Pausing the action at almost any time, you'll be able to pan around for the best angle and apply...
News Bloodborne Brutalises the PlayStation Store Charts in North America and Europe
Visceral attack
It may not have quite enough in the locker to overcome Battlefield Hardline in the UK, but Bloodborne has reached the summit of the March PlayStation Store sales charts in both North America and Europe. From Software's gothic affair overcame Visceral Games' first-person shooter, which finished second i
News Your PS Vita Is More Powerful Than Ever Before
Sony unlocks extra memory
PlayStation Vita firmware update v3.50 seemed like a bit of a non-event for Sony's handheld format, removing more features than it added. However, as part of a presentation at the Unite Tokyo 2015 event – as spotted and translated by NeoGAF member Parakeetman – the platform holder revealed that the new patch enables 30...
News This Italian PS4 Bundle Is for Fans of Exclusives
Play on
Let's do a quick gossip magazine quiz. Do you only care about exclusives? Do you think that games that launch on multiple formats are meaningless? Do you reckon that titles that don't release at retail suck? If you answered yes to all of the above questions, then this new Italian PlayStation 4 bundle may just be for you. Suits you, sir...
News Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Vita Will Rear Its Ugly Head This Summer
Claire we go
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is one of the surprise releases of 2015 so far, serving up a slice of survival horror that's both spooky and self-aware. With the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 versions already wrapped up, though, we had been starting to ponder where the promised PlayStation Vita edition had got to; fortunately, SCEA's Gio...
Soapbox Sony Really Needs to Give Us More PlayStation Plus Cloud Space
Sammy Barker's sick of running out of space
There's one thing that you really need to know about me: I worry – a lot. For as long as I can remember, I've had irrational reactions to almost everything in my life: did I just put my modest size eight shoes in my mouth? Did I just get that exam question wrong – even though I've triple checked it...
News Looney Tunes Galactic Sports Sounds a Klaxon on PS Vita
Space race
Fresh from The Muppets Movie Adventures, Sony is lining up another PlayStation Vita exclusive based upon a gaggle of famous characters. Looney Tunes Galactic Sports is due out later this year on the Japanese giant's handheld system, and will bring together the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Wile E. Coyote in an intergalactic...
News Tell This Person What You Want in PS4's Next Firmware Update
It might just make the grade
Sony's done decently enough in the PlayStation 4 firmware update department – Suspend/Resume is a Godsend – but it does seem to take its time between patches. This makes it extra frustrating when your most demanded feature doesn't make the shortlist, as you know that it's going to be a while before the functionality...
News Italy's Getting Additional PlayStation Plus Incentives
Viva Italia
Look, even we'll agree: Tower of Guns is probably not the best PlayStation Plus freebie to ever grace the subscription service. That said, we think that we can all generally concur that the complimentary content made available every month as part of the membership is worth the annual fee – even if the quality has varied a little more...
News This Certainly Isn't Confirmation of a PS4 Uncharted Collection
Doesn't mean it's not in development, though
Minor exaggeration: every website under the sun is reporting on this 'leaked' Uncharted Trilogy Collection for the PlayStation 4, so we suppose that we better chime in and tell you why it's fake. Available for pre-order now from a Swiss retailer's website that totally doesn't look dodgy in the slightest,...
News DriveClub's Now Rolling with Much Smoother PS4 Servers
Now where's that PlayStation Plus version?
We open every DriveClub article in exactly the same way: the launch was a disaster, but Evolution Studios really has worked astoundingly hard to regain gamers' trust since then. It's true, too: the DLC has been excellent, the copious new features have been very welcome, and the core game – in this...
News Yoshida Wants to See 'Something Scary' Like P.T. on Project Morpheus
Gulp
We still maintain that Konami's creepy P.T. was one of the best PlayStation 4 games of 2014, so we're with Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida on the subject of a similar release for Project Morpheus. Speaking in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, the affable executive explained that ports don't really work in...
News GUNS UP! Holsters Its Weapons on PS3, PS Vita
Now a PS4 exclusive
Free-to-play strategy game GUNS UP! has laid down arms on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, opting for PlayStation 4 exclusivity instead. The news – which is going to make our lives much easier from a database management perspective – has prompted some disappointment among handheld fans, but the developer states that it...
