mai 2017 ~ PS4 games

mercredi 31 mai 2017

Killing Floor 2 and Life is Strange are your PlayStation Plus games for June

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Ah, June… that magical time of the year when the northern hemisphere slaps on the sun cream, the southern hemisphere reaches for a raincoat and gaming websites and forums all across the internet become a bubbling soup of E3 speculation.

Yup, with biggest event in the gaming calendar careening towards us at breakneck speed, join us for a quick pit stop and we’ll let you in on a cheeky early announcement: your PlayStation Plus games for June!

Killing Floor 2

Zombies, guns, friends… you know, sometimes if it’s not broken you’ve just got to leave it be. Then again, you could just dial everything up to eleven and go nuts, right?

This is the Killing Floor 2 recipe. First off, take a typical zombie horde mode and swap out the shambling undead with a mob of half-mecha-half-meat monstrosities covered in razor blades and rocket launchers.

Next, ratchet up the player count and layer the mayhem with some totally over-the-top weapons, classes and perks. Finally, baste all of that in a hundred gallons of blood and guts and garnish with a fistful of metal music.

Et voila: it’s brutal, uncompromising and a hell of a lot of fun – but, if you’ve ever wanted to see what happens to a humble FPS horde-mode when you pump it full of steroids, then look no further.

Life is Strange

You can’t say we don’t enjoy a little variety here on the big ship PS Plus. About as far a cry as you could get from Killing Floor 2’s casual blood bath, indie darling Life is Strange eschews the big action for a slower, more meditative piece of interactive storytelling riddled with clever sci-fi plot twists and thoughtfully nuanced characters.

At first glance, it’s a non-too-remarkable tour through the daily travails of your average secondary school student. However, Life is Strange slickly transforms the mundane into the extraordinary over the course of its five connected episodes, with life – quite literally – spiralling out of control as each character wrestles with their regret, loss and missed opportunity.

As always, our two PS4 titles are joined by four further titles for both PS3 and PS Vita players, all of which leaves June’s full line-up looking like this:

Killing Floor 2 (PS4)
Life is Strange (PS4)
Abyss Odyssey (PS3)
WRC 5: World Rally Championship (PS3)
Neon Chrome (PS Vita – cross-buy with PS4)
Spy Chameleon (PS Vita)

As noted above, PS4 players will also be able to download and play Neon Chrome – a frenetic, top-down, cyberpunk shooter – via the loveable magic of Cross-buy.

June’s titles will go live on PlayStation Store on 6th of June, leaving you just over a week to pick up any of the last month’s titles you might’ve missed. Here’s a little reminder:

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Join composer Yasunori Mitsuda in a behind the scenes look at Valkyria Revolution’s soundtrack

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Hello! This is Andrew Davis, Associate Localization Producer at Sega of America, Inc., and today I’m excited to introduce the lush orchestral soundtrack for Valkyria Revolution!

For this game, we had the honour of working with the legendary composer Yasunori Mitsuda. Known to video game fans for his classic scores, Mitsuda-san is a 25-year industry veteran and currently heads his own studio producing music for games, anime, film, TV, live concerts, and countless other projects.

As the world of Valkyria Revolution is loosely based on 19th-century Europe, Mitsuda-san chose to arrange his soundtrack for a full symphony orchestra, and we’re happy to report that every background piece you’ll hear as you’re playing was a live concert-hall recording of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.

Electronic music is great, but there’s a scope and texture you can only get from live ensembles, and coupled with the emotionally-charged melodies Mitsuda-san is known for, I expect players will be swept into a sensation of “classy, cinematic drama” they don’t often get from video games. (If you set the controller down and just bliss out to the music for a bit, I certainly won’t blame you.)

Special guest this time on the soundtrack is previous Mitsuda collaborator Sarah Àlainn. A talented, multilingual Australian-Japanese singer with a voice spanning over 3 octaves, Sarah contributed her lyrics and haunting voice to several songs throughout Valkyria Revolution. If you hear an ethereal chorus of angels chanting in Latin—guess what, that’s all Sarah!

Valkyria Revolution will be launching in Europe on 30th June for both PS4 and PS Vita.

As a reminder, pre-orders and limited launch copies of the physical PS4 game will ship with a bonus 12-track CD of selections from Yasunori Mitsuda’s soundtrack, so if you’re a longtime Mitsuda fan like me, this is the version to get.

Oh, and PS4 digital pre-orders are now live! If you end up going the digital pre-order route, you’ll get extra goodies such as 30 ragnite shards, a collection of special ragnite to use in combat (Time Flux+, Heal Field+, and Fall Earth+), and the PlayStation exclusive “The Princess and the Valkyria” theme.

Until next time, enjoy the music!

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New PlayStation Store discounts start today, save on Prey, Fallout 4, Nioh, more

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Enter a sci-fi world of intrigue and deception in this week’s Deal of the Week: Arkane’s futuristic horror Prey.

Available on PlayStation 4, you can explore the space station Talos I and try and survive an alien outbreak at a discounted price for one week. Visit PlayStation Store today!

Buy Prey on PlayStation Store now

Add-On Deals (until 14/06/17)

You’ll find a fantastic range of additional content for your favourite titles in our Add-On Deals starting today. Save big on season passes for Fallout 4, Nioh, Star Wars: Battlefront and more*! Below is only a sampling of what’s on offer. Head to PlayStation Store for the full list and regional pricing!

*Some titles may not be available in your region.

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Six reasons why you need to play PS4’s Pyre when it releases on 25th July

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We have some very exciting news to share: Our next game, Pyre, will launch on PlayStation 4 this summer on 25th July, 2017! Our team is hard at work right now putting the finishing touches on it. Read on to learn more about what we think makes Pyre special.

1. It’s a party-based RPG with a unique combat system

Pyre is a party-based RPG in which you lead a band of exiles to freedom through ancient competitions spread across a vast, mystical purgatory. Who shall return to glory, and who shall remain in exile to the end of their days? Find out during the course of the single-player campaign (and maybe rack up a new Platinum Trophy while you’re at it).

2. It’s a new world from the creators of Bastion and Transistor

You’ll meet a large cast of different playable characters, such as these fine folk in the screenshot below.

This is the biggest and most imaginative world yet from us at Supergiant! You’ll get to know an ensemble cast of characters struggling to earn back their freedom as you make your way across the forsaken land called the Downside. Characters in Pyre come in all shapes and sizes, from hulking demons grown strong from their struggle to survive, to the winged Harps, who plot against their enemies from their mountain nests. Everyone in Pyre has a unique story behind their exile, and what might be in store for them if only they could return.

3. That unique combat system? It’s an action-packed, three-on-three mystical clash

Central to Pyre is the ancient competition called the Rites. Each Rite plays out like an intense close-quarters mystical battle, where the object is to extinguish your adversary’s signal flame before they can do the same to you. You’ll have to outsmart and outmaneuver your opponents to succeed — or you can banish them outright with a powerful aura blast.

You’ll be up against a colorful cast of adversaries in pitched, high-stakes confrontations where each victory (or defeat!) brings your exiles closer to enlightenment. Choose three exiles from your party for each Rite, and outfit them with powerful Talismans and Masteries to gain an edge.

4. There’s a branching story with no game over

Think about how many games you play where you get stuck trying to get past a certain sequence, and keep throwing yourself at it again and again, just because you want to see what happens next. Sometimes that’s fun… but often, it stops the story dead in its tracks and just gets frustrating.

We wanted to make a game that had plenty of challenge and exciting action, but where the fear and frustration of getting stuck was not a factor. Picking yourself up after being defeated could be part of the journey, rather than something that took place in your head while looking at a Game Over screen. So, one of the unique aspects of Pyre is how you are never forced to lose progress. Whether you prevail or fail, your journey continues. The interactive narrative is expressed through a story that should feel personal to you, and that no two players will experience in quite the same way.

5. You can challenge a friend in versus mode

On top of the single-player campaign, Pyre features a local two-player versus mode, which we revealed at the PlayStation Experience last year.

Versus Mode lets you play against a friend (or CPU opponent) in one of the game’s fast-paced ritual showdowns. You’ll be able to form your triumvirate from more than 20 unique characters you’ll meet in the campaign, and customize your Rite in a variety of ways — configuring your characters’ abilities, choosing from the variety of stages each with their own distinct effects on gameplay, and more.

We think this creates a ton of lasting value for the game and have been having a great time playing it ourselves, trying out every possible character combination we can think of.

6. Enjoy the rich, atmospheric presentation

The Downside has a variety of different regions you’ll get to explore in your quest for freedom.

From the vibrant hand-painted artwork to the evocative musical score (featuring more than 90 minutes of music by Darren Korb, our audio director and award-winning composer of Bastion and Transistor), every aspect of Pyre’s presentation draws you into its fantasy world.

Pyre has been in development for nearly three years. We can now safely say that it’s the biggest game we’ve ever created, offering substantially more ways to play and more characters to meet than either Bastion or Transistor before it.

With each new game we’ve made, we’ve endeavored to push ourselves out of our creative comfort zone to make something that felt fresh to us, in the belief that this would translate to a worthwhile experience for our players. We cannot wait for you to try it and hear what you think.

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Velocity 2X’s creator returns with PS VR slot-car racer Tiny Trax

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Hello everyone! Dave Gabriel from FuturLab here, introducing with great pleasure: Tiny Trax! Did you ever wish for your toy cars to completely defy gravity, or to race on crazy tracks that went far beyond the limits of reality?

Then you’ll love Tiny Trax!

Addictive arcade fun

We’ve taken the slot-car format made popular by Scalextric and Carrera, and pumped it up a few notches!

Adding lane-switching, boost and a super-smooth drifting mechanic to recharge your boost gauge, Tiny Trax expands the slot-car experience by introducing a whole new set of skills to wrap your thumbs around. We’ll even put your car back on the track if you overcook a corner!

Steer your car as if it were radio controlled, zipping along walls, dunking underwater, flying overhead, and looping upside-down through ice-caves and space stations!

Great use of PS VR

Tiny Trax brings the action to you with tiny cars skidding past your nose, jumping overhead and drifting around your feet! It feels wonderful to race around imaginative tracks that surround you in PS VR.

Stunning environments

With twelve beautifully designed and utterly bonkers tracks – constructed around you in ‘slap-me-in-the-face this is great’ VR – race around tropical beaches, forgotten ruins and even alien planets!

Oh and Joris de Man somehow found time to produce a CATCHY-AS-HELL soundtrack for Tiny Trax whilst he was scoring Horizon: Zero Dawn! What a treat.

Race on walls and upside-down spirals – real-world limitations be gone!

Online multiplayer

Choose from six vehicles to race against AI, or up to four friends online in single races or tournaments, posting high scores to the leaderboards!

Tiny Trax has been designed to give you 100% VR comfort time and again, so you can replay as much as you need to improve your times!

Tiny Trax is FuturLab’s first 3D game, first racing game, first multiplayer game, first VR game, and this is the first project I’ve worked on as a designer, which I’ll tell you more about at a later date!

For now, stay tuned on the run up to launch by following @FuturLab immediately! Thanks for reading, we look forward to racing you soon!

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Celebrate Tekken 7’s launch with this LittleBigPlanet 3 costume pack

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The King of Iron Fist Tournament arrives in LittleBigPlanet as six new challengers get ready to fight it out for the title in the Tekken 7 Costume Pack.

Asuka Kazama, King, Jack-7, Alisa Bosconovitch, Yoshimitsu and Devil Jin are all available for purchase individually from PlayStation Store or you can pick them all up together in the complete Tekken 7 Costume Pack.

Community creations on LittleBigPlanet

Want to take a break from the tournament and explore what else the community is up to? Let’s take a look at a couple of amazing levels recently published within the community!

I AM M-98 by bigsurf77

Take control of your very own 3D-Walking Mech and avoid obstacles for as long as possible in this endless runner-style level. Complete achievements to earn level trophies and unlock more customisations for your mech.

Sack Knights: Curse of the Dragon King - Prologued Adventure

Pick up your sword and shield for an epic adventure in this prologue chapter to Curse of the Dragon King. Run and jump over dangerous obstacles whilst battling all manner of baddies with your trusty sword… Can you defeat the boss and save the princess?

Bandai Namco costume packs available on PlayStation Store

You can also pick up even more Bandai Namco costume packs on PlayStation Store featuring some great costumes of Soulcalibur, Dark Souls III and even some Namco Classics characters.

Each of these costumes packs contain a range of costumes to fill out your Sackboy or Sackgirl’s Popit with all-sorts of new costumes and costume pieces to help them play as their favourite Bandai Namco characters.

Visit us online!

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New on PlayStation Store this week: Tekken 7, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, more

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This week sees the return of a fighting game colossus, with the launch of Tekken 7. It’s been nearly eight years since the last mainline entry in Bandai Namco’s classic series, and it’s been worth the wait.

Elsewhere on PlayStation Store this week, fulfil your dream of piloting the USS Enterprise in PlayStation VR-compatible Star Trek: Bridge Crew; catch up on the latest happenings in Telltale’s ongoing The Walking Dead: A New Frontier series; and look out for new Ghost Recon Wildlands and Titanfall 2 DLC; among others.

See below for all the details.

Out this week

MXGP3 – Special Edition
30th May
MXGP3 – The Official Motocross Videogame
30th May
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
30th May

Danger Zone
30th May
Oh…Sir! The Insult Simulator
30th May
Kung Fury: Street Rage (Not in Germany)
30th May

Clicker Heroes: Transcendence Starter Pack (Not in AU/NZ)
30th May
Ancient Amuletor Demo (Only in Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isreal, Luxembourg, Malta, NZ, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, SA, UK)
30th May
Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
30th May

Thea: The Awakening
31st May
Paddle Vs. Paddle
31st May
Damascus Gear: Operation Tokyo HD Edition (Only in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, NZ, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, SA, UK)
31st May

Lithium: Inmate 39 (Not in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxenmbourg, Netherlands, NZ, Norway, Poland, Portual, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine)
31st May
Digerati Bundle 3 Pack Part 3
31st May
Toukiden 2 Free Alliances Version Not in Russia
31st May