Sony has released the full video of the Project Morpheus reveal last week from GDC in San Francisco. The announcement wasn’t live-streamed like most of Sony’s events, but it was filmed and later uploaded to YouTube for your viewing pleasure. The hour-long video shows the current VR headset prototype and features SCE World Wide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida.
PlayStation Asia has listed the Instant Game Collection for April, listing Mercenary Kings as April’s free PS4 game for subscribers, indicating that the same game could be available in Europe and North America. So far, the PS4 games in the Instant Game Collection has been the same across all regions, so there is a strong possibility of this happening again.
Sercan Sulun, PlayStation Turkey’s VP, let slip that The Last of Us is heading to the PS4 this summer, when interviewed by CNN Turk TV. Instead of giving the usual “nothing to announce yet” comment, Sulun confirmed that the first game will be coming to the PS4 with enhanced graphics.
Sony has compiled a comprehensive list of every PS4 game announced for release in 2014 to date. The list includes 100+, covering all four seasons and those without a confirmed release date. Naturally, the tables below are a guide only and release dates are subject to change.
Just like how Titanfall helped increase sales of the Xbox One by 96%, the release of inFamous: Second Son last Friday has helped increase sales for the PS4 by 106%. PS4 sales were said to have rose 74% during the Titanfall launch, so this is another 104% on top of that, but without actual sales numbers, it’s difficult to tell how many extra PS4s were actually sold.
Sony’s next-gen console is still affected with supply shortages, and the company has told the WSJ that it doesn’t expect to meet demand before this summer. The console is now available in every major territory, including Sony’s home country of Japan, where 300,000 units were sold in the first week.
Ubisoft has confirmed the next Assassin’s Creed game by releasing some next-gen alpha footage of the game, which has been in development for the last three years. Assassin’s Creed Unity is set in France from the clues in the teaser trailer, where you can see the French flag and Notre Dame.
PS4 exclusive inFamous: Second Son has shot to the top of the UK games chart, smoking the competition (get it?) after releasing on Friday, 21st March 2014. inFamous beat multi-platform new release Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, which took second place, and Xbox One exclusive Titanfall, which fell to third place.
A new patch for Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition on the PS4 is now available, updating the game to v1.02. The patch is said to fix the online issues affecting the game since launch, and was patched fairly quickly thanks to players submitting crash reports from the game.
Yet another feature is making it’s way to the PS4 in the next firmware update. This time, it’s the ability to download a game that’s been pre-ordered ahead of the official release date, allowing you to have the game ready to play at launch. However, the feature may be limited to North America for the time being.
