Sony has confirmed via Twitter that the malicious PSN messages causing PS4 consoles to crash has been fixed. Sony also clarified that the messages weren’t bricking consoles, but rather sending them into a infinite crash loop. If you are experiencing the infinite crash loop, the issue can be resolved in under 5 minutes.
New details about the Fortnite physical release have emerged, and it turns out that it won’t include a physical copy of the game. While the game will be available to purchase in stores in November, the box will actually contain a PSN code that needs to be redeemed on the PlayStation Store to download the game and content.
Sony has officially announced that the long-awaited feature that will allow users to change their PSN Online ID is on it’s way. A preview program of the feature will become available to select users that have pre-registered as testers for previous PS4 Firmwarebetas. And a full roll-out of the feature will happen in early 2019.
The PlayStation Store chart for Europe has been released, showing the most popular digital purchases in September 2018. Last month saw a number of major releases, so it’s no surprise that FIFA 19 was the top selling PS4 title, followed by Marvel’s Spider-Man. A total of seven new releases made it into the top 20 last month.
Epic Games and Warner Bros Interactive have announced that Fortnite Battle Royal is getting a physical version in November. The physical version will be available for PS4, Xbox One and Switch and will be called Fortnite: Deep Freeze Bundle. It will retail for £24.99 and will be available from 16th November 2018.
Sony has gone on the record to reveal that it is currently working on the PS4’s successor. The revelation was made in an interview with Sony boss Kenichiro Yoshida and the Financial Times. Sony didn’t confirm if the successor would be called PlayStation 5, but that’s likely to be it’s name. Given that the PS4 is close to being 5 years old, it makes sense that Sony has started working on the next-generation version.
October’s PlayStation Plus games have just been released, but someone at Sony has accidently revealed the two PS4 the games we can expect in November via the PS4’s portal. The two PS4 games you can expect in November are Bulletstorm Full Clip Edition and Yakuza Kiwami, both of which were released in 2017.
Sony has updated the PlayStation Store listings for three old PS3 games, indicating that the online functionality will be going offline on this month. The servers for Warhawk will be shutdown first, which will go offline on 15th October 2018, followed by PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Twisted Metal on 25th October 2018.
