PlayStation Home first came into existence in December 2008, and over the years tens of millions of users around the world have grown the social gaming platform into a thriving community of creative and enthusiastic gamers. However, Sony has announced that PlayStation Home will be closing its doors in March 2015, following suit with Asia.
FIFA 15 releases worldwide this week and you can expect it to dominate the sales chart for months to come like FIFA 14 has done. EA has announced that the demo for the game was downloaded 5.5 million times, making it the most downloaded demo for any EA Sports game to date across all platforms.
A new trailer for Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare has been released, this time focusing on the new four-plauyer co-op mode called Exo Survival. In this mode players must work together to fight off waves of enemies, which gets progressively harder as the mode goes on. You have everything from basic soldiers, to cloaked ones, soldiers with boosters, and soldier in the exo suit.
New content is available on the European PlayStation Store today, with three new PS4 games, five new PS3 games and four new PS Vita games, including FIFA 15 (all platforms), Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment (PS4), Best of Board Games (PS3, PS Vita) and more. You can also find a lot of new DLC for all three platforms.
The PS4 will be getting a demo of Final Fantasy XV, Square Enix has confirmed. Unfortunately, the demo won’t be available until 20th March 2015, and come bundled with copies of Final Fantasy Type-o HD, which will contain a PSN code for you to download the demo. The demo is dubbed Final Fantasy XV – Episode Duscae, and will feature three house of gameplay.
Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition has been available on the PlayStation Store since early September, but following a successful digital launch, Sony has revealed that a retail disc version of the game will be releasing in October. The Blu-ray disc version will be available to purchase from October 3rd 2014.
PS4 exclusive DRIVECLUB is just a few short weeks away from release, and will be available in Europe from October 8th 2014. Sony has announced that the game will be available in two new bundles, in addition to the stand-alone edition. The DRIVECLUB Glacier White bundle will come with a white PS4, just like the Destiny bundle.
This week on the US PlayStation Store you can find four new PS4 games, six new PS3 games and three new PS Vita games to enjoy, including FIFA 15 (all platforms), Flockers (PS4) and Arcana Heart 3: Lovemax (PS3). New games have been added to PlayStation Now too, including God of War Ascension and inFamous.
Shuhei Yoshida, who is leading the development of Project Morpheus, has revealed to the Wall Street Journal that development on the device is 85% complete. The virtual reality headset uses many of the components used in smartphones, helping to keep the price down. Unfortunately, Yoshida didn’t hint on a release date for the device, even with competition from Oculus Rift and Samsung’s Gear VR headset.
If you are not a PlayStation Plus subscriber, you’ll be happy to know that Sony will be hosting a free multiplayer weekend this week, allowing you to play online multiplayer games without a subscription. The PlayStation Plus open weekend will take place between 8.00am BST/9.00am CET Friday 26th September and 9.00am BST/10.00am CET Monday 29th September.
