Sony has released the PlayStation Store sales chart for July 2014, which sees The Last of Us Remastered jump to the top of the PS4 chart with just a single day of sales. On the PS Vita, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster re-entered the chart thanks to a temporary price drop, and Minecraft continues to top the PS3 chart for yet another month.
Lots of new content is available on the European PlayStation Store this week, with six new games added to the Instant Game Collection, including newly released Road Not Taken (PS4) and Metrico (PS Vita). You can also find three new PS4 games, three new PS3 games and three new PS Vita games, including The Swapper, Ultra Street Fighter IV (PS3) and Table Top Racing (PS Vita).
Remastering of current-generation games is becoming common place at the moment, with yet another title making the jump to next-gen consoles. Sleeping Dogs is the latest game to be rebuild for next-gen consoles, and will be heading to the PS4 and Xbox One in October 2014. The Definitive Edition of the game will include all the previously released DLCs too.
The Summer Sale kicked off on the PlayStation Store last week, and continues into this week, with new titles added to the same. In fact, 38 PS4 games have gone on sale today, ranging from AAA releases to indie games. There are some good titles in the mix, although some of them have been previously available as part of the Instant Game Collection.
Sony and MediaMolecule have detailed the pre-order bonuses for LittleBigPlanet 3 in Europe, which are similar to those in North America. The game will be releasing on the PS4 and PS3 on 19th November, 2014, and you’ll be able to get your hands on a number of bonuses if you pre-order the game before release, which are available exclusively for the PS4.
New content is available on the US PlayStation Store this week, with pre-orders opening up for a number of upcoming games, including LittleBigPlanet 3 and Assassin’s Creed Unity. You can also find three new PS4 games, three new PS3 games and four new PS Vita games to enjoy, along with this month’s Instant Game Collection.Read More
The PlayStation Now beta in North America is now in full swing, and while the service is currently only offering PS3 and PSN games, it sounds like Sony may open up the platform further to support all PlayStation games, including PS4 titles. An unnamed Sony representative sent Kotaku information about the PlayStation Now service following an interview with Jack Buser, the Senior Director for PlayStation Now.
Bungie has released a statistical infographic showing of some of the stats from the recent Destiny beta. The game has over 4.6 million players across all the platforms combined, who racked up over 3.7 billion kills. In addition, 853,235 concurrent players joined the game simulatenously at the beta’s busiest period. Check out more stats in the infographic below.
Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us has taken the top spot in the UK charts once again, thanks to the Remastered edition of the game for the PS4. The PS4 title has managed to beat multi-format Watch_Dogs, which has dominated the charts for the last several weeks. The Last of Us Remastered is the fifth largest release of 2014 to date and also the fourth largest launch on the PlayStation 4, just behind InFamous: Second Son.
SCEA has revealed the new games coming to PlayStation Plus this month, which are mostly similar to what Europe is getting. Two of the games in this month’s collection will be completely new, and available to PlayStation Plus subscribers the day they’re released on the PlayStation Store: Road Not Taken (PS4) and Metrico (PS Vita).
