New PS4, PS3 and PS Vita games are available on the US PlayStation Store this week, including Doki-Doki Universe (cross-buy on all three platforms), Strength of the Sword 3 (PS3) and Mahjong Royal Towers (PS Vita). You can also find discounts on various titles, along with new DLC for all three platforms.
In the all-formats chart in the UK this week, Gran Turismo 6 has failed to make a big impact despite being the only major new release, debuting in 8th place. The game only managed to generate one-fifth of first week sales compared to its predecessor, Gran Turismo 5. In other news, Call of Duty: Ghosts are returned to the top of the chart, while Killzone Shadow Fall dropped to ninth.
Telltale Games has confirmed that it’s working on a Game of Thrones series based on the TV series and not the books, but is still in the initial stages of planning. Like previous games by Telltale, players will be able to make choices in the game, limited by the story, and will be released in episodes. A release date hasn’t been revealed yet, but the game will be releasing sometime in 2014.
Crystal Dynamics has revealed that Tomb Raider will be getting the next-gen treatment, and will coming to the PS4 in the New Year in the form of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition. The game has been pulled apart and rebuilt with enhanced visual fidelity, realism, and a new immersive richness to the world. The game will be in native 1080p resolution, and will feature more sophisticated physics modeling thanks to the powerful hardware of the PS4.
Bungie has revealed that Destiny will be released worldwide in September 2014, with a Beta scheduled for Summer 2014. The game was originally expected to release in Spring 2014 but has since slipped to September. As the game’s release date has been pushed back, so had the beta date, which will now be available in Summer 2014, and available first on PlayStation platforms before releasing elsewhere.
Sony has revealed that there will be another period of maintenance this Monday, affecting European gamers’ evening session. The maintenance window will begin at 4:00 PM GMT on Monday 9th December, and will last up to midnight – a total of 8 hours of downtime. The maintenance could be related to the recent “password reset” issue PSN users have been seeing recently.
Sony has released a new minor firmware update for the PS3, fixing system stability issues with some games. The update is optional to download, but may be required when playing certain new titles. The previous update, Firmware v4.50, was a larger update adding privacy options to trophies and adding Closed Captioning support to Blu-ray movie playback.
Sony has experienced record-breaking sales for the PS4 after launching the console in 32 countries. The PS4 sold over 1 million units in the first 24 hours of sale in North America on November 15th, and has sold over 2.1 million units worldwide after the console released in Europe and Latin America on November 29th.
There hasn’t been much news about Gaikai recently, with the last mention of the streaming service back at E3. Sony previously announced that Gaikai would power a full-game streaming service on the PS4, allowing gamers to play PS3 titles via the Internet. According to inside sources, the streaming service won’t be launching in Europe until 2015, but will be available in North America in 2014.
NP-34925-3 occurs if the PS4 fails to upload Game Save Data to the Cloud server while the console is on stand-by mode. The error will appear in the [Uploads] section of the [Notification] menu, usually indicating that save data failed to upload.
