It looks like some Hong Kong and Singapore PlayStation Plus accounts have been granted access to a PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale beta. The beta is free to download, but appears to be limited to those two regions for the time being.
As the Olympics gets under way in the UK this week, the PlayStation Store’s Summer Sports sales starts later today, featuring sports and PlayStation Move games for you to ‘medal’ with. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like many PS Vita titles are included in the sale.
The Dyad demo is now available to download from the PlayStation Store in North America, letting you try out the first five levels of the game. Dyad is a “tunnel racing puzzle shooting” PSN game that uses a number of new concepts to build upon a classic genre.
The PlayStation Network is going offline for scheduled maintenance this Thursday, lasting until Friday morning. The maintenance window will begin at 16:00 on Thursday 26th July 2012 until 08:00 on Friday 27th July 2012, BST.
Square-Enix President Yoichi Wada has this morning denied rumours started by Kotaku that said Final Fantasy XIII Versus had been cancelled. Wada says “someone is spreading a false rumor about Versus being canceled” and that the game is very much still in development.
Although it was never confirmed by Sony, everyone was speculating the CECH-4000 PS3 model would be announced at Gamescom next month. However, VG247 are saying that the announcement will no longer happen because stock levels of the current 3000 model PS3 are still “too high”.
Naughty Dog recently spoke to GI.Biz regarding PS3 exclusive The Last of Us. In the interview, the game’s director Bruce Straley discussed the new AI routines in the game, describing it ‘dynamic stealth’. “We’re trying to emphasize the reality of the situation that Joel and Ellie are in. There are consequences to your actions,” Straley explained.
Gearbox has revealed that the Borderlands 2 campaign mode takes “58 hours to play”, and that’s just “one play through with one character.” Speaking to Gamerzines, Marketing VP for Gearbox, Steve Gibson, said the developers think of the game as a “hobby”.
Sony is planning to close down more first-party and second-party game servers, with a number of franchises affected. Starting August 31st, Sony will shot the The Eye of Judgment: Legends servers, stripping the game’s online features.
Last week at Comic-con in San Diego, PlayStation.Blog sat down with Quantic Dream’s David Cage and Academy Award nominee Ellen Page to talk about the game and how the star of Juno and Inception became involved in playing the lead character Jodie Holmes in Beyond: Two Souls.
