Gather all your friends, because its Sportsfriends time. The retro-inspired multiplayer game offers four unconventional twists on the standard sports game (including competitive pole vaulting, a Smash Bros./dodgeball mashup, and four-goal soccer) and pulls them all together in one awesome package for the PS3 and PS4. Speaking of sports, MLB 14: The Show has also been released for the PS4 and the acclaimed soccer management sim, Football Manager Classic 2014, is now available for the Vita.
The ancient sport of “killing lots of dudes” represents itself well in this week’s PlayStation Store update as God of War Collection (a compilation of God of War and God of War II) is now available for the Vita (as a PS3/Vita Cross-Buy game) and action RPG Bound By Flame has been released for the PS3 and PS4. Are you not entertained?
Finally this week, the beloved PS2 RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne has been added to the PS2 Classics storefront.
More information on all of these titles (and a few additional new releases) can be found after the break. A complete rundown of this week’s new game add-ons can be found at the PlayStation Blog.
PS4 Games
MLB 14: The Show ($59.99, Canada: $69.99)
The highest rated sports franchise over the last 8 years (according to Metacritic) is back and better than ever. MLB 14 The Show captures the most exciting moments in baseball with improved gameplay physics, faster ways to play, and the most amazing visuals ever seen in a baseball video game. So get ready to step up to the plate, to the greatest sport ever played. Which just got better. Welcome to The Show.
Bound By Flame ($49.99)
Suppress your inner demon or unleash its power. You are a mercenary possessed by a flame demon in a desperate world ravaged by seven Ice Lords and their Dead-Army. In this RPG where all your choices lead to consequences, you will have to choose between unleashing the powers of the beast within and rejecting the demonic influence that wants to claim your humanity.
Sportsfriends ($14.99)
Sportsfriends is a compendium of award-winning local multiplayer games for living rooms, parties, and even backyards. Featuring: retro-styled fighting game BaraBariBall, QWOP-like pole vault dueling game Super Pole Riders, high-velocity sports game Hokra, and face-to-face physical party game Johann Sebastian Joust. All the games are playable with the DualShock4 wireless controller, while Johann Sebastian Joust can be further enhanced by the PlayStationMove Motion Controller.
Stick It To the Man ($9.99)
Hard hat tester Ray, has a bizarre accident and wakes up with a giant pink spaghetti arm sticking out of his brain! With his awesome new powers he can read minds and change the world with stickers but he’s on the run for a crime he didn’t commit. Can you help Ray out of this sticky situation?
PS3 Games
Bound By Flame ($39.99)
Suppress your inner demon or unleash its power. You are a mercenary possessed by a flame demon in a desperate world ravaged by seven Ice Lords and their Dead-Army. In this RPG where all your choices lead to consequences, you will have to choose between unleashing the powers of the beast within and rejecting the demonic influence that wants to claim your humanity.
Sportsfriends ($14.99, Includes PS4 Version)
Sportsfriends is a compendium of award-winning local multiplayer games for living rooms, parties, and even backyards. Featuring: retro-styled fighting game BaraBariBall, QWOP-like pole vault dueling game Super Pole Riders, high-velocity sports game Hokra, and face-to-face physical party game Johann Sebastian Joust. All the games are playable with the DualShock4 wireless controller, while Johann Sebastian Joust can be further enhanced by the PlayStation Move Motion Controller.
Hakuoki: Stories of the Shinsengumi ($33.99)
Hakuoki: Stories of the Shinsengumi tells the tale of Chizuru, a young woman who finds herself fighting alongside the infamous Shinsengumi as competing factions war for control of Japan. In the midst of all this bloodshed and chaos, will Chizuru find love?
PS Vita Games
Football Manager Classic 2014 ($39.99)
Football Manager Classic 2014 allows you to put your skills to the test wherever and whenever you want. As for the very first time cross-save compatibility allows you to start a career on PC, Mac & Linux (FMC Mode) and continue on PlayStation Vita system, or vice versa. Take control of any club from over 100 leagues across 51 nations, with a total database of over 160,000 players from around the world and take to the field to play out games using FM’s acclaimed 3D match engine.
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse ($16.99)
From multi-award winning Revolution Software comes the latest explosive episode in the classic Broken Sword series. Playing as intrepid American George Stobbart and sassy French journalist Nico Collard, you find yourself on the trail of a stolen painting – and a murderous conspiracy. A conspiracy whose roots lie in mysteries older than the written word…
PS2 Classics
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne ($9.99)
Set in post-apocalyptic Tokyo, the entire population of the world is annihilated by a global catastrophe called the Conception. Now, the fate of the entire world lies on the shoulders of one young man who must battle his way through opposing demonic forces to bring order to the world to come…or possibly become the harbinger of its destruction.
PS3 / Vita Cross-Buy Games
God of War Collection ($29.99)
Two Epic Adventures of Conquest, Destiny, and Revenge. God of War Collection brings the nonstop action of God of War and God of War II to the PlayStation Vita system for the first time ever! In God of War Collection, experience the brutal world of ancient Greece as the legendary Spartan Kratos seeks revenge on Ares, the God of War, and tries to accomplish what no mortal has ever done… alter the course of Fate itself.
PS3 / PS4 / Vita Cross-Buy Games
Titan Attacks! ($11.99, Cross-Buy)
Single-handedly turn back the evil invading Titan army! Drive back the aliens across the Solar System, and finally defeat them on their homeworld in this modern remix of classic arcade shoot’em’ups. Titan Attacks! has the same easy-to-learn but hard-to-master gameplay of classic arcade shooters, but is packed full of new features, new strategies, and stylish neo-retro visuals.
