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PS4 Trailer: Knack
Knack was one of the most visually interesting games unveiled during last night’s PlayStation 4 reveal (it’s cartoony look certainly helped). The game is being directed by Mark Cerny, video game royalty who has had a hand in games starring Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet & Clank. So it’s safe to say the man knows his way around a platformer.
In fact, the man said it himself, “I’m hoping that we can make something that excites those that played the classic games back in the day, as well as something that attracts new fans to the genre.”
In Knack, a tiny robot uses the ability to change his size and shape, by absorbing or discarding scads of other tiny robots, to battle an army of goblins. It’s in development at Sony Japan Studio and may or may not be a PS4 launch title.
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PS4 Trailer: InFamous: Second Son
Cole MacGrath’s story ended with InFamous 2, but Sucker Punch isn’t finished with their superhuman world yet. Promising “a new character, new city, new powers, and all designed especially for the new PlayStation 4,” InFamous: Second Son is sure to electrify the newly announced PS4:
Surrounded by a society that fears them, superhumans are ruthlessly hunted down and caged by the Department of Unified Protection. When Delsin Rowe discovers his powers he’s forced to run, searching for other superhumans in order to save those he loves from the oppressive D.U.P. now hot on his tail. The choices he makes along the way change the future of everyone around him.
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PS4 Trailer: The Witness
Jonathan Blow’s followup to Braid, The Witness, has been in development for a few years now. But the developer shocked everyone by announcing the game would be available exclusively for the PlayStation 4 during last night’s “Meeting 2013.”
Blow has formed an actual development team for The Witness, which he has dubbed Thekla. The colorful, open-world, puzzle game drops the player on an abandoned island and tasks them with figuring out exactly what’s going on. Watching the trailer a second time, it still strongly reminds me of Myst.
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Sony confirms PS4 won’t block used games
I hate to say I told you so (OK, that’s a lie), But Sony executives have officially confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will not block used games.
Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Worldwide Studios, spoke to Eurogamer‘s Tom Bramwell after yesterday’s “Meeting 2013” and revealed the good news in an interview that had a few translation difficulties before getting to the good stuff:
I sat down with Yoshida a few hours after the PS4 reveal tonight and one of the first things I asked was whether used games would be blocked.
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“That’s the general expectation by consumers,” said Yoshida. “They purchase physical form, they want to use it everywhere, right? So that’s my expectation.”
So if someone buys a PlayStation 4 game, I asked, you’re not going to stop them reselling it?
“Aaaah,” was Yoshida’s initial answer, but seemingly only because he’d forgotten his line. “So what was our official answer to our internal question?” he asked his Japanese PR advisor. The advisor stepped in but didn’t seem to answer clearly, at least to my ears. Yoshida then took control again firmly:
“So, used games can play on PS4. How is that?”
I’d say that’s a very good answer. Thank you for not making me look like a liar, Mr. Yoshida.
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“Every” major third party developer/publisher is supporting the PS4
Here’s another look at that wall of developers and publishers that have pledged to support the PlayStation 4. There’s some interesting names on this slide, including Rockstar Games (is Grand Theft Auto V coming to the PS4?), LucasArts (I guess Star Wars 1313 is a next-generation game after all) and Bohemia Interactive (the makers of DayZ, who “would love to see it on consoles”).
Hit the break for the complete list of companies (well, all the ones I recognized, anyway). (more…)
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PlayStation 4 will be available in Holiday 2013
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House has closed out the PS4’s reveal with the news that the next-generation console will launch in “Holiday 2013.” No price. No idea what the system looks like. But it’s at most ten months away.
Hopefully we’ll learn more at E3 2013.
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Bungie is bringing Destiny to the PS4… surprised?
Eric Hirschberg of Activision has taken the stage to announce “multiple blockbuster titles in the launch window.” Surprising no one, he has announced that Bungie’s Destiny will be available for the PlayStation 4.
A video of Bungie’s Jason Jones appears to show us a few new second of Destiny and it looks just as sharp (and in-progress) as it did a few days ago.
No mere port, Bungie plans to produce “exclusive playable content for the PlayStation 4 community” when they bring Destiny to the PS4.
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PS4 Game Announcements: New Final Fantasy title, Watch Dogs, Diablo III
A trio of quick third-party announcements from Sony’s Meeting 2013:
Shinji Hashimoto, the Final Fantasy Brand Director at Square Enix, revealed that a new Final Fantasy title for the PS4 will be unveiled at E3 this year.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced that the toast of E3 2012, Watch Dogs, will be available for the PlayStation 4.
Chris Metzen of Blizzard has announced that the developer and Sony have agreed to a “strategic partnership through which we will take over the world.” But in reality, it’s Diablo III for the PlayStation 4… and the PlayStation 3. Metzen promises four-player couch co-op and a public debut for the console version of Diablo III soon.
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