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Sony has announced it will be releasing a new PlayStation 4 bundle that features a 1TB hard drive capacity.

Dubbed the “Ultimate Player Edition,” the new model will be available in “select Europe and PAL territories” from July 15. The model has yet to be confirmed for release across the US.

“Offering twice the storage of the existing PS4, you’ll be able to download more of the games you love to your PS4, extend your play with more great add-on content and save and share even more of your best gaming highlights,” Sony says.

Pricing information was not provided, as Sony is advising those interested to “check with your local retailer.”

The new model is also ten percent lighter, weighing a total of 2.5 kg, and also uses eight percent less energy. It’s hard drive bay cover now also has a matte finish.

In early June, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) certified two new PlayStation 4 models, indicating Sony was planning to release new SKUs in the US.

The first model was believed to feature a 500 gigabyte capacity, which is the same as current PS4 models, while the second seemed to have a one terabyte hard drive.

It may be that these models are announced for the US in the near future.

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Steam’s Summer Sale is almost over, but you still have a chance to buy some of the online storefront’s top sellers in its closing Encore Sale.

The Encore Sale, which started this morning and will run until Monday, 10:00 AM Pacific Time, collects all the top sellers from the past 10 days and offers them again at a deep discount.

The Encore Sale includes some of our previous picks of the day, including Transistor for $5, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel for $20, This War of Mine for $8, and many more. Overall, the Encore Sale includes almost 100 deals.

Some other standout offers include Wolfenstein: The Old Blood for $10, Project Cars for $30, and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes for $5.

You can find the full list of deals included in the Summer Encore Sale here.

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The Australian Classification Board, the government body which which rates movies, certain publications, and games in the same way that the Entertainment Software Board rates games in North America, has rated an Ubisoft game for Xbox One called Zombi.

Given its title and Ubisoft being listed as the publisher, this might be a port of company’s 2012 Wii U exclusive ZombiU.

The listing on the Classification Board appears a little more than a week after Unseen64, a site that has previously revealed a canceled Ubisoft Wii U game and concept art for Driver 5, reported that a ZombiU port might be in development.

According to the Classification Board’s website, Zombi is rated MA 15+ for strong horror violence, blood, and gore, which also describes the adult content in the original ZombiU. The date of the classification listed is June 17, 2015.

In May of 2013, Ubisoft Montpellier’s the creative director Jean-Philippe Caro said that the studio was working on a ZombiU 2 prototype, but in July 2013, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told GamesIndustry International that “betting big” on the Wii U did not pay off for the company, and that there are no plans or desire for a sequel.

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At E3 2015 this week, Sony re-revealed its long-in-development PlayStation adventure game The Last Guardian. Before Monday evening, the last time we saw anything new from the game was back in 2009. Now, creative director Fumito Ueda has admitted that he wasn’t sure that people would even remember the game–thankfully, they did. But it was a concern, he says in an interview with the PlayStation Blog.

“Yes, it’s been a few years since our last announcement,” Ueda said. “From my point of view, it was very unpredictable how the audience would react. I wasn’t sure if people would remember the title. Admittedly, I was a bit nervous.”

But this anxiety was short-lived, as fans responded positively to the game’s announcement.

“After the announce I saw the reaction, and the cheering–and that proved to me that people had really been waiting and were excited to see us reveal The Last Guardian for PS4,” Ueda said. “Afterwards, I was more relaxed and happy!”

Also in the interview, Ueda said there were “a number of reasons” why The Last Guardian has seen such an extended development schedule. One of the most significant reasons was the technical challenge of transitioning the game from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4.

“If I had to call out one of them, it was more of a technical hurdle that we had to overcome,” Ueda said about why the game was delayed. “But eventually we have overcome it, and we have finally–proudly– announced the game for PS4 during the E3 press conference.”

Given the extended development of The Last Guardian, some might be wondering if the game has changed at all since we last saw it. The core components have not, Ueda said, though the game should look quite bit nicer now that it’s running on a better platform.

“The game content itself–the storyline etc.–that stuff has not changed,” he explained. “Obviously, the migration to PS4 has enabled us to push the envelope on the technology side. The overall aesthetic that the team is going for isn’t necessarily ‘edgy’ but we have a very specific art style we are aiming for and the PS4 hardware has helped us achieve our goals.”

Be sure to read the full interview for lots more. You can also check out GameSpot’s own interview to hear directly from Ueda about The Last Guardian.

The Last Guardian launches in 2016 exclusively for PS4.

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With just a few more days to go before Batman: Arkham Knight‘s release next week, developer Rocksteady Studios is pushing out a day-one patch that includes various improvements and fixes for the action game.

According to online reports, the patch weighs in at 3.5GB. And per a PlayStation Lifestyle report, the patch will offer the following changes to Arkham Knight:

• Improved Performance
• Stability Fixes
• New feature: Rival Points
• New feature: Original Batsuit skin available to select
• Support for “A Matter Of Family” additional content (this is the preorder-exclusive prequel DLC)
• General gameplay, graphical, audio, UI, and localization fixes

Although Arkham Knight does not arrive June 23, reviews for the game started coming online today. GameSpot scored the game a 7/10. Critic Kevin VanOrd wrote:

“Rather than escape the pull of the games that spawned it, The Bat’s newest adventure refines the fundamentals; it is a safe but satisfying return to the world’s most tormented megalopolis.”

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The companion app for Ubisoft’s upcoming shooter The Division, which developer Massive Entertainment previously referred to as “really meaningful,” has been canceled.

A Massive Entertainment representative confirmed the news with IGN, saying the app was scrapped because it “created an imbalance” that negatively affected gameplay.

The Division’s companion app was going to allow for simultaneous and asymmetric gameplay between a mobile device and the console/PC game.

More specifically, it would have allowed players to “seamlessly” join a game as a drone, seeing the scene from a bird’s eye view, able to provide tactical support to teammates.

The Division launches in March for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. A beta for the game will launch first on Xbox One in December, before coming to other platforms later.

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