Category: Sony

Free-to-play?

Basketball is big business, but EA Sports has taken a drubbing from 2K Sports’ uber-popular NBA 2K franchise over the past decade or so. Many felt that NBA Live 20 may have been cancelled after the publisher made the unprecedented move of patching a roster update into last year’s instalment – despite the sequel appearing in a slide for investors earlier in the year.

It turns out that the title has just been delayed, as the organisation plans a “different approach” to the series. Basketball games typically release prior to the start of the new season in September, but EA Sports’ effort will instead drop somewhere between 1st October and 31st December. What could it possibly be cooking? Perhaps it’s got a different business model in mind – free-to-play?

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More FUT Icons announced.

After revealing the cover stars of the standard and Champions edition for FIFA 20, EA purposefully made us wait a little longer before we could find out whose mug would grace the front of the Ultimate edition. Now we know, because joining Eden Hazard and Virgil van Dijk will be the legendary French midfielder Zinedine Zidane as he takes centre stage on the most expensive version of the game. It’s a much better choice than Manchester United’s Scott McTominay, isn’t it?

Check out the box art in the tweet above, but while that’s all well and good, there’s a bit more to the news than just that. Zidane will also be one of the new icon players coming to Fifa Ultimate Team alongside further additions of former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, the player turned pundit Ian Wright, current Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman, and Italian legend Andrea Pirlo.

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Killing it.

If you’ve ever engaged in a game of Call of Duty multiplayer, you’ll have heard about killstreaks at some point. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare introduced the system in its revolutionary online battles, and the mechanic has been toyed with many times since. A killstreak is when you defeat a certain number of players in a row without dying yourself, unlocking various tactical advantages or powerful weapons as a result. For years, scorestreaks have taken their place to encourage players to stick to the objective in certain modes.

However, with this year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Infinity Ward is bringing back the classic killstreak. While there isn’t much information available yet, it sounds like they’re going to work similarly to the 2007 shooter. Players will be able to choose three killstreaks from a list ahead of a match, which they can then use if and when they get the appropriate number of kills.

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We’re not impressed.

The first slice of footage for Doctor Who: The Edge of Time has just hit the internet, and we can’t say this is the most impressed we’ve ever been by a trailer. Take a look for yourself in the clip above.

It’s all incredibly brown? We see the player first collecting items while a voiceover plays from what we assume is Jodie Whittaker herself, before a Dalek invasion kicks into gear. It doesn’t look bad necessarily, but we’re going to need to see more before we can look forward to joining up with the Doctor and the TARDIS in September. Don’t forget that this is currently a exclusive to virtual reality headsets, including PlayStation VR, and won’t be playable without one.

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“That’s not me”.

Xbox’s figurehead Phil Spencer is clearly in favour of collaborating with competition rather than keeping them at arm’s length, so much so that he wouldn’t want to take away anything from Sony or the PlayStation brand in order to better Microsoft’s family of consoles.

During an interview with Fortune Magazine, when asked if the consumer reaction to competition affects Microsoft’s decisions, Spencer said: “I would say the most competitive side of it – no. I’m always listening to the community, but the people who want to see others fail in order for the green team to succeed – that’s not me. There were people, when the Sony deal was announced, I could see it online, ‘what are you doing helping them out?’”

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But promptly backtracks.

Sucker Punch writer Jordan Lemos – who’s currently busy beavering away on Japanese samurai open worlder Ghost of Tsushima – “revealed” a sequel to The Order: 1886 on a podcast this week. Given his position within the Worldwide Studios family, Reddit was quick to pick up on the story, prompting the scribe to clarify that he misunderstood a series of stories based on an interview with creative director Ru Weerasuriya.

“Last I heard, they were actually doing a second one,” he told our friends from the Gamerheads podcast. “So I don’t know if they were already in development at that point so they were like ‘Well, let’s just keep going and hoping the next one’s better or people like it more’ kinda thing.”

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“I’m already dead”.

Sony and Kojima Productions have released a new Death Stranding trailer — a ‘character spotlight’ for Heartman, one of the game’s main cast members. Modelled after film director Nicolas Winding Refn, Heartman looks like he’ll be something of a confidant to protagonist Sam. The trailer itself actually gives us a little more insight into the kind of cutscene direction that we can expect to see in Death Stranding.

At just over two minutes, there’s potentially a lot to unpack here — as you’d expect of Kojima — but every video so far has done something to pique our interest, and this one’s no different. Death Stranding is still due to release on the 8th November, 2019.

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Every EA Access game in the PS4 Vault.

What games are available to download as part of EA Access on the PS4? And how much does it cost to subscribe to EA Access on the PS4? The behemoth publisher’s subscription service has finally arrived on the PlayStation 4, and in addition to early access and discounts, it also includes a Vault of free software. Members will be able to download and play included titles in their entirety, but which PS4 games are included as part of EA Access on the PS4?

All Free EA Access Games Available on PS4

The following is a complete list of games available for EA Access members to download on PS4, which we’ll be updating regularly as new software is added:

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Coming on 6th August.

There’s good news for PlayStation Now subscribers: Bethesda is bringing DOOM, Wolfenstein: The New Order, and Fallout 4 to the service from 6th August. The publisher announced the all-star selection of software during a panel at QuakeCon. As these are all native PlayStation 4 games, you’ll have the option to either download them to your hard drive or stream them.

Sony’s said it wants to take PS Now more seriously this year, and getting big publishers and brands on board like this should help to improve its profile.

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Cross-gen zombies.

And there’s another PlayStation 5 game to add to the list. We imagine many games currently in development are at least being considered for the cross-generation treatment, but Techland has made it clear Dying Light 2 is getting both a PS4 and PS5 version. Yes, the free-running zombie action game is making the leap across platforms.

The developer confirmed as much during an interview with Wccftech. Directly asked if the sequel is a cross-generation title, chief technology officer Pawel Rohleder said: “Techland always has an eye on the latest new toys! To be more specific — yes, the plan since the beginning of production has been to make Dying Light 2 a cross-generation title”.

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