Minimur, WTH Happened This Week? PSN Status Page, FF 15 Demo’s Being Sold & Wololo goes multi-lingual!
I was too engrossed in Sleeping Dogs last week, and was pretty annoyed with myself that I missed it, I’ll cover a bit more than usual this week! Let’s get started!
We’ve got quite a bit of news to catch up on, including the likes of a new Titanfall, and some new info on Gravity Rush, an infrograph of everything that’s been happening in Dying Light, and a few quick links for stuff that happened the week previous, as well as the introduction of something new to Wololo.net!
But first of all, we can’t forget our baby, the PS Vita:
Pocket God vs. Desert Ashes – PS Vita, PSTV, PS4
I’m pretty happy about this, I remember having Pocket God on my iPod Touch, a few years ago. So this should be fun, although I wasn’t aware, the game Desert Ashes came out a few weeks ago for Vita, here’s the trailer for it:
Well the developer for this game just the other day announced that he will be teaming up with the Pocket God creator to include the little pygmy’s in the game, here’s a few screenshots:
Luc Bernard, describes the game as similar to Desert Ashes, with the same modes; campaign, multiplayer and local.
It’s great to see two different developers teaming up, and making an even awesome game, I’d like to see it happen with a few different games, too, but my dream combination would have to be Marvel vs DC vs Tekken vs MK….
Can you imagine? All with MK finishers….. damn.
Upon browsing the PS Blog, I found a few new announcements for PS4 games, too:
Hustle Kings – Free To Play, out now
God Of War III Remaster – June 14th -In the most misleading announcement trailers, GoW 3 HD Remaster was announced
Omega Quintet – An interesting game… take a look at it!
Playstation have finally caught up with Xbox and have created an extensive PSN status page, this doesn’t just cover PSN itself though, it’s pretty nice, and includes the status for:
- Account Management
- Sign In
- Create Account
- Gaming and Social
- PlayStation®Now
- Video Unlimited
- PlayStation®Vue
- PlayStation®Store
- Purchase
- Download
- Browse
- Search
- Redeem Voucher
Unfortunately, however, this is just for the US region. Hopefully, the status page will be coming to other regions soon too, as it’s pretty helpful. In any case, if there are any problems I’m sure the PS twitter will always be up to date on it, so check there first if you’re unsure and in the other regions like myself.
http://status.playstation.com/en-us/
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/03/19/sony-launches-detailed-psn-status-page/
Gravity Rush
Wasn’t too fond of it myself to be perfectly honest, but everyone else seemed to enjoy it, so I won’t say anything. But what I WILL say, is that in Korea, a rating has gone up for a PS4 version dubbed ‘Gravity Rush Remaster’
If you don’t fancy reading Korean today, and would rather be baffled by google translates worst job at keeping the site layout yet, click on the ‘translate’ link below:
Here’s a direct and translated link to the classification breakdown, too:
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/03/20/gravity-rush-ps4-remaster-rated-in-korea/
For those of you who have played Dying Light, you may enjoy this little info graph as you are a part of it!
Dying Light development studio have released the little picture through their twitter, showing who many zombies have been killed, how far you’ve traveled, and how many survivors have been saved! It’s pretty cool, I keep eyeing up the game but I haven’t had anyone convince me to buy the game, but I’m sure I will after I finish Type-0, FF 15 Demo, Sleeping Dogs, L.A. Noire DLC I just bought, Game of Thrones, Surgeon simulator, Tokyo Jungle…….*sigh*
We’re a #1 best-seller thanks to our killer fans. Check out the stats on your equally mind-blowing achievements. pic.twitter.com/efjaoO3YBn
— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) March 18, 2015
This is a pretty cool piece of news, Harmonix, who are developing the new Rock Band, have put up a site where you can request what song to be in the game, they say that each request will be looked at, and taken into consideration; follow the link below to put your song suggestions in! I’ve put a few in myself, here’s one
http://www.harmonixmusic.com/games/rock-band/request/
The UK magazine MCV got an interview with product manager Eric Pope and got to speak about the technical aspects of the game, something that everyone will be glad to hear:
We built a brand new engine for Rock Band 4 to make the most of the new hardware. It’s going to look ‘next-gen’ with more realistic lighting, character models, and animation. It’ll be 1080p and will run at 60fps, I know there’s a vocal group of players that want to hear that. But what to me is more exciting is the online infrastructure of the consoles. It will open a lot [of] opportunities for us to support the game in more reactive, timely ways
1080/60? Nice!
Although there has been no official release date for the game, in a separate article, in the same magazine it said:
Rock Band 4 is now set to return this October, and widespread reports claim that Guitar Hero is also braced for return.
I loved guitar hero, and I love Rock& Roll remains one of my favourite songs because of it (it was the only game I could complete on hard) I can 100% say that I will be getting Rock Band 4, with the guitar only, and am now anticipating that Guitar Hero return!
How many of you weren’t particularly interested in FF Type-0, yet wanted to play the demo?
http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/18/8253085/final-fantasy-15-demo-ebay
For this weeks WTH article, I found that Atari are bringing out a mobile app, nothing weird there, right?
Well, this is a fitness app, you complete the fitness challenges and you unlock atari games to play!
Atari Fit ‘gameifies’ 100+ exercises, and motivates the user to unlock atari games, currently, there are only 3 games playable within the Atari Fit app, Centipede, Pong and Super Breakout. Atari CEO, Fred Chesnais had this to say:
With Atari Fit, players from around the globe can exercise, play and get healthy together by providing a gamified fitness experience unlike any other app currently available, by uniting the universal need to exercise and live healthfully with the entertaining experience unique to Atari games, we’ve created an app that proves fitness can be fun.
To be perfectly honest, I’m surprised that gaming companies are still trying to merge fitness and games, Wii Fit is probably the best that’s ever been done as of yet, which was back in 2007.
Although I still think this is a silly idea, the app itself is quite nice; free, but nice. It features an extensive list of different exercises, which you can chop and change to create your own workout.
Preset workouts are available, yet they require a ‘subscription’, this is how the free app makes money, you subscribe to use the workout based upon your goals, and you get to see the program for 3/6/9months
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-19-atari-launches-atari-fit-app
For all you Banjo Kazooie fans out there, something interesting happened this week, at the SXSW Gaming Awards, an interactive game of banjo kazooie was played by the audience members, the game was developed by Audience Entertainment, who specialise in crowd based games, the demo was made exclusively for the crowd, now hold your horses, because this was an official project, created with the help of Rare.
Although this doesn’t mean that Rare are making a new BK game, it does mean that they are thinking about the game and are willing to spend money on such project.
I belive the strange music is a filler in return for it beingmuted due to copyright reasons.
Extra news!
I can tell you’re getting bored now after roughly 900~ words, so I’ll save my mundane rambling and give you quick links to click if you’re interested!
Titanfall 2 – Coming to PS4, PC and Xbox One
Konami announces plans for new MG series – Without Hideo Kojima
The PS4 Launch in China in pictures -I wish I could be that excited, again
Free inFamous: Second Son stuff – It’s one-year-old!
Final Fantasy: Type Next Artwork Revealed – Project is on hold, however 🙁
Is this a Marcus Fenix Gears Of War Collection? – Coming to a PS4 near you! haha.
WEEKLY BLOG ROUND-UP
Wololo has given me the awesome responsibility of announcing something pretty interesting, the fact that our articles can now come in a variety of different flavours! languages!
You’ll start to notice at the top of some articles this little thing:
This lets you know that you can view it in a different language, now, not all articles will have this, being as they will be done manually by my fellow guest bloggers, and also our much beloved /talk members!
Thanks, guys!
Did you get “South Park: The Stick of Truth” for $4.99 two days ago? Good for you, because that was a “pricing error” – This is the sort of price I’d expect for it to be on sale at the moment, it’s an awesome game by the way and was my personal GOTY of 2014
Developer/hacker Josh Axey releases his Vita hardware research – A translated article! isn’t this exciting!
Just my 2 cents: The VR hype train – VR is a very exciting concept, but I can’t help but thing it’ll take a few iterations to get it correct.
Sign~Fake NP Expert Released – don’t you love /talk? From tutorials to translations, this app, however, creates custom bubbles!
Total-Noob’s response to latest TN-X debate about The Z – *sigh* The Z, what have you done? 😉
TN-X v2 Mod: Qwikrazor releases unrestricted version of Total_Noob’s TN-X v2 eCFW! – Wait a minute… Unrestricted?! – Oh. That’s what you’ve done, well at least you’re safe, right?
Gateway 3.1.1 Ultra Public Beta Released – I don’t follow 3ds, so I can’t really comment on this, but it does sound good!
‘NX’ is the next generation hardware of Nintendo – Seems like Ninty are expanding their horizons and not just keeping their awesome first party line up to Ninty systems only, here’s to another 2-4 years of Nintendo consoles, let’s hope this one doesn’t flop.
Man, this was ages ago!
Minimur, WTH Happened This Week? #GDC15 Special! Virtual Reality Galore! http://t.co/iLR43OU0Av
— Minimur12 (@minimur12) March 9, 2015
Reddit Time!
How awesome is this cosplay?
Just your average day in a modded Skyrim
“Maybe if I tickle his chin it will fix him”
PS Trivia
46. According to it’s original creators, the first Grand Theft Auto owed much of its success to a media outcry engineered by disgraced PR guru Max Clifford
47.In Metal Gear Solid, Psycho Mantis will recognise saves from the following games: Suikoden, Castlevania: Symphony of The Night, Vandal Hearts and Azure Dreams
48. In the Japanese version of MGS, if you have both Policenauts and Snatcher saves, Mantis will say ‘So you like Kojima’s Works?’ A voiceover will then play from creator Hideo Kojima saying ‘Thankyou for your continuing support’
49.When Mantis dies in the Japanese version of MGS, he says that it feels ‘nostalgic’. Something To remember considering he looks like he is likely to appear in MGS V, which is chronologically before the PS1 game!
50. In Metal Gear: Official Mission Handbook, Big Boss was originally a Japanese-American soldier born in Hawaii
First
banned
1. Why do people keep posting first?
2. Even more annoying is why do you guys respond to it all butthurt?
Ah, yes, banned forever on commenting due to saying you are first, although it’s annoying and a waste of a comment (and their own time) I don’t believe we can ban them for it, unfortunately.
Does anyone know what a ‘pingback’ is on the other tab at the top of the comments is?
It’s when another blog references your post
thanks!
What’s up with all the mistakes in the article
he was probably high
btw ur profile pic looks likea ding dong from my vita
will guitar hero or rock band be for vita as well?
http://www.google.com
You’re welcome.
They mentioned it only being for PS4/One, I highly doubt it; can you imagine using a guitar for a 5 inch screen?
lmao ur right but i do wish they would make something like guitar hero/ rock band for vita 🙁
Could just use the buttons like the psp version of Rock Band.
Speaking of FF Type-0, fan translation of its PSP version has been updated recently.
See >>>/v/287464276 for example.
Nice! I got the game for my Vita when the first kernel exploit came out, but didn’t end up playing it because I had no idea about anything!
wth?? almost every other psp/ps vita homebrew site is dead! are they all gone?
“Marvel vs DC vs Tekken vs MK?” oh God!! please no!!
Marvel vs Capcom vs SNK vs Namco Bandai would be a better collaboration idea.. DC and MK sucks in the fighting genre.. place them in platform games .. (just my opinion)
They should make Sony vs Microsoft vs Nintendo: the Game. The PlayStation version lets you play Jak, Daxter, Ratchet, Clank, Kratos, Sly Cooper, Solid Snake, other MGS characters, Cloud Strife etc. (ie. Sony IP characters and characters from games first released for Sony consoles), and you fight Master Chief, Link, Super Mario, Samos and all the Pokémon. Roles are reversed on the Xbox and 3DS versions (you play the characters owned by/identified the maker of your console).
On second thoughts, they should make a highly versatile fighting game (e.g. a combination of fighter, FPS, racing, sport, RTS, RPG, etc.) with each company as a faction, e.g. Game Freak Faction has all the Pokémon and trainers, Nintendo faction has Super Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Peach, Link, Samos, etc., Konami Faction has MGS and YuGiOh characters, Square Enix Faction has Final Fantasy characters, Capcom Faction has Street Fighter and Monster Hunters (and the monsters 😀 ), etc. and they all fight each other. Bwahahahaha!
The wealth of Bill Gates lol
16x the wealth of Bill Gates!
“GoW 3 HD Remaster”
God of War 3 is already in HD…
Technically not, since GoW3 only rendered at 720p.
720p is still classed as HD though, not true HD but it’s still HD
i downloaded official Tekken 6 pkg using your PS3 Proxy tutorial ..But how can i transfer it to my PS3 ofw 4.70?
do i need to transfer it to my ps vita using cma and then transfer it to ps or can it be directly copied to my ps3?
I would sell my XV demo code
If i want XV i will buy XV
Not type-0
I understand people selling it, but to be perfectly honest if I can play a section of a game I’ve been looking foward to for a while, I would rather get a chance to play a part of it as soon as rather than having to wait another year 🙁
Fun Fact: Minimur12 is a casual gamer who only loves mindless first-person games
first-person shooter*
i to perfectly honest, I really dont. I haven’t although I have bought the most recent CoD, I only did so because I was on holiday when it came out, and it’s the only FPS I have for my Ps4, I’m more of a role playing gamer, Final Fantasy, GTA, Saints Row, The Last Of Us – those sorts of games! 🙂