Hey, I apologize I missed the last week. I got caught up with work 🙁 As for this week though it’s pretty packed, with some Shenmue 3 news, an excitable winner of an Xbox One, and more! 

We’ve got plenty up to read this week, including a few interesting links of news from the week prior at the bottom for you to take a gander at!

First up though, the announcement of the game Never Alone makes its way to PS3 and PS Vita.

The game is already on the PS4, but the recent announcement let us know it’ll be making its way to the 2 other Playstation  consoles, I reached out to @askplaystation and the developers but they have no news on whether or not it will support the PS TV

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/07/16/never-alone-gets-major-new-dlc-expansion-ps3-ps-vita-release-confirmed/

It was inevitable, but it’s finally happened, PlayStation Mobile is dead, gone. Forever.

It was a good idea, but unfortunately it didn’t take off like Sony were expecting, as for games that you’ve already purchased, you will have until the end of 10/09/2015 to download it, otherwise it is gone forever!

I recently bought 2 games from there before it shut down, Oh Deer! Alpha and Pixel Poop, yeah, I bought that (it’s not actually that bad a game if I may add!)

There weren’t too many interesting games on there, none that grabbed my attention too much. The two games I bought were both dirt cheap, about £0.40 each, and they’re good for a quick bit of fun.

Unfortunately though, if you head on to the PS Store now, you’ll be greeted with this:

For a larger image just click on it!

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstation-mobile-officially-closes-today/1100-6428907/

Can you break a world record?

Well, the game Shenmue 3 certainly did, breaking the record on Kickstarter for the most funded game, ending up with $6,333,295 – the total contribution of 69,320 backers, which is a heck of an achievement.

This game has had its fair amount of controversy, as it is receiving some funding from Sony, and supposedly other sources too. We are unaware of how much, which is obviously all under wraps. Only time will tell how big a game this is!

Are you one of those 69,000 backers?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-17-shenmue-3-breaks-kickstarter-funding-record

The Nathan Drake collection has been met with a fair bit of controversy, following the fact that UC2&3 doesn’t have multiplayer, in its place you get access to Uncharted 4 multiplayer Beta, but we’ve yet to see any footage of it so it’s easy to complain. It could well be better than UC2&3 put together, but it won’t be the same, I will wait to see more of this before jumping on board, as I have all 3 games on my PS3 and can’t warrant 3 more to put into my backlog!

In any case, the improvements that come with the collection, include a new difficulty called ‘brutal’ much like how TLoU featured a new ‘grounded’ difficulty as extra DLC post release.

As for gameplay, this unofficial video was released the other day. This was the only copy of it I could find as it seems to have been removed everywhere else.

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2015/07/uncharted_the_nathan_drake_collection_will_boast_a_brutal_difficulty_tier_on_ps4

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2015/07/heres_your_first_look_at_uncharted_the_nathan_drake_collection_on_ps4

For the few readers that are in the UK, Playstation Now is…. now in open Beta for all of us to try now, they do not currently offer a subscription, but it’s something that is in the works:

During the open beta there will be a wide selection of games available covering a host of genres and publishers. These will initially be available on two or 30 day rentals and range from £2.99 to £7.99 (pricing of individual games will vary according to the title in question).

They mentioned the time frame for the Vita and PS TV, to be coming later this year, but the open Beta is readily available on other devices like Bravia TV’s and Sony Blu-ray players:

*The PS Now open beta trial will be available on PS4, select Sony Bravia TVs and select Blu Ray Players:

Bravia TV’s:
Day 1 – 2015 Series: X94C, X93C, X90C, S85C, S80C, X85C, X83C, W85C, W80C, W75C, W70C Series
Later date – 2014 Series: X95B, X90B, S90B, X85B, W95B, W85B, W80B, W70B, W60B, W58B Series
Sony Blu-ray Players:
Day 1 – 2015 Series: BDP-S6500, BDP-S5500, BDP-S4500, BDP-S3500, BDP-S1500

http://www.vg247.com/2015/07/15/playstation-now-open-beta-uk/

Since the announcement of Fallout 4, many people have lost their mind, and might I say so myself it seems like it’s shaping up to be a pretty awesome game. A new piece of info that can put into perspective the scope of the game, bearing in mind they would be putting on the finishing touches on the game now, is the amount of dialogue in the game.

The dialogue options seem to be pretty intensive, with Todd Howard, game director on the game said how each character has done over 13,000 lines of dialogue over 2 years.

He went on to say how great the voice actors were, and how scenes may play out differently depending on what you choose:

We were lucky to find two great voice actors, and it’s interesting because she may read things or act things differently than he does. So scenes play out differently depending on whether you are playing the game as male or female.

This is certainly going to be a huge game, and it’s certainly on my radar. It’s only a matter of time before it’s in my Amazon basket though, I’m sure of it.

http://www.vg247.com/2015/07/17/fallout-4s-main-voice-actors-have-recorded-over-13000-lines-of-dialogue-in-2-years/

More fallout shelter news, something I covered a few weeks ago is that the android version is a few months away. But this article was on how much money the game has made, this free-to-play game, has made a total of $5.1million in the space of a month, which is pretty ridiculous, that’s a pretty large amount, but I can assure you that none of that $5 million is me, as I’m just sitting here with my android device.

http://www.destructoid.com/fallout-shelter-has-made-over-5-million-in-revenue-already-296135.phtml

Here’s something that makes me laugh no matter how many times I watch it. This young chap below, won an Xbox One during SD Comic Con with ESL, and he just couldn’t contain his excitement, so much so that he had to run away after he got his prize…… kinda.

Yaayy…….

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2015/07/this_kid_clearly_wishes_hed_won_a_ps4_at_comic_con

http://gameidealist.com/news/file-size-listed-for-god-of-war-3-remastered/

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/09/sony-responds-to-fans-calling-for-a-betterpsn/

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-is-getting-a-very-large-update-in-version-107/

http://news.xbox.com/2015/07/xbox-one-gears-of-war-ultimate-edition-bundle

http://news.xbox.com/2015/07/games-rare-replay-limited-edition-prints-and-vinyls

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/07/10/hatoful-boyfriend-hatches-on-ps4-and-ps-vita-this-month/

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/07/10/crypt-of-the-necrodancer-is-coming-to-ps4-and-ps-vita/

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