Playstation Teases With New Game Demos In Press Conference
Sony wants to get us all re-hyped for the holiday season, kicking off the second annual Playstation experience with a press conference, with announcements for PS4, and Playstation VR. Today at its keynote for this year's PlayStation Experience event, the company ran through several new titles that will be coming to the virtual reality headset. New games include Rez Infinite, a remake a on-the-rails wireframe shooter, and Ace Combat 7.
You can watch the full show here:
No release dates were given for any of the titles, as we also still don't know when PlayStation VR is actually coming out. Here's the list of today's reveals:
- Rez Infinite
- Eagle Flight
- Job Simulator
- Modern Zombie Taxi Co.
- Golem
- 100ft Robot Golf
- Zombie taxi
- Ace Combat 7
- Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin
- Ratchet & Clank - Coming on nApril 12th, for PS4
- Escape Run
At the start of the game, the prisoners have begun to riot, taking over the Guardian’s outposts and starships. While you and your fellow criminals run free within the confines of the prison space, the Guardian AI’s defense perimeter ensures that only ships capable of warp travel can truly escape.
In Dead Star’s primary game mode, you’ll fight in 10 vs. 10 matches against other players, piloting your ships in combat as you attempt to gain control of the prison. As you prove yourself in combat, you’ll also earn rewards, such as new paint styles, specialist crew members, or technologies for improving your ships.
Once you’ve found a Capital Ship, you and up to four of your friends can attempt to make an Escape Run out of the prison.
Dead Star is available for pre-order at the PlayStation Store at $14.99 for a limited time.
- Paragon - Epic Games' Paragon is coming to PS4 in 2016.
- Yakuza 5
Yakuza 5 is launching in the West on December 8th and Sony will also bringYakuza 0 to the Americas.
Taking place across five different cities in Japan, Yakuza 5 follows five protagonists who have been involved with various yakuza syndicates in the past. Through a series of events, the protagonists are forcibly dragged back into the seedy underworld of Japan and will need to rely on their fighting, driving, shooting, and dancing skills to survive.
Sony is also bringing back the 1980s by releasing Yakuza 0 to the Americas. Players will witness the rise of junior yakuza member Kazuma Kiryu, not yet the Dragon of Dojima, as he tries to regain his honor after a botched debt collection that ended in murder. Additionally, gamers will be able to play as Goro Majima, the Mad Dog of Shimano, as he tries to rejoin his clan.
- Full Throttle Remastered on PS4, PS Vita
Full Throttle Remastered on PS4 and PS Vita will complete the trilogy of Tim’s games from LucasArts that we’ve been given the chance to restore. The gane will feature all new artwork, with high resolution backgrounds and animation, with each one of the many thousands of frames being repainted by hand.
- Grim Fandango Remastered
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil, mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world.
Now, more than twenty years later, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music, and sound effects.
Players are able to switch back and forth between classic and remastered modes, and mix and match audio, graphics, and UI to their heart’s desire.
Day of the Tentacle is coming to PS4 and PS Vita early next year.
- Final Fantasy VII port
The port of the 2013 HD version made for PC is available on the PS4 today.This version is different than the Compared with the PS1 version that was made available on the PS3 years ago, this version runs at higher resolution and includes trophies, among other changes.
- Battleborn
Set in the distant future, Battleborn is a next-gen shooter from the creators of Borderlands featuring a band of 25 heroes in a fight to protect the universe’s very last star from a mysterious evil.
Battleborn will have a narrative-driven story mode that can be played online solo or cooperatively with up to five players. In addition, there will be three action-packed online competitive multiplayer modes with 10 players in 5v5 matches.
Battleborn is available today for digital pre-order on PS4.
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
Final Fantasy VII Remake includes a third-person, over-the-shoulder camera as its default viewpoint.
- Nioh
- Rez - Coming to PlayStation VR as Rez Infinite.
- Sparrow Racing League
Bungie's new Sparrow Racing League lets you break out your Sparrow show your friends that you're not just the best shooter around - you can also take down your opponents on the track. You'll also be able to win new Sparrow speedsters, The three-week event that will be available for owners of The Taken King expansion. The event all starts on December 8th.
- MLB 16: The Show: The baseball franchise from Sony's San Diego Studio is looking to hit it out of the park once again this March.
- Nuclear Throne - Nuclear Throne is available now on PlayStation 4 and Vita, while the Steam version officially hits version 1.0.
- Street Fighter V: F.A.N.G
F.A.N.G, the final character of Street Fighter V’s starting roster, finally emerges from the shadows to take his spot as the second in command of Shadaloo. F.A.N.G is an assassin whose unique poison attacks leave him second only to M. Bison himself. F.A.N.G introduces a series first mechanic; poison. Whenever his poison attacks connect, they continuously deal damage to the opponent’s life bar until he gets hit or the poison runs its course.
F.A.N.G in Street Fighter V launches on February 16th.
- A beta for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
- STAR WARS Battlefront 500GB Bundle
This Limited Edition Star Wars Battlefront PlayStation 4 Bundle is Featuring a customized PlayStation 4 and DualShock 4 wireless controller inspired by Darth Vader. It also includes a voucher containing four Star Wars Classics.
A Few PS2 Games Coming To PS4
Sony also confirmed that select few PS2 games are coming to PS4.
This is a bit dissapointing - instead of simply allowing gamers to use their prior library of PS2 games on the PS4 they will have to pay for new versions via the PlayStation Store on the system. Even if they have the games on disc already.
Admittedly, the approach being used by Microsoft is still limiting the number of 360 games available to play on the Xbox One but you don’t have to pay for them again. As you can use the original 360 discs on the console.