Welcome to another instalment in our weekly news digest where the team at PSU Towers picks our favourite slices of PlayStation-related gossip from the past seven days. See below for the week’s highlights by clicking the links provided.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 21
PS4’s Killzone: Shadow Fall goes gold
PlayStation 4 launch title Killzone: Shadow Fall has officially gone gold, Guerrilla Games’ Angie Smets has confirmed.
Battlefield 5 teased by DICE, due in ‘just a few years’
The New York Times reports that the successor to DICE’s Battlefield 4 will hit stores in just a few years.
PS4’s $1,800 cost in Brazil due to exorbitant ‘import taxes and fees’
Last week, we reported that PlayStation 4 will cost the equivalent of 1,800 U.S. Dollars in Brazil. It’s a stupefyingly exorbitant price, but apparently, there’s good reason for it: a great deal of import fees and taxes are being levied against Sony Computer Entertainment America in the process of shipping PS4s to Brazil.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
PS4 cross-game chat will support up to 8 players
PlayStation 4’s cross-game chat feature will support up to eight players, according to Sony Computer Entertainment Social Media boss, Sid Shuman.
Dragon’s Dogma 2, Devil May Cry 5 hinted at by Capcom
The director behind Dragon’s Dogma has expressed interest in a sequel to the Capcom fantasy-RPG, possibly for PlayStation 4.
DualShock 4 original design was like Xbox 360 pad
Sony’s head of product planning department has revealed that the PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 pad went through some original designs that resembled the Xbox 360 controller.
PSN mobile site now ready for purchasing on the go
Sony has now unleashed the mobile site for the Sony Entertainment Network, or PlayStation Network.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23
Sony’s Kaz Hirai to deliver keynote at CES 2014
Kazuo Hirai, President and CEO of Sony Corporation, has been confirmed to deliver a keynote at the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this coming January.
Xbox One and PS4 almost identical, says Resident Evil creator
Shinji Mikami, creator of Resident Evil, has been interviewed in this week’s Edge magazine, where he has given his thoughts on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.
Amazon gifts Watch Dogs PS4 bundle customers with $10 credit toward select PS4 games
When Ubisoft announced the delay of its E3 2013-award-winning Watch Dogs to Early 2014, PS4 pre-order customers were understandably jilted, as Amazon’s popular PS4 launch bundle containing the open-world shooter was cancelled in kind.
EA ‘firm longterm supporters of Sony,’ says EA boss
With EA’s recent deals with Microsoft, many believe that the company is taking sides with the new consoles, but EA has refuted that and believes that the company is neutral and wants to give the same treatment to Sony and the PlayStation 4.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24
Assassin’s Creed 4, Watch Dogs PS4 content is time-exclusive only
Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 4-exclusive content featured in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Watch Dogs will only remain so for six months.
PS4 will allow you to use your real name online at launch
IGN has Tweeted confirmation that PlayStation 4 will allow gamers to use their real name for all of the console’s online services at launch.
Killzone: Shadow Fall PlayGo download is 7.5GB
Guerrilla Games has revealed that PlayStation 4 launch title Killzone: Shadow Fall’s PlayGo download will weigh in at 7.5GB.
Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us heading to PS Vita
The Wolf Among Us, the first post-Walking Dead effort from the storytellers at Telltale Games, is coming to PS Vita later this year.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
BioShock: Infinite Burial at Sea – Episode One release date confirmed
2K Games has staple-gunned a release date to BioShock: Infinite’s hotly-anticipated Burial at Sea expansion.
PS4 system update 1.50 releasing at launch, implementing chat, PS Vita-integration features
Sony has announced that early adopters of the PlayStation 4 will have a hearty, but not too sizely, system software update to download.
GTA, The Last of Us triumph at Golden Joystick Awards 2013
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V nabbed the Game of the Year gong at the Golden Joystick Awards 2013 earlier today.
PS4 ‘review event and launch celebration’ set for November 11 and 12
A number of press outlets in the video game industry have received an invitation to a mysterious PlayStation 4 event in New York City on November 11 and 12