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, SEPTEMBER 1
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 announced for PS4
The next Resident Evil game is Resident Evil: Revelations 2.
Persona 5 coming to PS4 in 2015
Persona 5 is officially a next-gen title. The turn-based RPG, previously revealed for PS3, will now also launch on PlayStation 4 when it releases next year
PS4 theme support inbound with update 2.0, PS Vita 3.30
The long-awaited support for themes on PS4’s tile-centric interface is nearing completion with news that hardware update 2.0 will feature the option, as will PS Vita with its hardware update 3.30.
Beyond: Two Souls PS4 rumors gather pace as Trophies appear online
Beyond: Two Souls’ long-rumored PlayStation 4 port appears to be inching closer to a formal announcement following the appearance of a Trophy list online.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
The Last of Us: Remastered joins Killzone, inFAMOUS: Second Son in the PS4 1 million club
The Last of Us: Remastered has sold one million copies worldwide since its launch in July, Sony has announced.
Tekken Team working on Summer Lesson, a Project Morpheus VR school girl game
During Sony PlayStation’s pre-Tokyo Game Show 2014 press conference, Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada unveiled a new project his team is working on: Summer Lesson, a game that uses the Project Morpheus virtual reality headset.
Dead or Alive 5: Last Round PS4 runs at 1080p/60fps
Tecmo Koei has confirmed that upcoming brawler Dead or Alive 5: Last Round will run at 1080p/60fps on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
Street Fighter IV dev staffing up for new fighting game
Capcom is beavering away on a new beat-’em-up title, according to the latest from Street Fighter IV legend, Yoshinori Ono.
Project CARS speeding onto PS4 on November 21
Slightly Mad Studios’ scrupulous new racing simulator Project CARS has finally gotten a concrete U.K. release date – and it confirms what publisher Bandai Namco had previously divulged back in April.
The Evil Within now hitting U.K. day-and-date with U.S. release
Bethesda has confirmed that The Evil Within will now be released in the U.K. alongside its U.S. counterpart on October 14.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
Sony ‘waiting for the right moment to reintroduce’ The Last Guardian
President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has once again commented on the long-awaited update to The Last Guardian’s ill-fated development cycle, saying that the company’s ‘’waiting for the right moment to reintroduce’’ the game.
GAME has obviously forgotten that Rise of the Tomb Raider isn’t coming to PS4
U.K. retailer GAME is curiously accepting pre-orders for Rise of the Tomb Raider on PlayStation 4, despite the fact the game was only recently confirmed as exclusive to Xbox One.
Destiny live-action trailer: Get hyped for September 9
Bungie has released a live-action trailer to celebrate the imminent launch of Destiny on PS4 and PS3.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
GTA V PS4 delayed until spring 2015, says retailer
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Grand Theft Auto V have been delayed until spring 2015, according to Australian retailer, Big W (via GamePur).
Mortal Kombat X will be released on PS4 and PS3 on April 14, 2015
Mortal Kombat X release date and pre-order incentive announced.
PS4 dev slams Xbox One’s indie game ‘launch parity’ policy
Killbrite Studios, who is currently working on the indie title Among The Sleep for PS4, has slammed Microsoft’s current ‘launch parity’ policy which prevents indies from launching their games on Xbox One if they choose to first release them on PlayStation platforms.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 information blowout
The November issue of evergreen U.K. multiformat gaming magazine Gamesmaster has been released prematurely to subscribers and within it lies an information blowout regarding Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Capcom’s much-hyped sequel to the cruise ship-orientated original.