Sony PS officially announced that it will hold a press conference on February 1
PlayStation officially announced that the first State of Play conference in 2024 will be held at 6:00 a.m. Beijing time on February 1, with a duration of about 40 minutes.
Officially, as many as 15 games will be unveiled in turn at the press conference, including "Rise of the Ronin" and "Star Blade".
According to previous revelations, "Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth", "Sonic Generation Remake", "Silent Hill 2", "Metro" new works and "Judas" and other works may release new information, in addition, the new multiplayer FPS game "Concord" developed by Firewalk Studios may also bring new news.
PS: The Spring Festival discount for Hong Kong will start on January 31
According to the official push of PlayStation Hong Kong service, the PS store will usher in a new wave of discount activities on January 31, seamlessly connecting with the current January discount activities.
There are also many masterpieces such as "Street Fighter 6", "Shenhai 4" and "EA FC24" in this January 1 promotion, and interested players can also pay attention to it.
The Last of Us 2 Remastered sold twice as much as its predecessor
According to Tech4Gamers, the original "The Last of Us 2" sold 44% less than the original generation, but Sony's remake strategy seems to make up for this gap.
Gamesindustry has counted the current sales of The Last of Us 2: Remastered in the UK, and according to preliminary data, the remastered game has sold twice as much as the Last of Us Part 1 remake, and it should be noted that the sales of the $10 upgrade for The Last of Us 2: Remastered are not counted.
Media analysis pointed out that most of the differences may come from the current larger PS5 install base. Millions of new gamers now own PS5 consoles compared to 2022, with Sony shipping 50 million units last year.
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth is almost not enough on both discs
The physical version of Final Fantasy 7 Reborn will have two discs, but recently the game's co-producers said that both discs were barely enough.
Toriyama says that FF7 Rebirth is so rich that it can be made into three discs! He said that two discs seem like a lot, but in fact, they have to do their best to fit the content into two discs.
The PS5 has a disc capacity of 100G, while Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth requires two discs which may mean that the size of the game is approaching 200G. The game will be released on February 29th, and players may want to consider cleaning up the storage space on their PS5.
Blizzard is also rumored to have an unannounced fantasy IP game
According to the personal LinkedIn of Mick Mudry, a former employee of Blizzard, he worked on two fantasy IP projects from May 2021 ~ July 2022 during his tenure at Blizzard. Since "Project Oddessy", a fantasy 3A survival IP game, has been announced to be canceled on January 25, 2024 when Microsoft's game department is laid off (1,900 people were laid off, and all members of the Odyssey project team were laid off), this means that Blizzard still has an unannounced fantasy IP game.
As for Blizzard's "Odyssey" project, it was originally officially announced in January 2022 and will be available on PC and consoles, when Blizzard said that the game would take players to a whole new universe. Bloomberg game reporter Jason Schreier once broke the news that the project has been in development for more than 6 years and has gameplay similar to "Minecraft" and "Rust".
Dragon's Dogma 2 has only one save slot
According to Gaminigbolt, Capcom's upcoming action RPG Dragon Dogma 2 will have only one save slot.
IGN Japan confirmed this in a recent preview of Dragon Dogma 2: "There is only one save slot in the game, which is shared by autosave and manual save. "Players who wish to make multiple saves and want to return to their previous save point may be a little disappointed.
Given the game's restrictions on fast travel and its emphasis on game immersion, players who are used to traditional open-world titles can be a bit of a burden.
It was revealed that the new work of "Metro" is a VR game
PS The new phase of the exhibition has been confirmed to be held on February 1, and before the official announcement, Xbox Era co-founder Nick Baker broke the news of the exact time of the conference. In the game lineup that he broke the news, there is a "Metro" game.
Now, according to Kurakasis, this new title from 4A Games is called Metro Awakening and is a VR game. If it's a VR game, it makes sense to be on the PS show (PS VR2).
The new work of "Deus Ex" was cut
According to Eurogamer, the new game of Deus Ex from the Eidos Montreal studio, which has been in development for about 2 years, has been canceled.
Following the cancellation of the project, the Eidos Montreal studio issued a statement confirming that the studio had laid off 97 employees. As of 2022, the studio has 481 employees. It said it was affected by the global economic environment, industry challenges and Embracer's announcement of a comprehensive restructuring that resulted in the dismissal of 97 people from the development team, management and support services.
According to reports, those employees who remain will work on the new original series. The now-canceled new Deus Ex franchise was supposed to be in full production later this year.
"Suicide Squad" was taken offline urgently
Rocksteady's Suicide Squad was already in Early Access in some regions, but less than an hour after the Early Access was released, officials were forced to take the server offline because players encountered an auto-complete error after logging in for the first time.
The first region to go live is as usual New Zealand, and many Xbox players have already been able to start playing early by switching regions.
However, less than an hour after the game went live, Rocksteady took the server offline and told players that it was due to the need to investigate a bug in auto-complete and that server maintenance would last for several hours.
"Planet of the Zoo" may be coming to consoles
Zoo management sim Zoo Stars has released a new video on social media that appears to hint at the game's imminent arrival on consoles, focusing the camera on a console controller with two zoo employees chatting in the background.
Released in 2019, Planet Zoo is only available on PC so far, with player reviews on Steam as "very positive" (90%).