Be Excellent To Each Other

Falling simulator coming to PS4. This needed a wider audience (cause it's darn good) but I doubt it will have the tactile feel of the Vita version. Still, good news for gamers if you ask me.

Gravity Rush. Previously a Vita exclusive. I quite liked it but not enough to finish it.

Everything you need to know about PS4 system software 3.00, out tomorrow

PS4’s 3.00 system software, codename: Kenshin, is available tomorrow. We want to extend our sincere thanks to everyone that participated in the beta. We’ve listened to your feedback and made this system software update even better.

There are a lot of changes in this update, from entirely new features to UI enhancements. While we detailed its key features earlier this month, we wanted to give you an overview of our favourite new additions. This update is focused on creating new ways to connect with friends and players around the world, expanding the social capabilities of the system even further.

Events: A new Events app has been added to PS4, accessible from the home screen. This will give you an overview of activities taking place in the games you play most, as well as official broadcasts.

For instance, this week we have a double XP racing event in Driveclub and a Team of the Week Event in FIFA 16, you can register directly from the Events app. Once registered you can utilise the auto-boot functionality to set your PS4 to automatically turn on and launch the game and Event at the Event start time. Stay tuned for new gaming events and broadcasts.

Communities: PS4 users will have the ability to create and join communities based around shared interests, like games, genres, and more. Communities include a message board with general discussion, screenshots shared by players, and the ability to join parties/games. You can find the Communities for the games you own on the game’s live detail page. See the Communities your friends have joined in the Friends app.


PlayStation Plus: We’ve made a dedicated section for PlayStation Plus, which you can access from your PS4’s home screen. Once there you can easily manage your membership, see the monthly free games to download, as well as deals for PS Plus members, and all of the games you’ve redeemed through PS Plus on PS4. And a reminder to PS Plus members, your online storage for PS4 saves has now increased to 10GB.

Sharing video clips to Twitter: Now it’s easy to share video clips to Twitter directly from your PS4. Maximum video length is 10 seconds, though you’ll have the ability to trim longer clips. Don’t forget – you can double tap the SHARE button to start recording a video, and press it again to stop.

YouTube live: Now you can livestream directly from your PS4 to YouTube. Livestreams will be viewable across YouTube.
Request to Share Play and Broadcast: Want to try out your friend’s new game? Now you can Request to start a Share Play session or watch your friend play via a Broadcast. Your friend can chose to start a Share Play session or begin a Broadcast.

Live from PlayStation: Keep up with the hottest gaming trends by viewing the most popular broadcasts, video clips, and screenshots uploaded from around the world.

PNG Screenshots: If you’d like your game screenshots to be in a higher quality format, you can now select PNG instead of JPEG. To access, press Share > Share Settings > Screenshot Settings > Image Format. We took some comparison shots.

Favourite Groups: We’ve added the option for Favourite Groups to the Friends app, making it easier to access groups of people you play games with frequently. You can see we have favorite groups for Call of Duty, Rocket League, and (of course) our Destiny fireteam. Once you’re in the favourite group, you’ll see the online status for players, what games they are playing, and the option to message or chat in party.

Stickers: From the PS4 system’s Messages app, you’ll see a new option for Stickers. The 3.00 update will contain stickers themed around Uncharted 4, Knack, Little Big Planet3, Resogun, and more.

We’re constantly striving to make PS4 even better, and appreciate all the feedback! We hope you enjoy the Kenshin update, and let us know what you think in the Comments below.

Being able to play a cd would be nice

Firmware 3.0 due out tomorrow - list of new stuff

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/09/ ... r=36969785

Objection.

Objection.

I'm not conviced you'll be able to see much difference between a minimum-compression .jpg and a .png though, and the .png will be pretty huge.

Yeah, that. Lossless jpeg exists as a standard, even though it's basically a bitmap.

Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival is coming exclusively to PS4 and PS Vita

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2015/10/14/dino-dinis-kick-off-revival-is-coming-exclusively-to-ps4-and-ps-vita/

In spite of the fact that the only thing at the cottage that I was vaguely interested in was a playable teaser that I wouldn't be able to download for a game that isn't coming out anyway, I appear to have read this entire thread since getting home.

Just saying.

Multiplayer is tempting though...

N++ is the best PS4 exclusive so far.

Well, quite.

For real 'next'-gensies what about:

Batman: Arkham Knight
Bloodborne
The Crew
Not a Hero
The Talos Principle

??

I didn't really enjoy whichever "new" Batman game I played, and I have no idea what the rest of those are, I am immensely out of touch. My biggest concern is "do I have room for it under the tv?"

I have a lot of 360 games that are on my "I'll play them at some point" list.

But I might do.
And that time is now (or soon).
Which is why I'm considering a PS4. No, hang on.

Also, various lego games.

New Metroidvania Axiom Verge looks pretty good. Well, actually, it doesn't look that good at all as it's slavish homage to 8-bit graphics is pretty fucking dull but it sounds like it plays very well indeed.

Yesterday I got, and happily accepted, a Real Name request from myp on PSN. It did make me notice though that there's a Facebook style 'people you might know' panel on the dashboard and for all the people it suggested (Curiosity, the Doc and The Egg) it gave me their username and their real name. It seems a bit farcical to make people you're actually friends with specially request you real name if you're going to cheerily displaying it to potential strangers.

Friends of Friends

Set whether to display your real name and profile picture to the close Friends of your close Friends. Your real name and profile picture will appear in the Friends lists of your close Friends, making it easier for others to find you.

It shows you the real names of close friends of close friends. You can change this in the settings if you don't want it to.

I think it makes the assumption if we're good enough friends to know each other's real names, anyone else whose real names I know are also that.

My problem was that when I accepted Myp's real name request, my massive TV was suddenly full of his profile picture, which is a close up of his gurning face.

My problem was that when I accepted Myp's real name request, my massive TV was suddenly full of his profile picture, which is a close up of his gurning face.