By Anonymous on May 28, 2015 12:04 am
A new Bloodborne patch was released earlier this week, but the only update notes Sony made available with it were in Japanese (or exceedingly vague). We now have the full English patch notes, as well as a look at a new Bloodborne-inspired ShareFactory theme. As we already knew, among the 1.04 update's changes is the ability to play cooperatively with others regardless of your respective levels, so long as you are using a password. This ensures you are deliberately trying to join up with certain players; when you don't use a password, and thus are being matched up with random players online, you'll still have to be within 10 levels or so of each other.  Chalice Dungeons have been reworked in a number of ways. You can now buy Short Ritual Root Chalices (used to join up with other Chalice players online) with Insight, while random rewards have been added to bosses. Coinciding with the release of this week's patch is an update for ShareFactory, the PS4's video editor. A new, free Bloodborne theme is coming on June 2 that will let you further customize your videos with Bloodborne content, as pictured above. Read on for the full patch notes. If you haven't already picked the game up, you can get it right now for $40. Bloodborne 1.04 patch notes:System- When players use a password, they will be matched regardless of level difference.
- As long as the other player uses the same password, members of enemy covenants can also play co-op.
- The Insight Shop will now appear when players have more than 1 Insight.
- Blood Stone Chunks can now be acquired by trading Insight.
- *Players must advance the story to a certain point before Blood Stone Chunks become available.
- The maximum number of Blood Vials and Quicksilver Bullets which can be stored has been increased from 99 to 600.
Game Balance- Enemy strength in several New Game + areas has been adjusted.
- Enemy resistance to arcane and bolt attacks have been adjusted.
- Beasthood is now easier to increase. This allows players to have stronger attack for a longer period.
- The Beast Blood Pellet changed so that Beasthood will increase when used.
- A bug that occurred while using Rifle Spear as a rifle has been fixed.
- In particular, its damage when Blood Gems have been affixed has been fixed.
- The use of Stamina when wielding the Kirkhammer has been reduced.
- The use of Stamina when wielding Logarius' Wheel has been reduced.
- The duration of the effect when the Old Hunger's Bone is being used has been extended. Fewer Quicksilver Bullets will be consumed.
- Increased stat scaling for the Tiny Tonitrus. The Strength of attack when the arcane stat is low has been increased.
- Increased stat scaling for Augur of Ebrietas. The Strength of attack when the arcane stat is low has been increased.
- Number of Quicksilver Bullets consumed by A Call Beyond has been reduced.
- Number of Quicksilver Bullets consumed by the Choir Bell has been reduced.
Chalice Dungeons- Players can now acquire a Short Ritual Root Chalice by trading Insight. The Chalice will become available after completing the Pthumeru Chalice dungeon. Players can now use the Short Ritual Root Chalice's quick matching feature in the early part of the game.
- Random drops added to the reward given by bosses in Chalice Dungeon Materials to upgrade weapons, including Blood Gemstone, will be dropped randomly. Materials that can be obtained will change depending on the depth of the dungeon.
- Depth 1: Blood Stone Shards
- Depth 2: Twin Blood Stone Shards
- Depth 3: Twin Blood Stone Shards, Blood Stone Chunks
- Depth 4: Blood Stone Chunks
- Depth 5: Blood Stone Chunks, Blood Rocks
- The Rank of Blood Gemstones appearing in Depth 1-3 Chalice Dungeons has been boosted.
- More Blood Echoes will be obtained when enemies in Chalice Dungeons are hunted.
- The guest player's HP will drop to 50% instead of 65% in a Cursed Chalice Dungeon.
- When using a Short Ritual Root Chalice for co-op play, the guest player will always start from the Lamp room of each floor.
- Special weapons that have been obtained in a Chalice Dungeon, such as Uncanny or Lost will become available for purchase chase from the Bath Messengers.
- Upon obtaining a special weapon such as an Uncanny or Lost weapon in a Chalice Dungeon, it will become available for purchase at the Bath Messengers.
Other Adjustments and Changes- Brightness of the screen when Blood Echoes are acquired has been adjusted.
- A bug that disconnected players from online mode during standby mode has been fixed.
- During Multiplayer, there was an issue of enemies not displaying properly when they move quickly, on the guest's screen. This bug has been fixed.
- Other adjustments and bug fixes.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 11:41 pm
2012 action role-playing game Darksiders II is getting a definitive edition. Now we know what it's called and what the box art looks like courtesy of an Amazon product page that appears to have gone live early.  The new version is reportedly called the "Deathinitive Edition," a title that it both amazing and terrible. In Darksiders II, you play as Death, one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse; so the name does make some sense. The $40 Deathinitive Edition is listed only for PlayStation 4, while the page provides a December 31, 2015 placeholder release date. There is no word on an Xbox One version. We've contacted publisher Nordic Games for more details. Darksiders II was one of the final releases from now-defunct publisher THQ, and was released to critical acclaim in August 2012. Upon its launch on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, GameSpot critic Kevin VanOrd wrote: "Darksiders II is remarkably well put together, particularly in light of its impressive scope." The Darksiders franchise found no buyer in THQ's initial bankruptcy auction. However, Nordic Games later acquired the rights to the series in a multimillion dollar deal.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 11:31 pm
 Amazon is tossing in a free year of PlayStation Plus with the Last of Us Remastered PS4 bundle for $400. The Super Mario 3D World/Nintendo Land Wii U bundle can be had for $260 on eBay. Bayonetta 2 (which includes the original Bayonetta) is $45 at GameStop. Amazon and Best Buy both have Bloodborne for $40. Gamers Club Unlocked gets the price down to $32 at Best Buy. Toys R Us has Destiny for $20 on Xbox One and PS4. Target Cartwheel has a 25% off deal on Far Cry 4. Combined with the current $30 price, you can get the game for $22.50. Best Buy is offering a $10 gift card with the purchase of Mortal Kombat X on PS4 or Xbox One ($60, $48 with Gamers Club Unlocked). You can preorder a pair of games through Dell--The Elder Scrolls Online or Batman: Arkham Knight--and receive a $15 Dell gift card. Below you'll find the rest of today's best deals divided by platform: PlayStation 4Walmart is offering The Last of Us Remastered PS4 bundle with an extra controller or Battlefield Hardline for $399. Alternatively, you can add $10 to get The Witcher 3 or Mortal Kombat X. Groupon has the Last of Us Remastered PS4 bundle with copies of Alien: Isolation and Call of Duty: Ghosts for $420. EBay has seller-refurbished PS4s for $324. Groupon has manufacturer-refurbished systems for $340. Trade in a working 250 GB Xbox 360 or PS3 Slim and get at least $175 toward a new PS4 at Best Buy. Preorder the Batman: Arkham Knight PS4 bundle at Dell and get three free months of PlayStation Plus and a $25 Dell gift card. Additionally, you can bring the price down from $420 to $400 by using the promo code: 6980X63DCJNXSP Buy a PS4 (including the $400 Last of Us Remastered bundle) and get a free copy of Destiny at Best Buy. The PlayStation Store has kicked off a sale on Deep Silver games, offering discounts like the Saints Row IV: Re-Elected + Gat Out of Hell PS4 bundle for $15.49. It also has a separate, PlayStation Plus member-only sale, bringing Bloodborne and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin down to $48 each, among other deals. Other PS4 game deals: PlayStation Plus' free games for May are now available and include Guacamelee, Murasaki Baby, Hohokum, The Unfinished Swan, and more. June's free games were announced today. Xbox OneWalmart is offering the Halo Master Chief Collection Xbox One bundle with a free second controller or Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for $349. Adding $10 more lets you get Battlefield Hardline in place of Advanced Warfare, while $20 more lets you pick either Witcher 3 or Mortal Kombat X. You can buy a year of Xbox Live Gold on eBay for $37. Best Buy will take $20 off the price of a one-year Xbox Live Gold membership when you buy any Xbox 360 or Xbox One. Microsoft's latest Deals With Gold promotion is on, discounting a handful of Xbox One and Xbox 360 games, such as Alien: Isolation for $24 and Screamride for $27. You can check out all the deals here. Other Xbox One game deals: May's free Games With Gold games are now available on Xbox One and Xbox 360 and include CastleStorm and F1 2013. PCGreen Man Gaming is offering steep discounts on the Tomb Raider and Thief series, including Tomb Raider: Game of the Year Edition or the latest Thief for $7.49 each. Buy a GeForce GTX 980 or GTX 970 and you'll get free copies of The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight. The latest Humble Weekly Bundle on adventure games has just a day left. Get 20 percent off at Green Man Gaming with the promo code: GET20P-ERCENT-OFFNOW Ultima VIII: Gold Edition is free on Origin. Other PC game deals: Wii UIf you don't mind a refurbished system, Nintendo's online store has a Wii U bundle with Nintendo Land for $200, or Nintendo Land and Super Mario 3D World for $225.  The new Humble Bundle is offering a number of Wii U (and 3DS) games on the cheap, marking the first time a Humble Bundle has ever offered console or handheld games. Buy a Wii U at Target, and you can get 50 percent off four different games: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Mario Kart 8, Mario Party 10, and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Pick up Splatoon at Target and you'll get a free Splatoon-branded water gun. 3DSWalmart is offering a New 3DS XL bundle with Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and your choice of select Amiibo figurines for $219. Alternatively, the retailer has a New 3DS XL bundle with your choice of select games and a Pokemon figurine for $219-$227. Eligible games include Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Code Name: Steam, and quite a few more. Target has an exclusive red 2DS bundle with Yoshi's New Island for $90. Groupon is selling the 3DS XL Super Mario Bros. 2 Gold Edition, which includes the game and a limited-edition system, for $175. The new Humble Bundle includes several 3DS games. PS VitaHardwareAmazon prices are accurate as of publishing, but can fluctuate occasionally throughout the day. GameSpot's gaming deals posts always highlight the best deals we can find regardless of retailer. We also occasionally use retailer affiliate links, which means that purchasing goods through those links helps support all the great content (including the deals posts) you find for free here on the site.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 11:12 pm
 Try keeping track of Tracer in this complete, unedited match from an early version of Overwatch.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 10:41 pm
 In June, PS Plus membership includes Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-a-Fide Edition, Cloudberry Kingdom, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Super Exploding Zoo, and Futuridium EP Deluxe.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 10:30 pm
 With controversial game Hatred hitting Steam next week, we discuss the history of violent games and ask whether or not a game can ever be too violent.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 09:40 pm
Dragon Age: Inquisition's first major paid expansion, Jaws of Hakkon, is now available on new platforms. Following its release in March for Xbox One and PC, the expansion can now be purchased on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Xbox 360 for $15. The content was released in March first on Xbox One and PC by way of an exclusivity arrangement between Microsoft and BioWare studio owner Electronic Arts. Set in an overgrown wilderness populated by the Avvar hunter people, the content sees players exploring an "ancient Tevinter fortress that hides a dangerous secret." Gamers can also expect to face off against new enemies, and amass new legendary armor and weapons. Jaws of Hakkon concludes with a battle against an "ancient god of war bent on destroying the world." In GameSpot's 7/10 Jaws of Hakkon review, critic Austin Walker praised its new perspective on the Dragon Age lore and its gorgeous and varied environments. But Walker also wrote that Jaws of Hakkon lacks the cinematic storytelling of the base game, and notes that a few missions can be boring.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 09:33 pm
A lorry transporting a shipment of Splatoon stock from Nintendo of Europe's warehouse to UK retailer Game has been stolen. Game alerted its customers through email of its inability to fulfil some orders of the special edition of the game. "We regret to inform you that the lorry transporting the Splatoon stock from Nintendo's European warehouse to Game UK has been stolen," reads the message. "Included in this delivery was our allocation of the Splatoon + Squid Inkling Amiibo." "As a result, we are unable to honour your original pre-order due for deliver on the 29th of May 2015." According to the retailer it will be unable to acquire replacements and is instead substituting in the standard edition of Splatoon. Customers will still receive the Inkling Girl and Inkling Boy Amiibo. The standard edition of Splatoon will be discounted by £10 as an apology for the extraordinary circumstances. Orders of the game will be sent by first class post on May 29, when Splatoon will be released in the UK. Customers can also choose to cancel the complete order, or cancel the game and place an order for just the Amiibo. Read our Splatoon review in progress for more on Nintendo's quirky new team-based shooter.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 09:30 pm
[UPDATE] PlayStation Experience tickets are now available through the event's website here. The original story is below. Sony on Thursday announced plans to livestream its E3 2015 media briefing at movie theaters across the United States and Canada as part of a promotion called "PlayStation E3 Experience." This is the second year of PlayStation E3 Experience. Tickets sold out very quickly last year, so Sony is increasing the number of theaters for the 2015 event by 150 percent to more than 75. At least one theater in every state across the US--including Hawaii and Alaska--will host the event. Plus, three cities in Canada will take part. Like last year's event, PlayStation E3 Experience will be free. You can grab a ticket on Wednesday, May 27, starting at 9 AM PDT / 12 noon EDT through this special website, which will also provide a list of all participating theaters. Eighty percent of theater capacity will be reserved for ticket-holders, while the remaining 20 percent will be available for people on the wait list. Everyone in attendance will get to watch Sony's entire E3 briefing, as well as a 30-minute show hosted by Geoff Keighley and featuring developer interviews immediately following the event. Plus, attendees will go home with a "PlayStation surprise" to be revealed later. Last year, this prize was pretty nice--early access to the Destiny alpha and a code to play the Battlefield Hardline beta, as well as some physical goodies. Sony's E3 briefing is scheduled for Monday, June 15, starting at 6 PM PDT / 9 PM EDT. GameSpot will be on the ground in Los Angeles bringing you all the news as it happens. For more on E3 2015, check out GameSpot's roundup of the dates and times for all the briefings.
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 09:21 pm
Sony today announced the free games PlayStation Plus members will receive in June, a list headlined by Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. PS4, PS3, and PS Vita each get two games of their own, but thanks to cross-buy, PS4 owners will receive a total of four free games next week. All six games will go free on Tuesday, June 2, replacing the existing set of freebies for May. If you haven't already downloaded May's games, you have until then to do so. Read on for the full list of June's free games in North America and Europe: PlayStation 4:PlayStation 3:PlayStation Vita:
By Anonymous on May 27, 2015 05:07 am
In Sunset, you sweep dusty floors, wash spotted windows, and fold a stranger's well-pressed, tailored clothes--every week for a full year. These acts might sound routine and tedious, but when you're rooted in the fictional Latin American country of Anchuria during a 1972 military coup, a ritualistic comfort goes along with carefully making a bed or unclogging the upstairs sink. Still, uncertainty lies even within these constants because the man whose house you maintain has ties to the political and cultural turmoil engulfing the streets. Sunset beautifully pairs its dull corners with a sharp, sociopolitical edge, and while its inconsistent pacing and nagging technical hiccups blur the vision, there's an unquestionable beauty in watching the sunset kiss the tips of skyscrapers as another somber day comes to a close. No matter the time of day, Sunset is a beautiful game. You'll spend Sunset's four-hour run with Angela Burns, an African-American engineer working as a housekeeper to cover her hefty school bills. Angela works for the affluent art collector Gabriel Ortega, whom Angela gets to know solely through his surplus of sculptures and paintings, his eclectic taste in literature, and a series of notes on which you can write personal responses. You become most intimately acquainted with the actual apartment, though, which both subtly and dramatically morphs as the revolution outside its walls progresses. It's a character all its own, and you grow accustomed to its many distinguishing features--such as the deep closet dug into Ortega's bedroom, the neatly prepared chess board in the game room that pines for players, and, maybe most importantly, the wide windows by the patio that act as a thin veil between calm and chaos. How this apartment is decorated and what you do during each in-game hour is up to you. If you feel compelled to go above and beyond the to-do list and hang up pictures of Ortega's accomplishments, you have the option. If you just don't feel up to lifting a finger on a cool September evening, you can simply turn around, open the elevator doors, and call it a night. The diary entries tend to provide the most poignant writing. You do work within boundaries, though. You can't throw a chair in the fireplace or send the grand piano out the window and into the streets (I tried), but the chores you're assigned have variations. You're given a warm and a cool option when you hover your cursor over a task, which determines whether you want to add some personality to the work or complete the task plainly. You can decorate the second floor with bright, floral wallpaper or slap on whatever drab design Ortega has tucked away in the closet. The material of the rug in front of the fireplace, the color of the fresh coat of paint on the bar walls, the care taken when stitching a patch into a ripped piece of clothing--this system provides a fork in every road. How these decisions affect actual change in the grand scheme of things isn't always clear, but they do act as a silent, day-to-day means of communication between you and Ortega. Much of the storytelling in this first-person experience is visual, but Angela's running monologue provides direct context for each week's happenings and her current feelings toward Ortega. In addition, Angela can sit on a canvas-wrapped chair located within the apartment at any time to begin scribbling notes into her diary. Beyond questioning Ortega's intentions and worrying for her rebel brother's safety during the conflict, she digs deeper into her interpretation of Ortega's art, the social differences between Anchuria and her hometown of Baltimore, and her place in this unstable country. This is where the superb writing shines brightest, and while the text's sluggish scroll quickly drains precious minutes before the sun sets, it's worth your time to drink it all in. Continuing to clean while buildings burn just down the street is real dedication to your job. Depending on how often you complete tasks and reply to notes with a warm sensibility, a strong romantic bond begins to form between tenant and housekeeper. It starts as an innocent flirtation, but as the revolution escalates, so do their feelings toward one another. And while the passion isn't capped by a nightly embrace and kiss goodbye, watching the unspoken dance grow and evolve into something deeper is satisfying. It's hard to know whether or not it's a kinship born from tragedy and stoked by fear, but they find comfort in each other's presence--even if that presence isn't physical. For the most part, the deliberate pacing benefits the relationship's establishment. However, the steady climb toward a resolution is occasionally broken by days of inactivity and narrative stagnation. More than a few visits feel like filler, with no notes to respond to and few tasks to complete. These periods slowly drag you away from an otherwise compelling story. Sunset excels at using subtlety to build tension and curiosity, but when the progression halts, the activities start to feel like exactly what they are--chores. Running Sunset on higher graphical settings can also be called a chore. Even after experimenting with a handful of different option combinations, I couldn't find a mix that permanently steadied my framerate or prevented hitching. The presentation--from the glamour of the sky's often-lavender glow to the dark smoke billowing from the buildings in the distance--is salient but often muddled by technical inconsistency. It's a shame, too, because when Sunset does run smoothly for a visit or two and the powerful, orchestral soundtrack booms across the household, it can be an audiovisual marvel. The only time you ever really see Angela is through her reflection.Sunset presents so much, all while asking you to do so little. A revolution burns, bombs burst just out of sight, and all you can do is decide if your boss would rather have a fancy dinner or a hefty portion of macaroni. The complexity of your decisions is occasionally greater than setting the table, but Sunset succeeds at making each small action feel significant by giving them all similar weight. Though the story is peppered with periods of inactivity that are detrimental to the pace, Sunset acts as a thoughtful, pensive walk through social themes and struggles not often explored in this medium.
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