It’s official. Sony has pulled back the curtain on the PlayStation 4 hardware. We know that the new console will be a powerful beast, it’ll have a ton of social and streaming features, and feature a newly redesigned DualShock 4 controller.
And about the games you ask? Well Sony has introduced a number of first party games that will be coming to the PlayStation 4. Their wide range of first party studios look like they’ll have the bases covered when the PS4 arrives in 2013.
First Party PS4 Games
Killzone: Shadow Fall
Killzone: Shadowfall is set in a near future, thirty years after the events of Killzone 3. The world is a different place, with two factions known as the Helghast and Vektans living side by side in a futuristic city divided by a great wall. The two factions have been engaged in a Cold War which will be coming to a head in Shadow fall, where the player assumes control of a Shadow Marshall who is tasked with keeping order.
iNFamous: Second Sun
Seven years after the events of inFamous 2, the world has changed. A government agency oversees every nook and cranny of the inFamous universe to make sure history does not repeat itself, after the events of Empire City and New Marais. inFamous 2 touches on the topics of security, and surrendering freedoms for the sake of safety.
Drive Club
Evolution Studios has a new racer on the way. One that puts players smack dab in the thick of car culture. According to Evolution: Drive Club is all about utter car passion. It was about connecting people who are as in love with car culture as we are, and creating a universe for these impassioned racers to all play together. We created web design concepts that showed how you could connect with people and access your club when you were away from the living room, and we created prototypes of the most immersive, detailed vehicle interiors and exteriors possible.
Knack
Knack is a new platformer for the PlayStation 4. In the spirit of Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet and Clank, Knack is focused on bringing the fun back to action/platform gameplay. Knack, the character of the story is a creature with mysterious powers who can incorporate relics into his body as he finds them, which allows him to transform from a three-foot tall creature into a gigantic wrecking machine.
Third Party
Watch Dogs
In Watch Dogs, players will assume the role of Aiden Pearce, a new type of vigilante who, with the help of his smartphone, will use his ability to hack into Chicago’s central operating system (ctOS) and control almost every element of the city. Aiden will be able to tap into the city’s omnipresent security cameras, download personal information to locate a target, control systems such as traffic lights or public transportation to stop a chase, and more. The city of Chicago is now the ultimate weapon
Destiny
From the creators of Halo, Destiny is a first person shooter with deep competitive and cooperative gameplay in a persistent, always connected online world.
Deep Down
Capcom didn’t officially reveal a new game for the PlayStation 4, but they did release an impressive tech demo of their MT Framework successor. Deep Down appears to be what a next-gen Dragon’s Dogma could look like in the coming years.
The Witness
“In most games with open worlds, the developers try to make them as big as possible so you’ll be impressed by the scale. In The Witness, we compress everything so you’ll always be finding new things,” Blow relayed on stage in New York. “On the design side, we worked very hard to convey in a nonverbal way the essence of each puzzle.”
Developers with games in the works for PlayStation 4
Japan (45 companies in total):
ACQUIRE Corp. KADOKAWA SHOTEN CO., LTD. ARC SYSTEM WORKS CO.,LTD. Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. ARTDINK CORPORATION LEVEL-5 Inc. ASCII MEDIA WORKS Inc. MAGES. Inc. Bethesda Softworks, LLC MarvelousAQL Inc. CAPCOM NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. Chara-Ani Corporation NAMCO BANDAI Studios Inc. CRAFTS & MEISTER CO.,LTD. NIHON FALCOM CORPORATION CyberConnect2 Co.,Ltd. Nippon Ichi Software, Inc. D3 PUBLISHER Inc. O-TWO inc. (peakvox) Dimps Corporation PlatinumGames Inc. Electronic Arts Inc. SEGA Corporation FromSoftware, Inc. SPIKE CHUNSOFT Co.,Ltd. GANBARION Co., Ltd. SQUARE ENIX Co., Ltd. Genki Co., Ltd. SystemSoft Alpha Corp. Granzella Inc. TECMO KOEI GAMES Co.,Ltd. GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC. TOSE CO., LTD. GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc. tri-Ace Inc. GUST CO.,LTD. Ubisoft Entertainment IDEA FACTORY Co., Ltd. WILL CO., LTD IMAGEEPOCH INC. XING Inc. Index Corp.(ATLUS) YUKE’S Co.,Ltd. KADOKAWA GAMES,LTD. Asia (Four companies in total): BLUESIDE Inc. Ratloop Asia Pte Ltd Red Hare Studios XPEC Entertainment Inc.
North America (47 companies in total):
17-Bit JETPACK Interactive Entertainment Ltd. 5th Cell Media LLC Klei Entertainment Inc. Activision Publishing, Inc. Lab Zero, Inc Armature Studios LucasArts, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company Behaviour Interactive Metanet Software Inc Bethesda Softworks, LLC Minority Media Inc. Blind Squirrel Games Nicalis, Inc Certain Affinity, Inc. Panic Button, LLC Darkside Game Studios, Inc. Psyonix Studios, Inc. Devolver Digital Slant Six Games Disney Sony Online Entertainment LLC Double Fine Productions, Inc. Spark Unlimited Double Helix Games Spry Fox LLC DrinkBox Studios Inc. SuperVillain Studios Edge of Reality, Inc. Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Electronic Arts Inc. Telltale, Inc. FarSight Studios Tribute Games Inc. Gaijin Games, Inc. Turtle Rock Studios, Inc. Gearbox Software Ubisoft Entertainment HB Studios Multimedia vBlank Entertainment Inc. Heavy Iron Studios, Inc. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc. High Voltage Software, Inc. WayForward Technologies, Inc. inXile Entertainment Inc. Zombie Studios, LLC Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC
Europe/PAL (53 companies in total):
4A Games Kalyspo Media 505 Games Laughing Jackal Abstraction Ludosity Beatshapers Mediatonic Big Ant Milestone Big Bit Mojang BitComposer Onmi Systems Bloober Team S.A. Prodigy Design Boss Alien Ripstone Bugbear Roll7 Cauldron Ronimo City Interactive Rovio Criterion Games Shortround Croteam Sperasoft Curve Studios Sproing Dakko Dakko Ltd Stormbasic Deck 13 Straight Right Double Eleven Targem Eko Software Tate FatShark Techland Flying Wildhog Tonika Four Door Lemon Torus Games Frozenbyte Vector Cell FuturLab Virtual Toys Gaijin Vlambeer GHOST GAMES – AN EA STUDIO Wizarbox Green Hill Studios
- This article was updated on March 8th, 2018
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