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Sony's Playstation Network Spring Fever promotion is back for 2014, discounting some big indie titles for Playstation Plus members. [Playstation Blog]Read more...

Activision has revealed when you'll be able to play the upcoming web-slinging adventure, and what you'll get for pre-ordering.

I think the best way to start off any new month is with two free PlayStation Plus games. For March we have Dead Nation: Apocalpyse Edition for your PlayStation 4 and Tomb Raider for your PlayStation 3. If you’re unfamiliar with the original Dead Nation, it’s a top-down twin-stick shooter that’s best experienced with a friend. Make sure you’ve got a strategy and plenty of items before you head out to take down hordes of zombies. The Apocalypse Edition was just announced last week, will be hitting PlayStation Store tomorrow, and it has some interesting benefits like an interactive live streaming option.

Then we have last year’s critically acclaimed reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise. Witness Lara’s growth from young archeologist to bad-ass adventurer as her expedition gets shipwrecked on a mysterious island. Lara has to do a lot to survive, including live through several impalings, explore her surroundings and hunt wildlife.

You can download Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition and Tomb Raider after the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow.

Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition (PS4)

Free for PS Plus members

Run-and-gun through the zombie apocalypse as hit arcade shooter Dead Nation shuffles onto PlayStation 4. Fight for your life alone or with a friend as Jack McReady or Scarlett Blake as you step onto the streets of a city overrunwith undead flesh-eaters.And, if you’re feeling really brave, take a walk down the Road of Devastation – a deadly experiment that pushes your survival skills to the absolute limit as you face hordes of zombies with no extra lives and no second chances.The dead may walk – but you can make sure they don’t walk very far. Tomb Raider (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members

This newest rendition of Tomb Raider explores the intense and gritty origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a frightened young woman to the hardened survivor that she would become known as. Armed only with raw instincts and the ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Lara must fight to unravel the dark history of a forgotten island to escape its relentless hold.

Title Plus Price Regular Price Master Reboot $11.99 $14.99 Awesomenauts Assemble! $7.99 $9.99 Awesomenauts Assemble! – Costume Party 2 Bundle $11.99 $14.99 Awesomenauts Assemble! – Costume Party Bundle $11.99 $14.99 Need For Speed Most Wanted (PS3) $5.00 $9.99 Need For Speed Most Wanted (PS Vita) $5.00 $9.99 Need For Speed Hot Pursuit $5.00 $9.99 Need For Speed Carbon $5.00 $9.99 Need For Speed The Run $5.00 $9.99

Last Chance (Leaving on 3/11)

Instant Game Collection
Ibb & obb (PS3)

Discounts
Master Reboot
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
Need For Speed Carbon
Need For Speed The Run
Draw Slasher
Awesomenauts Assemble!
Awesomenauts Assemble! – Costume Party 2 Bundle
Awesomenauts Assemble! – Costume Party Bundle

What’s your favorite content from this week’s update?

If you’ve got feedback on today’s Plus update make sure vote in the poll and leave a comment below. To discuss all things PlayStation, including this update, you can also head over to the PlayStation Community Forums where you’ll find topics you can contribute your thoughts to, or start one for yourself.

Fez lands with huge, happy grin on PS3, PS4 and Vita on March 25 in the US, Polytron Producer Marie-Christine Bourdua announced via the PlayStation Blog today. Fez hits European Sony systems on March 26. The port comes from a collaboration with Blit Software.

"The PS4 version is what we consider to be the best-looking and smoothest Fez experience you can get on a TV set, running at beautiful 1080p (and yes, 60fps too)," Bourdua said. "You wouldn't think that upping the resolution would make a big difference in a game like ours, where the pixels are the size of Gomez's fist ... but it really does look even crisper and blockier - in a good way."

The game itself remains unchanged from its original XBLA or PC versions, though the PS4 iteration has a few gimmicks: The DualShock 4's lightbar brings "a little bit of Fez's world into your own home," and judging by a picture that means the bar matches the dominant on-screen color. The newest version of Fez supports a late-game easter egg without the need for red glasses, and it runs on 3DTVs. It supports cross-saves among all three Sony platforms. [Image: Polytron Corporation]

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Cubone! Pokemon One a Day! • The Road to E3: 100 Days To Go • Anime Review - Devil Survivor 2 Read more...

Here's Sony's indie lineup for PS3/PS4 in March, which includes games like Towerfall Ascension, Vessel, and Fez. You get a discount if you're a PS Plus member and you buy each game during launch week.Read more...

During an average weekday, I play approximately 14 prototypes or demos, found while casting my Monocle of Sauron across Twitter, or searching IndieDB and the TIGforums. Most days, I end up bookmarking one or two projects and check back on them at a later date. Every now and then, faced with a deluge of AAA press releases for BB games, I decide to share a prototype instead, no matter how early in development it might be.

The Nightmare Cooperative caught my eye because it has the second best name for a game ever, being a description of this place on a Friday night when I want to make dinner and they’re all out of fresh veg. It’s also a single player team-based roguelike puzzler that shows great promise.

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It’s been a long time coming, but Update 12 is here! The Warframe team is extremely (dare I say Digital Extremely…*crickets*) excited to not only bring Update 12 to our existing PS4 players, but also to our newly added Warframe fans in Japan. They just got a taste on their Day 1 launch. This is another big update that includes a new Warframe, new weapons, a new game mode, and my personal favorite; a badass new HUD!

Zephyr: The Air-Based Warframe

For Update 12, we really wanted to introduce a Warframe like no other, and we believe we accomplished that with Zephyr, the air-based Warframe. Lighter than all other Warframes, Zephyr uses this to her advantage to increase her mobility, but also to complement her vicious attacks.

New HUD

Now I know sometimes it’s hard to adapt to change, but bear with me here. Our new, stylized, in-game HUD is something every Tenno will enjoy. This HUD is less obtrusive, contains more information for the player and their squad, and we offer a handful of new customizable options to tinker with.

Another big change our players will notice is our 3D transmissions, which bring so much more life to our various friends and foes in the Warframe universe. Be sure to give us feedback in our official PS4 Forums on Warframe.com.

New Game Mode: Interception

Over here at Digital Extremes, we’re always looking to spice up Warframe and introduce new content and game modes for our players. With Update 12, we’ve added a new capture based game mode, Interception. Along with this game mode, we’ve expanded the beautiful forest level set teased in Update 11.5 across all Earth nodes.

Here’s how Interception works: four areas are highlighted on the map that players or enemies can control. Staying in proximity to the capture point keeps control of areas, but watch out for the Grineer, as they can capture a point by simply hacking nearby consoles. Holding a capture point accumulates points for your total score. Whichever team reaches the max score first wins the round, and then you simply need to clear the area of remaining Grineer to complete the mission.

The more points you hold, the faster your score goes up. When the round’s over, the score is reset and players have the option to claim their reward and quit, or continue to fight on for a bigger reward similar to Defense mode.

This is just a taste of what’s included in Update 12 so load up, gear up, and space ninja the night away, my PS4 friends! Until next time.

If you can't eat it, you might as well jump on it.

Fez is coming to all PlayStation platforms on March 25. Polytron's indie hit is a cross-buy offering, meaning the copy you buy for PS3, PS4, or PS Vita is good on all the other devices, and save files may be shared among them.Read more...

After months of waiting, Sony has finally confirmed when the highly-acclaimed Fez will land on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Vita.

Hi everyone! Spring is here (even if Mother Nature hasn’t quite realized that yet) and that means one thing: it’s time for our annual Spring Fever promotion. I’m super excited to announce that this year’s event will bring new indie titles to both PS3 and PS4.

Just like last year’s Spring Fever promotion, over the next four weeks we are championing indie developers who are bringing new and exciting experiences to the PlayStation platforms and giving PS Plus members 20 % off each title during each game’s launch week. The Spring Fever lineup features titles from stellar indie developers and I think it is safe to say that this year’s lineup rivals (and maybe even surpasses) that of 2013.

Here is this year’s Spring Fever line-up:

Launch Week Title PS Plus Launch Week Price Regular Price 3/4 to 3/10 Awesomenauts Assemble (PS4) $7.99 $9.99 Master Reboot (PS3) $11.99 $14.99 3/11 to 3/17 TowerFall Ascension (PS4) $11.99 $14.99 Vessel (PS3) $7.99 $9.99 3/18 to 3/24 SteamWorld Dig (PS4)* $7.99 $9.99 Luftrausers (PS3)* $7.99 $9.99 3/25 to 3/31 Fez (PS4)** $9.99 $12.99 Fez (PS3)** $9.99 $12.99

*Cross-Buy with PS Vita
**Cross-Buy with PS4, PS3 and PS Vita

Along with the new game releases, we are also featuring sales on popular video game franchises including Need for Speed, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto and BioShock. These sales will include both full games and popular downloadable content.

Here are the franchise sales available each week throughout Spring Fever:

Need for Speed: 3/4 through 3/10 Title Plus Price Sale Price Original Price Need for Speed Most Wanted (PS3) $5.00 $9.99 $19.99 Need for Speed Most Wanted (PS Vita) $5.00 $9.99 $19.99 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (PS3) $5.00 $9.99 $19.99 Need for Speed Carbon (PSP/PS Vita) $5.00 $9.99 $19.99 Need for Speed The Run (PS3) $5.00 $9.99 $29.99 Call of Duty: 3/11 through 3/17 Title Plus Price Sale Price Original Price Call of Duty: Black Ops II With Revolution Map Pack (PS3) $35.99 $39.99 $59.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Season Pass Bundle (PS3) $53.99 $59.99 $99.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Season Pass (PS3) N/A $24.99 $49.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Revolution (PS3) N/A $7.49 $14.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops II Uprising (PS3) N/A $7.49 $14.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops II Vengeance (PS3) N/A $7.49 $14.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops II Apocalypse (PS3) N/A $7.49 $14.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops & Black Ops II Game Bundle (PS3) $62.99 $69.99 $109.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops with First Strike (PS3) $31.49 $34.99 $49.99 Call of Duty: Black Ops Ultimate Edition (PS3) $67.49 $74.99 $94.49 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 With DLC Collection 1 (PS3) $26.99 $29.99 $39.99 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Ultimate Edition (PS3) $62.99 $69.99 $99.99 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with Stimulus Package (PS3) $17.99 $19.99 $29.99 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare with Variety Map Pack (PS3) $17.99 $19.99 $29.99 Call of Duty 4: MW 1-3 Bundle (PS3) $58.49 $64.99 $89.99 Grand Theft Auto: 3/18 through 3/24 Title Plus Price Sale Price Original Price GTA IV (PS3) $4.79 $5.99 $19.99 GTA San Andreas (PS3) $3.59 $4.49 $14.99 GTA V (PS3) N/A $39.99 $59.99 Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS3) $2.39 $2.99 $9.99 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PS3) $2.39 $2.99 $9.99 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS3) $2.39 $2.99 $9.99 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PS3) $2.39 $2.99 $9.99 Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (PSP) $4.79 $5.99 $19.99 Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (PS3) $4.79 $5.99 $19.99 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP) $4.79 $5.99 $19.99 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PSP) $4.79 $5.99 $19.99 BioShock: 3/25 through 3/31 Title Plus Price Sale Price Original Price BioShock (PS3) $5.00 $9.99 $19.99 BioShock 2 (PS3) $5.00 $9.99 $19.99 BioShock Infinite – Burial at Sea – Episode 1 (PS3) $7.34 $10.49 $14.99 BioShock Infinite – Columbia’s Finest Pack (PS3) $2.44 $3.49 $4.99 BioShock Infinite – Clash in the Clouds (PS3) $2.44 $3.49 $4.99

We’ve also got movies and TV shows on sale over the next four weeks as part of Spring Fever. Check out the lineup for each week below:

Week 1: 3/4 – 3/10 Title Starting At… The Hunger Games $0.99 Red 2 $3.99 The Heat $4.99 Snitch $4.99 (Digital SD Copy) Fright Night 2 $4.99 Drive (2011) $2.99 The Guillotines $2.99 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded $4.99 Bates Motel | Season 1 $0.99/episode Being Human | Seasons 1 – 3 $0.99/episode Week 2: 3/11 – 3/17 Title Starting At… The Internship $0.99 The Other Guys $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Dead Man Down $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Parker (2013) $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Ip Man: The Final Fight $2.99 Step Brothers $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby $2.99 The Matador $2.99 Haven | Seasons 1 – 4 $0.99/episode Naruto | Seasons 1, Vol. 1 – Seasons 2, Vol. 2 $0.99/episode Week 3: 3/18 – 3/24 Title Starting At… Fast & Furious 6 $0.99 A Good Day to Die Hard $8.99 (Digital SD Copy) The Raid: Redemption $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Superbad $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Iron Sky $2.99 Phantom $4.99 Girl Most Likely $3.99 Tai Chi Hero $2.99 Psych | Seasons 1 – 7 $0.99/episode Continuum | Seasons 1 – 2 $0.99/episode Week 4: 3/25 – 3/31 Title Starting At… Man of Steel $0.99 Taken 2 $8.99 (Digital SD Copy) Broken City $8.99 (Digital SD Copy) You’re Next $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Cheech & Chong’s Nice Dreams $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Interview with a Hitman $4.99 (Digital SD Copy) Trance $9.99 (Digital SD Copy) The House Bunny $7.99 (Digital SD Copy) Naruto Shippuden Uncut | Season 1, Vol. 1 – 4 $0.99/episode The Mindy Project | Season 1 $0.99/episode

Come back to PS.Blog over the next four weeks for more information on each week’s releases. Let us know which games you’re most looking forward to playing and happy spring gaming!

LUFTRAUSERS is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 10% off during Pre-Purchase!

The skies will be set aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeers stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Select from over 125 combinations of weapons, bodies, and propulsion systems and take to the skies to battle enemy fighter planes, battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores. Bravely volunteer for one of over 100 daring missions to unlock new Rauser combinations and vibrant color variations and become the most legendary Rauser pilot of all time!

Cortana, the digital consigliere coming to Windows Phone 8.1, won't be represented by the light blue apparition of a woman. Cortana will, appropriately enough, be a halo.Read more...

We live in topsy-turvy times. In the recent past, it was illegal to call something a ‘game’ unless it included at least one dungeon and seven dragons. Then Skyrim contained infinite dragons and the entire gaming market almost crashed because of reptilian boss creature oversaturation. Thankfully, the industry was saved when audiences realised that they didn’t need dragons in their games and might, in fact, prefer chickens. Let’s face it, you never see a Dixie Dragon or a KFD.

Kickstarter success Unrest does contain Naga, which are a bit like dragons, but it’s also a tale of ordinary people, set in an Indian city undergoing a revolution. It’ll be playable at Rezzed and it sounds fascinating.

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This is it. We’ve come to the end of development, and Fez is finally coming to PlayStation on March 25th! It’s been an incredible adventure, and we couldn’t have made it without the amazing work of Blit Software and the support of Sony’s team. In the name of all of us at Polytron, thank you so much!

People have been asking for a PS3 version of Fez since day one, and we believe it was worth the wait. Blit took the time to make a solid C++ port of the game, which runs smoothly at native resolution on PS Vita, and 720p at 60 frames per second on PS3.

The PS4 version is what we consider to be the best-looking and smoothest Fez experience you can get on a TV set, running at beautiful 1080p (and yes, 60fps too). You wouldn’t think that upping the resolution would make a big difference in a game like ours, where the pixels are the size of Gomez’s fist… but it really does look even crisper and blockier — in a good way.

No one’s going to blame you for digging around, but you won’t find many big changes in these versions of the game. However, there are a few surprises… especially in the PS4 version: DualShock 4’s lightbar has been put to the task of bringing a little bit of Fez’s world into your own home, and you may not need to search for that dusty pair of red/cyan glasses to experience a very late-game easter egg… Funny story: to test the new 3DTV support, we spent a weekend running around computer shops to find a monitor that sports an integrated emitter. When we found one and started up Fez, our minds were forever expanded. I think we can see the fourth dimension now?

So the PS4 version is loaded with sexy features, but definitely don’t hold off from getting a dose of Fez on the go, especially with a cross-save slot shared across all three platforms! I sometimes idle the game in a puzzle room, transforming my PS Vita into an infinite Disasterpeace music generator. We’re excited to see what other ways people will find to enjoy the first portable version of Fez.

Let’s all enjoy the universe of Fez one more time (or for the first time) on PlayStation!

Classic YouTube clips, turned into big-budget Hollywood movies? There comes a time when it'll be sober fact. Until then, here's Jimmy Kimmel and his dramatic adaptation of "Charlie Bit My Finger" (sadly, Bitman has nothing to do with bitcoins) with Chris Hemsworth, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks.Read more...

There was a time when we didn't need games on our phones, because every phone came with a built-in game of roundabouts. Kids today have no idea what they missed, and don't seem too impressed when they find out. Read more...

Signal Studios is armed and ready for a full Steam release of Toy Soldiers Complete after launching it on Early Access over the weekend. The bundle includes tower defense/shooter mash-up Toy Soldiers, follow-up Toy Soldiers: Cold War, and the two games' downloadable expansions. The Early Access price is $10 in North America, and £7/10 euros in Europe.

While both games launched on Xbox Live Arcade, you can already find the little plastic paratroopers on PC; Toy Soldiers is available as a Steam standalone, while Toy Soldiers: Cold War is on Windows 8. So it's a bit curious to see Signal taking the Early Access route, but the Ascend: Hand of Kul studio says it's looking for players to "help us find bugs, give feedback and most of all - help us shape the game before its full release!" [Image: Signal Studios]

Nintendo has confirmed a Yoshi-themed edition of the 3DS XL will be coming to North America and Europe very soon indeed.

The 3DS XL Yoshi fans have been waiting for. Already announced for Europe, the limited edition Yoshi Edition 3DS XL will be available in North America on March 14 for $199.99, just in time for the release of Yoshi's New Island, sold separately. Read more...

Star Wars art doesn't get any more religious than this. Hero-Glyphs is a series by artist Josh Ln, transforming well-known superheroes and other pop culture icons into hieroglyphs. His latest pieces feature Star Wars, Ghostbusters and (surprise, surprise) Firefly:Read more...

Prison Architect is forever trapped between two political poles: the side that says that prisoners should be locked up, punished, and left to rot; and the side that thinks they should be reformed, educated, and made better able to return to society and not re-offend. Introversion want both methods to have value within their management game, and alpha 18 takes the first steps towards enabling the liberal half by adding therapists.

Also tazers. New update video below.

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Cosplay is huge in China and Taiwan. It's become an industry in itself, where young men and women get paid to dress up. However, as glorious as it is to get paid to for cosplay, one girl's tale reveals that cosplayers in China may not be making as much money as one would think.Read more...

Ultra Street Fighter 4 includes a new Edition Select feature that allows players to choose between the various Street Fighter 4 versions of a character. If you want to play as Chun-Li, for example, you can select her build from a choice of the original 'vanilla' SF4, Super SF4, Super SF4 Arcade Edition, Super SF4 Arcade Edition ver. 2012, or the new Ultra SF4 version.

All those versions over the years have brought tweaks a-plenty as Capcom implemented new features and tried to balance things up. Of course, some characters fell foul of those tweaks, and Sagat was one of the more infamous casualties. Now, players can bring Vanilla Sagat back from the dead to Tiger Uppercut some wrongs - or, if they so wish, they can face off the weakest SF4 characters in history against the strongest. With Edition Select, Ultra SF4 looks to be a journey through space, time, and nerfs.

"Besides seeing matches that were never before possible, I'm also extremely excited to see what players with present day knowledge will be able to find out with the older versions of the characters," wrote Peter 'ComboFiend' Rosas on Capcom Unity. "I can only imagine how many times players have thought, 'If I could go back in time with the knowledge I have now, I would do so much damage.' Until a time machine is invented, this will have to suffice."

Capcom is releasing Ultra Street Fighter 4as an add-on for Super SF4 and as a bundle that includes Ultra SF4, Super SF4, and all the released Super SF4 costumes. The downloadable add-on arrives on consoles in early June for $15, and on PC two months later. The bundle is also due in August, priced at $40 on consoles and $30 on PC. [Image: Capcom]

In Japan, Sony is ceasing aftercare service for the launch PlayStation 3 consoles: the 60GB CECH-A00 model, the 40GB CECH-B00 model, and the 40GB CECH-H00 series models. Also, Sony Japan won't be offering aftercare for PlayStation 1, the PlayStation 2 model SCPH-50000MB, and the 1000 and 2000 series for the PSP.Read more...

Nintendo is having a truly difficult year. Things are tough! Yet, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe thinks the country can learn from Nintendo.Read more...

A more hysterical headline would have suggested that Bohemia have doubled the size of DayZ’s team in anticipation of the loss of Dean Hall, the creator of the multiplayer survival game. That’s not the case – I have it on good authority* that Bohemia are actively gathering strands of Hall’s hair and traces of saliva from his favourite coffee mug in order to create a functional clone. The team is expanding though and will be focusing on survival mechanics. Which makes sense, given that DayZ is a survival game.

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In DayZ, and other survival sandbox games, you don't necessarily have to shoot anything that moves, still—unless you're playing with friends— the chances of being killed on sight are really high.Read more...