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Chances are, if you picked up a PlayStation 4 last week you’re still enjoying our PS4 PlayStation Plus titles, RESOGUN and Contrast, and that’s totally cool. However, if you’re anxiously waiting for your PS4 to arrive later this holiday season, we’ve got you covered with a new PlayStation 3 and PS Vita game this week. Binary Domain, a futuristic third-person squad-based shooter, is hitting the PS3 Instant Game Collection tomorrow. Morality meets gunfire, Binary Domain’s Consequences System means you’ll need to be aware of your actions — how your squad views you can impact the game as well as how the storyline progresses.

On PS Vita there’s Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, an action-adventure where you step into the role of Stranger, a bounty hunter. Whether or not you head into your bounties guns blazing or prefer a more stealthy approach is up to you, as well as whether you apprehend your subjects alive or dead. Your main goal is to earn as much money as possible, so it’s kind of like real life.

You can take advantage of all these PS Plus benefits after the PlayStation Store updates tomorrow.

Binary Domain (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99

Created by Toshihiro Nagoshi, the man behind some of SEGA’s most well-known video game franchises including the critically acclaimed Yakuza series, Binary Domain puts players in the middle of a fast paced and intense battle for humanity in a robot-filled 2080 Tokyo. Fighting through the derelict lower levels of the city, players control an international peace-keeping squad that soon starts to question their surroundings and the choices they make. Are the robots becoming more human, or are humans becoming more like machines? Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $14.99

In the dusty, undeveloped wastelands of Western Mudos, cantankerous townsfolk find their settlements besieged by belligerent outlaws. Along comes Stranger, a tall, dark and enigmatic bounty hunter with a mission to capture troublemakers and scoundrels and return them to civilized townships for incarceration. But Stranger is keeping a secret and needs expensive surgery to survive. In his quest to earn enough Moolah, Stranger reluctantly accepts the ultimate bounty from the owner of the Mongo River and suddenly his adventure takes a very different turn.

Game Title PS Plus Price Regular Price Worms 2: Armageddon $4.50 $14.99

Leaving on November 26th

Instant Game Collection: Sine Mora (PS Vita)

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

We’ll be back next week to add another title to the Instant Game Collection as well as any other benefits, like super sweet discounts.

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.

It’s going to be quite the month for PlayStation fans. PS4 is almost here, and it’s going to be mega awesome when I fire mine up for the first time and already have two free games to play. Yep, both Resogun, the intense and beautiful shoot ‘em up from Housemarque(the amazing people behind Super Stardust) and Contrast, a unique 2D/3D puzzler platformer with a stunning art style will be available in the Instant Game Collection for PlayStation Plus members on November 15th.

Of course, we have plenty of other great games to keep you busy until then, like Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, which is an expanded and enhanced version of Capcom’s original IP Dragon’s Dogma. There’s a new area to explore, a fast-travel system and plenty of new quests and weapons to keep you busy. Later on this month we’ll add ibb & obb, a 2-player co-op puzzler and Binary Domain, a third-person squad shooter. PS Vita owners can look forward to two amazing action-adventure titles: the classic Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath and the ever-epic Soul Sacrifice.

These games will hit the Instant Game Collection at various times throughout the month, so check back with us every Monday morning to see all the benefits of your membership.

Click here for a list of the latest PlayStation Plus content

November PlayStation Plus Preview

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $39.99
An epitaph speaks of another’s demise…A mysterious island known as Bitterblack Isle appears off the coast of Gransys. Its depths have claimed the lives of many Arisen their voices still haunt the labyrinth that lies deep beneath its surface–a labyrinth ripe with secrets waiting to be discovered. The time to take up arms has come once again. Delve into the isle’s depths and uncover its dark secret!

Ibb & obb (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $9.99
ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local cooperative couch fun or match up online. Fall up and jump down through 15 levels filled with double gravity puzzles and discover the 8 hidden worlds that will test your new non-Newtonian skills to the maximum.

Resogun (PS4)

Free for PS Plus members
RESOGUN is an intense fast-paced shoot em’ up developed exclusively for the PS4 system. Unleash a diverse array of devastating weapons including lasers, missiles, overdrive, and nova-bombs to blast hordes of enemies and rescue the last survivors from distant galactic colonies that are under ruthless attack from an evil alien invasion force.

Contrast (PS4)

Free for PS Plus members
Contrast is a 2D/3D puzzle/platformer, set in a 1920′s vaudevillian, film noir dreamscape, full of cabaret, illusion and performance. You play as Dawn, the imaginary friend of a little girl, Didi, and you have the power to shift from the 3D world into a 2D shadowscape, by becoming your shadow. As Didi’s imaginary best friend, you must use your shadow shifting abilities to solve complex puzzles, in order to help Didi investigate the secrets that lie behind her troubled family.

Binary Domain (PS3)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $19.99
Created by Toshihiro Nagoshi, the man behind some of SEGA’s most well-known video game franchises including the critically acclaimed Yakuza series, Binary Domain puts players in the middle of a fast paced and intense battle for humanity in a robot-filled 2080 Tokyo. Fighting through the derelict lower levels of the city, players control an international peace-keeping squad that soon starts to question their surroundings and the choices they make. Are the robots becoming more human, or are humans becoming more like machines?

Oddworld: Strangers Wrath (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $14.99
In the dusty, undeveloped wastelands of Western Mudos, cantankerous townsfolk find their settlements besieged by belligerent outlaws. Along comes Stranger, a tall, dark and enigmatic bounty hunter with a mission to capture troublemakers and scoundrels and return them to civilized townships for incarceration.

Soul Sacrifice (PS Vita)

Free for PS Plus members, Regular Price: $35.99
Prepare yourself for a brutal combat experience where every decision made will have consequential results. Take on the role of a slave who is about to be sacrificed stumbles upon a forbidden book that allows its readers to relive battles between sorcerers and monsters of the past. In order to use the magic during fierce battles, the player must be willing to make a sacrifice – ranging from personal belongings, a limb, or even a life.

What are your thoughts on last month’s Instant Game Collection?

If you’ve got feedback on PlayStation Plus make sure you take the poll above as well as leave a comment below. To chat about all things PlayStation, including this update, you can head over to the PlayStation Community Forums. You’ll also find other topics you can contribute to, or start your own discussion.

Fixes:

Updated launcher featuring gamepad navigation in Steam Big Picture mode.
Fixed issues launching the game on Optimus graphics cards.

Known issues:

Custom configurations for some DirectInput pads may not save correctly. This will be fixed in an update soon.

In-Game
• Fixed an issue with cover-to-cover movement when using mouse and keyboard controls .
• Corrected jumbled Options menu tooltips.
• Voice controls are now disabled by default if no valid microphone is recognised.
• Updated keyboard controls for menu navigation (the cursor keys, ESC, and Return should now function correctly).
• Adjusted mouse movement for menu navigation (will now be less twitchy/sensitive).
• Fixed issue with minor corruption of the Talk prompt in some languages.
• Fixed water corruption issue with certain Nvidia graphics drivers.

Configuration Tool
• Added an option to return the Field of View settings to the default.
• Added an option to switch the voices to English when playing with a non-English language pack installed (for example, the game can now be played with French text and English voices).
• Added an option in the Configuration Tool to disable the microphone altogether.
• Fixed an issue where the graphics settings would return to the defaults on opening the Configuration Tool.

Patch notes:

* FOV options have been added in the Configuration Tool for Aiming and Normal views.
* Fixed Configuration Tool crash when modifying options for DirectInput control pads.
* Restored missing Controller Sensitivity options to Configuration Tool.
* Added basic keyboard and mouse navigation to the menus.
* Updated mouse sensitivity; mouse aiming should generally feel more comfortable now.
* Added Volume option in the Configuration Tool.
* Changed the Screen Size setting to be 100% by default.
* Changed the default button prompts to the keyboard icons.
* Fixed a crash on game exit.

Hardware issues:

* On Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors, users may experience a graphical issue during the cutscene in Chapter 1 when you let go of the ship and swim over to the gangway, just before using the grappling hook. Intel is aware of the issue, and the fix will be rolled out in a future driver update. Please continue to keep your graphics drivers up to date, and the issue will soon be fixed.

* Users playing the game on some NVIDIA graphics cards, using more recent driver versions, may experience corruption of the water reflections (appearing as a mosaic-like effect over the water). NVIDIA is aware of the issue and will work on fixing it in a driver update.

* Users on Optimus laptops will likely be unable to select the correct graphics card in the Configuration Tool. NVIDIA is aware of the issue, and will work on fixing this for a future driver update.

Sega’s third-person shooter, Binary Domain, presents itself as having more in common with Mass Effect than Gears Of War, but what does it achieve itself? I’ve played all the way through the voice-commanded robot apocalypse, and can tell you Wot I Think. Shout “MORE” to read on.

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Binary Domain is Now Available on Steam!

Please check the game page to see release times for your region.

Set in futuristic Tokyo, you mission is to bring the robotic community under control as they begin to infiltrate society and slowly take over undetected, leaving humans redundant in their wake.

Hold on, just upgrading my firmware from ‘I really want to play Binary Domain‘ to ‘I’ll get to play Binary Domain in April’. It’s patching… ah, that’s better. As a robot disguised as a human, I’m thrilled Sega’s third-person shooter about shooting robots disguised as humans is being ported over to the PC. Sure the third-person shooter might have cool things like robots that keep coming at you when their limbs are blown off (like Uncy Terminator), this guy, and voice control, but it also has the consequence system that responds and to the way you play. I know humans, and you lot are saps: by the time you are done with Binary Domain, us Hollow Children will have you right where we want you. Pretty soon a human servant will be serving me chilled glasses of diesel by my lava pool, and feeding my kitten-bot old computer mice. Use your puny human eyes on this video below, for it is the first step on the road to binary domination.(more…)

Sega's Binary Domain, the robot-shooting title the Yakuza have been working on when they should have been working on Yakuza 5, is making the jump from consoles to PC. It'll be out next month. More »

The set of platforms on which you can play Binary Domain will soon no longer be ... an area composed only of two things. Sega announced today that Binary Domain is coming to the PC in North America and Europe this April.

"As well as the excitement generated by Binary Domain in the console press we were seeing increasing numbers of players asking for a PC version," said Sega's SVP of Marketing Gary Knight. "So we listened and we delivered." Of course, being a PC game, it's being released both retail and digitally -- Steam puts an April 6 date on its version, which comes with some totally '80s ninja costumes.

It's the first Quick Look in our new office, and Big Bo is PUMPED!

#binarydomain You know, if Sega had simply marketed Binary Domain with the slogan, "Shoot some robots", I probably wouldn't have been so down on it all these months. That was all I needed to know. More »

You may have sampled the demo for Binary Domain this past week, but did you know there's a multiplayer component in the final release? A post over on the PlayStation Blog details the many modes and classes that make up the online suite.

There are five different classes: heavy gunner, recon, special ops, demolition and assault. Each has a different skill and weapon loadout (as you'd imagine) that can be customized and upgraded with earned credits across Binary Domain's eight total multiplayer modes.

The majority of multiplayer modes are competitive; you have a mixture of objective-based and kill-based modes, and a couple capture and destroy types. Each supports up to ten players, save for the Invasion game type, which is basically Horde mode for up to four players.

Check out the multiplayer trailer above for another representation of what awaits Binary Domain players on February 28.

If you're tired of killing aliens, zombies and/or Russian terrorists, then Binary Domain just might be for you. In SEGA's futuristic squad shooter you won't actually fire a shot at a single living thing, just waves upon waves of mechanical maniacs hell-bent on instigating the extinction of you and y...

Binary Domain's got tough-as-nails, future-armored soldiers, with deep emotional bonds. It's got cool evil androids everywhere. It's even got anachronistic gangsters. What else could it possibly need?

If you just said "a band of scary Japanese children who scavenge for weapons," you're really going to love this trailer. But, then again, you've probably already seen it while you were working on the game.

The demo for Binary Domain will hit North American PS3s tomorrow, February 14, and Xboxes the following day, on February 15. The demo includes a test run of Binary Domain's voice-command system, which is optional in combat and non-combat situations, and allows player to have "more natural dialogue with their allies," Sega says.

The demo will see participants run through two early missions in a near-future Tokyo. The Japanese demo launched on February 1 and took place in Shibuya's Spain-zaka area and in a setting similar to Shinjuku Station. Binary Domain launches on February 28 in North America.

#binarydomain I've not played any of Sega's upcoming sci-fi shooter Binary Domain, so it could be the best game ever created by human humans for all I know. I'm having an incredibly difficult time mustering any excitement at all for the title, and this new multiplayer trailer isn't helping at all. More »

Sega announced plans to release a Binary Domain demo in Japan on February 1, a date that is sadly not expressed in binary. According to jo summary of the Kamurocho Radio Station podcast, the demo includes two stages, one in Shibuya's Spain-zaka area, and another in a "Shinjuku Station-like area." Players will be able to test the voice commands.

Sega has yet to announce Western availability for this sample, but with the game out on February 28, we'd expect to see a demo here soon.

The world of Binary Domain lies ravaged by the climate changes of the 20th century. Rising sea levels have forced humanity to adapt, building towards the sky and crafting newer cities on top of battered ones. In this tumultuous age, new advances in robotics have helped humanity survive...

#binarydomain From what I've seen of Binary Domain, it looks rather vanilla, but it could be interesting. These live action promo spots? They're incredible. More »

#binarydomain Developed by the same team that's made Sega's open-world Yakuza games, Binary Domain's a futureshock shooter that imagines the robot servants of the future rebelling against their human masters. You know, basic Skynet stuff. More »

Sega sent out a new Binary Domain trailer titled "Bigger Than You Think," highlighting the dramatic storyline of the Yakuza team's shooter -- well, it's dramatic if you can get past the conceit of a team of military operatives going on a stealth mission while wearing suits covered in bright red lights.

Also bigger than you'd previously thought: the wait for Binary Domain. Sega bumped the release date back by two weeks, from February 14 and 17 (in North America and Europe) to February 28.

The Yakuza series may not be million-sellers outside of their home country, but they have a strong and distinctive sense of cultural identity that makes them unique and fascinating both inside and outside of Japan. They depict an exaggerated, fictionalised Tokyo that's absolutely accurate in its tin...

You'd think the team behind the awkward Yakuza: Of the End (coming here as Yakuza: Dead Souls) might want to hide its shooting pedigree in trying to market Binary Domain -- but, we suppose the selling power of the charismatic Kazuma Kiryu outweighs gameplay concerns.

Fans who buy the first pressing of the Japanese version of Binary Domain will get the option to play as the Yakuza protagonist, who has somehow warped 100 years into the future to shoot robots. If you play on the government side, Kazuma will wear his flashy white suit; if you choose the resistance side, he'll don a guerrilla getup, complete with headband.

Pre-orders of Binary Domain at GameStop will come with the multiplayer map Outside High-rise, Upper City and an unlocked Ninja playable class, The Multiplayer Pack bonus also includes the Hoga Type 69 sniper rifle and Yamato-0 Handgun, according to the press release. More »

#binarydomain In gaming vernacular the consequences of one's actions are usually marked in body count, or regime changes, or city destruction. So I'm not expecting the consequences that I see unfold in a gunfight in the middle of a future Tokyo: Hurt feelings, obstructionism and... sulking? More »

Actually, no matter what you decide, there will be consequences. If you do watch it, you'll learn about Binary Domain's consequence system and how it affects your party. If you don't watch it, then our mother was right after all and nobody cares about our stinking little blog here. Help us prove her wrong, which will have the consequence of us doing a funny dance humiliating her at the next family function.

#binarydomain Those hoping to check out Sega's Binary Domain at this year's Tokyo Game Show, got the opportunity to play the game in small rooms with large windows overlooking the show floor. More »

Gears of War 3 is done, and it's the end of the saga set on Sera. That's not to say that there won't be another Gears game it's a huge money-maker so it's certainly a series that's here to stay but it's pretty unlikely that we'll see another Gears game this side of the next console generation. ...