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In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a ton of new PS4 game announcements on the Blog — so many that we challenged ourselves to build a list of all known PS4 games scheduled to release in North America in 2014. You’ll find our initial findings below. Of course, the usual caveats apply here: schedules can shift and plans can change. But we’re going to keep this handy-dandy list updated all year long with the necessary adjustments. Let us bask in its warming glow.

If you think we missed something, drop us a comment below and we’ll look into it!

Destiny
Bungie’s sweeping sci-fi epic seeks to redefine online shooters with large-scale co-op battles and gripping competitive play.

Batman: Arkham Knight
Bruce Wayne fends off a rogue’s gallery of villains in this conclusion to Rocksteady’s Arkham trilogy. Bonus: You get to drive the Batmobile!

Hohokum
Featuring tunes by Ghostly International and art by Richard Hogg, Hohokum defies virtually all attempts at description.

inFAMOUS Second Son
Sucker Punch has endowed this open-world superhuman simulator with muscular combat and drop-dead gorgeous graphics.

The Order: 1886
High-powered weaponry and alternate history collide in Ready At Dawn’s twisted Neo-Victorian interpretation of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Watch_Dogs
Ubisoft Montreal’s hacker opus revels in its expansive interconnected world where Chicago’s defensive systems are yours for the taking.

Octodad: Dadliest Catch
This comedic gem forces you to navigate menial domestic tasks. The hilarious catch? You have no bones!

Alien: Isolation
As Amanda Ripley, you’ll avoid the clutches of a prowling xenomorph while navigating a sprawling space station.

Transistor
This gorgeous action RPG from Supergiant Games pits a voiceless heroine against an omnipresent computerized presence. Your weapon? A high-tech talking sword.

The Witness
Jonathan Blow’s next mindbender is a feast for the senses, painting a dazzling open-world island populated by hundreds of puzzles.

Wolfenstein: The New Order
MachineGames’ reboot of the classic series takes a familiar formula and adds a rich, rewarding story, creating an intensely satisfying old-school / new-school mashup.

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
Eorzea beckons. The highly regarded MMO hits PS4 this year, using the console’s immense graphical power to create a vibrant, breathing world to get lost in.

Galak-Z
This Saturday morning space shooter drips charisma. Strap in — it’s gonna be a heck of a ride.

Evolve
Turtle Rock’s next step in the squad-based shooter arena pits four hunters against a formidable beast. The catch? The monster is another player.

Hyper Light Drifter
An enticing blend of retro graphics and ambient sounds, Hyper Light Drifter promises to be one of the most sought-after indies this year.

No matter how spooky a spooky game’s rocks may be, it’s always comforting to know they can’t really hurt you. Unless, that is, they’re actually real rocks scanned into the game with fancy technology, and the original is still lurking out there somewhere in the mist, waiting to trip you. That’s the true terror of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, the non-combative horror walk ‘em up from Bulletstorm veterans The Astronauts. The gang are showing off their mastery of the arcane science of photogrammetry, or smooshing loads of photos together to make a 3D model.

The big idea is that with a game world built of scanned real objects rather than the same handful of repeating and tiling hand-made art, they say, players will “stop seeing assets and start seeing the world.” Which is presumably helpful when trying to scare the kecks off visitors to it. … [visit site to read more]

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Extrasolar is a browser-based game about controlling a lunar rover as it explores the surface of an island on a far-off planet, poring over the photographs it returns, and inadvertently uncovering a conspiracy as you do. It’s out now, and while paid upgrades are available it can very be much played for free – as such the below is a discussion of the experience, not the value proposition.

For the last fortnight or so, I’ve been playing a game for approximately three minutes every hour. (I’d like to say ‘apart from at night’, but thanks to my living on a noisy street and having a baby in the next room, that would be a barefaced lie.) I didn’t do much, myself, though the small amount of clicking and reading at my end did result in a remote-controlled rover travelling vast distances across another world, light years away from our own. So, in a way, I did a great deal. … [visit site to read more]

Faced with a title like AdvertCity, I have to concede defeat, pop the cap back on my best punning pen and call it a day. It’s strong work and there’s an intriguing slice of game hiding between the delicious word-layers. Originally released as part of the Cyberpunk Jam, AdvertCity is a strategy game that plays out like a more realistic version of Syndicate. Instead of taking over a city by means of miniguns and Persuadertrons, the corporations of AdvertCity utilise billboards and advertising blimps. I suppose it could be argued that advertisements are a low-tech form of the Persuadertron but BLIMPS. Observe.

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