Here are the new PlayStation releases for the week of August 29, 2017:
Absolver
PS4 — Digital
Absolver is an online multiplayer combat experience where players are placed behind the mask of a Prospect. Prospects will wander forsaken lands, encountering others to learn new combat skills, acquire weapons and armor, and engage in solo duels and intense three-on-three battles.
Art of Fighting Anthology (PS2)
PS4 — Digital (Out 8/30)
Contains the Art of Fighting trilogy! Experience a piece of fighting game history with these games that redefined what it meant to be a fighter. Many mechanics introduced in this series have gone on to become staples of the genre.
Dead Alliance
PS4 — Digital, Retail
Dead Alliance is a fast-paced, multiplayer first-person zombie shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world, where former military bases have been turned into the only remaining city-states. Build your squad and take strategic control of bases across maps infested with zombies.
Detention
PS4 — Digital (Out 8/31)
Detention is an unique atmospheric horror game heavily influenced by Taiwanese/East Asian culture, religious elements, and mythology. Venture into a school beset by hostile supernatural events to uncover stories behind the haunted place.
Everybody’s Golf
PS4 — Digital, Retail
Everybody’s Golf is a new game for PS4! Anybody can play golf with basically only three button clicks. Now you can experience golf with a variety of character customizations, fishing, and carting across the courses.
Fishing Planet
PS4 — Digital
Fishing Planet is a unique and highly realistic online first-person multiplayer fishing simulator developed by avid fishing enthusiasts for anglers to bring you the full thrill of actual angling!
Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan
PS4 — Digital
When a mysterious illness befalls the queen of the Eagle Kingdom, a famous healer is summoned to Eagle Castle to examine her.
Last Day of June
PS4 — Digital (Out 8/31)
Join Carl and June on what begins as a magical outing to their favorite spot, and try to unlock the sequence of events that could save the day — and June’s life — in this cinematic experience that will compel you to ask yourself: “What would I do to save the one I love?”
Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Episode 1)
PS4 — Digital (Out 8/31)
Life is Strange: Before the Storm features Chloe Price, a 16 year-old rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber, a beautiful and popular girl destined for success. When Rachel’s world is turned upside down by a family secret it takes their new-found alliance to give each other the strength to overcome their demons.
The Lost Bear
PS VR — Digital (Out 8/31)
Immerse yourself in the hand-drawn world of The Lost Bear, help Walnut on her journey home through a mysterious land corrupted by the toy stealing Snatcher.
The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor
PS4 — Digital
Save the World from Magical Party Crashers! Packing in a full-fledged story mode with a colorful cast of musically-empowered heroes and villains, The Metronomicon sees you take control a party of eight new masters of the “rhythmic combat arts” to wage musical warfare against a multitude of dance-mongering fiends.
Obduction
PS4 — Digital
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition
PS4 — Digital, Retail
Pillars of Eternity, the ultimate role-playing experiences comes to PS4! Created by and for role-playing fans by Obsidian Entertainment and adapted by Paradox Arctic — together bringing Pillars’ fantastical world, tactical combat, and unforgettable story to you.
Redout
PS4 — Digital, Retail
Redout is pure anti-gravity racing, a tribute to the classic arcade racing monsters. It’s designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough, and satisfying driving experience, soaked in the vertigo that stands at the core of the genre.
Resident Evil Revelations
PS4 — Digital, Retail
The story is set at a time before the Kijuju and Lanshiang bioterror incidents when the BSAA was still a young organization. Join Jill Valentine aboard a ghost ship in the Mediterranean Sea searching for her old partner, Chris Redfield.
Rock of Ages II: Bigger & Boulder
PS4 — Digital (Out 8/28)
The greatest rock-racing, tower defense, art history game is back! Like the title says, Bigger and Boulder cranks up the surrealism and gameplay with chaotic two-on-two multiplayer, new time periods, and improved graphics, physics, and destructibility.
Sneaky Gears
PS VR — Digital
The world is under attack… by evil teddy bears. Led by the evil mastermind bear Frank, they have seized control of a toy factory in which they are building an evil teddy bear army to take over the world. Armed with only your motion-controlled weapons, it is up to you to stop them and rescue the innocent panda teddy bears that Frank and his minions have taken hostage.
Sparc
PS VR — Digital
Sparc is a vSport — a unique physical sport only possible in virtual reality, in which players compete in fast-paced, full-body VR gameplay and connect in an online community.
Still Time
PS4, PS Vita — Digital
Still Time is a 2D puzzle platformer about time travel and temporal physics. As the protagonists discover their powers, you will learn how to control the flow of time.
Surf World Series
PS4 — Digital
Take to the waves in Surf World Series. Experience the thrill of killer tricks and monster waves at five legendary surfing destinations.
Warriors All Stars
PS4 — Digital, Retail
A battle of heroes where everyone is the lead! The very first all-stars title for Koei Tecmo! For the first time in Warriors series, flashy action combines both the traits of the original series and new exciting elements such as “Musou Rush”, open scenarios and multiple endings!
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
PS4 — Digital
Prepare yourself for the scariest game of the year! When a good deed goes awry you and your fellow students are locked inside school at night, hunted by a killer janitor and haunted by the troubled souls of the dead. Can you remain hidden and uncover the school’s dark secrets to survive?
Windjammers
PS4, PS Vita — Digital
The most entertaining sports game ever made returns on PS4 with brand-new features! Windjammers is a fast-paced head-to-head arcade game where two players face off on a court, and throw discs at the opponent’s goal zone to score points.
X-Morph: Defense
PS4 — Digital (Out 8/30)
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower-defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead you enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
Yakuza Kiwami
PS4 — Digital, Retail
10 years ago, Kazuma Kiryu took the fall for a crime he didn’t commit to save his best friend. Expelled from his yakuza family, Kiryu is released from prison to a city he no longer recognizes. Chaos erupts when 10 billion yen vanishes from the Tojo Clan vault, and with Kiryu caught in the middle, he finds everything points to a young, mysterious girl named Haruka. Together, they must survive to find the answers they both seek.
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