The Catch-Up: July 24th, 2013 – The Last of Us in 60 Seconds, See the Splinter Cell: Blacklist Play Styles

We have a warning in the actual text itself, but just to be safe, we’ll let you know right here that The Last of Us video below contains massive spoilers, so don’t watch it unless you’ve beaten the game. The rest is all safe to read, though.

General News

  • Lost Planet 3 won’t be a Day 1 Digital title when it launches at the end of August. [PR Rep]
  • No further information was given, but Cameron Lee, Producer at BioWare, did say of save game imports on Dragon Age: Inquisition, “It will absolutely come across – your decisions carry [and] will matter.” [Via/Source]
  • Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time and PlayStation All-Stars on PS3 (which both include a downloadable PS Vita version thanks to Cross Buy) are $19.99 each at GameStop, with Amazon matching the PS All-Stars price. [Sly/All-Stars]
  • GameStop is offering two exclusive Black Mask challenge maps with the pre-order of Batman: Arkham Origins. [Product Page]
  • Amazon UK thinks that Strider will be a full priced retail game, instead of a downloadable one. [Amazon]
  • Chaos Rings, which you can now download through PlayStation Mobile on your PlayStation Vita, is $7.99, $1 cheaper than the regular iOS price. [Press Release]
  • The Dark Eye: Demonicon is coming to PS3 sometime in 2014. [Press Release]
  • Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims in HD has been given a European PS Vita release date of August 7th for €3.59/£2.99. A North American release date should follow soon. [Source]
  • Australia’s four favorite PlayStation 2 games are Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Ratchet & Clank, Kingdom Hearts, and Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. [Twitter]
  • Nvidia’s next-gen mobile processor, Project Logan, is based on the Kepler architecture, which Nvidia claims is 1.6 times more powerful than a PlayStation 3. [Source]
  • If you haven’t downloaded it yet, patch 1.20 for Soul Sacrifice is now available, adding a new Fellow Sorcerer Chapter, alongside some multiplayer updates. [PS Vita]
  • Matt Rhodes, a designer at BioWare, posted a TON of concept art for Mass Effect and Dragon Age over on his blog. [Via]

New Videos

  • Here’s a fun video presenting The Last of Us in 60 seconds (MAJOR spoilers if you haven’t beaten the game):

  • Find out all about the various play styles in Splinter Cell: Blacklist with this new video:

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