Sony has revealed that PlayStation Mobile is expanding to an additional eight countries across the SCEE region today: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland,Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand. If you don’t already know, PlayStation Mobile games work on PlayStation Certified smartphone and tablet devices, like the Sony Xperia series, and the PlayStation Vita console.
The first episode of Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse will be available to purchase on the PlayStation Store tomorrow after the weekly Store update. Gamers will be able to pick up the game for €12.99, with a 20% discount for PS Plus members. The game has you playing as American George Stobbart and French journalist Nico Collard as they go on the trail of a stolen painting and a murderous conspiracy.
Square Enix has revealed that the HD remakes of Final Fantasy X/X-2 will be coming to the PS Vita at the same time as the PS3 version hits North America and Europe. The PS3 version is scheduled to release in North America on March 18th 2014, followed by Europe on March 21st 2014. A limited edition of the PS3 version has also been revealed, featuring a 48-page art book as well as both games.
The PSN maintenance that occurred on Monday, 9th December, increased the number of portable devices that can be linked to a PSN. The previous limit was two, which means gamers can now link up to three PS Vita or PSP devices to their account, and download content to them. The maintenance period lasted for 7 hours, and followed the release of Firmware 3.01.
Guerrilla Cambridge, developer of Killzone Mercenary, has just released information about the updates the PS Vita game will receive over the next few months, including patches and multiplayer maps. Four updates have been planned so far, and it’s good to know that the first new update will reduce the size of the previous two patches by 800 MB – both patches were very large to begin with.
Tearaway releases on the PS Vita this week, with the game already available in Australia and New Zealand. To celebrate the launch of the game, Media Molecule have release the game’s launch trailer and a special Media Molecule trailer. In addition, if you are still unsure about the game, you’ll be able to download a trial version of the game on Friday, with the option to unlock the full version.
Sony has confirmed that Remote Play between the PS4 and PS Vita will work only over Wi-Fi networks, but YouTube user The Phawx has discovered that Remote Play can work over a LTE / 4G network using a mobile phone that allows tethering. You can create a Wi-Fi hotspot on your mobile phone (like the Google Nexus 5 Android device shown in the video) and connect the PS Vita to it.
If you were planning to import a PS Vita TV device from Japan, you’ll be sad to know that the device will be region locked. The device can only be used with a Japanese PSN account, so importers should wait for a Western release to make the most of the device. A post of NeoGAF says the device doesn’t work with non-Japanese accounts.
Minecraft is coming to PlayStation, with PS4 and PS Vita versions currently in development. New details about the PS Vita version have emerged, revealing that the Vita version is being developed by 4J and will be a port of the Xbox Edition instead of the Pocket Edition of the game.
Sony has announced three new PS Vita bundles which come of Media Molecule’s Tearaway, which releases this week. The three bundles cater for different budgets, but all come with a Wi-Fi PS Vita and a copy of the game (retail or digital version). The cheapest bundle includes the console and a retail copy of the game, while the UK-exclusive bundle includes the console, digital versions of Tearaway and LittleBigPlanet and a 16 GB memory card.
