The Pinball Arcade arrives on PS4 this week

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The holidays are here and we’re happy to be launching some awesome pinball! We’ve been working hard all year on re-mastering and relighting the classic pinball tables in our game to take advantage of the PS4’s power.
We want to congratulate Sony on a great launch! The PS4 is a great machine and we’ve really enjoyed developing for it. Pinball Arcade didn’t quite make it out for the PS4 launch, but hey… at least we made it onto PlayStation Store before Christmas!
We were very happy recently to see that IGN recognised our efforts and gave us a 9.0! They also added that the game is a “must download” since we’re giving you a table on PS4 for free.

That table happens to be one of the best pinballs of all-time, Tales of the Arabian Nights, which was designed and manufactured by Williams in 1996. We can’t wait for people to try it who may never have tried pinball before. Pinball is a much deeper game than some people think.

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The digital version goes live this week in North America and Europe. The Blu-ray is also getting delivered to a few retailers this week – a great stocking stuffer for anyone who likes pinball, hint-hint.
We’re launching with all of our Season One content included. That’s over 20 tables worthy of first ballot Pinball Hall of Fame inductions. In fact, nine of the top 14 ever, according to pinside.com, are available from day one on PS4! We’re humbled to get to re-create these masterpieces for all of the real pinball fans out there.

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Lighting tech
Since we started re-creating pinball tables digitally, a decade or so ago, we’ve wanted to implement point lights – the illumination of light from specific points. Pinball tables are a great way to show off this technology. Some tables have well over 100 points of light that have been designed to flash on and off during the different modes and features of the table. I’ll always remember the PS4 for being the platform that we developed this on first.
Also adding to the eye candy is the amount of real-time environment map reflections we can add. Pinball tables are made up of lot of plastic and metal parts. Lots of chrome, combined with lots of colored lights going on and off makes for a beautiful lightshow!
Improvements
Since we first released the Season One tables on PS3 and PS Vita, we’ve been making fixes and improvements to our engine and each table. These fixes will soon be released for those platforms in a big patch that should be out in January. The PS4 version will get this updated gameplay on day one!
Discounts
We want to give players who own the PS3 and PS Vita content a discount on PS4. There have been some technical hurdles, but we’ve been able to work with Sony to implement a loyalty discount on PlayStation Store for the Season One Table Packs. Players who own all of the Season One tables can buy either of the Season One Packs for half price!
We’re also offering 10% off these Season Packs to PS Plus members for the next two weeks.
Happy holidays to all of you guys from everyone at FarSight!

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