The PlayStation weekly wrap-up

After a very eventual 14 days, there’s barely been time to recover as we prepare to taste some of the fruits from last week’s big announcements. Do you have a slimmer, lighter PS4 in your hands? Or have you tried PlayStation VR in readiness for its launch, bare weeks away? And what about all the cool Tokyo Game Show trailers? It’s almost too much… but that shouldn’t stop you from telling us what you’re playing, below.

This week’s biggest new trailers

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare – Story trailer
What do John Snow and J’onn J’onzz have in common? If you’re up on your TV, fantasy and comic book pop culture, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about when you watch this new clip from Infinity Ward’s newest space-faring entry to the massive shooter franchise.
Gravity Rush 2 – Tokyo Game Show 2016 trailer
Kat dropped in to TGS for what many deemed one of the show stealing trailers from the event. Kinetic! Flashy! Explosive! Exclamation! Gravity Rush 2 has them all, and more.
FIFA 17 – The Journey
EA Sports has jumped into full blown drama for its forthcoming FIFA game, so get a glimpse of the PlayStation Store demo which lets you live your story on and off the pitch in the quest to become a football superstar.

Tweets of the week:

Our lovely Producer @kiockstantin isn’t here today so we’ve got someone else in to help… @trufflepug! 🊀 slurp! 🌀 pic.twitter.com/5Xhr06KI8p

— Media Molecule (@mediamolecule) September 14, 2016

Trailer mounted KMG style XXL ride in @LittleBigPlanet 3 on @PlayStation 4.https://t.co/KlzNhjutTy

— Joshua Hughes (@ZookeyTK) September 13, 2016

Who says a Watcher can’t get down? #HorizonZeroDawn @Guerrilla pic.twitter.com/7FE4bnv3Q7

— Dave Thach (@davethach) September 14, 2016

Around the world of PlayStation:

Your chance for video game fame has arrived – Bioware is looking for fans to play two minor roles in its forthcoming Mass Effect Andromeda space epic. You can unfurl the (possibly) dulcet tones of indie documentarian Jordan Tate and the (inevitably) throaty rasp of a ‘tough mercenary’ as long as you submit your audio or video entry before 28th September. Find your voice over at the official site.
Producer and publisher of digital games, FDG Entertainment, is asking if you’d be interested in a PS Vita version of the superb action RPG Oceanhorn, via its Twitter channel. You know what I’d vote for, so if you agree head over and offer some encouragement.
Celebrating the launch of BioShock: The Collection, Rolling Stone has a frank and fascinating chat with former creative director Ken Levine. It offers great insight into the challenges developer Irrational Games faced, as well as some of Levine’s thoughts on the series since he left.

This week’s PlayStation Store ‘leftfield’ pick:

There was an embarrassment of riches on PlayStation Store this week, but as arguably the office’s biggest fan of Klei Entertainment’s survival adventure series, it would be amiss of me not nudge you in the direction of one particular game. Don’t Starve Together: Console Edition has arrived on PS4, so now you and your friends can see what it’s like to huddle in fear as you’re hunted by terrifying creatures in a strange land. Well, either that or turn on each other like craven jackals brought up solely on a literary diet of Lord of the Flies.

The pick of PlayStation Blog:

Resident Evil 7 demo now available for all, updated with new content
If you’ve not yet had the chance to scare yourself silly in the PS Store demo of Capcom’s survival horror, now you can.

How the new PS4 ‘Quick Menu’ places everything you need at the touch of a button
Happy with system software update 4.0 on PS4? Then here are some tips that will help you become even happier.

Battlezone four-player co-op confirmed – watch new gameplay footage
Rebellion’s big hitting PlayStation VR tank battler is one of the more highly anticipated games launching with the Virtual Reality system – here’s why.
Don’t forget, we’re also compiling all of the stories from our Battlezone week, so make sure you don’t miss a thing.

And the rest of the headlines:

What we’re currently playing:

Corey: “The pick-up-play-yet-wonderfully-deep-and-supremely-addictive gameplay of Downwell has owned my soul again, this week. It partly reminds me of the time I fell off a bus near my house one night and sprained my ankle. Thankfully, Downwell has less pain, monsters and guns. Ah, memories.”

Rhys: “I’ve been splitting my time between toiling for the good of the people in The Tomorrow Children and taking time out by shredding my nerves in Tricky Towers. I really need to make time to start Lords of the Fallen this weekend too. Oh and there’s still Journey that I’ve never played yet… I’m going to need a longer weekend.”

Matt: “There’s not been much time for any serious gaming sessions this week (which is why Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is still in its wrapping), but I did manage a few casual shoot outs on Rainbow Six Siege and bagged the ‘Presentation of a rich set of skills’ trophy on Alienation (taking down an entire horde with melee alone was… interesting).”