April began with the usual slew of April Fool’s japes, which we rounded up in one handy post, and one of the best was the PlayStation Flow – wearable tech you can use whilst swimming. We also took a look at the Planetside 2 beta in April, we took a look at the Year One edition of State of Decay and there was footage of the cancelled Alan Wake 2 project, but it was a rather quiet month for games.
The Kojima/Konami debacle continued with the cancellation of Silent Hills and the removal of P.T from the PlayStation Store, whilst the company delisted itself from the New York stock exchange in a bid to save money. Kojima’s name was wiped from websites for Zone of Enders and Metal Gear Solid
The rumour mill found Watch Dogs 2 listed on a CV (no sign of that one yet), that Crytek and Amazon had jumped in to bed together (nope), a remaster of the Uncharted trilogy (correct), and another remaster, this time for Gears of War (correctamundo). Everyone enjoyed an extra long weekend over Easter and sat down for serious gaming, but the PSN threw a wobble and went down. Typical!
As I’m compiling these reviews of the year, it’s interesting to note how many games have been forgotten, or just simply vanished. In April TSA featured Krinkle Krusher, Screencheat, Invisible Inc., and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. None of these ring any bells to me, but how about you?
April finished with the storming news that Sony had sold over 22.3 million PlayStation 4 consoles, and the slightly less storming news that Dead Island 2 had been delayed to 2016. As we’ll see later on in the year, the developer was dropped completely and the project is currently in limbo.
Outside the world of video games, some naughty grandads broke into an underground vault belonging to the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company in the London diamond district and emptied 300 safety deposit boxes, stealing millions of pounds worth of gems. WikiLeaks published 30,287 documents and 173,132 emails from Sony Pictures, allegedly stolen during the hack by North Korea. These included the script for the Uncharted movie along with emails suggesting the Bioshock movie may also be back in production.
A massive earthquake rocked Nepal with over 5,000 people feared dead, whilst America was rocked by yet another death of a young black man in police custody, followed by yet more protesting and rioting. In tech news, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft completed it’s mission by plummeting into the surface of Mercury. It had originally been set to gather data for a year but managed three years before committing spacecraft suicide.
Now we go over to Mark McCarthy in the weather centre for a summary of the meteorological conditions during the month.
bunimomike
The Konami-Kojima nonsense really did run on a long time, eh? Bloody hell. :-\