The fact that the PlayStation Plus Edition of Driveclub won’t allow you to complete the single player Tour mode made many wonder Sony Computer Entertainment walked back on its promise made last year of allowing players to earn the platinum trophy without purchasing the full version.

Luckily Game Director Paul “Rushy” Rustchynsky took to NeoGAF to clarify that it’ll still be possible to platinum the game without spending a dollar.

And you still can. Nothing has changed.

Talking about spending, the option to upgrade the free PlayStation plus version to the full version will be still made available, and the price will be announced soon, as Rustchynsky confirmed on Twitter.

As we already knew, the PlayStation Plus version of the game will give access to a single country,  which includes five tracks with eleven variants and ten cars. Apparently that will be enough to get the coveted platinum trophy, and completing the Tour mode won’t be necessary.

For the moment only five countries (Scotland, Norway, Canada, Chile and India) have been officially announced, but we don’t know if there will be more in the final game. We also don’t know which one will be included in the PlayStation Plus edition.

The full car list still hasn’t been disclosed (even if the latest trailer included18 different rides), and interrogated on whether the game will include any Japanese cars Rustchynsky declined to respond, mentioning that he can’t disclose the rest of the car list yet.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/04/driveclub-you-can-still-get-platinum-trophy-with-ps-plus-edition-upgrade-price-to-be-announced-soon/

Sony has been on a trademarking spree lately, and this time it’s the turn of the MMORPG arm of the company Sony Online Entertainment to file for another trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The trademark filed is “Everything’s Game” and it belongs to the international class 41, that is relative to online multiplayer games and services.

At the moment there’s no information on what the new trademark may be about, but considering how vocal the folks at SOE are, we’ll probably hear about it soon.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/04/sony-trademarks-everythings-game-for-the-united-states/

If you’re not in the PlayStation Now beta (or if you’re not American like me) but want to see what the service looks like, a reader that opted to remain anonymous sent us a real treat in the form of a full fledged video walkthrough of the current beta.

The video starts from the launch of the service and basically goes through everything there’s to see, doing a connection test, browsing the games catalog and even loading and playing a couple games (Puppeteer and Saints Row: The Third).  Incidentally It’s also very well made (kudos to the author, really). If it wasn’t recorded off screen it could almost be mistaken for an official trailer.

You can check it out below, but remember that, as you can read at the bottom of the screen, what’s shown in this sneak peek is for testing purposes only, and is not indicative of the final service.

[Thanks for the Tip: Megalocrab]

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/05/04/leaked-playstation-now-beta-video-shows-ui-games-loading-connection-test-and-more/

There's a video at the link.