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As with any gaming console, good hardware only tells half of the story. Today, Sony announced a stable of games that’ll play a large role in determining the early success of the PlayStation 4, which is set for availability this holiday season. Leading the charge will be biggies such as Killzone Shadow Fall, Bungie’s next first-person shooter known as Destiny, Diablo III and a new installment of Final Fantasy. These games will be joined by creative efforts such as Knack, a game directed by the PlayStation 4’s lead architect, Mark Cerny, Watch Dogs from Ubisoft, and Driveclub, which aims to bring team-based racing to new levels. PS4 owners can also expect exclusives such as InFamous: Second Son and The Witness. Rounding out the list — for now, anyway — is a game from Capcom with the working title of Deep Down, along with an unnamed entry from Media Molecule. While it’s clear that Sony and the development community have a number of surprises that’ve yet to be revealed, you’re invited to check out a preview of what’s to come in the following gallery.

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Blizzard Entertainment’s Chris Metzen announced tonight that Diablo 3 is headed to both the PlayStation 3 and 4. He announced as much during Sony’s big PlayStation 4 reveal event this evening, noting that it’s part of a “strategic partnership” between the two companies. He didn’t say anything about how it’ll change, but he did say that fans will get a chance to check out the new version at PAX East this March.

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Nothing could’ve been more delightful than Braid creator Jonathan Blow suddenly walking on-stage at Sony’s big PlayStation 4 reveal only to make fun of all the explosions the event had already featured. Oh sure, he was also at the event to reveal that his latest game, The Witness, is headed to Sony’s PlayStation 4 (as well as to PC and iOS, as the reveal trailer elucidates), but the first statement was much funnier. Anyway, the game looks much, much better than the various demos we’ve played across the past few years — Blow’s been developing The Witness for quite some time, and showing it publicly, albeit never on a PlayStation 4. We’ll hopefully hear more in the coming days, so keep an eye out.

Update: This post originally stated that The Witness was heading exclusively to the PlayStation 4, when in fact it’s only “console exclusive” to the PlayStation 4. It will also launch on iOS and PC. We’ve added the new trailer below the break.

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During today’s PlayStation event Gaikai‘s Dave Perry revealed that the PS4 will not natively support PS3 games and that Sony’s next-gen console will instead stream PS1, PS2 and PS3 games from the cloud — something that the company has already confirmed on Twitter.

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Sharing in-game screenshots? That’s last-generation stuff — Sony wants to give gamers the ability to share their entire game with friends. Taking the stage at the company’s PlayStation event, Mark Cerny explained that PS4 owners will be able to share their gameplay stream with friends, even giving their peers the ability remotely take control of the game to help them get through a tough spot. Sound familiar? It’s Gaikai’s streaming technology, in action. Gaikai founder Dave Perry explained that the technology is baked in to the PS4 architecture, and will give players new avenues of sharing their experiences by piping out video to Facebook and Ustream. The cloud gaming trick is central to the PlayStation Store too, promising to allow gamers the ability to “instantly experience anything.” In other words, try before you buy, and forget about waiting for downloads. It’s not quite the game streaming announcement we expected, but Sony certainly seems to be putting the technology to good use.

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