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Japanese PlayStation Awards 2018 Voting Now Open

The Japanese PlayStation site has opened the voting for the PlayStation Awards ‘User’s Choice Award’. As an added bonus, PlayStation users who participate in the voting have a chance to win a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 4 Pro bundle, along with a PlayStation VR.

The voting is now open, and up to five titles can be selected for the User’s Choice Award, which gives the user a chance to choose which PlayStation bundle they wish to enter into the prize draw.

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Voting is open from 1st October, 2018 until 8th October 2018. Titles released between 1st October 2017 until 30th September 2018 on PlayStation branded formats are eligible for voting and up to five titles can be selected per user. In order to vote, users must have an active PlayStation Network account. The top ten titles will be recognised from the collected user votes.

The available prizes includes A PlayStation 4 Pro 1 TB model with PlayStation VR and PlayStation Camera, or a PlayStation 4 Pro 1 TB model, or a Standard PlayStation 4 1 TB.

The winner of each bundle will be decided by lottery. The elected winners will be informed by the email registered to the PlayStation Network account used to submit the vote. The winning notifications are expected to be awarded in Early November 2018.

Elected winners will need to reply to this notification with their address, full name and telephone number in order to receive their prize.

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High-profile and popular PlayStation VR titles such as Moss, Firewall Zero Hour, Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner – MARS, Apex Construct and Arizona Sunshine are all eligible for voting in the awards.

Further information can be found on the Japanese PlayStation website.

For future coverage on VR-related awards and events, keep checking back with VRFocus.

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PlayStation Japan Release Farpoint Video, a Trailer it is not

Here at VRFocus we do enjoy the odd Japanese videogame trailer or two, especially the ones that go beyond the basic gameplay showcase adding that humour and originality that only the Japanese can provide – just look at the party political style promo video for V! No Heroes Allowed R! for example. One of the latest to be released by PlayStation Japan is for first-person shooter (FPS) Farpoint, and as usual it’s great fun to watch whether you understand it or not.

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As VRFocus can neither speak nor write in Japanese, knowing what exactly is going on in the video is a little tricky but for our readers we’ve dug a little deeper into what the heck is going on. As you may well be aware earlier this month Farpoint  developer Impulse Gear released a new update for the PlayStation VR exclusive title, called ‘Versus Expansion Pack’.

The update is centred around the two new PvP modes: Deathmatch and Uplink which the guys in the video are promoting. They are comedy duo Drunk Dragon with the third chap being former mercenary journalist Masaki Takabe. The basic premise seems to be that Drunk Dragon are fighting one another in one of these new modes without much success. So in comes Takabe to help offer some pointers to beat each other.

I that’s not right or you want to elaborate further please do let us know in the comments section below.

The ‘Versus Expansion Pack’ also saw three new maps added: Underworld, Pipeline, and Permafrost, each with 3 areas, 15 new weapons and three new skins, all unlocked by gaining player and weapon XP awarded in Challenge, Co-Op and PvP game modes.

For the latest updates on Farpoint, keep reading VRFocus.