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Sony Patent Ranks User-generated Game Play Advice for PlayStation 5
We've seen PlayStation Assistant followed by Scene Tagging patents, and according to the latest USPTO patent uncovered today it appears Sony Interactive Entertainment will be ranking gameplay advice on PlayStation Network (PSN) servers based on feedback from next-generation PlayStation 5 console users. 
Below are details from the patent's abstract description:
Management of user-generated game play advice is disclosed. The present invention allows for management of game play advice that is complete and up-to-date regardless of when a particular interactive gaming title is released.
Game play advice is pervasive and easily accessible to game players in addition to being accurate and credible such that game players can trust or rely upon the rendered advice.
And from RespawnFirst.com who discovered the patent filing, to quote:
"The system will rate user-generated game play advice based on feedback from other users. For example, if you are stuck on a hard boss and someone gives you good advice, you can give positive feedback to help that content rank higher.
It is unclear how users will be able to provide feedback but usually, companies use likes, thumbs up, or a star-based system to rank content."
Below are details from the patent's abstract description:
Management of user-generated game play advice is disclosed. The present invention allows for management of game play advice that is complete and up-to-date regardless of when a particular interactive gaming title is released.
Game play advice is pervasive and easily accessible to game players in addition to being accurate and credible such that game players can trust or rely upon the rendered advice.
And from RespawnFirst.com who discovered the patent filing, to quote:
"The system will rate user-generated game play advice based on feedback from other users. For example, if you are stuck on a hard boss and someone gives you good advice, you can give positive feedback to help that content rank higher.
It is unclear how users will be able to provide feedback but usually, companies use likes, thumbs up, or a star-based system to rank content."
PS4 Release Calendar Updater Script for Google Calendar by Masamerc
Since the PS4Updates Python Script, PS4 DLC Indexer, PS4 Imagemap project and PSN Game Search application developer Masamerc made available on Github ps4_calendar_updater which is a Python script that updates Google Calendar with upcoming PS4 video game releases. 
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Download: check_calendar.py / main_scraper.py / GIT
And from the README.md: ps4_release_calendar
1. Overview
A web-scraping project which updates your Google Calendar with release dates of upcoming PS4 games.
The main goal is to help PS4 gamers like myself who have no time or too lazy to go to websites like IGN to check upcoming PS4 games.
Script in action
Updated Calendar
2. Instructions
Google Calendar API
To access your Google calendar using Python you need to set up Google Calendar API. This YouTube tutorial by Indian Pythonista explains the process very well. (watch it until the initial setup.)
If you have wathched tutotorial, you should have credentials you need saved as client_secrets.json. Place the file in the main project directory and in the pickle/ folder.
Installing Dependencies
All the packages/modules required can be found in requirements.txt To install, simply use pip:
Running the Script
There are two ways to run the script: with or without pickle.
without pickle
*every time you run...
🗓Download: check_calendar.py / main_scraper.py / GIT
And from the README.md: ps4_release_calendar
1. Overview
A web-scraping project which updates your Google Calendar with release dates of upcoming PS4 games.
The main goal is to help PS4 gamers like myself who have no time or too lazy to go to websites like IGN to check upcoming PS4 games.
Script in action
Updated Calendar
2. Instructions
Google Calendar API
To access your Google calendar using Python you need to set up Google Calendar API. This YouTube tutorial by Indian Pythonista explains the process very well. (watch it until the initial setup.)
If you have wathched tutotorial, you should have credentials you need saved as client_secrets.json. Place the file in the main project directory and in the pickle/ folder.
Installing Dependencies
All the packages/modules required can be found in requirements.txt To install, simply use pip:
Code:
pip install -r /path/to/requirements.txtThere are two ways to run the script: with or without pickle.
without pickle
*every time you run...
Hand-drawn Journey Gris Joins New PS4 Game Releases Next Week
Next week PlayStation 4 gamers can experience a hand-drawn journey in Gris from Nomada Studio, which utilizes a fluidly animated watercolor art style combined with high resolution imagery. 
Gris is the serene and evocative experience of a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to navigate her faded reality.
On a lighter note, here's what else is coming to PlayStation next week courtesy of Sony Social Media Manager Justin Massongill:
New PlayStation Games for November 26, 2019
Gris PS4 Launch Trailer
Gris is the serene and evocative experience of a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to navigate her faded reality.
On a lighter note, here's what else is coming to PlayStation next week courtesy of Sony Social Media Manager Justin Massongill:
New PlayStation Games for November 26, 2019
- Bleep Bloop - PS4 — Digital
- Brain In Retro - PS4 — Digital (Out 11/25)
- Five Nights at Freddy's - PS4 — Digital (Out 11/29)
- Foxyland - PS4, PS Vita — Digital (Cross-Buy)
- Gas Guzzlers Extreme - PS4 — Digital
- Golazo! - PS4 — Digital (Out 11/27)
- Gris - PS4 — Digital
- Pic-a-Pix Classic 2 - PS4, PS Vita — Digital (Cross-Buy)
- Soccer, Tactics & Glory - PS4 — Digital (Out 11/27)
- Story of a Gladiator - PS4 — Digital
- TheNightfall - PS4 — Digital (Out 11/27)
- True Fear: Forsaken Souls – Part 2 - PS4 — Digital (Out 11/25)
- Death Stranding - Official Score
- DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age
- Lil Peep - Everybody's Everything
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Hustlers
- Ready or Not
Gris PS4 Launch Trailer
Scene Tagging Patent Surfaces, PS5 May Focus on User-Generated Content
Recently a Scene Tagging US Patent filed on November 21, 2019 by Sony Interactive Entertainment surfaced leading to speculation that user-generated content may be the focus of PS5 in conjunction with the PlayStation AI system. 
According to RespawnFirst.com who discovered the patent, to quote:
"Sony is introducing something called 'scene tagging' that is used to characterize user-generated content associated with gameplay information associated with video games.
The meta-information used with the recording or screenshots will allow other users to search for specific content.
The associated metadata would 1) allow users to search among various uploaded user generated content and 2) search within portions of those use-generated content for particular sub-sections of interest.
Furthermore, the metadata associated with the user-generated content would allow viewers to experience the same events that were recorded.
In-game help, connections with other users via user-generated content, seems to be a huge focus with next-generation games."
According to RespawnFirst.com who discovered the patent, to quote:
"Sony is introducing something called 'scene tagging' that is used to characterize user-generated content associated with gameplay information associated with video games.
The meta-information used with the recording or screenshots will allow other users to search for specific content.
The associated metadata would 1) allow users to search among various uploaded user generated content and 2) search within portions of those use-generated content for particular sub-sections of interest.
Furthermore, the metadata associated with the user-generated content would allow viewers to experience the same events that were recorded.
In-game help, connections with other users via user-generated content, seems to be a huge focus with next-generation games."
PS4 Kernel Fixup Script for IDA 7.0-7.2 Released by SocraticBliss
Following his PS4 Kernel Loaders and PS4 Name 2 NID Plugin, PlayStation 4 scene dev @SocraticBliss (Twitter) made available a PS4 Kernel Fixup Python Script (ps4_kernel_fixup.py) he's currently working on for use with the Interactive Disassembler IDA 7.0-7.2 for developers with details below.
Download: ps4_kernel_fixup.py / ps4_kernel_fixup_script-master.zip / GIT
From the README.md, to quote: PS4 Kernel Fixup Script
SocraticBliss(R)
WIP - Currently does the following...
Download: ps4_kernel_fixup.py / ps4_kernel_fixup_script-master.zip / GIT
From the README.md, to quote: PS4 Kernel Fixup Script
SocraticBliss(R)
WIP - Currently does the following...
- Offset Fixup
- Automatic Structure Creation
- ChendoChap
- Pablo (kozarovv)
- Specter
- Load an early PS4 Kernel (with symbols) as an ELF64.
- Run the ps4_kernel_fixup.py script