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Practice your war face while you can, PlayStation 4 owners, because it won't be long before Edge of Reality, developers of hyperviolent shooter Loadout, will want to see it in action. The studio's popular game launches on PS4 December 16.

Of course, simply launching on a new platform isn't enough; you have to throw in some goodies for the faithful customers picking up the product. Hence, Edge of Reality is adding a SuperFan Bonus Pack - unique to PlayStation Plus members - that colors the Loadout crew in blue and white warpaint.

Loadout will be free to download and play when it launches.

Shuhei Yoshida will be playable in the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita versions of Super Time Force Ultra, Sony announced this weekend as part of their PlayStation Experience event.

The President of Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment will wield his smartphone as a weapon, shooting out deadly emoticons and laser-beam Twitter messages as he fights robots, dinosaurs and more. You can see him in action via the short teaser above.

The Vita version of Super Time Force Ultra was announced alongside a slew of other titles, including classics like Suikoden and several Double Fine adventure games.

Death comes for us all, but on January 27, it comes for your PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in the form of Grim Fandango Remastered. Sony revealed the release date for the Double Fine adventure game (not to be confused with the Double Fine Adventure Game, which became Broken Age, which is also coming to PS4 and Vita) as part of their PlayStation Experience event happening this weekend in Las Vegas.

To check out the game in action, just watch the teaser posted above.

Last month, it was reported that Sony Online Entertainment's PlanetSide 2 would make it to the PlayStation 4 by year's end as a playable beta. We're quickly closing in on the end of that release window, but there's still hope: sign-ups for the PS4-flavored PlanetSide 2 beta went live this week, meaning you can now put your name in the proverbial space-hat for a chance to participate in large-scale interplanetary warfare.

Simply head over to the PS4 branch of the PlanetSide 2 website and enter your email address if you'd like to enlist. Doing so will grant you this message: "Thank you for submitting your email address! We will keep you updated as we prepare to launch PlanetSide 2 on the PS4."

Sure, it might not be the Weekly Webcomic Wrapup's anniversary or Joystiq's anniversary, but you'll notice I didn't specify which anniversary I'm celebrating in the headline. Besides, crashing someone else's party is totally acceptable, especially when they invite you and give out as many goodies as Sony and the PlayStation brand did today during the first-ever PlayStation Experience, which coincided with the PlayStation's 20th anniversary.

There's honestly so much news that to go over it here would take up too much of your time, so instead let's talk about the concept of anniversaries - unless you missed our coverage and need to see what the PlayStation Experience was all about, in which case click up above for a backlink to this weekend's coverage.

What was a meaningful anniversary to you, and why? Doesn't even need to be gaming related, but if so that's fine too. Personally, I still fondly recall Sonic's 10th anniversary and the release of Sonic Adventure 2, even if it did give us Shadow the Hedgehog. But what about you? Share your anniversary stories after the break, right after you vote for this week's best webcomic!

Penny Arcade (Recursor)
Critical Miss (The Task At Hand)
ReadySoup (Booty Evolved Into Patootie)
Ctrl+Alt+Del (Pip Pip)
Awkward Zombie (Investigation Station)
Nerd Rage (Super Subtitle Bros)
VG Cats (Penwings)

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If you were looking to experience a nightmare before Christmas, perhaps you looked to your Xbox One or PS4 and a copy of Bethesda's The Evil Within. If you bumped into not just hordes of monstrous killers but also gameplay-impacting bugs and glitches, good news: the game has received a 1GB patch to address those problems, though a posting on the Bethesda blog fails to detail exactly what has been fixed.

"The ... update covers minor bug fixes and optimizations," a post reads. When asked exactly what that meant in the comments, Bethesda reiterated that these were "general technical improvements and bug fixing." Well, that certainly clears things up.

Near the end of October, The Evil Within received another, larger patch that significantly improved technical performance. Whether this patch changes the experience as much, we'll leave for you to decide.

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"The living room is dying," Kyle Broflovski solemnly states in this week's episode of South Park, as he loudly longs for the days when he and his brother Ike would spend their days together, playing Call of Duty and other video games. See, Ike isn't interested in playing games anymore. He's interested in watching YouTube stars like PewDiePie play and make commentary.

Following up on episodes like "Freemium Isn't Free" and "Grounded Vindaloop" which also explored aspects of video games and game culture, "#REHASH" is the episode for anyone who just doesn't get what the big deal is with Let's Play personalities like PewDiePie. Watch the episode and see what we mean, bros.