In November of 2013, PlayStation 4 arrived with a bang . It only took 24 hours for PS4 to sell a million units , and has since sold 4.2 million units through the end of 2013

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Alien: Isolation

Exclusive? No. | Release Date: Q4, 2014

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Basement Crawl

Exclusive? Yes. | Release Date: Q1, 2014

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Child of Light

Exclusive? No. | Release Date: 2014

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Daylight

Exclusive? No. | Release Date: Q1, 2014

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Deep Down

Exclusive? Yes. | Release Date: 2014

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Destiny

Exclusive? No. | Release Date: September 09, 2014

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Dragon Age: Inquisition

Exclusive? No. | Release Date: Q3, 2014

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Driveclub

Exclusive? Yes. | Release Date: 2014

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Dying Light

Exclusive? No. | Release Date: 2014

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Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn

Exclusive? No. | Release Date: April 27, 2014

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There are a lot of PS4s out there, and there are games, too -- PS4 has an attach rate of 2.3 games per console -- but many, many more are on the horizon, including some heavy hitting exclusives. Below are 30 such games that you should keep your eye on throughout the year.When Gearbox released Aliens: Colonial Marines in 2013, the once promising-looking game failed to live up to any of its pre-release hype. Colonial Marines was an unmitigated disaster, and naturally soured gamers’ appetites for more Aliens. Yet, here we are, fresh on the heels of a new Aliens-related announcement . And it’s... well... it sounds pretty cool, actually.Alien: Isolation – which isn’t only on PS4, but on Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC as well – takes place a full 15 years after the events of the Alien film. You play as Amanda, Ripley’s daughter, as she investigates the mystery surrounding her famous mother’s demise. SEGA has put The Creative Assembly on the project, veterans of, among other series, the Total War franchise on PC. So there’s reason to have hope.Let’s be honest: Basement Crawl looks decidedly bizarre. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. This PlayStation 4-exclusive action game from Bloober Team was originally supposed to launch at or around the time PS4 was available to the masses in November. Yet, here we are in January, and the game still isn’t quite ready to go.But that’s okay, because if everything works out, Basement Crawl will be an exciting – and radically different – competitive and co-op game that can be played both locally and online via the PlayStation Network. The name of the game is planting bombs to destroy your unsuspecting, helpless opponents, and Basement Crawl’s four playable characters – and a litany of special power-ups – should bring some variety to an otherwise straight-forward affair.Simply hearing about Child of Light conjures up a very specific phrase: “they don’t make ‘em like they used to.” And it’s true. It’s not every day you hear about a side-scrolling, platforming-centric RPG like Child of Light, one that emphasizes difficult gameplay just as much as it does leveling-up, statistical growth, and the discovery of new weapons, items, and other types of gear.But what’s perhaps even more interesting about Child of Light is where it’s coming from: Ubisoft Montreal. That’s right, a studio that’s best-known for the Far Cry franchise, some Tom Clancy games, and – you guessed it – Assassin’s Creed will be able to spread its wings on something decidedly different, something it simply hasn’t had the chance to work on before. And we’re super excited to see the end result.You can discernibly measure the fall of mainstream survival horror games (we’re looking at you, Resident Evil) with the rise of niche, off-the-beaten-path attempts from smaller developers to fill in such a gaping hole. With Daylight, Zombie Studios’ Unreal Engine 4 survival horror title, players are put into a psychological thriller that you just don’t see very much of in today’s gaming industry.What’s so interesting is how Daylight plays off of helplessness in an attempt to further its frights. Players can’t fight back against the paranormal, of-another-world enemies they encounter. Instead, all they have at their disposal is a cellular phone, one that ingeniously doubles as a weak flashlight. Daylight has all the makings of a memorable horror experience, and while it’ll also be available on PC, something tells me sitting back in a chair with a DualShock 4 controller will be the most frightening way to enjoy it.What started as nothing more than an impressive PlayStation 4 tech demonstration from Capcom turned into far more than that when the Japanese company revealed that it was actually a game. Making matters more interesting, Deep Down wasn’t only a game; it was a PS4 exclusive dungeon-crawling RPG from a company that’s not exactly known for delivering those kinds of experiences. Color us interested.While Deep Down clearly attempts to utilize some of what made Demons Souls and Dark Souls so popular and command so much attention, it also goes in its own direction. For starters, every time you play the game, the dungeons you traverse are randomly-generated. It’s also free-to-play. It looks familiar, but it’s so, so different, and it’s for that reason alone that Deep Down might be one of the most eagerly-anticipated PS4 exclusives of them all.There are few games – if any – coming out in 2014 that have as high expectations attached to it as Destiny. Destiny comes from Bungie – the studio that brought the world Halo (and Marathon before that) – so it should come as no surprise that gamers the world ‘round are expecting big, big things from it. The good news is that from everything we’ve seen of Destiny since its accidental reveal in November of 2012 , there’s cause to be excited.Destiny can be played and enjoyed alone, but the fact of the matter is it’s built to be played with others online. There are undertones of Borderlands in Destiny, with its slant on being always-connected and always-progressing, but it looks far darker, grittier, and more serious. Oh, and did you know that this will be the first game Bungie has released for a PlayStation platform since Oni way back in 2001?The Dragon Age franchise didn’t exactly start out with a bang when Dragon Age: Origins launched in 2009. Next to BioWare’s epic spacefaring RPG Mass Effect, Origins came off more as a b-team effort than anything approaching the critically-acclaimed heights of Commander Shephard’s adventures. But unlike Mass Effect, which was rooted in a technologically-advanced future, Dragon Age took things back to a bygone era, and there was clearly promise in what it was trying to do.Dragon Age II, which launched in early 2011, attempted to rectify some issues with the original, and when Dragon Age: Inquisition launches later in 2014, it appears that it might just deliver on the promise of the original. Running on DICE’s gorgeous and powerful Frostbite 2 engine, Inquisition brings players back to the world of Thedas, providing for a rich, lush world to explore, side quests to complete, and locations to discover. You know… all the stuff RPG fans crave.Discerning PlayStation 4 gamers may be wary of Driveclub, and with good cause. Even though it comes from one of Sony’s very own studios – Evolution – the fact of the matter is it was supposed to launch alongside PlayStation 4 in November, but was unceremoniously delayed at the last minute for unknown reasons. Now, all we know is that it’s set to come out sometime in 2014. When, of course, remains a mystery.But if Driveclub can live up to its original, exciting billing – an always-connected, socially-motivated, highly-realistic racer – then the wait might just prove worth it. Evolution Studios showed incredible prowess with its PlayStation-exclusive MotorStorm series, and while Driveclub takes things away from MotorStorm’s arcadey roots and places it more in the realm of simulation, the studio’s track record demands that at least some of the skepticism surrounding its game be stamped out. Of course, at the end of the day, the proof will very much be in the pudding.In case you were worried that Daylight would be the only survival horror-slanted game on PlayStation 4 in 2014, rest assured that there will be more for you to possibly enjoy. A second entry in the genre, in the form of Dying Light, will also come to PS4 (and other platforms) this year, and unlike Daylight, which emphasizes a more realistic attempt to survive without weapons or means, Dying Light ultimately gives you the power to survive the zombie outbreak that threatens your life.Making matters more interesting is that Dying Light is under development at Polish studio Techland, a largely under-the-radar developer that only recently made its name with the Dead Island franchise. In many respects, Dying Light looks and feels like a natural evolution of Dead Island, as it takes place in an open world with an emphasis on surviving the unexpected with a litany of hand-crafted weapons. Hey, if you’re good at making a certain thing, you might as well stick with it.If there’s one thing that can be said for Final Fantasy XIV, it’s that Square Enix truly pulled a rabbit out of its hat when it went about the extremely difficult task of fixing the game. Final Fantasy XIV was universally panned when it launched in 2010, but four years later, A Realm Reborn has vastly improved XIV’s lackluster situation, making believers out of even the staunchest critics The PC and PS3 have been A Realm Reborn’s proving grounds, but now it’s ready to jump to PlayStation 4, and when that finally happens in April, MMO fans with a PS4 handy will find much the same situation as their PC and PS3-playing brethren. A Realm Reborn is an almost unprecedented turn-of-fortunes for a game so deeply stuck in the muck, and for that reason alone, it should pique plenty of interest from around the gaming sphere.