20th Anniversary PlayStation 4 Unveiled

Sony unveiled a 20th anniversary special edition PlayStation 4 during the PlayStation Awards 2014 on Wednesday. Only 12,300 individually numbered units will be sold worldwide.

The special edition PS4 will retail for 49,800 yen (about US$416) and Sony Japan will be accepting applications for its lottery system until December 10. Pre-orders will begin in the United States and Canada on December 6, and the system will also be available at the PlayStation Experience this weekend in Las Vegas.

The special edition PS4's grey color is the same as the color of the original PlayStation, which first shipped in Japan on December 3, 1994. The system will come with similarly customized accessories, including a stand, DualShock 4 Wireless Controller, and PlayStation Camera.

Sony also began streaming an unboxing video and a trailer:

Evangelion Gets New Japanese Blu-ray, DVD Boxes

Blu-ray to have HD-remastered TV & video versions of 1995 anime, 1st Japanese home video release of original Death

Studio Khara announced on Monday that the 1995 television anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion (Shin Seiki Evangelion) will ship in Japan in new Blu-ray Disc and DVD sets next summer.

The HD-remastered Neon Genesis Evangelion Blu-ray box will contain all 26 episodes of the original television anime, as well as the video format version of episodes 21-24. The set will also contain the films Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (including the first Japanese home video release of this version of the Death portion), The End of Evangelion, as well as Revival of Evangelion (with Death (True) 2 and the two halves of The End of Evangelion).

The Archives of Evangelion DVD box will contain all 26 episodes of the television series in the anime's original broadcast version. This will be the first time this version of the series has been released on DVD in Japan. The set will also contain Evangelion: Death (True) & Rebirth, as it aired on television. (This will be the first Japanese home video release of this version of the Death (True) portion.)

The release date, price, and extra features will be announced at a later time.

The original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime broadcasted from 1995 to 1996. Since then, the series has spawned multiple films, including a series of new films beginning in 2007.