How to Create a PSN Teen Account

A Teen Account is a great in-between account for your older kids who don’t fully need parental restrictions anymore. Perhaps they’re also ready to be allowed to play games online. As a parent, you can choose whether to allow your teen to access the PlayStation Network as well as make purchases with their own account.

Setting up a Teen Account

If you don’t use auto-login, choose [+New User] at the login screen. If you’re already logged in, hold down the PS button on your controller, select [Switch User], and then [+New User].

Read and accept the User Agreement.
On the “Sign in to PlayStation Network” screen, choose [New to PlayStation Network? Create an Account] at the bottom of the screen.
Choose [Sign Up Now].
Enter your Region, Language, and Date of Birth. If the user’s birthdate puts them between 13 and 17 years old, a Teen Account will be automatically created.
The next screen will explain a Teen Account. Select [Next] when ready.
Enter your Postal Code, City, and State/Province and choose [Next].
Enter an email address and the password you’d like for the account.
Pick a username. Please note that YOU CANNOT CHANGE IT once you’ve created it.
The following two steps let you decide who you can see your activities, Trophies, Friends, and gameplay videos if you are granted PSN access.
For the final step, your parent/guardian must sign into the Master Account in order to allow access to the PSN.

Enabling PSN Access for a Teen Account

Sign into the PS4 with the Teen Account.
Go to [Settings] > [PlayStation Network/Account Management] > [Sign-in to PlayStation Network].
A message will pop up, saying the account needs to be confirmed before the Teen Account can go online. Have parent choose [OK] to continue.
Parent will need to sign in with their Master Account and confirm that they wish to activate a Teen Account.
The parent/guardian can then confirm the Teen Account info (if they didn’t set it up), and set restrictions for chat, set a monthly spending limit, and restrict any sharing activities.
Accept the terms and conditions.
The Master Account holder will receive an email confirming the Teen Account. Open the email and click the link to verify the account.
Once the parent/guardian verifies the account, select [OK] on the next two PS4 screens. The user can now sign into their Teen Account and access the PSN according to the parent’s restrictions.

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Games Based on Movies Feature

Movies to Games...Yay or Nay?

In light of Apocalypse Now - The Game launching a crowdfunding campaign, we present to you five films that could be engineered into five cracking games.
Lethal Weapon

The Pitch: A buddy-cop romp

Who Should Make It: Naughty Dog

Forget about Fox’s serialised spin on Lethal Weapon for the time being and instead cast your mind back to the real Riggs and Murtagh. Brought to life by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, respectively, few buddy cop movies can hold a candle to Richard Donner’s cult classic and, fuelled by a crackerjack script from the illustrious Shane Black, Lethal Weapon went on to spawn a full-blown action franchise.

Supposing Riggs and Murtagh ever made the jump to video games — Ocean Software’s NES title notwithstanding — a character-driven romp could be just the ticket. Naughty Dog is one such studio renown for top-tier cinematic experiences, and we’d love to take a deep dive into the criminal underworld of corrupt cops and drug kingpins under their stewardship. Are Riggs and Murtagh getting too old for this shit? Maybe.
The Purge

The Pitch: Urban survival horror

Who Should Make It: Frictional Games

You’ve heard of it haven’t you? The annual Purge? It’s an annual civil tradition drafted up by the New Founding Fathers of America during which all crime — and we really do mean all crime — is legalized for a period of 12 hours. James DeMonaco’s jet-black series has amassed a cult following since 2014, and though there have been rumblings of a spinoff TV show, The Purge has been placed on ice ever since 2016’s Election Year — how fitting.

Can The Purge be repackaged as a video game? It’s possible. Drawing on their experience with SOMA and the beloved Amnesia series, Frictional Games is a fine candidate to handle an adaptation that thrusts players into such a nightmarish alternate reality. Take the 12-hour window and let it play out in real-time — 2.0x real-time, perhaps? — with survival mechanics and a palpable sense of player vulnerability and you could stumble upon a survival-horror experience that, while not exactly original, is as nerve-shredding as they come.
Source Code

The Pitch: High-octane thriller

Who Should Make It: Quantic Dream

Before venturing onto the fantastical plains of Azeroth, writer-director Duncan Jones crafted two modern sci-fi classics in Moon and Source Code, the latter of which follows a U.S. Army captain (Jake Gyllenhaal) who partakes in an experimental device known as the “Source Code” that allows him to experience the final eight minutes of another person’s life — providing they’re compatible — within an alternative timeline. Pretty neat, right?

What follows is a race against the clock as Gyllenhaal’s protagonist scrambles to locate the identity of a terrorist before the train is blown to kingdom come. It’s Groundhog Day infused with a high-speed thriller, and with branching story lines and moral choices, we can’t think of a better studio to tackle a potential Source Code game than Quantic Dream. From Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy to Heavy Rain to the upcoming Detroit: Become Human, the French studio is renown for engrossing narratives where the difference between life and death is often indiscernible. There’s chatter of a Source Code sequel kicking into gear, so why not a video game spinoff?
Goodfellas

The Pitch: Brooding family saga

Who Should Make It: Rockstar Games

“As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a gangster.” That’s Henry Hill, lead protagonist of what is arguably Martin Scorsese’s magnum opus, Goodfellas, musing about his fateful journey to becoming an outlaw. Hard-hitting, stylish, and damn near unforgettable, the saga of Henry Hill and his three generations of life in the mob is one of the greatest stories ever told on film, now imagine if that same story was in the hands of, say, Rockstar Games.

It’s wishful thinking, of course; between Red Dead, Grand Theft Auto and L.A. Noire, Rockstar tends to blaze its own path in the narrative department, but if the studio were to take the reins on Goodfellas, the end result could be an engrossing family drama of crooks, cops and the fine moral line in between. Toss in GTA V’s character-switching dynamic and a Rockstar-helmed Goodfellas game is certainly an enticing prospect.
Akira

The Pitch: Cyberpunk sci-fi

Who Should Make It: Visceral Games

For all of the potential simmering beneath the neon surface of Katsuhiro Otomo’s iconic manga, there’s never really been a great pixelated adaptation of Akira. Visceral Games could change all that. The studio is currently in the midst of crafting its third-person Star Wars title — a development headed up by former Uncharted alum Amy Hennig — but Visceral has dabbled in the realm of science fiction before thanks to Dead Space, once considered the dev’s flagship series before Isaac Clarke was placed under cryogenic sleep for the foreseeable future.

Per EA’s licensing agreement with Disney, Visceral Games will likely be tied up in a galaxy far, far away, but supposing the studio carves out enough time to pay a visit to Neo-Tokyo, the world of Otomo-san’ six-part manga is teeming with cyberpunk goodness. If it hewed close to the 1988 movie adaptation, the end result could be a violent, hyper-kinetic actioner that doesn’t forget its anime heritage. Hell, if Visceral isn’t up to the gig, perhaps Team Ninja could take point at the helm?