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Sony is making it mandatory for all PS4 games to support remote play on the PS Vita. The news was first reported by Digital Foundry, and has since been confirmed by Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida on Twitter. What this essentially means is that all PlayStation 4 …
Read More »Ubisoft reveals E3 2013 games line-up
Ubisoft today unveiled what is perhaps its strongest E3 line-up ever, featuring exclusive next-generation games, innovative editions of popular franchises, and new brands and titles.” The publisher will, as always, hold its own pre-E3 press conference, where it will announce and go deeper into some of its most important games …
Read More »All PS4 games to offer Vita remote play?
PS4 developers must integrate Vita remote play into all of their games, according to a report. A PS4 developer source with a proven track record for accuracy” has toldEurogamerthat only games that require the use of the PS4 Eye will be exempt from Vita compatibility. The report said remote play …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox One’s AMD Jaguar CPU examined
The AMD Jaguar CPU that lies at the heart of both PS4 and Xbox One may not be the gaming beast we had expected. Rock Paper Shotgun got its hands on an 4-core 1.5Ghz variant of the 8-core 1.6Ghz chip found in both consoles. It speculates that once the multitasking …
Read More »Random House lifts veil on story-driven F2P title
Interactive story Black Crown harnesses Failbetter's Storynexus platform
Read More »Infinity Ward explains its decision to wave goodbye to Modern Warfare
What exactly is left of Infinity Ward? The FPS studio that invented the Call of Duty series and birthed the Modern Warfare phenomenon was left in ruins three years ago. A dispute between the publisher and its studio founders over Modern Warfare 2 royalties and planned defections to EA saw …
Read More »Peripherals industry ‘near-impossible to penetrate,’ says inventor
A designer working on a new racing game controller says the UK peripherals market is inaccessible to outsiders. Dr. Edmund Jephcott has created the Pegasus racing game control system, a device designed to make the steering of existing controllers more managable. But Jephcott has found the peripherals market too closed …
Read More »Sony promises no delay for Gran Turismo 6
Gran turismo 5 was famously dogged by delays, but the newly announced GT6 shouldn’t suffer the same fate, says Sony. The firm is confident Gran Turismo 6 will arrive on time this Christmas. There is no reason to think the proposed release window for GT6 will not be achieved,” product …
Read More »Blizzard ‘resets’ next-gen MMO Titan, cuts team size by 70 per cent
The next-gen MMO from the makers of World of Warcraft is now unlikely to arrive until 2016 at the earliest”. That’s according to VentureBeat which has word that Blizzard has decided to push the reset button” on the game known as Titan. It has also cut its development stream from …
Read More »Second listing for Mirror’s Edge 2 on Xbox One spotted
EA could be set for a hugely fan-pleasing reveal at E3 next month – Mirror’s Edge 2. After an Amazon Germany listing for the game was spotted last week, OXM has now noticed a similar listing on the Italian arm of Amazon. Both listings have now been removed. Interestingly, the …
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