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Capcom is building a new IP for PS4 because it will allow it to full understand what the console is capable of. Deep Down is the working title of Capcom’s dungeons and dragons-style RPG, which was unveiled on stage at Sony’s New York press conference last week. It is being …

Sony has confirmed that PlayStation 4 will not prevent consumers from playing second-hand games, silencing the rumours once and for all. Countless reports, rumours, and speculation pieces since March last year have suggested that the next generation Sony console will block second-hand games. But Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida …

PS4 gamepad features stereoscopic motion tracking, touch pad and share button

It’s not as if a platform holder would deliberately leak something just hours ahead of its rival’s big hardware reveal or anything. Ow, this feels like an episode of The Thick of It! The truth of it, though, is that some specs for the second iteration of Kinect is unlikely …

The Sony party may be about to board the PS4 train tonight, but let’s not forget the other half of the PlayStation empire. Sony confirmed a Japanese price cut for the PlayStation Vita this week – a move it hopes will reverse its fortunes in its homeland as it continues …

The long, long, long wait for the next generation of consoles is very nearly over. Sony will tonight, barring a Mayan-style global disaster, reveal the PlayStation 4 to an audience of international journalists in New York. What, you can’t make it to The Big Apple in the next 13 hours? …

Publisher cuts jobs from Treyarch and licensed games

You can now buy SimCity from Ubisoft. The publisher has turned itself into a full digital retailer by selling games from rival companies. Just like EA Origin, consumers can now download the likes of Crysis 3 and The Walking Dead from its Uplay store. Uplay was set-up as a means …

Six more UK-based start-ups to be offered a place on London initiative

A new graphics card standard has been set and will be found lurking in the PCs of millionaires everywhere from later this month. Nvidia has lifted the lid on its first consumer card based on its GK110 Nvidia Kepler design that can be found in the Titan supercomputer cluster. Which …