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President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has said that a healthy and successful Nintendo is vital to the overall video games industry. When you look at the situation around Nintendo that way, do you characterize Nintendo as our competition?” he told IGN, as transcribed by MyNintendoNews. I think in …
Read More »Ubisoft suggests PS4 pre-orders are ahead of Xbox One
There have been more pre-orders for PS4 than Xbox One, Ubisoft chief executive Yves Guillemot has suggested. CVG reports that the exec told investors last night that: "Even if the PS4 is in front of Xbox One pre-orders… we are not worried at all. We think [Xbox One] will be …
Read More »LEGO Marvel Super Heroes delayed on Xbox One
Warner Bros has confirmed a delay to the Xbox One version of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. The game had been scheduled to be a launch title on Xbox One. It’s still coming out on all other formats on November 15th, apart from on PS4 in Europe where it will arrive …
Read More »New Lord of The Rings game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor revealed
Warner Bros has a new Lord of the Rings game in the works for current and next-gen consoles. As revealed by GameInformer, it’s called Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and is being developed by FEAR, Condemned and Guardians of Middle-earth creators Monolith Productions. It depicts events set between those of The …
Read More »Ex-Future staff start crowdfunding for rival Linux magazine
Three former writers from Future’s Linux Format magazine have set up a crowdfunding effort to establish a rival title. It’s called Linux Voice and is being made by former deputy editor Andrew Gregory, Mike Saunders and Ben Everard. The Indiegogo campaign is looking to raise 90,000, of which over 10k …
Read More »Facebook cools enthusiasm for dedicated console apps
PS4 will offer Facebook integration but, like Xbox One, won’t have a dedicated app for the console. That’s because the social network found that such apps took a lot of effort to maintain and ultimately offered little benefit to users. "One of the things that came out of our experience …
Read More »Now TV app won’t hit Xbox One until summer 2014
Despite appearing in Microsoft’s launch window” list of Xbox One apps, Sky’s Now TV app is unlikely to arrive until the summer. Sky also confirmed to Videogamer that there doesn’t not appear to be any imminent plans to launch a Sky Go app for the platform. "We enjoy a long …
Read More »IHS predicts 11m unit for PS4 over Xbox One by 2017
PS4 will have outsold its rival Xbox One to the tune of 11m units within five years, research firm IHS has predicted. The company believes that by 2017 PS4 will have sold 49m units worldwide with Xbox One trailing behind on 38m units. IHS believes that Sony’s wider geographical brand …
Read More »Amazon launches PlayStation Digital Games Store in the US
Surprise – Amazon has launched a PlayStation Network Digital Games and DLC Store in the US. Kotaku reports that the store will offer content for PS4, PS3 and Vita and is a direct alternative to buying directly through Sony. Buyers will be given codes upon purchase that can be redeemed …
Read More »Xbox One game downloads will fill up the hard drive pretty quick
The additional graphical flourish that will accompany next-gen games will result in another fundamental change – filesizes are set to explode. That doesn’t really matter when you’re talking about games on a Blu-ray. After all, it matters not whether your disc is carrying 5MB or 50GB of data. But if …
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