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Nvidia today announced that its PhysX and APEX technologies will be supported on the PS4, which Sony announced in February. Nvidia and AMD’s war for dominance of the PC platform has been as fiercely fought and well documented as Sony and Microsoft’s in the console space, so it’s interesting to …
Read More »Raspberry Pi snaps up camera add-on
Foundation calls on developers to help them refine optical input
Read More »PS4 to go into production in August, to ship 16 million units this year
The PlayStation 4 will go into full production in August and will ship 16 million units this year, reports out of Taiwan and Japan have suggested. Esuteru(Japanese) has quoted a report in Taiwanese publication Digitimes as saying that production will be handled by Taiwanese companies Foxconn and Pegatron. Foxconn also …
Read More »Microsoft’s Mattrick doesn’t view Steam Box as threat to Xbox
Xbox executive Don Mattrick doesn’t believe Valve’s upcoming Steam Box hardware as competition in the console market. Speaking with The Verge, Mattrick stated that while he both respected and loved Valve founder Gabe Newell, he doesn’t see the company as a competitor to Microsoft in terms of living room gaming. …
Read More »Valve to ship Steam Box prototypes in 3-4 months
Gabe Newell has revealed customers can expect to get their hands on an early version of Valve’s Steam Box hardware in the next three to four months. Speaking with BBC, the company’s founder explained what point in the process the hardware is at, as well as touching on some of …
Read More »PS4 won’t natively support PS3 games
In amongst a long list of impressive PlayStation Clould features laid out for the PS4 by Gaikai’s David Perry was one little detail that may turn many potential buyers off. While Perry said that cloud services on the PS4 would enable Sony to stream PS3 games to users, he also …
Read More »PS4 games lead next-gen charge
First and third-party studios line up to show off early demos for Sony's new machine
Read More »Sony unveils PlayStation 4, out holidays 2013
Sony unveiled its next-generation console – PlayStation 4, at the PlayStation Meeting in New York today, and has announced that it will arrive in ‘holiday 2013′. While Sony showed the new Dualshock 4 controller, which resembled the leaked prototype, the company strangely didn’t show what the console would look like …
Read More »Sony reveals enhanced DualShock 4 controller
PS4 gamepad features stereoscopic motion tracking, touch pad and share button
Read More »PlayStation 4 reveal tonight: India timing, live stream here
There’s less than 12 hours before Sony will almost certainly unveil the next generation PlayStation console – the PlayStation 4. The PlayStation Meeting 2013 is scheduled to take place in New York in a few hours, and in India, we’re either going to have to pull an all-nighter or set …
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