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Disney’s hit movie Frozen is to be emblazoned onto the side of Sony’s PS4. Gematsu reports that the Limited Edition Frozon PS4 will boast a special Anna and Elsa laser seal hard-drive bay cover”. It launches on July 16th and will cost 42,980 (250). What it doesn’t include is a …
Read More »Sony admits PS4 is a tougher sell in Japan
PS4 has been a smash hit in the West but has struggled to take off in Japan since its arrival in the region in February. The machine had a fantastic launch selling 322,083 units in its first two days, bettering the PS3’s Japanese launch performance by 88,443 units. Since then, …
Read More »Xbox exec ‘defies you to see resolution and framerate differences on sub-60 inch screens’
The UK marketing boss of Xbox has said that one of Microsoft’s challenges is to overcome the disparity between the perceptions and realities of differing framerates and resolutions. Xbox One has since launch been troubled by the fact that several cross-platform titles offer either a lower resolution or framerate on …
Read More »Shadow Warrior reboot arriving on PS4 and Xbox One in September
The 2013 reboot of Shadow Warrior is coming to current-gen consoles later this year. The distributors for the game, Devolver Digital and Majesco Entertainment, confirmed that Flying Wild Hog’s resurrection of the bloody 90s first-person shooter would be released on PS4 and Xbox One this September. The studios added that …
Read More »Grim Fandango remake also coming to PC
The remake of Grim Fandango will be launching on PC alongside PS4 and Vita, the game’s developer has confirmed. Double Fine previously announced that the dark comedy point and click adventure, originally released exclusively on PC in 1998, would be coming to PS4 and Vita at Sony’s E3 conference in …
Read More »Rogue Legacy coming to PS4, PS3 and Vita on July 29th
The ‘rogue-lite’ dungeon platformer Rogue Legacy is coming to PlayStation platforms at the end of July. Teddy Lee, games designer at developer Cellar Door Games, announced that the game, which launched on PC, Mac and Linux last year, was originally designed with a view to playing on Vita. "When we …
Read More »White PS4 will get standalone European release this year
An alternative colour for the PS4 is due to hit European retailers later this year, SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has said. Until now the white model has only been confirmed for inclusion in the Destiny hardware bundle due out on September 9th. However, CVG spotted an interview with …
Read More »Uncharted series ‘a good candidate’ for PS4 re-release
Uncharted 4 is currently in development for PS4, but perhaps one Uncharted game simply isn’t enough for Nathan Drake. With The Last of Us: Remastered hitting PS4 later this month and Thatgamecompany’s Flow and Flower already available, Sony obviously sees great stock in retooling its existing PS3 hits for its …
Read More »PS4 slips behind PS3 in Japan
The PlayStation 3 trumped the PS4 this week in Japan according weekly chart data provided by Famitsu. This was no doubt helped by sales of PS3 titles Watch Dogs, Kamen Rider Battride War II and Grand Theft Auto V in the software Top Ten this week. Sales of the Wii …
Read More »PS4 remains the favoured platform amongst European developers
Sony’s PS4 has for the second year in a row been named as the console platform of choice amongst European developers, GDC data suggests. The GDC Europe State of the Industry 2014 Survey found that 18 per cent of respondents are currently making a game for the machine versus 13 …
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