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Amazon’sUK games boss Russell Jones has said that the industry needs to work hard to upgrade PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers to Sony and Microsoft’s new machines. And the new slim PlayStation 4 and Xbox One S – with their lower price points – could help resolve that issue. It’s …
Read More ȣ149 PS4s are everywhere
A number of UK retailers are today offering the launch version of the PS4 for just 149. Tesco, Smyths, Argos, Game, John Lewis and ShopTo have all gone live with 149 offers for the pre-slim 500GB version of he PS4 bundled with a game. In most instances it’s new release …
Read More »Slim release sees Xbox One hardware sales rocket 1,000%
Xbox has stormed the UK console market following the launch of new Xbox One S models. The release of the firm’s new slim 500GB and 1TB SKUssaw Xbox One sales rise 989 per cent week-on-week. The Xbox One had a 71 per cent share of the hardware market for the …
Read More »Amazon trims PS4 Slim and Xbox One S to £224
Could another Christmas hardware price war be in the offing? Sony’s now available slimmed down 500GB PS4 has an RRP of 259. Microsoft’s 500GB Xbox One S, meanwhile, has an RRP of 249. Both, however, can already be had for a lot less than that. As spotted by Videogamer, both …
Read More »Horizon Zero Dawn is ‘radically different’ to Killzone
Developer Guerrilla Games has spoken of its enthusiasm about moving away from the Killzone franchise after more than a decade. "It’s really exciting," studio manager Hermen Hulst told Game Informer, as reported by GameSpot. "It is fantastic when you’ve worked on a franchise for more than a decade – actually, …
Read More »Yoshida: No Man’s Sky PR strategy ‘wasn’t great’
The boss of Sony Worldwide Studios has admitted that mistakes were made in the marketing of PS4 and PC release No Man’s Sky. The much anticipated title has been beset by an unprecedented amount of criticism amid accusations that it failed to deliver on many of the promises made about …
Read More »Sony’s Jim Ryan explains the strategy behind its slim PS4 and PS4 Pro
Last week, Sony finally revealed its new PS4 consoles – a slimmer version and a 4K super-powered edition. We ask global head of marketing and sales Jim Ryan about the strategy behind the new machines What’s the target audience for the PS4 Slim? This is a path pretty well trodden …
Read More »HDR update hits PS4 today
The much-touted HDR technology will be rolled out to all existing PS4s today. HDR has overnight become one of the big buzzwords of the industry, and was one of the main features with which Microsoft chose to push the Xbox One S. A lot of time was also spent bigging …
Read More »Crytek: PS4 Pro and Xbox’s Project Scorpio will ‘remove limitations’
CryEngine firm optimistic about new incremental console cycle
Read More »The Last Guardian suffers fresh delay
The perpetually upcoming The Last Guardian will remain upcoming for a little while longer. The game had, at long last, been due out on October 28th. It has now been pushed back to December 9th in the UK and December 7th in Europe. Fumito Ueda, Gen Design and Japan Studio …
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