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The PS4 is back in stock at GameStop, but the retailer warns quantities are limited. The company announces that Sony’s next-gen console is available again in both its online store and physical shops—but don’t expect the new arrivals to last. [We’re] selling out of the consoles just as quickly as …
Read More »Don’t Starve surpasses 1m players, Klei mulling Vita and mobile
Indie developer Klei Entertainment has revealed its open world survival horror game Don’t Starve has accumulated 1m players on the PC platform alone. Speaking with Edge, Klei’s Corey Rollins revealed the figure was actually reached ahead of the title’s release on PS4. Well before the end of 2013 we had …
Read More »UPDATE: Growing reports of PS4 data corruption error
A thread on the PlayStation forum regarding a specific data corruption error is pointing towards a problem for Sony’s machine. Currently standing at 36 pages long, the thread focuses on the CE-34878-0 error. The sisue doesn’t seem specific to any particular title and has manifested for players of various games …
Read More »DriveClub release date to be announced ‘shortly’
Sony has promised that it will soon have concrete news concerning the release of DriveClub. The game was originally pencilled in as a launch title for the launch of PS4 in the West but was delayed just a month before the console arrived in Europe. It has since carried an …
Read More »Xbox One outsold PS4 in the US in December
Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox One outsold the PS4 in the US in December. It’s the first sign that its next-gen machine could yet recover its market-leading position in the US market and offer a serious challenge to PS4, which has outpaced Microsoft’s console in all other key territories since …
Read More »From Software "has not put any thought" into next-gen Dark Souls II
Dark Souls II on PS4 and Xbox One seems unlikely. When asked about the possibility of porting the PC version of the RPG to next-gen consoles, co-director Yui Tanimura told Edge that the studio has not put any thought into this yet”. He also said of the decision to release …
Read More »No LED switch-off for PS4’s DualShock 4
Sony will not be offering the option to switch off the DualShock 4’s rear LED in a future update. Sony’s president of worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida simply replied no” when asked about the possibility on Twitter, adding that the LEDs do not use much battery”. Some users have complained not …
Read More »Ubisoft to publish Tetris on PS4, Xbox One
Ubisoft has announced a partnership with The Tetris Company to bring the classic title to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In a joint announcement, the two firms revealed the latest version of Tetris will arrive via digital means for both consoles. "We welcome Ubisoft to the Tetris family," Tetris Company …
Read More »Hitman confirmed for PS4, Xbox One, PC
While Edios Montreal was recently taken off the Hitman project it was working on, series creator IO Interactive today confirmed that a next-gen Hitman is well into development. Encouragingly for long-time Hitman fans, IO promises that the new game, which will see Agent 47 travel the world, will feature a …
Read More »Io says triple-A Hitman game will ‘fulfil core Hitman fantasy’
Keen to dispel recent rumours, Io Interactive has released a number of details concerning its next-gen Hitman game. Reports last week suggested the Hitman franchise had been abandoned on consoles but nothing could be further from the truth. In the next game you will experience a globetrotting Agent 47 at …
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