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One disgruntled Blockbuster customer took matters into his own hands when told he could not receive a refund for his PS4 pre-order. Blockbuster confirmed just hours after announcing its intention to re-enter administration that next-gen pre-orders would be refunded in full. But the BBC reports that the 31 year-old Adam …
Read More »New PlayStation 4 games to be announced day before launch
More PlayStation 4 games are to be announced the night before the console is released in North America. GameTrailersTV’s Geoff Keighley tweeted that the website will be doing a #PS4ALLACCESS event on November 14th and said there will be ‘world premieres and announcements.’ These will definitely involve new games. Compared …
Read More »Bungie wants a million gamers "crashing against" Destiny beta
Destiny developer Bungie is hoping to get a ton of testers in on the game’s beta in hopes to avoid many of the issues the launch of Grand Theft Auto Online faced. Speaking with IGN, Bungie senior writer Eric Obsborne discussed how the team needs a large number of gamers …
Read More »Next-gen FIFA ‘is the best we have ever made’
Electronic Arts says FIFA 2014 on Xbox One and PS4 is the best football game it has ever made. The title will launch alongside both machines next month and producer Nick Channon says the game is a great base from which to launch more products in the lucrative football franchise. …
Read More »PS4 preorders ‘much higher’ than past consoles
Launch lineup 'stronger than predecessors', claims Sony
Read More »PS4 supports cross-platform play with PS3
First game to use feature on next-gen console will be Arrowhead's top-down shooter Helldivers
Read More »PS4 won’t support media servers or MP3s
Sony has revealed a couple of bits of functionality that are missing from PS4. Perhaps the most painful is the fact that it won’t support media servers or offer DLNA support, meaning that users won’t be able to stream content from the PC or media centre through to the device. …
Read More »Call of Duty: Ghosts is 1080p on PS4 and 720p on Xbox One
After a week of fierce rumours, the resolution disparity between the Xbox One and PS4 versions of Call of Duty: Ghosts has now been officially confirmed. The game’s producer Mark Rubin took to Twitter last night to say that while both versions run at 60 frames per second (as is …
Read More »Sony confirms PS4 launch games lineup
Over 20 titles set to release alongside next-gen console
Read More »PS4: Sony reveals more PAL region release dates, still no India details
Sony has announced the PlayStation 4 launch dates for more countries in the PAL region, including the Middle East, but there’s still no word on an Indian release date. As part of the PlayStation 4 FAQ on the PlayStation Blog, Sony has listed the release dates for various countries in …
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