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John Riccitiello on how Sony and Microsoft can revitalise the console industry
Read More »Riccitiello confident that next-gen consoles will prosper
Former EA boss John Riccitiello believes that PS4 and the new Xbox will both be commercial successes. I can’t keep track of the number of people who have told me they don’t believe the new consoles, long rumoured to be coming from both Microsoft and Sony this fall, will succeed,” …
Read More »Microsoft tipped to take the streaming war to Sony
Fresh rumours suggest that Microsoft will use tonight’s Xbox reveal to announce a fresh drive toward cloud gaming. The Wall Street Journal says that Microsoft has, amongst other things, significantly explored the possibilities of cloud gaming. The tech could be used not only to play instant on-demand back-catalogue Xbox 360 …
Read More »Is this what the PS4 looks like?
No, it isn’t. But this attempt at piecing together the snippet’s from yesterday’s video is great. Sony successfully stormed the Xbox party last night by releasing a teaser video showing a handful of blurry images of the new hardware. Now one Redditor has compiled all of the snippets and tried …
Read More »Sony teases PS4 console design with new video
Sony has relased a new video teasing the design of the PS4, featuring blurred images and lots of close-ups that don’t give away much. Sony announced the PlayStation 4 back in February, and while we’ve seen the Dualshock 4 controller, the look of the consoleitself remains a mystery. The video …
Read More »Video: Sony teases PS4 console design
Sony to unveil hardware at E3 on June 10th
Read More »VIDEO: Sony’s E3 teaser offers a glimpse at the actual PS4
A teaser from Sony hyping its PS4 E3 event has offered what might be the very first glimpse of the new console. You can see it below. The video, although obviously designed to promote the Press Conference on June 10 6pm PDT, arrives just 24 hours before rival firm Xbox …
Read More »Microsoft: Console industry worth $27 billion
Console sector worth more than mobile, handheld and social gaming combined, claims computing giant
Read More »Sony working on speech recognition tech
PlayStation 4 could get Kinect-like voice commands
Read More »VIDEO: Sony teases cel-shaded sci-fi outing Panopticon
A brand new first party game called Panopticon has been unveiled by Sony. At the moment it’s not clear whether it’s a PS3, PS4 or Vita title but the fact that more details will be released on May 21st – the same day that Microsoft reveals the new Xbox – …
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